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Kate was born and raised in Toronto. She began her professional career, at a young age, performing in a number of movies-of-the-week. She is a graduate of both Etobicoke School of the Arts and George Brown Theatre School in Toronto. Since graduating she has exploded onto the TV scene, appearing in Covert Affairs (USA), Rookie Blue (Global), Defiance (SYFY), Lost Girl (Showcase), and has had recurring roles on such shows as, Heartland (CBC), 24 Hr. Rental (Super Channel), Reign (CW), American Gothic (CBS), and Alias Grace (CBC). For the Theatre Kate has appeared in The Big Sleep (Theatre Aquarius) and in a site specific capacity with Mary’s Wedding (P.U.C.). Recently Kate was featured in Killer High (SyFy), and short film Til Death (TLSM). Up next watch for Kate in new series October Faction (Netflix) where she was directed by the fabulous Mina Shum.

Mary's Wedding

A love story set against the backdrop of World War I, Mary's Wedding is an epic, unforgettable story of love, hope, and survival.

When Mary and Charlie unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and they must surrender their fates to the tumultuous times of the First World War. Their love story extends from the fields of Canada's Prairies to the battlefields of France's Moreuil Wood, as the playwright weaves time, dreams and memory together to remind us that the heart is beautifully resilient. Mary’s Wedding is a moving memorial to both the Great War and great love.

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For Nightwood:Grace by Jane Doe,Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) by Rose Napoli - Dora Nominations Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance, Quiver by Anna Chatterton - Dora Nomination Outstanding Sound Design, and currently in fifth season as the Program Director for Write From the Hip,

Elsewhere:TomorrowLove (UW), A Beautiful View (FPPEC), The Taming of the Shrew (SLSF), Snowman (Soulpepper Academy), Love and Information (RCPA), Sequence (Tarragon), These Peaceable Kingdoms (NTS), Romeo & Juliet (Ruff), Janet Wilson Meets the Queen (GCTC), Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon), Beautiful Man (Summerworks), CLEAVE (NTS), Tyumen Then (Fringe/Revolver), Within the Glass - Governor General Award Nomination (Tarragon), Mistatim (Red Sky – International Tour), The Atomic Weight of Happiness (Theatre Direct), Montparnasse (TPM), Offensive Fouls (Theatre Direct), The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski (National tour). Andrea was Tarragon Theatre’s Assistant/Associate Artistic Director for four seasons, and is a regular guest artist at the National Theatre School.

Awards: Stratford Festival’s Jean Gascon Award for Direction, Best Director -International Youth Drama - Shenzhen, China, twice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon & John Hirsch Directing Awards. Her projects have received over a dozen Dora nominations and awarded Outstanding Performance (Ensemble) & Outstanding Production for And By the Way, Miss (Theatre Direct).

Upcoming:Beautiful Man by Governor General Award winning playwright Erin Shields at Factory Theatre

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Justine Christensen is a Toronto-born actor-writer-producer. She is a co-founder of LET ME IN, a platform through which she seeks to produce audience-engaging, socially-conscious theatre. Her past favourite acting credits include Hamlet (Hamlet & Ophelia, LMI), Rosalind (As You Like It, GBTS Theatre), and Kayleen (Gruesome Playground Injuries, Theatre at Eastminster). She has worked with Convergence Theatre, Pat The Dog Theatre Creation, and Nightwood Theatre to her hone and develop her skills as a producer. She is currently working as a writer on a number of new works, one of which is the final installation of her Chekhov adaptations trilogy, produced through LMI.

Cannibal

When you survive the unsurvivable, who do you become? Bridget Walker has written a play about the abduction of her son and it's a smash hit. Critics are raving, but those closest to her are sent reeling. ‘Cannibal’ explores grief, the cost of sharing your story, and what it means to be indebted to someone you love.

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Dr. Cynthia Ashperger was born in Zagreb, Croatia where she had extensive experience in the theatre, film and television industry as an actor. She holds a PhD from University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Studies in Drama. She has taught acting at Ryerson School of Performance since 1994 where she also served as Director of the Acting Program. At Ryerson she has directed some twenty productions of the world classics, most recently Tales from Vienna Woods, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Chaste Maid of Cheapside, The Country Wife, All for Love, The Three Sisters and The Girl from Maxim’s.

In Toronto she has worked as a director, writer, actor and producer for the last twenty five years. For her own play inc. company she directed, acted and produced the critically acclaimed production of A Summer’s Day by Jon Fosse. For Phantasmagoria Collective she has directed Tender Napalm by Philip Ridley at Toronto’s Summerworks 2013 also to great critical acclaim. In 2015 she was invited by Croatian Play Drama Theatre to direct a modern French satire George Kaplan utilizing her unique rehearsal process

Foreign Tongue

Meet Kathy Woodrough, a young, busy, single, urban professional who experiences a stroke, falls into a coma, and wakes up six weeks later with a thick Russian accent. Her diagnosis is Foreign Accent Syndrome, a real medical condition that leaves her mistaken for a "New Canadian" and a refugee, a misunderstanding she does not correct. In this new musical comedy, Kathy finds true love and friendship, but can she face the consequences of her clumsy lie?

Foreign Tongue at Next Stage: https://fringetoronto.com/next-stage/show/foreign-tongue

David S. Craig
David S. Craig is a Toronto based theatre artist who has written over thirty professionally produced dramatic works, garnering many awards and award nominations. Recent premiere productions include “BOMBERS: Reaping the Whirlwind” at 4 th Line Theatre (2017)and “Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia” at Odyssey Theatre (2018). His adaptation of “The Neverending Story” will be produced by the Stratford Festival in June of 2019. As an actor, he has performed across North America. In 2014, The City of Toronto awarded Mr. Craig with the Barbara Hamilton Award for Artistic Excellence. He is currently Past- President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Richard Greenblatt
Richard Greenblatt is an actor, director, writer, and musician who was born in Montréal and received his acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England. He has performed in theatres across Canada and abroad, as well as in feature films, television and radio. He has directed well over 130 productions for theatres across the country, the vast majority being original and/or Canadian works, including many groundbreaking and award-winning plays for young audiences. His writing includes the hit play 2 Pianos 4 Hands with Ted Dykstra, amongst many others. He has taught acting, directing and play creation at almost all of the major theatre training institutions in Canada.

Athabasca
In an office building in Fort McMurray, a senior public relations executive for a major Canadian oil company is confronted by a journalist turned environmental activist, who is violently determined to shut down the Athabasca oil sands. Next Stage’s first-ever site-specific production is an uncompromising battle of wills that poses the question – how far are you willing to go to save our planet?


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Schedule and Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/next-stage/show/athabasca

On this holiday episode, host Phil Rickaby reflects on the year that was.

Adrianna is sometimes an actor, sometimes a playwright, but a full time geeky social media addict who supports mental health advocacy. She is the Host for the mental health storytelling podcast Stories Like Crazy. Adrianna was the Arts & History Host for the IAWTV award winning educational webshow Cranium Cookie, about all things edu-tastic in Canada, and the Geeky Host for Geektropolis, an online community talking about all things geek-chic in Toronto.

Adrianna is also the Marketing Monster for Eldritch Theatre.

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Thomas Gough was first on stage at the age of five, but clearly remembers acting before that. He works frequently in the Independent Theatre in Toronto, having appeared in the last few years with the Alumnæ Theatre, Safeword, Single Thread, the Storefront, Thought For Food, Theatre Lab, Plain Stage, and Unspoken Theatre, as well as Theatre By The Bay (Barrie) and the Kick And Push Festival (Kingston). Most recently he appeared in the Toronto Fringe Festival (2018) as Lionel Percy in Bakersfield Mist, and as The Reporter in Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre's production of The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

Thomas appears in The Three Ships Collective and Soup Can Theatre's new and immersive adaptation of Dickens’ timeless holiday classic set in the historic Campbell House Museum!

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Sue Edworthy has worked in theatre, dance and opera organizations in and around Toronto such as Luminato, Opera Atelier, and Theatre Passe Muraille. She is a 2010 Harold Award recipient and recipient of the CharPR Prize for best publicity 2012 and 2013, and the 2015 recipient of the Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award for Arts Leadership.

Sue also runs Sue Edworthy Arts Planning, a freelance marketing/PR, producing and strategic planning company for the Toronto independent arts community.

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Mairi Babb is Toronto based actor, originally from Ireland, who came to Toronto via Winnipeg. She's been seen in everything from The Rocky Horror Show, to The Pirates of Penzance, to War Horse.

You can see her now in Eldritch Theatre's Space Opera Zero, on now until December 2 at the Red Sandcastle Theatre.

Twitter: @mairibabb1

Tickets to Space Opera Zero: eldritchtheatre.ca/tickets