Why "CAMPBELL & Company"?

Q:  Why is your company name for the 2016 Saskatoon Fringe "CAMPBELL & Company Returns"?  Isn't that a bit egotistical?

A:  Good question!  In recent years many friends have asked me, "When are you going to do another Fringe show?"  I put my last name in the company name to help make sure that people who know my past work will notice us in the Fringe program.  Also, our second last Fringe production (1999) was "Campbell & Company Comedy Hour".  Its title partly came from the fact that three of the people in it had the last name "Campbell", although we're not related to each other. 

Great news! I'm doing something next year that I haven't done since 2003. The photo is a clue: David Creelman (director), me (playwright, actor) and Damien Bartlett (actor) while rehearsing my last Saskatoon Fringe show (my 10th Fringe production in Edmonton and/or Saskatoon). Earlier this month I applied and got into (on a first-come-first-served basis) the 2016 PotashCorp Fringe Theatre Festival (Saskatoon), which will be from July 28 to August 6.  Our company name will be Campbell & Company Returns. We're doing my play "The Narrow Path", which was selected to be part of this past May's Spring Festival of New Plays by the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre. David will be the director. Damien will be one of the actors. We don't know who the other actor (a man) will be yet, but it won't be me because I'm focussing on writing these days. I'm really looking forward to the 2016 Saskatoon Fringe!

(David Creelman, Donald B. Campbell and Damien Bartlett in 2003)