06/24/2020
This week's is the amazing Yvonne Addai!
Wednesday's are for highlighting women we look up to, admire and learn from - and Yvonne is all those things! Get to know her below:
"Yvonne Addai is a Ghanaian-Canadian Actor from Saskatoon. She recently moved to Toronto where she now calls home. She is a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan's BFA acting program. Her selected theatre credits include An Atlas, A necktie, And Other Concerns (Toronto Fringe), Monday Night (Highway 55 Production/Live 5), Overhear (Nutrien Fringe Saskatoon), Pride & Prejudice (Persephone Theatre), The Short Cuts festival (Hardly Art Theatre), The Woodcutter and the Lion ( Sum Theatre) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Theatre Naught/Live 5). Film Credits include Guardian (Tiger Eye Productions). Yvonne has also had the opportunity to be part of the Factory Theatres Mechanicals program mentored by the amazing Nina Lee Aquino and Natasha Mumba. She has loved working on new Canadian play developments. She is thrilled to have worked along with incredible new Canadian playwrights, directors and actors to create engaging and inspiring work."
"Upcoming this Friday June 26th Yvonne will be doing a social media takeover for Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival Inc. . She is honoured to have been given this platform by the SOTS company and she hopes that she will be able to have honest and open conversations with other BIPOC artists about the current climate of this world as well as our industry. She will be highlighting members of the BIPOC artists and creators as well as engaging in a live discussion with Artists of colour. She hopes to keep the conversation of inclusion and diversity going so we can move forward to a better creative space for all."
