MISHA BOWER

Misha Bower is a writer and musician based in London, Ontario whose main works include short story collection Music for Uninvited Guests and full-length album Trying to Have it All. Her current project Meetings is a live show set in a support group context, in which Misha portrays different characters in unique moments of personal disclosure with original monologues and songs. Now booking MEETINGS for 2024/2025.

Trailer for the live debut of Meetings at TAP Centre for Creativity, London, ON, November 2023.

By turns touching, wrenching, and funny, Meetings is an utterly unique experience that will move you with its compassion, its range, and the consummate skill of Misha’s performance.
— Aaron Schneider, The /tƐmz/ Review
We launched our new Unscripted Music Series at TAP Centre for Creativity, and Misha Bower’s performance of Meetings was an obvious choice to include. This event was profound, a creatively unique experience, combining storytelling, theater and songwriting.
— Sarah Legault, Project Development at TAP Centre for Creativity
Sometimes humour is used to mask and it becomes a distraction. This show uses humour to honour human inconsistency, hanging out at the intersection of contradictory thoughts and behaviours. It’s interesting and it’s real. Real resonates.
— Veronica Antipolo, Storyteller & Co-Founder of Mosaic Untold Lives
 
As a songwriter and a storyteller, Bower is a singular solo talent in the making.
— Andrea Warner, CBC
Bower and her supporting cast craft densely emotional stories that linger long after you put this collection back on the shelf.
— Laura Stanley, Exclaim!
Some of the narrator’s insights are expressed so beautifully that if you heard them over and over…you would memorize them or, if there were people around, start demanding silence for them…
— Lee Sheppard, The Rusty Toque
[H]er ability to carve tragedy, humour, and insight into each vignette leaves us wanting more. And that’s a good thing.
— Mark Teo, This Magazine

Title track “Trying to Have it All” & video by Travis Welowszky featured on CBC’s Songs You Need to Hear