You Paid for It - They'll Pay For It : PLAYSMELTER SESSIONS

You Paid For It - They'll Pay For It by Andrew Paulsen

Synopsis

In 1981, in the concession lobby of the Highway 69 Drive-in just outside of Sudbury, a group of prominent

Canadian horror directors gather to create a writing collective to workshop each of their next films. Horror

has become a dirty word after an angry taxpayer killed off one of their colleagues five years earlier and was

never caught. As a snowstorm rages outside and people start to go missing, it begins to become chillingly

clear that the killer is among them. Inspired by the ’70s and ’80s horror film slashers, this alternative history

of Canadian cinema explores the critically derided tax-shelter era film boom to shine a light on how this

marginalized and misunderstood period of Canadian filmmaking has been sadly ignored.

PLAYWRIGHT - Andrew Paulsen 

Andrew Paulsen works in film, TV, radio, and theatre as a director, producer, writer, and actor. He is an

internationally produced PGC playwright and runs his own theatre group, New Noise Productions, in Thunder

Bay. His play The Last House was produced in the 2019 New Market National 10 Minute Play Festival, his

play Rōninwas produced in Helisinki in a British-Finish coproduction at the 3rd Annual Höyhentämö Short-n-

Snappy Showcase, and he was a member of the Inaugural Playwrights' Unit at Magnus Theatre. He likes

Canuxploitation and Hammer films, point-and-click adventure games, Ameritrash board games, cats, sad

comics, and solving Rubix’s Cubes. His full-length plays are Cerebrospinalis, Come and Find Me, Moosefucker,

Ontario, Dead Boy Party, Cosmonaut, and You Paid For It- They’ll Pay For It.