{{short description|Canadian playwright}} {{Infobox person | name = Rose Napoli | image = Rose Napoli at the 2019 Bell Media Prime Time TV Program Showcase (49651743781).jpg | alt = head and shoulder photo of smiling white woman with black shoulder-length hair, holding an award | caption = Rose Napoli at the 2019 Bell Media Prime Time TV Program Showcase | other_names = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | occupation = {{plainlist| *Playwright *Actor }} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)'' }} '''Rose Napoli''' is a Canadian playwright and actor. Napoli is an alumnus of Nightwood Theatre's Write From the Hip Program where she developed her play ''Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells'').
== Career ==
=== Acting === In 2016, Napoli was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in the Theatre for Young Audiences division of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards for her performance in Roseneath Theatre's ''The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh.''<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2016 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Nominees & Recipients|url=https://tapa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/DORA-2016-RECIPIENTS-GRID-FINAL.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-25|website=Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)|page=9}}</ref> In 2017, Napoli starred as math teacher Gabriella in Rob Kempson's ''Trigonometry.''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bimm|first=Jordan|date=2017-03-22|title=Trigonometry is well acted but needs a lesson in narrative logic|language=en-us|work=NOW Magazine|url=https://nowtoronto.com/culture/theatre/trigonometry-is-well-acted-but-needs-a-lesson-in-narrative-l/|access-date=2020-06-26}}</ref> In 2018, Napoli was Celia in the St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival's production of ''As You Like It''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Langston|first=Patrick|date=2018-08-16|title=New Artistic Director Shakes Up The St. Lawerence Shakespeare Fest With A Season Of Love|url=https://thetheatretimes.com/new-artistic-director-shakes-up-the-st-lawerence-shakespeare-fest-with-a-season-of-love/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-26|website=The Theatre Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Napoli played Beatrice in the 2019 Shakespeare in High Park production of ''Much Ado About Nothing'' as directed by Liza Balkan.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Teodoro|first=José|date=2019-07-16|title=Much Ado About Nothing in High Park is an uneven outdoor offering|url=https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/a64a9a50-a7cd-11e9-b57a-12f1225286c6/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019-07-13|title=This Much Ado About Nothing gives Shakespeare a 1990s romcom sensibility|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/review/2019/07/13/this-much-ado-about-nothing-gives-shakespeare-a-1990s-romcom-sensibility.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Toronto Star|language=en}}</ref> In Nightwood Theatre's 2019 premiere of ''Grace'', Napoli played the titular Grace's older sister Sarah.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fein-Goldbach|first=Debbie|date=2019-01-15|title=Grace sheds a powerful light on the effects of childhood sexual abuse|url=https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/80d64e38-18e2-11e9-8dc4-120e7ad5cf50/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref>
=== Playwriting === Napoli's play ''Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains'' premiered at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival with Napoli in the lead role of Lucy.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Sumi|first1=Glenn|last2=Bimm|first2=Jordan|date=2017-06-28|title=10 Fringe artists to watch|url=https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/029c6d52-5c20-11e7-8838-0a5fbc963f88/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-26|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref> The 2017 production was directed by Carly Chamberlain and co-starred Jakob Ehman as Bennett.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sumi|first=Glenn|date=2017-07-08|title=Fringe review: Ten Creative Ways To Dispose Of Your Cremains|url=https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/7deea318-6197-11e7-a975-0a5fbc963f88/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref> Napoli described ''Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains'' as "millennial love letter to the misfits of the Peter Pan Generation".<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Wheeler|first=Brad|date=2017-06-28|title=Actor-playwright Rose Napoli is one of the young stars to see at Toronto Fringe|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/actor-playwright-rose-napoli-is-one-of-the-young-stars-to-see-at-toronto-fringe/article35489379/|access-date=2020-06-26}}</ref>
''Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)'' premiered in October 2017 as part of Nightwood Theatre's Consent Event double-bill alongside Ellie Moon's ''Asking For It''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cole|first=Susan G.|date=2017-10-04|title=Two new plays complicate the conversation about consent|url=https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/8ea095c2-a878-11e7-8f98-121bebc5777e/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref> Napoli developed ''Lo'' as part of Nightwood's Write From The Hip script development program in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2017-10-30|title="Consent, Growing Up & Telling Difficult Stories" In Conversation with Rose Napoli, playwright of LO (OR DEAR MR. WELLS)|url=https://inthegreenroom.ca/2017/10/30/rose-napoli-lo-or-dear-mr-wells/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-26|website=In The Green Room|language=en}}</ref> The play is a two-hander that follows 25 year old Laura as she revisits a relationship she had with her English teacher, Mr. Wells, when she was 15. The 2017 premiere was directed by Andrea Donaldson and starred Vivien Endicott-Douglas as Laura and Sam Kalilieh as Mr. Wells. The play was inspired by Napoli's experiences working as an educator.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Campbell|first=Trevor|date=2017-11-01|title=Lo (Or Dear Mr. Wells) delivers uncomfortable truths we need to face|url=https://nowtoronto.com/api/content/8d9618be-bf2a-11e7-9b14-121bebc5777e/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref> ''Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)'' was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding New Play in 2018.
Napoli's play, ''Mad Madge'', about Margaret Cavendish, is set to premiere with Nightwood Theatre in April 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rabinowitz |first=Chloe |date=2024-02-07 |title=Nightwood Theatre to Present MAD MADGE This Spring |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/article/Nightwood-Theatre-to-Present-MAD-MADGE-This-Spring-20240207 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Plays ==
* ''A Death and the Marias'' * ''Legacy'' * ''Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)'' * ''Oregano'' * ''Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains'' * ''That's Amore'' * ''Mad Madge''
== Awards == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Award !Category !Work !Result !Ref. |- |2016 |Dora Mavor Moore Awards - Theatre for Young Audiences |Outstanding Performance - Individual |''The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh'' |{{Nom}} | rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nominees|url=https://tapa.ca/dora-awards/past-awards/nominees/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=TAPA|language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2018 |Dora Mavor Moore Awards - General Theatre |Outstanding New Play |''Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)'' |{{Nom}} |}
== References == <references />
== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|id=8498789}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Napoli, Rose}} Category:21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Category:Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Category:Canadian stage actresses Category:21st-century Canadian actresses Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)