BEAU DIXON
Actor / Musician / Playwright
ACTOR
Beau has not only taken on the lead role in many of his performances he has also lead a critically acclaimed one man show entitled, Beneath Springhill. As a DORA award recipient, Beau combines his powerful acting with great musicality creating an energy in his performance that is hard to match.
MUSICIAN
Beau is a multi-award winning playwright, actor, composer and sound designer. As a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, Beau is a triple threat performer when on stage.
PLAYWRIGHT
As a playwright, Beau wrote From Here To Africville, Once A Flame and the critically acclaimed, DORA winning musical, Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story. Despite this success he stays driven and is currently working on Airbonrne is a musical play about Bessie Coleman (1892 - 1926) who was the first African American aviator and female to receive her international pilot’s license from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in 1921.
PASSING STRANGE
Passing Strange is a coming-of-age story told through sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.
Beneath Springhill
A 65 minute story with music chronicles the life of Maurice Ruddick, an African Canadian who survived the historic mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1958.
AIRBORNE [Coming Soon]
A musical play about Bessie Coleman (1892 - 1926) who was the first African American aviator and female to receive her international pilot’s license from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in 1921.