By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Directed by Diane Roberts & Cameron Mackenzie
Presented by The Cultch
Vancity Culture Lab | May 01–11, 2025
The personal becomes political in this collaboratively created work from Andrea Scott and Nick Green. After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two best friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they first thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure out how to write about the fallout.
Every Day She Rose is a powerful exploration of white supremacy, privilege, and patriarchy in supposed safe spaces.
Cast
Britney Mocca Andrea
Britney Mocca is a multifaceted artist based in Vancouver, with a passion for teaching, performing, and bringing creative new works to life. With a Bachelor’s in Performing Arts, an Associate’s degree in Psychology, and a Musical Theatre Diploma from Capilano University, Britney blends creativity and insight in everything she does. You might recognize her from shows like Yellowjackets, High Potential, or Unexpected Valentine.
Now, Britney is thrilled to return to the stage, where she’ll bring the characters of Cathy Ann and Andrea to life. With her infectious enthusiasm for the craft, she approaches each role with passion, ready to explore new emotional depths and connect with audiences in meaningful ways. Every performance is an opportunity to create something truly special, and she can’t wait to share that experience with everyone in the audience. Whether on stage, screen, or in the classroom, Britney is always bringing her love for storytelling to life.
Jacob Woike | Nick
Jacob (he/they/she) feels fortunate to be a part of this production. Hailing from the Cowichan Valley, they’ve appeared on stages across the country, and internationally on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. They would like to thank Andrea Scott & Nick Green for writing such an intelligent script, and to Cameron and Diane for the opportunity to share it. His love and gratitude to everyone involved, and always thank you always to everyone at daCosta. Theatre is important, thank you for supporting this show.
Select Credits: The Comedy of Errors, Measure For Measure (Bard On The Beach); The Legend of Georgia McBride, Les Misérables (Arts Club); Beauty & the Beast, Jesus Christ Superstar, Vimy (Western Canada Theatre); As You Like It (The Grand Theatre); Ghost: The Musical (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Lead Vocalist (Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines). Film credits: The Dating Game (Vertigo Films; dir. Anna Kendrick).
Playwrights
Andrea Scott | Playwright
Andrea Scott is originally from London Ontario and currently resides in Toronto. An alum of University of Toronto, her play, Eating Pomegranates Naked, won the RBC Arts Professional Award, and named Outstanding Production at the 2013 SummerWorks Festival. Better Angels: A Parable won the SummerWorks Award for Production, was published in 2018, and made into a podcast by Expect Theatre. Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife, won the Cayle Chernin Award for theatre and ran in the SummerWorks in 2016. She co-wrote Every Day She Rose with Nick Green, a two-hander that’s wowed audiences from Toronto to Hollywood (and now Vancouver). Her play about civil rights icon Viola Desmond, Controlled Damage, had its sold-out world premiere at Neptune Theatre in 2020 and been turned into a graphic novel. Get That Hope had its World Premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2024. She also works as a screenwriter who has written for The Porter (CBC/BET), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC) and High Potential (ABC/Disney).
Nick Green – Playwright
Nick Green is a Dora Award-winning playwright in Toronto, born and raised in Vancouver. Nick’s works include Casey and Diana (Dora Award-nominated, Recipient of Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play and the Heritage Toronto Public History Award; Stratford Festival/Soulpepper, Theatre Aquarius/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Neptune Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, with 7 more productions coming up across Canada and the United States), Dinner with the Duchess (Here for Now, Crow’s Theatre); Every Day She Rose (co-written with Andrea Scott; Nightwood Theatre, Here for Now, Black Theatre Workshop); The Last Timbit (book, Prod. Michael Rubinoff); In Real Life (book, Musical Stage Company); Dr. Silver (book, South Coast Repertory Theatre); Happy Birthday Baby J (Shadow Theatre); Body Politic (lemonTree Creations/Buddies in Bad Times, Dora Award); Fangirl (book, Musical Stage Company); and Living the Dream (book, Canadian Music Theatre Projects). Nick is a graduate of the University of Alberta, and represented by Marquis Literary. Nick would like to send a huge thanks to all his friends and family in Vancouver for their enormous support over the years!
Creative
Cameron Mackenzie | Co-Director
Originally from South Africa, Cameron is a Vancouver-based director, producer and drag queen. He produced and curated Club PuSh for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival from 2013 to 2020, and is the founder and Artistic & Executive Director of Zee Zee Theatre. He has assistant directed for the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Centaur Theatre, City Opera Vancouver and the Vancouver Playhouse and directed for Studio 58. A recipient of the Ray Michal Award for Outstanding Body of Work by an Emerging Director for the 2014/2015 season, he has also been nominated for Outstanding Direction at The Jessie Richardson Awards. He is a graduate of Studio 58 and has further trained with Pochinko clown master, John Turner.
Diane Roberts | Co-Director
Diane Roberts is an accomplished director, dramaturge, writer and cultural animator, who has collaborated with innovative theatre visionaries and interdisciplinary artists for the past 30 years. Her directorial and dramaturgical work has been seen on stages across Canada and her reputation as a mentor, teacher and community collaborator is nationally and internationally recognized. Diane has directed for such companies as Urban Ink Productions, Black Theatre Workshop, pounds per square inch performance, Mulgrave Road Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Theatre Direct, The Company of Sirens, Frank Theatre, b current, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Obsidian Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Women in View Festival, The Sudbury Theatre Centre and The Stratford Festival. She is the former Artistic Director of Urban Ink Productions in Vancouver (2007-2014) and former Artistic Co-Director of Nightwood Theatre in Toronto. She is a founding member of Obsidian Theatre and backforward collective, Founder of The Arrivals Legacy Project, and co-founder and Artistic Director of Boldskool Productions with playwright Omari Newton. Diane’s celebrated Arrivals Personal Legacy process, has birthed new interdisciplinary works across Canada, throughout the Americas, in the UK, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. This work has allowed her to articulate, cultivate and realise a vision for theatre that encourages African Indigenous ways of knowing as a steppingstone to creative expression.
Monica Emme | Set Designer
Monica Emme (she/her) is a set designer, props and puppet creator, and general maker, currently based in Vancouver. Monica holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University and a diploma of Stagecraft and Event Technology from Douglas College. Monica get to instruct the next generation of theatre creators as a stagecraft instructor at Arts Umbrella.
Some favourite recent credits include: Set design for Snow White (Carousel Theatre for Young People), Cinderella, Alice by Heart, and The Quest (Arts Umbrella); production design for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Old Man and the Old Moon (Arts Umbrella); Props for Peace Country (Rice & Beans Theatre), My Little Tomato (vAct & Zee Zee), In My Day (Zee Zee Theatre), Messiah (Pacific Theatre), and Oz (Carousel Theatre for Young People).
More about Monica can be found at www.monicaemme.com
CS Fergusson-Vaux | Costume Designer
CS Fergusson-Vaux (she/they) is a Theatrical and Visual Artist with a fervent belief in decolonizing our community, encouraging and aiding in bold cultural endeavours, and constructing an ethical and inclusive artistic legacy. Recent works include projects with Arts Club Theatre, Persephone Theatre, The Search Party, & Stratford Festival. She gratefully stands in resolute solidarity with her hosts and stewards of the unceded, occupied lands and waters of the Halkomelem speaking peoples, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Victoria Bell | Lighting Designer
Victoria (V) is a Vancouver based scenographer (lighting, sound, set, and projection designer), technical director and Studio 58 graduate. Victoria is an ADC and IATSE 118 member, and a strong proponent for union membership and their justified authority. She is also a Stir recognized “”Game Changer”” in this year’s fall arts guide.
Working between vibrant colours and muted tones, while using physical structure to fully infuse her designs into the world of the piece. Using physical structures on stage with the performance creates a more literal connection to the lights, she very specifically doesn’t want to just work in the grid “above” the performance, she is entangled with the performance as a whole, not just its outward final presentation. She wishes her designs to be objects wielded by and into the metaphor of the text.
Mary Jane Coomber | Sound Designer
Mary Jane Coomber [they/them] is a collaborative music and sound artist who primarily works on the unceded, sovereign territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Recent theatre collaborations include Dead Drone (UpInTheAir), Au Grand Jour (Seizième), Lasa Ng Imperyo (Rice & Beans), Linck & Mülhahn (Studio 58), The Hobbit (Pacific), Eyes of the Beast (Neworld), Hamlet (Bard on the Beach), Fat Joke (Neworld), This Is How We Got Here (Firehall), CHILD-ish (Pacific), Snow White (Carousel), Hurricane Mona (Touchstone), How Black Mothers Say I Love You (Frank), Division Infinity Saves The World! (Neworld), Rubaboo (Grand/Arts Club/Citadel). Recent concert works include face it tiger as part of Blue Ridge Music Festival’s Storybook commissioning program, and play{h}ers passage as part of CMC/QAF/Sum Gallery’s Queering The Air with pianist Rachel Iwaasa. MJ is a member of ADC659 and a graduate of the School of Contemporary Arts at SFU.
Candelario Andrade | Projection Designer
Cande is a video editor and media designer based in Vancouver. Recent design credits include: Chochito Rey (Rumble Theatre); The Secret To Good Tea (NAC, Grand Theatre); The Eyes of The Beast (Neworld/UVIC); BBB (Rumble); Women Of The Fur Trade (NAC, Native Earth, GCTC); Empty Handed (The Biting School); You Used to Cal me Marie (NAC, Savage Society); Julius Caesar (Bard on the Beach); Little Red and His Lawyer (Savage Society/Belfry/NAC); Mom’s the Word Talking Turkey (Arts Club). Recent video editing credits include LOOPING (Company 605) and the feature film Done/Undone (Bard on The Beach); as well as the short films: Common Law and a film about a uterus. In recent years, Cande has edited several projects for Mochizuki Studios and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Dek Green | Stage Manager
Dek Green (she/her/they) is a Vancouver-based Stage Manager and Theatre Technician—she’s delighted to be joining Zee Zee Theatre, and to be working with such a vibrant, diverse group of creators to produce this show and its important themes. Having loved the theatre all her life, Dek is both acutely aware of and continually amazed at theatre’s capacity to explore identity, emotion, and possible impossibilities.
Her past stage management credits include Sinners (Metro Theatre), Miracle on 34th Street (PoMo Players), The Woman in Black (Classical Act Collective), and Fates Festival 2024 (Promethean Theatre).
When not calling a show, she enjoys poetry, wordcraft, and exploring the many facets of fandom and pop culture. Dek wants to thank you all for supporting live theatre, and hopes you find your own reason to rise in Every Day She Rose.