Oyster Productions: Telling stories to explore our community and expand our world.

The mission:

• To create art that is explorative in nature
• To create art that is compelling entertainment
• To use entertainment to expand our ideas about the world.
• To tell stories that want to be told.
• To include and encourage others
• To work with a sense of joy, knowing that it is a privilege to be an artist.

Oonagh is a graduate of the East 15 Acting School in London , England . For her MA thesis project, Oonagh created and performed an original verbatim theatre play based on interviews with members of her small community of Debden , England . She fell in love with creating documentary style theatre, a process which allowed her to engage with her community and proves that truth is stranger than fiction. Her work has been produced in Canada , the US and Britain and is published by Playwrights Canada Press. She has been featured as one of Canada 's premiere verbatim theatre artists by THIS magazine.