Actress, singer, writer.
THEATRE
Brontae is a proud, emerging & life-long actress-playwright. In 2020 she graduated from The National Theatre School's acting program where she had the opportunity to collaborate with countless extraordinary artists on projects which will influence and inform her forever. Some of her favourite characters she has played include Dopey in Kalale Dalton-Lutale's i am entitled to rest (dir. Murdoch Schon), Olivia in The Twelfth Night (dir. Edward Diryani), Sonya in the Annie Baker adaptation of Uncle Vanya (scene study, Jackie Maxwell) and Nora in A Dolls House (scene study, Deborah Hay). Most recently, she had the pleasure of playing the many characters in Daniel McIvor's Cul-de-Sac (dir. Carlos Rivera Martinez). In 2018, her one woman play, Even in the Dead of Night premiered at The York Lane Art Collective in Stratford, Ontario (dir. Bronwyn Garden-Smith). In 2021, she released her début record & audio drama, The Jubilant Opus of the Day.
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EVEN IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
A play with songs
Eve Beckett is a teenager living in rural Ontario who is concerned with 1) a cute boy she has a crush on 2) being cool 3) auditioning for classical music and drama conservatories. It can be tough to catch the attention of said cute boy and look cool as her family is in the throws of a bluegrass and celtic trad career, and she always finds herself playing fiddle tunes with her cousins in front of the entire town...but despite the awkwardness of all that, life is pretty good. Until it isn't. Until a local murder mystery begins to unfold around her, and Eve begins to awaken to the corruption and misogyny deeply woven into the fabric of her beloved community. As the investigation of the murder unfolds, Eve begins to realize that unless drastic action is taken, justice will not run it's ccourse, so she decides to act.
Even in the Dead of Night premiered in Stratford, Ontario at The York Lane Art Collective in 2018, and is currently being developed with the dramaturgy of Sadie Laflamme-Snow, supported generously by The Blyth Festival and The Ontario Arts Council.