INTRODUCING OUR 2023 PLAYWRIGHTS!
Megan Hunt
Megan Hunt is an Ontario-born writer, editor and theatre artist currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. An early-career playwright and dramaturge, she has participated in mentorships from Theatre Gargantua, Playwrights Guild of Canada, and Playwrights Workshop Montreal (PWM), and won the Colin Krivy Scriptwriting Award at the 2020 McGill Drama Festival. With one foot in theatre and the other in the literary world, she has worked as a communications coordinator for Driftwood Theatre and the Book and Periodical Council, a workshop facilitator with PWM, and an editorial assistant for magazine and book publishers.
ID: Standing in front of a nature landscape, a brunette woman is turning her head to face the camera, smiling.
ID: Standing in front of a nature landscape, a brunette woman is turning her head to face the camera, smiling.
Karen Monie
Karen Monie is a Cameroonian editor, writer, director and actress whose work spans across film, theatre and television. She was cast in Jenna Turk's Remants, and showcased her own stageplays(Masquerade, Those Left Behind) at the Women's Work Festival and St. John's Short Plays Festival. Her short film Common Law premiered at the Nickel Independent Film festival. TV credits include Frontier and Little Dog.
Aya and the Masquerades will be Monie's first children's play, produced by White Rooster Theatre. It is inspired by the customs and folklore of Cameroon.
ID: A young African woman with (black) thick, long hair, wearing an orange sweater and black leather boots.
Aya and the Masquerades will be Monie's first children's play, produced by White Rooster Theatre. It is inspired by the customs and folklore of Cameroon.
ID: A young African woman with (black) thick, long hair, wearing an orange sweater and black leather boots.
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh is an activist, academic, mother, and writer who has deep ties with anti-racist, arts, women’s/gender diverse, and transformative justice communities. Among other groups, Sobia serves as co-chair/founding member of the: Anti-Racism Coalition NL, Quilted Collective of Racialized NL Writers and Creators’ Collective NL.
Sobia has short stories published in Us, Now (2021) and Hard Ticket (2022), and a monologue produced for City of Stories (2022). She also serves as a co-curator with TODOS Productions for Confronting Unconscious Bias (2022-2023). She is a Creative Cohort Resident Artist with Stages of Transformation (2022-2023), as she works on a new play, Braiding Peonies (working title).
ID: Sobia is a medium-tanned woman, with long, curly dark brown hair framing her face past her shoulders. She is wearing brown and gold-rimmed glasses, reddish lipstick and a blue v-neck shirt.
Sobia has short stories published in Us, Now (2021) and Hard Ticket (2022), and a monologue produced for City of Stories (2022). She also serves as a co-curator with TODOS Productions for Confronting Unconscious Bias (2022-2023). She is a Creative Cohort Resident Artist with Stages of Transformation (2022-2023), as she works on a new play, Braiding Peonies (working title).
ID: Sobia is a medium-tanned woman, with long, curly dark brown hair framing her face past her shoulders. She is wearing brown and gold-rimmed glasses, reddish lipstick and a blue v-neck shirt.
April Siutong Leung 梁筱彤
April Siutong Leung 梁筱彤 (she/her) is an award-winning playwright, performance creator, and actor who grew up in Hong Kong and is now based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). She has worked with many celebrated theatre companies across Turtle Island including Blyth Festival, Factory Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, and fu-GEN Theatre. Her current projects examine emergent and surveillant technologies, cultural identity and relationships (per)formed and sustained through food, and the complex social hybridity of the Chinese-Canadian community. April is a recipient of the Ellen Ross Stuart Award and a finalist for Touchstone Theatre’s Flying Start. April is currently the Artistic Associate at Theatre Passe Muraille. www.aprilleung.com
ID: An East Asian woman of Chinese descent smiling broadly, standing in front of a window and brick wall.
ID: An East Asian woman of Chinese descent smiling broadly, standing in front of a window and brick wall.
Marie Pike
Marie Pike is an artist living in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. Since 2017, her short stories have appeared in the Humber Literary Review, as part of the English Literature curriculum at Memorial University, and on the CBC and CHMR airwaves. In September 2019, Marie wrote, performed, and produced her first short play, Garden by Mattel in the St. John’s Short Play Festival. In 2021, Marie began a multi-disciplinary artist collaboration called Grand Trine with Newfoundland artists Andrya Duff and Megan Allison. Since that time, Grand Trine has presented dance, theater, and immersive art work at various festivals throughout the province.
ID: A photo of Marie, a white Sagittarius woman with long brown hair, brown eyes, smiling big. Marie is wearing a blue denim vest over a multi-colored tank top and black jumpsuit and is sitting in front of a white wall with black, red, and blue painted circle-designs.
ID: A photo of Marie, a white Sagittarius woman with long brown hair, brown eyes, smiling big. Marie is wearing a blue denim vest over a multi-colored tank top and black jumpsuit and is sitting in front of a white wall with black, red, and blue painted circle-designs.
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