People

Ken Cameron
The Tideway
In a run-down apartment building on the wrong side of town populated by the wrong sort of people, a small-time loser struggles to make a home and win the love of his two daughters.
Ken is the Executive Director of the Alberta Playwrights' Network, a provincial organization that develops plays and playwrights around Alberta.  Ken’s play My One And Only premiered at The Alberta Theatre Projects’ Enbridge playRites Festival ‘04 and was featured at The National Arts Centre’s On The Verge reading series.  My One And Only will be produced at Workshop West tehatre in Edmonton in April 2005.  Ken was the director and producer of the recent cult hit Doppelganger, a play written by eight playwrights across the country, providing an insightful and entertaining examination of the effects on grief and tragedy in the aftermath of 9/11.

Joadie Jurgova
The Postman
A grieving postman has a nervous breakdown after the death of his wife and begins hoarding the  mail in his spare room.
Joadie Jurgova has worked as an actress in theatre and film in both Canada and Europe. She was one of the original members of The North American Theatre in Prague. Her first screenplay Rabbit Fall won the 2002 WIFT –T /CBC Emerging Screenwriter’s Award. The Postman is her second feature-length screenplay.

Andrew McEvoy
Sounding Line
Sounding Line is a poetic, suspenseful drama that follows a marine biologist who is dealing with the disintegration of his family as he investigates the possible extinction of the Fraser River sturgeon.
Since Andrew McEvoy's first time through as a Praxis Fellow in '90 he has written for both film and episodic television. In 2001 his script The Pixelated Man was a unanimous winner, out of over 2,000 entries, of the Slamdance Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition. He presently has two features in development with Telefilm Canada.

Karl Raudsepp-Hearne & Carolyn O’Neill
Little Men
Little Men is the story of a paranoid professor who hires a two-faced gym rat and a violent gardener to help him land his dream job.

Writer/Director Karl Raudsepp-Hearne studied at McGill University and the University of Nanjing. He has written and directed TV shows for Life Channel and National Geographic, as well as several award-winning shorts.  His last film Song is a Chinese ghost story set in a phantom-packed karaoke bar.

Carolyn O’Neill was born in Montreal in 1976 and has degrees from McGill and Concordia universities.  She has worked as a multi-media artist, painter, and sculptor.  She co-founded Theatre des Rats – a performance company that fuses traditional theatre with video installation and phantasmagoria.  She runs a private press that produces fine limited edition poetry chapbooks and broadsides.  Little Men is her first screenplay.

Annie Reid
Revival
In small town Texas, Ruth saves a drowning man from a terrible accident and is transformed from a nobody into a hero – for one short night.  But it soon becomes apparent, that while Ruth may have done the right thing, she saved the wrong man.
Annie Reid is a Vancouver-based story editor and writer. She was one of the winners of the Nicholl fellowship in 2003, and has also been a Praxis Story Editor Intern (2004). She is a published short story writer, has taught writing at the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, the University of Texas, and the Texas League of Writers, and has worked as the personal assistant to screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. (Cast Away, Apollo 13, Polar Express).  Most recently, she has written and produced two short films, including the award-winning short film Revival directed by Meghna Haldar. She’s a recent and proud immigrant to Canada.