A professional actor, Didi hails from Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. She has performed in many productions for stage and film in Newfoundland. Between 2002 -2006 Didi toured internationally as Myra Bennett in Tempting Providence, directed by Jillian Keiley. Didi graduated from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. Among her skills, drop spinning, character accents, puppet-making, clowning, mask making, Jazz and Latin dance, stage directing & make up, conversational German and Korean, percussive instruments . . .and wait there’s more, Deidre Gillard Rowlings can ‘‘carry a tune in a bucket’’.
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Didi Gillard-Rowlings narrates Michael Crummey's Hard Light with Ron Hynes. She also read two stories on In the Chambers of the Sea by Susan Rendell. Didi appears briefly on The Grey Islands by John Steffler.