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Tough Guy

Oct. 28, 2025 to Nov. 8, 2025

Fringe Theatre Arts Barns

Ages 14+
Tickets are under $50

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Tough Guy follows a group of friends as they navigate the aftermath of a shooting at Aria, a queer nightclub.

They’re all nursing wounds, visible and invisible, and are thrown into further turmoil when their friend Emerson, a rising star in the independent film scene, comes back home to film a documentary about the shooting. How do we go on when the unthinkable happens? What does it mean to point a camera at a catastrophe? How does queerness endure, time and time again?

Winner of the 2025 Westbury Family Theatre Award and the 2025 Alberta Playwriting Competition, Tough Guy is at once an excavation of a tragedy and a celebration of the tenacity of queer joy. It’s gripping, visceral, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, always unapologetic.

CAST

Mel Bahniuk
Michelle Diaz
Jasmine Hopfe
Marguerite Lawler
Autumn Strom

CREATIVE TEAM

Playwright/Producer - Hayley Moorhouse
Director - Brett Dahl
Dramaturg - Evan Medd
Stage Manager - Jess Haight
Production Manager - Liv Bunge
Set/Lighting Designer - Lieke den Bakker
Sound Designer - Kena León
Projection Designer - Ian Jackson

Persistent Myth Productions engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the INDIE 3.0.

Fringe Theatre Arts Barns

10330 84 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2G9