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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.
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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 Torontoís
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).
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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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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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