June 3, 2025
The first time I saw Tempting Providence, it was a studio run. My 2nd year theatre class – totally enamoured of our very cool teacher Jillian Keiley – were invited in to watch a rehearsal. That was in 2005. Since then I have probably seen the show a dozen times, with various cast configurations. Now,… Read More
September 23, 2024
It’s the Year of the Arts here in Newfoundland and Labrador, and Persistence is celebrating with a massive Women’s Play Festival! And, with a little sense of déjà vu, I am heading down to the First Light Centre for Performance and Creativity on Cochrane Street to see my own work twice. First up: tonight, an… Read More
July 12, 2024
Hello Internet. It has been a wild time over here, and a week ago, we opened The Winter’s Tale, my first play as Artistic Director of Shakespeare by the Sea. It’s playing until August 3rd at the Bowring Park Amphitheatre. My brain is absolute mush, but here are the director’s note and some pictures from… Read More
March 20, 2024
The play that won’t quit is back – returning to its home venue at the LSPU Hall for 4 nights. When we first opened this show, in the summer of 2018, the piece has a raked set with swirling colours, and a hanging disc of water floating overhead. That’s the version that we toured to… Read More
October 20, 2023
I keep thinking projects are my last project before baby… and then I’m wrong! Beloved Between Breaths is back in rehearsal this evening in preparation for one show in Halifax on October 24th. I am not going with them to Halifax (nobody wants me on an airplane right now) so I’ll have to send them… Read More
September 5, 2023
Hello Internet – let’s talk about hope. Tim and Kiersten – the creative geniuses behind Second Shot: the Curling Musical – asked me to be part of the process of this precious little play years ago, when their oldest child was still quite new. They had some development money, and they wanted my dramaturgical eye… Read More
June 8, 2023
Summer is back, and Artistic Fraud is re-launching their digital city-exploration project, The Imaginary Real. It’s like monologue geocaching: when you (and your phone) get close enough to one of 20 locations, a monologue will cue up and read itself to you. Each place has its own piece, written and performed by local artists. I… Read More
March 11, 2023
Hello Internet! The morning after I Forgive You opened in Ottawa, I boarded a plane and came home… and straight into rehearsals for Between Breaths. It is a winter of straight Artistic Fraud shows! We are headed out on Tuesday for three shows in New Brunswick, and will be in Fredericton on March 16, Saint… Read More
March 4, 2023
Artistic Fraud’s I Forgive You is playing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa March 1st to 11th. The Ottawa company includes a choir of local children – 21 of them – and a local music director, assistant music director, as well as an assistant stage manager. As the company continues to grow, I keep… Read More
September 30, 2022
Well, it’s been live since mid-July, but I’ve been so GD busy that I haven’t really helped to promote this very cool thing… until now! The Imaginary Real is a free app by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (the same folks who did I Forgive You). Download it to your phone, activate your GPS, and go… Read More