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It's official!! I am moving back to Toronto, and am currently seeking Agents & Managers in the Toronto GTA, for the management of my acting and music careers. If you are an Agent, Manager or Casting Director, please visit my "Actress CV" tab & "My Work" tabs.

 

August 2013                                  Naomi-Joy to be cast as Regina Engstrand in an upcoming live production of GHOSTS.

 

GHOSTS, originally written by Norweigian Playwright Henrik Ibsen, is described as a "scathing commentary on 19th century morality. Produced by the Lunacy theatre company, GHOSTS is set to run in November 2013, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

July 23rd, 2013                              My Two Short Films to be Screened at the 2013 Atlantic Film Festival!!

 

I'm pleased to announce that TWO films I wrote and Produced (and one with me as the lead), will be featured in the ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVAL's 2013 ATLANTIC SHORTS line up, as announced during their press release this morning with Global TV and CBC. The projects are:

 

1. SheMachine: A NEW ADDICTION - A narrative music video, with a Sci-Fi retro-futuristic feel, based on our upcoming web series about two female vigilates, collectively known as SheMachine (also an 80s New Wave inspired synth-pop duo).

 

2. EDNOS -  A cinematic, entertaining, but emotional inside look into the psychosis of a young woman with an eating disorder. Jolene is beautiful, professional, has lots of friends and has a healthy weight. From the obsessive compulsive and ritualistic way she purges to the pride she feels while doing it, to her, it's a lifestyle, a choice, and she's in complete control; or is she? Based on the director's real life struggle with an Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (E.D.N.O.S).

 

*Visit the "My Work" tab above for more details

Principal Role: Margorie Mbleu in SEX&VIOLENCE
 

Margorie Mbleu ("a sexually paralyzed women's shelter manager) in Thom Fitzgerald's upcoming six part mini-series SEX & VIOLENCE. I had the opportunity to perform throughout the series along side Academy-Award winner Olympia Dukakis and Gemini-Award winning actresses Jennie Raymond & Jackie Torrens.

 

SEX & VIOLENCE is a groundbreaking Canadian dramatic series dissecting the grim world of intimate partner abuse through the eyes of a team of burning-out professionals who comprise the city’s domestic assault response unit.

 

It airs in the Fall of 2013 on OutTV, Canada's Premier LGBTQ Network.

Actor Role & some improvised French Lines in TRAILER PARK BOYS 3: Legalize It!

 

While on the set of the new TRAILER PARK BOYS movie - written and directed by Canadian Comedy Guru, Mike Clattenburg - his wife (and my dear friend) noticed that nobody was speaking French in a scene which takes place in Montreal.

 

The director immediately said "Hey! Naomi-Joy speaks fluent French!" This of course was only a partial truth. I can speak French...er... read it...sing in French, learn lines already written for me in French....I have a good accent... but I am NOT a fluent French conversationalist. Ha! Nevertheless, a good actress is always prepare to perform cold!

 

After discussing what it was that he wanted the character to say, we wrote a new line on the spot (which I repeated many times to a couple of BG Performers who DID speak fluent French, just to make sure it sounded okay), and BAM! My first bilingual role.

 

 

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