For TIFT: Herringbone, The Yalta Game, La Bête.

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Elsewhere: Director: Wakey, Wakey (Stratford Festival Forum/County Stage Company); Macbeth, Requiem for a Gumshoe, Space Opera Zero!, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (Eldritch Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, TomorrowLove (U of T CDTPS); Every Brilliant Thing (Festival Players). Associate Director: The Shape of Home (CSC/Crow’s Theatre). Actor: Julius Caesar, Tribes (Canadian Stage); Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello, Titus Andronicus (Stratford Festival); Dirty Dancing (London’s West End); Peter Pan, The Matchmaker, Coronation Voyage, Widowers’ Houses, Rutherford and Sons (Shaw Festival). Film/TV:  Reacher, Titans, The Handmaid’s Tale, Workin’ Moms, Stealing the Sky.  

Other: 2017 Critics Pick Award for Best Supporting Actor. Creative Director at B Street Collaborative.  @dylantrowbridgeyyz @bstreetcollaborative

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For TIFT: Tales Of An Urban Indian (Suriname, Chile).

Other: Nolan is an Afro-Indigenous artist from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with a focus on acting for stage and screen. He also engages in writing, directing, and sound design. Nolan began his professional acting career 12 years ago with the award-winning web series ‘My Lupine Life’. He has received education and training from Weengushk Film Institute and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. Hobbies include reading, writing for the screen & stage, improv nights, cooking, & nature exploration. Nolan Values his journey as an artist, blending his cultural heritage with his craft, aiming to contribute to a more diverse and inclusive artistic community.

‍For TIFT: Outheis (Production Design), Written In Blood (Costume Design), Sweeney Todd (Set Design--Dora Nominee), Sin and Sorrow are Common to All (Costume Design), Mahagonny Songspiel (Costume Design).

Elsewhere: Set Design: The Family Crow (Pucking Fuppets). Costume Design (selected): Film: Cell Block Tango: Reimagined (EveryBODY on Stage); #datingfail (REM Productions); Billy Boy (RDS Media Productions); Sinkers (Eagleheart Entertainment). Theatre: Legally Blonde, The Rocky Horror Show, Hair,The 26th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Boeing Boeing, We the Family, The Tempest (Harthouse Theatre); Evita, Hair, Spamalot, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Sound of Music, Rent, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, The Woman in Black, Dora’s Pirate Adventure, Next to Normal, The Mousetrap, Buddy Holly and Stinky Kids (Lower Ossington Theatre). Head of Wardrobe for Grease (Grease Toronto) and for Classical Theatre Project (Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night). 

Other: Kathleen is a Dora-nominated designer, the recipient of the Television Bureau of Canada’s Bessie Award for best performance in a commercial, and is a four-time recipient of Harthouse Theatre’s Audience Choice Award for costume design. Updates at www.kathleenblack.org.

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For TIFT: Debut

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Elsewhere: Various productions across Canada with the Arts Club Theatre Company, Theatre Under the Stars, Gateway Theatre, Savage Society, Touchstone Theatre, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Theatre NorthWest, Western Canada Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, and Drayton Entertainment.

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Other: Koh is also a freelance illustrator, an occasional arts administrator, and a former dance educator. @kohlaurenquan

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For TIFT: Talk Is Free Theatre Festival New Zealand, Sweeney Todd (Toronto)

Elsewhere: Mamma Mia!, James & The Giant Peach (YES Theatre), Chicago (Globe Theatre), Black Out, Take The Moment (Musical Stage Company), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian/CBC), Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre/Shaw Festival/Barbican Theatre)

Other: Crystal Lee (she/her) is a mixed-race, Chinese-Canadian Production & Technical Theatre Manager originally from New Brunswick's northshore. Her interest in theatre spans from technical logistics to advocacy. Crystal is the co-founder of the production firm What by When (WxW), as well as an active member of the collective - Means of Production - both of which provoke culturally sustainable and standardized production leadership practices. In her spare time, Crystal teaches Production Management at Sheridan College, and is passionate about guest lecturing and mentorship with other educational institutions and community initiatives. She's trained at The Banff Centre, National Theatre School, and has worked at the National Arts Centre on the management team before settling as a freelance artist in Toronto. Currently, Crystal is a national board member for the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology, and now works full-time with Why Not Theatre as their Director of Production and Technical, and as a Production Consultant for TIFT.

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