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Plays
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Two-act play, Epic of Gilgamesh adaptation by Jesse LaVercombe, Ahmed Moneka (performer: Iraqi Theatre Company/Royal Shakespeare Company, Canadian Opera Company), and Seth Bockley (writer: 2666, Goodman; February House, The Public).
Production: Pivot Arts Festival, Chicago, June 2019
Workshop: The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, December 2018 + March 2019
Workshop: Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, October 2018
Canada Council for the Arts, Creation Grant, 2018
G-G-G-Genevieve
Two-act musical, book and lyrics by Jesse LaVercombe, music and lyrics by Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski
Commissioned by YES Theatre
Workshop: YES Theatre, directed by Robert McQueen, August 2018
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grant (Musical Stage Company), 2018
Ontario Arts Council, Creation-in-Residence Grant, 2019
Toronto Arts Council, Project Grant, 2019
Hallelujah, It’s Holly (or, A Judeo-Christian Verbatim Documentary Representation of the Rise and Fall of Holly from Hamilton)
Three-act play, with dramaturgical support by Daniel Brooks, Aaron Willis, and Andrea Donaldson
Commissioned through Driftwood Theatre’s Playwright-in-Residence Program
**Second Place - Wildfire National Playwriting Competition**
Reading: Sage Theatre's IGNITE! Festival, Calgary, June 2019
Reading: Driftwood Theatre, directed by Jeremy Smith, May 2018
Toronto Arts Council Level Two Playwriting Grant Recipient, 2018
Love Me Forever Billy H. Tender
One-act play, directed by Adam Lazarus, dramaturgy by Guillermo Verdecchia
Production: New York International Fringe Festival, 2016 (Critically acclaimed by The New York Times, New York Theatre Guide, Theatre in the Now, Broadway World, and more.)
Production: Kick & Push Festival, Kingston ON, 2017
Production: Videofag, Toronto, 2016
Theatre Engaging Communities Grant, National Theatre School, 2016
A Presence of Monster
One-act play, co-creator, directed by David Bloom
Production: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, 2014
Donny’s Second Book
One-act play, co-authored with Step Taylor
Production: Saint Thomas University, 2012
Theatre Engaging Communities Grant, National Theatre School, 2012
Short Plays
The Question - Reading: The Theatre Centre, Daughter Fundraiser, June 2018
Alex & Ted - Performance: The Howland Company, Toronto, 2017
Bee Keeping with Millennials - Performance: Toronto Monologue Slam, 2017
I Hear You - Reading: Feminist Debaters, Toronto, 2017, Toronto
#MCAA (Make Canada America Again) - Reading: Wrecking Ball #21, Toronto, 2016
The Return - Reading: Wrecking Ball #20, Toronto, 2016
Production: United Solo Festival, New York, 2013
**Winner of the Best Short Solo Award**
Production: Vancouver Fringe Festival, 2013
Production: Toronto Festival of Clowns, 2012
Production: Saint Thomas University, 2012
Production: The National Theatre School of Canada, 2012
Short Films
“The Things You Think I’m Thinking”
14 minute drama, directed by Sherren Lee, screenplay by Jesse LaVercombe, starring Prince Amponsah and Jesse LaVercombe, produced by Meraki Moving Pictures, 2017
Awards:
**Grand Jury Prize for Best International Short Film** - Outfest, LA, 2018
—Qualified for the 2019 Academy Awards
**Special Jury Prize** - Canadian Film Festival 2018
**Best Screenplay** - CMG Short Film Festival 2018
**Best Canadian Short** - Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival 2018
**Breakthrough Award** - Toronto New Wave 2018
**Best Actor (Prince Amponsah)** - Toronto New Wave 2018
**AWFJ EDA Award** - Whistler Film Festival 2017
**Multicultural Golden Sheaf Award** - Yorkton Film Festival 2018
**Best Director Fiction - Award** - Yorkton Film Festival 2018
**Best Narrative Short** - Drunken Film Fest Oakland 2018
**Best Men's Short Runner-up Jury Prize** - Out On Film Atlanta 2018
**Best Canadian Short** - OUTeast Queer Film Festival 2018
—Toronto Arts Council Grant, 2017
“The Things You Think I’m Thinking” has been Officially Selected at over forty festivals and theaters internationally, including SXSW (Grand Jury Award Nominee), NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (Best Short Foreign Film, Drama Nominee), Cardiff Iris Prize Shortlist, Kansas City LGBT Film Festival (Celebration of Courage Short Film Finalist), Slamdance, BFI Flare: London, TIFF Short Cuts, LA Film Fest, and the Chicago Critics Film Festival.
5 minute comedy, directed by Sherren Lee, produced by the Canadian Film Centre, 2016
5 minute drama, directed by Adam Goldhammer, produced by the CFC, 2016
Articles
“Canadian Public Arts Funding and a New National Narrative” — Howlround, April 25th 2019
“Life’s Too Short to be a Douchenozzle” – Intermission Magazine*, March 31st, 2017
“Bluit Nanche” – Intermission Magazine, October 21st, 2016
“Naked Men on Small Stages” – Intermission Magazine, May 12th, 2016
*Former Contributing Editor
Other Projects
Do What You Love
One-act performance, created and performed by Nathaniel Justiniano/Naked Empire Bouffon Company, San Francisco (in collaboration with Robert Rosen, Adam Lazarus, Jesse LaVercombe & Gabriel McKinney)
Production: Uno Fest, Victoria, BC, 2017
Production: Vancouver Fringe Festival, 2017
Production: Shotgun's BLAST Festival, Berkeley, CA, 2016
Production: PianoFight, San Francisco, 2016
The Life of Jude
One-act musical by Alex Poch-Goldin, music by Jesse LaVercombe
Production: SummerWorks Festival, Toronto, 2013
Workshop: National Theatre School of Canada, 2012
Published by Scirocco Drama, 2014
Fishing
One-act play by Britney Tangedal, directed by Matthew Hines and Jesse LaVercombe
Production: Montreal Fringe Festival, 2017
Dinner Parties
Durational performance, co-creator
Production: Vancouver Art Gallery as part of FUSE: Crowd Studies, 2013