Post Alice

Inspired by four haunting characters from four iconic Alice Munro stories, Post Alice is a stunning new contemporary play which asks the question: what really happened to Mistie Murray? And what happens to all our missing girls? Come sit around the fire with four bright and hilarious Huron County women as ghost stories emerge, songs fill the air, family secrets are revealed, and mysteries unravel into those wonderful contradictions which live inside us all. Warning: Mature subject matter, swearing and use of herbal cigarette in performances.

July 27th - August 15th

Taylor Marie Graham is a theatre maker and educator living in Cambridge, Ontario, located on Treaty 4, also known as the Haldimand Tract, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral Indigenous peoples. She holds a BA in theatre from York University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and currently she is a Doctoral Candidate writing a decolonial and rural feminist analysis of the Blyth Festival Theatre.

Taylor was lucky enough to grow up on the shores of Lake Huron just outside Goderich, Ontario, on Treaty 29, the Huron Tract which is the traditional territory of the Anishnaabe, Odawa, and Mississauga of the Credit Indigenous peoples. Her creative work is often inspired by rural women and invested in the decolonization of bodies in space. Notably, she was nominated for a Dora Award for co-writing the opera The Virgin Charlie with composer William Rowson.

Her writing has been described as “dynamic, complex, and very funny” (Judith Thompson), “an uncommonly cool theatrical experience” (Mooney on Theatre), “charmingly twisted” (John Terauds, Toronto Star), “delivering notes of comedy, irony and real feeling” (John Kaplan, NOW Magazine), and “searingly written. . . a significant accomplishment!” (Bill Mandel).

Taylor is thrilled to share her latest work Post Alice as part of the Here For Now Festival 2021.
www.taylormariegraham.com

Fiona Mongillo
Fiona Mongillo is the Artistic Director of Here For Now Theatre Company and is thrilled to be making her directorial debut, delving into her Huron County roots with the exciting project, Post Alice. Selected Theatre Credits: Angelina in Whack! (Here For Now), Senta von Schrader in Framed (Lighthouse/ HFN), Louise in The Enchantment (HERE Arts, NYC); Bessie in The Young Ladies of Baddeck (Theatre Baddeck); Rose in Eigengrau, Summer in A Fountain Troubled, Elisabeth in Laundry and Bourbon (Here For Now); title role in Hamlet, Flaminia in The Double Inconstancy, Lady Fancifull in The Provok'd Wife (LAMDA); Hilde in The Master Builder (Yorick Theatre/ UBC). Selected Film Credits: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC). Training: BFA in Acting, UBC; MA in Classical Acting, LAMDA

Jonathan Goad
Fifteen seasons at The Stratford Festival: Henry VIII, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Pentecost, Phèdre, The Music Man, King John, Pericles, Orpheus Descending, Henry IV, Henry VI, Fiddler on the Roof, As You Like It, Fuente Ovejuna, Julius Caesar, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Bartholomew Fair, The Brothers Karamazov. Elsewhere: A Whistle in the Dark, Speaking in Tongues (Company Theatre); Our Class, The Laramie Project (Studio 180); King Lear (Soulpepper); Arcadia (Theatre Junction). Directing: The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Stratford Festival);  John by Annie Baker (Company Theatre) A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy (Here For Now Theatre). Film/TV: Reign, Alias Grace, Dark Matter, Dorsal, Nikita, Republic of Doyle, Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Unnatural History, Othello, Rookie Blue. Training: NTS, Birmingham Conservatory, University of Waterloo, Banff Centre. Teaching: NTS, Fanshawe College. 

Terre Chartrand
Terre Chartrand is a non-status Algonquin and artist living in Waterloo Region who has a background in literature, theatre, visual arts, photography, technology, and science. Her diverse career has included everything from teaching in a french languages secondary school to working as a software developer. Chartrand is the founder and artistic director of Pins and Needles Fabric Company, an interacts collective that uses research, multimedia, and storytelling in a focusing on decolonizing and indigenizing arts, and arts based practice.

Included in her accomplishments are the founding and artistic direction of a collective show that takes over an entire floor of THEMUSEUM in Kitchener, the founding and artistic direction of an inter-arts collective who have seen several shows including IMPACT – an international contemporary and movement theatre festival.

Her recent projects include decolonising a map of Waterloo Region in the founding of an urban Indigenous youth arts collective called Endaayaang - Our Home. Their most recent project maps out Indigenous sites, both historic and contemporary and uses diverse media to tell the stories of Indigenous Waterloo Region.

Heather Marie Annis
Heather is a Tkarón:to (Toronto) based artist with mixed settler/first nations heritage: Mi’kmaq, Scottish, and French. She is an actor, director, playwright, theatrical and therapeutic clown, Co-Artistic Director of U.N.I.T. Productions, and “Morro” of the Dora Award and Canadian Comedy Award winning clown duo Morro and Jasp.  

Theatre credits include: Remembering The Winnipeg General (Zeitpunk Theatre - Dora Award Nom for Best Ensemble Performance), Morro and jasp Save The Date, Let’s Go (DMT Productions), Bright Lights (Theatre Bruhaha), Emily’s Piano (YPT), Morro and Jasp: 9-5 (Factory Theatre), Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself, Of Mice and Morro and Jasp, Morro and Jasp do Puberty (U.N.I.T. Productions), The Money Tree (Dora Nominated for Best Ensemble - Roseneath), Scheherezade (Nobody’s Business Theatre), By A Thread (Sterling Studio Theatre), Come Blow Your Horn (Classic Theatre Festival), Marat/Sade (SoupCanTheatre), Pornstar (BeefyGeek/UNIT), Mixed Messages,Showdown (Mixed CompanyTheatre), Savage/Love (ZeitgeistTheatre/Column 13). 

Recently, you may have seen her on CBC’s Workin’ Moms, and this winter she will be appearing in Tarragon Theatre’s production of Orphan Song. 

Ellen Denny
Ellen Denny (she/her) is an actor and playwright. She has performed across Canada with companies including NAC English Theatre, Mirvish, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel, Drayton, Grand Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Stage West Calgary and the Segal Centre. She received a Dora nomination for playing Alice in Britta Johnson’s 'Life After' (Musical Stage / Canadian Stage). Her play 'Pleasureville' premiered at Neptune Theatre in 2019, and is running at Charlottetown’s The Guild this summer. Ellen is the co-founder of Sudden Spark Collective with collaborator Emilio Vieira. During the pandemic they co-wrote and starred in ‘february: a love story’ - a rom com about dating six feet apart - which ran live at Globus Theatre, and digitally at Magnus Theatre and the Stratford Festival. With a passion for new Canadian work, Ellen is proud to be a part of this world premiere with Here for Now. 

Aubree Erickson 
Aubree is happy live theatre is back and thrilled to be making her debut with Here For Now Theatre. She hails from Saskatchewan (Treaty 4), and now calls Tkarón:to (Toronto) home.

 Aubree was last seen on stage in Toronto as Oliver in As You Like It with Shakespeare BASH’d. She has worked on several new Canadian pieces with theatres across Canada, most recently I Call Myself Princess, written and directed by Jani Lauzon at the Globe Theatre in Regina.

 Theatre credits include Metamorphosis, The Little Mermaid (Globe Theatre); Urinetown (Persephone Theatre); Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Cinderella, Singin’ in the Rain (RuBarb Productions); Into the Woods (District Theatre Collective); Spring Awakening (Winnipeg Studio Theatre). She attended the Canadian College of Performing Arts, the Globe Theatre Actor Conservatory and holds a BFA in Music.

Siobhan O’Malley is the Associate Artistic Director of Here For Now Theatre Company. Selected Theatre Credits: Rory in A Hundred Words for Snow, Rue in Whack! (Here For Now); Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Guild Festival Theatre); Fanny and Mrs. Parsons in Mary of Shanty Bay (Theatre by the Bay); Mary in Mary’s Wedding, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival Players of Prince Edward County); Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (The Secret Shakespeare Series); Catherine Givings in In the Next Room, Martha in Spring Awakening, Rosalind in As You Like It, and Yelena in Uncle Vanya (The Lir). Training: Honours BA in Acting, The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art (Trinity College Dublin/RADA)