Jason Rip In Conversation: Scary Stories of Souwesto

Name: Jason Rip In Conversation: Scary Stories of Souwesto
Start: 2025-04-01T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-01T20:30:00-04:00
Location: TAP Centre for Creativity

Schedule

Tue Apr 01 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

TAP Centre for Creativity | London, ON

Join us for a visit with award-winning author and playwright Jason Rip to explore his new book, My Gehenna, featuring sixty original scary stories. We will also take a deep dive into his fascination with the darker and gothic side of the folktales and legends of Southwestern Ontario.
My Gehenna: Scary Stories of Souwesto by Jason Rip
In Conversation with Words Director Josh Lambier
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 7PM
Tap Centre for Creativity
203 Dundas St, London, ON
Registration is free or by donation
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/jason-rip-in-conversation-scary-stories-of-souwesto-tickets-1259023666679?aff=oddtdtcreator
Our event will be hybrid: you can join us onsite at TAP Centre for Creativity or online via Zoom webinar! Your registration here is good for either an online or onsite ticket.
My Gehenna is a collection of sixty spooky stories written by Southwestern Ontario author Jason Rip, whose surname inclined him to be interested in the macabre. The stories range from artificial Hells to Bigfoot hunters to despots who collect Happy Meal toys. My Gehenna is a ghastly grab-bag of horrors reflecting the phobias and fascinations of its very strange author.
Jason Rip is an award-winning playwright with exactly 100 full-length scripts to date. His work has been performed in Toronto, Montreal, Kingston, and the United States. His specialty is historical biography. A documentary about Jason, titled JASON RIP: A TOMBSTONE EPITAPH, has toured internationally. He has written plays about Arthur Rimbaud, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack The Ripper, Wilhelm Reich, Roscoe Arbuckle, etc. Recent work includes plays about The Little Rascal Curse and a vindication of The Sheriff of Nottingham. He was the 2018 recipient of the Chris Doty Award for lifetime achievement in theatre and a 2023 recipient of the London, Ontario Mayor's Honour List for Distinguished Londoner. He has over thirty years of experience as an actor and director.