Yoshie Bancroft

Flare Path (Slamming Door)

"Yoshie Bancroft gets everything right as Patricia. Rather than trying to imitate the performances in old black-and-white movies, she stays impeccably emotionally honest." -Colin Thomas, Vancouver Critic & Blogger

Griffin & Sabine (Belfry Theatre)

“The language in the Belfry Theatre’s production of Griffin and Sabine is beautiful: lyrical and poetic. The acting is superb and the projected images are stunning.” -Sheila Martindale, Monday Magazine

SHIT (Firehall)

"Within Sam’s hunched posture and baseline expression of dolorous shock, I barely recognized actor Yoshie Bancroft." -Colin Thomas, Vancouver Theatre Critic & Blogger

"Kayla Deorksen as Billy, Yoshie Bancroft as Sam, and Sharon Crandall as Bob embrace Cornelius’s wordplay like a trio of skilled slam poets" -Kathleen Oliver, Georgia Straight

JAPANESE PROBLEM (Universal Limited)

“JAPANESE PROBLEM was only about 40 minutes long, but it will stay with me forever.” -Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail

“JAPANESE PROBLEM is a delicate production, but packs a punch.” - Colin Thomas, Vancouver Blogger

“This is site-specific theatre at its most powerful.” -Kathleen Oliver, The Georgia Straight

Pride & Prejudice (Chemainus Theatre)

"Standouts include Yoshie Bancroft, whose Lizzie is lovely, loyal and infuriating by turns" -Lexi Bainas, Cowichan Valley Citizen

"The stage chemistry of Yoshie Bancroft and Brett Harris is like the tides of the ocean—back and forth, by moments restrained, then bursting forth with passion to subside and build again. When the final embrace arrives, everyone heaves a deep sigh of relief and joy." -Janis La Couvée

Learned Ladies (UBC)

"Yoshie Bancroft plays this part with wit and gamine insouciance." -Jane Penistan, Review Vancouver

Yoshie Bancroft is an Artistic Producer & Collaborator for Universal Limited Theatre, an award winning theatre company based in Vancouver, that creates and produces original work, prioritizing collaboration, rigorous research, and the use of their platform to uncover hidden stories in unusual locations. We work collectively to write and design our shows as experiences that are accessible to all.

In development: To the Sea addresses British Columbia’s history of intentional and utopian communities and examines their relationship to Indigeneity, and more familiar examples of settler colonialism. By re-examining this history in a modern context--and re-imagining the concepts of utopia and community in the hands of queer/non-binary/and woc in the near future, the play gives audiences a lens to look at appropriation, patriarchal systems, and the way the environment around us was built.

Recently: JAPANESE PROBLEM tells the unacknowledged story of the Japanese Canadian Incarceration at Hastings Park during WWII. The performance invites an audience into a stall, which residents have turned into a temporary home and place of wonder, as they are filled with the uncertainty of their next destination. The piece exists in the contemporary moment simultaneously, where evidence of Hastings Parks’s former tenants has been erased, where survivors are uncertain if they want their names included in a memorial; and where refugees to North America are being treated in a fashion that is terrifyingly familiar.

Previously: TOUR is a theatrical experience at once both intimate and spectacular; a literal journey on an unusual contraption, an opportunity to for an audience to change how they view their surroundings and themselves.Tour gives four audience members at a time a wild ride on a purpose-built pedicab, new insight into the cities we live in, and a magical story.