Theater

An intimate storytelling show about life's formidable events and the pinpricks of light that tilt our gaze from the gutter to the stars.

Montreal storyteller Nisha Coleman spins a yarn of nail-biting, heart-wrenching, darkly comedic adventures as she gets locked in the Madrid train station with a stray cat, is rescued by The Princess Bride's Westley while busking in Halifax, and saves a young woman from a brush with death in Montreal. Through true-life stories, Coleman delves boldly into themes of mental illness and suicide, and attempts to “solve the problem of living” by learning to be Alright with being Alive. An intimate storytelling show about life's formidable events and the pinpricks of light that tilt our gaze from the gutter to the stars.

Nisha Coleman is a Montreal writer, storyteller and actor. Her work has been featured on the CBC, The Moth Radio Hour, Risk! and Confabulation among others. Her first solo show, Self-Exile, won the Best English Production at the 2016 Montreal Fringe and the Bill Bowers Award for Excellence at the Sarasolos Festival. Her French show Cornichon was featured regularly at the Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal in 2022 and 2023. Her most recent show Alright: Solving the Problem of Living was nominated for Best English Production and Outstanding English Text at the 2023 Montreal Fringe. She is a published author of the children’s book, Dear Humans, and the memoir, Busker: Stories from the Streets of Paris.