Aidan is a Stratford, Canada-based actor with over twenty years of experience in theatre, film, and voice-over work. His career has taken him from coast to coast in Canada and abroad to New Zealand and Japan. After beginning his career as an apprentice at the Stratford Festival of Canada (and earning the Jean A. Chalmers Guthrie award), he went on to perform with companies including Drayton Entertainment, Royal Manitoba Theatre Company, Segal Centre Montreal, The Grand Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Harold Green Theatre, and Chemainus Theatre Festival, among many others. He has a special fondness for his work with Talk Is Free Theatre, including the roles of Bobby in Company and Baker in Into The Woods (Dora nomination - outstanding performance in a leading role). Recently, he completed his seventh season at Stratford (selected highlights include Witch 1 in Robert Lepage's Macbeth and Sir Bedevere in Spamalot). His training includes earning a BFA in Theatre at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and the prestigious Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training. Aidan is thrilled to be joining the amazing team of Cock and is grateful to Arkady and Dylan for the opportunity. Love always to Billy.

Michael was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, where he started life thinking he wanted to be a doctor, but discovered that he had a talent for singing. He began performing in musical theatre in high school, but started studying biochemistry and chemical engineering in university before changing his mind and pursuing a degree in theatre.

After graduating, he moved to Toronto and started working professionally. He has performed in productions across Canada and around the world, including Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, Dirty Dancing, Beauty and the Beast, The Light in the Piazza, Titanique, and Come From Away. He has been nominated for several awards across Canada including two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the country’s top honour for theatre. He has also appeared in several television shows, including as Mr. T. in the Netflix series Lost and Found Music Studios. Instagram: @torontow

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Tess Benger is an actor, singer, dancer, born and raised in downtown Toronto.

She feels very fortunate to be able to make a living as a theatre actor in Canada. She started out her career playing Anne of Green Gables in Charlottetown PEI, followed by three seasons at the prestigious Shaw Festival. Shaw highlights include Top Girls, Cabaret, Philadelphia Story, Sweeney Todd and The Next Whiskey Bar.

Since then she has continued to work all over Canada. This past year, Tess did three Mirvish musicals in Toronto including Kimberly Akimbo Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812  Titianique, it was a real accomplishment to perform at the theatres she grew up in the audience of.

Some other career highlights include Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Petra in A Little Night Music, and Carole King in Beautiful. 

Tess believes in theatre as a balm for the human spirit, connection and collective magic. 

She is so grateful for the opportunity to see the world with her friends and revisit this gorgeous play. 

Thank you for joining us and enjoy the show! Insta: @tessybeng

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Kevin is a multifaceted theatre artist based in Toronto. His recent theatre credits include Eureka Day, 12 Dinners, Cock, Forget About Tomorrow, TheBear/The Proposal, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, No Not Once, Irma Vep and Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

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Kevin has spent 5 seasons at the Stratford Festival, with favourites being Rosencrantz in Hamlet and Touchstone in As You Like It, and working with the extraordinary director Jillian Keiley on Alice Through the Looking Glass and The Diary of Anne Frank. He has also spent 7 seasons at the Shaw Festival (Heartbreak House, Three Men on a Horse, His Girl Friday, Easy Virtue). After the multi-national tour of Cock he will return to play in Love Us Most. Kevin is very excited to be working with Talk Is Free Theatre with this extraordinary company of theatre artists.

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