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PEARLE HARBOUR is an award-winning drag performance artist, a gonzo-theatre maker, and Canada’s premiere tragicomedienne. Her audience-centric work aims to celebrate the radical and transformative potential of collective experience.
She is the creator and star of critically-acclaimed on-stage spectaculars like CHAUTAUQUA, DISTANT EARLY WARNING, and AGIT-POP!, which have been presented at some of the most prestigious theatres and festivals across Canada.
Her short film BUNKER TIME! – co-starring comedy icon Colin Mochrie (Who’s Line Is It Anyway?) premieres at Blood In The Snow Film Festival in November 2025.
“Pearle is a wise, frank dispenser of truths.
She's like Greek tragedy's Cassandra, as played by Eve Arden...
Pearle has emerged as one of the most engaging, thoughtful performance artists around.”
– GLENN SUMI, NOW MAGAZINE
She has held artistic residencies with Why Not Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Buddies In Bad Times Theatre.
Selected accolades include:
the SummerWorks Audience Choice Award, Outstanding Solo Performance (My Entertainment World), 4 Dora Mavor-Moore Award nominations, Finalist for the Playwright’s Guild of Canada John Palmer Award, Siminovitch Prize Protégé (nominee: Karen Hines), nomination for Canadian Screen Award – Outstanding Variety or Entertainment Special (Queer Pride Inside, CBC), and Winner of the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award for a Canadian Stage Performer.