Andrew Ritchie
Director. Theatre Maker.

Producing

Andrew has produced theatre with multiple indie theatre collectives, non-profit organizations, and regional theatres.

Thou Art Here Theatre

In 2011, he co-founded Thou Art Here Theatre with Neil Bye-Kuefler and is the current artistic director. Thou Art Here is an artist-driven theatre collective creating audience-engaged immersive experiences. Since then Thou Art Here has produced over 40 productions and theatrical happenings across Alberta.

This includes:

  • Civil Blood: A Treaty Story by Josh Languedoc & Neil Bye-Kuefler

  • Cycle by Andrew Ritchie

  • Write Here Immersive Playwrights’ Unit

  • Puppet Shows at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival

  • Hamlet in Isolation co-created by Syd Campbell, desirée livingstone, & Andrew Ritchie

  • The Free Willies co-created by Alyson Dicey and Dave Horak

  • One Man’s Trash by Ben Stevens

  • Joan & Talbot by Morgan Yamada

  • Shakespeare’s Will by Vern Thiessen

  • But Hark, A Voice! by Ben Stevens

  • Extempore: Improvised Shakespeare co-created by Vincent Forcier & Andrew Ritchie

  • Kill Shakespeare by Connor McCreery & Anthony Del Col

  • The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

  • The Falstaff Project adapted by Andrew Ritchie

  • Shake the Foundation Series

  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare,

  • The Mechanicals adapted by Neil Kuefler

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Learn more Thou Art Here’s full production history.

Globe Theatre

From 2018-2020, Andrew was the Theatre School Director and Sandbox Series Coordinator at Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Sandbox Series was a showcase of original, daring and boundary-busting performance works by Saskatchewan artists. He collaborated and programmed the following shows:

  • Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan

  • wanisiniwin / kwêski-pimâtisiw by Skyler Anderson and Pete Kytwayhat

  • The Circle by Geoffrey Simon Brown

  • The Mystery Show devised by Globe’s Young Company

  • Apple Time by Deaf Crow’s Collective

  • Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill

  • In Care by Kenneth T. Williams

  • The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway

  • Mine to Have: Sensuality and Circumstances by Listen to Dis Community Arts

  • The development of Making Treaty 4 by the Making Treaty 4 Collective

You Are Here Theatre

From 2016-2020 produced:

  • Still, Still, Still by Geoffrey Simon Brown

  • Assist Ed by Andrew Ritchie

  • Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn

  • The Stoop Hangs Interview Series

Found Festival

In 2012, Andrew co-founded the Common Ground Arts Society's Found Festival, Edmonton's multi-disciplinary found space arts festival, and was festival director from 2014-2015. He co-founded the festival with Elena Eli Belyea, Tori Morrison, & Molly Staley.

Found Festival 2015:

  • Swallow-A-BIcycle Theatre workshop

  • Streaming by Mile Zero Dance

  • Edmonton Poetry Brothel

  • Found Grounds

  • Site-specific Improv by Det Andre Teatret & Rapid Fire Theatre

  • Reading the entirety of the CIA report on torture by Tim Mikula

  • Air by Major Matt Mason Collective

  • 900 Seconds by Christine Lesiak

  • Ain’t No Picnic by GeriActors Theatre

Found Festival 2014:

  • Found Grounds (featuring Film screenings, Poetry readings, music shows, & Sidewalk Chalk by Cliff Cardinal

  • Herbert by Ben Stevens

  • The Colour of Life by Thomas Barnet

  • Trace by Ainsley Hillyard & Bridget Jessome

  • Heartbreak Hotel by Marlee Yule

  • The Citizen’s Gallery by Morgan Melenka

  • Never, Never by Ellen Chorley

  • Faraday Cage by Morgan Smith

Found Festival 2013:

  • The Van by Gianna Vacirca & Ben Stevens

  • The Kitchen Sink Project by Catch the Keys

  • Apocalypse Children by Joel Crichton & Vincent Forcier

  • White Night by Elena Belyea & Lianna Makuch

  • Pigeon Breeders & The Urban Wild

  • Spinneret Ballons by dance collective

  • Memory Documents by Sarah McKarney

  • Recollect by Michelle Martin

  • The Way to the Water by Ben Gorodetsky

  • Found Text Reading

  • The Citizen’s Gallery by Morgan Melenka

  • Shake the Foundation by Thou Art Here

  • What Kind of Part is This? by Jodie Vandekerhove

  • Bingo! There’s a cool place, I’ll take you there by Jonathan Kobewka & Alex Felicitas

  • Jack Accident & Big Ben

Found Festival 2012:

  • Switching the Code by Paula Humby, Alyson Dicey, & Sophie Gareau-Brennan

  • Fort Found

  • A Midsummer’s Lucid Dream created by Thou Art Here Theatre

  • Found Text Reading

  • Rigor Mortis by Gianna Vacirca

  • The UNplugged Picnic music show

  • Home Video by Elena Eli Belyea and Ben Stevens

  • #patioyolo music show.

Rock Steady Productions

From 2010-2012 produced:

  • Pushed by Jessica Peverett at Nextfest

  • Miles Away by Colin Matty

  • KANKER in Heaven Only Knows by Rachel Victoria Steele