About

The Walking Fish Festival is Vancouver’s leading emerging artists festival; bringing together playwrights, performers, and directors to create original theatre.

For the festival’s sixth season Upintheair Theatre has chosen 11 short one-act plays written, directed, and performed by artists covering the full spectrum of emerging talent. This year the festival has over 50 artists involved from across BC and stretching out to Toronto and New York City.

Upintheair Theatre created the Walking Fish Festival in 2002 to provide opportunities for these artists to work together in an accessible, affordable production process and introduce their art to the wider community.

In past years theatre artists from a diverse array of backgrounds have participated; including students from Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, University of Toronto, University of Alberta, Douglas College, Studio 58, Grant MacEwan College, William Davis Centre and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and from Vancouver organizations including Playwrights Theatre Centre, Radix Theatre, Shifting Point Theatre, Genus Theatre, Ah Um Productions, ETC Theatre, and Mad Duck Equity Co-op, to name a few.