How to Live with Dread – by Jane Wells

Jane Wells grew up in Cascumpeque, PEI but has spent the past 20 years in Toronto working as a writer, actor and director. Since 2017, she has been leading drama workshops for children with The River Clyde Pageant in New Glasgow, PEI, of which she is the Co-Director. These sessions serve as a springboard for children to join the Pageant as performers; over the past three years, workshops have helped forge a youth ensemble with a powerful creative voice.

Wells wrote How to Live with Dread shortly after losing her brother Ker. She grapples in this work with how to find the way forward in life and in her work without him — so close was their connection as siblings and collaborators. The piece shines a gentle light on grief and one’s identity within, and after, loss.

Jane describes How to Live with Dread as “a show about family, about death, and about the work of creation… But in a fun way!”