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CREATIVE TEAM
Starring
Wendi Smallwood as Mi-Lady and Josephine
Monica Walsh as Beulah, Alice, and Bridget
Marie Jones as Helen Furey (2019)
Created by Ruth Lawrence
Wardrobe by Melanie Ozon
Original Marketing by Jenn Deon Consulting with design by Duncan Major of Perfect Day
Wendi Smallwood as Mi-Lady and Josephine
Monica Walsh as Beulah, Alice, and Bridget
Marie Jones as Helen Furey (2019)
Created by Ruth Lawrence
Wardrobe by Melanie Ozon
Original Marketing by Jenn Deon Consulting with design by Duncan Major of Perfect Day
Wendi Smallwood
Wendi Smallwood is a St. John’s based writer, director, producer, and actor. Her credits include White Rooster Theatre's The Cut Of It, and her one-woman show, Resurrecting Mary in Roles 4 Women’s four-act production Women From the Future at the Factory Theatre in Toronto. Wendi has performed with many local theatre and film companies and has directed for Graveyard Shift Productions, Short & Queer II, V-Day St. John’s, and Shakespeare By The Sea Festival. She is the founder and artistic director of the St. John’s Women’s Festival of Theatre (SW|FT) and founding member and artistic associate of V-Day St. John’s. Wendi was a Toronto Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for her performance of Sandy in Judith Thompson’s Crackwalker and is a past recipient of the Rhonda Payne Theatre Award from Arts NL.
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Monica Walsh
Monica Walsh is an actor, writer and singer from St. John’s. She is founder and artistic director of Kanutu Theatre and creator of Scene, and Blurred - a touring open mic series for writer and performance artists. Her credits include a principal role in the feature film Little Orphans, and writing and starring in the short film Lamenting Pluto. She is a regular performer with the Isle Aux Mort Theatre Festival. Training includes Movement Theatre Studio NYC, Method Acting London, and Montgomery Theatre’s Actor’s Conservatory. Monica is a graduate of Memorial University’s Diploma in Performance and Communications Media Program. She is a past recipient of the Rhonda Payne Theatre Award from Arts NL.
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Marie Jones
Marie Jones is an Alberta born performer, writer and director based in St. John’s since 2012. Recent appearances include Isle of Demons, Women Playing Hamlet (PerSIStence Theatre), West Moon, Trinity Newfoundlande Pageant, No Man’s Land (Rising Tide Theatre), Twelve Nasty Women, Room for a Pony, Curved (Women’s Work Festival), Cookstown (Salt Teeth Theatre), Proud, Village Wooing (Double Sure Theatre Co-op), Leave of Absence (New Curtain Theatre) and Under Wraps (Artistic Fraud). Marie holds a BA (Honours) in Drama from the University of Alberta and is a grad of George Brown Theatre School. Her Closely, her first full-length writing devised from letters and diaries of Franz Kafka, will reach the stage in St. John's in 2020.
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Ruth Lawrence
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Ruth Lawrence is an actor, director, writer and producer in theatre and film. Her film credits include director of the 2020 feature, Little Orphans (Imagine That Productions), writer-director on the anthology feature, Hopeless Romantic (Northeast Productions) director on the documentary, Circus by Komatik (Firecrown Productions) for CBC (now on GEM); the music videos Shine Your Light with The Ennis Sisters (Blue Pinion Films) and Bounce Back with The Swinging Belles and The Once (Nine Island Productions); and a 5-episode comedy webseries, Buy the Boards (Blue Pinion Films). Next she's directing a CBC doc on the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival and several TV series for Fibe1/Bell.
Ruth's theatre direction includes No Change in the Weather (Terra Bruce Productions, 2019 Canadian Tour) Remnants (White Rooster Theatre), Offensive to Some (PerSIStence Theatre) and West Moon (Rising Tide Theatre, Trinity.) She has performed in well over 100 original productions, including a lead in the 2020 film, Under the Weather, and the title role in the recent production of The Haunting of Margaret Duley. Her writing includes the adapted children’s folktale, Kate Crackerberry. Ruth won the 2011 Best Actress Award for Joel Thomas Hynes’ Clipper Gold at the Atlantic Film Festival and the SJIWFF's 2011 RBC Michelle Jackson Award for Emerging Filmmaker for Two Square Feet, starring Jeanne Beker. She was named ArtsNL’s 2011 Artist of the Year, received a 2013 Queen’s Jubilee Medal, and the 2016 YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Arts & Culture. In 2019, she was recognized by Women in Film & Television Atlantic for her mentorship and contribution to the film community. She was nationally recognized with the 2020 AFBS Leslie Yeo Award for Volunteerism. She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and Niagara College Theatre Centre. |
Melanie Ozon
Melanie Ozon is a graduate of the CNA Textile Studies Program at the Anna Templeton Centre in St. John's. Recent credits include costume design for No Change In The Weather (Terra Bruce Productions), Isle of Demons (PerSIStence Theatre) Remnants, Hunger, The Cut Of It and Kate Crackerberry (White Rooster Theatre). In addition to costuming, she is also working on a collection of tales based on life in a vibrant little city on the edge of the world. After much adventure and some living away, for the moment she lives in her native St. John's with her family.
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