Rose Napoli Explained

Rose Napoli
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:
  • Playwright
  • Actor
Notable Works:Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)

Rose Napoli is a Canadian playwright and actor. Napoli is an alumnus of Nightwood Theatre's Write From the Hip Program where she developed her play Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells).

Career

Acting

In 2016, Napoli was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in the Theatre for Young Audiences division of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards for her performance in Roseneath Theatre's The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh.[1] In 2017, Napoli starred as math teacher Gabriella in Rob Kempson's Trigonometry.[2] In 2018, Napoli was Celia in the St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival's production of As You Like It.[3] Napoli played Beatrice in the 2019 Shakespeare in High Park production of Much Ado About Nothing as directed by Liza Balkan.[4] [5] In Nightwood Theatre's 2019 premiere of Grace, Napoli played the titular Grace's older sister Sarah.[6]

Playwriting

Napoli's play Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains premiered at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival with Napoli in the lead role of Lucy.[7] The 2017 production was directed by Carly Chamberlain and co-starred Jakob Ehman as Bennett.[8] Napoli described Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains as "millennial love letter to the misfits of the Peter Pan Generation".[9]

Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) premiered in October 2017 as part of Nightwood Theatre's Consent Event double-bill alongside Ellie Moon's Asking For It.[10] Napoli developed Lo as part of Nightwood's Write From The Hip script development program in 2014.[11] The play is a two-hander that follows 25 year old Laura as she revisits a relationship she had with her English teacher, Mr. Wells, when she was 15. The 2017 premiere was directed by Andrea Donaldson and starred Vivien Endicott-Douglas as Laura and Sam Kalilieh as Mr. Wells. The play was inspired by Napoli's experiences working as an educator.[12] Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding New Play in 2018.

Napoli's play, Mad Madge, about Margaret Cavendish, is set to premiere with Nightwood Theatre in April 2024.[13]

Plays

Awards

!Year!Award!Category!Work!Result!Ref.
2016Dora Mavor Moore Awards - Theatre for Young AudiencesOutstanding Performance - IndividualThe Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh[14]
2018Dora Mavor Moore Awards - General TheatreOutstanding New PlayLo (or Dear Mr. Wells)

References

  1. Web site: 2016 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Nominees & Recipients. 2020-06-25. Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). 9.
  2. News: Bimm. Jordan. 2017-03-22. Trigonometry is well acted but needs a lesson in narrative logic. en-us. NOW Magazine. 2020-06-26.
  3. Web site: Langston. Patrick. 2018-08-16. New Artistic Director Shakes Up The St. Lawerence Shakespeare Fest With A Season Of Love. 2020-06-26. The Theatre Times. en-US.
  4. Web site: Teodoro. José. 2019-07-16. Much Ado About Nothing in High Park is an uneven outdoor offering. 2020-06-26. NOW Magazine. en-us.
  5. Web site: 2019-07-13. This Much Ado About Nothing gives Shakespeare a 1990s romcom sensibility. 2020-06-26. Toronto Star. en.
  6. Web site: Fein-Goldbach. Debbie. 2019-01-15. Grace sheds a powerful light on the effects of childhood sexual abuse. 2020-06-26. NOW Magazine. en-us.
  7. Web site: Sumi. Glenn. Bimm. Jordan. 2017-06-28. 10 Fringe artists to watch. 2020-06-26. NOW Magazine. en-us.
  8. Web site: Sumi. Glenn. 2017-07-08. Fringe review: Ten Creative Ways To Dispose Of Your Cremains. 2020-06-26. NOW Magazine. en-us.
  9. News: Wheeler. Brad. 2017-06-28. Actor-playwright Rose Napoli is one of the young stars to see at Toronto Fringe. The Globe and Mail. 2020-06-26.
  10. Web site: Cole. Susan G.. 2017-10-04. Two new plays complicate the conversation about consent. 2020-06-26. NOW Magazine. en-us.
  11. Web site: 2017-10-30. "Consent, Growing Up & Telling Difficult Stories" In Conversation with Rose Napoli, playwright of LO (OR DEAR MR. WELLS). 2020-06-26. In The Green Room. en.
  12. Web site: Campbell. Trevor. 2017-11-01. Lo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) delivers uncomfortable truths we need to face. 2020-06-26. NOW Magazine. en-us.
  13. Web site: Rabinowitz . Chloe . 2024-02-07 . Nightwood Theatre to Present MAD MADGE This Spring . 2024-02-20 . BroadwayWorld.com . en.
  14. Web site: Nominees. 2020-06-26. TAPA. en-US.

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