Episode 8 of Spizzy LIVE!

October’s Liar’s Club will feature published writer and editor David Ferry, and award winning actor and director Allegra Fulton.

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David Ferry is a published writer and editor (fiction and non-fiction), currently working on two plays and some short stories. He co-wrote (and directed and produced) The Postman which was a site specific, promenade piece about Canada’s first black postal carrier,Albert Jackson. His play Broken Windows had a commissioned reading by The Harold Green Jewish Theatre which have plans for a future production. David is currently working on a new draft of Kain and Abel (including co-writing lyrics) with input from actor Stuart Hughes and musician Brooke Blackburn, his partners in the proposed workshop. He is an award-winning theatre director (DORA Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Ottawa Theatre Critics best production, Stuff Happens, NAC) who has worked in Canada and abroad. His world premiere production (in Italian) of Brendan Gall’s Alias Godot was a remounted hit at Teatro Della Limonaia in Florence. His award-winning production of Blackbird, and After Miss Julie were celebrated found space productions in Toronto. He has directed over 50 productions, and served as AD of three Ontario Theatre companies. He has directed twenty-five audio books for Penguin/Random house and other publishers and has voiced others. He has created site specific radio-phonic performance pieces for the last twelve years for his program Short Waves, Short Stories at the Writers at Woody Point Festival. He is also an award winning actor, with over 200 stage credits in a 56 year career in Canada, the US (on and off Broadway and in LA) and overseas. He has featured in over 125 film/tv projects and as an award winning radio and audio book actor.

Allegra Fulton is an award winning actor and director whose distinguished career on stage and screen has taken her across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Best known for laying iconoclasts, dangerous women, and sophisticated outsiders, she has been praised for her portrayals of high powered characters in both Classical theatre, at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, as well as great roles in the International modern repertoire in theatres all over North America. Last season, she was nominated once again for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding performance her turn as the quasi-supernatural “Church lady” in Stephen Adly Guirguis’s BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY and a Broadway World Award for the troubled virtuoso violist in Nick Green’s DINNER WITH THE DUCHESS. Ms. Fulton has been hailed as a National Treasure (NOW Magazine) and especially lauded for her haunting portrayal of Frida Kahlo in multiple award-winning solo tour-de-force FRIDA K. by Gloria Montero, that toured North America playing New York Off- Broadway at Soho Rep, as well as as a prestigious invitation by the Mexican Consulate to play in Kahlo’s own Mexico City, all to great critical acclaim.

Ms. Fulton has appeared on screen in over 75 film and television series, which include Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar winning THE SHAPE OF WATER, Cronenberg’s MAPS TO THE STARS, STRANGE BUT TRUE directed by Rowan Athale. She has had recurring and supporting roles in many TV series, some recent being SCHITT’S CREEK, SUITS, FARGO, CARDINAL, 19-2, KIM’S CONVENIENCE, WORKIN’ MOMS, and WAYNE among many others. Look for her next playing the mysterious Jill Leblanc on the newest Sheri Elwood creation FEUDAL (coming soon to CBC/eOne) and Ann Morgan in the Stephen King gothic horror CHAPELWAITE. (MGM’ Epix).