Evalyn Parry is a Canadian performance-maker, theatrical innovator and singer-songwriter. She grew up in Toronto, Ontario in the Kensington Market neighborhood. Her music combines elements of spoken word and folk. Biography Evalyn Parry is the daughter of David Parry, an English-born Canadian singer and theatrical director who died in 1995, and performer and author Caroline Balderston Parry. Her brother Richard Parry performs with the bands Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire. She is married to Canadian writer Suzanne Robertson. She is a Quaker. Theatre Parry is a theatre creator, actor, director, collaborator and educator. Her plays and performances have been produced and toured nationally and internationally. From 2015 to 2020, Parry served as the artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Parry's most recent collaborative work, Kiinalik These Sharp Tools, premiered at Buddies in 2017 and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival (2019) and Cervantino Festival, Mexico (2019), Toronto's Luminato Festival, Vancouver's PuSh Festival (2019) and the GCTC (in collaboration with the National Arts Centre) (2020). Parry and co-creator/performer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory were awarded the 2018 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play for Kiinalik; Parry and musician/performer Cris Derksen were awarded the 2018 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. Parry's acclaimed show SPIN, which features a bicycle played as a musical instrument (played by percussionist Brad Hart), charts the feminist history of the bicycle, and tells the story of Annie Londonderry, first woman to ride around the world on a bike in 1895. SPIN has toured festivals and theatres all over North America including Montreal's Edgy Women Festival in 2012. Parry writes and performs with the acclaimed feminist theatre collective Independent Aunties with Anna Chatterton and Karin Randoja. The Aunties have created six shows together; their most recent production Gertrude and Alice, about the love and lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, premiered at Buddies in Bad Times in 2016. It won a Toronto Theatre Critics Award, and was nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Gertrude and Alice was remounted in 2018 as part of Buddies’ 40th Anniversary season, the same year the play was published by Playwrights Canada Press and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. The Independent Aunties other productions have been produced by Buddies in Bad Times (Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine—winner of Best New Play