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📍‘26/27 CBC Actors Conservatory @cfccreates
📺 ‘We’re Getting Out of Here Alive’
Premiers on Lifetime Oct 31st.

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💃🏽“You didn’t think it was locked, did you?”

Yes I did Cynthia~
I thought you were locked… somewhere I wouldn’t be able to access. But like all the characters worth exploring, you stretched my ability to empathize. A little here one night, a little there another. While you and I argued within my body every moment we spent entangled, I often would leave the conversation and image you in the after… Where did you go once you left Bill’s apartment that next day? Who did you grow into?
I hope you found spaces that freed you and helped you decide to no longer “Stay in the background a little”. Thank you for owning your part in such a tender and important conversation my dear. To rest you return. 🤍
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Alice Childress’ ‘WINE IN THE WILDERNESS’
Directed by Jordan Laffrenier
🎭 Canadian Stage, Fall 2026.

Virgilia Griffith as TOMMY
Mazin Elsadig as BILL
Andrew Moodie as OLDTIMER
L.A. Sweeney as CYNTHIA
Jamar Adams-Thompson as SONNYMAN

Once again to our tremendous Company✨- Thank you endlesssly for your artistry and efforts which elevated this entire show and covered every corner of the work.
To our witnesses- Thank you for your attention and care. May you have left with something worth realizing.🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
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#WineInTheWilderness #AliceChildress #CanadianStage by @thelasweeney

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Harvest Moon. Collect it baby.
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#unpunkthyself #opening by @thelasweeney

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22 days ago

🍷 Wine in the Wilderness ~
ON STAGE September 24-Oct 11 2026 @ The Berkeley Street Theatre 🎟️ www.canadianstage.com
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📸 Photos by Dahlia Katz

Cast 🎭 Virgilia Griffith, Mazin Elsadig, Andrew Moodie, L.A. Sweeney, Jamar Adams-Thompson

🖊️ Stageplay by Alice Childress
🧢 Directed by Jordan Laffrenier
🎨 Set & Costume Design by Scott Penner
🖼️ Paintings by Craig Guthrie
✨ Lighting Design by Daniel Bennett
🔊 Sound Design by Olivia Wheeler
📋 Stage Managed by Wei Qing Tan
🎧 Assistant Stage Managed by Ciaran Brenneman
🗣️ Dialect Coaching by Jane Gooderham and Peter N. Bailey
🫂 Intimacy Direction by Anisa Tejpar
👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏻 Crew and Production [Gil, Karen, Jane, Sarah, Jessie, Marcela, Mary, Chynah, Janet, Geoff, Erica and Sharon]
🏋🏽‍♀️ Upheld by The Undeniable Scope of the Canadian Stage Team including its Directors, Producers, Associates and Supporters
⭐️ Cared for by The Berkeley Street Theatre Staff

And-a-Here We Go! 💃🏽 by @thelasweeney

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25 days ago

Participation ribbon for making it out 🎀
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#beinghuemann #tiff by @thelasweeney

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a month ago

🎭 MEET OUR HOST: L.A. SWEENEY 🔥

From Slam contestant to Slam Champion to Slam Host. 👑

We’re thrilled to welcome L.A. Sweeney back to the Monologue Slam, this time taking the stage as our host for the 13th Annual TIFF Edition — Season (Sweet) Sixteen! 🎤🔥

L.A.’s relationship with the Slam goes way back.

During the pandemic, when theatres went dark, L.A. submitted a monologue to the Virtual Monologue Slam to keep performing and stay connected.

Six years later… look at her now. 👀🔥

In 2026, L.A. earned a Dora Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Individual for her portrayal of Agnes in Tracy Letts’ Bug. 🏆

She joined the 2026 Canadian Film Centre Actors Conservatory and continues to build an exciting career across film, television and theatre.

L.A. most recently appears in Being Heumann, directed by Siân Heder, portraying civil rights activist Ericka Huggins. The film is the Opening Night Film of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. 🎬✨

And if that wasn’t enough…

L.A. is also a Monologue Slam champion, having won in New York, and becoming the first dual-country champion after winning Battle Acts in 2023. 🏆🏆

Now she’s coming back to where part of her journey began.

But this time, she’s not submitting a monologue hoping to be seen.

She’s taking the stage to help others be seen. ❤️‍🔥

That’s what the Slam is about.

The work. 🎭
The opportunity. 🎤
The community. 🤝🏾
The next chapter. 🔥

Welcome home, L.A. Sweeney. 👑

📍 Drake Underground
📅 Sunday, September 13, 2026
🎟️ Get your tickets. Come watch the work.

13th Annual TIFF Monologue Slam
Season (Sweet) Sixteen

#TIFFSLAM #SWEET16 #MonologueSlam #LASweeney by @thelasweeney

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🚨 RETURNING CAST MEMBER 🚨 @thelasweeney is back playing the role of “Jade” and she is NOT holding back

#casting #castingannouncement #tbs3outtv #outtv by @thelasweeney

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a month ago

🪄D O R A S 2 0 2 6🙏🏽
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4th slide 📸 cred: Teagan McCanny 🫶🏽 by @thelasweeney

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3 months ago

☀️👙🏖️ So mi like it. by @thelasweeney

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4 months ago

Love a screen grab dooowwwnnnn. 💧
Garden of le #selftape by @thelasweeney

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4 months ago

Dirty Flash + Boost Cool @ 20 by @thelasweeney

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4 months ago

I wrote this down 🙏🏽
✨ ALIGNED STATE OF FLOW.

OVER THE MOON about my DORA Mavor Moore Award Nomination for Outstanding Performance in a play.🥹

THANK YOU to the DORA jurors who gave all the productions their full attention and time and found themselves moved enough to bestow me with this delightful honour 🙏🏽 ! @tapa_to

Thank you to @thekingblackbox and @elkabongtheatre for trusting me with AGNES.

Thank you to @dandyandyworld for supreme, gentle and illuminating guidance. 🫶🏽

To @nicholas_eddie for challenging and nurturing my performance and to the rest of our beautiful cast @museeffect @alexflorasmatic & Sean Jacklin for elevating the telling of this crushingly beautiful story.

To @sophieannrooney for being the sort of artistic kinship one could only dream of and literally setting the stage for our magic to occur. @itsgrish for being the maker of it all and the foundation on which we stood. @byamandamichele for HOLDING US DOWN and marching in step with us beat for beat.

To the critics and our audiences 😍 who came in droves and spread the word like wildfire allowing so many to join us for this special production, TE AMO MUCHO MUCHO!!

And of course a major thank you to Tracy Letts for writing a character in a world like no other. You’re a special one BUG 💥

Special and forever shouts to my agent @mr.andrenewell @shortlistartists for steering me through this fun I call a career. And DUH My Lover and Children for being the literal reason any of this matters 🥰

2026 IS A HITTER!! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

📸 Photo credits:
Slide 1 @vvmyyz
Slide 4&6 @natecolitto by @thelasweeney

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Pull-up to your apartment unannounced on some 90’s Gina time.

📸 @vvmyyz by @thelasweeney

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