Album Notes

Kris Elgstrand was born in Vancouver in 1973. Twenty years later, he co-founded Ah Um Theatre, a theatre and production company based in Vancouver where he premiered his first play, Dead Man’s Shoes, in 1994. Since then he has written and produced several other plays including Black Codes, which had a successful Fringe tour in Canada and the US, Life With A Hole In It, and The Boys, which premiered in Philadelphia in February 2006 and received its Canadian premier at the Guild Hall in Whitehorse, YT in September 2010.

Kris also wrote and directed the short films, Love Seat (TIFF 2006, Best Short at the Whistler Film Festival) and In Her Ear, which premiered at VIFF in 2007.

As a partner in The Whatever Institute with Dylan Akio Smith, Kris’ work as a screenwriter and producer includes The Cabin Movie (TIFF 2005), Man Feel Pain (Winner BravoFACT Short Cuts Canada Award, TIFF 2004), and Big Head (TIFF 2009). Kris recently completed the screenplay adaptation of his play The Job for production by The Whatever Institute and is completing post-production on Doppelganger Paul, which he co-directed with Dylan Akio Smith.

Lately, Kris has also taken to writing and performing songs from his long-gestating cabaret show, Songs of the Sad Sack. The CD, Songs of the Sad Sack, Volume 1: I’m so disappointed, is available now. Additional volumes will appear at odd intervals in the coming years.