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The Ensemble
Damien Atkins
Theatrefront: Ketch/Captain Tench in Our
Country's Good, Skinny in Mojo,
and RETURN (The Sarajevo Project). Other Credits: I Am My Own Wife (Dallas Theater Center), The Emcee in Cabaret (Saidye Bronfman Centre), 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, was part of
the Canadian Stage Co.’s 2006/2007 season.
He 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
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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. After an extended stay in Texas studying labyrinths and sacred geometry,
Sue is returning as an artist to The Asterion Project, a multi-year workshop and environmental staging of R. Murray Schafer's Patria Cycle. She has also
joined Modern Times Stage Company as Director of Development and will collaborate on The Dialogues Project, an initiative integrating theatre and conflict resolution in war-affected regions. First stop, a return trip to Bosnia! 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 T he 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), The Red Priest, Hay Fever and
You Can't Take it With You (Thousand
Islands Playhouse), 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), 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: Generous (Tarragon), Afterplay
(Shaw Festival), The Last Five Years (CanStage
and MTC), This is How it Goes
(Neptune Theatre), Helen's Necklace (Grand
Theatre), The Play About The Baby (Soulpepper),
As You Like It & A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre By
The Bay - Barrie, Ontario), Peer Gynt &
Big Love (George Brown Theatre
School). 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 will be released this
summer. Daryl has also recently been
appointed Artistic Director of Theatre & Company, Kitchener-Waterloo’s
regional professional theatre. Upcoming:
Daryl is directing the premiere of And
All For Love by Alison Lawrence (National Arts Centre).
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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: Three Squares a Day (Theatre Passe
Muraille); The Importance of Being
Earnest (Saidye Bronfman/Soulpepper);
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: Big Girl (CFC);
The Rules (Part 1),Aruba (Bravo). Patricia is a graduate of George Brown
Theatre School . Upcoming: The Time of
Your Life, Three Sisters (Soulpepper)
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Holly Lewis
For
Theatrefront: RETURN (The Sarajevo
Project), 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: 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), a regular role on The Newsroom (CBC), Blue Murder (Global), Jasper,
Texas (Showtime), Othello
and MacBeth (A Taste of
Shakespeare), Puppets Who Kill (Comedy
Network) and CBC's Canada: A People's
History. Upcoming: Hermia in A
Midsummer Night's Dream in High Park (Canadian Stage Company) and a
supporting role in the upcoming interactive feature film Late Fragments
(NFB/CFC). Inspired by Theatrefront's international work, Holly is currently
studying Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Centre at the University of
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Matthew MacFadzean
For
Theatrefront: RETURN (The Sarajevo Project), and head writer
for The Mill. 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 the Shaw Festival. Film and
television credits include The Murdoch
Mysteries, The Eleventh Hour, 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 a new piece in
cooperation with the National Arts Centre. 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.
Upcoming, Matthew will be appearing the
Citadel’s production of Noises Off
and in Peter Hinton’s Macbeth at the
National Arts Centre.
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Christopher Morris
For
Theatrefront: NIGHT-Director (Phase
One-Pond Inlet, Nunavut), 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: Descent
(Theatre Passe Muraille), Antony and
Cleopatra (Shakespeare in the Rough),
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Resurgence Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks), Much Ado about Nothing (Resurgence Theatre), Cherry Docs (Grand Theatre, London), A Winter's Tale, Chorus for Disapproval, The Play about the Baby (Soulpepper),
Road (Equity Showcase). Other
international work includes Paul Thompson's collective The Georgian Expedition (Sardapi Theatre, Republic of
Georgia). Directing credits: 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 completed an eleven-week assistant director mentorship
in the Republic of Georgia under Georgian director Gocha Kapanadze, and with
Theatre for Change in Baku, Azerbaijan. Upcoming: Acting in Stones in His Pocket (Thousand Islands
Playhouse), a collective creation with Paul Thompson in Brasil (October/2007),
and as solo creator/actor for The
Runner in Isreal (February/2008). A two-week workshop of his play
Demons is happening in
August/2007. 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: King
Henry IV Part One, The Lark, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Timon of Athens , Agamemnon
(Stratford Festival), Blithe Spirit,
Cinderella (Globe Theatre), Helen's
Necklace (Grand Theatre), The Leisure
Society (Factory Theatre). 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).
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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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Kaija Corlazzoli
For
Theatrefront: Producer for The Cape Town
Project, Associate Producer for RETURN
(The Sarajevo Project) and Swimming
in the Shallows. Kaija is the Manager of Administration and Education
for Opera Atelier and the Director of Marketing for Continuum Contemporary
Music. Other experiences include: 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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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, and RETURN (The Sarajevo Project). Lorenzo is a set, costume and
lighting designer who has many years designing for Daryl Cloran and
Theatrefront. He has worked for many theatres throughout Canada, and is
most excited to finally reside back in Toronto. Most recently,
he designed the Lighting for John Gabriel
Borkman, the Set and Costumes for The
Threepenny Opera, and Set for the Caretaker
(Soulpepper). Prior to this, he designed the set for She's Gone Away (hum), set and costumes
for Swollen Tongues (GCTC), and Trying and God of Hell (Neptune Theatre). He has contributed to five seasons
at the Stratford Festival, where he designed sets for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Timon
of Athens, Agamemnon, Electra,
and set and costumes for The Flies.
He also designed the sets for the six one-act plays in Stratford
Festival's inaugural season of the Studio Theatre. Other notable past
credits include set for Blithe Spirit
(The Globe), Set and costumes for The
Goat (Neptune Theatre), Real Estate,
and Unity 1918 (Theatre Aquarius),
set and lighting for The 13th One (Blyth
Festival), and Three in the Back, Two in
the Head (Neptune Theatre). Lorenzo is currently a member of
Soulpepper's inaugural academy and will be designing the set for Time of Your Life and Three Sisters.
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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: 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: ‘Til Death Do Us Part, Poker Night, Saw III, Missing, Kardia, 72 Hours, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, The Fraternity, Safehouse. Upcoming: Neil Kellerman in the North American premiere of Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions).
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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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