A one-act play by Kirk Dunn featuring his Stitched Glass tapestries.

The Knitting Pilgrim, featuring actor and knitter Kirk Dunn, is a multidisciplinary one-man show that combines personal storytelling, image projection, and three huge, knitted panels that look like stained glass windows, to explore the connection between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The play recounts Kirk’s fifteen-year artistic and spiritual journey of hand-knitting the ambitious project and looks at why people struggle to get along today, the meaning of art, the hell of grant-writing, and the power of love to overcome major obstacles (and minor mishaps).

The show was toured by Ergo Arts Theatre in 2019. The current tour of The Knitting Pilgrim is produced by A Yarn or Two Arts Collective. The show has been seen almost 100 times in four countries.

Kirk Dunn – Performer, Co-Writer, Producer, Textile Artist

Kirk is a knitter, writer and actor. Stage credits include Billy Bishop Goes to War (Ergo Arts Theatre, Carousel); Merlin, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (YPT); Dads! The Musical (Charlottetown, Stirling, Drayton); Romeo and Juliet (Ford Centre); More Munsch (The Grand); The War Show, A Flea in Her Ear, Don’t Dress for Dinner, and The Affections of May (Drayton). He is known for his award-winning one-man show, The Knitting Pilgrim. It tells the incredible story of his 15-year journey knitting three huge tapestries, in the style of stained glass, exploring the relationship amongst Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Kirk has performed the show, using the tapestries as his set, nationally and internationally, almost 100 times, to acclaim. He has also written award-winning plays, written for TV, and performed for stages across Canada. The Knitting Pilgrim will be seen in BC and the UK in 2025. His giant knitting installation, The Patchwork Pride Project, will be displayed at London’s Canada House this summer.  www.kirkdunn.com