The Good Times Are Killing Me is nominated for four Geminis
“The Good Times Are Killing Me” has been nominated for four Gemini awards. Two years ago I co-starred in a movie of the week as a recovering alcoholic opposite Kelly Rowan. It was one of the most fun jobs I have ever had. And the icing on the cake is that “Good Times” has been nominated in four separate Gemini categories: Best TV Movie Best Sound in a Dramatic Program Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Program, Mini-Series or TV Movie Best Performance by an Actor...
Read MorePromo video for SmackHeaded Peter
SummerWorks set a challenge to all of the theatre companies performing in this year’s festival: create a video, one minute long with no more than 20 words. Our delicious assistant director Andrew McNaughton took on the task of shooting, editing and producing the video with zero budget and limited availability of cast members. These are the results: I think Andrew did a wicked good job especially compared to some of the other submissions. The video draws you into the dreamlike world of...
Read MoreTwo new pages on my website
Craft services – how I adore thee. Yes, it’s true! In the middle of building websites for other people I’ve actually managed to update the resume section of this one! I’ve made a page for “The Good Times are Killing Me” which has a great picture of me and Kelly Rowan, and I’ve also made a page for “Murdoch Mysteries” with a link to the episode online – yes, finally you can see Emmy Paulk in all her glory! Scarily both roles seem to...
Read MoreWatch “The Good Times Are Killing Me” online!
Rupert Graves, Ali Craig, me and Aaron Abrams on the set of “Good Times” Thank God for Google Alerts. It just picked up the CTV website page where you can watch “The Good Times Are Killing Me” in its entirety! Now all my friends and relatives in the UK and the US can see the movie I was in! They’ve divided the movie into 8 clips of around 15-17 minutes each. Click here to watch “The Good Times Are Killing Me”...
Read MoreGigs for week of September 7th 2009
This week marks the first anniversary of me doing stand-up. Yes, it was a year ago when I had my stand-up debut at the Black Swan Tavern following the completion of Dawn Whitwell‘s stand-up course. How appropriate then that I am involved in starting a new comedy room at Poor John’s Cafe in Toronto’s West End with some fellow graduates of Dawn’s class. The StandUp Sisters are launching a new monthly all-girl comedy night called West End Girls which debut’s this...
Read MoreCTVs press release for “The Good Times Are Killing Me”
Kelly Rowan and Vinnie Walsh in a scene from “Good Times” My Google Alert settings picked up CTV’s press release for “The Good Times Are Killing Me” today. Here’s what they had to say: When power and scandal collide in a court of law, the line between fact and fiction can become easily blurred with crippling consequences. Executive produced by Shaftesbury Films (THE LISTENER, IN GOD’S COUNTRY) and Kelly Rowan (THE O.C., IN GOD’S COUNTRY), who...
Read More“The Good Times Are Killing Me” Finally Airs!
Me and Rupert Graves in a scene from “The Good Times Are Killing Me”. Picture by Christos Kalohoridis of Shaftesbury Films. It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! A year after we shot the movie starring Kelly Rowan and Rupert Graves, “The Good Times Are Killing Me” airs on CTV – Sunday 13th September at 8pm. I’m so excited! Although I saw an (almost) final edit in England back in February when my husband and I visited Cris Cole, the...
Read More“The Good Times Are Killing Me” Update
I got back from a trip home to Blighty last week – my husband was appearing at Jewish Book week in London – having finally seen “The Good Times Are Killing Me“. The timing was extraordinary – last year Cris Cole, the writer (pictured left), said that any time I was in London I should let him know and we could have dinner. I took him at his word and emailed him a couple of months ago to tell him we would be in town. It just turned out that Cris got hold of a copy...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not making episodes of Talking Bollocks, that is. And that's me for you.