HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First time

TIME AWAY: 

Captain Aurora I & II (Kaleidoscope Theatre)

To Be (Kaleidoscope Theatre)

Blind (Scapegoat Carnivale)

In Transit (Segal Centre)

Rocky Horror Show the Musical (Mainline Theatre)

Le Printemps de Zaninha (Le Groupe Ihozo)

BIG/SMALL SCREEN: 

Mary Kills People (Global)

Code 8 (Code 8 productions)

That’s My DJ (The Night is Y production)

Cowboy Drugs (Boy Wonder Production)

Saving Hope (CTV)

X-men: Apocalypse (Fox)

AWARDS: 

Gloria Mitchell-Along 

Actor of the Year nomination (Gala Dynastie 2017)

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First time

TIME AWAY: 

Beauty and the Beast (Young People’s Theatre)

Portrait (The Dietrich Group)

Century Song (Volcano Theatre)

Freedom Singer (Project:Humanity)

OTHER: 

She has worked with a variety of companies The Stratford Festival, The Grand Theatre (London), Canadian Stage Company, Tapestry Opera, and Tarragon Theatre

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First time

TIME AWAY: 

Ching Chong Chinaman (fu-GEN Theatre Company)

upcoming:

Mixie & the Halfbreeds (fu-GEN Theatre Company)

SMALL/BIG SCREEN: 

EXT (Exocentric Productions)

The Wanting (Rob Heydon Production)

Workin’ Moms (CBC)

Orphan Black (Space)

Minority Report (FOX)

upcoming: 

The Silence (Constantin Films/New Regency)

OTHER: 

 Zoé was a resident of the Canadian Film Centre’s Inaugural Actors Conservatory

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First time

TIME AWAY: 

Brain Strom (Lucid Ludic)

The Diana Tapes (What Would The Neighbour’s Say?)

Silence Sil Vous Plait (Illusion, Coffee and Poetry)

Jennaration Y (NonCents Theatre)

OTHER: 

Shannon Farrell is a Stage Manager/Playwright from Mississauga

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

Continuously

OTHER: 

David is a mercenary props master and builder for hire, whose work has been seen throughout Toronto over the last 30 years. Known for his collection of 350 vintage electric toasters, David’s latest obsessions are vintage stage lights and ray guns, which he finds surprising that it has taken him so long to realize. David looks forward to retiring, possibly to an organic farm, hopefully before the zombie apocalypse arrives. 

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

Passing Strange

Two Can Play

Heaven

Up the Garden Path

TIME AWAY: 

Heisenberg (Canadian Stage Company)

Rumours (Coal Mine)

1837 The Farmers Revolt (Shaw Festival)

UPCOMING: 

Of Marriage and Men (Shaw Festival)

Long Days Journey into Night (Stratford Festival)

The Pigeon King (Blyth Festival)

Mikveh (Harold Green Jewish Theatre)

OTHER: 

For the past three decades, Steve has designed award winning sets and lighting for more than 400 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen all across Canada and the United States, the UK, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia, and Asia. Steve has won 4 Dora Mavor Moore awards (with 31 nominations) and has been shortlisted for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Simonvitch Prize in Theatre. 

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First time

TIME AWAY: 

For Theatre 3×60:

Salt-Water Moon

Mary’s Wedding

God of Carnage

VIMY

For Oshawa Little Theatre:

The Diary of Anne Frank

Jesus Christ Superstar

Les Belles Soeurs

UPCOMING: 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Oshawa Little Theatre)

J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (Theatre 3×60)

OTHER: 

Carey is currently artistic director/general manager for Theatre 3×60 and is also a member of the Theatre Ontario Talent Bank, an independent theatre adjudicator and arts educator.

AWARDS: 

Durham Art of Transition Creative Award for contribution to theatre in Region of Durham, 2014.

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

Director: Dark Town, In the Continuum (Black Ink Collective)

Passing Strange (Musical Stage Co.)

Shakespeare’s Nigga ( TPM)

Ruined ( Nightwood)

Toronto the Good ( Factory)

TIME AWAY: 

Walk Along the Shaw (Shaw)

Routes (MTYP)

Closer Than Ever (Dry Cold)

Assistant Director: 

Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)

Dracula (Shaw), 

Choreographer:

Bittergirl (RMTC)

Seussical the Musical (YPT)

Actor: 

The Jungle Book  (MTYP)

UPCOMING: 

How Black Mothers Say I Love You (GCTC)

O’Flaherty V.C. (Shaw)

Grand Hotel (Shaw) 

AWARDS: 

Neil Munro Directing Intern (2017), recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Prize (2017), 2 Dora and 1 WTA nomination for choreography, Guthrie Award (Stratford), Maud Whitmore Scholarship (Charlottetown)

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

The Whipping Man (Harold Green Jewish Theatre)

Ruined (Nightwood Theatre)

OTHER: 

Christopher is a performer, director, writer, sound designer, and composer. His stage work has taken him across Canada to Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal – and internationally to New York, Bogotà, Munich, Brisbane, Dublin, and Vienna. 

AWARDS: 

He has been nominated for 13 Dora Mavor Moore Awards across disciplines, winning twice (for direction in 2017, and for performance in 2011). Stanton is also the Artistic Producer of Toronto-based indie performance company ARC.

onebandoflight.com || arcstage.com

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First Time

OTHER: 

Rebecca Vandevelde is a lighting/video/etc designer, technician, and anything-manager who creates interactive installations like Flip the Table and Blanket Fort with Art is Hard, freelance Production Manages, and does design + production work with many independent theatres and festivals. Rebecca holds a BA in Drama, History and speaking French sometimes from Glendon College at York. Rebecca is of late the Production Manager for the Fringe and Next Stage Theatre Festivals, and touring with Quote Unquote Collective and Why Not Theatre’s Mouthpiece.

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

First Time

TIME AWAY: 

Life After  (Musical Stage Company/Canadian Stage)

Wedding Party (Crow’s Theatre),

Zesty Gopher (Le Théâtre français de Toronto)

Rose (Harold Green Jewish Theatre)

Classical Theatre Project (2014-16)

Shakespeare in High Park 2017 (CanadianStage)

Peep (Theatre PANIK)

Shakesbeer (Classical Theatre Project)

The Birds (Canadian Stage)

All’s Well That Ends Well  (Canadian Stage)

HANGING WITH OBSIDIAN: 

The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Factory)

TIME AWAY: 

Life After  (Musical Stage Company/Canadian Stage)

The Wedding Party (Theatre Panik)

Strangers Babies (Theatre Panik)

Footloose (Theatre Sheridan)

La Cecchina (Glenn Gould Opera School)

Breathing Corpses (Coal Mine Theatre)

Rocking Horse Winner (Cahoots Theatre)

Gorey Story  (Thistle Project)

NOMINATIONS: 

Dora:

The Wedding Party

Rocking Horse Winner

Gertrude & Alice

Gorey Stor

Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award 

OTHER: 

Ming is a costume designer, stylist, and wardrobe technician based in Toronto. She has worked on a variety of projects ranging from theatre to film & TV