…is a writer, theatre maker, and therapist in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Photo: James Arthur Maclean
Ali’s writing is darkly funny, dialogue-driven, and a little bit magic. Her art serves up murky moral dilemmas with a side of radical hope.
Ali has extensive teaching and leadership experience. As an artist and a therapist, she believes in our capacity to transform.
She loves a good ghost story and talking late around a kitchen table.
News
The Great After by Ali Joy Richardson produced by The Villains Theatre and DaPoPo Theatre in the Halifax Fringe (August 30th - September 4th, 2025).
Brave Sir Wolfhart and his loyal bard Valery have finally reached the Lance in the Log. But when a Bog Witch puts them to the ultimate test, the climax of their story turns out to be anything but the end of their adventure…
Promise: A Tragedy of Female Friendship (a two-hander chronicling the grief and glory of a female best friendship) by Ali Joy Richardson has been commissioned by Gale Force Theatre and awarded funding by Arts Nova Scotia
erosion: a modern oratorio (a large-scale choral work about psychological abuse and intimate partner violence) by Ali Joy Richardson (librettist) & Ryan Henwood (composer) has been awarded funding by Arts Nova Scotia
Dad by Ali Joy Richardson announced as Winner of the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC)’s 2025 Jenny Munday Atlantic Canadian Play Award
