Dora Mavor Moore Awards

Okay.

Just for people who are listening who may not know.

So the Dora Awards are Toronto.

The Betty Mitchell Awards are Calgary.

There's Edmonton as well, right?

I have drama lessons with Dora Maver Moore.

the Dora Awards.

She was a big deal.

And I go to school, I go to Sunday school.

They become friends and then they start making stuff together.

They co-created successful shows like King Gilgamesh and The Man of the Wild, which won a Dora Award.

So It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weekend opened in Hamilton.

It was very successful.

And today, I get to talk to Annie Luján and Veronica Orteguela, who are the creators and stars and producers, and wear all the hats, uh, in, in Monks, and I cannot wait to have you listen to this conversation.

Annie Luján is a Dora Award-winning Costa Rican-Canadian actor and clown.

She is a graduate of the 2022 Soulpepper Academy and Concordia University.

As a clown, Annie has trained and worked internationally in Italy, the US, the UK, and Canada.

Her credits include Laura Secord's Thing, which is upcoming at Crows, Dance Nation, The Welkin, King Lear, A Little Closer, Last Landscape, Comedy of Errors, and Storybook Search.

Veronica Orteguela is a Dora Award-winning Spanish-Canadian actor, clown, and playwright, born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.

She is one half of the creative performance team behind Monks.

She's passionate about seeing theater through various phases of development, and has had the pleasure of working with Canadian Stage, Crows, Buddies in Bad Times, Stratford, Tarragon, Factory, Shakespeare in the Ruff, and Young People's Theater on the development of new plays.