Board Members
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Founders: Susan Bonnell; Alison Carr; Jenn Deon; Janet Edmonds; Natalie Falk; Jean Graham
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Staff
- Jenn Deon - Producing Artistic Director - [email protected]
Jenn Deon - Producing Artistic Director (she/her)
A woman of French settler and British mixed heritage, Jenn is an artist, administrator and activist who has worked in St. John’s since the early 90’s. With PerSIStence, she has directed Robert Chafe's Isle of Demons (2017); Berni Stapleton's The Haunting of Margaret Duley (2019); Trudy Morgan-Cole's The Mirror (2021); and Lonni Patey's Today I (2024). As artistic director with the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival (SBTS) 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); she is returned in recent years to chair of the SBTS board of directors and sit on the board of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) as part of her role overseeing their annual conference, an international gathering which will be hosted in St. John's in January 2026. Through her role at PerSIStence, Jenn is a member of the HR Committee of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT), and is also a facilitator of Culture Works Canada's Respectful Workplaces in the Arts workshops.
A woman of French settler and British mixed heritage, Jenn is an artist, administrator and activist who has worked in St. John’s since the early 90’s. With PerSIStence, she has directed Robert Chafe's Isle of Demons (2017); Berni Stapleton's The Haunting of Margaret Duley (2019); Trudy Morgan-Cole's The Mirror (2021); and Lonni Patey's Today I (2024). As artistic director with the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival (SBTS) 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); she is returned in recent years to chair of the SBTS board of directors and sit on the board of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) as part of her role overseeing their annual conference, an international gathering which will be hosted in St. John's in January 2026. Through her role at PerSIStence, Jenn is a member of the HR Committee of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT), and is also a facilitator of Culture Works Canada's Respectful Workplaces in the Arts workshops.
