Erika Batdorf

This is an intense solo piece dealing with creativity and madness. Erika plays Thaya Whitten an abstract painter dealing with serious manic depression. A view into the studio of an artist trying to paint her visual hallucinations. Audience interactive and extremely engaging, several audience members came back to see it more than once. Thaya Whitten was also her mother...  (60 minutes)

Poetic License received 3 Dora nominations and rave reviews!! 

Theatre and interactive talk show come together in Poetic License as we meet Marti, a creative writing professor at the brink of walking out on her life. Her sister, partially paralysed and full of humour, challenges the audience to examine desire in the context of eternity. Finally their guardian angel arrives to help them and the audience navigate through a journey away from paralysis. Enter this funny, magical world where poetry is edible, ruffian angels describe paradise and the audience is fed an unexpected meal. 
(75 minutes long)

Mr. Raisin Head has toured extensively and has received rave reviews... funny and smart, this comic monologue is told by a lascivious bachelor who has air in his head and is obsessed with water. As he looks for his true self, we meet the grape he marries and a variety of Virtues including Purity and Justice. Eventually his love for water and an encounter with the gorgeous Trustworthiness triggers his ultimate transformation.
(45 minutes long)

Kid has toured extensively to rave reviews and overwhelmingly positive audience response and was most recently remounted in Toronto in October 2011. It is a fairytale without the darkness washed away. Meet shy Moleman, an old Frogman and a frightening Birdlady, imaginatively brought to life by an adult frozen in a four year old persona coming to terms with a forgotten mystery. One of Batdorf's most arresting pieces, kid is profoundly moving with an uplifting and transformative ending.
(45 minutes)