Ella MacDonald (She/Her) is an emerging theatre artist from K’jipuktuk/Halifax who will be graduating from Dalhousie/King’s this spring with a B.A. Hons. Acting and Certificate in Dance. She is the recipient of the 2020 Hnatyshyn Award for English Acting, and in 2019 she received the Andrew and David Stitt Memorial Award. In 2019 Ella completed the Animotion  Puppetry Intensive at Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. Ella aspires to complete an M.A. in Performance and become a certified Intimacy Director. Previous FSPA Credits include: Ephemera  (Morgan Ross), La Calandra [Assistant Director]. Select Other Credits: New Pants Project: How the Light Lies on You (Carrie Stettheimer); Unnatural Disaster Collective: What the Owl Said to the Orangutan [Puppeteer]. Ella would personally like to thank Drs. Fred and Elizabeth Fountain for their ongoing generosity to the students of the Fountain School.