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MONICA BRADFORD-LEA (she/her) is a playwright, actor, producer, and co-Artistic Director of Spicy Day theatre company. With Spicy Day, she has created, performed, and toured award-winning original plays across Canada since 2016. The company is known for creating new, interactive work that unites audiences in laughter, while opening honest and complex conversation on current social issues.
Monica is also an arts marketing specialist and project manager with 12 years experience working for organizations including Canada’s National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, SummerWorks, What the Festival, Toronto Fringe, and others.
She is currently the Executive Director Intern at Soulpepper Theatre, thanks to support from the Metcalf Foundation.
LAUREN WELCHNER (she/her) is an award-winning playwright, actor, and producer. Lauren’s work with Spicy Day, which she has co-created, performed, and produced, has won ‘Best Of Fringe’ in the Toronto Fringe Festival, been awarded ‘Critic’s Pick’ by Mooney On Theatre, and been nominated for a Prix Rideau Award (Ottawa’s professional theatre awards) for ‘Outstanding New Work’.
In 2024, Lauren received a Harold award in Toronto “in recognition of an outstanding and often under-recognized dedication on or off the stage”.