Meet our Artistic Director Victoria Goring. A force of Creativity. 

Victoria Goring

An award winning playwright, with 20 produced plays, and twice shortlisted for Juilliard. Victoria’s provocative scripts challenge the audience with multiple perspectives and complex issues of gender, history, and social conventions. 
Before reality TV, Victoria was placing audiences in site specific venues creating hypothetical worlds: From a possible future where the Y chromosome is decaying, to an environment of allergens humans could no longer live in. 
Victoria has received productions from many prestigious theaters in Canada and the USA, including Nightwood, Alberta Theater Projects, City Theater, Lorainne Kisma Theater for Young People, Edgemar, and Factory Theater. Victoria created Urban Spine, a CAEA theater in 1999, and was contacted by CAEA who provided her Equity membership on the merit of her original work. 
Even Victoria’s most heartbreaking of scripts is tinged with humour, creating complex emotional journeys that force the audience to wrestle with their morality.
These highly original plays have garnered critical acclaim, received grants, and enjoyed box office success. Victoria was awarded 2 separate Artist in Residencies to write The Cardboard Countess, the award winning play about homelessness and teen depression which toured to Los Angeles, London, Portland, Toronto, and Saint John.  Lie With Me pre-dated the Oscar winning movie Boys Don’t Cry, and Victoria’s version of the Teena/Brandon story transcended boundaries and was a sold out success. Middleschoolandia, an original musical about the horror of middle school starring middles schoolers,  was a Hollywood Fringe Festival hit. 
Victoria was handpicked for the prestigious Independent Televisions Producers program in Toronto, Canada, a select group of 20 participants. This year long program allowed her to transition my writing to film. Victoria has written for CBC, and was shortlisted for Vision TV and Discovery, acted in hits such as LOST and Criminal Minds, and Victoria has had several short films appear in film festivals.
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