Taylor Trowbridge is bringing DADS to Toronto Fringe

About this episode

Taylor Trowbridge discusses her solo show Dads and the complexities of fatherhood at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

About This Episode: What do we really know about our dads — and what have we never been able to say out loud? Taylor Trowbridge joins Phil to talk about her new solo show Dads, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Part stand-up, part storytelling, part audience game, the show invites people to sit with the full range of their experiences with their fathers: the funny, the complicated, and the quietly unresolved. Taylor and Phil dig into the generational forces that shaped so many dads — wartime trauma, boomer expectations, the rigid masculinity that made emotional connection difficult — and how those patterns echo forward into all of us. Taylor also shares how her brother Dylan is directing the show, why the family collaboration just makes sense, and what it was like to turn questions about her own dad into a piece of theatre. This episode explores: What Dads is — and why Taylor wanted to build a show around audience interaction, games, and stand-up The generational and emotional weight fathers carry, and how masculinity shapes the father-child relationship Working with her brother Dylan Trowbridge as director, and why no chemistry test was needed Tool for Rebellion: Taylor's…

People in this episode

Host: Phil

Guest: Taylor Trowbridge

Topics covered

• father-child relationship
• masculinity
• audience interaction
• theatre
• storytelling
• generational trauma

Keywords

• Dads
• Toronto Fringe Festival
• fatherhood
• masculinity
• theatre
• audience games
• storytelling
• generational trauma

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dads, Tool for Rebellion

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