Zee Zee Theatre is devoted to telling and celebrating stories that amplify voices from the margins, with a focus on 2SLGBTQI+ communities. We share diverse experiences as an act of resistance, while nurturing joy, curiosity, empathy, and humanity in the world.

Located on the traditional unceded territories of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations, Zee Zee Theatre celebrates local artmaking based in a deep belief in the transformative power of queer joy.

This year, our fundraising goes both ways: half of the jackpot goes to the winner, and the other half supports local queer theatre!

When you buy a 50/50 raffle ticket, you’re not just taking a chance to win—you’re investing in bold, necessary theatre that brings underrepresented stories to the stage.

Every ticket sold makes a difference. Take a chance, support queer art, and maybe win big!

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Important dates

Deadline: Sunday June 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
Draw date: Monday June 16, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.

Rules

1. Tickets
Tickets may be sold and purchased only in British Columbia.

Ticket purchasers must be 13 years of age or older.

2. 50/50
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The 50/50 is a draw where the money received in ticket sales is divided evenly between the winner and the charity.

Maximum 50/50 payout will be $10,000.00.

3. Deadline & Draw
Ticket sales deadline: Sunday June 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. PST

Ticket draw: Monday June 16, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. PST

If for some reason, the draw cannot take place on the draw date listed, a substitute draw date and time will be selected.

All ticket purchasers will be able to see the amended draw date and time information posted on the zeezeetheatre.ca homepage.

Draw will be held at the Zee Zee offices, 1885 Venables Street Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6.

The winning ticket is drawn using Random Number Generator software (RNG).

4. Winner
Winner will be contacted by phone by Zee Zee Theatre.

Winner will be posted on the zeezeetheatre.ca homepage on June 17, 2025.

Winner consents to release of their name by licensee.

If a winning ticket bears a minor’s name, the prize will be lawfully delivered to the minor’s parent, legal guardian or trustee.

No tickets will be purchased by the Board of Directors of Zee Zee Theatre Company or employees involved with the conduct and management of the ticket raffle.

5. Privacy
Zee Zee Theatre does not sell, rent or exchange any personal information collected from our supporters with any other organization or entity.

6. Complaints
Any complaints can be directed to the raffle administrators by emailing: info@zeezeetheatre.ca. The Zee Zee team will review the complaint and take action if necessary.

7. Delay in Draw
Should a delay occur in the draw time on draw day, every effort will be made to make the draw as soon as possible.

Should an alternate day need to be announced, after approval by BC Gaming, all ticket purchasers will be notified via email.

8. Assistance
Please email our team at info@zeezeetheatre.ca should you require a refund for any ticket purchases or would like to issue a complaint, and we would be happy to assist you.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How many tickets are available for sale?
   There are 2,000 tickets available for sale.
2.  How much do tickets cost?
   $10 per ticket.
3.  Can I request a specific ticket number?
   No. Ticket numbers are computer-generated in ascending order starting at a pre-determined number.
4.  When are the deadlines for ticket sales?
   Final Sales Deadline: Sunday June 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. PST
5.  What are the odds of winning?
   Chances are 1 in 2,000  (total tickets for sale) to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold.

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Zee Zee Theatre is looking for 1-3 visual artists who would like to showcase their art for the duration of our theatre production Every Day She Rose written by Andrea Scott and Nick Green taking place at the Culture Lab located at the Cultch Theatre located at 1895 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6 from May 1-11, 2025. Artists will have a chance to have their work in the Cultch’s gallery from April 28th to May 12th, 2025. 

Synopsis of Every Day She Rose:

“The personal becomes political in this collaboratively created work from Andrea Scott and Nick Green. After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two best friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they first thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure out how to write about the fallout. 

Every Day She Rose is a powerful exploration of white supremacy, privilege, and patriarchy in supposed safe spaces.”

More info about Every Day She Rose at the Cultch can be found here: https://thecultch.com/event/every-day-she-rose/

Themes:

– Black & Queer identities

– white supremacy

– privilege

– patriarchy

Who:

We are reaching out to the local artist community to engage with those that have created art that uplifts voices of marginalized community members and potentially ties into some of the themes of our production of Every Day She Rose. We are currently looking for 1-3 artists at the intersections of Black and Queer identities to apply with pre-existing 2D works that are still available to them to showcase within the Cultch’s gallery. Everyone’s art however, will be considered. 

Who should apply: emerging artists, 2SLGTBQIA+ artists, BIPOC artists

Key Dates:

Application Opens: February 18, 2025

Application Closes: March 20, 2025

Application Review: March 20 – 28, 2025

Applicants Notified: March 28, 2025

Art Drop Off: April 7 – April 18, 2025

Art Installation: April 28, 2025

Art Taken Down: May 12, 2025

Art Pick Up: May 12 – 20, 2025

When & Where:

On March 28th, 2025 Zee Zee Theatre staff members will be selecting and contacting those that have submitted their works using this form to participate in the gallery space. Not every artist who submits works may be selected. Pieces that best fit the themes of Every Day She Rose will be given preference. 

From April 7th to 18th, 2025, Zee Zee Theatre staff will be collecting the selected works of art that will be hung in the gallery space. Art drop off times will be coordinated with artists at our office at The Green House at 1885 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6.

If selected, on April 28th, 2025 at 12:00 pm your artwork will be installed in the gallery space. On 

May 12th, 2025 at 10:00 am your artwork will be taken down from the gallery space. 

The gallery in located within the Historic Cultch Theatre located at 1895 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6.

You will have a week after May 12th to pick up any art that has not sold from our office located at The Green House at 1885 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6.

Art Specifications:

• Dimensions: Any! Pieces can be as small as 4″ x 6″ and as large as 12′ x 20′. 
• All artwork needs to have 2 “D hooks” on the back so they can be hung properly. If there are no “D hooks” on the back of the artwork it can not be hung. All artwork is hung from a rail system and everything must hang from wires. No nails. You must purchase and install your own D hooks. More details about how to do this will be sent via email. 
• Canvases and framed works are accepted with the 2 “D hooks” on the back of the piece. 
• Artists must supply their own frames and frame their own work (if applicable to your work). This must be all ready to go by April 18th, 2025. 
• Technicians from the Cultch will be installing your artwork. Artists will not be hanging their own artwork. 

Compensation:

Compensation Offering: $100.00 honorarium to those selected plus an opportunity to generate funds from the sale of your art from April 28th, 2025 to May 12th, 2025 within the gallery space. 

Sales:

There is a potential to sell your artwork that will be hung within the gallery space at the Cultch. Details about this will further be discussed with selected artists. 

Cathartic Celebrations: express resist/release expand

Join us for a transformative day of creative expression and collective practice, where we explore the tension between resistance and release. This workshop reimagines ceremony, oral traditions, and reverence through an artistic lens, offering a space for cultural preservation and emotional expansion.

Inspired by Everyday She Rose, our upcoming production, and the radical reimagining of communal spaces for reflection and renewal, this experience invites you to engage with all your senses and activate your sensations. Through playful yet meaningful practices, we honor ancestral traditions and embrace our present reality while reclaiming space for connection, expression, and healing.

Our featured artists will guide you through:

• An Ancestral Plant Journey: Connect with the earth as we explore the significance of plants in culture and tradition.
• Body and Voice Exploration: Tap into the power of your emotions through movement and sound, discovering new ways to resist, release, and expand your sense of self.
• Eruption [An Experimental Cake Performance]: Taste test “edible” art tied to unceded territories and destructive conflict avoidance through sensory discomforts. 

Come ready to celebrate, protest, and play. Together, we’ll create a space that uplifts, challenges, and inspires.

When: February 23, 2025, 10am – 2pm

Where: The Greenhouse Studio at: 1885 Venables St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6

Who: Self-identified Black folks for workshops. Everyone welcome for the lunch provided.

Let’s reclaim, reimagine, and renew—together.

Additional Event Information:

• The Green House space is fully wheelchair accessible.
• There is free parking in a gravel lot behind the Green House studio on a first come first serve basis. There is additional parking on Venables Street and surrounding streets also on a first come first serve basis.
• Ages: 16+. There will be no childcare provided on site. Please plan accordingly.
• Space limited to 15 participants.

For additional inquiries, please email: alysha@zeezeetheatre.ca

We are so pleased to welcome Bronwyn Carradine as our new Artistic Managing Producer.

Bronwyn Carradine is a queer administrator, theatre creator and playwright. As an artist, she’s collaborated with Zee Zee since 2015 when she was the Assistant Director of Elbow Room Café: The Musical at Studio 58, since then she’s Assistant Directed Elbow Room Café: The Musical (The Cultch), My Funny Valentine (Buddies in Bad Times), written for Nyet: Again (2017) and most recently wrote Unexpecting (2023). She’s beyond thrilled to be joining the team of this company whose mandate is so close to her heart.

As an arts administrator she has focused much of her work on building community connections and furthering equity for artists in terms of safe working conditions, clear & concise contracting, deliberate hiring, inspiring auditioning, and more robust on-boarding. In her most recent role as Company Manager & Assistant to the Artistic Director at the Arts Club Theatre Company, Carradine worked to open doors for artists by implemented programs such as: Arts Worker Rush Tickets, Industry Nights, Relaxed Auditions, Audition Childcare, as well as Write from the Wings, and the Incubator Series.

When she’s not at the theatre, you can find her either on the couch with her partner and their cat watching Below Deck, or running in the mountains.

We are thrilled to announce our 2022/2023 season of programming, including three MainStage productions:

• The official launch of the National Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit (October)
• The Rainbow Elders & Allies Collection at the Vancouver Public Library (November)
• In My Day by Rick Waines, produced with Norman Armour & Rick Wianes, presented by The Cultch (December)
• My Little Tomato by Rick Tae, co-produced with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, in association Rice & Beans Theatre, presented by The Cultch (March)
• Unexpecting, by Bronwyn Carradine (May)

Click on Productions in left menu to check out what we have In Development.

Our favourite Zee Zee tradition is back: the Annual Glamour Meeting! Part society business, part season sneak peek, part drag show, all good fun!

Join us for our official AGM then stick around as we launch our entire season with another sneak peak of our show in development “Cool Moms” by Thanks Jem.

Tickets $5 at the door which includes a one year membership to Zee Zee!

This is a limited capacity, distanced and masked event. All will need to show a record of their vaccine status and must stay in the seats unless going to the bar or bathroom and remain masked unless they are consuming food or drink and only then while in their seats.

Featuring Thanks Jem

The following business will be considered by the membership:

1. Acceptance of agenda (motion required).
2. Approval of minutes of 2020 AGM (motion required).
3. Report by management to the members with financial statements presented (motion required).
4. Election of directors of the Society (motion required)
5. Any further information respecting the society required by the bylaws or the regulations.

Zee Zee Theatre is inviting submissions for our upcoming production of 

Men Express Their Feelings

By Sunny Drake

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CREATIVE TEAM:

Director:  Cameron Mackenzie 

Stage Manager: Jenny Kim

Creative Consultant: Paneet Singh

Intimacy Coach / Choreographer: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg

Design Team: Kimira Reddy, Donnie Tejani, Sara Vickruck, Carol Macdonald

Technical Director: Ash Shotton

Other Cast Members: Munish Sharma, Jeff Gladstone

AUDITION DATES & LOCATION: 

November 24, 11-3pm, location TBC

DATES:

Preliminary Cast Reading: December 9, 2021

Rehearsals begin:  February 22, 2022 at The Greenhouse Rehearsal Hall (1885 Venables St, beside The Cultch)

Performances :  March 17-April 3, 2022 at Firehall Arts Centre (280 East Cordova Street)

Artists will be engaged under the Equity DOT Contract

THE ROLE: 

RAJ SHARMA, 17, male, hockey player and star goalie, first generation Indo-Canadian, beginning to explore his pansexuality.

Zee Zee is committed to equity, diversity, and representation. With regard to cultural specificity, for this role we will only be seeing male identified actors of South Asian descent. 

TRIGGER WARNING:

The show deals with race-based bullying and implied sexual activity. The role will require kissing another male actor four times. Intimacy coach will be provided.

TO SUBMIT:  

Please send headshot and resume and any questions to Associate Artistic Director Dave Deveau at dave@zeezeetheatre.ca

Please note:

In order to better serve our local community we will only be seeing actors based in the Lower Mainland.

In accordance with our COVID-19 Safety Plan all artists, staff and contractors must be double vaccinated except for those who have a verifiable medication condition or religious exemption based on a prohibited ground in human rights legislation. Artists will be required to provide proof of vaccination to Zee Zee prior to commencing work. Other COVID-19 protocols, such as masking, are also in place and evolve to reflect best recommended practices at the time of production. These protocols will be communicated clearly to artists at the time of offer, and be included in the rider to their contract.

PLAY SYNOPSIS: 

A comedy about culture, hockey, relationships and sex. Two dads and their sons are sentenced to stay in the hockey locker room until they’ve talked through their feelings about a violent incident. In 90 hilarious minutes, these guys get to know each other and themselves a whole lot better, while redefining what it means to WIN. Men Express Their Feelings enriches, instigates, and empowers questions of gender, sexuality, identity and the cultural impact on all of these. 

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT:

November 22, 5 pm

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For questions or accommodation requests related to the submission process, please email Associate Artistic Director Dave Deveau dave@zeezeetheatre.ca

OMG WE’RE LIVE!

Welcome back to your favourite tradition: our Annual Glamour Meeting.

Part society business, part season sneak peek, part drag show, all good fun.

Join us for our official AGM then stick around as we launch our entire season.

With a sneak-peak scene from our Spring main stage production, drag performance from our playwright-in-residence and story by one of the curators and storytellers from this past year’s Virtual Humanity.

This is a limited capacity, distanced and masked event. All will need to show a record of their vaccine status and must stay in the seats unless going to the bar or bathroom and remain masked unless they are consuming food or drink and only then while in their seats.

Tickets $5 at the door which includes a one year membership to Zee Zee.

Featuring Alysha Collie, Thanks Jem, Munish Sharma, Jeff Gladstone

The following business will be considered by the membership:

1. Acceptance of agenda (motion required).
2. Approval of minutes of 2020 AGM (motion required).
3. Report by management to the members with financial statements presented (motion required).
4. Election of directors of the Society (motion required)
5. Any further information respecting the society required by the bylaws or the regulations.

We are living through extraordinary times of global complexity, uncertainty, and a sea of question marks within many sectors. 

As live event makers, we create the unexpected, we respond in the immediate, we investigate community building in new ways that are still heartwarming, eye opening, challenging, and subversive. Artists create beauty and we create opportunities to reflect and we create moments of communal laughter and joy.

Our question for this, our 13th season, in the midst of a pandemic and a revolution dismantling white supremacy is “How do we share our humanity now?”  Please join us on this journey.

Thank you for believing in Zee Zee and the arts as a force for positive change.

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The Season:

Family Drag Brunch & Dress-Up

Curated by Dave Deveau & Cameron Mackenzie
October 4, 2020, 11am via Zoom
Part of Transform: A Cabaret Festival
Presented with the Cultch & Urban Ink

With DJ O Show
Featuring Celestial Seasons, Jaylene Tyme, Karmella Barr, Thanks Jem
Hosted by Isolde N. Barron & Peach Cobblah

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TERF Wars & Transgressions

by JD Derbyshire & Dave Deveau
In consultation with Jessie Anderson & Morgane Oger
October 25, 2020 3 pm via Zoom (Reading)
April 2021 (Workshop)

Featuring JD Derbyshire, Andrew McIlroy, Deborah Williams

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Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women

by Paul Lucas
November 14, 2020, 7 pm Streaming Online
Part of Trans Awareness Week
Originally produced with the frank theatre
in association with the Firehall Arts Centre

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Quarantine at the Elbow Room

by Dave Deveau
Based on Elbow Room Café: The Musical by Dave Deveau & Anton Lipovetsky
December 12, 2020 on Zoom
Presented with The Cultch

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Virtual Humanity

curated by Zee Zee Theatre
Inspired the Human Library created by Stop The Violence (Copenhagen)
March 2021 via Zoom

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On Tour:

Home is A Drag

by Dave Deveau & Cameron Mackenzie
(On Virtual Tour)

Part of Children’s Festivals, Conferences, and Pride Celebrations throughout the year including Campbell River Pride, Burnaby Pride, Pender Island Price, Nutrient Children’s Festival (Saskatoon), BC Teachers’ Federation Conference

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Parents Are A Drag

by Dave Deveau & Cameron Mackenzie
Touring (maybe) Spring 2021
Originally commissioned by the Vancouver International Children’s Festival

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In Development:

Cool Moms

by Charlee Sideen aka Thanks Jem
A new Zee Zee commission

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Launching Summer 2021

A National Queer & Trans Virtual Playwriting Unit

A Zee Zee Theatre initiative in partnership with:
Gwaandak Theatre (Whitehorse)
The Frank Theatre (Vancouver)
Theatre Outré (Lethbridge)
Theatre Projects Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto)
Native Earth Performing Arts (Toronto)
Imago Theatre (Montreal)
Neptune Theatre (Halifax)

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Season art by Isa Rodrigues