‘Muse’ © Virgil Burnett	She Speaks Bios & Photos Presented by Flush Ink Productions The City of Kitchener & The International Centre for Women Playwrights
	THE PLAYWRIGHTS & THEIR PLAYS
Jen Curring	Jen Currin was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and did her schooling at Bard College, Arizona State University, and Simon Fraser University. She has published two collections of poetry, The Sleep of Four Cities (Anvil Press) and Hagiography (Coach House Books). Another collection, The Inquisition Yours is forthcoming from Coach House in the spring of 2010. She currently lives in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches creative and academic writing. Jen’s play, ON A STREET CORNER, will be read.
C.J. Ehrilch	C.J. Ehrlich began submitting plays to competitions in late 2008. Since then her produced plays include: TUESDAYS IN THE PARK WITH RIVER APPLE, the American Globe Theatre’s 15th Annual 15-Minute Play Festival, New York, NY; THE LILAC TICKET, Little Fish Theatre’s “Pick of the Vine 2010,” San Pedro, CA and Kaleidoscope Theatre LOVE fest, New York, NY; SECONDHAND GIFTS, Rapscallion Theatre Collective’s 3rd Annual “Salute UR Shorts” festival, New York, NY and Lebanon Community Theatre’s 11th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival, Lebanon, PA; WHOM DEATH DOTH S/EEEk at University of North Texas, Denton, TX; HOMESPUN WEBS (IMAGINING LOUISE BOURGEOIS), the WAH Theatre’s “Woman Artist’s Journey” festival, Brooklyn, NY, and the upcoming NINTH CIRCUS OF HELL at “Dramatizing Dante,” Manhattan Theatre Source, March 14-28 2010. She is currently working on the full-length comedies THE HAPPINESS CURE (with Philip Kaplan), and THIS TIME WE’LL MAKE IT WORK. C.J. is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the ICWP, and the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective. She thanks Flush Ink Productions for this opportunity to workshop NOIR IN SECOND CLASS, and her husband Alex for all things. Web: tiny.cc/CJEhrlich. NOIR IN SECOND CLASS by C. J. Ehrilch will be read.
Christine Emmert	Christine is happy to again be included in SHE SPEAKS.  She has a theatre life as an actress, director and playwright.  Most recently her play, FROM OUT THE FIERY FURNACE, was commissioned and is currently being presented by the National Park Service. It documents the women involved in the ironworking industry in Pennsylvania. Christine lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Richard, and will be joining us for the event for the third year. THE 2^ND – Christine’s newest play, will be read.
Cassandra Lewis	Cassandra Lewis is the writer at Bastille Arts.  Her plays have been performed in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Valdez.  Marked was recently published in The Best Plays of The Strawberry One-Act Festival Anthology and was presented in the 33^rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.  A monologue from Transference was just published by The International Centre for Women Playwrights in the anthology, Mother/Daughter Monologues Volume 1:  Babes and Beginnings.  Other notable publishing credits include: The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Expatica, Apparatus Magazine and she has received numerous reporting credits in the Village Voice.  Forthcoming publications include: Boston Literary Magazine, Tattoo Highway, Annalemma, Fractured West, and Common Boundary, an anthology published by Editions Bibliotekos.  Cassandra is a member of  ICWP, The Dramatists Guild, and PEN USA, and we are thrilled she is coming to join us for the event. Cassandra’s play, DETAIL MAN will be read.
Laura McLean	Laura McLean is a professional actor and has worked extensively in theatre, film and television over the last 7 years. Her most recent stage credit includes the 2009 Toronto Fringe Hit, Code Blue, which earned 5 stars and was included in Eye Weekly’s Fringe pick. In it, Laura was singled out as “one of Toronto’s next best”. Other stage credits include Richard III, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors (The Festival of Classics), The Trojan Women, The Sea, The Three Penny Opera, The Interview, Les Belles Soeurs, The Reading (Rhubarb Festival) and Judgment Day Café (Hysteria Festival). Film and television credits include a leading role on The Smart Woman Survival Guide (W network, Cosmo TV) as well as appearances in Murdoch Mysteries (City TV), 2:22 (Phillip Roy Co.) featuring Val Kilmer, Suspect (dir. Patricia Rozema), Four Horsemen (dir. Sydney Furie) and Sweet Karma (Filament Films). Recently she co-produced Thank you for the Ride and has worked as a story and copy editor for Shay Media. She teaches drama to children between the ages of 4 and 10 through a not-for-profit organization, The K-W Children’s Drama Workshop, based out of Kitchener-Waterloo. Laura holds a BFA in Acting from York University wherein she received two Acting awards: the Jean Gascon Award in Acting and the Edna Khunyar Acting Scholarship. The Legend of Zelda is her first play. Part of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA, Laura’s full length play in progress, will be read.
Shannon Murdoch	Shannon Murdoch holds a first class honours degree in Theatre and Creative Writing from Griffith University and was a graduate of The Playwrights Studio at NIDA in 2005.  Her play Everything in Between has had twelve productions in the USA and Australia and is published by Smith & Kraus in The Best Plays of 2007.  The Lovely was a finalist in The Creative Mechanics Theatre Company’s International Play Competition and was produced in New York, and subsequently published.  Dreams in Deepest Sleep was the runner-up in the Dogwood Playwrights Initiative Play Award.  The Swirl of Madness was the inaugural production of Chapel Off Chapel’s Emerging Playwright’s Forum.  One Cloud was produced by Theatreworks as part of their mainstage season.  Other one act plays have been produced in multiple festivals throughout the USA, Australia and Canada.  Shannon was an Australian delegate to the International Youth Playwrights Festival (Interplay) and has received writing fellowships from the Australian Council for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, Bundanon in New South Wales and Hothouse Theatre in Victoria.  Shannon’s play, SOPHIE IN THE WATER, will be read.
Elaine Romero	Award-winning playwright, Elaine Romero has had work presented at the Goodman Theatre, Alley Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others.  She is currently writing plays for Interact Theatre Company (The Dalai Lama is Not Welcome Here), the Curious Theatre Company (Majestic County), and Kitchen Dog Theater (Ponzi).   She has been commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Magic Theatre.  Her publishers include Samuel French, Playscripts, Smith and Kraus, Vintage Books, and Simon and Schuster.  She is the 2010 winner of the InspiraTO Festival  in Toronto for A Simple Snow. Rain of Ruin is in production with Short+Sweet in Sydney, Australia, and has been selected for the Gala Finals. Elaine’s new play, SLANT, will be read.
Susan Soon He Stanton	Susan Soon He Stanton’s plays have been produced or developed by The Flea, Joe’s Pub, Kennedy Center, Ontario's Kitchener Festival, Kumu Kahua, Honolulu Theater for Youth, London's Institute of Contemporary Art, InkWell, Miles Memorial Playhouse, and New Sounds Theatre. Yale School of Drama and Cabaret productions include Art of Preservation, Cygnus, and The Underneath. In 2009, Kumu Kahua Theatre produced two of her plays in rep, Whatever Happened to John Boy Kihano? and a remount of Art of Preservation. The Underneath, workshopped at the Kennedy Center, is a commission by Kumu Kahua and will be produced in 2011. Her play, The Navigators, a commission from the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, will be produced in 2010. She has a feature-film development grant and best screenplay award from the Sloan Foundation and a commission from Red Sky Films. She is a regular contributor for Audrey Magazine. Susan has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is from Honolulu, Hawaii. FURBALL, Susan’s play, will be read.
Lauren D. Lee	Lauren Yee has been a 2009 MacDowell Colony fellow, a 2008/09 Dramatists Guild fellow, and a member of the 2009 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. She has been a finalist for the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the Heideman Award, the Jerome Fellowship, the Princess Grace Award, the PONY Fellowship, and the Wasserstein Prize. She has received commissions from AlterTheater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the O’Neill Studio at Yale, and PlayGround. Other honors include Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Pacific Rim Prize and the Yale Playwrights Festival. She has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat, and the New York Mills Arts Retreat. A recent Yale graduate, Lauren is pursuing her MFA in playwriting at UCSD, under Naomi Iizuka. Lauren’s play, FALLING WATER, will be read.
	* Members of The International Centre for Women Playwrights. THE ARTIST
Virgil Burnett - Artist	VIRGIL BURNETT was born in Kansas in 1928, Virgil Burnett is an author and illustrator whose work has been widely published in Europe and North America. He received his undergraduate education at Columbia University in New York, where he studied with Edward Melcarth, a Social realist painter. In 1950 he was drafted, trained as a combat engineer and sent to Europe where he served for two years in a propaganda company as an artist-illustrator. After his military service he attended graduate school at Berkeley, taking a master's degree in art history. When a Fulbright scholarship took Burnett to Paris in 1956, he encountered other expatriate artists including David Hill, who remained a close friend until his death in 1977. Burnett also met Maurice Darantiere, a French publisher, who made him aware of the expressive possibilities of the book arts. By 1960 he was working primarily as an illustrator. A professor in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Waterloo since the early 1970's, Burnett has created an artistic oeuvre of extraordinary scope and breadth. (From Beglo, Jo Nordley. "Text,Image, Memory, and Illusion" in Virgil Burnett: a Retrospective Exhibition 1960-1990. Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo Library, 1991). Thank you, Virgil, for allowing us to use your amazing artwork, Muse.
	THE PRODUCERS ~ DIRECTORS - ACTORS THE STAGE MANAGER M.C. & THE TALK-BACK FACILITATOR.
Cheryl Ewing	CHERYL EWING has over twenty years experience in senior management in the arts. Having worked in the municipal, educational, for profit and not-for-profit sectors, Cheryl brings a broad perspective to the work of artists and their impact on the community. Cheryl is also trained in Technology of Participation Facilitation Methods. Consequently, she is able to offer organizations guidance in planning effective meetings, reaching consensus, developing solid plans for results, and discovering creative and effective solutions to the challenges they face. She designed the innovative young audience programmes — eyeGO to the Arts and River Run Centre’s Linamar for the Performing Arts. She is the General Manager of ACE (Association of Cultural Executives), administers Open Ears Festival and a performing arts conference — Ontario Contact — and is project manager for a province-wide marketing research project, the Values & Benefits Study. Cheryl is very proud to have the honour of working with Prologue’s Susan Habkirk in the writing of Raising the Curtain, a manual for young audience presenters based on her own experiences. She is an active volunteer within Waterloo Region serving on the boards of Dancetheatre David Earle and JM Drama/Registry Theatre as well as the Waterloo Region Prosperity Council Creative Forum Steering Committee. She is also an active member of Rotary. Cheryl will be our MC for the evening.
Robin Bennett	ROBIN BENNETT is thrilled to be a part of Flush Ink Productions.  Robin most recently appeared as Norman in 'Table Manners'. Other appearances include, Valmont in 'Dangerous Liasons' (Best Actor 2008), the Old Man in Craig Lucas' 'Prelude to a Kiss' (Best Supporting Actor 2006), Serge in Yasmina Reza's 'Art',  Doctor Miranda in Ariel Dorfmann's 'Death and the Maiden' and Tom Duncan in Norm Foster's 'Maggie's Getting Married'. Directing credits include two Asphalt Jungle V plays for Flush Ink,  'The Affections of May' by Norm Foster (June 2010), 'Queen Milli of Galt' (Best Director, Best Production 2009) by Gary Kirkham, 'The Vagina Monologues', 'Alien Guest', 'The Perfect Manhattan' (Best Production 2005), 'No Exit', 'Keeping Tom Nice', and 'The Woman in Black'. Robin has studied with the British American Drama Academy and the Juilliard School.  He would like to thank all those wonderful people who understand a passion must be observed. Robin will be directing ON A STREET CORNER.
Jennifer Cornish	JENNIFER CORNISH began studying acting at the age of 8 and has been annoying people with silly voices and obscure play references ever since.  Recent, other, theatrical credits include: Queen Milli of Galt, Les Liasons Dangereuses, As Bees In Honey Drown, Money And Friends, "Alien Guest" (Galt) and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (KWLT).  She assist-directed the 2008 Galt charity performance of Vagina Monologues and was lately seen in the interactive film project, American Shot (GUIST Productions) for 2009 CAFKA.  Her portrayal of the Groucho"-esque Master of Ceremonies in Asphalt Jungle Shorts V (2009) will remain one of her favourites for a long time.  Plus, she got to keep the tux. It turns out she resides on a farm with an expanding assortment of colour-coordinated animal companions and an expert rapier duelist. Jennifer will be directed FURBALL and will be reading THE LEGEND OF ZELDA.
Nicholas Cumming	NICHOLAS CUMMING is a local theatre creator with a BA in Drama and English from the University of Waterloo. He has been a company member of the Multicultural Theatre Space since 2004. He has appeared in Exit Strategy, Yes or No!, Seasons of Immigration, Legion of Memory I + II, Me Here/Me Happy, Motio X Industria, and Three Legged Horse with the MT Space; Tennessee Williams’ I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow with Poor Tom Productions; Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II & III with Flush Ink; and Mimetic Flesh/Mimetic Hotel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Spring Awakening with UW Drama. He directed and wrote The Children’s Crusade for the UPStart Fringe 2007, and HE for UPStart 2004.  He is a poet and playwright currently working on several plays with Pat the Dog, KW’s professional playwrights’ development centre. He is also a member of the earthling collective, whose WARMER project is examining the environment and human dynamics in a local context. Nick will be directing SLANT & reading SOPHIE IN THE WATER & DETAIL MAN
Paddy Gillard-Bentley	PADDY GILLARD-BENTLEY has been involved in one aspect of theatre or another since her Mother, Tessa, was four months pregnant with her, performing in Time Out For Ginger. Her full-length play, Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, debuted in Kitchener, Ont. Canada, in November 2002 and received its American premier in 2005, in Denver, Co. Quantum Entanglement has been produced several times (Philadelphia, Calgary, Kitchener). Her one-acts, White Noise, Sanguine Sonata & Comic Strip, and many shorter plays have been produced in Canada, the US, and UK. Frailty Thy Name is Woe has been published by Meriwether in Volume II of Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays (between a play by Arthur Miller and Steve Martin’s Underpants). And Then Full Circle has been published in Mother/Daughter Monologues Volume 4: Urgent Maturity Paddy is the Artistic Director and founder of Flush Ink Performing Arts and a former President of ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights). Paddy’s plays online. Paddy co-produced She Speaks with Jenni Munday. She will be directing FALLING WATER & DETAIL MAN & reading from THE 2^nd and will be the talk-back facilitator.
Brian Z. Kelly	BRIAN Z. KELLY became involved with Flush Ink as a corporate sponsor, and in the wee cracks chiseled out of his entrepreneurial existence began to try his hand at writing and acting and directing. Having recently jumped off the executive roller coaster he is now finding the time to properly explore his passions for the performing and visual arts. He has resumed and deepened his delving in photography and film and is composing songs that sound not at all like gibberish. Mr. Z. Kelly plays guitar, plays and coaches soccer, plays pond hockey, but more than all these things, he loves to hang out with his son, Liam. Brian was our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008, and has done most of the promo photography for Asphalt Jungle Shorts. He is the Marketing Director for Flush Ink Productions and is currently on contract with The Magnetic North Theatre Festival as Logistics Coordinator. Brian will be directing THE 2^ND & reading from SLANT & DETAIL MAN.
Tracey Kenyon	TRACEY KENYON is proud to be working with Flush Ink Productions Inc. She has been an active member in theatre for the past 16 years. Her favourite stage credits include Flush Inks Productions of “Asphalt Jungle Shorts I – V, Elmira Theatre’s “Ten times Two” (Constance et al), and Theatre in the Trees’ “Funny Valentine” (Zan). Throughout the year, Tracey can also be seen performing murder mysteries and comedy improv shows with the Mysterious Players. Tracey will be directing NOIR IN SECOND CLASS. She will be reading from FALLING WATER.
Jennifer Munday	JENNI MUNDAY is an Australian performing artist who usually lives in the regional city of Albury-Wodonga (midway between Sydney and Melbourne). She creates work for her performing group, Elbow Room, for specific projects. The works are usually multimedia performances for non-traditional venues - the last piece was created mostly to tour to Art Galleries because it was about a famous Australian artist and included a lot of images of paintings. She has written mostly short plays, with one major work for her doctoral study; the adaptation of the novel Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder. Jenni is on the academic staff at Charles Sturt University, lecturing in Arts and Technology, the Board of her Regional Arts Board - Murray Arts, and belongs to the Melbourne Writers Theatre, Playworks, and the Australian Women Directors Association. Jenni is also on the board of directors for the International Centre for Women Playwrights. We are thrilled to have her back in Canada (during her last work here, she co-produced the first She Speaks and directed two pieces in Asphalt Jungle Shorts II), and look forward to working with her for AJS VI. Jenni will be co-producing She Speaks with Paddy. She will be directing SOPHIE IN THE WATER.
Deborah Lount	After 14 years of stage management ..........4 children ....................several cats ................................1 dog ........................................2 husbands ..................................................several international and national moves ...........................................................................Deborah was peacefully sewing at the Stratford Festival ...until she met Paddy!!!! We are thrilled, to have Deborah, no matter how cheeky she is, on board as our Technical Director.
Helen Basson	HELEN BASSON has worked in professional theatre for over 30 years.  At  the Stratford Shakespeare Festival she has worked as a seamstress,  design assistant and is currently employed as Wardrobe Mistress of the  Tom Patterson Theatre.  She has toured North America with the  Stratford Festival and with Toronto's Mirvish Productions working at  the great stages of Canada's National Arts Centre, Washington's  Kennedy Centre and the Virginia Theatre on Broadway (and countless  theatres in between - never Boise though).  Helen also designs and co- ordinates costumes for Wilfrid Laurier University's  Opera and Drama  productions.  Helen read for She Speaks ’08 & ’09. In her spare time Helen sings with the Grand  Philharmonic Choir, enjoys Yoga classes with her husband, time with  her Grandson and family and dancing with her cat. Helen will be reading from DETAIL MAN.
Jessalyn Broadfoot	JESSALYN BROADFOOT is a 21 year-old, small-town-raised fan of life! She is a 4th year student at the University of Waterloo, double majoring in Drama and Speech Communication. Her theatre credits go way back to high school with her favourite role being an ensemble member of Godspell, singing "Turn Back, O Man." Most recently, her involvement includes Beth in Single & Sexy '08, the Lil' Coochie Snorcher That Could in The Vagina Monologues, and Jessalyn/Pie Singer in Differ/End: The Caledonia Project, which has toured to Kitchener City Hall and Calabria, Italy. Jessalyn has also co-directed/produced The Vagina Monologues at the University of Waterloo for the past two years. She likes to sing and loves to challenge herself in theatre that does the unexpected. Jessalyn will be reading from FURBALL & THE 2^ND.
Andrew Frey	ANDREW FREY jumped into theatre seven years ago and has been an enthusiastic participant ever since. Favourite shows include Hamish – Elmira Theatre Company, The Melville Boys and Out of Order – Theatre Three-Eleven, and The Weir – Next Level Theatre. In fact, he liked The Weir so much, he will be appeared in Theatre Three-Eleven's production of it last spring. Andrew performed in AJS III and played the part of Evan in WHITE NOISE – UNHINGED ’09. Andrew will be reading from NOIR IN SECOND Class & DETAIL MAN.
Mark Kochut	MARK KOCHUT is came out of retirement for Asphalt Jungle Shorts IV – on many levels. Mark got a taste for theatre in high school in North Bay - the theatre hotbed of North America. During his summers, his involvement with The Unicorn Theatre honed such diverse skills as set-building to a role in Streetcar Named Desire – “Hot tamales! Get your red-hot tamales!” He is happy to be reading for She Speaks, as not only does he have a script in his hand, there’s a lot fewer words than when he played the bartender. Mark enjoys ball hockey, stunt kite-flying and online poker. He is an amateur mycologist who most loves to spend time with his two favourite ladies – his wife and his daughter. Mark will be reading from Noir in Second Class.
Ian McKellar	IAN McKELLAR was excited to be a part of AJS for the first time. He has been involved in community theatre for about five years now, working mostly with Theatre Guelph and Elmira Theatre Company. Ian is currently attending the University of Waterloo for Arts, and hopes to one day decide where he wants to go from there. Ian will be reading from THE 2^nd.
Katharine Mills	KATHARINE MILLS most recently appeared as Milli in Galt Little Theatre's production of Queen Milli of Galt. Other recent performances include stalking the Asphalt Jungle in various guises, appearances in Poor Tom Productions' I Can't Imagine Tomorrow and Still Life In Leather, and What!sInThere? Productions' Children's Crusade and Copy Protection (the latter of which was included in Unhinged 2008), and Timed Release, part of UNHINGED ’09. She is a poet, designer, and painter, studies singing, movement, and clown, and is perpetually fascinated by the interconnectedness of everything. Katharine has performed in AJS II, III, IV & V and read for She Speaks ’08 & ‘09. Katharine also acted in COPY PROTECTION and UNDERTOW, both part of UNHINGED ’08 and TIMED RELEASE – UNHINGED ’09. Katharine will be reading from FURBALL & SLANT.
Jessica Singh	JESSICA SINGH was raised in Kitchener/Waterloo, growing up in a world of the performing arts. She has been dancing for sixteen years, and hopes to be doing so as long as her body will let her. She began acting in her first year of high school in drama classes. She competed in the Sears Drama Festival from grade nine to grade twelve, doing a variety of shows from student- written plays to Into the Woods, playing the Baker’s Wife. After high school, Jessica enrolled in the University of Waterloo’s English program, while still taking drama courses, which include Introduction to theatre courses as well as beginner acting. Currently, she is in her second year at the University of Waterloo as a proud drama major. She is looking forward to her second year as she’s been cast in The Vagina Monologues held by the university. She has been taking intermediate acting courses offered to drama majors at Waterloo, as well as technical theatre courses. She is working on the tech work for her school’s production of Arcadia, and has just finished working on Masks on Meds. In the near future, Jessica hopes to get her bachelors in Drama and move on to teachers college, to teach high school drama and English. Jessica will be reading from ON A STREET CORNER.
John Slavik	JOHN GRIFFITH SLAVIK, erstwhile philosophy student and miner, finds meaning in the depths of the Sylliad. Born in London, Ontario, bundled off to Vancouver at three days of age and raised around the factories and farms of Kitchener, John Slavik inexplicably found himself at age 18 pretending to be a miner in Northwestern Ontario. Plumbing the depths of the earth, his soul and pretense, he took the logical leap int6o...philosophy. It was whilst pretending to be an existentialist at Wilfred Laurier University, that Slavik finally realized he was acting. Since then, he has never looked back (nor forward, for that matter). Slavik joyously portrayed the hapless knight, Sir Gawian, in the Clay and Paper workshop production of Gold, in the summer of 2001, and the full production of Gold in 2001, regardless – he says – of incurring every category of injury, thus he returned to perform Zeus and Hector in The Sylliad, and to dance the dance of death. Apart from Sir Gawian, Slavik’s other favourite roles have been the narrator in Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, Mr. Dussel in The Diary of Anne Frank, and the multiple character demands in The Story Chain. Most recently, he played the role of Charlie in the short film, A Well-Lit Life. John will be reading from SLANT & DETAIL MAN.
Lindsay Stewart	LINDSAY STEWART has been a fixture in the region's arts and entertainment scene for more than two decades. As a singer and well regarded songwriter, he made the college radio charts and continues to record original material. He co-wrote a song that reached the finals of the 1994 CFNY New Music Search and has received airplay around the world. As a writer, he has published articles, features and interviews regionally and internationally covering theatre, music, politics and culture. His performance resume includes appearances in numerous television and film productions, most notably portraying Jimi Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer in an MGM/Showtime feature. He portrayed a gun toting villain along side Milla Jovovich in .45, a jungle warrior in 16 episodes of Peter Benchley's Amazon and a variety of criminals, medieval warriors and small character parts. As a founding member of the board of directors of Flush Ink Performing Arts, Lindsay brings his unique talents and experience to the table. He operates a small video production company under the name GNP Moving Pictures, archives and produces the Flush Ink events and has been sought out by some of the regions finest musical talents as a videographer. He is a three time nominee for the region's performing arts awards. Lindsay is our filmographer.
Roger Sumner	ROGER SUMNER has appeared in every AJS show to date. In addition, you may have seen him playing downtown in both Unhinged festivals, She Speaks and the WARMER Project. He also just sort of turns up a lot. A dedicated dilettante and confirmed niobium addict, Roger likes to play with words, obsolete weapons, improvised musical instruments and gravity. Roger has performed in every Asphalt Jungle Shorts and performed in UNDERTOW part of UNHINGED ’09,’ Roger will be reading from FURBALL.
Jane Watson	JANE WATSON is thrilled to participate in the burgeoning creative movement in Kitchener and to be a part of She Speaks, as a part of the celebration of International Women’s Day. This past spring you may have seen her performing Shakespearean scenes with her husband John, joined by the musical mastery of the Tactus vocal ensemble in several collaborative concerts called Rhyme and Reason and A Day in the Life of Will. You may also see her this May performing at the Registry Theatre with Lost & Found Theatre in John Mighton’s masterful play, Possible Worlds. Other recent credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Vagina Monologues, The Comedy of Errors, and Gwendoline .She has been seen in several critically acclaimed SummerWorks presentations including The Penalty Killers, Waiting for Odysseus, and Visions of Daniel, and many moons ago played Gwendoline in Theatre & Co.’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. She recently shot several short independent films including Emes and Money City; TV credits include, The Two Mrs. Kissels, All the Good Ones are Married, Till Death Do Us Part, Black Dawn: The Next Pandemic, and Earth: Final Conflict. She has also appeared in more than a dozen commercials. Jane also currently teaches Broadcasting Performance at Conestoga College in the School of Media and Design. Jane will be reading from ON A STREET CORNER.
Bruce Wolff	BRUCE WOLFF was more surprised than anyone to be among this group of actors in the first Asphalt Jungle Shorts. Since then, he’s participated as an actor in She Speaks, Asphalt Jungle II and now he is back again, and feeling quite at home on the stage, wherever the stage might be. He still holds a secret dreams of a return to the glory years of writing, producing and acting in high school productions.   His day job (which he won't be quitting anytime soon) at Wilfrid Laurier in the Biology Department gives him plenty of opportunity to practice his oratory skills. It is most likely that work, time with his kids and friends, and traveling will provide sufficient incentive to keep the stage an enjoyable avocation. Bruce is the President of Flush Ink Productions. Bruce will be reading from DETAIL MAN and THE 2^nd.

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