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Creative Team
Liz Best
Playwright
Molly Thom
Director
Jennifer Grose
Producer
Ramona Baillie
Associate Producer
Meet the Company
Liz Best
Playwright
Liz is a playwright, producer, actor and director. Recent directing credits: Love Is A Virus, Toronto Fringe Festival 2021, Outward, Toronto Queer Festival. Recent acting roles: Pigeon, FireWorks Festival, 2018, Producing Credits: FireWorks Festival, 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons. Writing Credits: Surrender, Dorothy. FireWorks Festival 2018, Procunier Hall, London, Ontario 2019 and a planned production at Curtain Club 2022. The Bay Big Ideas Festival, PAL (Reading), Target Theatre Group (Reading).
Molly Thom
Director
Molly is a Toronto director, dramaturge and writer, best known as the author and director of the much-loved play about Canadian pioneer writers, The Bush-Ladies (National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, Artword Theatre, Ontario tour). Directing credits include many premieres: Shirley Barrie’s Beautiful Lady, Tell Me … for 4th Line Theatre, The Gambler by Ronald Weihs for Artword Theatre, and mostly recently for Alumnae, Shirley Barrie’s I Am Marguerite. Her Toronto premiere of Carol Shields’ Thirteen Hands appeared on the Best Of lists of the Toronto Star, NOW Magazine and CBC Radio. She is the resident director of Shoestring Opera and co-founder of the New Ideas Festival.
Jennifer Grose
Producer
This is Jenn’s first time producing with Alumnae Theatre, and it’s been an adventure. Jenn developed a love of uncertainties of theatre after she produced Soldier On, a play by Jonathan Lewis, from West End London (UK) and brought it over to play in Toronto (Canadian Stage) in the fall of 2019. Jenn is a founder at The Roland Gossage Foundation, a charity focused primarily on helping those who served in the military and their families find successful careers in technology, theatre, film, and television.
Ramona Baillie
Associate Producer
Ramona writes for film and stage. Theatre credits include A Better Place (Factory Theatre), A Little Happiness (Edmonton International Fringe/Alumnae Theatre), You Have to Earn It (FireWorks), I’m Still Here (Central Alberta Theatre, New Ideas Festival, and The Arts & Letters Club), Babies (Central Alberta Theatre), and I’m Still Here, Drowning My Sorrow (The Heliconian Club). Ramona’s film scripts are produced internationally and have won various awards. She was Artistic Director for two Arts & Letters Spring Revues and Christmas Shows and is an HRPA Honorary Life Award recipient. This is her seventh stint producing for the Alumnae.




















