(he and him)

 
a trans toronto based playwright, arts administrator, designer, and occasional photographer who can usually be found
out dancing to post punk or playing
dungeons & dragons.

call me, beep me
at oliverpitschner@gmail.com.





Selected Credits

Transfigure / Transfix - coming 2025
co playwright and co director
a bi-province audio play journey through the messy queer romance of barista Tuesday and shapeshifter Vesper. a collaboration with Halifax’s Around  and Out Theatre Company.

The Other Paris - 05/2024
playwright and co director
two adult siblings embark on a journey across their hometown of
Paris, Ontario to put their childhood cat to rest. co directed by
Bethany Joy Radford.

Behold, A Man! - 04/2023
playwright and director
a one act play following Lucas, a young trans man trying to contact
his deceased brother through Madame Gianna, a medium. Recipient
of Space Space Revolution’s Theatre Scholarship 2023, participant
in SSR’s One Night Only Festival.

And Then They Came - 03/2023
set and costume designer
livestreamed play following siblings at the founding
of the Metis nation. Written by Cole Alvis. In collaboration with
Lemontree Creations at the Theatre Passe Murialle.

Kooigoed- 10/2022
set and costume designer
short film following the loves and loss of a young woman
in a big city. Directed by Kathleen Newton.

Junction- 05/2022
set and costume designer
short film following a college age drug dealer. directed by Robert
Andrew Thomson Talyor. featured in Toronto Lift Off film festival 2022.

Like There’s No Tomorrow - 11/2021
set and costume designer
short film set in the 1940s following teens working at a local radio
station. directed by Natalia Morales Carceres. winner of best 
production design in yorku’s finish line film festival.


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‘Beautiful examination of religious trauma.
heartbreaking & lighthearted, painful & touching,
joyful & poignant.’


- audience praise for THE OTHER PARIS

  

(left to right) James H. Fraser, Sarah Connors, Madeleine Smith,
Gus Lederman, Fraser Watt, and Jonnie Lombard in ‘The Other Paris’,  2024