Janet and Louise
Janet is determined to get over her mysterious ailments and keep her custodial job, so she's agreed to take doctor-prescribed art lessons. Louise’s art studio is floundering; there is endless roadwork outside and her prickly personality chases people away. Janet arrives but thinks she might quit. Louise can’t afford to lose another student. Then Janet finds a man’s tooth inside a jar. . . At turns funny and heartbreaking, this new play asks what happens when two strangers confront what they've tried so hard to keep hidden.
July 27th - August 15th
Cast and Creative
Written by: Deanna Kruger
Directed by: Jeannette Lambermont-Morey*
Cast: Brigit Wilson*, Peggy Coffey*
*“The participation of these Artists is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy (DOT).”
Deanna Kruger is a Guelph-based playwright. She is a proud alumnus of Nightwood Theatre's Write from the Hip script development program. She has received playwright-in-residence support from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her awards include second prize in the 2018 Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright Award. This past spring, Deanna mentored and taught teen playwrights through an online program in partnership with the Guelph Arts Council and the Guelph Public Library. Deanna is very happy to be part of the 2021 Here for Now Festival.
Jeannette Lambermont-Morey has directed for theatres across Canada and the United States, from the Stratford Festival, to the Virginia Stage Company; including such theatres as The Citadel (Edmonton), The Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), Atlantic Theatre Festival (Nova Scotia), Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg), Festival Players (PEC), Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton) the Thousand Islands Playhouse (Gananoque), Talk is Free Theatre and Theatre by the Bay (Barrie), the New World Theatre Project (St. John’s, NFLD); and Toronto theatres, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, Harbourfront Centre, The Guild Festival Theatre and The Toronto International Fringe Festival, etc.
She has worked extensively in college and university theatre programs as a director and instructor. Jeannette was Artistic Director of the New World Theatre Project in Newfoundland 2012/13 and served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada from 1999 to 2015.
As a director/dramaturge, Jeannette has developed a number of plays and musicals and is currently Artistic & Managing Director of Xchange Theatre Works in St. John’s, NL.
She is delighted to be working with Here For Now Theatre again!
Brigit Wilson
For the Stratford Festival: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, The Front Page, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, School for Scandal, Macbeth, As You Like It, Hypochondriac, Pericles, Alchemist, Swanne, All's Well, Quiet in the Land, Hunchback, Count of Monte Cristo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending (Stratford, MTC, Mirvish), Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, An Ideal Husband, Three Sisters, Bartholomew Fair, Peter Pan, Grapes of Wrath, King John, Christina, Mother Courage Elsewhere: Agamemnon (Next Stage); Narcisse Mondoux (Grand); Come Back to the Five and Dime (Grand/Five & Dime Productions – Dora nomination); Enron (Theatre Calgary); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Glorious, Man of La Mancha (TBTB); The Ballad of Stompin' Tom, Another Season's Harvest (Blyth); The Odd Couple(Segal). TV: Harriet Sims, The Campbells (four seasons). Film: Beyond Innocence, Anne of Avonlea, The Marriage Bed, Echoes in the Darkness, Lustre. Online: Twitter @HOOPOOHEART.
Peggy Coffey
Peggy began her career in 1977 at The Canadian Mime Theatre. Selected credits include: Alternative Theatre Works, The Chekhov Collective, Summerworks, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, CanStage, Manitoba Theatre For Young People, The Grand Theatre, Blyth Festival, Lighthouse Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Blue Water Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, National Arts Centre, Harley Dog Productions, Essential Collective Theatre. Teaching credits include: Birmingham Conservatory; Michael Chekhov Canada; Sheridan College; St. Clair College Music Theatre and Performance Program, The Foundation for Enriching Education, Theatre Ontario, Dalhousie University.
Peggy received a Canada Council Grant to study with Kristin Linklater at The Kristin Linklater Voice Centre (KVLC) in Orkney, 2018. Peggy was invited to participate in The Michael Chekhov Teachers Retreat in Grozjan, Croatia, 2018. Peggy is thrilled to be with Here For Now Theatre and part of LIVE theatre again. ‘Stay Safe and hold each other close. To my family!’