Acting In 2016, Napoli was nominated for
Outstanding Individual Performance in the
Theatre for Young Audiences division of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards for her performance in
Roseneath Theatre's
The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh. In 2017, Napoli starred as math teacher Gabriella in Rob Kempson's
Trigonometry. In 2018, Napoli was
Celia in the
St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival's production of
As You Like It. Napoli played
Beatrice in the 2019 Shakespeare in High Park production of
Much Ado About Nothing as directed by
Liza Balkan. In
Nightwood Theatre's 2019 premiere of
Grace, Napoli played the titular Grace's older sister Sarah.
Playwriting Napoli's play
Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains premiered at the 2017
Toronto Fringe Festival with Napoli in the lead role of Lucy. The 2017 production was directed by Carly Chamberlain and co-starred Jakob Ehman as Bennett. Napoli described
Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of your Cremains as "millennial love letter to the misfits of the
Peter Pan Generation".
Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) premiered in October 2017 as part of Nightwood Theatre's Consent Event double-bill alongside
Ellie Moon's
Asking For It. Napoli developed
Lo as part of Nightwood's Write From The Hip script development program in 2014. The play is a two-hander that follows 25 year old Laura as she revisits a relationship she had with her English teacher, Mr. Wells, when she was 15. The 2017 premiere was directed by
Andrea Donaldson and starred
Vivien Endicott-Douglas as Laura and Sam Kalilieh as Mr. Wells. The play was inspired by Napoli's experiences working as an educator.
Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) was nominated for a
Dora Award for Outstanding New Play in 2018. Napoli's play,
Mad Madge, about Margaret Cavendish, is set to premiere with Nightwood Theatre in April 2024. == Plays ==