Meet the Lumière Dreamers: Cory Philley

Cory Philey has been a theatre artist for over thirty years. She is a writer, performer, director and producer. Cory’s writing credits include Peaches & Scream (co-written with Mercedes Baines), Marking Time, Faith, Bob, Contrary, Sorry, Scarlet, Late, and Hoarding Paradise. As a performer, favourite acting credits include Mud & Men Inside (Ruby Slippers Productions), Bad Dollies (Women in View Festival) Her Big Break (These 4 Walls Productions), By Choice (Twelve Minutes Max), Faith and Bob  (La Luna Productions) Slippage (Wild Filly Productions), and The Year of Magical Thinking (Tom Suro Players).

Cory is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and she has just completed her MA in Graduate Liberal Studies program at SFU. Her thesis project was, Hoarding Paradise, a play about a woman with Compulsive Hoarding Disorder.

For 15 years, Cory was the Artistic Director for the theatre season and the Artist-in-Residency program at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Cory was also one of the founding members and co-artistic directors of La Luna Productions (1998-2007). 

Cory is currently the Executive Director for the Vancouver Fringe Festival.

Instagram: @corypphilley