DIRECTING
THE RISHTA
Produced by Silk Road Institute
at Centaur Theatre
Directing Silk Road Theatre's 2023 Production of THE RISHTA by Uzma Jalaluddin.
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A young South Asian woman, Samah, has fallen in love with a Moroccan man, Hussain. Convinced that her parents will not allow for an intercultural marriage, Samah devises a scheme to win her parents over with the help of an enterprising matchmaker but Samah doesn’t realize that her parents and brother are hiding secrets of their own…
https://www.silkroadinstitute.ca/therishta/
Director - Masha Bashmakova
VOICES
VOICES
Assistant Directing for Tableau D'Hote Theatre's reading series for 2020 graduates of Montreal's professional Theatre programs.
Working with an ensemble of 6 emerging actors, exploring texts of emerging playwrights and contemporary Canadian plays.
Director - Sophie Gee
Assistant Director - Masha Bashmakova
DO YOU SEE US /
THE YOU, THE I, THE OTHER
Director - Masha Bashmakova
An experiment in digitally-devised performance, Do You See Us; the you, the I, the other is an interactive web-based performance experience that explores displacement, distortion, construction of identity, and the blurred boundaries between self and other.
Created with the support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Director, Producer Video Editor
SLICE 2.0
Director- Wendell Beavers
Assistant Director- Masha Bashmakova
A devised production, exploring slices of the mind and intersections of experience through self-scripted writing, developmental movement, viewpoints, soundscapes and image work.
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Developed at Concordia University, January-April 2020. Performances were withheld due to the Covid-19 closures.
EVERMORE, EDGAR
Director - Masha Bashmakova
This puppetry piece retells the story of poet Edgar Allan Poe and addresses the relationship between the artist and his creations, his immense sense of grief and guilt, and the spiraling mental condition he faced at the end of his life. This zero-waste production, featuring shadow work and life-size puppets, was premiered at Concordia University in November 2019.
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Written by Lila Ciesielski, Stage-managed by Camille Fecteau, Assistant stage-managed by Georgia Holland, Performed by Lila Ciesielski, Freddy Van Camp, Vanessa Lazare, Emme Geryk, Performed and co-designed by Jennifer Jack
