How to Catch Creation

Griffin

Daren is a Bermudian Canadian artist whose love for acting continues to grow.
He is a multiple Dora Award and Toronto Theatre Critics Award winner, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner and a NAACP Theatre Award Nominee. Daren also received the Earl Cameron Award, recognizing his achievements in theatre, film and television, from the Bermuda Arts Council in 2022.

Daren is one of the founding members of the Gracemoon Arts Company. For over a decade, he has been training with a gifted ensemble under the mentorship of Michèle Lonsdale•Smith. Daren serves as a member of the Sheridan College Music Theatre Performance PAC and is a past board member of the Musical Stage Co.
He earned his MFA in Drama from the University of California, Irvine and a BFA in Theatre Arts from The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia.

For Obsidian: Three Sisters, The Wild Party, Once on This Island

For Soulpepper: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, The Brothers Size, Father Comes Home From the Wars I,II,III

For Nightwood: Debut

Selected Theatre Credits: Dutchman, Intimate Apparel (Gracemoon Theatre Co.); Yerma (Coal Mine); Moonlight Schooner, Choir Boy (CanStage); Come Home…Daddy Hall (Tarragon)

Selected Film and TV Credits: Pretty Hard Cases, Kim’s Convenience, Town(e) web series

Awards: 2X Dora Award winner ; 2X Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winner

Tami

Amanda Cordner is an electrifying, award-winning theatre artist known for fearless transformation, physical command, and emotional precision. Actor, clown, and creator, Amanda builds work that is bold, intimate, and impossible to ignore. A Dora Mavor Moore Award winner for portraying 14 characters in Snow White at Young People’s Theatre, they have been named one of Canada’s Top Ten Theatre Artists and continue to shape the country’s contemporary stage.

Through their company, Madonnanera Performance, and in ongoing collaboration with creative partner David Di Giovanni, Amanda creates risky, outrageous, intersectional work that pushes boundaries and captivates audiences. Their acclaimed piece Body So Fluorescent was produced at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, published, and nominated for the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Madonnanera also created and toured Wring the Roses and is currently developing NERO in residence at Buddies.

Internationally, Amanda has performed as solo actor/narrator with the renowned Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik in The Gull, the Raccoon & the Last Maple. They are widely recognized for their breakout, award-nominated performance as 7ven on CBC/HBO Max’s Sort Of, bringing that same dynamism to screen work including The Expanse, The Baroness von Sketch Show, and Slo Pitch.

How to Catch Creation marks their debut with Obsidian Theatre Company, Soulpepper, and Nightwood Theatre.

Selected Theatre Credits: Snow White (Young People’s Theatre) Body So Fluorescent (Madonnanera/Buddies) Wring the Roses (WhyNot, Madonnanera), The Gull, The Racoon and The Last Maple (Tafelmusik)

Select Film and TV Credits: Sort Of, Slo Pitch, Baroness Von Sketch, The Expanse

Upcoming: Slo Pitch (new series)

Awards: Dora Mavor Moore, Outstanding Performance, Snow White Young People’s theatre

Riley

Germaine Konji is a Kenyan-Canadian director, actor, singer and writer. Born in Kenya and raised in Canada, Germaine’s work is rooted in community and storytelling as a means of survival, resistance, and joy. Most recently, Germaine assistant directed a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Tarragon/ Obsidian) as well as directed Obsidian’s inaugural Black Queer Voices spotlight. Germaine is a 2020 Syd & Shirley Banks Prize recipient, a four time Dora award nominee, and one of six performers recognized as a Breakthrough Toronto Stage Artist of 2022.

For Obsidian: Direction: Young Gifted and Black 2025 cohort, Black Queer Voices Spotlight. Performance: Dixon Road

For Soulpepper: Debut

For Nightwood: Direction: Nightwood Shadow Directors program, 2025

Selected Theatre Credits: Universal Child Care (Canadian Stage/Quote Unquote Collective/Nightwood), Grand Magic and Finally There’s Sun (Stratford Festival), Dixon Road (Obsidian/Musical Stage Co.), Into the Woods(Talk Is Free Theatre).

Stokes

Danté Prince is an Artist born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. He self describes as having an obsession with the craft of storytelling. Committing himself to refine his discipline. To be the best Actor, Playwright, or whatever else he can be. He feels very grateful to have been able to do this as a career. Living out long time dreams that even he didn’t know were there. And he hopes to eventually be able to share his art with everyone reading this.

For Obsidian: Dixon Road

For Soulpepper: Debut

For Nightwood: Debut

Selected Theatre Credits: Christmas Market – Crows Theatre, Measure – Crows Theatre

Upcoming: Medusa @ Soulpepper

G.K. Marche

Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah is a Toronto based actor, writer, and director. Living her life at a multitude of intersections, Khadijah’s work is motivated by a pursuit of artistic expression that aims to challenge understandings of visibility and inclusivity. Whether working alongside like-minded artists or producing work through her multimedia company, 2Skins Entertainment, Khadijah always strives to create art that amplifies the voices of those who exist in the margins of our society.

For Obsidian: Debut

For Soulpepper: Da Kink In My Hair (Guyanese Dialect Coach), Death And The King’s Horseman | Around the World In 80 Plays

For Nightwood: Debut

Selected Theatre Credits: Corrina in Primary Trust (Grand/Crow’s), Lady Clapham in Something Rotten, Mrs Who in A Wrinkle in Time, Signora Locascio in Grand Magic, Understudying Jo March and Beth March in Little Women, Grace in Every Little Nookie (Stratford Theatre Festival), Lila in Bang Bang (Factory, Laertes in Prince Hamlet and Black Woman in We Are Proud to Present (Why Not), Geschwitz in LULU V.7 //aspects of a femme fatale (ted witzel), Claudette in How Black Mothers Say I Love You (Trey Anthony).

Selected Film and TV Credits: TV Slo-Pitch (Shaftesbury/Boss & Co), Sisters (Shaftesbury), The Last of Us (HBO), American Gods (Freemantle/Star), What We Do In The Shadows (FX), Workin Moms (CBC) Film Really Happy Someday (Spindle Films), Sugar Daddy (Levelfilm), DEFUND (2Skins Ent./Incognito Ave, P!GS (2Skins Ent.) Body So Flourescent (Madonnanera)

Upcoming: Slo Pitch (PAGEBOY/Boss & Co/Shaftesbury)

Natalie

Shakura Dickson is a Dora – Nominated artist based in Toronto. Theatre Credits Include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I Am William, Freedom Cabaret (Stratford Festival); A Streetcar Named Desire, Bad Hats’ Alice in Wonderland, ‘da Kink in My Hair, Billie, Sarah, & Ella (Soulpepper); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Theatre Calgary); Dear Evan Hansen (Mirvish); Jerusalem (Outside the March/Crow’s Theatre); Trout Stanley (Factory Theatre); Light, Girls Like That (Tarragon Theatre); Other Side of the Game (Obsidian/Cahoots); Treasure Island (Solar Stage). She also appears in: Grand Army (Netflix), Private Eyes (Global TV), Coroner (CBC)

For Obsidian: Other Side of the Game

For Soulpepper: Debut

For Nightwood: Debut

Selected Theatre Credits: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I Am William, Freedom Cabaret (Stratford Festival); A Streetcar Named Desire, Bad Hats’ Alice in Wonderland, ‘da Kink in My Hair, Billie, Sarah, & Ella (Soulpepper); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Theatre Calgary); Dear Evan Hansen (Mirvish); Jerusalem (Outside the March/Crow’s Theatre); Trout Stanley (Factory Theatre); Light, Girls Like That (Tarragon Theatre); Other Side of the Game (Obsidian/Cahoots); Treasure Island (Solar Stage).

Selected Film and TV Credits: Grand Army (Netflix), Private Eyes (Global TV), Coroner (CBC)

Playwright

Christina Anderson’s plays include: the ripple, the wave that carried me home, How to Catch Creation, and pen/man/ship. Her work has been produced across the country including theaters such as Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Yale Rep. A Tony nominated writer for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has received the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Horton Foote Prize, and the United States Artists Fellowship, among many other honors. She is the author of Three Plays by Christina Anderson, a collection of her work published by Tripwire Harlot Press. Education: Brown University and Yale School of Drama. She’s taught playwriting at Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Brown, and YSD. Since 2019, she’s also been exploring music production under the moniker Purely Magenta, creating hip-hop instrumentals that reflect her inquisitive spirit. Current writing project: a book that explores playwriting as an accessible artistic life practice.

Set Design

Teresa Przybylski is an architect and a theatre designer. She is known for her designs in theatre, opera, dance and film. Her credits include designs for National Arts Centre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Pacific Opera, Young Peoples Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Canadian Stage and others.

Her work in theatre was awarded with five Dora Mavor Moore Awards and seventeen Nominations. She is a recipient of two Gemini Awards for Film and Television Production Design : Don Giovanni Unmasked, Stormy Weather, (Producer: Rhombus Media)

She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and Associated Designers of Canada.

Costume Design

Ming is a Toronto based costume designer working in musical theatre, theatre, dance, opera, film, and television for over 15 years. Her work spans from period and contemporary to the unusual and unconventional. She is a graduate of OCADu.

Lighting Design

André du Toit is a lighting designer for live performance based in Toronto, although his designs have been seen across Canada and beyond. He has received five Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design.

Credits Include: You, Always, Fat Ham, Maanomaa, My Brother (Canadian Stage); Public Consumption, HONEY I’M HOME (Lester Trips); CHILD-ish, Harlem Duet (Tarragon Theatre); Takwahiminana (Punctuate Theatre); A Public Display of Affection (Studio 180); Last Landscape, Italian Mime Suicide (Bad New Days); To A Flame, Qalb, Lady M (1S1 Theatre); Three Sisters, A Delicate Balance, Vimy, The 39 Steps (Soulpepper); Universal Child Care, Now You See Her, Mouthpiece (Quote Unquote); Here Lies Henry (Factory Theatre); Prince Hamlet, What You Won’t Do For Love, (Why Not Theatre); speaking of sneaking (Buddies in Bad Times); R+J (Stratford Festival of Canada).

Sound Design

A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney (Outside the March, Soulpepper)

Intimacy Director

Lisa Karen Cox deeply believes in the brilliance of the actor. She encourages raw, honest, embodied performative experiences through listening, somatics and actor agency.

Stage Manager

Laura has had the pleasure of stage managing for theatres across the country and around Toronto, including Buddies in Bad Times, Soulpepper Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, Nightwood, YPT, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, Studio 180, Dance Immersion, Tarragon Theatre, Cahoots, Theatre Passe Muraille, Blyth Festival, Caravan Farm Theatre, and others. Thank you to my wife Shawn and our child Amari for your unconditional love and support.

Assistant Stage Manager

Frank/ie is a trans, queer, white settler who grew up on Treaty 6 land and now calls Tkaronto home.