Cloud Nine

an experiment in Cloud Theatre created by Kendra Fanconi Cloud Nine is an imaginative, site-specific performance venue, starring the theatricality of flying water.  Walk up hill, take a seat, and gaze through a proscenium arch mounted there. When a cloud enters...

Season

Dear Animal, This is my last letter to you, and it begins where I left off, Animal-on the far left coast of Canada, at that time of year when summer starts to turn and a new season is in the wings. After time in Vancouver and on the Sunshine Coast, I crossed the...

Get Ready to Fall in Love…

I’m Kendra Fanconi, a site-specific theatre maker, and through my work, I like to invite audiences to fall in love with the natural world. For 18 years I was the Artistic Director of The Only Animal, in xwesam/Roberts Creek, in British Columbia, Canada, the traditional lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and shíshálh people which made work with a deep engagement with place and for solutionary outcomes for the climate crisis. I love impossible things.

I’m slowly migrating those projects to this site, so head over to www.theonlyanimal.com to see more of that body of work.

I now work as a free-lance artist in Sunshine, Colorado, on the lands of the Ute and Arapahoe peoples and travelling back to the land that I love in Canada to continue my work there as often as I can…

I am a playwright, a director, a conceptual artist, and a designer, and usually work in some combination of these roles. Please see the credit lists of all of the artists who have contributed so much beauty and hilarity to the work. 

Please go to the About page to learn more about me, or to view my CV/resume.

Enjoy looking around and feel free to reach out to me at kendra@theonlyfanconi.com

Dear Animal,

Dear Animal documents a year of falling in love with a new landscape and saying goodbye to The Only Animal, her creative muse and container for making impossible things for 18 years. 

The One that Got Away

The One that Got Away

A play in a pool Original concept and written by Kendra Fanconi The One That Got Away tells the story of a girl with a fish where her heart should be, chasing her rapscallion grandfather into an afterlife reckoning with love and loss. This play-in-a-pool combines...

Other Freds

Other Freds

Other Freds was possibly the largest and most audacious site-specific theatre show Vancouver has ever seen. Other Freds is the story of a lonely fella named Fred and all of the Other Freds existing in nearby parallel worlds. It is about chance, fate and...

tinkers

tinkers

tinkers is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Paul Harding. This new transcendentalist work features an intimate and dazzling relationship with the natural world, woven into a story of family karma.  Through an intergenerational story we...

Slime

Slime

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Slime Conference. Join 100 animals, seven young translators, scientists and suits, and fellow humans and step just slightly in the future… Seated amongst the delegates, you might hear an otter swimming down an aisle, a dolphin whistling at...