The Power of One: World Classics
Production Team
Danielle Irvine – Artistic Director
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Danielle Irvine is a proud Newfoundlander who has had to travel a lot for her work. Highlights of her career include teaching at the National Theatre School of Canada; Assistant Directing at the Stratford Festival of Canada (including being the first director to study in their Birmingham Conservatory); and winning such awards as the Canada Council for the Arts prestigious John Hirsch Prize for Directing, and the ArtsNL BMO Artist of the Year. Danielle was also a participant in the World Stage Festival 2000’s Master Class for Directors; where she was honoured to study with such theatre greats as Peter Brook, Yoshi Oida and Polly Teale. In the fall of 2016, she was invited to participate in the inaugural Stratford Festival’s International Classical Directing Intensive.
For over 27 years, she has been directing theatrical productions of all sizes and types in all manner of venues. Danielle has co-founded two other successful theatre companies Shakespeare by the Sea (NL), First Light Productions and is also the current founding AD of Sweetline Theatre. Her love and passion for NL culture combined with her theatre training inspired Danielle to co-develop a show with Anna Stassis which brought audiences through a theatrical experience on a bus, a ferry, around Bell Island and culminated 650 feet underground in a mine. This was listed by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres as a Landmark Theatrical Event in 1997. She has also been a key note speaker and workshop leader at various conferences over the years and is also a casting director for television and film. Credits include: CBC’s Republic of Doyle; the Netflix series, Frontier; the CBC Series, LittleDog; the CBC mini-series, Caught; the Citytv Series, Hudson and Rex; and the feature film, Maudie. Recently, she has been nominated a YWCA Woman of Distinction for Arts and Culture and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Excellence in Casting for Frontier. Since 2014, Danielle has been bringing her love of Newfoundland culture and community, together with her passion for Shakespeare in her role as the Artistic Director of Perchance Theatre at Cupids. There is truly no other place in the world that brings Danielle joy like Newfoundland and Labrador. Her avid love of the outdoors is fed with ample hiking on coastal trails in all weather and all seasons. She hopes that you too, come to love this province. |
Azal Dosanjh - Assistant Director
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Azal Dosanjh is a theatre artist from India, now residing in St. John's, Newfoundland.
His recent directing credits include Sun in an Empty Room (GroupHug Productions, 2021), Lights Out (Theatre Perimetric, 2021), Relief (Aariz Theatre, 2021), BURROW (Eastern Front Theatre & CB Nuit, 2020 & 2021), Until Death Do Us Part (Different Strokes Theatre, 2020), and The Boor (Aariz Theatre, 2019). He has also worked with Perchance Theatre as Assistant Director on projects such as Juluis Caesar (2019), Hamlet (2021), and the upcoming Power of One 2.0 - World Classics (2021). He is a graduate of the Stage and Screen Technique Diploma from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and has trained with mentors such as Danielle Irvine (Perchance Theatre), Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe (Artistic Fraud), and Richard Rose (Atlantic Repertory Company). Azal is currently adapting and developing a series of political satires originally written by Gursharan Singh, in a collection entitled Politically Relative. |
Graham Godden - Editor - Director of Photography
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Graham Godden was born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland and is passionate about promoting ideas, individuals and organizations by way of storytelling through film and virtual reality.
He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a Major in Communication Studies and a Diploma in Performance and Communication Media. Graham has been recognized by the Nickel Independent Film Festival for his cinematography, editing and was co-creator of the EcoVision TV series. Graham has also worked on various local film/television productions; most recently the feature film “Sweetland” (based on the novel by Michael Crummey), a music video for local musician Jonny Boy Wonder (drummer of Fourthright), and Hudson & Rex Season 4. |
Tom Cochrane - Director of Photography - West Coast
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Tom Cochrane is a photographer, videographer, and curator based in Newfoundland and Labrador
Tom is recognized across Canada as a digital storyteller, having received national awards for his community focused website CornerBrooker.com and for Old Crow Magazine, an arts and culture magazine based in Gros Morne National Park. In 2018 he was named Industry Professional of the Year by MusicNL. In 2017 he received MusicNL's Music Video of the Year award for directing the music video for Kellie Loder's song "Boxes." Tom's work has been featured in publications such as the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, National Post, Canadian Geographic, Quill and Quire Magazine, CBC.ca and CBC TV, The Telegram, Saltscapes Magazine, and many more. |
Riley Harnett - Director of Photography
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Riley Harnett is a photographer/videographer/science communicator living in St. John’s. His teeth were cut on event photography and 48 hour video challenges but he has since found himself working on a diverse range of projects.
Current ongoing ventures include the science communication webseries: The HEAP, and Whaddayat: The Live Comedy Gameshow. When he’s not complaining about available lighting or discussing the evolution of the human chin, you might catch him winning a game of chess, only to blunder it all away at the end. |
Laura Bruijns - Logistics Coordinator
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Laura Bruijns is a professional event logistics coordinator who spent several years working in a number of capacities at the province's largest sports and entertainment complex, Mile One Centre.
Her first job upon arriving in the province from Ontario was with the local organizing committee for the JUNOs. This amazing opportunity gave her the good fortune to connect with some of the unbelievable talent in Newfoundland and Labrador. She has worked as an administrator for Rising Tide Theatre where she was initiated into the daily trials of theatre and was hooked. Her true passion lies with the arts and she is involved with a number of boards and committees for theatre and visual arts across the province when not out on the water or on the trails. For all those watching - enjoy this province of remarkable beauty! |
Erika Squires - Social Media Manager
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Erika Squires is a theatre artist and communications specialist from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. Erika recently graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland holding a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a specialization in Theatre and Drama, and the Diploma in Performance and Communications Media, receiving the Dick Buehler Award for Theatre, the Geoff Seymour Sr. Memorial Bursary and the Michael Cook Scholarship in her graduating year. Erika’s play Baby is currently in development, with dramaturgy by Robert Chafe, and her play Hush was recently commissioned and produced by PerSIStence Theatre as a part of their Ladies’ Reading Room series. Erika is also the co-artistic director of GroupHug Productions, a new 2SLGBTQIA+ theatre group, alongside Nicholas Mandville. Erika has been an actor in the company at Perchance Theatre at Cupids for the past three seasons appearing as Horatio in Hamlet, Jailers Daughter in Two Noble Kinsmen (Power of One series), Hymen and LeBeau in As You Like It and the Soothsayer in Julius Caesar. Erika has also collaborated with Best Kind Productions, appearing as Brooke Lohst in Be More Chill and in the new Canadian musicals Impresario by Kyle McDavid and Red Rock by Daniel Lasby. Additional acting credits include Constance in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (MUNL Drama), Disciple in Godspell (ETC Productions) and Cliff in Sun in an Empty Room (GroupHug Productions.)
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Dr. Zainab Jerrett - Artistic Vision Team
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Dr. Zainab Jerrett is the Executive Director of Tombolo Multicultural Festival Newfoundland and Labrador Inc and the Founder of We Care Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.
Zainab obtained her PhD in Folklore (1998) at Memorial University of Newfoundland - as a Commonwealth Scholar, and a Diploma in Information Technology (2000). Her Undergraduate Degree was in English and her Masters Degree was in African Literature and Diaspora Literature. Both obtained at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. She taught Folklore as Sessional Teacher at Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folklore from 1996 – 2005 and African, African-American and Caribbean Literature at the University of Maiduguri,Nigeria from 1986 – 1990. Zainab is also an entrepreneur. She is the owner and operator of Multi Ethnic Food Kitchen (a catering business) and the owner of International Food and Craft Expo Inc. |
Dale Jarvis - Artistic Networking Lead
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Author, folklorist, and storyteller Dale Jarvis is the Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer for the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, helping communities safeguard traditional culture. The creator of the St. John’s Haunted Hike ghost tour, Dale shares ghost stories, supernatural stories, legends, and traditional tales from Newfoundland and beyond. He is a passionate activist for local heritage and culture.
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