Rhiannon Collett

Playwright

Rhiannon Collett (they/them) is a playwright and translator based in Vancouver on the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. They are interested in interdisciplinary creation processes, sexual labour, gender performativity, and science fiction. Selected playwriting credits include Miranda & Dave Begin Again (Playwrights Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award), Wasp (Nightswimming/Rhubarb Festival/safeword), The Kissing Game (Youtheatre/Young People’s Theatre), J’ai Jamais (Youtheatre/Télé-Québec/Maison Théâtre) and Girlfriend (Young People’s Theatre). Translation credits include Still Life by Marie-Claude St. Laurent and Marie-Eve Milot (BoucheWhacked!/Talisman Theatre), Room 158 by Éric Noël (Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators) and L’Amour Looks Something Like You by Éric Noël. Residencies include the Stratford Festival Lab, the Banff Centre Playwrights Lab, the LunGa Festival (Iceland), ASSITEJ Next Generation (Sweden) and Festival des Petites Formes (Martinique). Their theatre criticism has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Now Magazine, Intermission Magazine and HowlRound. 

Published Works

Collett is constantly questioning the prescribed notions of normalcy—pushing both buttons and boundaries—while trying to figure out how we all interact in day-to-day life.

VICE
Graham Isador

(Praise for Wasp:)

A bold, irreverent, and unflinching play, and Wasp the kind of theatrical hero I have, without realizing, been waiting all my life to encounter.

Jordan Tannahill
author of Is My Microphone On? and The Listeners

(Praise for Wasp:)

Through unexpected allegory and visceral imagery, Rhiannon Collett conjures a nightmarish yet familiar world. Wasp doesn’t shy away from themes of bodily subjugation and validation through violence, but this sophisticated and chilling play leaves us hope in the form of resistance against the forces that would destroy us.

Christine Quintana
author of Selfie and Espejos: Clean