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      • What Hangs in the Balance (2021)
      • I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? (2021)
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      • Pink Tie Gala (2021)
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DIGITAL PROGRAMME

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Original 
by Sharon King-Campbell


Production Community

 Written by & starring Sharon King-Campbell
Directed by Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton
​Production design by Diana Daly
Production management by Mara Bredovskis
Stage management by Amanda Klein & Jaimie Tait
Wardrobe by Melanie Ozon
Sound design by Kat Burke
Produced by Jenn Deon
Associate Producer Erika Squires
Outreach Coordinator Tiffany Martin
Production Assistant Gao Huiyan 

The running time of tonight's performance is 70 minutes with no intermission. Please silence your cell phone.

The playwright acknowledges the support of ArtsNL, City of St. John's, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Director's Notes

On some mornings when I look out my window I am reminded of the last line of “Original.” You will soon hear it for yourself. A certain sort of morning can happen any time of year, but not so often that we take it for granted. A certain sort of play can happen any time at all, but not so often we lose the magic of bearing witness. My journey with Sharon on this work has spanned years. She trusted me from the early days, and I trust her to continue being one of the most authentic, generous, talented humans. She is excellent. PerSistence Theatre has also been excellent in their support of this work, from workshop, through the different productions, and in assembling the creative and production team who inspire me in every way.

​- Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton, director

About Us

PerSIStence Theatre Company Inc. is a non-profit 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. Click here to learn more.

Board Members:
Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan 
Margot Duley
Sylina Jones - chair
Gabrielle Martin - vice-chair
Trudy Morgan-Cole
Melanie Racette-Campbell
Lori Savory
Kim Todd - secretary
Cara Windsor-Hehir
Jocelyn Young 

Office Staff:
Jenn Deon - producing artistic director 
Tiffany Martin - outreach coordinator
​Erika Squires - executive producing assistant
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Thank You

​Chris Collingwood Jr. of Baine Johnston Properties; the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, the honourable Judy Foote and the staff of Government House; Derek White and the staff of the CLB Armoury; Fionn Shea; Jaimie Tait; Sara Tilley; Corie Kean.

Special thanks to all of the folks at the St. John's Arts & Culture Centre - admin office, box office, and tech team - thank you for welcoming us into the ACC.
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Bios

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Mara Bredovskis - Production Management

​Mara can often be found hiding in booths and backstages around town. She has worked as a production manager and stage manager (thankfully rarely at the same time) for companies such as Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, PerSIStence Theatre Company, Opera on the Avalon, Perchance Theatre, Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre, White Rooster Theatre, Wonderbolt Circus, Theatre St. John's, and many others.

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Kathryn Burke - Sound Design

Kathryn is an actor, musician, producer, and sound designer based out of St. John’s. She has co-produced a provincial tour of skc originals' Give Me Back, and also sits on the board of Shakespeare by the Sea Festival (SBTS), and V-Day St. John’s - which produces the Vagina Monologues annually. Sound design credits: The Tempest (SBTS); A Nice Family Christmas, Wit, The Maltese Bodkin (St. John's Players); Noises Off, CLUE On Stage (Nothing on Productions); Original (PerSIStence Theatre Company); The Cut of It (White Rooster); and Puffs (Best Kind Productions).​

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Diana Daly - Production Design
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Diana is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, printmaker, storyteller and songwriter with a history as a production/stage manager and lighting designer. Diana is originally from St. John's and has spent the last ten + years living and working in BC, Montreal and Nunavik. Favourite projects that she has created include: The Fogo Island Song Share; the Lhasa de Sela Youth Stage for the Montreal Folk Festival; her EP When Women Kill; being the "Femme d'Orchestre" for the puppet show Kate Crackerberry;  and all of the musical experiences with her students in Puvirnituq and Kangirsuk. Diana is one of three members of the Daly Family Collective with Louise Moyes and Anne Troake and together they have made the multi disciplinary stage show If A Place Could Be Made. 


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Jenn Deon - Producing Artistic Director

​Jenn is a freelance theatre artist who has worked in St. John’s since the early 90’s. With PerSIStence, she has directed Robert Chafe's Isle of Demons (2017) and Berni Stapleton's The Haunting of Margaret Duley (2019). As artistic director with the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival from 1995-2015, she directed many of its productions over the years, including a female-driven production of The Taming of the Shrew (2014) and an all-female production of Much Ado About Nothing (2008).  In 2013, Jenn was a recipient of a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for her community involvement, and in 2018, the Woman of Distinction Award for Arts & Culture from the YWCA St. John's. She is a founder of and the producing artistic director with PerSIStence Theatre. Jenn is also a CHRC-trained facilitator of Respectful Workplace workshops for arts and non-profit organizations. More at jenndeon.ca.   

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Gao Huiyan - Production Assistant

Huiyan holds a bachelor of arts in English, a masters of arts in Culture and Difference and a masters of Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Although this is her first job in the theatre industry, she is passionate about feminism and gender relations and so excited to be a part of the PerSIStence team!

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Sharon King-Campbell - Performer / Playwright

Sharon King-Campbell is a playwright, actor, storyteller and director based in St. John's, NL. Her plays, Fighting Fire with Snow (World's End Theatre Company) and Give Me Back (skc originals/For the Love of Learning), both enjoyed multiple remounts, and Give Me Back toured Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Arts & Culture Centres.

​Sharon was the 2017 recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award, and her script, Dayboil, won the Arts & Letters in 2020. She is delighted to be working with PerSIStence again on Original. More at sharonkingcampbell.com.


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Amanda Klein - Stage Manager (Arts & Culture Centre performance)

​Amanda is originally from Oshawa, Ontario – but she moved to St. John’s last fall to pursue theatre full time. She has worked with several companies on and off the island, including the Gros Morne Theatre Festival, Opera on the Avalon, and Theatre on the Ridge. Amanda has a love for music, stories, and empowering women in the arts. She looks forward to meeting new challenges head on and embarking on this new adventure with PerSIStence as theatre adapts to a new way of the world.

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Tiffany Martin - Outreach Coordinator
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​Tiffany Martin has over twenty years of experience in arts administration and a lifetime of love and commitment to the St. John's arts community. She has worked for RCA, NIFCO, Pope Productions, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, and the St. John's International Women's Film Festival just to name a few. Tiffany is one of the most loyal, caring, and supportive co-workers anyone could ask for. She is tickled pink to be able to combine her love for the arts with her beliefs in social justice with PerSIStence Theatre Company!​​

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​Erika Squires - Associate Producer

Erika Squires is a multi-faceted theatre artist from St. John’s Newfoundland. She is a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland studying English with a specialization in Theatre and Drama and she is a teaching assistant and student for the diploma in Film and Stage Technique. Erika is an acting and piano teacher at Courtney Fowler Performance Academy and she is the co-Artistic Director of the new 2SLGBTQIA+ theatre group, GroupHug Productions. She is so excited to be a part of the PerSIStence community!​

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Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton - Director

Berni Stapleton is a Newfoundland- Labrador writer and performer of unique distinction. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the newly founded Kitchen Party Theatre Festival, launching digitally this year, hard launch in 2021!

She was writer in residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland-Labrador in 2019. Her play The Pope and Princess Di was listed on the Playwrights Guild of Canada's Sure Fire List of top 23 plays from female playwrights in Canada. She is the recipient of the 2018 Arts and Letters best dramatic script for her one woman play Dolly. Her newest book for young Selkies and other creatures is called Girly Muckle and the Queer Hands. She is one of the featured performers in the acclaimed Artistic Fraud production of Between Breaths. 

Last year her plays professionally produced included: The Double Axe Murders, A Tidy Package, Offensive to Some, The Haunting of Margaret Duley, and, the hit musical chomping at the bit to tour the country: No Change in the Weather. 

She was recently nominated for Arts NL artist of the year. She also launched a blog series championing body image acceptance and produced a one woman show of her own called “A Broad’s Perspective” in which fairy tale tropes were dismantled and rewritten to reflect a more accurate view point. 

She is a recipient of The Rhonda Payne award from Arts NL. She is a past recipient of the WANL award for best work in non-fiction for her contribution to the book They Let Down Baskets. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Riddle Fence and The Newfoundland Quarterly. She is a recipient of the Ambassador of Tourism award from Hospitality NL. Berni was the Artistic Director of the Grand Bank Regional Theatre Festival for 11 years. 

​She has been a playwright-in- residence with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Alberta Theatre Projects, CanStage, PARC, and other national companies. Her plays are regularly produced nationally and internationally. They include Offensive To Some, Brazil Square, and Our Frances. Berni’s other books include This is the Cat; Rants, Riffs and Roars; and her memoir Love, Life. 

Berni was the originating director and dramaturge for, and helped devise transVersing with For The Love of Learning, and Artistic Fraud. Find out more by checking out www.bernistapleton.com.

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Jaimie Tait - Stage Manager (rehearsals and CLB performance)
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Jaimie is very happy to be back working with PerSIStence Theatre this season. Originally from Vancouver BC, Jaimie moved to Newfoundland six years ago and is now proud to call St. John’s her home. Most recently Jaimie stage managed The Father for 30 for 60/Mindless Theatrics. Next year Jaimie will be hitting the road again with No Change in the Weather for Terra Bruce Productions. 

Favourite past credits include: Tosca for Opera on the Avalon; Offensive to Some for PerSIStence Theatre; Betroffenheit with Kidd Pivot; Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen for The Firehall Arts Centre; and All The Way Home for The Electric Company. Jaimie is a graduate of Studio 58.

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Land Acknowledgement 

We respectfully acknowledge the land on which we gather as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk [bee-oth-uck], whose culture has been lost forever and can never be recovered. We also acknowledge the island of Ktaqmkuk [uk-dah-hum-gook] (Newfoundland) as the unceded, traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi'kmaq [mee-gum-maq]. And we acknowledge Labrador as the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Innu [in-new] of Nitassinan [ne-tass-eh-nen], the Inuit [in-new-eet] of Nunatsiavut [nu-nat-see-ah-vut], and the Inuit of NunatuKavut [nu-nah-tuhk-ah-vut]. We recognize all First Peoples who were here before us, those who live with us now, and the seven generations to come. As First Peoples have done since time immemorial, we strive to be responsible stewards of the land and to respect the cultures, ceremonies, and traditions of all who call it home. As we open our hearts and minds to the past, we commit ourselves to working in a spirit of truth and reconciliation to make a better future for all. 

Our humble thanks to First Light for sharing this land acknowledgement within our community and providing valued guidance to many organizations such as ours. You can learn more by visiting their website at firstlightnl.ca.


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  • Donate
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  • Opportunities
  • Blog
  • Past Projects
    • 2017-2018 >
      • Isle of Demons (Sept 2017)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2017)
      • Offensive to Some (Dec 2017)
      • Women Playing Hamlet (Feb 2018)
      • Isle of Demons (April 2018)
      • Play Workshops
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Pink Tie Gala (2018)
      • Original (Nov 2018)
      • Offensive to Some (Jan 2019)
    • 2019-2020 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2019)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2019)
      • The Haunting of Margaret Duley >
        • Teacher's Guide
        • Workshops with Edward Daranyi
      • Working with Respect Conference
    • 2020-2021 >
      • Original (2021) >
        • Programme
      • Offensive to Some (2021) >
        • Programme
      • What Hangs in the Balance (2021)
      • I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? (2021)
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Votes for Women 100
      • Pink Tie Gala (2021)
    • 2022-2023 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2022)
      • 2022 Pink Tie Gala
  • Policies
    • Black Lives Matter
    • Respectful Workplace policy
  • Podcasts
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