Alaine Hutton - Director

Alaine Hutton is a writer/creator/director/performer/designer/editor who has worked in theatre and film for over 10 years as the artistic director of Lester Trips Productions Inc. The company focuses on creating questionably comedic theatre, film, and “digital not otherwise specified”, often revolving around the internet ruining our brains, distorting our sexualities, and how we all can’t stop looking at it.

Since 2011, Alaine has been devising work with a bouffonesque approach to character, deliberately maddening dramaturgy, and a performance foundation stemming from training in butoh-based embodiment with Denise Fujiwara, and Fides Krucker’s approach to extended range vocal practice, Emotionally Integrated Voice.

Her first major work integrating butoh-based embodiment into an original text was the peri-apocalyptic deformation of the Wizard of Oz, Intangible Trappings (dir. ted witzel, 2016), supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts in both workshop and production development phases. Her first digital series, the speculative fiction cringe comedy Content Farm, premiered on CBC Gem March 2023, with a Globe and Mail feature comparing it to Black Mirror. Content Farm was nominated in over a dozen web series festivals for best web series, direction, writing, best sci-fi, lead actress, production design and won Best Editing (Apulia Web Fest) and Best Visual Effects (Rio Webfest). She also returned to the theatre in 2024, workshopping the body horror Honey I’m Home at Rhubarb Festival and then premiering the full-length work in a sold-out run as part of Factory Theatre’s season this past November. The sequel to Honey I’m Home, Public Consumption, premiered at Factory Theatre in 2025 as part of Factory’s season.