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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., and its regional premier in Grand Forks, ND in November, 2010. 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 Meriweather in Volume II of Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays, And Then Full Circle has been published in Mother/Daughter Monologues Volume 4: Urgent Maturity Paddy is the Artistic Director of Flush Ink Performing Arts and a former President of ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights). Paddy’s plays online. PAUL STAFFORD is a graduate of York University's Creative Ensemble and the Studio Performance Conservatory at A.M.D.A New York, Paul is excited to be involved in the Unhinged festival. In addition to Canada and New York, Paul has worked with theatre groups in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland where he has had the opportunity to develop his interests in world theatre, opera and staged violence. Special thanks to Justin and Steph at Theatre 311 Listowel for their inspiration and drive.		Haunting the Penumbra When it comes to delving into the minds of your friends... some bananas shouldn’t be peeled. Written by Paddy Gillard-Bentley With Lindsay Stewart Performed by Paul Stafford		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.
		A piece of epic theatre weaving in and out of and against a backdrop of the high moral standards, economic policies, and ethical abuses practised in semi and fully privatized hell-th care organizations in the US and Canada — cross pollinated with the shooting / projection of an adult version of Snow White. The full version involves at least eight performers and a lot of genre swapping into opera, faux-butoh, clown, text-based satire etc. This treatment compresses the text to one body.		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 through VI 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 wrote COPY PROTECTION – part of UNHINGED ’08 and co-wrote TIMED RELEASE with Katharine Mills which they performed in UNHINGED ’09 at Exhibit Café. Nick is part of Urban Scrawlers.
KAREN MALPEDE'S thirteen plays have premiered in New York City produced at: Theater for the New City, Classic Stage Company, TSOA-NYU, on Theater Row, at the Fourth St. Theater, The Culture Project, and at: Theater J, Cleveland Public Theater, and read at the Kennedy Center and New York Theater Workshop. She has had productions of three of her plays in London, Berlin, Austria, Australia, and Italy. Her short fiction, plays and essays are published in anthologies and literary journals. She is author of A Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays. Obie awards, acting and set design, for "I Will Bear Witness" which she conceptualized, adapted and directed. McKnight National Playwrights' Fellowship; NYFA Playwriting Fellowship; Pushcart Prize nominee. She isI known for a body of work that bears witness to resistance to the wars and violence of the 20th and 21st Centuries. JENNI MUNDAY has just completed her doctoral study in Theatre Arts, which looked at adapting novels and other literature for live performance, and included an adaptation of Vita Brevis, by Jostein Gaarder. Her performance work centres around creating performances in unusual places - her performing group, Elbow Room's last major work was Tom's Women, by Geoffrey Sykes – a series of female monologues based on the paintings of an Australian artist, Tom Roberts. Her works also explore and include aspects of technology. Jenni is on the academic faculty of Charles Sturt University - an Australian university with a campus in Burlington, Ontario. ROBIN BENNETT is always thrilled to be a part of Flush Ink Productions. Robin most recently appeared in AJS VI and 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 several Asphalt Jungle V1 plays for Flush Ink, the upcoming 'Salt-Water Moon' by David French (Feb, 2011), 'The Affections of May' by Norm Foster (Best Director, Best Production, 2010 in Guelph), 'Queen Milli of Galt' by Gary Kirkham (Best Director, Best Production 2009 in Cambridge) , '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.		A new dramatic poem by Karen Malpede (Prophecy) How events engender fear in people and lead them to behave. Directed by Jenni Munday With Performances by Robin Bennett & Tracey Kenyon Abigail Slinger & Brian Z. Kelly Poster design by Chaz A. Sumlin UnHinged 2009 UnHinged 2008		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). Tracey is the Artistic Director of Mysterious Players and can be seen performing murder mysteries and comedy improv shows in many interesting locations. Tracey has been involved with Flush Ink Productions from the beginning, and served on the Board of Directors. ABIGAIL SLINGER. Although a relative newcomer to the stage, Ms. Slinger is currently in her Second Year of an English and Theatre Studies Hon. BA program at the University of Guelph. In 2008, she appeared in Guelph Little Theatre's ensemble production of The Curious Savage and landed the role of Constanze in Galt Little Theatre's 2009 production of Amadeus (Western Ontario Drama League selection). This past summer, she performed in AJS VI. Her favorite color is blue. BRIAN Z. KELLY is a song writer, guitar player, poet, photographer, film maker, puppet master and melt maker. Brian excels at flying a stunt kite perched on top of a huge hay bale, while connecting deliveries across the country on his blackberry. He plays soccer, coaches soccer but more than all these things, he loves to hang out with his son, Liam. Mr. Z. Kelly’s latest adventure is hosting some amazing House Concerts at ‘The Rookery’. Brian was our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008, and has done most of the promo shots for Asphalt Jungle Shorts. He read in She Speaks 2009 & 2010 and performed in Asphalt Jungle Shorts VI. He is a founding member of Flush Ink Productions, and also on the Board of Flush Ink Performing Arts.
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