Biography

Trish Collins - my back hurts

Tricia is an actress and playwright and the Artistic Director of Buss Up Shut Productions: interdisciplinary performance collective. The International tour of Tricia's one woman theatrical installation Gravity gained rave reviews at Carifesta The Caribbean Festival of the Arts in Guyana and The Center for Festival Arts in Trinidad and Tobago and will continue its inter/national tours across Canada and to New York and the UK.

Tricia has played the lead in numerous theatre productions, film shorts and has been featured on The Guard and various other tv series. Radio series lead roles include CBC Radio One's  Swimming To China, for the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, The Time In Between and hours of water (shortlisted for the Webster Journalism award). In theatre she has executed leading roles in Beaver by Claudia Dey, Hunted, Da Big Womb, Women in Fish and the Toronto premiere of The Unnatural and Accidental Women. Tricia has traveled across Canada and internationally as an innovative theatre actress and holds a BFA in theatre and contemporary arts from Simon Fraser University. Tricia is currently workshopping a cross-disciplinary large scale performance about the life and times of our mixed-race Founding Father of British Columbia Sir James Douglas in The Douglas Chronicles.

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