Colleen Osborn (Playwright) Colleen Osborn is currently working on her MFA in Opt-Res Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. She is also a writing mentor at UBC’s Booming Ground while living in Toronto. Produced plays to date: 2015 One Festival in London, UK (How It Crumbles); 2014 Toronto Wrecking Ball (Take It, Easy); 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival and the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival (Botched); New Ideas Festival (Here to Stay, Seen This One Before); FOOT Festival (Sweetness Follows); and co-authored Guantanamo: Hotels & Resorts with Pandemic Theatre in 2009. Colleen has been published in City Voices: A Book of Monologues by Toronto Artists.
Sarah Siddiqui (Julie) Sarah is a [somewhat] recent graduate of University of Toronto, where she studied world religions, sexual diversity studies, and drama. Past theatre experience of note includes: director, Dead End (Victoria College Drama Society), assistant director, 4.48 Psychosis (Trinity College Drama Society), President of the University of Toronto Drama Coalition (2012-2013), co-chair of Theatre Ontario’s Youth Advisory Committee (2013-2014), and stage manager, Uni (Glass Reflections Theatre Collective). In her non-theatre life, Sarah is passionate about teaching and talking about non-oppressive, anti-hierarchical sexual health and alternative relationship structures. She also loves to cycle, practice yoga, dance, bake, cook, and be snarky at opportune moments. She is thrilled to be performing for the first time since high school, and to be contributing to a great cause!
Jane A. Smythe (Director, Co-organizer) Jane A. Smythe is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist based in Toronto and a recent graduate from the University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies where she studied performance and design. She currently attends Centennial College for an Arts Management Graduate Diploma after which she hopes to work in arts facilities and event management. She is very excited to be working with Sarah on Colleen’s thought provoking scene from Botched and hopes to facilitate learning about the stigmal issues that surround abortion and inform the audience more about WOMANHOOD’s mission.
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