Andrew Moodie

Creator-in-Residence 2022-2024

Andrew’s residency developed out of his Pure Research project with Nightswimming that examined various ideas and approaches to artificial intellligence and how to use them in theatrical storytelling and staging.

Andrew took the extensive research materials and drew on them during his residency to completed the first draft of his three-actor play DECOHERENCE about racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence; it’s also a complex murder mystery set in the world of a tech company; and it is a meta-theatrical exploration of how artificial intelligence – which evolved so rapidly during his residency and writing process that we could all hardly keep up – lives in so many aspects of our contemporary lives. We held a reading of the first draft in December 2023, and Andrew is now preparing a new draft for future workshopping.

Multiple award winning Ontario-based actor/playwright/director Andrew Moodie began his playwriting career in 1995 with his Chalmers Award winning first play, Riot.

His theatre writing credits include: Riot, Factory Theatre, 1995, Oui, Factory Theatre, 1998. Wilbur County Blues, Blythe Festival, 1998. A Common Man’s Guide to Loving Women, jointly produced by Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre, 1999. The Lady Smith, Passe Muraille 2000. The Real McCoy, Factory Theatre 2007, 2008, which was remounted in St. Louis in 2011 where it garnered three Kevin Kline Award nominations. And finally Toronto the Good, Factory Theatre 2009; a production which was nominated for a Dora award for Best New Play.

As an actor he has performed in countless productions all across the country. His latest stage appearance is in Pride and Prejudice at the Grand Theatre in spring 2025. Selected acting credits include: Our Country’s Good, Better Living, The Second Sheppard’s Play (Great Canadian Theatre Company), Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Amadeus (Stratford), Whale, Alice, Pinocchio, In the Field of Dreams, The Nelson Mandela Story (Young People’s Theatre), Health Class (Dora Award), Othello (Dora Nomination) (Shakespeare in the Rough).

His directing credits include For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, The Corner, and The Real McCoy.

Andrew Moodie’s creation residency (2022-2023) was generously funded by the Ontario Arts Council and we are grateful for their support.