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The Ensemble
 
Damien Atkins

For Theatrefront: Ketch/Captain Tench in Our Country's Good, Skinny in Mojo, and RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) and author of THE MILL (Part Four): ASH. Other Credits: I Am My Own Wife (Dallas Theater Center), Mozart in Amadeus, The Emcee in Cabaret (Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre), The Way of the World, King Lear, The Caretaker and The Importance of Being Earnest (Soulpepper), Shopping and Fucking (Crow's Theatre), Into the Woods, Amadeus, Sweeney Todd (Canadian Stage), Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Canadian Stage/Saidye Bronfman), Walk Right Up, High-Gravel-Blind, Hamlet, Fiddler on the Roof, The Alchemist, Macbeth, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus and Elizabeth Rex (Stratford Festival), The Chocolate Soldier and Titanic (Shaw Festival) and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Festival of Classics/Soulpepper/CBC Radio/The Globe Theatre) Film and Television credits include: Children of My Heart, The Art of Woo, I Was a Rat (BBC), The Matthew Shepard Story (NBC), Our Fathers (Showtime), The Eleventh Hour (CTV), This is Wonderland (CBC) Slings and Arrows (TMN). Damien received an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Performance for his play Miss Chatelaine. His second play, Good Mother won the $25 000 UBC Creative Writing Dept./Prism International Prize for 2000 and received its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2001. His next play, Lucy, opened at the Canadian Stage Company in March 2007 and in New York City at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in October 2007. Damien is the recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for writing and performing Real Live Girl, and a Masque nomination (Montreal) for The Glass Menagerie. He is an associate playwright at Canadian Stage and a Guest Instructor at the National Theatre School.

 

Damien Atkins



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Sue Balint
 
Sue Balint

For Theatrefront: Playwright for Visiting Aphrasia, fforward (2 Dora nominations), and RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), as well as Producer for Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love and Stage Manager for Glengarry Glen Ross. Other writing credits include: Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated, Aggressive Tendencies and the Extinction of Modern Man, Australia's Festival of Young Playwrights, Factory Theatre's Playwright's Lab. Sue's most recent work involves the relationships between performance, ritual and sacred architecture and has led to her collaborations / performances in the Theatre Centre's Body Geometry: The Seventh Angel and DNA Theatre's The Large Glass, an environmental installation on the 24th floor of an office building overlooking the Toronto harbour. She is also a collaborating artist with The Asterion Project, a multi-year workshop and environmental staging of R. Murray Schafer's Patria Cycle. Sue is also Director of Development for TorontoĆ­s Modern Times Stage Company where she collaborates on all the company's productions and has just returned from Bosnia-Herzegovina where the company co-produced Aurash with a local cast and crew. Sue is a graduate of Queen's University (Theatre and Religion) and King's College (Broadcast Journalism).



 
Shane Carty

For Theatrefront: Our Country's Good, fforward and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Shane has spent five seasons at the Stratford Festival appearing as Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov, The King of Navarre in Love's Labour's Lost as well as Present Laughter, The Threepenny Opera, My Fair Lady, Measure For Measure, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Swanne: Queen Victoria, the Seduction of Nemesis. Other credits include: This is How it Goes (Neptune Theatre), It's a Wonderful Life and Einstein's Gift (Grand Theatre, London), Sticks and Stones (National Arts Centre), Beauty and the Beast (Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary), The Red Priest, Hay Fever and You Can't Take it With You (Thousand Islands Playhouse), A Christmas Story (Theatre & Company), Art  (Hope Theatre Productions), four seasons at the Weston Playhouse, Vermont where favourites include Sweeney Todd, Candide, Floyd Collins, Ancestral Voices and South Pacific. Shane is a graduate of Queen's University and the Stratford Festival's Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training.

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Shane Carty



 

Daryl Cloran

 
Daryl Cloran

For Theatrefront: Artistic Director. Director of fforward (2 Dora nominations), Our Country's Good (2 Dora nominations), RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) (5 Dora nominations), UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project), Swimming in the Shallows, The Underpants, Mojo, Sweet Phoebe, I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe, and Unidentified Human Remains.  Recent directing credits also include: And All For Love (National Arts Centre), Generous (Tarragon), Afterplay (Shaw Festival), The Last Five Years (CanStage and MTC), This is How it Goes (Neptune Theatre), Helen's Necklace (Grand Theatre), and The Play About The Baby (Soulpepper). Daryl has been awarded the Canada Council's John Hirsch Prize for an Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director, the Toronto Theatre Emerging Artist Award, and a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Director (This is How it Goes). He is also included in the Canadian Who's Who. Daryl is also one of three writer/directors for the interactive feature film Late Fragment, produced by the Canadian Film Centre/National Film Board, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Upcoming, Daryl will direct Thearefront's production of THE MILL (Part One): NOW WE ARE BRODY at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts



 
Kaija Corlazzoli

For Theatrefront: Producer for (UBUNTU) The Cape Town Project, Associate Producer for RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) and Swimming in the Shallows. Kaija is Membership and Communications Manager for Business for the Arts. Other experiences include: education, marketing and finance for Opera Atelier, marketing for Continuum Contemporary Music, strategic planning at the Stratford Festival, fundraising at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People and The Royal Ontario Museum and youth initiatives for the New Music Coalition of Toronto.Kaija is a graduate of the Arts Management program at The University of Toronto with a major in Theatre and is the recipient of a 2005 Pfizer Award for Emerging Arts Managers.

 
Kaija Corlazzoli



  Patricia Fagan

Patricia Fagan

For Theatrefront: Liz in Our Country's Good, RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), and The Cape Town Project. Other selected theatre credits include: The Patient Hour (Tarragon); Three Squares a Day (Theatre Passe Muraille); The Importance of Being Earnest (Saidye Bronfman/Soulpepper); Ring Around the Moon, Three Sisters, The Time of Your Life, King Lear, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, Translations, She Stoops to Conquer, The Winter's Tale, A Chorus of Disapproval, Miss Julie, La Ronde, Present Laughter, Twelfth Night, A Flea in Her Ear (Soulpepper); Therac 25, Home Is My Road (Factory Theatre); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Saidye Bronfman/MTC); Vinci (CanStage/NAC/MTC). Film credits include: Flashpoint (CTV/CBS); The Young Prime Minister (Bravo);Big Girl (CFC); The Rules (Part 1), Aruba (Bravo). Patricia also plays the recurring role of Hannah on CBC Radio's Afghanada. She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School. Upcoming: The Syringa Tree (GCTC); The Parfumerie (Soulpepper) (Soulpepper).

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Holly Lewis

For Theatrefront: RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project), Swimming in the Shallows, The Underpants, Unidentified Human Remains, By a Thread, fforward, as well as producer for I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe. Other acting credits: Hermia inA Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park), Teeny in The Optimists (Tarragon Theatre), Amber in Chronic (Factory Theatre), Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre by the Bay), Charlotte in Well, (Tarragon Theatre), Raine in Judith Thompson's Habitat (Canadian Stage Company), Hooker in La Ronde (Soulpepper Theatre Company), Sissa in Midnight Sun (Tarragon Theatre, NAC), Kitty in North (Grand Theatre, London), and Twelfth Night (Soulpepper). Holly has been a regular on the CBC radio dramas Steve the First,the sequel Steve the Second and Canadia 2056. Film and television credits include: A lead role in These Girls (Official Toronto Film Festival Selection), Late Fragment (NFB/CFC), a regular role on The Newsroom (CBC), Blue Murder (Global), Jasper, Texas (Showtime), Love, Othello andMacBeth (A Taste of Shakespeare), Puppets Who Kill (Comedy Network) and CBC's Canada: A People's History. Upcoming: Holly is starring in all four parts of Theatrefront's production THE MILL.

 Holly Lewis


 
Matt MacFadzean
 
Matthew MacFadzean

For Theatrefront: RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), and THE MILL (Part One): NOW WE ARE BRODY. Theatre credits include The Glass Menagerie (Stratford Festival), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Festival of Classics), Take Me Out, (Canstage), Unless (Canstage/Stanley Arts Club, Vancouver), The Comedy of Errors, Salt-Water Moon (Festival of Classics), Three in the Back, Two in the Head (Neptune), Gagarin Way (Crows/Buddies in Bad Times), Trick or Treat (Factory), Kilt (Prairie Theatre Exchange) and two seasons with both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals. Film and television credits include The Murdoch Mysteries, The Eleventh Hour, Time Bomb, Owning Mahowny, and Street Time. He has written and produced eight plays including the multi-Dora nominated richardthesecond (Theatre Passe Muraille, Harbourfront) and Moon Stories (Summerworks 2002). He is currently working on an adaptation of Calderon's Life is a Dream with director Jennifer Tarver; is in development of a television show with Aircraft Pictures; and is starring in the pilot of Insecurity (CBC).A graduate of the National Theatre School, Matthew was the winner of Tarragon Theatre's 2001 Emerging Theatre Artist Award, and is a recipient of the William & Eva Fox Fellowship which he used to travel South-East Asia and work with Singapore's Spell #7.  

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Christopher Morris

For Theatrefront: Performer in RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), The Cape Town Project, Mojo, I Might be Edgar Allan Poe, The Underpants, and fforward. Some recent acting credits also include: Hamlet (Necessary Angel), Stones in His Pockets (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Descent (Theatre Passe Muraille), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Resurgence Theatre), Cherry Docs (Grand Theatre, London), A Winter's Tale, Chorus for Disapproval, The Play about the Baby (Soulpepper). His work in the Republic of Georgia includes Paul Thompson's collective The Georgian Expedition (Sardapi Theatre, Republic of Georgia) and an eleven-week assistant director mentorship under Georgian director Gocha Kapanadze, and with Theatre for Change in Baku, Azerbaijan. Directing credits: Petawawa (Human Cargo) Night (Human Cargo/Akureyri Playhouse, Iceland), Mary's Wedding (Grand Theatre), Mad Forest (University of Toronto), The Bear (Preface Theatre/AGO) and Judith Thompson's I am Yours (Equity Showcase). Christopher co-founded the Tununiq Arsaniit Theatre Group, an Inuit theatre company based in Pond Inlet, Nunavut and directed their Inuktitut productions of Silativut and Saqiyuq. Christopher is also Artistic Director of the Toronto-based theatre company Human Cargo and recently travelled to Israel and the Republic of Georgia for a workshop of The Runner and to Pakistan and Afghanistan for Petawawa. Upcoming: In November Christopher is acting in Hamlet (Necessary Angle/World Stage), directing the premiere of Night (Jan/2010 - Human Cargo/National Arts Centre) and returning to Pakistan and Afghanistan in April and May 2010 to direct workshops of Petawawa. Christopher was the recipient of the 2005 K.M. Hunter Award for Theatre.

Christopher Morris

 

 



 

Dana Osborne

 
Dana Osborne

For Theatrefront: Costume Designer for Mojo, The Underpants, Swimming in the Shallows, and RETURN (The Sarajevo Project). Other credits include: Moby Dick, Comedy of Errors, King Henry IV Part One, The Lark, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Timon of Athens, Agamemnon (Stratford Festival), The Time of Your Life (Soulpepper), Dying to Be Sick (Pleiades/NAC), Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks,Blithe Spirit (Globe Theatre), Hana's Suitcase, Helen's Necklace (Grand Theatre), Comedy of Errors (Canstage), Apple, The Leisure Society (Factory Theatre) A Christmas Story (Theatre and Company), and Body & Soul (Dove). Dana has also worked for the Canadian Opera Company, The Shaw Festival and the original Mirvish Productions of The Lion King and Mamma Mia. She holds an Honours Theatre Design BFA from York University and in 2004 she was named as one of the Young Designers to Watch in Entertainment Design magazine.

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Adam Pettle

For Theatrefront: The Cape Town Project. Adam wrote Therac 25 at the age of 22. It was nominated for Best New Play at the Dora Awards. His second play Zadie's Shoes premiered at the Factory Theatre, Toronto in 2000 before its nearly sold-out run at the Winter Garden Theatre (a Mirvish Production). Zadie's Shoes has since been produced across Canada and in the U.K. His third play, Sunday Father premiered at CanStage and was recently produced at Hampstead Theatre, a co-commission between CanStage and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester . Adam's other projects have included Misha (Theatre Direct), and an adaptation of Chekhov's The Tragic Role (Soulpepper) and Mosley And Me (DVxT Theatre Company).

 
Adam Pettle


Grahame Renyk
 
Grahame Renyk

Grahame began his association with Theatrefront with their production of Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, and offered dramaturgical support for Tricycle. He performed for 3 seasons with the Weston Playhouse in Vermont (Little Shop, Most Happy Fella, Twelfth Night, Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Candide, Anything Goes, and numerous Act IV Cabarets), 2 seasons with the Great West Theatre (Aberhart Summer, John Q. Public vs. the Universe), and 2 seasons with Theatreworks - both in Southern Alberta. Other credits: The Master Builder and Rough Magic (Theatre Kingston), Brigadoon (Sunshine Festival), Footloose and Pippin (Theatre Aquarius). Directing credits include: How Paul Simon Saved My Life by Jodi Essery and Little Shop of Horrors (both in Kingston), and a series of fundraiser Cabarets in Lethbridge and Kingston. He also wrote and directed the full length play Workshopping William: Shakespeare Unplugged as the culmination of a year-long exploration of Shakespeare's works with a group of high school students in Lethbridge. For the past few years, Grahame has been focusing his energies largely on teaching. He has taught at Theatre Aquarius and the University of Guelph, and is currently teaching in the Drama Department at Queen's University. He is also in the process of completing his PhD thesis on the experience of "flow" in musical theatre works.

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Claire Sakaki

For Theatrefront: Producer from 1999-2006: productions included fforward, Our Country's Good, Mojo, RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), The Underpants and Swimming in the Shallows. Other independent producing credits include: Songs for a New World and Merrily We Roll Along (Colour and Light Productions).  Claire is the Producer of Soulpepper Theatre Company and the Director of Programming for the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.  Previously, Claire held the positions of Business Manager for Toronto Dance Theatre, Company Manager for the Weston Playhouse (Vermont), and worked in corporate development for the Canadian Opera Company. Claire is a graduate of the Income Managers Program in Arts Administration and has an honours degree in Psychology from Queen's University.

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Lorenzo Savoini

For Theatrefront: Set and Lighting Designer for Mojo, The Underpants, Swimming in the Shallows, UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project) and RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) (Dora Nomination). Lorenzo's work has been on stages throughout Canada, most notably with Theatrefront, Soulpepper Theatre and the Stratford Festival. His most recent credits include: Set designer for Of The Fields Lately; Set and Lighting designer for Antigone, and Designer/co-creator of Civil Elegies (Soulpepper), as well as set and costume designer for Cosi Fan Tutte (COC) and director/designer for A Poe Cabaret (Luminato Festival). Lorenzo has designed a number of productions for Soulpepper including; Three Sisters, The Time of Your Life, Odd Couple, The Caretaker, BLiNK, As You Like It, Under Milkwood, and A Raison in the Sun. Lorenzo has also contributed to five seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he was set designer for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Timon of Athens, Agamemnon, Electra and set and costume designer for The Flies. He has also designed for Neptune Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Aquarius, Globe Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Blyth Festival, and The Grand Theatre. He is a proud member of Theatrefront as well as an associate artist with Soulpepper Theatre Company, and a graduate of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy.

Lorenzo Savoini


 
Dylan Trowbridge

Dylan Trowbridge

For Theatrefront: RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), Swimming in the Shallows, The Underpants, Mojo, fforward, and Unidentified Human Remains. Elsewhere: Neil Kellerman in the North American premiere of Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions); 5 Seasons at the Shaw Festival including the title role in Peter Pan, Rutherford and Son, Nothing Sacred, Widower's Houses, Coronation Voyage, Detective Story, Lord of the Flies and The Matchmaker; Escape From Happiness, Tideline, Saturn Devouring His Son (Factory Theatre), Rutherford and Son (National Arts Centre); Vinci (CanStage); Harvest (Centaur); Grace (Platform 9); Twelfth Night (Neptune), Romeo and Juliet (Repercussion), Henry V (Shakespeare by the Sea). Film/TV: Guns, Everything is Connected, Til Death Do Us Part, Poker Night, Saw III, Missing, Kardia, 72 Hours, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, The Fraternity, Safehouse. Dylan is currently appearing in the West End production of Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre.




Gema Zamprogna

For Theatrefront: Helen in Sweet Phoebe, choreographer for Mojo. Gema is best known for her portrayal of Felicity on CBC's Road to Avonlea for seven seasons for which she received three Gemini nominations. Since then she has received a Bachelor's degree in Drama from Queen's University and played a number of young pregnant women on both the small and big screens. These women include Arlene in Pirates of Silicon Valley (opposite Noah Wyle), Alice in Johnny (featured in the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival), Sarah in Twice in a Lifetime and Felicity herself in Happy Christmas Miss King. Favourite theatre roles include Liz in Our Country's Good, Mottyl in Not Wanted on the Voyage (both Queen's University) and Suzanne in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Theatre Aquarius). Gema is also an accomplished dancer and choreographer.

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 Gema Zamprogna



Founding Members

Sue Balint
Shane Carty
Daryl Cloran
Holly Lewis
Christopher Morris
Michel Protti
Grahame Renyk
Claire Sakaki
Dylan Trowbridge
Gema Zamprogna

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