In this week’s episode, I sit down with Larissa Pohoreski. Larissa Pohoreski is an actor, singer, dancer, musician, and was recently selected as one of the Top 30 Under 30 by the Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts. In our conversation today we discuss how she was introduced to theatre and her background in Ukrainian dance, her training at Grant MacEwan and the main lessons she took from her time in school, as well as some her experiences performing in the industry and the rise in popularity of actor/musician shows. We also discuss what she has learned through her experiences with her theatre company Mavka Theatre, the upcoming Toronto production of “Blood of Our Soil” which she will be music directing and performing in from March 7th to 16th at Tarragon Theatre’s Extraspace, as well as where she see theatre in Canada headed in the future.