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.theonlyfanconi.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.
Treasure Trail
Discover what is hidden in the big green. The Only Animal's artists create hidden artistic treasure troves on ecological themes. This is geocaching as you've never seen it before. Wear sensible shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. Treasure Trail is a part of a year...
The City and The City
What does it mean to “unsee” another person, an incident…an entire city? Adapted from author China Miéville’s multi-award-winning novel, The City and The City is a highly participatory theatrical experience; equal parts dystopic science fiction, film noir, and murder...
Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is a trail walk that will reveal the secret strange creatures of the undergrowth, some tender and green, some ancient and craggy. Puppets made from stick, leaf and moss will show you the forest anew. The outdoor shows are intended for kids under 10...
Creeker
Creeker is an intimate listening experience for one that challenges how we are in the city. Walk city blocks with sound artist Nancy Tam as she guides you into unexpected places. Creeker displaces the rhythms and sounds of Roberts Creek, from the ocean to the...
Gathering of Giants
Gathering of Giants is the launch of a year of art in, around and in support of the expanded Mount Elphinstone Provincial Park and the premiere of three new short films on the forest. Local filmmaker include Sophia Dagher, Craig Anderl and this is it design's own...
Nightlight
Follow The Only Animal deep into the forest on the darkest night of the year, on a quest to bring back the light in Nightlight. The sun disappeared into the trees and has not been seen since. Some say it sank to the bottom of the sea. Journey into this dark and frozen...
Nothing But Sky
Nothing But Sky, takes place inside a live drawing with the story of the Canadian who first drew Superman. Meet Joe, the artist, his best friend, Jerry, the writer, and Joanne, the original model for Lois Lane and the girl they both love. Get on board the skyrocket as...
National Elevator Project: The Club
Theatre Yes partnered with 14 local and national theatres, play development centres, and festivals who provided the funds to commission 16 playwrights to write 5-10 minute plays that explore the ritual of the elevator ride. The National Elevator Project is utterly...
Cedar Board Game
Inspired by human-scale chess on the streets of New York and the Permaculture movement, Cedar Board Game is a free, live, interactive, collaborative event for five families at a time. The Coast once supported 30,000 inhabitants and provided all of their sustenance...
Sea of Sand
A man recovering from amnesia, the wife who doesn't want him to remember, and a woman who washes up out of the sea. Memory and desire are the twin rip tides at work in this lost and found story. A radio play/live action hybrid that plays up and down the beach, in and...
NiX (Whistler)
NiX is Canada's first theatre of snow and ice. This theatrical adventure follows two survivors and an arsonist through the fireworks at the end of the world. NiX is a frozen fantasy, complete with a flaming tuba, a snowman death scene and an explosive love story that...
Sugar
Sugar blends five stories of first love into a candy-coloured confection. Five women concoct their miniature tales of bittersweet romance using baking ingredients and cookies. These intimate object theatre pieces staged on breadboards balanced on the knees of two...