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Keltie is a theatre director of settler ancestry based out of the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from UBC and is a graduate of the University of Alberta Department of Drama and participant in the Robbin's Academy Professional Theatre Program. She is also the 2022 recipient of the Ray Michal Award for Outstanding Work and/or Body of Work by an Emerging Director.
Select directing credits include: Beautiful Man (Pi Theatre), In Response to Alabama (Little Thief Theatre), Viet Gone, The Red Priest (United Players of Vancouver), Superior Donuts, In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Ensemble Theatre), The Audition (HealthPitch UK), She Kills Monsters, Eurydice, The Dumb Waiter, Marion Bridge (UBC), Juice, All in the Timing, Closer, Bedlam, Kafka’s Metamorphosis (K.I.A. Productions), Minding Dad, Love and Death and Passages (THEATrePUBLIC).
Keltie was the co-curator of the Canoe Theatre Festival in Edmonton, the Associate Artistic Director of Pi Theatre in Vancouver, and is an Artistic Associate at Ensemble Theatre Company. She is currently the Director of Operations at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
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The Audition Preview
In the press
Beautiful Man
Create a Stir Preview: Beautiful Man takes aim at the patriarchy through brutally funny satire
Vancouver Sun Preview: The female gaze is in play in Beautiful Man
Create a Stir Review: Beautiful Man turns the long-defined idea of a woman’s place on its head
In Response to Alabama
Create a Stir Preview: In Response to Alabama breaks down myths and stigma around abortion
Superior Donuts
Vancouver Presents Review: Superior Donuts is filled with satisfyingly empty calories
Vancouver Sun Review: Donuts, dreams and a moving odd couple comedy
Georgia Straight Review: First-rate acting performances add plenty of flavour to Superior Donuts
Colinthomas.ca Review: Superior Donuts: superior production
She Kills Monsters
Ubyssey Preview: “She Kills Monsters” is disemboweling conventions and slaying demons
Ubyssey Interview: Keltie Forsyth on Dungeons and Dragons and powerful women in theatre
Georgia Straight Review: UBC Theatre finds the geeky heart and humour in She Kills Monsters
Ubyssey Review: UBC needs more plays like She Kills Monsters
Vancouver Presents Review: She Kills Monsters brings Dungeons & Dragons & drama
In the Next Room or the vibrator play
Georgia Straight Preview: In the Next Room reaches climax with Ensemble Theatre Company production
Vancouver Sun Review: Love, loneliness and vibrators star in Ensemble Theatre's In The Next Room
Eurydice
Ubyssey Review: Eurydice is both explosive and understated
All in the Timing
Closer
