a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)
A Obsidian Theatre and Tarragon Theatre Co-Production
North American Premiere
by debbie tucker green
Directed by Mumbi Tindeybwa Otu
Three couples.
What might be.
What once was.
What could have been.
…profoundly… is a bold and unflinching exploration of love, desire, and human connection. Intimate, raw and deeply moving, where hope meets vulnerability, and longing becomes language of its own. A must-see experience for those that believe ‘love’ is more than just a word – it’s an act, a feeling, a surrender.
With laughter through tears and the chasms between them, this triptych beautifully weaves the journeys of three couples seeking connection against all the elements that separate them. After the critically-acclaimed World Premiere at UK’s Royal Court, Obsidian and Tarragon come together in bringing a brand new production to Canada, marking its North American debut.
…a profoundly… contains foul language, descriptions of sexual intimacy, staged kissing, staged violence (a slap), fat phobia, ableism, grief (loss of a parent & partner), illness, care-taking & death.
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November 11 - December 7, 2025
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Tarragon Theatre, Mainspace, 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, ON
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Run Time 90 minutes, no intermission
Co-Producers
debbie tucker green
Playwright
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debbie tucker green
Playwright
THEATRE INCLUDES: ear for eye, a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone (-noun), hang, truth and reconciliation, random, stoning mary (all Royal Court theatre), nut (National Theatre), generations (Young Vic), trade (RSC / RSC at Soho), born bad (Hampstead Theatre).
FILM and TELEVISION: ear for eye (feature film), swirl (short), second coming (feature film), random (film).
RADIO INCLUDES: monday, Assata Shakur – the FBI’s Most Wanted Woman (adaptation), lament, gone, random, handprint, freefall (all BBC Radio).
DIRECTING INCLUDES: Plays: ear for eye, a profoundly affectionate…, hang, truth and reconciliation, nut. Feature Films: ear for eye, second coming. Film: random. Short: swirl. Radio plays: monday, Assata Shakur – the FBI’s Most Wanted Woman, lament, gone, random.
AWARDS: hang, Best Foreign Play Les Journées De Lyon Des Auteurs De Théâtre (France); second coming, International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award, BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut, Sutherland Award nomination; random (film), BAFTA for Best Single Drama, MVSA for Best UK film; lament, Gold ARIAS radio award; born bad OBIE award for New York Soho Rep production, Olivier award for born bad (UK production).
Recipient of the Windham Campbell Literature Prize.
Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu
Director
Germaine Konji
Nightwood Directing Resident
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Germaine Konji
Nightwood Directing Resident
For Tarragon: Orphan Song
For Obsidian: Young, Gifted and Black 2025 (Director); Spotlight: Black Queer Voices (Director); Flex (Apprentice director)
Selected Theatre Credits: Dixon Road (Musical Stage Co.), Into the Woods (Talk Is Free Theatre), Universal Child Care (Quote Unquote Collective/Canadian Stage), Serving Elizabeth (Theatre Aquarius), Grand Magic, Finally There’s Sun (Stratford Festival).
Selected Film and Television Credits: N/A.
Upcoming: How to Catch Creation (Obsidian/Soulpepper).
Awards: Three-time Dora Award nominee (Dixon Road, Into the Woods, Universal Child Care); 2025 Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble (Flex)
Jawon Kang
Set Designer
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Jawon Kang
Set Designer
For Tarragon: Set Design: Come Home – The Legend of Daddy Hall; Redbone Coonhound. Costume design: A Poem for Rabia.
For Obsidian: Debut
Selected Credits: Set design: Educating Rita (Persephone); Never Walk Alone (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre & Fu-Gen); There’s nothing you can do (LSPU Hall); Trident Moon (Crow’s & NAC); Little Women (RMTC); This Is How We Got Here (Persephone); Fairview (Canadian Stage); Set and Costume Design: The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key; Doubt: A Parable (Thousand Islands Playhouse).
Upcoming: Set and Costume Design: Through the Eyes of God (Factory); cicadas (NAC & Tarragon).Awards: Jawon studied set and costume design at the National Theatre School of Canada, and she’s a recipient of the Montreal English Theatre Award (META), and was nominated for Dora Mavor Moore Award).
Other: Jawon is delighted to be back at Tarragon!
jawonkang.myportfolio.com
Arianna Moodie
Costume Designer
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Arianna Moodie
Costume Designer
For Tarragon: Debut
For Obsidian: Associate Costume Designer on Table for Two, Apprentice Costume Designer on Flex, Costume Designer on Re-turning, Re-shaping, Re…: YGB Showcase
Selected Theatre Credits: Costume Designer on Ella & Louis (Shaw Festival), Ghost Story, The Dumb Waiter (Shaw Festival, Directors Project), The Bees Knees (The Theatre Centre), Zayo Emergence (Dance Immersion) and Assistant Costume Designer for One Man, Two Guvnors, The House That Will Not Stand (Shaw Festival)
Upcoming: Clydes (Canadian Stage)
Raha Javanfar
Lighting Designer
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Raha Javanfar
Lighting Designer
For Tarragon: Debut.
Selected Theatre Credits: Flex (Crows/Obsidian), A Terrible Fate (VideoCab), Is God Is (Canadian Stage), Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Soulpepper).
Other Theatre: Slaight Associate Artist at Soulpepper Theatre and Creator/Music Director of Sympathy For the Devil, Co-Creator/Music Director of Ladies of the Canyon. Upcoming: Moonlight Schooner (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage),
Awards: Winner of 3 Dora Awards, and additionally nominated 3 times. Co-Recipient of the 2012 Siminovitch Protege Award.
Photo Credit: Zahra Saleki.
Jacob Lin 林鴻恩
Sound Designer
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Jacob Lin 林鴻恩
Sound Designer
For Tarragon: Post-Democracy (2022) The Hooves Belonged to The Deer (2023), Withrow Park (2023), Guilt (2024)
Selected Theatre Credits: The Christmas Market (Crows/Studio 180/ b current), Old Times (Soulpepper), Fat Ham (Canadian Stage), My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage), The House That Will Not Stand (Shaw Festival), The Wrong Bashir (Crows), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland/Crows), Doubt (Thousand Island Playhouse), Prodigal (Howland/Crows), Assistant/ Associate: Its a Wonderful Life (Young Peoples Theatre), Bengal TIger at the Baghdad Zoo (Crows), Cast Iron (Factory/Obsidian)
Upcoming: The Fiancee (Western Canada Theatre), Clydes (Canadian Stage), Ohio State Murders (Shaw Festival)
Other: Jacob Lin is a designer/writer based in Tkaronto. You can find him online at jacoblin.ca or on instagram @jacoblin.jpg
Lisa Karen Cox
Movement & Intimacy Director
Peter Bailey
Voice Coach
Anita Nittoly
Fight Director
Alice Ferreyra
Stage Manager
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Alice Ferreyra
Stage Manager
For Tarragon: Hamlet
For Obsidian: Debut
Selected Theatre Credits: Forgiveness, Get That Hope, Romeo and Juliet, Women of the Fur Trade, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Hamlet, Death and the King’s Horseman, R + J, Henry VIII, Birds of a Kind, Bakkhai (Stratford Festival); Groundhog Day: The Musical (YES Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera, Maggie & Pierre (Grand Theatre); Jack: A Beanstalk Panto, Seussical Jr. (Capitol Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute (Canadian Opera Company); Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (Roseneath Theatre); The Canadian (Thousand Islands Playhouse); City of Angels (Theatre by the Bay); The Drowsy Chaperone, Footloose, The Addams Family, Spring Awakening, Spelling Bee, Nine (Randolph College); Godspell (Theatre Sheridan); Anne of Green Gables, Evita, Shrek the Musical (LOT).
Other: Originally from Lima, Peru. Loves food, music, reading, and dancing.
M Fera
Apprentice Stage Manager
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M Fera
Apprentice Stage Manager
For Tarragon: Apprentice Stage Manager – profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Debut)
Selected Theatre Credits: Stage Manager – Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs (Nightwood Theatre); Stage Manager – The Merchant of Venice, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Tragedy of King Lear (Shakespeare BASH’d); Apprentice Stage Manager – Wozzeck, Don Pasquale (Canadian Opera Company);
M (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist and producer. She is the Co-Founder of A.C.T. Productions and has been stage managing in Toronto for over 10 years.
Virgilia Griffith
A
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Virgilia Griffith
A
For Tarragon: Harlem Duet, Guarded Girls (Greenlight Arts), A Poem for Rabia
For Obsidian: Three Sisters, 21 Black Futures (CBC Gem), Up the Garden Path, Other Side of the Game
Selected Theatre Credits: Blues for an Alabama Sky, Murder on the Lake (Shaw Festival), Rosmersholm ( Crow’s Theatre), Our Place ( Cahoots/ Theatre Passé Muraille), Queen Goneril/ King Lear ( Soulpepper Theatre Company), Contractions (Studio 180), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ( Soulpepper Theatre),The Wedding Party ( Crow’s Theatre), Da Kink In My Hair (Theatre Calgary/ Nac)
Selected film and TV credits: Murdoch Mysteries, Nurses, The Expanse, Doc
Awards: Meta Emerging Artist for Gas Girls, Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance for Harlem Duet, Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund for Award for Canadian Stage Performer
Dwain Murphy
B
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Dwain Murphy
B
For Tarragon: Debut
Theatre Credits: Profoundly
Film TV Credits: CROSS on Amazon Prime Video (Season 1), DOC on Fox (Season 1), DIGGSTOWN on CBC Season 1-4, BROTHER (Feature film), A MILLION LITTLE THINGS on ABC (Season 5), & STAR-TREK DISCOVERY on CBS (Season 1)
Upcoming: VOUGHT RISING (The Boys Spinoff prequel) Amazon Prime Video (Season 1), CROSS on Amazon Prime Video (Season 2&3)
Awards: Two best supporting actor nominations at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards: Diggstown & Revenge Of The Black Best Friend
Other: Thankful to be blessed with this opportunity!!
Warona Setshwaelo
Woman
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Warona Setshwaelo
Woman
For Tarragon: Waiting Room
For Obsidian: Debut
Selected Theatre Credits: Thy Woman’s Weeds (Centaur/Repercussion/Tableau D’Hôte Theatre); A Play for the Living in the Time of Extinction (Centaur), Small Mouth Sounds (Segal Centre), Bang Bang (Belfry/RMTC); If We Were Birds, An Intractable Woman and The Retreat (Imago); Diggers (Prairie Theatre Exchange/BTW), Tiff’ny of Athens (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Reach for Starlight (Geordie)
Selected Film and Television Credits: The Disappearance, 19-2, Quantico, Death Wish, On the Basis of Sex and White House Down, as well as video games Assassin’s Creed Origins, Valhalla, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Star Wars Outlaws
Upcoming: Copperbelt (Soulpepper/NAC)
Awards: Montreal English Theatre Award (META) for Outstanding Lead Performance (Small Mouth Sounds), Gina Wilkinson Prize recipient
Other: What a gift to be able to build this story with such a generous group of people. Being able to explore the realms of love, with Black Love at the centre, has made for such delicious and necessary work. Big up to both Tarragon and Obsidian for bringing this gem to Canada. And as with every story I weave, I dedicate this to my daughter, Khaya
Andrew Moodie
Man
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Andrew Moodie
Man
Awards: Dora Award, Chalmers Award, Writer’s Guild of Canada Award, Toronto Independent Film Festival Audience Choice Award
Jasmine Case
Young Woman
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Jasmine Case
Young Woman
Jasmine is a Jamaican Canadian actor born and raised in Toronto where she currently lives and works. She recently won a Dora Award winner for Best Ensemble for her work in Crow’s and Obsidian Theatre’s FLEX and for her role as Phoebe in Truth at Young Peoples Theatre! She is so grateful to be making her Tarragon debut this season!
Theatre credits: Sydney Brown in FLEX; Crow’s and Obsidian Theatre, Robin in This Feels Like The End; Toronto Fringe, Kara in Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner; Obsidian and Crows Theatre and Phoebe in Truth at YPT.
Upcoming Projects: Clyde’s at Canadian Stage!
Education/Training: National Theatre School of Canada 2023, Brock University 2020.
Thank You: I’m so excited to be back with Obsidian and to be making my Tarragon debut! Thank you to this incredible team, and to my friends and family for your love and continued support on this amazing journey!