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News

We stay busy all the time. Here you can read about some of our latest adventures.
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Fall Tour in Quebec

In September, we had our fill of delightful audiences, bagels, and poutine as we toured to the TaDa! Festival in Wakefield and the Montreal Clown Festival. Our closing show in Montreal had one of our favourite moments of all time, as a little boy dressed as a bunny joined us onstage for an ending that left everyone in tears.

Click here to read more about the Montreal Clown Festival

Click here to read about our show at the TaDa! Festival in Wakefield
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Morro and Jasp:
​Save the Date

After a sold-out, smash hit run at the Toronto Fringe, Morro and Jasp: Save the Date was an official selection at Best of Fringe at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. After being featured in the Toronto Star, and as the Cover Clowns for NOW Magazine, we had one of our most successful shows to date.

"This favourite Fringe duo is full-on hilarious...the script is funny and uniquely descriptive" NNNNN NOW Magazine
"Toronto’s favourite clown sisters have a new two-hander in the Fringe this year and it’s everything you ever wanted from them"
​Mooney on Theatre

MTYP Fall Tour

​Of Mice and Morro and Jasp was part of Manitoba Theatre for Young People's 2017/18 season. We toured to high schools across Manitoba with bunnies in tow and Steinbeck in hand, changing the world one teenager at a time.

We got terrific feedback from students and teachers alike. Here is one of our favourite teacher reviews from Vincent Massey C.I. in Winnipeg:
“ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!  They loved every moment of it. Students said it was ‘one of the best things I have ever seen’, ‘Super entertaining but meaningful too’, I am amazed at how they took the novel and made it so relevant’.  As an educator, I was thoroughly impressed from top to bottom.  You are doing important work.  Thank you for this.”
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Morro and Jasp in Stupefaction

Morro and Jasp in Stupefaction premiered at Crow's Theatre in June 2017. It was our most ambitious show to date and it played to packed and enthusiastic audiences. It was produced by Kabin and U.N.I.T. Productions and employed an amazing team of 25!

Puberty in Winnipeg

Morro and Jasp do Puberty was officially selected to be a part of Sarasvàti Productions' FemFest 2016 lineup. The show had packed performances and it was a delicious homecoming to the city where this show first debuted in 2008. While we were there, we talked to high school students, university students, we taught two workshops, and we talked about periods on the radio. Mission successful!
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ARTISTS FOR FORT MAC
Fundraiser in Support of Fort McMurray Fire Relief

On Wednesday, May 11, Morro and Jasp hosted some of the best comedy and musical acts in Toronto when they put on a special fundraising show for the relief efforts of the Canadian Red Cross Alberta Fires Appeal. The event was produced by U.N.IT. Productions, MARRAM, and KABIN Studio. Their goal was to raised $5,000 and the event more than doubled that by raising $13,000.

Performers included Elvira Kurt, Chris Gibbs, DeAnne Smith, Silvi Santoso, Mark Correia, Jennifer Walls, Kevin Wong, Reid Janisse, Ashley Botting, Kris Siddiqi, Caroline Brooks of The Good Lovelies, Tiny Danza, Ellevan, Duff MacDonald, Jenn Kee, The Younger Brothers (Jason O'Brien, Andy Perun and Steven McCarthy), Ergo Sum (Pamela Gilmartin, Jeff Shewchuk and Donna Michelle St. Bernard), Jeff Giles, Clancy, and McCallaman.

Sponsors, donors and visual artists offered door prizes, food and beverage, silent auction items and services. They included Dual Audio, Cinq Foods, Steamwhistle Brewery, Cobs Bread, Red Rocket Coffee, JustB Salon, Left Field Brewery, Catherine M. Thompson, George Street Diner, Toronto Dance Theatre, Shakespeare BASH'd, Steven Nederveen, Elisabeth Munsterhjelm, Second City Toronto, Nightwood Theatre, Storefront Theatre, Alex Nirta Photography, Anastasia Goryachih, Tanya Klochkov, Clare Preuss, The Good Lovelies, Jeff Giles, Ellevan, The Circus Academy, Mann Casting, Tapestry Opera, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Mirvish Productions, Mythical Matters, Joe Sutherland, Sage Whitworth Photography, Kliffer Entertainment, The Food Dudes and Fly Girl Fitness. Media coverage by Glenn Sumi (NOW Magazine), Jill Deacon (CBC Radio Here & Now) and Paul Dutton & Julianna Greco (Snap’d) is also greatly appreciated as were Alexis Da Silva-Powell’s TAPA Industry Listings inclusion (Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts).

The “Artists for Fort Mac” fundraiser took place at KABIN, a new arts incubator at 11 Carlaw Avenue, Unit 6, Toronto (south of Queen and Carlaw). 
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Spring Flings

On April 28th, we performed at Buddies in Bad Times in This n' That hosted by the amazing Mary Ellen MacLean. The event was sold out and we had buckets of fun!

On April 9th, we performed at The Comedy Bar in A Very Mark Forward Pajama Party. It was a sold out evening of hilarity and we got to play with some of the best stand ups around. You can read Exclaim's write up of the evening here!
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​Of Mice and Morro and Jasp in ViennA

On December 1, 2015, we performed  Of Mice and Morro and Jasp to a sold-out audience (with a waiting list) at the international clownin Festival in Vienna. Our show was the Canadian show amongst eleven others from Japan, Brazil, Turkey, Italy, Russia, France, Austria, Argentina, Brazil and Sweden. It was a delicious and exciting adventure and we look forward to more globe-trotting adventures soon!

Morro and Jasp in Edinburgh

Morro and Jasp do Puberty sold out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and earned rave reviews.

"Witty and entertaining...they manage to remove any sense of taboo for the men in the audience during their performance: this is not just for mothers, daughters or female friends: it’s for sons, boyfriends, male friends and dads." ★★★★
The List

"Masters of their craft...manages to surprise and shock you" ★★★★
Broadway Baby

"Thank heavens they chose to share their consummate wondrousness with we Edinburghers...brilliantly funny stuff" ★★★★
The Mumble

"Morro and Jasp kept the audience on their toes and delivered a fantastic performance that had the audience laughing from start to finish...everyone fell in love with Morro and Jasp at first sight" ★★★★
Arts Award Voice

"A fun-filled yet unflinching, adrenaline-fuelled rollercoaster...there’s way more bang in their buck than you may be expecting" 
Highly Recommended
Fringe Review

"Bold and empowering...the physical humour on stage in the extreme facial expressions, falling on the stage and other things had this reviewer bent double with laughter in her seat."
Feminist Fest

"Fresh, funny and insightful comedy, and definitely worth seeing." ★★★★
Bouquets and Brickbats


Morro and Jasp do Puberty was presented by U.N.I.T. Productions in Association with Common Boots Theatre
Written and performed by Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee
Direction and Dramaturgy by Byron Laviolette
Clown Direction by John Turner
Produced by Derrick Chua

Thank you to our Tour Sponsor Katherine Rawlinson
Please visit our Page of Heroes to help us recognize all of the generous donors who made this tour possible
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Morro and Jasp: 9-5
​at Factory Theatre

Morro and Jasp: 9-5 closed out Factory's 2014/15 Season and was a huge hit. Here's what the critics had to say:

"The Amy Poehler and Tina Fey of Canadian Clowning" The Globe and Mail 

"One of Toronto theatre’s best feminist teams" The Toronto Star

"9-5 is a world premiere, but I have a feeling it’ll be around for a long time. If there were stock, I’d invest." NOW Magazine

"They made the audience spill two drinks, burst into tears, cringe, groan, smile and damned nearly piss themselves with laughter." Mooney on Theatre

"Absolute. Perfection." BroadwayWorld.com

"Engaging and delightful, heartwarming and sweet and constantly laugh-out-loud funny" TWISI Blog

"A delightful mix of sharp one-liners, Pochinko-style clowning and heart-warming endings" Canadian Jewish News

"No matter where you work, or what you do, you will find yourself howling in recognition at the range of  ridiculous workplace situations on offer." Sprockets and Greasepaint

Gourmand Award

Our bestselling cookbook, Eat Your Heart Out with Morro and Jasp, has won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award for "Best Innovative Cookbook" in English Canada! The awards are often referred to as the "Oscars of food awards in Paris." So to that we say, merci beaucoup. ​
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Canadian Comedy Award Winners for Best Variety Act

Two of the most original clowns on the Canadian scene
The Toronto Star
Gleefully irreverent comedy that’s so sweetly refreshing you forget it’s intended for grownups
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Dora Award Winners