Willow Kean

Willow Kean is an actor, playwright, and novelist originally from Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador. She holds a BFA in theatre from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and has spent over twenty years working for several theatre companies across the province, and appearing on stages from Vancouver to Northumberland. Willow was a co-writer for Resource Centre for the Arts' iFrancophone and c2c Theatre's adaptation Love You Forever and More Stories by Robert Munsch, both of which toured provincially. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Cuffer Prize, longlisted for the 2022 NLCU Fresh Fish Award, and a winner of the 2018 Percy Janes First Novel Award for her novel Eyes in Front When Running published by Breakwater Books. Her five-woman comedy, Supper Club, premiered at the LSPU Hall in November of 2021. Willow lives in St. John's with her partner, Justin, and their son, Jude. She gets angry, cooks, and writes about it at thelittleredchicken.com.