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July 24, 2025
Breathing the Same Air
COVID-19 brought many safety precautions to the stage: masks, face shields, contactless ticketing, QR-linked programs, and more. As part of my PhD thesis work at Memorial University of Newfoundland, I have written Breathing the Same Air, a piece about theatre’s survival through the peak years of the pandemic. The play draws on interviews with professional… Read More
July 21, 2025
A Place to Call Home (again!)
Hello Internet! Today I am taking a break from the general chaos of life to tell you about my second show (of 6) to open in the 5-week period between late June and late July. (Lazy summer days, indeed!) To my delight, Cupids Legacy Centre had me back to direct Trudy Morgan-Cole’s A Place to… Read More
June 3, 2025
Tempting Providence
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
Women’s Play Festival (x2!)
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
August 5, 2024
puppy teeth
To my great delight, I have been working with Owen Carter on their play in development, puppy teeth. Owen’s play finds a way to use Ancient Greek myth to illuminate a complicated, sexual, intergenerational relationship. Their use of language is astounding. They have built two complex, flawed, deep-feeling characters and forced them into a reckoning…… Read More
July 12, 2024
The Winter’s Tale
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
May 24, 2024
Melody and the Fishes
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
Book launch!
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
Dayboil is here!!
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.
March 20, 2024
Between Breaths comes home
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