Event

120 Diner Sunday Cabaret: ELLEN DENNY

ELLEN DENNY - WONDERIN'

An eclectic cabaret inspired by Ellen's journey to write her first play Wonder, based on the life of her great-great-aunt Harriet Brooks, Canada's first female nuclear physicist. All proceeds will go to support a development workshop of this new Canadian play.

Doors open at 5:00pm. Show is 6:00pm-7:30pm.

BIO: Ellen has performed on stages across Canada. Her recent performance as Alice in Life After (Canadian Stage / Musical Stage), earned her a Dora nomination and a spot on Now Magazines list of Breakthrough Toronto Stage Artists 2017.

Other credits include Chariots of Fire (Grand Theatre); Bad Jews (Segal Centre); My Fair Lady (Capitol Theatre Port Hope); Its A Wonderful Life (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton); Anne & Gilbert (National Arts Centre); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Manitoba Theatre Centre / Mirvish); A Christmas Carol (Theatre New Brunswick); The Penelopiad (Citadel); Beauty and the Beast, Great Expectations, Sweeney Todd (Neptune).

Ellen is also an emerging playwright. Her debut play Wonder (a historical drama about Harriet Brooks, Canadas first female nuclear physicist) will be workshopped in 2019. Her second piece Pleasureville (a comedy about a city gal opening a small town sex shop) celebrates friendship and claiming your pleasure.