Misha Bower

"Misha Bower’s Meetings is a virtuosic mixture of storytelling, acting and music. In a series of monologues and songs, it unfolds the lives of its everyday people with an empathy and tenderness that is as moving as it is memorable. Misha has an extraordinary ability as a writer and performer to fully inhabit her characters, an ability that is matched by her understanding of the essential humanity of anyone who wrestles with trauma. 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. This was an emotional experience for the audience and was well attended. This performance sparked many conversations between the audience and Misha. I fully support Misha and her creative visions.”
—Sarah Legault, Project Development at TAP Centre for Creativity

“I really appreciate the humour woven throughout Meetings against some of its darker, heavier themes. 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

“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

“All of the stories here…have a broken-in quality that sucks you right in, like you’re finally learning the backstories of all the regulars at a small-town bar…”  –David Berry, The National Post

“[A] series of emotionally complex visions rich with colloquial dialogue…” 
–Andrew Patterson, The Coast

“A cast of guarded characters surveying the barriers they’ve created, but never fully understanding why these barriers are created in the first place. Preventing the trespassing of the bad, but also the good. Photo-realistic renderings of lives at impasse and the unclear way forward…”
–Dylan T. Green, Weird Canada

“This is an excellent collection of short stories by a Canadian renaissance woman… I’ve seen her perform as a gifted actress and here she is writing these captivating stories that seamlessly blend witty humour and earthy gravitas.” -CBC blog post What’cha Readin’?

“These stories can be frustratingly truncated—often ending just as we’ve fallen for their subjects… [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