Mum's The Word - The Birth

The Birth It was the Spring of 1993 in Vancouver, Canada. Six women who had once been exciting, glamorous and professional actors were now exhausted, bedraggled amateur mothers with ten children under six between them. They decided to get together to write a show about motherhood.
	They met regularly on Saturday mornings with their children. They talked, they laughed, they whined, they complained and they laughed some more. Suddenly their first performance was just three weeks away. Although they had nothing on paper, they felt enormously better about their children, their skills as mothers and their lives in general. They had reinvented group therapy. Luckily, in the ancient tradition of oral history, they remembered each other's stories and Mum's the Word was born.
Eight years and more than ten thousand performances later, Mum's the Word has crossed the international dateline and the equator.

THE AUTHORS

LINDA A. CARSON
Linda is thrilled to have Mum’s The Word return to Scotland because her father, Ronald Campbell Carson was born and raised there. She is a graduate of Canada’s renowned Studio 58 acting program and has been a professional actor, clown and writer for the past sixteen years. Linda’s first play "Dying To Be Thin" won a Jessie Richardson Award in Vancouver. Linda lives with her husband and two sons in St. Catherine's, Ontario where she continues to write and act.

JILL DAUM
Jill Daum is a graduate of the Studio 58 Acting Program in Vancouver Canada. Immediately after completing her training she began a career which has spanned 20 years thus far. Jill has worked as a writer and actor in theatre, film, television and radio.

ROBIN NICHOL
Robin holds an MFA in directing and has been stage managing, directing, workshopping, and occasionally creating new Canadian plays since 1984. For three years she was the Associate Artistic Director at the New Play Centre in Vancouver, and has kept busy the rest of the time freelancing and reproducing. Most recently she has been directing and/or teaching acting at several colleges in British Columbia, and considering the frightful implications of the onset of puberty.

DEBORAH WILLIAMS
Deborah is an insightful writer/performer/director known by her dark eye for comedy and her willingness to spill her guts in the name of art or at least for the price of a laugh. She is a graduate of the acclaimed Studio 58 acting program in Vancouver, Canada.

BARBARA POLLARD
A professional in theatre, film and television for over 30 years, Barbara enjoyed the thrill of doing the role she created for Mum's The Word in Scotland's sold out tour of 2002. A former member of Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Canada), she now resides in Vancouver where she works as an actress, director, writer, teacher and creator. She has made thousands or people laugh, inspired hundreds of students, helped produce two magnificent children but, sadly, has never mastered pastry.

ALISON KELLY
Alison Kelly is a graduate of Studio 58 in Vancouver, Canada. She has been working as an actor, writer, street performer and acting teacher for the past 15 years. Alison lives in a very messy house in North Vancouver with her husband and two children. She fantasizes about living in a tidy house and spending her days gardening.