Michelle T. Clemens is a writer, producer, director, and actor born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She won two Arts and Letters Awards: Showdown won the 2023 Dramatic Script and Ready, Aim won in 2022 for Poetry. Showdown also had a dramatic reading at Persistence Theatre’s Year of the Arts Women’s play festival in 2024, and it was part of the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s International Craft Bites Program. Michelle’s three-act plays Mummering, Mischief and Murder: A Tibbs Eve Farce sold out in December 2023, and Boomerang debuted at the Barbara Barrett Theatre to near-capacity houses.