Meet the Contestants of the 2024 Edele Winnie Women's Monologue Competition

Emma Caicco

Performing monologue #15: dotter

A few interesting facts about Emma:
- Her Pomeranian, Peach, has her own Instagram account;
- She's from another border city -- good ole Sault Ste. Marie;
- Sometimes if she really likes a tv series she won't watch the finale so she can give it the perfect ending... she promises this is not psychotic;
- Her favourite musical is Hedwig and the Angry Inch;
- Her favourite play is The Glass Menagerie.

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Linda Collard

Performing monologue #20: ​craft time

A few interesting facts about Linda:
 - She recently discovered how to keep her cats from disturbing her sleep -- she puts on bird videos for them to watch all night long;
- She is a member of the community working to help save the monarch butterfly;
- She was not sure about entering the Edele Winnie Women's Monologue Competition this year, but then one morning there were two huge Canadian Geese sitting on her garage roof and so she took that to be a sign;
- Her favourite musical is Chicago;
- Her fovourite play is The Play That Goes Wrong

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Sylvia Frickey

Performing monologue #19: ​island attack

A few interesting facts about Sylvia:
- She graduated university 5 years before she graduated high school and didn't know it for 17 years;
​- Sylvia, her father, and her youngest child were all born in three different centuries;
- She has three children - between her first child and second there are 3 years, between her second and third there are 21-and-a-half years;
- Her favourite musical is Fiddler on the Roof;
- Her favourite play is Taming of the Shrew.

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Carla Gyemi

Performing monologue #52: ​toads and diamonds

A few interesting facts about Carla:
- She is currently learning archery;
​- She "shook hands" (aka - touched the finger) of a mummified 900ish year old crusader in Ireland;
- She is the proud parent of a wiener dog (dachshund) with an affinity for fluffy objects;
- Her favourite musical is Into the Woods;
- Her favourite play? She can't choose, but she'll take a good old fashion murder mystery any day.

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Rachel Hillis

Performing monologue #4: Moonbeam

A few interesting facts about Rachel:
- She has never successfully opened a pickle jar;
- She can cross her fourth and fifth fingers on both hands;
​- She didn't learn how to whistle until her teens (but she can do it very well now);
- Her favourite musical is My Fair Lady;
- Her favourite play is Criminal Genius.

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Shayla Hudson

Performing monologue #46: ​Henny Penny

A few interesting facts about Shayla:
- She considers soup a food group, and will eat any kind of soup at any time of day, any time of year;
- She got hit by a car at the age of 9 (a bit scratched up, but otherwise fine). Look both ways before you cross the street. Seriously;
- Until about a year ago, she thought "floor-to-ceiling" windows and doors were actually "Florida ceiling" windows and doors;
- Her favourite musical is Once: The Musical;
- Her favourite play is Fault Lines.

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Camryn S. Kingsley

Performing monologue #13: ​angels

A few interesting facts about Camryn:
- She is NOT a manic pixie dream girl;
- People keep giving her stickers, and she isn't complaining, but there's only so many things to stick them to;
​- She'll never tell you what she likes, because you'll ruin it, you heretic, you;
- Her favourite musical is Nerdy Prudes Must Die;
- Her favourite play is A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Courtesy Olympia Lebert-Dean

Performing monologue #18: ​Night witch

A few interesting facts about Courtesy:
- She is a transgender woman;
- She lived in Vancouver from 2017-2019;
She was the only high school student in Essex County who was a football player AND a cheerleader;
- Her favourite musical is a tie between Les Miserables and Greese;
- Her favourite play is either The Bacchae or The Agamemnon.

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Samantha Lillian

Performing monologue #11: ​bitch

A few interesting facts about Samantha:
- She is a secondary drama teacher;
- She loves snowboarding, hiking, and being outside;
- She is going to Spain to visit some of the student her parents have hosted over the years this summer with her husband and their two beautiful young daughters;
- Her favourite musical is Come From Away;
- Her favourite play is Kamloopa: an indigenous matriarch story.

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Maggie Marchenkowsky

Performing monologue #5: ​Springer's Pond Rangers

A few interesting facts about Maggie:
- She is a stilt walker, caffeine fiend and the best softball player in Windsor (everyone agrees -- this is just a fact);
- She works in a brewery and does not like beer (no one worries about her drinking on the job);
​- She can usually be found on a dance floor or rollerblades (she has yet to mix both of these);
- Her favourite musical is The Book of Mormon;
- Her favourite play is The Smell of The Kill.

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Kiarra McLellan

Performing monologue #16: ​action news

A few interesting facts about Kiarra:
- She is the oldest of five girls with the biggest age gap being 22 years;
- She has been in over thirty productions, including film work, all the way from Windsor up to Flint, Michigan;
- She has had the privilege to work with Colin Mochrie and Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch;
- Her favourite musicals are Burlesque, Hairspray, and Matilda -- In The Heights, Heathers, and Book of Mormon are all runner ups though!;
- Her favourite plays are A Streetcar Named Desire and Orphans.

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Kirsten McMillan

Performing monologue #31: ​Hey Doug

A few interesting facts about Kirsten:
- She grew up as a farmer's daughter which is at the core of her being;
- She has a new great love for cooking and loves creating dishes for her family;
​- She loves to perform on stage and screen, even though the nerves can get to her sometimes -- it keeps her alive;
- She has many favourite musicals, but the one dearest to her heart is Company because it was the first and only musical she has been a part of;
- Her favourite play is hard to choose, but she did see Hangmen at The Shadowbox Theatre and loved it!

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Cristina Orlando

Performing monologue #53: ​Ambulance

A few interesting facts about Cristina:
- She loves dipping her pizza in gravy. Actually, she likes dipping everything in gravy;
- She likes anything vintage, including people;
​- Her name has no "h", so please stop spelling it wrong.

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Chantel Pare

Performing monologue #43: ​Mother Goose

A few interesting facts about Chantel:
- She is a second-year BRA student at the University of Windsor;
- She has a cat named Duchess Von Meow;
- She accidentally memorized the entirety of the movie Coraline as a kid;
- Her favourite musical is Heathers;
- Her favourite play is The Beauty Queen of Leenane

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Cheri Scratch

Performing monologue #37: ​the return

A few interesting facts about Cheri:
- She can exist on a diet of Canada Dry and red licorice;
- She believes your learning process is NEVER complete;
​- She has difficulty pulling out any plant or flower that pops up on its own;
- Her favourite musical is Rocks of Ages;
- Her favourite play is Mr Mulberry Saves the Day.