OUR MISSION:
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre exists to develop and produce potent and provocative theatre, populating our stages with Canadian works as well as pieces from the international repertoire.
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre is committed to the pillars of story, collaboration and artistic risk. We create theatre that reveals the vulnerable heart and champions the brave idea. We embrace boldness and practice simplicity.
Co-Artistic Directors
Alexa Devine
Founding member and Co-Artistic Director. For Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Alexa performed in Re:Union (co-produced with Pacific Theatre), Palace of the End (co-produced with Touchtstone Theatre), 4.48 Psychosis, The Darling Family, and You Are Here. Current HHG projects include co-creating and co-directing The Forgiveness Project. Other Vancouver theatre credits include: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pound of Flesh/Pacific Theatre), Nanay (Urban Crawl/ PuSh Festival), Grace (Pacific Theatre), The Big League (Carousel Theatre), The Remittance Man (Sunshine Theatre), Melody, Mon Amour (Brownbike), Henry VIII and Cymbeline (Bardathon), and The Oresteia (Oresteia Project). Recent film/TV: Love Happens, Aliens in America, Helix and Traveler. Alexa is the recipient of three Jessie nominations and one award, and holds degrees from McGill University and Atlantic Theatre School in NYC. She is also a bouffon clown and a voice-over artist.
Sean Devine
Founding member and Co-Artistic Director. For Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Sean wrote Re:Union, acted in 4.48 Psychosis and You Are Here, and directed The Darling Family. Current projects include writing Except in the Unlikely Event of War for Pi Theatre. Other Vancouver theatre credits include Death of a Salesman (Playhouse), Black Comedy and Diary of Anne Frank (Arts Club), The Blue Light (Firehall), The Tempest and Henry IV, Part I (Bard on the Beach) and a Jessie nomination for Recovery (Rumble). Sean has worked extensively in Montreal, as well as with companies in Winnipeg and New York City. Upcoming projects include developing and producing Re:Union with Horseshoes and Pacific Theatre, and writing Except in the Unlikely Event for Pi Theatre, where he is Playwright-in-Residence. Sean has appeared and is appearing in dozens of films and television series, including a lead role in the Canada-France co-production Territories, to be released in 2011.
Mindy Parfitt
Founding member and Co-Artistic Director. For Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Mindy directed Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End (for which she won a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Director), Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Daniel MacIvor’s You Are Here. Current HHG projects include co-creating and co-directing The Forgiveness Project. In Montreal, she founded Soulfishing Theatre for whom she directed and acted in several award winning productions. Mindy has worked across Canada with companies including, Centaur Theatre, Imago Theatre, Theatre Columbus, Studio 58, Bard on the Beach, Playwrights Theatre Centre and The PuSh Festival. She is presently completing her MFA in directing at the University of British Columbia, where she directed her thesis production of Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw in March 2010. Mindy has studied with internationally recognized acting and directing coaches and teachers from across Canada as well as at the LaMama Directors Intensive in Umbria, Italy. .
Company Associates
Lois Dawson
Noah Drew
Danielle Fecko
Colleen Wheeler
Robin Richardson
Sylvan Korvus
Board Of Directors
David Bloom
Clea Parfitt
Tara Arnett
Marcus Youssef
Rudy Bootsma
Gail Davidson
Genevieve Fleming