white rooster theatre

 

Co-Artistic Directors

Ruth Lawrence

and

Sherry White



 

“Outstanding Ensemble” NOW Magazine’s Best of 2011 Toronto Fringe

MonaRita by Shannon Bramer, starring Sara Tilley, Ruth Lawrence, Mark White, directed by Sherry White.


Our Work, Our Artists

White Rooster has produced and co-presented plays by Lois Brown, Shannon Bramer, Meghan Greeley, Susan Kent, Sherry White, Jane Maggs, Joan Sullivan, and Ruth Lawrence and has co-produced plays with companies like She Said Yes!, newfoundlandartistx, RCA Theatre, Puddlebones Productions, and East of Reason Productions.


Actors, directors, and writers who have worked with us include Amy Anthony,  Sofia Banzhaf, Marthe Bernard, Shannon Bramer, Lois Brown, Clint Butler, Torquil Colbo, Aiden Flynn, Meghan Greeley, Andy Jones, Susan Kent, Ruth Lawrence, Jane Maggs, Mark O’Brien, Dana Puddicombe, Nicole Rousseau, Berni Stapleton, Joan Sullivan, Sara Tilley, Michael Waller, Bridget Wareham, Mark White, and Sherry White. Designers include Clem Curtis, Robert Gauthier, Shannon Hawes, Peggy Hogan, Geoff Panting, Sean Panting, Flora Planchat, Jamie Skidmore, Walter Snow, and Phil Winters.


Our co-artistic directors are award-winning, multi-discipline artists. Both are past winners of the NLAC’s Rhonda Payne Theatre Award and Artist of the Year Award.

Sherry White’s debut feature film (writer/director) CRACKIE won international awards and was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2009 by the Globe & Mail. Ruth Lawrence’s short film (writer/actor) SWEET PICKLE has played at film festivals across North America.

Photo Credits


Monarita

  1. Sara Tilley and Ruth Lawrence; director Sherry White; writer Shannon Bramer

  2. photo courtesy FEMfest 2011


Nan Loves Jerry

  1. writer/performer Susan Kent; director Sherry White


Sex, the rules of

  1. Ruth Lawrence and Mark O’Brien; writer/director Lois Brown

  2. photo: Victoria Wells



 

White Rooster Theatre is a not-for-profit company incorporated in 2001 by Ruth Lawrence, Sherry White and Adriana Maggs. 


Its mandate is to produce and promote theatre works by women writers with a focus on Newfoundland women.

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