Philip Goodridge

Philip has been actively working as a theatre artist and musician in Newfoundland & Labrador for the last 28 years and holds a BFA in Theatre from York University. He has written several plays and musicals over the years that have been performed both in St. John’s and toured across the island. In 1999 he co-wrote and directed a large-scale musical entitled The Thieves’ Tale which was performed at Memorial University and in 2004 took his original one person show Aquarium to NextFest in Edmonton. He was commissioned by both Rising Tide Theatre and Shakespeare by the Sea (NL) to write TYA shows and collaborated with Resource Centre For the Arts and Canadian Parents for French on two occasions to co-create and perform bilingual touring productions aimed at Core French and French Immersion students, Speak For Yourself/Parle- c’est l’idéal in 2005/06 and iFrancophone in 2010. He paired with Resource Centre For The Arts again with his original fairy tale The Ogre’s Purse which toured schools across the island in 2013/14, and in 2023 his show Eli and the Death Curse was presented by Untellable Movement Theatre at the LSPU Hall. He is a co-founder, writer, and collaborator for the annual series Three Tales Of Terror: Old Time Radio Drama from Ladies Who Lunch Productions which has become a wildly popular event, selling out performances for the last eight years and garnering much acclaim. The Tales of Terror series presents the classic medium of radio drama and puts it on the stage to give audiences a peek behind the curtain. To date he has written 19 audio dramas. He has dabbled in fiction with original short stories included in two hit horror anthologies from Engen Books: Terror Nova, published in 2020, and its sequel Terror Nova: Writer’s Retreat in 2022.