“Style is to forget all styles.”
— Jules Renard
Watson has been working as a professional writer since 2020. She has written interviews for Intermission Magazine and CBC, and works with a number of Canadian screenwriters as a developmental editor on an ongoing basis.
Her work in published under the name “Jessica Watson.”
(Re)casting the Shakespearean mold: in conversation with Jamie Robinson and Walter Borden
To say that Jamie Robinson and Walter Borden are fans of the Bard would be an understatement. The two accomplished actors and theatre artists actually met at the Stratford Festival in 2003, and have maintained a friendship ever since. Now, the two are joining forces to re-examine audiences’ and artists’ relationships to the Elizabethan playwright’s work at (Re)Casting Shakespeare in Canada: A Symposium. The topic of Shakespeare’s presence in and on Canadian curricula and stages has long been one of debate. Are we teaching too much of the Bard’s canon, and too often?..
“Everybody has access needs”: in conversation with Stratford Festival’s Kayla Besse
Kayla Besse has what might be described as a highly specific set of skills. She has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Guelph’s school of English and Theatre Studies. Despite the school not offering a standalone disability studies program or department, she integrated disability studies into her work in English literature and theatre, examining representations of disability in the writing and performing arts, as well as the the histories of disabled people and the degrees of autonomy they have/have not had when telling their own stories and representing themselves.