Plutonium Playhouse was born to serve as a home for local artists. A place to explore and develop a piece until a first (and beautifully rough) unveiling to the public. Our focus is on the script, the characters, and giving artists the opportunity to see their work produced from start to finish.

The first season featured Cloudburst by Thom Fitzgerald, A Rescue Demonstration by Stewart Légère and Katy Swift and Splinters by Lee-Anne Poole. Plutonium presented eight full shows in 2010, six of which were world premieres.

________________

“The Plutonium Playhouse is the most exciting thing to happen on the Halifax Theatre scene in a decade.”
-Ron Foley MacDonald, Infomonkey.com

________________________________________________________

Thom Fitzgerald – Artistic Director/Playwright (CLOUDBURST, produced April 2010, Director, THE ASSHOLE MONOLOGUES, produced December 2010)

Since his 1997 feature debut, Thom has won over two dozen international awards including the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award (Genie), The FIPRESCI European International Critics’ Prize, The Emerging Master Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and the Reader Jury of the “Siegessäule” Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. He won both the Best Canadian Film Award and the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Thom is a three time premiere guest of at The Sundance Film Festival, and has been lauded abroad with the City of Grandola Prize at the Troia Film Festival in Portugal, and the Best Screenplay Prize at the Mar del Plat Film Festival in Argentina. He was awarded both the Best Screenplay Award and the Most Popular Film Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Thom was cited as “One of the top 100 filmmakers in the world” by Screen International and “One of the Top Ten of the Next Generation” by the Hollywood Reporter. Thom was nominated for The Directors Guild of Canada Award and won the Best Director Award at the Atlantic Film Festival for “3 Needles”. For his theatre work he won the Merritt Award for Best New Play (CLOUDBURST) and was nominated for Outstanding Set Design. CLOUDBURST was also nominated as Outstanding Production of 2010.

Who We Are:

Artistic Director

Thom Fitzgerald

Board of Directors

Thom Fitzgerald
Jane Kansas
James Milligan
Doug Pettigrew
Lee-Anne Poole