Marketing Manager

Monica Bradford-Lea is an Arts Marketing Specialist and Project Manager with 11+ years experience working for organizations including Canada’s National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, What the Festival, Toronto Fringe, and UPROAR arts festival (co-founder).

She is also a Playwright, Actor, Producer, and Co-founder of her award-winning theatre company, Spicy Day. With Spicy Day, Monica has created, performed, and toured original plays across Canada since 2016, garnering awards including Best of Toronto Fringe for ‘In Waking Life’, which tours to Edmonton Fringe in 2025. The company is known for creating new, interactive work that unites audiences in laughter, while opening honest and complex conversation on current social issues.

Monica is also known for her solo physical comedy, ‘Beth-Anne’, about a girl who turns herself into a horse, which had its Toronto premiere at SummerWorks 2024.