Special Guest: Sandra Shamas

Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Sandra studied improvisation at Second City in 1982, and joined its touring company in 1984. She came to national attention in 1987 with the Edmonton Fringe Movement performance of My Boyfriend’s Back and There’s Going to Be Laundry.

Among her other works are: The Cycle Continues, Wedding Bell Hell (all published under the title: My Boyfriend’s Back and There’s Going to Be Laundry and subsequently nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award and the Governor General’s Award) and Wit’s End (1998). She has toured across the country and the US and Great Britain.

She is premiered her highly-anticipated new show, Love Life, in February 2011, and takes it to Ottawa’s National Theater Center this April.

In her own words, “Love Life is the last in the Wit’s End trilogy. It’s about threshing through the first 50 years of my life, deciding what to keep, what to change and what to let go of, in order to move into the second half of this big adventure, I call Life. I’m 50, I’m blowing hot and cold, and I want what I want … and I really like it! They don’t call it ‘The Change’ for nothing!”