PARENT'S NIGHT by George F. Walker

Shannon Donnelly is an award winning actor who has performed on stages across Ontario. She fell in love with acting at six and has pursued that passion ever since. As an alumnus of the University of Ottawa in Theatre and graduate with honours of the St. Lawrence College's Musical Theatre program, Shannon has experience with many aspects of the craft including costuming, makeup, film, theatre and voice acting. 

Some of her favourite roles include Aunt Eller (Oklahoma!) Baroness Schroeder (Sound of Music) and Jane (Babe Ruth Comes to Pickle River). Recent roles include Sarah (Company), Diane (Blood River), Witch Hazel (The Witch and the Glitch), Tania (The Fall After Midsummer) and Pauline (Jekyll & Hyde).

Shannon is thrilled to be back at Theatre Kingston, working alongside a fabulous cast and crew! Off stage she lives happily as a makeup artist/instructor and mum to her two amazing daughters

Tony is a filmmaker, teacher & actor with credits on CBC, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Bell Fibe TV 1, Out TV, TVO, CTV, Broadway On Demand, The Cartoon Network, Global, ​and the Tribeca Film Festival! Recently he starred in the film Going Up opposite Colin Mochrie and guest starred on the upcoming comedic tv series Overcompensating (Amazon Prime video). 

Favourite Theatre credits include Mozart in Amadeus (National Comedy Theatre, NYC), Julian in The Epitome of Regret(Regent Theatre, Vancouver), & Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (Kingston Grand Theatre). 

Tony has performed comedy & improv with the improvOlympicin Los Angeles, Second City and Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto and for 15 years with the Canadian Improv Showcase all across Canada. He is half of the improv duo "All-Inclusive Comedy", with whom he recently headlined at Comedy Country in Prince Edward County. This is Tony's second journey into the world of George F. Walker after playing Juniorin Escape from Happiness at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto. He is thrilled to be part of Parents Night and to be working with this amazing cast & creative team! 

NYC

Emily spent her youth starring in school productions, including her proudest role portraying Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.  She prioritized her love of theatre into early adulthood and was a member of Oshawa Little Theatre and was featured as a background role in Toronto-based hit teen drama Degrassi: Next Class. She moved to Kingston to pursue her educational goals and for almost a decade, her thespian lifestyle was put on hold. It was fate that during one of her shifts working at a diner downtown she served Rosemary Doyle, and since then, her life has never been the same. As well as a revived actor, Emily is also a devoted Swiftie, a local journalist, and a proud mother of her two feline children, Hamster and Skunk. At 28, she is excited to be returning to her passion and is grateful to be working with the Theatre Kingston team!

Happening at Tett Centre Hall - 370 Kingston St W - 2nd floor.

Written by  George F. Walker Directed by Ian Malcolm



Parents Night is a scathing, bold and hilarious look at the inside of an elementary school classroom. Turning his incisive eye towards the crumbling education system, Walker finds an exciting new arena for the trademark characters that only he can create — flawed, dynamic, and fully human. John, heartbroken and humiliated by a recent betrayal, arrives at his son’s classroom for parent’s night to find Nicole, an over worked educator on the brink, no longer content to dole out platitudes when it comes to her students and how certain she is that their parents are screwing them up. Enter Rosie, another parent, who exists so far outside John’s upper middle class bubble that she calls into question everything he thought he knew and believed. As the story erupts in real time, John, Rosie & Nicole find themselves unraveling. Secrets are revealed, their pre-conceptions of one another fall away, and what’s left are three damaged, fully human individuals on the brink. A teacher, trying to do her best under impossible circumstances, a father, trying not to let his anger and pain consume his son, and a mother, hoping that her own mistakes don’t spell the fate of her daughter.