Mariah Horner
Mo (Mariah) Horner is a theatre artist based in Kingston. Her PhD research focuses on abolitionist dramaturgies, site-specific live performance, care work, and collaborative creation. She is the co-investigator on play/PLAY: Participatory Dramaturgies with Dr. Jenn Stephenson. As a theatre director she’s worked with Thousand Islands Playhouse, SpiderWebShow, Great Canadian Theatre Company and Theatre Kingston. Interested in catalyzing independent and non-traditional theatre artists and forms in Kingston, she is the Festival Director of CFRC's Shortwave Theatre Festival and ran Kingston's Storefront Fringe Festival from 2016-2018. Co-founding the Cellar Door Project with Devon Jackson in 2013, Mariah has produced and dramaturged 15 original site-specific theatre performances in Kingston and Ottawa. She has an an MA in Theatre Theory & Dramaturgy from uOttawa and has been published by SpiderWebShow, Visit Kingston, Canadian Theatre Review, and the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. She sits on the boards of the Kingston Arts Councils and the Grad Club. During the pandemic, she co-created To You, a pop-up porch performance and surprise birthday party with Laura Chaignon and Kay Kenney and a live radio show about sex and intimacy called Talk to Me, written by Sean Meldrum and directed by Wallis Caldoza. She’s currently in residency at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre. These days, she’s excited to be singing backup vocals for the Gertrudes.
Mo's Work
Cellar Door Project’s To You, video by Skeleton Park Arts Fstival (credits in video description)
Being an Artist is F***KING Killing Me, episode 110: Mariah Horner
Horner, Mariah and Jacob Pittini. "On Being a Walking Body" Canadian Theatre Review. vol 189. Winter 2022. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.189.015
Horner, Mariah. “Participating in the Age of Pandemic" Canadian Theatre Review. vol 186. Spring 2021. https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/ctr.186.006
Horner, Mariah and Grahame Renyk. “Matter Matters: Performing a Stone in the Woods” Canadian Theatre Review. vol 163. Summer 2015. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.163.012
Horner, Mariah and Jacob Pittini. "On Being a Walking Body" Canadian Theatre Review. vol 189. Winter 2022. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.189.015
Horner, Mariah. “Participating in the Age of Pandemic" Canadian Theatre Review. vol 186. Spring 2021. https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/ctr.186.006
Horner, Mariah and Grahame Renyk. “Matter Matters: Performing a Stone in the Woods” Canadian Theatre Review. vol 163. Summer 2015. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.163.012
