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Your contribution to Handsome Alice opens a door to performing arts excellence that celebrates the human voice!

Handsome Alice is excited to announce our first ever online 50/50 fundraiser! Click the raffle button and buy your tickets now for your chance to win! Your support of Handsome Alice will directly contribute to the company’s ability to continue producing high-quality and diverse theatre. Funds raised by this raffle will help Handsome Alice Theatre to continue producing artist workshops, engaging theatre and events in Calgary.

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Calgary is home to an amazing array of women, trans and non-binary theatre makers. Handsome Alice offers support and space for these artists and is devoted to unleashing diverse voices through the development, creation, and production of theatre works that are inclusive, curious, and rebellious.

The Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Annual Theatre Production Survey reported that out of 812 productions during the 2013/14 season, 63 percent were written by men while only 22 percent were written by women. Similarly, Equity in Theatre reports that, “As artistic directors, directors, and playwrights, women in Canada’s professional theatre industry have not yet surpassed the 35% employment marker.” This is despite the majority of theatre attendees in Canada being women, over half of all theatre students identifying as women and non-binary and of course, the theatre world is not immune to gender wage gaps.

Our theatre provides platforms for reflection; creating a space outside of our normal worlds to explore and examine themes and issues perhaps not readily communicated or considered in the public realm.

Please consider donating to support Handsome Alice and the work we do that has a direct impact for artists, partners and audiences in the Calgary community.