Mitch and Murray Productions Presents the North American Premiere of HARM by Phoebe Eclair-Powell

Audiences are invited into an unsettling world with Harm, a gripping one-woman play by acclaimed British playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell. This suspenseful razor-sharp comedy stars Kelli Ogmundson (TV's Animal Control, Family Law, Cavendish) in a powerful solo performance under the direction of Jennifer Copping.

Harm follows an unhappy estate agent whose life takes a startling turn after she sells a home to Alice, a charismatic social media influencer. What starts as an unlikely friendship quickly spirals into fixation, and when her obsession with Alice’s seemingly perfect world intensifies, the lines between digital fantasy and real life become dangerously blurred. Harm is a thrilling, twisted tale on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation.

“Phoebe Eclair-Powell's razor-sharp monologue about social media toxicity and trolling... Tense, heady and full of savage laughter, it is intoxicating from beginning to end. Eclair-Powell's script glints and her barbed wit stings... Harm might be small in scale but it is magnificent in effect.” – The Guardian

“This cracking new piece by rising talent Phoebe Eclair-Powell [is] just as effective at summoning entire worlds as any epic musical or drama.” – The Telegraph

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CAST AND CREW

Kelli Ogmundson - Playing Woman

Kelli Ogmundson is an actor, comedian, and writer based in Vancouver. She has had major recurring and series lead roles on shows like Family Law (Global TV), Animal Control (FOX), Cavendish (CBC), Phantom Pups (Netflix) and Strawberry Shortcake (Netflix). No stranger to the stage, some favourite credits include the Canadian Premiere of Fun Home (Arts Club), Kinky Boots (Arts Club), Peter Pan, and Elephant and Piggie (CTYP). She is a Leo Award Winner, an Ovation! Award winner, two-time Jessie Award nominee, and UBCP/ACTRA Award Nominee. In her spare time she writes, knits, and watches TOO MUCH Television. Upcoming: Harm with Mitch and Murray Productions and The Play That Goes Wrong at The Arts Club.

Jennifer Copping - Director

Kelli Ogmundson - Playing Woman

Jennifer works as a director, teacher, writer, producer, mentor and theatre creator. (Select) Arts Club Theatre Company: Reflections On Crooked Walking (Debut 1987), The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time, The Day Before Christmas, Godspell, White Christmas, Funny Girl, Kinky Boots. Other Theatre: Dance Nation (The Search Party); As You Like It/Julius Caesar (Bard on the Beach); Anything Goes (Theatre Under the Stars); Anne Of Green Gables (Charlottetown); Les Miserables, Tommy(Mirvish); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Drabinsky); Jersey Boys (Dancap); Indian Arm (Rumble); Detroit & Body Awareness (Mitch & Murray); City Of Angels (PIT Collective). Film & TV: (Recent) Kryptic, The Hunting Party, Alaska, Daily, Devil In Ohio, Debris. Other: Best Actress Leo Award for Becoming Redwood. Instructor Langara College Film Arts Dept and Artistic Assoc. for Mitch & Murray Productions.

Phoebe Eclair-Powell - Playwright

Phoebe Eclair-Powell is a writer from South East London.

Her plays include: Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2024); Dorian, adapted with Owen Horsley from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (Reading Rep Theatre, 2021); Harm (Bush Theatre, 2021); Epic Love and Pop Songs (Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2016); Fury(Soho Theatre, 2016); WINK (Theatre503, 2015); One Under (Pleasance Below); Mrs Spine (OUTLINES at the Old Red Lion); Bangin' Wolves (Courting Drama at the Bush Upstairs, Elephant and My Castle (SALT Theatre at Southwark Playhouse); CARE (Miniaturists at the Arcola).

She was the overall winner of the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, for her play Shed: Exploded View. Fury was a finalist for the 2015 Verity Bargate Award, and the winner of the Soho Theatre Young Writers' Award.

Aaron Craven - Artistic Director

Phoebe Eclair-Powell - Playwright

Aaron wears many artistic hats as an actor/director/writer/producer/etc. His first full-length play Instantaneous Blue received its world premiere at The Waterfront Theatre in Vancouver in January, 2023. Aaron received a Jessie Richardson Award nomination (Best Lead Actor/ Small Theatre) for his performance in Snowflake by Mike Bartlett.

A busy screen actor, Aaron splits time between Vancouver and Los Angeles, with over seventy professional screen credits to his name. On the other side of the camera, he's developing a documentary and a TV pilot script. Aaron also coaches professional actors weekly in a renowned acting class at The Working Actors Gym. In his spare time, he plays beer league hockey and hangs out with his lovely wife, charming son, and hyperkinetic bernedoodle..