Vids | Sunny Drake

Sunny Drake is a playwright, theatre creator and performer. He has toured his theatre works to over 80 venues in 55 cities across Canada, Australia, the US, and Europe, bringing challenging work to a wide range of audiences from elderly ladies in regional theatres to queers in underground warehouses. Touring highlights include: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto), San Francisco International Arts Festival, Espace Libre (Montreal), Northern Arts & Cultural Centre (Yellowknife & Fort Smith), Brisbane Powerhouse (Australia), Nuovo Cinema Palazzo (Rome), The Basement Theatre (Brighton, UK), and he has been presented three times by the USA National Queer Arts Festival. His plays have been translated into 4 languages: French, Spanish, German and Italian. He has been in residence with the Stratford Playwrights Retreat (2018), Theatre Passe Muraille (2018/19), Nightswimming (2018), Factory Theatre (2017), Yaddo (New York, 2018), Playwrights Theatre Centre’s WrightSpace (2016), and one of his new plays, CHILD-ISH, is currently part of the National Arts Centre’s Collaborations. In 2019 he will be in residence at The Arctic Circle (onboard a tall ship in the high arctic), Djerassi (California) and Klaustrid (Iceland). He currently has six new theatre works in various stages of development. Sunny was the Director of the Emerging Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre from 2015-2018. He was born and grown in Australia and is has lived in Toronto since 2011.

SUNNY DRAKE

Commissioned by Playwrights Guild, Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and L'Association des théâtres francophones du Canada - ATFC to write the World Theatre Day Canadian message

Happy world theatre day!

Jimmy Does Dating...

Episode 1 of 3: Good

Jimmy obsesses over the 10 second conversation he had with his crush. Probably none of you have ever done that, right? Captions here.

Episode 2 of 3: The Date

Jimmy's adventures in casual dating - today's episode: when clothing comes off the trans man, cis panic ensues. (CONTENT WARNING: sexually explicit) Captions here.

Episode 3 of 3: Botching Valentine's

Awkward on Valentine’s Day? Jimmy botched it worse than you. Captions here.

Jimmy Does Dating... started as a quick and fun way to promote a theatre show, then got screened at:

- Inside Out Film Festival (2016)

- San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (2016)

World Theatre Day Message for Canada