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.
Favourite projects include Magic Hour, NiX and tinkers. Ongoing work includes 1000 Year Theatre and Treasure Trail. Upcoming projects include When Pigs Fly and bird in the hand, and Cloud 9.
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.
I am a winner of the National Rewilding Art Prize from David Suzuki Foundation. My project 1000 Year Theatre was exhibted at the Canadian Museum of Nature in 2024/5.You can read a career retrospective of my work here. 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.
NiX (Calgary)
Winner: Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Lighting Design Nominated: Betty Mitchell Award Outstanding Production, Outstanding New Play NiX is Canada's first theatre of snow and ice. This theatrical adventure follows two survivors and an arsonist through the...
You and the Moon
You and the Moon was a careful examination of greatest love story you’ve ever had, but never knew. A microscope that looks back at you, a storybook that draws itself, a miniature you that becomes a fulsome adventurer. An interactive show for one-person at a time,...
The One That Got Away (Ottawa)
The One That Got Away toured to Magnetic North Theatre Festival 2007 in Ottawa, where it won Audience Choice Award and Favourite Show in the 10 year History of the Festival. The One That Got Away tells the story of a girl with a fish where her heart should be, chasing...
dog eat dog
Nominated for Jessie Award: Outstanding Production, Small Theatre dog eat dog featured five true stories inspired by recent news reports. The Only Animal is on the hunt for survival tactics: tracking a refugee from Hurricane Katrina, a Sasquatch stalker, an unlikely...
Bedsheet Tempest
Bedsheet Tempest sampled text from Shakespeare's The Tempest to reveal the nocturnal struggles of a couple on the rocks as part of the first HIVE. HIVE was a performance event created by 11 of Vancouver and Victoria's creation-based theatre companies. In 2006, these...
The One That Got Away (Vancouver)
Winner: Jessie Award Best Production Nomination: Jessie Award 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...