Irene Poole

Sally Talley - Talley's Folly
Hermia - A Midsummer Night's Dream

2006 York Shakespeare Festival

Irene is a Resurgence Theatre Company alumni, pleased to return.

She recently finished an extended run of George F. Walker's, Escape From Happiness at the Factory Theatre. In 2006 she won the Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. In 2005 she won a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play in The Leisure Society. Other credits include: The Gambler (Artword Theatre); Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Factory Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre and Prairie Theatre Exchange); Dona Juanita in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, Juno in The Tempest (Resurgence Theatre); Fighting Words (Factory Theatre); The Game of Love and Chance and The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girl (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Margaret in The Glace Bay Miners Museum (Factory Theatre); Cathy in Wuthering Heights, (Theatre Aquarius). Originally from Labrador, she spent several years in Halifax where she worked at Shakespeare-by-the-Sea and Neptune Theatre and taught at Dalhousie University.

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