{"id":2,"date":"2025-07-15T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clawmarkstheatre.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:29:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clawmarkstheatre.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Claw Marks Theatre is Canada\u2019s indie home for alternative, feminist theatre that empowers and engages a community of women and gender-diverse artists + audiences.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Based in and around Toronto, ON, we are a new theatre company seeking to wring the heart of performance and roll around in its blood, producing countercultural art + new works.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specializing in feminist theatre that dissects gender roles and many other social constructs, we want to sink our claws and teeth into theatre that is liberating– especially to women and those whose systems debilitate instead of embolden them.\u00a0\u00a0
Claw Marks Theatre is a home for shocking theatre and those who also find peace or catharsis in
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Claw Marks is comprised of three recent theatre school graduates (and their co-collaborators) who want to create theatre founded by values of honesty, liberation, and compassion above all.<\/p>\n

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(she\/her) is an actor and musician from Mississauga ON, a lover of classic films and jazz. instagram: @aria.decastro <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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(she\/any) is a queer Toronto-based actor, director, writer, and David Lynch fangirl.
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This is not an attempt to elbow, or “claw” our way into Toronto’s Indie theatre landscape. This is a label for the art we make that won’t make us rich. It’s an attempt at a bat signal to other artists who just need a place, a purpose, or people. We are enablers of art for art’s sake: existing as proof that we care enough about life to imagine it in a better, more purposeful way. This is a home for the centuries of theory on connection and artifice, and the equal opportunity to contradict or disregard it entirely. We want to create a privilege for underserved artists; the same liberation that a financial stockbroker carries around in their pocketbook. By creating this space and common ground for the creation of theatre, we are slowly clawing our way to having the same opportunities and quality of life as a citizen in this city who is… a little more valued by capitalism. This is our work. Artwork is work!<\/span> Stock brokers need their Bay Street office buildings to do their jobs, we need this company and your ongoing support. The theories and canon that we attempt to confront and recontextualize have only been immortalized because they were funded. We can’t do your taxes, but we can remind you of what the world could be like with better systems, or with no systems at all. We have big, auspicious ideas the same way an executive boardroom does, but we’re young, broke, female, and\/or queer. We as artists ask that you grant us the permission to unapologetically invade and reclaim a culture that has attempted to subdue us entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

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