About
Our story…
Our Beginnings
Delta Stageworks Theatre takes its inspiration from the Canadian theatre practice of collective creation, a play development process that got its start in the 1970s in Canada. A group of actor/writers collaborate with a community to create a show based on inquiry and investigation into a burning social issue or moment . The resulting show would be performed for the community, offering a reflective insight into often complex social issues. Now known as DEVISED THEATRE, it is a practice we employ with our associate artists and members of the community to create many of our shows. The company was founded in 2020, just as the pandemic changed the world.
Our Vision
Delta Stageworks Theatre Society brings innovative theatre arts based community projects to Delta with the goal of connecting people who live here with local stories and social issues past and present. We bring together both professional theatre artists, community-based theatre artists and community groups in educational workshops, devised theatre creations and site-specific presentations to offer innovative theatre productions to Delta audiences. We are committed to the values of equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do.
Our Team
Peg Christopherson-Keenleyside
A founding member of Delta Stageworks Theatre, Peg is a writer/director and independent theatre producer with credits in both professional and community theatre. She has also performed in Canada as an actor and is a member of the Canadian Actors Equity Association (CAEA) and UBCP/ACTRA.
A graduate of the University of Alberta and the Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Alberta, she trained in the theatre practice collective creation (now known as devised theatre) as well as traditional forms of theatre presentation.
Based in Toronto in her early career years, she co-wrote and appeared in a number of new Canadian plays, including Smoke Damage (Nightwood Theatre), Blue City Slammers (Blyth Festival) and Hockey Wives (FactoryTheatre). She also produced the critically acclaimed Hockey Wives . Peg was also a member of the renowned Nightwood Theatre feminist theatre collective; a new play development touchstone for emerging women’s theatre voices in Canada founded in Toronto in the 1980s.
As a performer Peg has appeared at the National Arts Centre (Young Company), Canadian Stage, The Blyth Festival, Richmond Gateway, Kelowna’s Sunshine Theatre and Genesis Theatre among others.
Directing and producing credits include In Their Nightgowns, Dancing (UBC Brave New Works) and the Canadian political comedy Proud at Capilano University. She has also written, directed and produced for community theatre and site-specific heritage theatre events; including Delta’s Sidekick Players and the City of Lynden, Washington, Pioneer Museum (2000 & 2001). For Delta Stageworks: Delta 1914-1918: A Living History (2018), Then & Now Pandemic Life Stories (2023), Heirlooms & Baggage (My Mother’s Story) (2023 and Tour 2025) and A 1920s Murder Mystery (2025/2026). With shameless hussy productions, To Perfection (2024)
Peg has lived in South Delta since 2003 where she has raised her two children.
Eric Keenleyside
Eric Keenleyside is an actor (CAEA, ACTRA/UBCP, SAG) with decades of experience on stage and screen. A founding member of Delta Stageworks Theatre Society, he brings experience as a workshop leader and theatre educator to the company’s projects.
Eric is a graduate of the University of Windsor with a BFA in Acting, and apprenticed at the Stratford Festival at the beginning of a career that has taken him from Toronto, Ontario to Los Angeles, to Lynden, WA, and to Tsawwassen, BC, where he lives with his beautiful and talented family.
To find out more about Eric Keenleyside’s film and TV credits, visit his IMDB page:
