Riley Palanca (alias: Revan Badingham III) is a playwright, producer, and director. Their play Would Virginia Woolf Contemplate Suicide if She Were Filipino? premiered at the 2022 Montreal Fringe Festival, earning the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s “Most Promising English Text” award. It has since been recognized in other competitions and performed at festivals across Canada. The inaugural recipient of Geordie Theatre’s Mike Payette Mentorship in Artistic Direction, a commissioned playwright for Theatre of the Beat’s Emerging Producers Festival, and the librettist for a song cycle that debuted at New York’s MISE-EN New Music Festival, Badingham is also a spoken word artist, novelist, and cultural worker.
Badingham’s work is unapologetically gay, known for charming characters, sharp wit, fast pacing, and raw explorations of intimacy. Their passion for queer romantic comedies reflects a commitment to visibility, subversion, and the celebration of queer joy.