2025/2026 Season Announcement

This season marks our first as Glitch Theatre, and we’re excited to share our evolution with audiences and the national theatre community in a bold 2025/2026 lineup. 

We’ve got a play exploring neurodivergence and belonging, then there’s a community engagement project that invites D/disability-identified artists to share their stories their way. We’ll continue our commitment to new play development with the New Play Commission. And our new Academy cohort have begun their first year of training.

Our first season as Glitch is all about challenging expectations, sparking innovation, and inviting new perspectives.

[Image Description: Hailey Conner, a white woman in her twenties with long brown hair, as the character Faye. She looks into the camera with a thoughtful expression. Blue butterfly wings and a purple beam of light are projected onto her. A white door is visible in the background. White text on a black background reads: “Faye’s Room by Alex K. Masse. Nov 7-23, 2025.” Photo by Kimberly Ho.]

Join us for a moving, magical exploration of neurodivergence and belonging:

Faye’s Room by Alex K. Masse

Nov 8–23, 2025 w/ preview Nov 7
The Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables St

Faye Murphy is an autistic lesbian who works at a queer cafe… and happens to have the power to summon and hide in a magical sensory room at will. When she becomes trapped in this room with her least favourite co-worker, son of the founder and token heterosexual Chase McLure, an unlikely bond forms and the two find themselves with a bit more in common than they thought. Faye’s Room is a moving exploration of neurodivergent solidarity, intergenerational bonds, and internalized ableism.

[Image Description: A partial red circle on a black background. Text reads: “ARC one. May 2026.”]

Continuing and revitalizing the legacy of the Wheel Voices series, ARC is a trilogy of community engagement projects where participants will be introduced to story and creation fundamentals by Glitch Co-Artistic Director, Adam Grant Warren. 

Each iteration of ARC will generate material that will be built upon in subsequent years. The program will explore a multitude of platforms, media, and genres, with live and digital components.

ARC One workshops will invite a cohort of 10 participants to meet regularly from January to May 2026. In these workshops, each participant will create and develop a short piece in the genre of their choice: from monologue to dramatic scene, to spoken word, to short prose. The pieces will be performed live onstage and recorded for release as a podcast series.

Look for the call for participants on October 15, 2025. 

[Image Description: A photo of June Fukumura, a nisei (second-generation) Japanese-Canadian woman, smiling at the camera. The background is half lime green and black. Text reads: “James Brown Memorial Creativity Fund New Play Commission. studip by June Fukumura.”]

Congratulations to June Fukumura, the recipient of the New Play Commission, courtesy of the James Brown Memorial Creativity Fund for her project, studip.

studip—a title referencing the common dyslexic trait of flipping the letters “d” and “p”—is a new theatrical performance by June Fukumura. Blending personal storytelling, verbatim text from interviews, stand-up comedy, and clowning, the work invites audiences into the hidden world of dyslexia. The performance aims to dispel common myths about dyslexia while illuminating the creative potential of dyslexic thinking.

Wild, messy, and unapologetically dyslexic, studip is an invitation to embrace our inner fools and come together in an unabashed celebration of neurodiversity.

Over the next year, June will receive support to generate the first draft of this yet-unwritten play.

All the best from the Glitch team,

Adam, Shawn, & Jordyn