# Phil Rickaby

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Sonic Society Season 18- 751- Saint Nick Up

Jack is once again solo and feeling a seasonal cold as he tries to bring in another season with “Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up is a hilarious, heartbreaking, and heartwarming Christmas audio drama with the first four of six episodes about a part-time mall Santa’s ability to mess everything up, ...

Susanna Fournier is Spending a Season in Hell with take rimbaud

About This Episode: Playwright, director, and theatre maker Susanna Fournier joins Phil Rickaby fresh from rehearsal to talk about take rimbaud, her ambitious new production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in association with the Howland Company. Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's iconic prose poem A ...

Blythe Haynes on Creative Risk, Accessibility, Emotional Safety, & Other Concerns

Read transcript About This Episode Blythe Haynes returns to Stageworthy for a wide-ranging conversation with host Phil Rickaby about indie theatre, artistic process, community, and the evolution of a Fringe hit into a feature film. Blythe reflects on how Toronto’s theatre scene has changed si ...

Chantel Winters on Planting Clues in Her Scripts, the Reality of Producing, & Other Concerns

About This Episode: Chantel Winters is a Toronto-based actor, playwright, and producer who has built a career by refusing to wait for permission. In this conversation with host Phil Rickaby, Chantel talks about how the realities of the audition grind pushed her toward making her own work. The c ...

Your Guide to the 2026 Toronto Fringe, with Four of Toronto's Essential Theatre Voices

About This Episode: As the Toronto Fringe Festival prepares to launch, Phil Rickaby gathers four of Toronto's most dedicated theatre content creators (Janine Marley from A View from the Box, Ryan Borochovitz from The Cup Podcast, Alexandra Lean from Being Dramatic, and Ryan McCollom from Plates ...

Natalie Kaye is Channelling Harpo Marx, Mae West, and Shakespeare All at Once

About This Episode: Playwright and writer Natalie Kaye joins Phil Rickaby to talk about her wildly ambitious new musical, 1920s Walking Around in a Dream, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. The show is a screwball comedy set in an imagined 1920s Jazz Age Chicago, and it's a retelling of Sh ...

Ming Hudson is Directing Antigone at Bard on the Beach

About This Episode: Director Ming Hudson joins Phil Rickaby to talk about bringing Antigone to Bard on the Beach in Vancouver - a production seven years in the making, created collaboratively with playwright Kate Besworth. It's a minimalist, intimate reimagining of a 2,500-year-old story about ...

Sharry Flett Is Reflecting on 34 Seasons at the Shaw Festival

About This Episode: Sharry Flett has spent 34 seasons at the Shaw Festival - long enough to have watched the company evolve through three artistic directors, raise a daughter who appeared on its stages, and welcome back former students she once coached as the people now directing her. In this c ...

Sara Farb is Bringing one of Musical Theatre's Great Roles to Life

About this episode Sara Farb is a veteran of the Canadian theatre stage, having made her debut at the age of 9. Now she's bringing the role of Fanny Brice to life in Shaw Festival's Funny Girl. In this conversation, Sara joins host Phil Rickaby to reflect on the show, writing for the theatre, a ...

Jay Northcott is Bringing Joy, Blackness, and Bootycandy to Buddies in Bad Times

In this episode: Jay Northcott is a director, educator, and multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in joy, specificity, and a deep commitment to centring the full humanity of Black and queer artists. In this conversation, Jay joins Stageworthy host, Phil Rickaby to talk about Bootycandy, ...