Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Emerging Voice 2009
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a creator whose mediums of expression are the voice, the pen and the body. Her most recent works for the stage include Gas Girls for New Harlem Productions winner of the Outstanding New Play (Independent) 2009 Dora Award as well as the Herman Voaden Playwriting Prize and Enbridge PlayRites Award; Salome’s Clothes for Sage Theatre’s Ignite Festival 2009, The First Stone for bcurrent’s rock.paper.sistahz7, Oh Sudanah for bcurrent’s rock.paper.sistahz6. She has worked as a director for New Harlem’s Job’s Wife in Summerworks 2009, The Movement Project’s How We Forgot Here, Marika Schwandt’s Mulatto Nation for Nightwood Theatre’s Write From the Hip 2008, Nalo Hopkins’ Money Tree for CrossCurrents 2008, John Feld’s Oops! for Summerworks 2006. Her alter ego, Belladonna, has released two hip hop EP’s entitled Off My Chest (2005) and The Bridge/is Over (2009).
DM is the General Manager of Native Earth Performing Arts and Artistic Director of New Harlem Productions.
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's latest exploits:
- co-editor with Yvette Nolan of Refraction: Solo, an anthology of diverse Canadian monologues for Playwrights Canada Press (http://www.playwrightscanada.com/plays/refractions_solo.html)
- collaborating with Vivine Scarlett and Pulga Muchochoma on interdisciplinary work On The Hill, which is in residence at Dancemakers Centre for Creation in April 2011
- presenting new play, Cake, at Mayworks Festival (Toronto) and Bayimba Festival (Uganda) in 2011 under direction of Clare Preuss.
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's latest articles (authored):
- "What Did You Say About My Mama? On Being Productively Uppity" article appearing in Canadian Theatre Review 146
- "Dispatch: Roadside (self) Interrogation", appeared in alt.theatre Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2010
- Cake appears in Maple Tree Literary Supplement #6
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's not-so-latest press (featured):
- "What Happened to Hear Me Roar?" on Praxis Theatre Blog June 2010
- "Rising City Builders Make Their Mark" in Toronto Star
- "Fuelling Anger. Sex and Survival Ignite Gas Girls" in NOW Magazine
