Past Projects
For 18 years, Kendra Fanconi was Artistic Director and Lead Artist with The Only Animal, a theatre company that made work with a deep engagement
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...
OnSite
A collaboration between The Only Animal and Vancouver International Fringe Festival, Onsite was an intensive for site-specific theatre making, which took artists through the process of learning more about the possibilities of the form, and then ideating, devising,...
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...
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...