Carly Anna Billings (she/her) is a queer fat femme mixed second-generation Italian-Canadian and Ojibwe actor, singer, comedian, theatre-maker, podcaster and storyteller born, bred and based in her favourite city, Hamilton, ON, which is the traditional lands of her people the Mississaugas of the Credit. She is grateful for and owes everything she has to the first peoples of this land acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded.
She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa in Theatre (Acting) in French Immersion with a minor in Italian Language and Culture. Recently, she has been enrolled at The Second City Toronto studying improv and writing, completed the Hamilton Fringe ALERT program 2020-2021 for emerging theatre artists and was selected as one of four 2021 Garden Project artists for her original solo show Meat(less) Loaf which then premiered at the Hamilton Fringe Festival 2022 to critical acclaim.
Background
Select acting credits include: The Vagina Monologues (Light Echo Theatre), 3 Seasons of Confederation Players at the Charlottetown Festival (2018 proud recipient of the George Coles Leadership Award at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.), Jaquenetta in Love’s Labour’s Lost (uOttawa).
Select theatre-making & directing credits: It’s a Beautiful Day for Brunch and to Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor (named one of “5 Best Bets” by Beyond James at the Hamilton Fringe Festival 2021), Missed Connections (Hamilton Frost Bites Festival 2021).