Montreal lawyer turned actress set to make her off-Broadway debut
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A lawyer from Montreal who left her profession to pursue her childhood passion says that after three years, her leap of faith seems to be paying off.
A lawyer from Montreal who left her profession to pursue her childhood passion says that after three years, her leap of faith seems to be paying off.
Jill Ohayon, a former human rights lawyer based in Ottawa, will make her Off-Broadway debut when her show, The Garden Bridge, is performed as part of the SheNYC summer festival in New York this summer.
“We’re really lucky and grateful that we were selected for this festival and now we get to share it with more people,” she told Global News from New York, where she lives.
She said hers is one of four musicals selected from over 400 submissions, adding that her two-hour show has been performed in a number of venues already and has been well received.
Ohayon, originally from Dollard-des-Ormeaux, left her law practice in 2022 and moved to the Big Apple to pursue a two-year master’s degree in musical theatre at New York University.
During her second year, Ohayon, a writer, was paired with another student who writes music. In the process of working together, the two learned something about their ancestral histories and decided to produce a show based on it.
“We created a piece about a Jewish family and a Chinese family who end up as next-door neighbours in this area of Shanghai that they were kinda forced into,” she explained.
Ohayon is Jewish. Her collaborator, Andy Li, is Chinese American. The play is fiction but based on the story of Jews who fled the Holocaust to Shanghai.
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