The People of Perchance
Meet some of the talented artists involved with our theatre.
Production
Danielle Irvine
Artistic Director
Danielle Irvine is a proud Newfoundlander who has traveled a lot for her work. Highlights of her career include teaching and directing at the National Theatre School of Canada (most recently as the leader of their second year Shakespeare Project) ; Assistant Directing at the Stratford Festival of Canada (including being the first director to study in their Birmingham Conservatory); and winning such awards as the Canada Council for the Arts prestigious John Hirsch Prize for Directing, the ArtsNL BMO Artist of the Year, and the ArtsNL Artist’s Achievement Award 2019. Danielle was also a participant in the World Stage Festival 2000’s Master Class for Directors; where she was honoured to study with such theatre greats as Peter Brook, Yoshi Oida and Polly Teale. In the fall of 2016, she was invited to participate in the inaugural Stratford Festival’s International Classical Directing Intensive.
For over 30 years, she has been directing theatrical productions of all sizes and types in all manner of venues. Her love and passion for NL culture combined with her theatre training inspired Danielle to co-develop a show with Anna Stassis which brought audiences through a theatrical experience on a bus, a ferry, around Bell Island and culminated 650 feet underground in a mine. This was listed by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres as a Landmark Theatrical Event in 1997. She was one of the founders of the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival in NL, as well as the founding artistic director of Sweetline Theatre Company.
She has also been a keynote speaker and workshop leader at various conferences over the years and is also a casting director for television and film. Credits include: CBC’s Republic of Doyle; the Netflix series, Frontier; the CBC Series, LittleDog; the CBC mini-series, Caught; the Citytv Series, Hudson and Rex; and the feature film, Maudie.
Recently, she has been nominated a YWCA Woman of Distinction for Arts and Culture and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Excellence in Casting for Frontier.
Since 2014, Danielle has been bringing her love of Newfoundland culture and community, together with her passion for Shakespeare and other timeless theatre in her role as the Artistic Producer of Perchance Theatre.
Cordella Pilgrim
Finance / FOH Manager
BAccS, CPA
Cordella has been working in accounting and business management for 25 years, and she is excited to join Perchance this season as part of the office management team. She believes that “Accounting Matters” and she aims to prove that every day at work and through her business. Cordella enjoys snuggling with pets, solving problems, making a positive difference, and sharing homemade cookies.
Jordan Vincer
Production Manager
Returning for a second season as Production Manager with Perchance Theatre, Jordan Vincer is a Newfoundland-based theatre artist who studied theatre production and design at Ryerson’s School of Performance in Toronto.
Jordan’s career has taken him from intimate local new works to large-scale productions all across Canada and the United States. Recent credits include Touring Stage Manager for the hit burlesque parodies, The Empire Strips Back and Nightmare on Strip Street (NX5 Theatrical), Stage Manager for There’s Nothing You Do (RCA Theatre), Second Shot (BKP), and Jesus Christ Superstar (TIFT). Previous credits also include Assistant Stage Manager on Come From Away Gander and No Change in the Weather (Terra Bruce).
Jordan are grateful to be back at Perchance, collaborating with an exceptional company of artists and helping bring another season of stories to Conception Harbour. Instagram @jordanvincer
Stage Management / Crew
Leo Mackey
Stage Manager – Romeo & Juliet; Moratorium on Love
Leo was born in Carbonear, NF and now lives in Bristol’s Hope. After graduating from Memorial with a B.A. and a B.Ed., he has taught junior and senior high school in Newfoundland. Since retiring, Leo has been working with Perchance Theatre as a stage manager.
This season he is thrilled to be working two amazing shows: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and and Evan Mercer’s commedia dell’arte Moratorium on Love.
Sophia Molnar
Stage Manager – Little Women; Every Brilliant Thing
Sophia (she/her/elle) has a BFA from Grenfell’s Technical Theatre program.
Selected credits include: She is Here (RCAT); Man of the Year (Artistic Fraud); Every Brilliant Thing, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Perchance Theatre); 76 Centimeters, Braiding Peonies (TODOS Productions); J’aime ma francophonie (Les Aventures d’Amandine & Rosalie), An American Hymnal (Terra Bruce Productions); How To Make Bread; Jewel, The Birds, The SS Ethie (The Gros Morne Theatre Festival).
Merci à tous and enjoy the show!
Molly MacEachern
Assistant Stage Manager – Romeo & Juliet; Little Women
Molly is thrilled to be making her Perchance debut this season! After graduating from Holy Heart in 2024, Molly began her undergraduate degree in English Literature at McGill University in Montreal. In Montreal, credits include Company (Asst. Stage Manager), You’re Never Alone (Production Asst.), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 & How Did You Get to be Here? (Stage Manager). She is very grateful to be working with such a wonderful and talented cast and crew. Outside of rehearsal rooms, Molly can be found cuddling her dog, chatting with her roommate, or with her nose in a book!
Jax McNabb
Assistant Stage Manager – Romeo & Juliet; Moratorium on Love
Jax McNabb is a theatre fanatic from St. John’s, NL. She is delighted to be a part of her second season with Perchance Theatre this summer. She is a grade 12 student at Holy Heart of Mary Regional High School. Recent credits include assistant stage managing It’s a Wonderful Life and Mamma Mia with the Holy Heart Performing Arts Program, Hay Fever with the St. John’s Players, and The Flying Doctor and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Perchance Theatre this past summer. Other passions include reading, video games, and her three cats.
Shannon Lacey
Technical Director
Shannon Lacey (She/Her) just graduated from CNA’s Television and Film Creation program, she is the technical director for Perchance Theatre again this summer, she has been on a few film sets and she wrote and directed her first short film which recieved a strong response from audiences. If you ask her what her favourite films are, she could talk for hours
Liam Kavanagh-Penney
Crew – Romeo & Juliet; Moratorium on Love; Little Women; Assistant Stage Manager – Every Brilliant Thing
Liam Kavanagh-Penney is a Conception Harbour native and a recent graduate of Roncalli Central High School. He is thrilled to be returning to Perchance Theatre for his third season, this time as a Production Assistant.
This summer, he is also working as the Assistant Stage Manager for Every Brilliant Thing and will have the opportunity to stage manage select performances. When he isn’t at the theatre, Liam can usually be found at the pool training as a competitive swimmer or catching a good movie. He is proud to be part of the Perchance Theatre family and hopes you enjoy another memorable summer in the harbour.
Martin Rotchford
Crew / Box Office
Martin Rotchford is a local lad. He was born and raised in Conception Harbour, NL, and just finished his first year at Memorial University. He intends to pursue a career in Electrical Engineering. He is an avid crib player, loves swimming, biking, and going on wild adventures with his family. He is an active member in the community, always contributing to local events. Martin lucked in to a three-day stint with Perchance Theatre in 2023. That was all it took to get him hooked, so he’s coming back this year for his fourth season. You’ll see him milling around, so be sure to say hello! He’s a pretty nice guy.
Randy Feener
Set Carpentry
Directors / Designers
Danielle Irvine
Director – Romeo & Juliet
Danielle Irvine is a proud Newfoundlander who has traveled a lot for her work. Highlights of her career include teaching and directing at the National Theatre School of Canada (most recently as the leader of their second year Shakespeare Project) ; Assistant Directing at the Stratford Festival of Canada (including being the first director to study in their Birmingham Conservatory); and winning such awards as the Canada Council for the Arts prestigious John Hirsch Prize for Directing, the ArtsNL BMO Artist of the Year, and the ArtsNL Artist’s Achievement Award 2019.
Danielle was also a participant in the World Stage Festival 2000’s Master Class for Directors; where she was honoured to study with such theatre greats as Peter Brook, Yoshi Oida and Polly Teale. In the fall of 2016, she was invited to participate in the inaugural Stratford Festival’s International Classical Directing Intensive.
For over 30 years, she has been directing theatrical productions of all sizes and types in all manner of venues. Her love and passion for NL culture combined with her theatre training inspired Danielle to co-develop a show with Anna Stassis which brought audiences through a theatrical experience on a bus, a ferry, around Bell Island and culminated 650 feet underground in a mine. This was listed by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres as a Landmark Theatrical Event in 1997. She was one of the founders of the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival in NL, as well as the founding artistic director of Sweetline Theatre Company.
She has also been a keynote speaker and workshop leader at various conferences over the years and is also a casting director for television and film. Credits include: CBC’s Republic of Doyle; the Netflix series, Frontier; the CBC Series, LittleDog; the CBC mini-series, Caught; the Citytv Series, Hudson and Rex; and the feature film, Maudie.
Recently, she has been nominated a YWCA Woman of Distinction for Arts and Culture and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Excellence in Casting for Frontier.
Since 2014, Danielle has been bringing her love of Newfoundland culture and community, together with her passion for Shakespeare and other timeless theatre in her role as the Artistic Producer of Perchance Theatre.
Allison Moira Kelly
Director – Every Brilliant Thing; Little Women
Allison is an actor, director, and writer from Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Memorial University and a Masters of Fine Arts from York University. She is a graduate of the directing program at the National Theatre School.
Directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MUN), Every Brilliant Thing (Perchance), Our Eliza (GMTF), If She Runs (Whiterooster/Persistence), Maiden Voyage (remount) (RT), Quiller (NTS), Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (NTS), Music on Main (GMTF).
Acting credits include Hamlet (Perchance Theatre), She Is Here (RCAT), Hudson and Rex, Son of a Critch. Allison is a recent winner of the Arts and Letters Award for short fiction, and is currently writing a play for Arts & Ageing, a company who make theatre that tours seniors living homes. She is one fourth of the sketch comedy troupe Mom’s Girls.
Perry Schneiderman
Director – Moratorium on Love
Perry Schneiderman has dedicated over 40 years to the training of emerging artists.
As AD of NTS and Chair of RTS he was instrumental in reinvigorating the classical training curricula.
He has directed in both official languages including at the Piggery theatre as AD. For Perchance: Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters and the remount of Moliere’s The Flying Doctor.
He has conducted sessions in mask and comedia at the Stratford Festival, Globe Theatre Regina, Cirque de Soleil, HB Studio, Shanghai Academy, Moscow Art, Royal Scottish Academy,Universities of Capetown and Croatia.
He translated Norm Foster’s Old Love produced by La Compagnie Jean Duceppe at Place des Arts.
He studied at l’École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris) and the universities of Washington and McGill.
He received the Ryerson Faculty Association’s Career Achievement Award and is TMU Professor Emeritus.
He recently became Board President of the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival.
Pat Dempsey
Sound Designer
Pat Dempsey is a Designer and Theatre Practitioner based out of St. John’s, NL. Pat spends his days wearing many different hats for many different projects. He has been a Designer in Lighting, Video and Sound for many companies including RCAT, Best Kind Productions, NAX, Todos Productions, Power Productions, White Rooster, Persistence, Perchance, The Harbour Voices International Choir Festival, Wreckhouse, and Kittiwake Dance Company. Pat spent many years as the Associate Technical Director of the LSPU Hall and taught Technical Theatre at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is currently the Production Manager of Come From Away, playing out in Gander for its fourth year, and is the Technical Director for Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. @patbanjo
Tucker Ellis
Costume / Set Designer – Romeo & Juliet; Moratorium on Love
Tucker Ellis is a costume and clothing designer and maker based out of St. John’s, NL. Tucker grew up in a small community in central Newfoundland, and has had an active interest and training in musical theatre from an early age. After wandering from home and eventually landing permanently in St. John’s, he attended the Textile and Apparel Design program at the College of the North Atlantic and returned for an additional year of extended study focusing on pattern construction. Since leaving the program he has played an active role in the St. John’s theatre, fashion and craft communities. Tucker is stoked to return to the Perchance Theatre team for their ninth summer to expand last year’s worlds with “Romeo and Juliet” and a little extra flying d chaos with a little extra wrestling in a “Moratorium on Love.”
Barry Buckle
Sewer – Romeo & Juliet; Moratorium on Love
Emma Cole
Costume Designer – Little Women
Emma Cole is a writer, producer, designer, and anarchist bookseller from St. John’s, NL. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Acadia University in English and Theatre. By day she works for local arts organizations in sales and marketing, and on other days she designs costumes for theatre. She is an assistant producer with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and managing producer of Capacity Theatre. Her writing has won awards from Kiwanis, Arts and Letters, and WritersNL, and been featured by CBC, estuary, Riddle Fence, toothcut, and Paragon. You can find her creative writing, theatre projects, and sewing creations at www.emmacharlottecole.com.
Evan Mercer
Writer – Moratorium on Love
Evan Mercer is an actor and writer originally from Shearstown Newfoundland.
In 2023 he completed the acting program at the National Theatre School and in 2024 completed the Stratford Birmingham Conservatory. He had been fortunate to work with many great companies across the country. Recent highlights include As You Like It and Cymbeline with the Stratford Festival, and The Servant of Two Masters and Our Eliza at Perchance Theatre.
He has appeared on such television shows as Little Dog, Son of a Critch, and Frontier, and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for his performance in the film Riverhead.
His recent Moliere adaptation The Flying Doctor has been frequently produced in Newfoundland. He is both thrilled and grateful to be a part of this production.
Anita Nittoly
Fight Director – Romeo & Juliet
Fourth project with Perchance Theatre. Fight & Intimacy Director for: The Stratford Festival, The Blyth Festival, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Crow’s, Talk is Free, Young People’s Theatre, Neptune, The Grand, YES, National Arts Centre, Tarragon, Buddies in Bad Times, Imago, Centaur, Segal Centre, Canadian Opera Company, Aquarius, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, Obsidian, Carousel Players.
Sarah White
Set & Props Designer – Little Women
Sarah White (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist based in St. John’s. She currently works as the Production & Technical Manager for RCAT/LSPU Hall. Some past projects include: Stage Manager/Production Manager at TNL’s Gros Morne Theatre Festival for both festival and touring productions (2014-2022), LX Designer for Best Kind Productions’ Heathers (2024), TNL’s Our Eliza (2024) and King’s Point Theatre’s Turncoat Hill (2024) & Benediction (2025), and Set Designer for Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (2019), Benediction (2025) and Oh, What A Lovely Racket! (2026). Sarah is thrilled to join the Perchance team for the first time!
The Cast
Zoe Cleland
Juliet / Street Fighter, Romeo and Juliet; Sylvia, Moratorium on Love; Amy, Little Women
Zoe Cleland is an actor, writer, and emerging director. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, her most notable credits include featured roles on Murdoch Mysteries (CBC) and Reign (CW), as well as a Canadian Screen Award-nominated performance in CBC Gem’s The Communist’s Daughter.
In 2020, Zoe launched her production company, Sweet Sorrow Productions, through which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in her debut short film, Blueberries for Iris, which premiered at the Atlantic International Film Festival in 2023. Her second short, The Newcomer, premiered at the Fog Fest Horror Film Festival in 2024.
Recent projects include a guest appearance on Hudson & Rex and a lead role in the upcoming season of Bell Fibe TV’s Only the Night Knows, opposite Ruth Lawrence and Mary Walsh. This is Zoe’s second season at Perchance, and she is over the moon to be back.
Jerry Etienne
Friar Lawrence / Montague, Romeo and Juliet; Grandfather, Moratorium on Love; Old Mr. Lawrence, Little Women
Jerry has been a professional actor/director/artistic director and acting teacher for 40 years (or so) in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Stratford, London, Saint John, Parrsboro, Halifax, P.E.I., Stephenville, Corner Brook, Trinity, Cupids and St. John’s.
He was Artistic Director of Theatre Newfoundland Labrador from 1991 – ‘97 and was founding Artistic Director of the Gros Morne Theatre Festival. He was Artistic Director of The Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, NS from 1999 to 2004.
He has directed many plays and played many parts including kings, preachers, murderers, fishermen, boors, bikers, cops, directors, and the Prime Minister of Canada.
He taught for 16 years in the Theatre Program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, and he’s also written a series of adaptations of farces.
He loves his three beautiful daughters, one stepson, a three-legged cat, a Pammy, a pony, and working with his ex-students.
Kia Gates
Lady Montague / Tybalt, Romeo & Juliet; Jo, Little Women
Kia is an actor from Birmingham, UK, and a graduate of The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art in Dublin.
Having recently relocated to St. John’s, Kia is delighted to be joining the wonderful team at Perchance Theatre for her first summer season in Canada.
Her recent theatre credits include Georgia in Goodbye Dorothy (Barbara Barrett Theatre), Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express (Power Productions), Dr. Seuss in The Wholly Divided Trinity Conspiracy Theory of Queen Elizabeth I (Near Dublin) The Musical (Smock Alley Theatre), Witch/Lennox in Macbeth (The Mill Theatre), Alex in Good Sex (Dead Centre Theatre), Toni Lafayette in Appropriate and Masha in Three Sisters (The Lir Academy).
Bailey Jackson
Lady Capulet / Apothecary, Romeo & Juliet; Beth, Little Women
Bailey Jackson (she/her) is an actor, writer, and theatre educator based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She earned her BFA in theatre (acting) from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in 2021 and is currently pursuing her MA in English (creative writing) at MUN.
She has worked as an actor across the province, performing with the Stephenville Theatre Festival (2021, 2023), Rising Tide Theatre (2022, 2023, 2025), and RCAT (2025).
Select theatre credits include: Hedda Gabler, Bingo Ladies, West Moon, Maiden Voyage (RTT); To The Girls (STF, NL tour); Pride of the Landlubbers (RCAT); Macbeth, The Wolves (TAG).
When she’s not in the rehearsal room, you can catch her in the classroom with her colleagues at ActIV Shakespeare, teaching local Junior High and High School students all about the Bard. Bailey is thrilled to be on the Perchance stage and is so grateful to this season’s cast and crew.
Erin Loretta Mackey
Benvolio, Romeo & Juliet; Glosette, Moratorium on Love; Meg, Little Women
Erin Loretta Mackey is thrilled to be returning for her seventh season with Perchance Theatre. Select Perchance credits include Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nina (The Seagull), Clarice (The Servant of Two Masters), and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet).
A 2020 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Erin had the pleasure of collaborating with artists including Danielle Irvine, Jackie Maxwell, Ian Watson, David Latham, and Krista Jackson.
Most recently, she appeared in the Canadian premiere of The Girl with No Hands with Odyssey Theatre in Ottawa and the Mirvish/Terra Bruce production of No Change in the Weather at Toronto’s CAA Theatre.
On screen, Erin’s favourite credits include Murdoch Mysteries, Hudson & Rex, My Christmas Guide, and four seasons as the voice of Mickey in the animated series Mickey’s Farm.
Much love to Mom, Dad, and Emily.
Evan Mercer
Mercutio / Paris’ page, Romeo & Juliet; Quintal, Moratorium on Love
Evan Mercer is an actor and writer originally from Shearstown Newfoundland.
In 2023 he completed the acting program at the National Theatre School and in 2024 completed the Stratford Birmingham Conservatory. He had been fortunate to work with many great companies across the country. Recent highlights include As You Like It and Cymbeline with the Stratford Festival, and The Servant of Two Masters and Our Eliza at Perchance Theatre.
He has appeared on such television shows as Little Dog, Son of a Critch, and Frontier, and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for his performance in the film Riverhead.
His recent Moliere adaptation The Flying Doctor has been frequently produced in Newfoundland. He is both thrilled and grateful to be a part of this production.
Stephen Oates
Capulet / Street Fighter, Romeo & Juliet; Wish, Moratorium on Love; Bhaer, Little Women
Forty-five. From Carbonear.
John Sheehan
John, Every Brilliant Thing
As a stand up comic, John has performed multiple times at the Halifax, Winnipeg, and Hubcap Comedy Festivals, as well as CBC Radios, The Debaters.
In theatre and film, he has appeared in Son of a Critch, Republic of Doyle, and Hudson and Rex. He was also a stable of Rising Tides “Revue” shows, writing and performing in 16 tour is the hit show.
This is John’s fifth season with Perchance.
Joel Stead
Paris / Servant / Friar John, Romeo & Juliet; Laurie, Little Women
Joel Hart Stead is an actor/musician from CBS, NL. Their past theatre-based escapades include playing Pierre in There’s Nothing You Can Do (RCA Theatre), and spending eight seasons with Rising Tide Theatre in Trinity, where they performed in many a Pageant and dinner theatre, donned such roles as Mrs. Elvsted in Hedda Gabler and Reginald in The Flying Doctor, and played both in the band and onstage in original Newfoundland musical Maiden Voyage.
This is Joel’s first season with Perchance, and they are so very thrilled to be performing these beautiful shows on this beautiful stage!
Andrew Tremblett
Romeo / Street Fighter, Romeo & Juliet; Durante, Moratorium on Love; Brooke, Little Women
Andrew Tremblett is an actor, writer, and director for stage and screen. Tremblett received a BFA in Theatre performance at MUN’s Grenfell Campus. Following his degree, he went on to study with The Second City Training Centre in Chicago and Toronto.
Some of Tremblett’s notable theatrical credits include: Three Sisters (2013), Boeing Boeing (2014), A Lie Of The Mind (2014), Romeo and Juliet (2015), Twelfth Night (2016), The Taming of the Shrew (2017), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2018), The Seagull (2018), The Servant of Two Masters (2019), West Moon (2021), The Flying Doctor (2025), and Tempting Providence (2025).
He can also be seen on television in shows such as JackTV (Bell Fibe TV1), Astrid & Lily Save The World (Syfy), and Hudson & Rex (CityTV).
Tremblett is also known for his professional work in sketch comedy, with Halfhandsome as well as serving as the Festival Director for Newfoundland & Labrador Sketch Fest and the Director / Head Writer for Year in Revue.
Nicole Underhay
Nurse / Princess, Romeo & Juliet; Marina, Moratorium on Love; Marmee, Little Women
Nicole Underhay was born and raised in St. John’s, NL. Her theatre career includes 8 seasons at the Shaw Festival, several seasons at Toronto’s Soulpepper, Tarragon, Canadian Stage and other projects that have taken her from St. John’s to Vancouver and back, with a few stops south of the border in the USA (when it was still cool).
Nicole returned to Newfoundland in 2019 continuing in the theatre with Frank Barry’s The Strange Case of Madam D; Andrea Cooper’s Room for a Pony; Terra Bruce’s The Wild Rovers and most recently Ruth Lawrence’s If She Runs.
Nicole’s film and TV credits include Random Passage; The Shipping News; Murdoch Mysteries and Saving Hope. She recently wrapped filming on the final Season of Son of a Critch, playing Suzanne Fox (the mother of all the red heads).
She is thrilled to be joining Perchance for the first time this Summer!
Front of House / Marketing
Olivia Rotchford
Box Office Coordinator
Olivia Rotchford (she/her), having volunteered with prop creation last year, is now working her first season at Perchance Theatre! Living just a walk away, she is eager to contribute to her love for the arts with a smile at the Box Office. Outside of this, she enjoys hiking, painting, and crafting. When she graduates from Roncalli Central High, where she will be entering the twelfth grade this fall, she plans to pursue or teach in the artistic field. You’ll get the opportunity to meet her before you watch one of our incredible plays.
Sarah Simpson
Marketing / Box Office
Sarah Simpson (She/Her) has completed her first year at Memorial University, and she is currently working towards a Bachelor of Science. Although she loves science, she’s always admired and participated in the arts. She loves to draw and use many different textile mediums as well as make costumes for Sci-Fi on the Rock and the Renaissance Festival. After volunteering with Perchance Theatre in 2023, she’s very excited to have a formal position with Perchance this season.
Lilly Thompson
Marketing / Box Office Coordinator
Lilly Thompson is the Marketing & Box Office Coordinator this season & incoming Accounting student at CNA. You can catch her greeting you at the box office!
Board of Directors
Perchance Theatre is a registered Canadian charitable organization (819766650RR0001) and is incorporated provincially as a non-profit organization under the governance of a volunteer board of directors:
Natasha Hart
Chair
Giles Ayers
Vice Chair/Treasurer
Aleksandra Stefanovic-Chafe
Secretary
Danielle Irvine
Artistic Director, ex-officio
Allison Catmur
Co-Chair
Don Fitzpatrick
Member
Patrick Mackey
Director
William Newton
Member
A Tribute to
Ian Watson
Ian was a dear friend and mentor to some of us here at Perchance. And through those of us who were his students – his knowledge, passion, and electricity touches all.
He was an actor, director, teacher and coach, with a specialization in classical text. He worked at the Stratford Festival, the National Theatre School...
Ian was a dear friend and mentor to some of us here at Perchance. And through those of us who were his students – his knowledge, passion, and electricity touches all.
He was an actor, director, teacher and coach, with a specialization in classical text. He worked at the Stratford Festival, the National Theatre School of Canada, Ryerson Theatre School, and even came to our province to lead workshops with his beloved wife, Janine Pearson (Head of Coaching at the Stratford Festival). Every step of our text analysis was informed by Ian and Janine’s work. Our joy in the taste of the power of words came directly from their guidance. Ian unlocked the key to argument and through his passionate, unwavering and infectious deep commitment to specificity in performance, he made us all better. And he did it all with a kindness, generosity, and wisdom that brought out the best in each individual.
Our 2019 season was dedicated to the honour of Ian Watson. In 2020, Ian’s family honoured Perchance Theatre with a bequest in Ian’s name that changed the course of the company. This transformative gift has allowed our company to weather a pandemic and come out as a strong, year-round organization that has the ability to pay forward Ian’s love of words.
“He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.” (Henry VIII)
Perchance Theatre is a proud member of Business and the Arts NL and the international Shakespeare Theatre Association.
