The Foster Festival has announced for Every Little Thing by Emily Oriold.

Every Little Thing

Firehall Theatre

Niagara Falls, ON

March 23, 2025, at 1pm

Synopsis: Every morning Jack arrives at the hospital to visit his wife who has been comatose for months. Every morning he has his breakfast in the hospital cafeteria. Every morning he stays hopeful. And nothing changes until one morning when he meets Lily. A funny and touching look at surviving the curveballs life sometimes throws at us and the unlikely people that come together to help pull us through.

MELANIE JANZEN AS MRS. JENKINS

FOR THE FESTIVAL: Nikki in Whit’s End (World Premiere), Natalie in Lunenburg (World Premiere), Fay/Angel/Gwen in Here On The Flightpath, and Sharon in Widow Wonderland (workshop).

SELECTED THEATRE: Radiance in The Beaver Club (Theatre Orangeville); Mary in The View From Here (World Premiere - Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Connie in The Ladies Foursome (World Premiere - Upper Canada Playhouse); Shalimar in A Belly Full (Theatre Aquarius); Glenda in Where You Are (World Premiere - Theatre Orangeville); Anne in Camelot (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Jane Tate in It Runs In The Family (Drayton Entertainment); Dottie in Show Boat (Livent/North American Tour); Rita in Halfway There (Upper Canada Playhouse); Chelsea in On Golden Pond (Huron Country Playhouse); Seven seasons at The Stratford Festival and five Seasons at The Shaw.

FILM/TV: The Taming of the Shrew (CBC); Chasing Rainbows (CBC); Dinah Christie Presents Canada (CBC); All Together Now (CKY).

FIONA MONGILLO AS LILY

FOR THE FESTIVAL: Debut

SELECTED THEATRE: The Woman in the Canadian Premiere of Girls & Boys as part of the Here For Now 2022 season and the Crow’s Theatre 2023 season; Ensemble in The Farm Show: Then & Now and Vivian in Resort to Murder (Blyth Festival); Angelina in Whack (Here For Now Theatre); Senta von Schrader in Framed (Lighthouse Festival); Louise in The Enchantment (HERE Arts, NYC); Bessie in The Young Ladies of Baddeck (Theatre Baddeck); Rose in Eigengrau (Here For Now Theatre).

SELECTED FILM: Constance Weatherly/Madeline Tomkins in Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Donald’s Secretary in The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi/ Apprentice Productions).

OTHER: Training: BFA in Acting, UBC; MA in Classical Acting, LAMDA. Awards: 2022 Best Actress in a Play (Girls & Boys, Ontario Stage). Fiona is the Founding Artistic Director of Here For Now Theatre Company.

GRAY POWELL AS JACK

FOR THE FESTIVAL: Debut

SELECTED THEATRE: Appropriate (Coal Mine Theatre); Man and Superman, Henry V, Middletown, Engaged, Hedda Gabler, Born Yesterday, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Shaw Festival); Arcadia (Shaw/ Mirvish); My Night with Reg (Studio 180/Mirvish); The Philadelphia Story (Shaw/Theatre Calgary).

FILM/TV: Brilliant Minds (NBC); Drive Back Home (PhotonFilms); A Widow Seduced (Vortex/Superchannel); Sort Of (Sphere/CBC); Fellow Travellers (Paramount); The Hardy Boys (Hulu); The End of Sex (Vortex/Blue Fox Entertainment); ARQ (Netflix).

UPCOMING: The Last Frontier (Apple+); Hell Motel: A Slasher Story (Shudder/Shaftesbury).

TRAVIS SEETOO AS DR. HUDSON

FOR THE FESTIVAL: Debut

SELECTED THEATRE: The Roll of Shaw, Snow in Midsummer, The Game of Love and Chance, The Apple Cart, A Christmas Carol, Everybody, Too True To Be Good, Brigadoon, Rope, Grand Hotel, The Magician’s Nephew, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt, Me and My Girl, Pygmalion, Sweet Charity, Juno and the Paycock, Cabaret, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Guys and Dolls (Shaw Festival); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Pirates of Penzance (Stratford Festival); Sweeney Todd (Talk Is Free Theatre/UK tour); Mustard (Tarragon Theatre); Into the Woods (Thousand Islands Playhouse); West Side Story (Citadel Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Ross Petty Productions); The Sound of Music (Theatre Aquarius).

OTHER: Directing Credits: Overruled, Shaw: What’s the Point? (Brock University).

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Attending the Fostered Playwrights Festival is a wonderful opportunity to be a part of this important stage of development for our Canadian playwrights! Not only will you have the opportunity to hear these new plays read aloud, you will also meet each playwrights, director, and the acting company and be invite to provide constructive feedback during a special Q&A session.

Plus, you will be able to vote for which of the three plays you would most like to see on The Foster Festival Mainstage in 2026! Now that's our kind of election!

At The Foster Festival we wear the Maple Leaf on our sleeve. We have been proudly producing the best of what Canada offers for 10 years: Norm Foster, Canada's favourite and most prolific playwright, his world premieres and classics, and now the best new comedies by Canadian playwrights from across the country!

FOSTERED PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL DATES & TICKETS:

March 21-23, Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls

Tickets to individual readings are $40 (all in)

Weekend Passes for all three readings are $90 (all in) – that's $30 in savings!

For tickets visit thenormfostertheatrefestival.thundertix.com.