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Qasim Khan

Qasim Khan is a Dora-nominated actor who most recently starred in Paradise Lost, The Neverending Story, The Comedy of Errors, and appeared in Henry VIII, Timon of Athens, The Changeling, The Madwoman of Chaillot, and The Crucible (Stratford Festival). Other credits include: The Home Project (Howland/Soulpepper); Paradise Lost (Centaur); The Crucible, The Royal Comedians, Dirt, Alligator Pie, Letters from the Great War (Soulpepper); Craigslist Cantata (Musical Stage/ATP/NAC/Citadel); Anne of Green Gables, Alice Through The Looking-Glass (Charlottetown Festival); All’s Well, Hamlet, Das Ding (Canadian Stage); and Shannon 10:40 (Videofag). His voice can be heard on Blues Clues, and in the audio versions of Feedback and The Hooves Belonged to the Deer. Qasim can be seen in the upcoming Disney feature Sneakerella, and has played roles on Nikita, Saving Hope, Dan For Mayor, Riftworld, Little Mosque, and was also the host of The Early Modern Cooking Show. He returns for this fifth season at the Stratford Festival this year, starring opposite Colm Feore in The Miser.

Richard Lam

Richard Lam is a Toronto-based Actor, Writer, Musician, and Sound Designer. Originally from Vancouver, Richard obtained his B.A. in Political Science at UBC before training in the BFA in Acting program at the University of Alberta. Richard was a company member at Soulpepper Theatre for four years, where he appeared in 15 stage productions and concerts and joined the company on tours to the Charlottetown Festival and Off-Broadway in New York City. He has also worked for many other theatres across Canada, including the Citadel Theatre, Canadian Stage, Bat Hats Theatre, Coal Mine Theatre, Buddies In Bad Times, Talk Is Free Theatre, and Outside The March. In 2019, Richard wrote, performed, and composed music for his first original play, The Little Prince: Reimagined, and received Dora Award nominations for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance. He is a councilor for the Canadian Actor's Equity Association, and is currently obtaining a Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation from the University Of Waterloo.

Vanessa Sears

Vanessa Sears is a Dora, Toronto Theatre Critics, BroadwayWorld and Critic’s Pick Award winning artist based in Toronto. Selected credits include Theatre: Why We Tell the Story, Little Shop of Horrors, Billy Elliot (Stratford Festival); Holiday Inn, Magician's Nephew, An Octoroon (Shaw Festival); Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre); Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz (Young People's Theatre); Caroline or Change, Passing Strange (Musical Stage Co and Obsidian Theatre). Film/TV: 14 Love Letters, Y the Last Man, Sex/Life, Suits. Directing: Holiday Inn (assistant director, Shaw Festival); Finding Black Joy, Comfort and Joy (The Grand Theatre); Wedding Band (Stratford Festival Meighen Forum); Baapii Roho (Musical Stage Company). As an educator and community member Vanessa has worked with Shakespeare in Action in the York South Weston neighbourhood, creating and facilitating youth summer programming. She also serves as the vice-chair of the board for the Canadian Green Alliance, which aims to bridge the gap between theatre and sustainability.

Izad Etemadi

Izad Etemadi is an Iranian-Canadian actor and writer based out of Toronto. Born in Germany and raised in Victoria, BC, he is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. After relocating to Toronto, Izad won the Emerging Queer Artist award from Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2017. Represented by the Characters Talent Agency, he plays Simon on Overlord and The Underwoods (CBC/Nickelodeon) and is currently a resident of the 2021 CBC Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre. On stage, he has performed in several musicals and plays across Canada. In 2022 he will play the role of Samuel in the world premier of the original Canadian musical Grow at The Grand Theatre. Since 2014, Izad has written and starred in several solo comedy shows that have sold out across the country and earned Izad awards including the 2016 Broadway World award for Best Independent Production. He is also a screenwriter, working on several TV shows that are currently in development. Izad’s work uses comedy to explore issues of queer identity, immigration, body image, and the terrors of being a millennial. Alongside his acting and writing career, Izad has spent the last four years working in casting for Film & Television, most recently with Jesse Griffiths Casting.

David Ferry

DAVID FERRY is an award winning actor and director as well as a dramaturge and published author. As a director he has worked nationally and internationally in a wide variety of genres of theatre . He won best director and lighting design DORA Awards for his celebrated production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot staged in the old Gooderham Warts distillery in Toronto. He directed the world premiere of Brendan Galls Alias Godot (in Italian) in Florence. His production of David Hare's Stuff Happens at the NAC main stage garnered him an Ottawa Critics ‘Best Production' Award. He was commissioned by the Toronto2015 PanAmania festival to develop and co-write The Postman, a site specific piece about Albert Jackson, Toronto's first African Canadian postman. In the last several years he has also worked increasingly as a director and narrator of Audio Books for Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, ECW Press and Audible in the US. For Audible he directed and co-produced the huge trilogy of Margaret Atwood graphic novels, Angel Catbird. As a writer David was commissioned by The Charlottetown Festival to write a first draft of his theatre piece 11/11. He was recently commissioned by the Harold Green Theatre in Toronto to write a new play, November Ninth. David is a published short story writer and has edited several books on Theatre. He has created ten pieces for his Short Waves, Short Stories program at Writers at Woody Point Festival in Newfoundland. David has also enjoyed success as an actor who has worked on stage across Canada including at the Stratford Festival, in England, Australia and the US (performing on and off Broadway). He has filmed in over 100 projects on the movie screen and TV in a career that has spanned 50 years.

Celeste Sansregret

Celeste is a writer, actor, producer and senior arts administrator working in theatre, television and film. She made her first stage appearance at age 3 and has appeared in over 25 stage productions and numerous films. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre (Prime Time Television) and the University of Winnipeg (Theatre) her writing awards include: a Banff Television Writers’ Fellowship and a Harold Greenberg Award for her feature script, NATURAL JUSTICE, an OAC Playwrights’ Grant ( PREDATION – with Native Earth Performing Arts) and a CBC Playwrights’ Relief Award to create the pilot for BLACK WOLF, 6-part mini -series about a judge being blackmailed by a former lover. Sansregret has toured the country on the national Fringe circuit with two solo shows she starred in and created: WONDERBAR and IN A MAGIC KINGDOM. Last year she retired from the CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE, where she served as Managing Director.

Daniel Krolik

Daniel Krolik is a Toronto based actor and writer. Selected theatre: Box 4901 (Timeshare/Buddies in Bad Times – Dora nomination, Best Ensemble), Bed and Breakfast (Magnus Theatre), Stag and Doe (Bluewater Summer Playhouse), Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish Perish (Studio 180), Release the Stars: the Ballad of Randy and Evi Quaid (Next Stage), Dib and Dob and the Journey Home (Roseneath/NAC), Chasing Margaret Flatwood (Theatre Awakening), The Snow Queen (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Twelfth Night (Direct Flight/Gromkat), Ten Green Bottles (Te-Amim), Much Ado About Nothing (Dream North - Yukon Tour), [sic], The Enchanted Crackhouse, In Trousers, The Book of Liz, and Nana (Toronto Fringe - NOW Magazine Artist to Watch), Romeo and Juliet and A Comedy Of Errors (Repercussion Theatre - North American Tour). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), A Gay Victorian Affair (web series), and several commercials. Daniel co-hosts the podcast BGM: Bad Gay Movies/Bitchy Gay Men, and does silly things on the YouTube channel Bernadette Presents. Insta: Krolikd.

Chris Leveille

CHRIS LEVEILLE is an award-winning writer-performer originally from Quispamsis, New Brunswick. An alumnus of Bishop’s University, The Second City Conservatory and Longform Programs, and the Narrative Studio at the Bad Dog Academy, he has performed at comedy festivals across North America including the Guelph Comedy Festival, the Toronto and Montreal Sketch Comedy Festivals, and the Ottawa, Big City, and East Coast Improv Festivals, and on the wide-open sea with Beerprov at Sea. He has a history of creating work with comedic ensembles, notably as a founding member of Dame Judy Dench (Funniest Discovery, NOW Magazine) and as a writer-performer of the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated Toronto Fringe Festival hit 32 Short Sketches About Bees, which won Second City’s Outstanding New Comedy Award and the MyEntertainment World Critic's Choice Award for Best Sketch / Improv Show.

Liam Hart

Liam Hart is musician, producer, sound designer and video editor born and raised in Toronto. He recently completed his degree in Media Production from RTA School of Media and is working as a freelance creative. As a musician he has been an active member of the Toronto music scene and has played bass with several bands in venues across the city for over a decade. As a video editor he has covered a broad-spectrum of content. He was an assistant editor and time-lapse photographer for TVO’s Village of Dreams (2017). He has edited several short-form documentaries profiling Canada’s 2021 Olympic hopefuls that have aired on CBC and are available for streaming on CBC Gem. He was the primary editor for Soulpepper’s QueerFutures 2099 Queer Youth Cabaret. Liam is currently working on upcoming web-series Sloppy Jones as a video editor, digital lead, and music coordinator.

John Wamsley

John Wamsley is an Indigenous, Toronto-based actor, dancer and theatre creator. Raised in Kitchener, Ontario, John's first on-stage role was as Pig Pen in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Although the house was empty, this is where John discovered a love for performing — leading him to enrol in the Theatre and Drama Studies program at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto. Since graduating, John has worked with Theatre Aquarius, The Grand Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts and Shakespeare BASH'd, and you can catch him in the upcoming CBC Gem webseries, Revenge of the Black Best Friend. John is also the Social Media Community Manager at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where he met Jessica Chastain. She laughed at one of his jokes. Yes, it was a big deal.

Alex Aoki

Alex Aoki is a Vancouver-born, Edmonton-raised, Toronto-trained, Japanese/Italian-Canadian actor. He holds a BFA in Acting from X University, where he first collaborated with Kenneth Collins. Prior to the pandemic, he could be seen touring children's musical theatre across Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. He is thrilled to get the opportunity to perform again amidst the pandemic, and hopes you all stay happy, healthy, and safe.

Liz Der

Liz is a mixed-race performer and theater maker based in Tkaronto. She graduated from the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and History in 2017. Liz is particularly interested in how theatre can be used to unpack personal and cultural complexities of identity and belonging. She is grateful to her Ying Ying, Granny, Mum, and Sister for their wisdom, tenacity, and stories. She thinks her Yeh Yeh, Granddad, Dad, and Brother are pretty great, too. Liz recently graduated from the Soulpepper Academy. Past performance credits include: Mi Casa de Incienso (Mala Theatre/ Soulpepper Queer Youth Cabaret), meintras tanto // 缺口 (Mala Theatre/ Rhubarb Festival), All’s Well That Ends Well (Dauntless City Theatre), Fearless (fu-GEN Theatre), Hamlet (Skipping Stones Theatre), Shadow Girls (Pencil Kit Productions), and Crave (Pure Carbon Theatre). She has also participated in new play development workshops at Tarragon Theatre and Common Boots Theatre.

Natalie Skov

Natalie Skov is a theatre artist, actor and playwright who is excited to have the opportunity to participate in Digital NOW! a festival for weary hearts. Natalie is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Sheridan College’s joint Theatre and Drama Studies program where she had the opportunity to portray such characters as Mary Queen of Scots in The Glove Thief, and Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. This summer she had the pleasure to participate in the Toronto Fringe Festival’s TENT training program where she discovered a new passion for theatre creation from a producer’s perspective. She is most passionate about the development of new works and amplifying the voices of the next generation of artists. Natalie would like to thank her friends and family, her partner Jane, and all the cats in her life for getting her to where she is today.

Cayne Kitagawa

Born in Ottawa of Ukrainian and Japanese heritage, Cayne Kitagawa is dedicated to performance, whether live or recorded. His interests encompass film, television, theatre, improv, and voice-over. A highly physical performer, Cayne is eager to put his martial arts training to good use as a motion capture artist. As of June 2021, he has simultaneously completed his BA (Honours) in Theatre and Drama Studies at the University of Toronto and his Advanced Diploma in Acting from Sheridan College as well as a minor in French to fulfill his love of learning multiple languages. A few of his notable roles include: Danny (Grease), Oliver Twist (Oliver!), White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland), Orestes (Oresteia), Mercutio/Paris (Romeo & Juliet), Levin (Anna Karenina). Cayne is currently working in the Toronto and Ottawa acting scene, always searching for opportunities to display his skills and work to the world! You can follow him on Instagram and Facebook: @caynekitagawa

Jahnelle Jones

Jahnelle Jones (she/her) is a Toronto based writer, actor, director, and winner of the “Most Well Rounded” student award (circa 6th grade). She enjoys creating work that centers Black women in spaces she feels they are underrepresented in and work that incorporates young adults outside of school into the YA genre. Jahnelle is currently a member of the indie theatre collective Perverted Assemblages and Nightwood Theatre’s Innovator program. She got her start doing various theatre training programs with professional companies in her youth (Tarragon, Paprika Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff etc.) and has a specialist BA from UofT and an Acting diploma from Sheridan College. However, Jahnelle is making the move into developing more t.v. and film scripts with her friend and creative partner Kat Khan. Some of her recent theatre acting credits include: Towards Rebirth, Portia’s Julius Caesar - Shakespeare in the Ruff, Just Pervs- Perverted Assemblages, The Hobbit, We the People - Theatre Erindale

Briana Brown

Briana Brown’s work as a playwright and theatre director has been presented at theatres and festivals across Canada. Selected writing credits include: The Concessions (Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver), which earned a Jessie Award nomination for Outstanding Original Script, Almost, Again (2010 Best of Fringe Toronto, published in Out on a Limb anthology), and Cassandra (2006 Canadian Fringe tour, 2007 Winnipeg's FemFest, published in One for the Road anthology). She is a past participant of Women’s Work Festival (St. John’s, NL), Stratford Festival Playwright's Retreat, the Thousand Islands Playhouse Playwright's Unit, and an Ontario Arts Council Playwright in Residence with Driftwood Theatre, where she developed Robert, shortlisted for the Playwright’s Guild Comedy Award. In the past she has held positions as an Associate Producer for Seventh Stage Theatre and the Paprika Festival, Festival Producer of the Brave New Play Rites Festival (Vancouver, BC), and is currently the Artistic Producer of Anandam Dancetheatre Productions (Toronto, ON).

Janelle Hanna

Janelle Hanna is a Toronto-based actor, educator, playwright, and producer who has worked professionally in theatre, film, tv, and voiceover for the past 17 years. A frequent collaborator with Briana Brown and an active member of Toronto’s Indie Theatre scene, Colin & Coffee & Lennox & Kleenex is the pair’s fourth show together and first co-writing credit. Janelle’s first self-written solo show Bad Baby Presents: Rules Control the Fun directed by Briana Brown, premiered at the 2017 Toronto Fringe, where Janelle received an Outstanding Performance nod from Now Magazine. Janelle then produced a tour of the show to the 2019 Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals, earning 4.5 stars from the Winnipeg Free Press, and 4 stars from the CBC who said she was “a devastatingly good performer.” Janelle recently made her U.S. television debut with a role in FX’s Mrs. America starring Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne. Selected credits include: Miss Caledonia (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Prairie Nurse (Best Supporting Performance in a Play - My Entertainment World Critics Choice Award, Factory Theatre/Thousand Islands Playhouse), Robert. (Now Magazine 15 Artists to Watch, Toronto Fringe), Out With Dad (JLeaver Productions), Anne of Green Gables (Stirling Festival Theatre). Janelle holds an MFA in Acting from York University, and is a graduate of the Theatre & Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College. @janellemhanna

Brendan Kinnon

Brendan Kinnon is a Toronto-based artist with a passion for alternative theatre and assisting multidisciplinary artists in the development of new work. Through his artistic practice, Brendan hopes to develop sustainable arts practices and that this work can serve to educate and inspire patrons about the urgent need for environmental justice. He is currently working as the Communications Manager for Theatre of the Beat. Brendan has worked as a creative collaborator and performer on a number of new Canadian plays with independent companies across southern Ontario. Some highlights from the past few years include two tours of Theatre of the Beat's show #ChurchToo across Canada and to The Netherlands, joining “The Way” with Theatre by Committee in Wagon Play at Toronto Fringe 2018, and connecting with all of the artists that have been involved in the Dark Crop Performance Festival which Brendan started producing with OPIA Theatre Collective in 2017.

Andrea Miller

Andrea Miller is a live and online stage manager, and technician with over 10 years experience in Toronto and the UK. Her extensive stage managing experience includes 6 years as an in-house stage manager at the Social Capital Theatre, Dora-award winning productions One Night Only and Tough Jews; three Edinburgh Fringe runs, hundreds of unique sketch shows over 6 years with Toronto Sketchfest, and many technically audacious shows as part of the Toronto Fringe shows including 2018's best comedy winner A 6ix NNNNNN Review from Tallboyz II Men. Online work she has worked for creative, non-profit and corporate clients have involved former Prime Ministers and Governors General, a range of professionals, and every member of Kids in the Hall.

Laura Anne Harris

Laura Anne Harris is an award-winning performer, writer, director, and reviewer, Laura Anne Harris completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre (Acting Specialty) at the University of Victoria and went on to obtain a Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Laura writes and performs works that explore the hidden humanity, articulates life experiences and explores the emotions and strengths of women and queer people. Laura’s one-woman show, Destiny, USA is described as “funny, poignant, cleverly crafted and well-acted.” In 2019, Destiny, USA, won the Fringe Touring lottery to be performed in Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Victoria, and Vancouver fringe festivals. Destiny, USA held the professional US debut at Wunderbar in Syracuse, New York, and was produced for a professional run in Victoria, British Columbia at The Spark Festival as part of the Belfry Theatre's season in 2020. This February Destiny, USA will hold its second professional production as part of Pi Theatre’s annual season. Laura would love to thank Briana and Janelle for including her in this wonderful group of artists!

Rob Kempson

Rob Kempson is a director, writer, and educator who has 15 years of experience in the non-profit professional arts sector. He was recently appointed as the new Artistic Producer at the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope, ON. He has served in various artistic leadership positions, including as Associate Artistic Director at the Thousand Islands Playhouse (Gananoque, ON) and as Associate Artistic Producer at Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto, ON). Earlier this year, he was named Co-Artistic Producer of ARC, an ensemble-based company dedicated to producing international work. He was also the founding Artistic Director of timeshare performance, a multi-award-winning Toronto-based collective, and has worked across the province as a freelance director and playwright.

Tom McHale

Tom McHale is a Toronto-based director and playwright. DIRECTING CREDITS: Iphigenia, Break-In, On Beauty, The Dilemma (Newmarket National 10-minute Play Festival); Charlie Blake’s Boat (The Social Capital Theatre Short Short Play Festival; and remounted at Eastern Front Theatre STAGES Festival in Halifax, NS.), U.S. Drag (Zaw Theatre Productions / Toronto Fringe) - {a top 10 Fringe pick by The Grid TO}, The Good German (Shadowpath Theatre Productions), Defenders of Gravity (Playwrights of Spring Festival / Shadowpath), Look Back in Anger (Shiftless When Idle Theatre), Co-Director of As You Puppet (Hank's Toybox Theatre / Toronto Fringe) - {A Best of The Fringe Selection and Critic's Pick}. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR CREDITS: Remount production of As You Puppet (Young People's Theatre and Springworks Festival in Stratford), Fool for Love and The Zoo Story (Soulpepper Theatre Company), Blue/Orange (Canadian Stage). PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Stupid Fucking Bird (The Bird Collective). Tom is a graduate of The University of Windsor with an Honours BA in Drama.

Jacob Kay

Jacob Kay is a director, producer, educator, and arts administrator based in Toronto. For his directing work, he is the recipient of the Pamela Terry Award for Drama from the University of Toronto (2018). Jacob is a graduate from the University of Toronto, with a degree in both Directing and Performance at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, and Political Science. Currently, Jacob works at Toronto International Film Festival, assisting in the curation and administration of New Releases and its national Film Circuit program. Selected directing and producing credits include: Soulpepper Theatre Academy 2021 (Producer & Administrator); Queer Youth Cabaret 2020 & 2021 (Soulpepper Theatre), Soulpepper Theatre Holiday Concert 2020; Milk (Piss & Vinegar); Eurydice (CDTPS); Honeymoon! An Arts Spree (Piss & Vinegar); East of Berlin (CDTPS); re:Lewis (Piss & Vinegar); Robert (Lark & Whimsy); The Rhythm Method (FFHS Theatre).

Rachel Blair

Rachel Blair is a Dora-nominated playwright and performer. Her play A Man Walks Into a Bar was a runaway hit at the Toronto Fringe Festival, remounted to sell-out runs at the Next Stage Theatre Festival and Ottawa’s Undercurrents Festival. Recognized by The Globe and Mail as a ‘Favourite Cultural Moment of 2015’, A Man Walks Into a Bar was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the 2016 Dora Awards. Her first play, Wake, won the Toronto Fringe’s New Play Contest. She has developed work through Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, and the Banff Centre’s Playwright’s Lab. She has taught Devised Theatre within Sheridan College/University of Toronto Mississauga's joint acting program. Rachel is a graduate of York University’s Theatre Program and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.

Kenneth Collins

Kenneth Collins is a multidisciplinary digital artist and writer. A recent graduate from Ryerson University's Media Production program, his most recent work includes writing and directing the web series Molar Horrors, a five episode dramatic web series detailing issues surrounding community healthcare, queerness, and the generational impacts of abuse. By trade, Kenneth works as digital content creator working with brands such as Hayley Elsasser, Spotify Canada, Big Brother Canada, Global TV, Showcase and History TV. Kenneth has always had a hand in many media practices. In 2018 he was awarded a TARA Award for producing a weekly radio show entitled The Gay Agenda, an LGBTQ2+ program discussing queer politics and pop culture. As a queer Filipino-Canadian artist, Kenneth’s work often centres the experiences of those standing at intersections of identity, with hopes of producing work that is reflective of his own experiences.

Naila Katekyeza

Naila Katekyeza is a senior highschool student at the Bishop Strachan School, and former student of the Young Peoples Theatre. She was a part of the YPT community for seven years, where she spent three years in the Writers Bloc playwriting program. Upon her departure, she collaborated with the Kibaha Children’s Village Centre, an orphanage in Kibaha, Tanzania, to develop a performing arts program for young children. She was selected to study at School of the New York Times where she studied law, journalism, and the United Nations. She also interviewed and wrote an article about Holocaust survivor Erwin Forley that was featured in The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. When she’s not writing or debating global issues, Naila is passionate about light design, digital editing, and optics. She enjoys a good run, human-interest journalism, and science. Naila aims to untangle the complexity of the teenage experience through this play.

Frances Koncan

Frances Koncan (she/they) is a writer and theatre director of mixed Anishinaabe and Slovene descent. Originally from Couchiching First Nation in Treaty 3 territory, they are currently based in Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, MB. A graduate of the City University of New York Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting Program, she has been working as a freelance writer in theatre, television, and journalism since 2015. Her 2022 dream is to join the writer's room on the TV show "Succession". Twitter/Instagram: @franceskoncan.

Andy Cheng

Andy is a Toronto based dramaturg, actor, and educator. He currently serves as associate dramaturg for fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company, and teaches Devised Theatre and Acting at Sheridan College. Recently, he served as dramaturg for Bad Hat’s New Bad Ideas Festival, and for Yellow Rabbit by the Silk Bath Collective. He is a panelist on CBC Radio’s Because News with Gavin Crawford. In television, he has appeared in LetterKenny (CraveTV), the first and second seasons of comedy series Popporn and Drawn This Way for OUTtv. He was nominated for the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for the CBC comedy special Gavin Crawford's Wild West (2013). He holds a MFA in Theatre from York University, where he has taught playwriting and new-play dramaturgy.

Alessia Urbani

Based in Toronto, ON, Alessia Urbani works as a freelance Costumer in the city’s theatre and film industries. She’s worked in costume management, building, coordination, illustration and design. Recently, Alessia has worked with Soulpepper Theatre Co., UofT Opera and Tapestry Opera as their Wardrobe Coordinator/Head of Wardrobe.

Katie Horrill

Katie is a Toronto based props person and set dresser with over 15 years of professional experience. She has worked with countless companies across Toronto to provide props and scenic elements for a variety of theatrical shows. Selected theatre credits include: Canadian Stage 2010/11 Season (Props Builder), Blyth Festival 2011 and 2012 Seasons (Head of Props), Tarragon Theatre 2012/13 Season (Head of Props), Paragon Innovation Group 2014-16 (Props Builder). She has since incorporated film into her repertoire and regularly works as a props person and set dresser for IATSE Local 873. Selected film credits include: The Christmas Chronicles, IT Chapter 2, Shazam, Star Trek: Discovery, Man From Toronto, 5 Days at Memorial.