Donna Michelle St. Bernard

Bio

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard aka Belladonna the Blest is an emcee, playwright and agitator. Her main body of work, the 54ology, includes: The First Stone, Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Dark Love, Roominhouse, Salome’s Clothes, Gas Girls, Give It Up, The Smell of Horses, and Diggers. Commissioned works include Reaching For Starlight (Geordie Theatre), Say the Words (Wrecking Ball), The House You Build (GTNT). Opera libretti include Forbidden (Afarin Mansouri/Tapestry Opera), Oubliette and Nucleosynthesis (Ivan Barbotin/Tapestry Opera). DM has collaborated on the creation of The Only Good Indian with Jivesh Parasram and Tom Arthur Davis, Hope Is A Story with Sunny Drake, They Say He Fell with Nir Bareket and 501: Toronto in Transit with Justin Manyfingers and Bob Naismith. She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the Playwrights Canada Press anthologies Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes, as well as editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays. DM is currently the associate artist at lemonTree Creations and artistic director of New Harlem Productions. She’s aight.