Marion Bridge by Daniel MacIvor

Three women in their thirties come "home" to Cape Breton to be with their dying mother. Each in her own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness of their lives - each is trying to reconcile what they habve become with what they thought they wanted out of life and with what they thought their parents wanted for them. Nothing, of course, has turned out exactly the way anyone imagined it would.

Directed by Kathleen Duborg and starring:  

Alison Wandzura as Agnes
Julie Lynn Mortensen as Theresa
Grace Evenson as Louise

OUR DIRECTOR - KATHLEEN DUBORG

Kathleen is an award-winning actor and director. She holds a BFA in Acting and an MFA in Directing and is presently an adjunct professor of acting and directing at the University of British Columbia. She is particularly interested in embodied performance-finding ease and connectedness within the multiplicity of styles and mediums in Vancouver.

Selected Acting work: Happy Face, Percy Jackson, Nancy Drew, The Good Doctor, The Killing, Breeders, The Last Mimzy, A Brush With Love. Stage including; Romeo and Juliet, Einstein’s Gift, The Gift of the Coat, Life Skills, and voice-over and new play development throughout the country. Selected Directing work: Network (upcoming), An Iliad, The Moors,  Jerusalem, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Tales From Ovid , Concord Floral, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Seagull, Mrs. Singh and Me  (Pick of the Fringe) and the plays Iceland (Jessie nomination best director), Greenland, Faroe Islands and Ostrich (world premiere). As a producer, she is co-artistic director of Dirt Road Theatre and many moons ago created ReelFast: The 48 Hour Movie Making Festival and The Cold Reading Series which endeavoured to connect writers and actors of the film and theatre communities.

GRACE EVENSON
Grace grew up in Quebec and mid-COVID moved to Vancouver to study acting at Vancouver Film School. Since graduation, she has auditioned for film & television and starred in independent film projects. She has worked on scenes from "Rabbit Hole", "A Doll's House Part 2", and  "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" among others.  She looks forward to working with such an incredible cast & director to bring Marion Bridge off the page. Other hobbies include gardening, making miniature clay sculptures and chatting with her friends over dirty martinis.

JULIE LYNN MORTENSEN
Julie is delighted to be back on the Peninsula stage in this truly beautiful play!  Past fav theatre credits include: Hurry Hard (Peninsula Productions), Common Grace (Pacific Theatre), Unity 1918 (Alberta Theatre Projects), Love's Labour's Lost (The Shakespeare Company), An Inspector Calls (Smoking Gun). Select screen credits include Drawing Home (MYRA Entertainment), So Help Me Todd (CBS), Deliver by Christmas (Hallmark) Van Helsing, The Babysitter's Club, Virgin River (Netflix). Julie loves to perform on stage and screen, but is also truly grateful to teach acting classes to many amazing kids and teens through the local acting studio she co-founded with her husband: White Rock Actor's Studio. Thank you for supporting live theatre and Peninsula Productions

ALISON WANDUZRA
After earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre from the University of Calgary, Alison packed her bags and moved to Vancouver in 2010 to pursue a career in Hollywood North. Since then, she’s been fortunate to keep busy in the world of film and television, and is now delighted to be back on stage in her first production with Peninsula Productions. Alison is overjoyed to be working with the powerhouse team behind Marion Bridge. Huge thanks to Kathleen for her insightful direction, and to her on-stage “sisters,” Julie Lynn and Grace, for making this journey as moving as it is hilarious. She couldn’t ask for better company to laugh, cry, and indulge in cookies at rehearsals with.