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The Major Matt Mason Collective is a performance company dedicated to creating visceral, intimate, experimental, small-scale theatre about and for Alberta’s younger generations.

09/03/2026

BACK IN ACTION! Fresh off the Fort McMurrary Fringe, Ciarán Volke returns to Calgary with Saturn Return! Calgary, if you missed this at IGNITE! you won’t want to miss it again, this time at the Birds and Stone Theatre!

Three more chances to see it!

Tickets in our bio, and if cost is a concern DM Ciarán Volke!

Birds and Stone Theatre / 1703 1st Street NW
September 4th, 5th, and 6th
7:30pm / $20

A part of the Wildfire Development Unit Workshop

Direction and Dramaturgy by Geoffrey Simon Brown and Evan Medd
Design by Whittyn Jason

06/02/2026

🚨🚨WOAH! SLOW DOWN THERE MAJORS!🚨🚨
COS WE GOT THE FACTS ABOUT OUR FINAL NIGHT OF OUR ⋆*⋆WILDFIRE SHOWCASE⋆*⋆ HAPPENING ⊹THIS⊹ SATURDAY (JUNE 6th) AT 7PM!

Our final two brilliant Wildfire writers will be presenting excerpts of their work and rocking your freakass worlds!

🪱🪱🪱First up, Hold Me Under by Autumn Strom🪱🪱🪱
Hold Me Under is about a woman digging in the garden. At nighttime. In her ex-girlfriend’s backyard. It’s about the intimacy of encountering a person you loved and might still love and absolutely cannot love. It’s about reaching under the surface and warping the flesh into something new. It’s about turning into an earthworm because maybe that’s the only way to make sense of anything.
Performed by Nyx Orr and Aurora Moss!

👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬Followed up by Naked Frankenstein by Jackson Lee Thompson👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬
Naked Frankenstein: Two doctors contend with artificial life and loneliness. 25 people are denied death. A guy getting a vasectomy lands an awful job. A woman discovers she is, in fact, a saint.
Performed by Autumn Strom, Marlo Hepburn, Max Hanic, and Jackson Lee Thompson!

Make sure to check out both nights of our Wildfire Development Showcase June 5th & 6th at 7PM

🎟️🎟️🎟️LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE!🎟️🎟️🎟️
Check out the ticket link in our bio for more information and to make sure you get a spot!
As part of the IGNITE! Festival of new work at Sage Theatre!

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06/01/2026

🚨🚨HEY THERE MAJORS!🚨🚨
HERE’S THE LOWDOWN FOR THE FIRST NIGHT OF OUR ⋆*⋆WILDFIRE SHOWCASE⋆*⋆ HAPPENING ⊹THIS⊹ FRIDAY (JUNE 5th) AT 7PM!

Two of our illustrious Wildfire Unit artists will be performing their own work and blowing yr damn minds!

👹👹👹First up, Saturn Return written and performed by Ciarán Volke!👹👹👹
Saturn Return is a solo musical about a popstar who must travel the underworld to escape both literal and metaphorical demons.

🐣🐣🐣Followed up by Split Rites/Half made by Max Hanic and Ane Zapirain, performed by Max Hanic🐣🐣🐣
Split Rites/Half Made is a duet that explores notions of birth and death with specific reference to the creator’s having found an unborn chicken, half formed, within an egg they cracked open while making breakfast together. Through embodying states of extreme inbetween and an earnest exploration of funeral rituals the dancers move and voice between images of death and burgeoning life evoking a language of the strange, transformation, the grotesque and the uncomfortable in between.

Make sure to check out both nights of our Wildfire Development Showcase June 5th & 6th at 7PM

🎟️🎟️🎟️LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE!🎟️🎟️🎟️
Check out the ticket link in our bio for more information and to make sure you get a spot!
As part of the IGNITE! Festival of new work at Sage Theatre!

youngvoices earlycareerartists

05/12/2026

After a much needed break, we are BACK AT IT tonight, CALGARY!!! ⚡️🍄🧬

Check out some of the things last week’s audiences had to say about the show ⬆️

Tonight (Tuesday) and Wednesday’s shows are SOLD OUT but we’ll be holding a few extra tickets at the door, so if you want to come but aren’t sure if there’ll be room, come anyway and we’ll do our very best to get you in!!! ‼️

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LOVE AND RAGE
🗓️May 7 - 16
📍608 1 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta
🎟️ Tickets on sale now (link in bio) 🔗

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Devised, designed, and performed by CLARKE BLAIR (), GEOFFREY SIMON BROWN (), MARLO HEPBURN (), WHITTYN JASON (), MEREDITH JOHNSON, EVAN MEDD (), NYX ORR (), and MIKE TAN ().

Ian Lane – Production Assistant & Technical Support
Kit Benz – Artistic Collaborator and L&R Ensemble Member for Phase I & IIbeauch and – Major Matt Mason Collective’s Emerging Producers in Residence
Social Media by
Photos by Caitlind Brown

04/15/2026

Hey Majors!

While all flowering plants grow from seed, mushrooms grow from spores or tissue culture. 🌱🍄 And our FIRST WEEK OF REHEARSALS IS BEHIND US!

Scroll for snaps of our team moving, making, posing and crafting all around our venue in downtown Calgary! ✂️🧵🌃🏙️ 🌆

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LOVE AND RAGE
🗓️May 7 - 16
📍608 1 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta 
🐇Tickets info COMING SOON

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Devised, designed, and performed by CLARKE BLAIR (Clarke Blair), GEOFFREY SIMON BROWN (Geoffrey Simon Brown), MARLO HEPBURN (marlohepburn), WHITTYN JASON (Whittyn Jason), MEREDITH JOHNSON, EVAN MEDD (Evan Medd), NYX ORR (Nyx), and MIKE TAN (Mike Tan Photo).

Ian Lane – Production Assistant & Technical Support
Kit Benz – Artistic Collaborator and L&R Ensemble Member for Phase I & II
Eve Beauchamp and Liz Janzen – Major Matt Mason Collective’s Emerging Producers in Residence
Social Media by elena eli belyea

With generous support from Inside Out Theatre, The GRAND, and Allied.

01/11/2026

Introducing our final member of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Unit, Max Hanic and Ane Zapirain and their piece ‘Split Rites or Half Made’.

Max Hanic is a q***r actor, dancer, singer and instructor who graduated with distinction from the
University of Alberta Fine Arts Acting program and studied contemporary dance at La Faktoria
Choreographic Centre in Pamplona, Spain for the 2021/2022 period and at Modus Operandi in
Vancouver from 2024-2025. He is currently based between Vancouver, Montréal and Edmonton.
Max has been given training scholarships by EDAM (Vancouver), The Good Women Dance
Collective (Edmonton) and Circuit-Est (Montréal) as well as trained at Tic Tac Art Centre
(Brussels), Espacio Tiempo (Madrid) and at the One Body One Career Countertechnique
intensive in Amsterdam. He has been
nominated for a Sterling award and is the recipient of the 2025 Gerda Hnatyshyn award for
contemporary dance.

With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of the Basque
Country (UPV/EHU), Ane Zapirain continues her training in contemporary dance at La
Faktoría Centro Coreográfico (Iruña, 2022) and Mutis Espazioa (Leioa, 2023). In 2023,
she participated in the Dantzan Bilaka program with Agortu, a project presented at
Tzantzan Fest 25, La Escucha Errante 25, and BLV-Art 25. As a performer, she has
worked with Olatz de Andres in Time is a Muscle and with DOOS Colectivo. She is
currently involved in the research process of Basque creator Natalia García Muro and
participated in Mónica Valenciano’s Bailadero in L’animal a l’esquena (2025) in August.

Split Rites or Half Made is a duet that explores notions of birth and death with specific reference
to the creator’s having found an unborn chicken, half formed, within an egg they cracked open
while making breakfast together. Through embodying states of extreme inbetween and an earnest
exploration of funeral rituals the dancers move and voice between images of death and
burgeoning life evoking a language of the strange, transformation, the grotesque and the
uncomfortable in between.

We can’t wait to work with you both!

01/09/2026

Our second participant of the Wildfire Development Unit is Ciaran Volke and his play Saturn Return!

Ciarán Volke is a performer, writer, and director based in Mohkinstsis and Treaty 7. He is known for the comedy duo COWBOY, as well as being the co-founder of the award winning theatre company Three Cheese. He has created and performed all across the country, with companies such as the Belfry, Theatre SKAM, Intrepid Theatre, Atomic Vaudeville, Impulse Theatre, Downstage Theatre, Blue Bridge Theatre, Paper Street Theatre, and Ok Dope. He has a BFA in Performance from the University of Victoria.

Saturn Return is a solo musical about a popstar who must travel the underworld to escape both literal and metaphorical demons. Throughout his journey, other stories are braided into a panoply of grief, fame, and q***rness. Development for this project began on Instagram in 2020, and then in residency with Intrepid Theatre’s OUTstages Residency. It has been presented twice over the course of its initial residency and subsequent reworkings, and is in its final push to being complete.

Welcome to the unit, Ciaran!

01/07/2026

Introducing our first Wildfire Development Unit participant, Autumn Strom and her play “Hold Me Under”! Autumn Strom (she/they) is a transfem, multidisciplinary theatre artist based in
amiskwaciwâskahikan. Autumn is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA in Acting program, and is particularly interested in new work processes, as well as any work that explores gender through a q***r lens. In addition to acting, Autumn’s artistic practice includes sound design, stage management, and playwriting. She is also a member of Rapid Fire Theatre’s Main Performing Ensemble.

“Hold Me Under” is about a woman digging in the garden. At nighttime. In her ex-girlfriend’s backyard. It’s about the intimacy of encountering a person you loved and might still love and absolutely cannot love. It’s about reaching under the surface and warping the flesh into something new. It’s about turning into an earthworm because maybe that’s the only way to
make sense of anything.

11/03/2025

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR TWO EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES!

Apply for the Wildfire Development Unit if you have a piece that you’d like development support with, specifically if it’s interdisciplinary in nature, blending theatre creation with other art forms!

Apply for the Emerging Producer in Residence position if you have an interest in learning more about how to create and produce your own independent work!

Joseph McManus, one of our producers in residence for 2024/2025, had this to say about spending time with us last season:

“This program is a perfect launchpad for an emerging artist or producer. I got to receive priceless mentorship about not only past work, but also got a glimpse into current company operations, creating a well-rounded and relevant experience. The best part of this past year has been getting the opportunity to develop closer professional relationships with the folks I looked up to in my teens, and having them support my current projects through advice and connecting me with other theatre professionals is like a dream come true. These lil guys are the best!”

Thanks Joseph!

Deadline for applications is TONIGHT at 11:59pm.

For more information about either program, check out our website at mmmtheatrecollective.com and head to the Get Involved section.

Photo of Clarke Blair in a work-in-progress presentation of Love & Rage
Credit to Whittyn Jason

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