Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, a.k.a. Belladonna the Blest, is an emcee, playwright, and agitator. Her playwriting is focused in the 54ology, which includes The First Stone, Diggers, Give It Up, The Smell of Horses, Just Now, Click Click, Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Salome's Clothes, Dark Love, and Gas Girls. She is a collaborator with Kern Albert on Panoptikon, with Pandemic Theatre on The Only Good Indian and with Ivan Barbotin on Oubliette.
She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the anthologies Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes, as well as editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays. DM is currently the associate artist at lemonTree creations and artistic director of New Harlem Productions. Mike Payette is a director, educator, and actor who has appeared at some of Canada's finest theatres. He has worked with incredible companies across the country including the Citadel, Vertigo, Banff Centre, Geordie, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Repercussion Theatre, Segal Centre, Centaur, the Grand, Factory Theatre, Neptune, and the National Arts Centre, among others.
Directing credits include Come Home: The Legend of Daddy Hall, cockroach (??), Paint Me This House of Love (Tarragon), Blithe Spirit (Shaw Festival), Choir Boy (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre), Harlem Duet (Black Theatre Workshop), Another Home Invasion (Tableau D'Hôte Theatre), Hosanna and Choir Boy (Centaur), Around the World in 80 Days, Virginia Wolf, The Paperbag Princess, and Reaching for Starlight (Geordie), Venus, Burning Vision, and Indecent (National Theatre School), Sensitivity (Obsidian Theatre/CBC Gem), the Quebec premiere of Héritage-A Raisin in the Sun (Théâtre Duceppe), along with the national tours of The Tashme Project (Tashme Prod/Centaur/Factory/Firehall), and Lorena Gale's Angélique (BTW/Tableau D'Hôte/NAC/Factory/Obsidian).
Mike is a two-time Montreal English Theatre Award (META) recipient and was the co-founding artistic director of Tableau D'Hôte Theatre and past assistant artistic director for Black Theatre Workshop. He was also artistic and executive director of Geordie Productions in Montreal before becoming artistic director of Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, where he is currently based.
She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the anthologies Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes, as well as editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays. DM is currently the associate artist at lemonTree creations and artistic director of New Harlem Productions. Mike Payette is a director, educator, and actor who has appeared at some of Canada's finest theatres. He has worked with incredible companies across the country including the Citadel, Vertigo, Banff Centre, Geordie, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Repercussion Theatre, Segal Centre, Centaur, the Grand, Factory Theatre, Neptune, and the National Arts Centre, among others.
Directing credits include Come Home: The Legend of Daddy Hall, cockroach (??), Paint Me This House of Love (Tarragon), Blithe Spirit (Shaw Festival), Choir Boy (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre), Harlem Duet (Black Theatre Workshop), Another Home Invasion (Tableau D'Hôte Theatre), Hosanna and Choir Boy (Centaur), Around the World in 80 Days, Virginia Wolf, The Paperbag Princess, and Reaching for Starlight (Geordie), Venus, Burning Vision, and Indecent (National Theatre School), Sensitivity (Obsidian Theatre/CBC Gem), the Quebec premiere of Héritage-A Raisin in the Sun (Théâtre Duceppe), along with the national tours of The Tashme Project (Tashme Prod/Centaur/Factory/Firehall), and Lorena Gale's Angélique (BTW/Tableau D'Hôte/NAC/Factory/Obsidian).
Mike is a two-time Montreal English Theatre Award (META) recipient and was the co-founding artistic director of Tableau D'Hôte Theatre and past assistant artistic director for Black Theatre Workshop. He was also artistic and executive director of Geordie Productions in Montreal before becoming artistic director of Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, where he is currently based.
