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S3E2 – Episode 2 – Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) of Tarragon Theatre's "Prophetess" – A View from the Box – The Podcast
Hello everyone! It's time for Episode 2 of Season 3 of A View from the Box – The Podcast! My guest this week is the incomparable 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.
As a playwright Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho), his works include cockroach, Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land), Antigone: 方, and trace. His plays are published by Playwrights Canada Press.
Jeff is grateful to have been honoured with a LAMBDA Award for Best LGBTQ+ Drama, the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play; the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award for a Young Canadian Playwright; finalist for the Playwright’s Guild of Canada’s Drama award; finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; nominated for four Dora Awards. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School and holds an MFA from York University.
Jeff is also currently Associate Artistic Director at Tarragon Theatre.
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- S3E2 – Episode 2 – Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) of Tarragon Theatre's "Prophetess"
- S3E1 – Episode 1 – Carolyn Fe and Tanisha Taitt of Stakes & Embers, Carolyn Fe Productions, in association with Eldritch Theatre's "Aye Caesar"
- S2E27 – Episode 27 – Madelaine Rose of "Passed Down" at the Halifax Fringe
- S2E26 – Episode 26 – Rebecca Lashmar on Intimacy Coordination/Direction
- S2E25 – Episode 25 – Chloë Rose Flowers on King Theatre Company and "The Pavilion"
- S2E24 – Episode 24 – Caroline Toal of Canadian Stage's "Dream in High Park – Twelfth Night"
- S2E23 – Episode 23 – Anesti Danelis of "Artificially Intelligent 2.0" at the Toronto Fringe Festival
- S2E22 – Episode 22 – Nikki Bon and Claire Cavalheiro of "2% of Condoms" at the Toronto Fringe
- S2E21 – Episode 21 – Rymn Wadhwa of "Assembly Sϋggested" at the Toronto Fringe Festival
- S2E20 – Episode 20 – Steven Skybell of Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company's "Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish"