About the Company
Hayden Maines is a local actor, writer, director, lighting and sound tech, and producer who has been involved in the local theatre scene since 2017. He has worked with a number of local community theatre companies such as The Shoestring Players, Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre, Cactus Theatre Co., and Interesting Theatre. Through his production company, Illustrium creations, Hayden has directed and produced an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby he wrote for the 2024 Winnipeg Fringe Festival as well as this solo performance of Emergency Ops at the 2025 Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
About the show
Written and performed by the multi-talented Hayden Maines, this fast-paced comedy has been modified from his Winnipeg Fringe 2025 play, to create an on-stage radio drama.
Maines plays five volunteer dysfunctional civil servant faced with the task of preparing their town against a tsunami of disasters while each member of the “team” strives to retain their own work-life-balance. And yes, Hayden has worked in Emergency Operations.