Bernardie Stapleton

Bernardine Stapleton is a playwright, author, skit-artist, and actor. She was born in North West River, Labrador and grew up on the south coast of Newfoundland. She is a Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist, and recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award for Theatre. She is the Artistic Director of Girl Power Inc. New works includes The Woman of One Thousand Years, an audio play for the NAC English Theatre’s Irresistible Neighbourhoods: Walking on Water, available on the NAC website. Other new work includes Ophelia Saves the World from Zombies and the podcast The Haunted Doorbell. Bernardine was writer-in-residence at Memorial University in 2019 and has taught an Introduction to Playwrighting course there. Her books include Love, Life, with Breakwater Books, the yet unpublished Brazil Square about the once iconic boarding house district of St. John’s, and the writing guide How to Write a Play and Have Fun Without Hardly Even Trying. She lives in St. John’s with rescue beagles Georgie Girl and Tiggy Duff.