Bryn Kennedy (she/her) is a theatre director, sometimes actor, emerging producer and reluctant writer. She is a scrappy, independent theatre artist whose favourite directing credits include a new interpretation of Vitals by Rosamund Small (Nominated Outstanding Solo Performance, My Entertainment Awards), new play Beneath the Bed by Gabriel Golin (sold-out site-specific run at the Toronto Fringe Festival) and JANE by Camille Intson (Tarragon Greenhouse Festival), a new, speculative fiction drama in development. She assistant directed A Bear Awake In Winter (Canadian Stage Workshop & Next Stage Theatre Festival) and Hamlet (Stratford Festival). She was a member of Nightwood Theatre’s Young Innovators Unit, Paprika Festival Directors Lab, Directors Lab North 2021 and Tarragon Theatre’s inaugural Greenhouse Residency. In 2022, she was a member of Stratford Festival’s Langham Directors Workshop, winning the Jean Gascon Award for Emerging Director. She is currently an Artistic Associate with Directors Lab North and the Marketing and Community Engagement Coordinator for Studio 180 Theatre. Bryn isn’t sure how she ended up being a Dora Juror, but is grateful for the opportunity to serve her community all the same.