Jamie
“It’s important that we acknowledge and respect the way that the experience of being a woman is affected by our differences in an intersectional way, and work to uplift and support each other.”
Jamie has always been destined to be on stage. She’s an artist with a fiery personality and an incredible imagination. She is not afraid to speak her mind and stand up for what matters. Meet Jamie. This is her story.
P: Please introduce yourself!
J: My name is Jamie Hart. I’m an actor and writer from Toronto, Ontario.
P: Describe or define yourself in your own words
J: Curious, impulsive, witty, confident, knowledgable.
P: What is your favourite thing about yourself?
J: I have a great memory. I think it really helps with my writing, being able to pull references without reaching for a book.
P: Tell us a story. Have you had an experience that’s defined you or made you stronger?
J: This is a hard one. There’s obviously been dark and difficult times in everyone’s lives. In a positive way, I started bartending when I finished school. I did that for years and that definitely made me more confident when it comes to asserting myself. Drunk people give you a lot of practice at saying “no.”
P: What is one piece of advice you’d give to your younger self?
J: Be less hard on yourself when you make mistakes. I was always so in my head as a teenager—I still am sometimes. Getting a bad mark on something isn’t the end of the world, stuttering giving a speech in class isn’t going to haunt your career as an adult, it definitely doesn’t matter that you had spinach in your teeth one time in ninth grade. Everything seemed so much more dramatic when I was 16.
P: What does being a woman mean to you?
J: I’ve never attached any particular hard and fast definition to womanhood itself. Every woman is different, and it’s important that we acknowledge and respect the way that the experience of being a woman is affected by our differences (sexuality, race, economic background, assigned sex, etc.) in an intersectional way, and work to uplift and support each other.
P: Who is one woman that inspires you? What would you say to her if she were here now?
J: Mary Shelley! Inventor of modern science fiction, creator of an actual Halloween monster.
I want to say something deep here, but I know that if I got a girl’s night with the ghost of Mary Shelley I would probably spend 40 minutes trying to get her to leave her husband. “Mary, honey, you’re better than him. You don’t deserve that.”