Evelyn Caesar Munroe is well known for her multiple roles
on stage. A performer of fourteen years, she has come full circle and works as the Theatre in Education (TIE) Co-ordinator
and an Administrative Assistant for Trinidad Theatre Workshop.
This former Music Festival competitor was trained in acting, voice, dance and
graphic design. She has appeared in a number of plays locally and regionally to rave reviews. She appeared as
First Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Margaret in A Man for All Seasons, Sarah in The
Rope and The Cross (Antigua), Portia in Julius Caesar, Rita in A Brighter Sun, The Vagina
Monologues, Mrs Crap in 88 Mary Go Wrong (St Lucia), Shhh ...it Happens, and Regan
in Lear Ananci.
She also made an appearance int he feature film, The Panman
and co-starred in the television feature Crying Over You. She made others sit up and take notice when
she portrayed the vagrant in Learie Joseph's Quick Changes, at the Little Carib Theatre.
She is remembered for her portrayal of Yvonne (the flag-woman) in Earl Lovelace's
The Dragon Can't Dance at the Queen's Park Savannah as she wowed the audience with a stirring performance.
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott expressed his confidence when he offered her the
job of stage manager for the production Death of a Salesman under his direction in St Lucia in
January 2004, This production was staged in tribute to Arthur Miller the author. Weeks later, she reprised the
role of the femaile Midnight Robber in Geraldine Connor's Carnival Messiah.
She made an appearance in the play, Trini's Last Carnival as
a woman ont he corner.
She held her own as Dawn and Crazy Crab in the musical Rampanalgas
Sunrise unter the direction of Helen Camps. She performed in St Lucia for Nobel Laureate Week as Anenome in
Derek Walcott's The Odyssey directed by Derek Walcott himself. She also appeared alongside stalwarts
Eunice Alleyne and Albert Laveau in Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes.
She went on to play Visina in Trinidad Theatre Workshop's presentation of Carnival
Theatre for 2005 and also performed as Mickey, the Police Woman in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple under
Raymond Choo Kong's direction on the Central Bank's stage.
She featured in the role of Jestina in Earl Lovelace's Jestina's Calypso.
She is seen as well in the tittle role in Robert Yao Ramesar's film
Sista God which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. The film was in the running
for three major awards at this festival:
1. The Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award
2. The People's Choice Award
3. The Fipresci Prize, awar5ded by the International Film Critics.
It must be noted here that the film copped the Greer Ann Saulter Award
for Best Feature at the Flashpoint Film Festival held in Negril Jamaica in December 2006. Sista God
makes it's American debut at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival in Los Angeles California during the
month of February 2007.
Evelyn's voice can be heard in a number of radio commercials locally and regionally.
