2007
Jenny Munday is an actor, playwright, dramaturge, coach, mentor and arts administrator
As an actor she has worked with theatres across the country. In NS: she originated the role of Agnes in the premiere production of Daniel Maclvor’s Marion Bridge at Mulgrave Road Theatre; played Leda in Maclvor’s Communion with KAZAN at Neptune and the NAC and played Patricia in the Mulgrave Road/Neptune production of Small Things. She originated the role of Dianne in Don Hannah’s The Cave Painter at the University of Alberta and reprised the role for NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival and a Blue Munday/EFT production. Most recently, she played Aoife Muldoon in Outside Mulingar, at the Gros Marne Theatre Festival.
As a playwright, her work has been produced by The Comedy Asylum, Ship’s Company, Live Bait, Upper Canada Playhouse, Mulgrave Road and TNB.
As a dramaturge, she has worked with Playwrights Atlantic
Resource Centre (PARC), where she was Artistic Director for twenty years (1997-2017), The Manitoba Association of Playwrights, TNB, Mulgrave Road (Co-op) Theatre, FAST, Live Bait Theatre and many
others.
Jenny’s contribution to Canadian theatre has been acknowledged with several awards: The inaugural Mallory Gilbert Award (PACT and Tarragon Theatre), the Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Legacy Award, the New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor’s Award of Excellence and she has been awarded honourary life time memberships in the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre and Theatre Nova Scotia.
