Deidre Gillard-Rowlings is a Canadian film, television, and stage actress, who is best known for her role as Nurse Myra Bennett in Robert Chafe's Tempting Providence and for her work at the Stratford Festival.
[1] In 2014, she told a local newspaper that growing up in a “remote, beautiful and stark place with a lot of space to think, dream and create” had a profound impact on her life in theatre.
[1] She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Campus), making the Principal's Honor List for 1990.
Tempting Providence, produced by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador and written by playwright Robert Chafe, tells the story of Myra Bennett, "a woman who travelled to Canada to become one of the first outport nurses on the isolated Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, and became a legend for performing a variety of medical tasks, from delivering babies to setting bones to extracting teeth.
"By all accounts, Myra was a really, really driven woman with strong Christian beliefs, who was very selfless yet stern and strict she had that British stiff upper lip.
"[15]Another highlight in this production is most certainly the trio of Witches, or 'Weird Sisters' portrayed by Brigit Wilson, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings, and Lanise Antoine Shelley.