SPIZZY LIVE! at The Liar's Club - a comedy talk show

Spizzy is hosting a very special edition of SPIZZY LIVE at The Liar's Club in February! To promote the upcoming fundraiser and live reading of WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION a new incarnation by the provocative Sky Gilbert Spizzy will be interviewing the show's brilliant director Ed Roy and the star; the iconic Bon Vivant Elley Ray Hennessy.

SPIZZY LIVE at The Liar’s Club

Thursday February 13th

7:00 – 8:30pm

The Imperial Pub

54 Dundas Street East Toronto

ED ROY:

With a career spanning 40 years Ed’s various activities as a theatre practitioner include directing writing devising dramaturgy acting teaching lecturing and producing. He has been the recipient of numerous nominations and awards including: The Pauline McGibbon Award for Directing Dora Award for Outstanding Direction (Including five Dora nominations for Outstanding Direction) Three Dora Awards for Outstanding Productions (Including four Dora nominations for Outstanding Productions) Chalmers Play writing Award (Including two nominations) As an actor Ed was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance in Video Cabarets' The Life and Times of Mackenzie King. His is also the proud recipient of Toronto’s Harold Alternative Theatre Award. His productions and plays have been produced and toured extensively throughout Canada the United States England and Japan. He has been a guest instructor and lecturer at The National Theatre School of Canada Trent University Brock University University of Guelph Humber College and George Brown College. He is currently on the faculty of Centre for Indigenous Theatre. He was Company Dramaturge for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for 14years and has dramaturgically guided the development of mainstage plays for The Stratford Festival The National Arts Centre Factory Theatre Citadel Theatre Theatre Pass Muraille Theatre Direct and YouthTheatre Montreal. Ed also directed and dramaturged Waawaatee Foberter’s award-wining one-person show Agokwi Darla Contois award-wining one-person show White Man’s Indian and Pesch Napoose’s one-person show The Bridge. In 2024 Ed was a recipient of the Life Membership Equity Honors Award for making a lasting contribution to Canadian live performing arts and artists.

ELLEY RAY HENNESSY:

Elley Ray Hennessy is an avant-garde international award-winning bon vivant who has dazzled audiences for 45 years across film television radio and stage. A true powerhouse in the entertainment industry Elley has excelled in acting writing

directing producing and casting. Her significant contributions to the arts and humanities have earned her a Doctorate of Laws. Recently Elley returned from performing at My Little Pony conventions in Shanghai Beijing and Jinan China where she was greeted by fans and signed autographs. She stars as Warden Morgan Dungworth in the hit TV show Pink Is In for which she was recently nominated for Best Actress in a Series at the Canadian Screen Awards. She is currently filming Pink Is In: The Movie and will be attending Hamilton Comic Con. Elley published her first children's book My Shakey World a story about epilepsy and is currently working on her second book under the same theme with plans to create an animated series based on the concept. She also voices an array of animated characters ranging from a 55-year-old man with Asperger’s to a magical unicorn a

helmeted duck and a singing designer witch. Currently Elley is filming the TV Series-Coming Home workshopping 3 new theatrical productions and enjoying the international world premiere of Dullsville and the Doodleverse at TIFF where she plays the iconic beloved Queen of the Doodles Nana.

The Liars Club Manifesto:

Art is important because it is morally ambiguous. In this totally polarized culture –where we are alone believing the various orthodoxies we find on our computers — each of us has come to imagine that we are a crusader for what is right and what is wrong. WE NEED ART. Art offers no truth. It offers no answers; only questions it shocks upsets and unsettles and demands that we use our own minds and hearts to think feel explore undiscovered countries and change our mind. Art is a LIE. This is why we need The Liars Club!

Host or Publisher Sky Gilbert