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Past Projects
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
The Haunting of Margaret Duley
2020-2021
Original (2021)
Offensive to Some (2021)
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
Year of the Arts Women's Play Festival
8th Annual Pink Tie Gala
2025-2026
Raise Her Up - The Gosling Statue
WHO WE ARE

About

They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were seeds.
 VISION
Community enlightenment based on the core beliefs of feminism.

MISSION
We are a non-profit, charitable (798 690 483 RR0001) organization in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that responds to the persistent and universal need for promoting, understanding and embracing the core beliefs of feminism. Through professional theatre and related initiatives, we work to change hearts and minds.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES
  • We challenge discrimination and stereotype in all forms
  • We produce stories where at least 50 per cent of the text is spoken by character(s) facing gender-based barriers
  • We offer opportunities to all genders with a focus towards people who identify as women or others facing gender-based barriers
  • We respond to issues that affect women and girls and others facing gender-based barriers in our community
  • We re-examine universal stories traditionally told by straight white abled males, through a feminist lens
  • We strive to work through an intersectional lens for gender parity
CORE PRINCIPLE
Feminism: The belief in political, economic, personal, and social equity for women.

CORE BELIEFS
  • Sexism exists
  • Sexism against women and others facing gender-based barriers (misogyny) is enduring, pervasive, systemic, cultural, and ingrained
  • All genders should have equal rights and opportunities
  • All genders are the intellectual and social equals of each other
  • All genders should be recognized and treated as equals
  • Systems of oppression and discrimination are interdependent and span all social categorizations such as race, class, gender, ability, parental status, size, age, and sexual orientation as they apply to a given individual or group

PerSIStence Theatre recognizes the limits of using binary language. Systems of oppression are interdependent and the patriarchy affects everyone in different ways. Our activism includes those all those facing gender-based barriers and we recognize the intersections of oppression experienced from many perspectives such as by those who are transgender, non-binary, 2SLGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous, racialized, Deaf, disabled, and people with lived experience.​
PerSIStence Theatre Company Inc is an Affiliate Member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre (PACT), a Category A member of the Association of Professional Theatre of Newfoundland and Labrador (APTNL), and an organizational member of the Playwright's Guild of Canada and the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC).

Board & Staff

Company Herstory

PerSIStence Theatre Company was founded in early 2017 by Susan Bonnell, Alison Carr, Jenn Deon, Janet Edmonds, Natalie Falk and Jean Graham, with a mission to “respond to the persistent and universal need for promoting, understanding and embracing the core beliefs of feminism through professional theatre and related initiatives.” Officially incorporated as a non-profit on April 25, 2017, the board of directors worked quickly to become a professionally run organization, with the first Annual General Meeting on June 12, 2017. The company received sustaining funding for professional arts organizations from Arts NL in 2020 and achieved charitable status in 2021.

The organization’s activities include professional theatre, professional development opportunities, special projects and community outreach.

Professional Production History

2017 2018 2019
2020
2021
2022-2024
2024
2026
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