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Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. Age: Let’s say that I’m in my early 30s. Education: Graduated from the Music Theatre Program at Sheridan College. Length of time at current gig: This will be my sixth season. Fans see you on the Air Canada Centre jumbotron or on stage in Jurassic Park, but what does being an in-game […]
Found the source, gained her trust, pitched and reported this story for FLARE.com. Was retweeted by Kelly Oxford on Twitter. Zoe was sexually assaulted the first time she went to a nightclub, but she didn’t realize it until nearly a decade later. (We’ve changed her name at her request.) Now in her mid 20s, Zoe […]
Written for FLARE’s 9-5 series. … Did you know early on that you wanted to be a singer? Yes. Going to school was kind of something I did until I could figure out what I needed to do to get into the music industry, because I wasn’t going to sit around and do nothing. Why […]
Written for FLARE.com. Stepping into The Goods studio in late September feels like the first day of school. There’s an anticipatory buzz in the air and everything, from the white leather couch to the birch tree-print backdrop looks brand new. Yet, when the four co-hosts take the stage, it feels like they’ve known each other forever. […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What was your experience looking through the actual merchandise? When you go on a website or into a store, you see the same thing over and over again and I didn’t understand what made something good. There are different price points for sex toys that look exactly the same. So […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What it like to see your words come to life in film? Depending on the film, it can be very thrilling. However, because of the inconsistency of the outcome of projects, be it in film or theatre, I really focus more on the experience of writing and collaborating as being […]
Pitched Q&A and completed for FLARE.com. Trinidad-born, Mississauga-raised Shivani Persad—a model, blogger and activist—gets honest about the modelling industry’s diversity issues and why the All Woman Project is so necessary. Cellulite and stretch marks are about as welcome at a photo shoot as deep dish pizza but two body-positive models were determined to celebrate the female […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What does a reality TV producer do? It can range anywhere from coming up with an idea to casting a concept to selling a show to developing a show to figuring out financing. It involves managing the creative and the business elements through production to seeing the show on the […]
Written for FLARE’s 9-5 series. … What does it mean to be a DJ? I’m the party captain. I have a crowd where some people are wasted, some people are sober, some people don’t want to be there but their friends dragged them out. It’s my job, within the first 10 minutes of my set, to […]
