Marley Kajan (BA \u201914), who majored in Dramatic Arts during her time at Brock University\u2019s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, has good reason to celebrate.<\/p>\n
Last week, it was announced that the web series she co-created, Like Comment Subscribe<\/em>,\u00a0has been selected for the Canada Council for the Arts and CBC Digital Originals initiative. Kajan noted she and her co-creator, Connor Ferris, are honoured to be recipients of the grant and are excited to kick-off production of their pilot.<\/p>\n \u201cLike Comment Subscribe<\/em> follows millennial influencers and BFF\u2019s Meaghan and Avery, who seem to have it all: fortune, fame and followers,\u201d said Kajan. \u201cBut when COVID-19 sends their lives into lockdown, the impact begins to reveal the people behind the profiles.”<\/p>\n In addition to co-creating and co-writing the web series, Kajan, alongside Ferris, will play the two leading roles. In partnership with the CBC, the series will be produced by Hamilton and Toronto-based production company Dei Gratia Pictures.<\/p>\n Kajan, a bright talent in the Canadian dramatic arts scene, originally hails from Welland. Graduating with a concentration in Performance, she achieved First Class Standing. She was recently invited by the Department of Dramatic Arts to virtually perform for this year\u2019s orientation, inspiring the next generation of students for what promises to be a historic year ahead for the arts.<\/p>\n \u201cThe CBC\u2019s Digital Originals initiative funded by the Canada Council aims to assist artists as they pivot their work, or create new original work, for online distribution as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d writes the Canada Council for the Arts. \u201cWhile many artists are discovering new performance platforms, the creative team behind Like Comment Subscribe<\/em> will certainly help forge the path to bring compelling stories to audiences across Canada, and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was written by Gillian Minaker.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A web series co-created by Dramatic Arts graduate Marley Kajan (BA \u201914) has been selected for the Canada Council for the Arts and CBC Digital Originals initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,37,1,4],"tags":[3333,2255,656,384,46,9508,2518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68251,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247\/revisions\/68251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}