Toronto Noir fundraiser
It’s hard to believe that the show opens next week! We’re all super-excited about “Toronto Noir”’s debut this coming Thursday. Rehearsals have been going well and the show is going to be superb. I can honestly say that I’ve never worked with such a talented group of performers before. This Monday we’re having a fundraiser for the show at Betty’s (240 King Street just East of Sherbourne) at 7pm. I will be doing a stand-up set, our director (a former...
Read MoreAbsolute is cancelled!
Er…..this is becoming a bit of a habit recently. Just to let you know I won’t now be appearing at Absolute Comedy tonight. But there’s a really good reason! I’m now going to be in at least three episodes of “Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures” and I have a lot of filming to fit in between rehearsals for “Toronto Noir”. I’m so happy – I’m really enjoying everything I’m doing right...
Read MoreLiving the Dream
When it’s going well, being a professional performer is the most fabulous job ever. I am having the best time (see the cheesy grin, left). It all happened so fast. I hadn’t had a job in six months and suddenly I landed a theatre job with Summerworks out of the blue. Just after rehearsals began I had a tv audition for “Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures” which I nailed (thanks to casting director Deirdre Bowen’s stellar direction) and got the part. So now I’m...
Read MoreSummer Works Theatre Festival 2009
It’s always lovely to get a part in a play. It’s even lovelier when you get asked to be in a show without auditioning. And that’s just what happened to me yesterday. I got a phone call from my old friend Heather Davies – a Canadian who was my first roommate when I left the Bristol Old Vic theatre school and moved to London. A great actress and amazing singer, Heather transitioned into theatre and opera directing, working at the Royal Shakespeare Company in England...
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.