Moplip Theatre

Artistic Director and Co-founder 2013-2018

Moplip Theatre was an amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton)-based creative force founded by Philip Geller and Skye Hyndman in the summer of 2013. They created original work until 2018, collaborating with young and emerging artists from many disciplines.  Together, they made great things small in condensed plays and captured moments with poetry and humour. Geller collaborated on Hyndman’s first play, Heads of Our Offspring, which debuted at NEXTNextfest 2013. Six months later, Moplip Theatre put on Half Shambles, a collective, in the Living Room Playhouse. Geller went on to direct her second play, Prue and Ambrose, at the ROXY as part of Nextfest 2014. Moplip Theatre has then moved on to produce Enid and The Death Wish and Pinniped and Other Poems at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.

“Be able to say “I saw them when...” Nextfest Arts Co.

 “Skye Hyndman turns magic genius everything she touches” (Edmonton’s Poet Laureate) Mary Pinkoski

“Absolutely entrancing performance” (Co-Artistic Director Catch the Keys Productions) Megan Dart

For Pinniped and Other Poems:

There’s a lot of interesting ideas tossed around in both the script and the play’s physicality, and there’s humour alongside the frustration of witnessing the sheer absurdity of this constant circular discourse. (Vue Weekly) Mel Priestley

I was, and still am, at war with simplicity,” says a professor of Latin, Greek mythology (and also a swim coach) in this reverse-coming-of-age fantasia. The same might be said of Skye Hyndman’s lively experiment in blending poetry and performance. For one thing, time works backward; it’s a reverse coming-of-age fantasia. (Edmonton Journal) Liz Nicholls

For Enid and The Death Wish:

The language has a kind of wry poetry about it… The performances in Philip Geller’s production, though, are honest and charming; they have a directness that cuts through deliberate quirkiness…The only play this season in which, before your very eyes, a character dismantles and trashes the set. (Edmonton Journal) Liz Nicholls