Bernardine Stapleton

Bernardine Stapleton is a playwright, author, skit-artist, and actor. She has spent her career making beautiful theatre in unexpected places. She is a Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist. She is a recipient of the Arts NLRhonda Payne Award for Theatre. She is the Artistic Director of Girl Power Inc. an indie feminist theatre company devoted to championing the unique landscape of NL, and to advocating queer and gender equity. Her plays include Offensive to Some, and The Antidote for Life: Memory, Madness and Beagles, an autobiographical exploration of madness in the arts. New works include the feminist queer imagining Ophelia Saves the World from Zombies, and the upcoming podcast The Haunted Doorbell. Berni 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. She lives in St. John’s with rescue beagles Georgie Girl and Tiggy Duff.