Desire Line Sessions: Cole Lewis & Patrick Blenkarn
Monday, January 26, 2026 | 6:00 PM 鈥� 7:00 PM
Room 4210 鈥� School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Presented by the SCA's Theatre & Performance area, please join us for a Desire Lines Session with Cole Lewis and SCA alumnus Patrick Blenkarn, who will be speaking about their new work, , which is running as part of the 2026 edition of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
Biographies
(she/her) is a mom and mad theatre artist from St. Catharines, Ontario. She specializes in creating live performance from design ideas, exploring new modes of storytelling, and fusing technologies to the stage. Her practice includes directing, playwriting, and the design of moving image works. Twice nominated for Dora-Awards, Cole鈥檚 practice uses humour, design, and technology to explore notions of class and violence, expose questions of bias, and unsettle standard conceptions of 鈥榯ruth鈥� to explore alternative futures. She has an MFA in Directing from Yale and her thoughts on performance have been shared at LMDA, Howlround, FOLDA, Yale CCAM, and Canadian Theatre Review.
(he/him) is an artist working at the intersection of performance, game design, and visual art. His research-based practice revolves around the themes of language, labour, and democracy, with projects ranging in form from video games and card games to stage plays and books, with subjects as diverse as the labour of donkeys to the valuation of art to historical date farming practices in Iraq. He is a polyglot, programmer, animator, musician, and stage director. He is also the co-creator of asses.masses and co-founder of videocan, the national video archive of performance documentation.
(GbA) is an interdisciplinary performance collective that shifts its process with each new project. Led by Co-Artistic Directors, Cole Lewis + Patrick Blenkarn, they seek to expand what theatre can do, devising work from design ideas, exploring modes of storytelling, and scheming to fuse media to the stage.
dissects the human condition. We develop shows that question accepted truths. Our productions engage our audiences with the realities of our world. Through process and production, The Elbow presents theatre that promotes caring for, and understanding of, each other. The Elbow was founded in 2012 by Itai Erdal and is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.