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
May 24, 2024
Tonight, I am taking my son to his first play. It’s also my play – a play I wrote and sent in trust to Jamie to make what he needed out of it – and now there are some totally gorgeous puppets involved and they have toured all over Newfoundland with my little heart play… Read More
April 25, 2024
Dayboil is tagging along to the launch of Agnes Walsh’s new book, the wind has robbed the legs of a madwoman. Why would you NOT come to this? At the Ship this Sunday! 8pm. I understand there will be cupcakes.
March 26, 2024
The books are here!!! Dayboil, published by Breakwater Books, is available now at their storefront at 1 Stamp’s Lane – I unboxed them myself (you can see a video of that happening here)! Eeeeeeeeee! You can also buy them here.
February 28, 2024
Hello Internet! It never rains but it pours. I’m a long-time fan of the Women’s Work Festival. I love them. I read in a workshop quite a while ago, and since then I have mostly been asked to speak on panels. I often submit plays, but I’ve never had one accepted for workshopping before. This… Read More
September 6, 2022
Years ago (in the beforetimes), I asked Danielle Irvine, artistic director of Perchance Theatre, for a meeting. I wanted to adapt Henrik Ibsen’s 1888 play The Lady from the Sea for a contemporary audience and set it in Newfoundland. Since Perchance is the only professional classical theatre company in the province, they were my go-to… Read More
July 29, 2022
New play alert! Dayboil is a one-act play I’ve been working on since 2018. I saw it read at the 2019 Playwrights’ Atlantic Resource Centre in 2019, and lucky for me, so did Richie Wilcox, the current Artistic Producer at Ship’s Company Theatre. He asked me for the premiere and I could not believe my… Read More
October 30, 2020
Hello Internet, it’s Friday, October 30th, and yesterday was a pretty big day. I did Original on the mainstage at the Arts & Culture Centre, which was just… wow. What a big stage for that little show – and yet, it felt like it fit. And to work in front of a live audience again…… Read More
October 29, 2020
Hello Internet, today is Thursday, October 29th, and it’s kind of a big day. Original is playing at the Arts & Culture Centre tonight. On the mainstage. This little show – really just me, standing on stage, telling stories – in that beautiful, enormous, theatre. It sounds incredible. It looks incredible. I’m pretty excited. And… Read More
September 10, 2020
Hello Internet, today is Thursday, September 10th, and TOMORROW I am doing a REAL LIVE SHOW to an audience who will be PHYSICALLY IN THE SAME ROOM AS ME. It all started with a very kind offer from the Lt. Governor and her staff to allow socially distanced theatre performances on the lawn at Government… Read More