Creativity. Collaboration. Community.
The Electric City Players is a community theatre arts collective based in Peterborough / Nogojiwanong. We seek to create ambitious, immersive, multi-media theatre experiences that tell stories that explore how our distant past can help us to see our present and—perhaps more urgently—our possible futures more sharply. We believe in fostering generative interdisciplinary collaboration between theatre practitioners, videographers, choreographers, musicians, artists, and educators. We believe in the value of building community through artistic creation.
Meet Our Team
The Electric City Players operates on a decentralized, collaborative model of theatrical creation and practice. Our core members and collaborators appear below, but you can also find a more detailed list of the individuals working together on any given show on our events page. Interested in joining us, either for a specific show or as part of the company in general? Reach out to us at electriccityplayers@gmail.com!
Andrew Loeb, Co-Founder
Andrew is an English professor at Trent University, where he researches and teaches 16th- and 17th-century drama, including Shakespeare. He is also a musician, a photographer, an aspiring video artist, and an inexperienced-but-enthusiastic actor.
Jacqueline Barrow, Co-Founder
Jacqueline is a professor in the General Arts and Science department at Fleming College where she teaches art and identity, communications and anthropology. She has been active in the Peterborough theatre community since 1995, and has experience writing, directing and acting for the stage.