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Due to popular demand, we are taking December's workshop and adapting it to an online format! A recorded version of Playwriting with Ho Ka Kei / Jeff Ho will be available on demand from December 21 - January 21, 2024. Using writing prompts, thoughtful explorations and timed exercises, tune in and take your idea to paper and your draft to play. Access it at any time over the holiday break and into the new year! Free and open to all who want to get their creative thoughts flowing!
Workshop Leader
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PlaywrightHo Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Jeff Ho is a theatre artist, originally from Hong Kong. As an actor, he has toured as Ophelia in Why Not Theatre's Prince Hamlet across Canada and the United States over five years, and has performed coast to coast across the country.
As a playwright, his works include cockroach, Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land), Antigone: 方, and trace. His work has been developed with the Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Human Cargo, Factory Theatre, Cahoots, the Banff Playwrights Lab, Nightswimming Theatre. His plays are published by Playwrights Canada Press.
Jeff is grateful to have been honoured with a Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play (Iphigenia); the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award for a Young Canadian Playwright; the Bulmash Siegel Playwriting Award (Tarragon Theatre); a Harold Award (House of Nadia Ross); finalist for the Playwright's Guild of Canada's Drama award (cockroach); finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award (Iphigenia and Antigone); nominated for four Dora Awards. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School.
Any questions please contact the Hart House Theatre U of T Work Study Students at: [email protected]