VIRGILIA GRIFFITH
Virgilia Griffith is an actor based in Toronto.
SOULPEPPER 2024: Three Sisters
FOR SOULPEPPER: Queen Goneril, King Lear, Betrayal, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Performance for Harlem Duet written by Djanet Sears. Winner of the Meta Emerging Artist Award for Gas Girls written by Donna Michelle St. Bernard. She was also a Dora Mavor Moore nominee for Outstanding Female in an Independent Division for her performance of Honesty directed by Jordan Tannahill and a Dora nomination for Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) (Saga Collectif) written by Jeff Ho and Our Place (Cahoots/ Theatre Passe Muraille) written by Kanika Ambrose. She was also a recipient of the Jon Kaplan Legacy Award for Canadian Theatre Performer in 2021.
Selected credits include: Serving Elizabeth (Stratford Festival), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre Company/CBC Gem), Contractions (Studio 180), Guarded Girls (Tarragon Theatre/ Greenlight Arts), The Wedding Party (Crow's Theatre), Other Side of the Game (Cahoots/ Obsidian Theatre), Da Kink In My Hair (Theatre Calgary/ NAC), How We Are (Mikaela Davies and Polly Phokeev Productions), Up The Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre Company).
Grateful to my agent Alicia Jeffery and my supportive family. I am so excited to be a part of this incredible story.