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When 2020 rolls in, Prudence Munroe opens the year feeling sorry for herself after a toxic relationship breakup. She is unemployed and spends her time watching television, trolling social media and job hunting until she meets a woman online. No sooner does she land a new job and the promise of a relationship, the city goes into lockdown and Prudence fears for her job. The last to hire, the first to fire an adage that wreaks havoc on her mind is threatening her mental health capacities. It’s a new normal that she never bargained for at the beginning of the year. Fortunately for her, she is now confined to working from home and is still able to maintain her new job. She now has to navigate working online with a new relationship that begins with the pandemic and is destined to take her through the gamut of emotions digitally. The business of Virtual is not Actual and Prudence is now an online maven destined to keep her new relationship relevant and hold a job down through Login, Password, Logout.

‘Login Password Logout’ was inspired by the COVID Confessions of the general public. Convergence Theatre encouraged the public to send them either voicemails, emails or text messages to articulate how they are coping with COVID in May 2020. Out of 39 submissions a group of artists including Rhoma were given these bytes to create art. ‘Login Password and Logout’ is a mashup of nine covid confessions from this list.

October 21, 2021 at 7:00 PM

About the artist

Rhoma Spencer is an Actor, Play creator, Director and Comedian. She is a veteran Theatre Practitioner practicing in Toronto since 2001. A graduate of York University with an MFA in Directing she formed the now defunct Theatre Archipelago(TA) in 2005 and under her Artistic Direction the company produced Mad Miss /Just Jazz in 2005, Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine (2006), Twilight Café (2007), I Marcus Garvey (2009) Obeah Opera (2012).

Acting credits include: Solitudes (ALUNA Theatre), Jean and Dinah (Lordstreet Theatre) Mad Miss, Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine (TA/bcurrent), Stori Ya (bcurrent) and two seasons of the groundbreaking Afri-Canadian sitcom, Da Kink in my Hair for Global TV. Film: Sound of Tears (Short) which received an African Academy Award for Best Narrative Short (Diaspora). The Apartment (TV series Pilot for CCN TV6, Trinidad). Presently acting in the movie Scarborough now in post production.

Directing credits include: Just Jazz, I Marcus Garvey, Our Lady of Spills, Twilight Cafe for Theatre Archipelago, Carnival Medea- Trinidad, For Colored Girls- USA and many more. In addition to stage, she has been the Artistic Director of Pan Alive, the Steelband Music Festival during Caribana for the last three years.

Playcreation Credits: Jean and Dinah by Tony Hall with Rhoma Spencer and Susan Sandiford, (1994) Shango; Tales of the Orishas with Rawle Gibbons (1996), Bassman (1997), Carnival Medea with Shirlene Holmes (2014). Solitudes- Collective Creation with Bea Pizano (2020).

Rhoma is also the recipient of a US House of Congress Proclamation and the Borough President of NYC Proclamation for her contribution to Caribbean Theatre. She is also featured in the Who is Who in Black Canada and in The 50th Independence Anniversary publication of Distinguished Nationals of Trinidad and Tobago in Canada in the field of Arts and Culture. In 2017 she founded Canadian-Caribbean Arts Network and was the Artistic Director of the Canada contingent participating in CARIFESTA XIII in Barbados and again at CARIFESTA XIV in Trinidad and Tobago in 2019. She is also featured in The Kenny Robinson’s Nubian Disciples of Comedy 25th anniversary album (2020) available on Amazon, ITunes and Spotify.

Crystal Ferrier has performed all over the world from Canada, to NewYork, to India.  The first Indian woman to headline Kenny Robinson’s Nubian Disciples of Pryor and the newest addition to Kevin Hart’s LOL network, she is one to watch out for.  By day, this SuperWoman is a Behavioural Therapist. By night, she is an actress, comedian, writer and producer. Also a mother of 2, this funny mummy’s real-life, raw comedic personality is unforgettable and will captivate anyone who falls in her company.