Our Story
Ladies Who Lunch Productions brings you back to the Golden Age of Radio by performing original audio dramas live on the theatrical stage.
Formed in 2011 Ladies Who Lunch Productions is Philip Goodridge, Théa Morash, Lynn Panting, and Mark White, four experienced theatre practitioners whose collaborative roots run some twenty-plus years deep.
Kyle McDavid and Kevin Woolridge, affectionately called the Ladies Auxiliary, complete the roster with original music and foley.
6 Dear Friends
24 Original Plays
64 Hilarious Commercial Breaks
175 Original Characters
Countless Glasses of Wine
What people are saying
"There are so many good things to say about these Ladies Who Lunch Productions, I could write a 30-page review about it… but don’t worry, I won’t do that. I have to mention that the acting in these shows is astounding. It was so refreshing to see these talented actors portray a vast array of characters, even sometimes doing two characters in the same scene, requiring each of their characters to have distinct voices and vocal characteristics."
-Stephanie Curran, The Racket
“So fun!!! Congratulations! Please pass along my thunderous applause to everyone!”
–Alexis Koetting
“Every year I think ‘He can’t possibly out do himself’. And then you did”
– Janet O’Reilly
“I LOVE IT! You are all amazing and the work is soooo much fun and mesmerizing.”
– Danielle Irvine
“With a cast of this caliber, I was not surprised how clean, and smooth this show ran. Philip Goodridge, Mark White, Lynn Panting, and Théa Morash lit up the stage and created the most incredible piece of art, all while switching back and forth between accents and characters, never breaking their stride.”
– Stephanie Curran, The Racket
The Ladies
Philip Goodridge
Philip is a York University graduate and has been actively working as a performer in Newfoundland for over 20 years.
Over the course of his career he has performed in several stage plays and musicals, both local and touring productions, working with some of the most prestigious companies in the province like Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, TaDa! Events, Atlantic Light Theatre, Theatre St. John's, Resource Centre For the Arts, Rising Tide Theatre, and Terra Bruce.
As a playwright, commissions have come from companies such as Shakespeare By The Sea, Rising Tide Theatre, and World’s End Theatre.
Philip is also a songwriter, pianist, and singer, performing solo, as well as with local bands The Duds, Oddly Enough and Kicking the Help. The Duds released thier debut album These Words I Can’t Forget in March of, 2020.
Théa Morash
Théa Morash is an actor, writer, and vocalist living and working in St. John’s, NL. Over the past 20 years she’s had the pleasure of working with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Resource Centre for the Arts, and TaDa! Events among others, most recently appearing in TaDa’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar. As a long-time lover of radio storytelling, she’s delighted to help bring these tales to the stage.
Lynn Panting
Lynn Panting is a Newfoundland-based artist, arts educator, and arts advocate known for creating innovative and accessible dance works. She is noted for creating pieces that appeal to a wide audience and often works with artists from other disciplines to generate a theatrical yet lyrical movement. Her work is humorous, heartfelt, bold and always original.
Lynn is deeply committed to the growth of creativity and self-confidence through movement and holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Memorial University as well as a Master of Humanities concentrating in performance, dance and the body.
Lynn is the owner and Artistic Director of Lynn Panting Dance, the Artistic Director, Producer of Untellable Movement Theatre, and a founding member of Ladies Who Lunch Productions. lynnpantingdance.com
Mark White
Mark White is no stranger to the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Community. In 2004 he graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and has worked across the province with Resource Centre for the Arts, Rising Tide Theatre, Rabbittown Theatre Company, New World Theatre Project, White Rooster, She Said Yes! and Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. His skills have been seen both on and off stage, taking on the role of actor, director, writer, stage manager, production manager, choreographer, composer, lighting and sound operator. Since returning to St. John’s in 2017, Mark has continued to perform in theatre and dance while working as an Architect with LAT49 Architecture. His work as a set designer was seen touring across the country in the hit musical No Change In The Weather, as well as The Father produced by Mindless Theatrics and 30 for 60 this past January at the LSPU Hall. Mark holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies and a Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University.
The Ladies Auxiliary
Kevin Woolridge
Kevin has been a Newfoundland-based theatre artist for over twenty years working both on and off the stage, and for companies all over Newfoundland. He is the Artistic Director of Temporary Theatre Company, which focuses on intimate, micro-theatre performance. He has a BFA (Acting) from Grenfell College, and an MFA (Directing/Creation) from York University, where he focused on solo performance, mask, and movement. When he's not doing theatre Kevin enjoys designing board games, drawing comics, watching Godzilla movies, and collecting vintage toys.
Kyle McDavid
Kyle McDavid is an educator, writer/composer, musician, and the founder and co-Artistic Director of Best Kind Productions. He has directed/performed in theatre productions in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, and is an alumnus of Up with People (touring North America and Europe.) Kyle is also a freelance graphic designer and a nominee for MusicNL's Educator and Graphic Designer of the Year awards. He is the writer/composer of the original musical, Impresario, based on the life of St. John's-born Broadway legend, John Murray Anderson, Isobel Gunn with Timothy Matson, Red Rock with Dan Lasby, and the children's musical How Do You Get To Jellybean Row? He has also written original music for Ladies Who Lunch Productions' Three Tales of Terror series and scripts for the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra's family concerts.
The Ladies Who Lunch original catalogue
by Philip Goodridge:
The Haunting of Cliffside Manor
Return to Cliffside Manor
Age of Shadows: a Professor Charlamagne Adventure
Curse of the Blood King: a Professor Charlamagne Adventure
Beings
Beings II
Beings III
I Live To Serve
A Dark Betrayal
The Frost
Crimson Cove
Scars of Olde
Now I Lay Me
Unmerciful
The Last Will and Testament of Beatrice Webb
The Tower
In The Devil’s Footsteps
Find Me in the Dark
by Théa Morash
Pay to Play
by Lynn Panting
The Tradgedy of AckDeath
by Mark White
Bite Your Tongue
