La Bête
Show ProgramWritten by David Hirson
February 2-11, 2023
Five Points Theatre
1 Dunlop Street West, Barrie
Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bête is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe, is incensed. His patron, the Princess, has decreed that the Court ensemble admit a new actor – the scandalously boorish street entertainer, Valere. With Elomire's pride and the troupe's livelihood on the line, the company is duty-bound not only to accept the outrageous troubadour, but to perform one of his ludicrous plays, an event that has dramatic consequences for them all.
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Five Points Theatre
1 Dunlop Street West, Barrie
Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb 10, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m.
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CAST
CREATIVES
CAST
Mike Nadajewski
Valere
For TIFT: Herringbone and The Yalta Game, Sweeney Todd (UK), Candide, Sunday in the Park with George, Harvest Moon Rising, One Night Stand, Snappy Tales.
Elsewhere: Damn Yankees, A Year with Frog & Toad: In Concert, Charley’s Aunt, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse, The Russian Play, Brigadoon, Happy End (Shaw Festival); Peter Sellars’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play, Timon of Athens, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Physicists, Hamlet, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Jesus Christ Superstar (also on Broadway), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (also with Mirvish) (Stratford Festival); Outside Mullingar, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Drowsy Chaperone, Cotton Patch Gospel, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton Entertainment).
Film/TV credits include Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries, Private Eyes, Gracie & Pedro.
Other: You can find Mike playing at the Shaw Festival this season in On the Razzle and Gypsy.
Valere
Mike Nadajewski
Rylan Wilkie
Elomire
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well, Little Women, The Crucible, The Neverending Story, To Kill A Mockingbird, Timon of Athens, Shakespeare In Love, Pericles, Christina The Girl King, Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford Festival); Lion in Winter (Grand Theatre); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth Festival); Vincent in Brixton (Alberta Theatre Projects - Betty Award Winner); Shakespeare’ Dog, East of Berlin (Alberta Theatre Projects - Betty Award Nominations); Am I Not King? (Zone 41 Theatre - Winnipeg Theatre Award Nomination); The Story (Common Boots Theatre - Dora Best Ensemble Nomination); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Mother Courage (Caravan Farm Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada; Much love to my family.
Elomire
Rylan Wilkie
Josue Laboucane
Bejart
For TIFT: Debut.
Elsewhere: Hamlet, Death and the King’s Horseman, Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Front Page, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello (The Stratford Festival); Henry VI in Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elbow in Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach); Captain Hook in Bad Hats Theatre’s Peter Pan, Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Toad in A Year with Frog and Toad, Horton in Seussical (Carousel Theatre); The Emperor’s New Threads (Axis Theatre).
Other: “I’m so excited to be doing my first TIFT show with this incredibly inspiring team of theatre makers! Many thanks to Dylan and the cast & crew!”
Josue is a Métis actor, teaching artist, and mask maker from Treaty 8, traditional territory of the Dene-za, Fort St. John, BC. He has trained at the Birmingham Conservatory, the Canadian National Voice Intensive, and is a graduate of the acting program at Studio 58. Next up, Josue will be playing Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing and appearing in King Lear this season at the Stratford Festival.
@laboucanej
Bejart
Josue Laboucane
Katarina Fiallos
Dorine
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Theatre: Chloe in Hookman (School of Performance/Soulpepper); Bianca in Untamed (School of Performance/Tarragon); Aumerle in Richard II (Foolscap Theatre); Olga in Three Sisters, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Nurse in Romeo & Juliet (School of Performance); Ensemble in Start Swimming, Lisa in An Adult Night of Shel Silverstein (Third Wall Theatre); Sol in Sol (Tarragon YPU). Film/TV: Breaking up for the Modern Girl (Notice Me Kid Vicious/CBC Gem), Get Together (Really Big Group Productions).
Other: Katarina recently graduated from TMU's (formerly Ryerson) School of Performance this past year. Outside of performing, she is a writer and director and will be directing at this year's Toronto Fringe and Next Stage Festival.
Dorine
Katarina Fiallos
Amelia Sargisson
The Princess
For TIFT: Amadeus
Elsewhere: Theatre: Eve in Paradise Lost, Luciana in The Comedy of Errors, Desdemona in Othello, Peggy in The Front Page, Sue in Hamlet 911 (Stratford); Red Velvet, The Watershed, Seeds (Crow’s); All I Want For Christmas, The 39 Steps, The Madonna Painter, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Centaur); Viola in Twelfth Night, Cordelia in King Lear (Canadian Stage); The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon); If We Were Birds, down from heaven—Cartes Premières Award for Best Actress (Imago); Tender Napalm, The Art of Catching Pigeons by Torchlight—Spotlight Award (SummerWorks). Film/TV: See (Chernin Ent./Apple TV+); Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury/CBC/UKTV). Audiobooks: Minique, Burning Questions, Crow Lake, Songs for the End of the World, I Become a Delight to My Enemies (Penguin Random House).
Other: Amelia is a co-creator of ARCS, a program for fostering more compassionate and communicative collaborative spaces, as well as of the TIFT Two-Way Mentorship Program. She’s working on a solo show, Fer Shame, and her play, 30 People Watching, co-written with nisha ahuja, is published in ReView: an anthology of plays committed to social justice (Sense Publishers). She works frequently as a mentoring artist with directing students, resident artists and artists doing independent studies at the National Theatre School. She’s ever grateful to - and adoring of - her loving, whacky family: Troy, Andy, Dylan, Janet & Julian. Omnia vincit amor. @akathesarge
The Princess
Amelia Sargisson
Heeyun Park
Madeleine Bejart
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Emily Brontë in Brontë (U of A Studio Theatre); Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTS) Irina in Three Sisters (NTS); Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Princess Laoula in L'etoile (Opera U of A); Clara in The Light in the Piazza (Walterdale); Rosaline in After Juliet (Citadel Young Company).
Other: Acting–National Theatre School of Canada; Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance–University of Alberta. This goes out to Vincenzo, my baby bengal. www.heeyunpark.com
Madeleine Bejart
Heeyun Park
Justan Myers
De Brie
For TIFT: Mahagonny Songspiel, The Judas Kiss, Tales of an Urban Indian, The Written in Blood Trilogy
Elsewhere: Canadian Tire’s Celebration of a Century (Birch River Productions); Sparky in Forever Plaid (Starvox Entertainment); J.D. in Heathers: The Musical (Hart House Theatre); The Emcee in Cabaret (Lower Ossington Theatre); Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz: A Panto, White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland: A Panto (Diversified Theatre); Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (St. Clair College, Huntsville Theatre Company).
Other: Justan is a graduate of the St. Clair College Music Theatre Performance program, an avid board game and video game nerd, and proud cat dad. You can find him on Instagram at @justanmyers. Big love goes out to his fiancé Ethan and the whole team at daCosta Talent for the love and support.
De Brie
Justan Myers
Amy Keating
Catherine De Brie
For TIFT: I, Claudia; Amadeus; For Both Resting and Breeding (Tour)
Elsewhere: Theatre: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); Laura in The Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); Lucille in This Is How We Got Here (Green Light Arts); Jessica in Hand to God (Coal Mine); Gemma in A City (Necessary Angel). Amy is a founding member and Artistic Associate with Outside the March Theatre Company. OtM credits include Ned/Cassandra in Trojan Girls; Rose in The Flick (Dora Nomination); Lisa/Colleen in Mr. Burns; Lucy in Mr. Marmalade (Dora Nomination); Violet in Passion Play (Dora Award–Ensemble). Film/TV: Ginny & Georgia (Netflix); Reacher Season 2 (Amazon); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Culprits (Disney/Hulu); Killjoys (SyFy); P!GS (Short Film); Succulent (Short Film).
Other: Follow Amy on Instagram @lil_keats! Love to Mitchell, Rosencatz & Guildenpurr, and the fam.
Catherine De Brie
Amy Keating
Courtenay Stevens
Rene Du Parc; Assistant Director
For TIFT: Raconteur in The Written in Blood Trilogy
Elsewhere: The Pianist (Circo Aereo–solo show, world tour); Dralion (Cirque du Soleil–world tour); Henry G20 (Luminato Festival); The Cherry Orchard (Modern Times); OIL (Actor's Rep Company); The Election (Theatre Passe Muraille/Common Boots); The 39 Steps (Grove Theatre); The Overcoat (CanStage–world tour); Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Stratford Festival); Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); The Number 14 (Axis Mime); Mary's Wedding, Game of Love and Chance (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Pride and Prejudice (Grand Theatre). Courtenay's been lied to, punched out or shot at on The Boys, Frankie Drake, Designated Survivor, The Umbrella Academy, Suits and other TV shows.
Rene Du Parc; Assistant Director
Courtenay Stevens
Madelyn Kriese
Marquise-Thérèse Du Parc
For TIFT: Herringbone/The Yalta Game
Elsewhere: June in Gypsy (upcoming), Brigadoon, The Horse and His Boy, Grand Hotel, The Magicians Nephew (The Shaw Festival); Pure 90s (StageWest). Film/TV: Unspoken (CMC Pictures).
Other: Training: Honours Bachelor of Musical Theatre Performance - Sheridan College. Love to my family, to Daniel, and to the team at TIFT for allowing me the space to be a part of this celebration of words and theatre. Thank you for supporting live theatre, we are so thrilled to be back!
Marquise-Thérèse Du Parc
Madelyn Kriese
CREATIVES
Dylan Trowbridge
Director
For TIFT: Director: Herringbone and The Yalta Game
Elsewhere: Theatre (Directing): Requiem for a Gumshoe, Space Opera Zero!, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (Eldritch Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream, TomorrowLove (U of T); Every Brilliant Thing (Festival Players); (Acting): The Matchmaker, Peter Pan, The Coronation Voyage, Widowers' Houses, Rutherford and Son (Shaw Festival); The Grapes of Wrath, Titus Andronicus, Mary Stuart (Stratford Festival); Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Tribes (Canadian Stage); Dirty Dancing (Mirvish and London's West End). Film/TV: The Big Cigar, Titans, Reacher, Workin' Moms, The Handmaid's Tale, Impulse, Alias Grace.
Other: Associate Artistic Director at County Stage Company; Co-Founder of GhostLight; Founding member of Theatrefront.
Director
Dylan Trowbridge
Joe Pagnan
Set Designer
For TIFT: As Designer: The Other Place, Into the Woods; For Resting and Breeding; Sweeney Todd; Sin and Sorrow Are Common To All; Beneath Springhill; Every Brilliant Thing; The Yalta Game; Herringbone; Pal Joey; Music for a Changing Voice; Newfie Electra; The Gamblers; Amadeus; Candide; Offline; The Music Man; Darling of the Day; Sunday in the Park with George; Gotcha!; Stop the World--I Want To Get Off!; Prince Homburg; I, Claudia; Vigil; The Wakowski Brothers. As Director: What She Burned; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Laramie Project and Spring Awakening (First Day readings).
Elsewhere: Pippin (St. Lawrence College); The Candlemaker’s Game (Project Humanity); Jacob Marley, We Will Rock You, The Junglebook, Bed and Breakfast (Magnus Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Shrek (Globe Theatre), #KanderAndEbb (Stratford Festival/colored lights); She’s Not Special (Fatuma Adar), Northern Lights (Theatre By The Bay).
Other: Joe is a professor of scenography and technical theatre at Queen’s University, product photographer for King’s Lock Craft Distillery, avid ttrpg player, wolf parent, and loves being back making art! @j_pagnan www.joepagnan.ca
Set Designer
Joe Pagnan
Laura Delchiaro
Costume Designer
For TIFT: Sweeney Todd, The Judas Kiss, For Both Resting and Breeding, The Yalta Game, Herringbone, Into the Woods (2019, 2021).
Recently: Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival); Into the Wood (YES Theatre).
Elsewhere: Costume Design: The Great Shadow (4th Line Theatre); Poison (Coal Mine Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Lost & Gone); Little Thing, Big Thing, Don’t Misunderstand Me (Festival Antigonish). Assistant Costume Design: Chicago, The Crucible, Coriolanus, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tartuffe (Stratford Festival). Costume Coordinator: Peter's Final Flight (Ross Petty Productions), Is God Is (Canadian Stage Company), Orphans for the Czar (Crows Theatre).
Other: Laura is a Dora Award-nominated costume designer and technician based in Toronto. In 2022 she was also nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for production craftsperson. She doesn’t have social media so don’t look for her there, but you can check out her work at lauradelchiarodesign.com.
Costume Designer
Laura Delchiaro
Jeff Pybus
Lighting Designer
For TIFT: The Other Place, The Judas Kiss, Herringbone, The Yalta Game, Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Lighting & Video Design), Tales of An Urban Indian (Touring Production Manager).
Elsewhere: Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects); Come on Dreamer (Brooke Gilmour Dance); Seagulls, The Killing, The Madness of Lady Bright (Shaw Festival Director’s Projects); Come Down From Upriver (Theatre Orangeville); Just to Get Married, Gaslight, Trouble in Mind, Chitra, Desire Under the Elms, Victory, The Russian Play (Shaw Festival; Assistant Lighting Design); The Runner (Human Cargo; Assoc. Lighting Design); Musik für das Ende (Tour—Soundstreams; Assoc. Lighting Design); Between Riverside and Crazy (The Coal Mine; Assoc. Lighting Design); A Huron County Christmas Carol, The Pigeon King (Blyth Festival; Assoc. Lighting Design); Vigilante (Catalyst & Grand Theatre; Assistant Lighting Design); Silence (Grand Theatre; Assistant Lighting & Video Design).
Other: Jeff (he/him) is a Lighting & Video designer and Technical Director for live performance across Ontario, and has spent much of his professional time in recent years assisting under many of the top lighting designers in Canada. He is also a hobbyist astrophotographer and cat Dad.
Lighting Designer
Jeff Pybus
JB Nelles
Properties
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Select theatre credits: Requiem for a Gumshoe (Eldritch Theatre); Orphans for the Czar (Crows Nest Theatre); Cold War Part I (Videocabaret); Indecent, Boy Falls from Sky (Mirvish); Stephenville Theatre Festival 2019. Film/TV: Height Markers, Murder Balloon (Basement Juice Productions). Award nominations: Pauline McGibbon Award nominee, 2022.
Other: JB is a graduate of York University’s Theatre Production and Design program, and currently works as a costume maker, scenic artist and props maker. When they aren’t at the theatre, JB loves to crochet, paint their apartment a million colours, or jam out behind a drum kit. You can find them on Instagram @thecostumewitch
Properties
JB Nelles
James Smith
Sound Design
For TIFT: Sweeney Todd, The Other Place, Assassins, Great Expectations, Guys and Dolls, Darling of the Day, Herringbone/The Yalta Game.
Elsewhere: Writer/Performer of Lessons in Temperament (Outside the March–Summerworks Production Award); Composer/Lyricist of Chasse Galerie (Soulpepper/Kabin–Dora Award for Sound Design/Composition); Sound Designer/Composer for The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, Dance of Death, and Faith Healer (The Shaw Festival); The Effect (Coalmine Theatre); Music Director for Brantwood (Theatre Sheridan); Conductor/Pianist for Rose (Soulpepper Theatre); Canada Rocks (Charlottetown Festival). Actor in La Bête, A Moveable Feast, The 27 Club, Chasse Galerie, It's a Wonderful Life (Soulpepper Theatre); Marky Ramone in Four Chords and a Gun (Starvox). Next up, James will be the Associate Conductor for Spamalot at the Stratford Festival.
Other: Graduate of the Soulpepper Academy and the Shaw Festival's music director internship. Holds a Bachelor of Music from Queens University. Likes animals, reading, oxford commas, and synthesizers.
Sound Design
James Smith
Bona Peacock
Stage Manager
For TIFT: Herringbone/The Yalta Game, Do You Turn Somersaults?
Elsewhere: Twenty-two seasons and many shows with The Stratford Festival as Production Stage Manager, Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager. Most recently: Production Stage Manager, The Avon Theatre; Stage Manager–1939, The Rez Sisters.
Upcoming: The Stratford Festival 2023 Season: Production Stage Manager–The Avon; Stage Manager–Frankenstein Revived.
Other: Graduate–Technical Production Section–The National Theatre School of Canada; Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Bishop’s University. Love and Gratitude to Dan and Georgia.
Stage Manager
Bona Peacock
Lily Cardiff
Assistant Stage Manager
For TIFT: Assistant Stage Manager of The Other Place.
Elsewhere: Stage Manager of Adam’s Unplugged Puppet Party (The Pucking Fuppets Co.); This Is How We Live (Frantic Assembly and TMU School of Performance); The ’94 Club (Crave Productions); The Women (TMU School of Performance); and Folks Like Us (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Apprentice Stage Manager of All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford Festival); Light (Tarragon Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sudbury Theatre Center); Come Down From Up River (Theatre Orangeville); and Driving Miss Daisy (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia).
Other: In her spare time (when she has any), Lily enjoys reading historical fiction, watching British comedy shows, and walking with her dog. Lily would like to thank her family, friends, and professors for all their love and support!
Assistant Stage Manager
Lily Cardiff
Aden Altamirano
Production Manager
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: StageManager/Production Consultant, Narnia (Bad Hats Theatre); Assistant Production Manager, Margarita (Fall for Dance North and Holla Jazz); Production Crew, Mashup Pon Di Road (Why Not Theatre); Production Coordinator, WeeFestival 2022 (WeeFestival); Production Manager, Love and Information (TMU School of Performance); Assistant Production Manager, TMU Dances 2019 (TMU School of Performance); Assistant Sound Designer, This Is How We Live (Frantic Assembly and TMU School of Performance).
Other: When Aden isn’t doing theatre, you can find him playing music and writing songs, or playing a borderline-unhealthy amount of video games. Aden would like to thank his friends, his family (Mom, Dad, Landon, Grandma and Grandpa), his partner, Deanna, and mentor, Crystal Lee, for their support, both in his personal and professional life. You can follow Aden, if you feel so inclined, on Instagram @aaltamirano99.
Production Manager
Aden Altamirano
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Michael Torontow
La Bête
Written by David Hirson
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Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bête is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe, is incensed. His patron, the Princess, has decreed that the Court ensemble admit a new actor – the scandalously boorish street entertainer, Valere. With Elomire's pride and the troupe's livelihood on the line, the company is duty-bound not only to accept the outrageous troubadour, but to perform one of his ludicrous plays, an event that has dramatic consequences for them all.
DATES
February 2-11, 2023
venue
Five Points Theatre
1 Dunlop Street West, Barrie
Duration
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schedule
Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb 10, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m.
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CAST
Mike Nadajewski
Valere
For TIFT: Herringbone and The Yalta Game, Sweeney Todd (UK), Candide, Sunday in the Park with George, Harvest Moon Rising, One Night Stand, Snappy Tales.
Elsewhere: Damn Yankees, A Year with Frog & Toad: In Concert, Charley’s Aunt, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse, The Russian Play, Brigadoon, Happy End (Shaw Festival); Peter Sellars’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play, Timon of Athens, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Physicists, Hamlet, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Jesus Christ Superstar (also on Broadway), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (also with Mirvish) (Stratford Festival); Outside Mullingar, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Drowsy Chaperone, Cotton Patch Gospel, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton Entertainment).
Film/TV credits include Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries, Private Eyes, Gracie & Pedro.
Other: You can find Mike playing at the Shaw Festival this season in On the Razzle and Gypsy.
Valere
Mike Nadajewski
Rylan Wilkie
Elomire
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well, Little Women, The Crucible, The Neverending Story, To Kill A Mockingbird, Timon of Athens, Shakespeare In Love, Pericles, Christina The Girl King, Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford Festival); Lion in Winter (Grand Theatre); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth Festival); Vincent in Brixton (Alberta Theatre Projects - Betty Award Winner); Shakespeare’ Dog, East of Berlin (Alberta Theatre Projects - Betty Award Nominations); Am I Not King? (Zone 41 Theatre - Winnipeg Theatre Award Nomination); The Story (Common Boots Theatre - Dora Best Ensemble Nomination); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Mother Courage (Caravan Farm Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada; Much love to my family.
Elomire
Rylan Wilkie
Josue Laboucane
Bejart
For TIFT: Debut.
Elsewhere: Hamlet, Death and the King’s Horseman, Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Front Page, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello (The Stratford Festival); Henry VI in Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elbow in Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach); Captain Hook in Bad Hats Theatre’s Peter Pan, Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Toad in A Year with Frog and Toad, Horton in Seussical (Carousel Theatre); The Emperor’s New Threads (Axis Theatre).
Other: “I’m so excited to be doing my first TIFT show with this incredibly inspiring team of theatre makers! Many thanks to Dylan and the cast & crew!”
Josue is a Métis actor, teaching artist, and mask maker from Treaty 8, traditional territory of the Dene-za, Fort St. John, BC. He has trained at the Birmingham Conservatory, the Canadian National Voice Intensive, and is a graduate of the acting program at Studio 58. Next up, Josue will be playing Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing and appearing in King Lear this season at the Stratford Festival.
@laboucanej
Bejart
Josue Laboucane
Katarina Fiallos
Dorine
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Theatre: Chloe in Hookman (School of Performance/Soulpepper); Bianca in Untamed (School of Performance/Tarragon); Aumerle in Richard II (Foolscap Theatre); Olga in Three Sisters, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Nurse in Romeo & Juliet (School of Performance); Ensemble in Start Swimming, Lisa in An Adult Night of Shel Silverstein (Third Wall Theatre); Sol in Sol (Tarragon YPU). Film/TV: Breaking up for the Modern Girl (Notice Me Kid Vicious/CBC Gem), Get Together (Really Big Group Productions).
Other: Katarina recently graduated from TMU's (formerly Ryerson) School of Performance this past year. Outside of performing, she is a writer and director and will be directing at this year's Toronto Fringe and Next Stage Festival.
Dorine
Katarina Fiallos
Amelia Sargisson
The Princess
For TIFT: Amadeus
Elsewhere: Theatre: Eve in Paradise Lost, Luciana in The Comedy of Errors, Desdemona in Othello, Peggy in The Front Page, Sue in Hamlet 911 (Stratford); Red Velvet, The Watershed, Seeds (Crow’s); All I Want For Christmas, The 39 Steps, The Madonna Painter, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Centaur); Viola in Twelfth Night, Cordelia in King Lear (Canadian Stage); The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon); If We Were Birds, down from heaven—Cartes Premières Award for Best Actress (Imago); Tender Napalm, The Art of Catching Pigeons by Torchlight—Spotlight Award (SummerWorks). Film/TV: See (Chernin Ent./Apple TV+); Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury/CBC/UKTV). Audiobooks: Minique, Burning Questions, Crow Lake, Songs for the End of the World, I Become a Delight to My Enemies (Penguin Random House).
Other: Amelia is a co-creator of ARCS, a program for fostering more compassionate and communicative collaborative spaces, as well as of the TIFT Two-Way Mentorship Program. She’s working on a solo show, Fer Shame, and her play, 30 People Watching, co-written with nisha ahuja, is published in ReView: an anthology of plays committed to social justice (Sense Publishers). She works frequently as a mentoring artist with directing students, resident artists and artists doing independent studies at the National Theatre School. She’s ever grateful to - and adoring of - her loving, whacky family: Troy, Andy, Dylan, Janet & Julian. Omnia vincit amor. @akathesarge
The Princess
Amelia Sargisson
Heeyun Park
Madeleine Bejart
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Emily Brontë in Brontë (U of A Studio Theatre); Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTS) Irina in Three Sisters (NTS); Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Princess Laoula in L'etoile (Opera U of A); Clara in The Light in the Piazza (Walterdale); Rosaline in After Juliet (Citadel Young Company).
Other: Acting–National Theatre School of Canada; Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance–University of Alberta. This goes out to Vincenzo, my baby bengal. www.heeyunpark.com
Madeleine Bejart
Heeyun Park
Justan Myers
De Brie
For TIFT: Mahagonny Songspiel, The Judas Kiss, Tales of an Urban Indian, The Written in Blood Trilogy
Elsewhere: Canadian Tire’s Celebration of a Century (Birch River Productions); Sparky in Forever Plaid (Starvox Entertainment); J.D. in Heathers: The Musical (Hart House Theatre); The Emcee in Cabaret (Lower Ossington Theatre); Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz: A Panto, White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland: A Panto (Diversified Theatre); Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (St. Clair College, Huntsville Theatre Company).
Other: Justan is a graduate of the St. Clair College Music Theatre Performance program, an avid board game and video game nerd, and proud cat dad. You can find him on Instagram at @justanmyers. Big love goes out to his fiancé Ethan and the whole team at daCosta Talent for the love and support.
De Brie
Justan Myers
Amy Keating
Catherine De Brie
For TIFT: I, Claudia; Amadeus; For Both Resting and Breeding (Tour)
Elsewhere: Theatre: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); Laura in The Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); Lucille in This Is How We Got Here (Green Light Arts); Jessica in Hand to God (Coal Mine); Gemma in A City (Necessary Angel). Amy is a founding member and Artistic Associate with Outside the March Theatre Company. OtM credits include Ned/Cassandra in Trojan Girls; Rose in The Flick (Dora Nomination); Lisa/Colleen in Mr. Burns; Lucy in Mr. Marmalade (Dora Nomination); Violet in Passion Play (Dora Award–Ensemble). Film/TV: Ginny & Georgia (Netflix); Reacher Season 2 (Amazon); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Culprits (Disney/Hulu); Killjoys (SyFy); P!GS (Short Film); Succulent (Short Film).
Other: Follow Amy on Instagram @lil_keats! Love to Mitchell, Rosencatz & Guildenpurr, and the fam.
Catherine De Brie
Amy Keating
Courtenay Stevens
Rene Du Parc; Assistant Director
For TIFT: Raconteur in The Written in Blood Trilogy
Elsewhere: The Pianist (Circo Aereo–solo show, world tour); Dralion (Cirque du Soleil–world tour); Henry G20 (Luminato Festival); The Cherry Orchard (Modern Times); OIL (Actor's Rep Company); The Election (Theatre Passe Muraille/Common Boots); The 39 Steps (Grove Theatre); The Overcoat (CanStage–world tour); Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Stratford Festival); Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); The Number 14 (Axis Mime); Mary's Wedding, Game of Love and Chance (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Pride and Prejudice (Grand Theatre). Courtenay's been lied to, punched out or shot at on The Boys, Frankie Drake, Designated Survivor, The Umbrella Academy, Suits and other TV shows.
Rene Du Parc; Assistant Director
Courtenay Stevens
Madelyn Kriese
Marquise-Thérèse Du Parc
For TIFT: Herringbone/The Yalta Game
Elsewhere: June in Gypsy (upcoming), Brigadoon, The Horse and His Boy, Grand Hotel, The Magicians Nephew (The Shaw Festival); Pure 90s (StageWest). Film/TV: Unspoken (CMC Pictures).
Other: Training: Honours Bachelor of Musical Theatre Performance - Sheridan College. Love to my family, to Daniel, and to the team at TIFT for allowing me the space to be a part of this celebration of words and theatre. Thank you for supporting live theatre, we are so thrilled to be back!
Marquise-Thérèse Du Parc
Madelyn Kriese
CREATIVES and production team
Director
Dylan Trowbridge
Director
For TIFT: Director: Herringbone and The Yalta Game
Elsewhere: Theatre (Directing): Requiem for a Gumshoe, Space Opera Zero!, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (Eldritch Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream, TomorrowLove (U of T); Every Brilliant Thing (Festival Players); (Acting): The Matchmaker, Peter Pan, The Coronation Voyage, Widowers' Houses, Rutherford and Son (Shaw Festival); The Grapes of Wrath, Titus Andronicus, Mary Stuart (Stratford Festival); Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Tribes (Canadian Stage); Dirty Dancing (Mirvish and London's West End). Film/TV: The Big Cigar, Titans, Reacher, Workin' Moms, The Handmaid's Tale, Impulse, Alias Grace.
Other: Associate Artistic Director at County Stage Company; Co-Founder of GhostLight; Founding member of Theatrefront.
Dylan Trowbridge
Director
Set Designer
Joe Pagnan
Set Designer
For TIFT: As Designer: The Other Place, Into the Woods; For Resting and Breeding; Sweeney Todd; Sin and Sorrow Are Common To All; Beneath Springhill; Every Brilliant Thing; The Yalta Game; Herringbone; Pal Joey; Music for a Changing Voice; Newfie Electra; The Gamblers; Amadeus; Candide; Offline; The Music Man; Darling of the Day; Sunday in the Park with George; Gotcha!; Stop the World--I Want To Get Off!; Prince Homburg; I, Claudia; Vigil; The Wakowski Brothers. As Director: What She Burned; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Laramie Project and Spring Awakening (First Day readings).
Elsewhere: Pippin (St. Lawrence College); The Candlemaker’s Game (Project Humanity); Jacob Marley, We Will Rock You, The Junglebook, Bed and Breakfast (Magnus Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Shrek (Globe Theatre), #KanderAndEbb (Stratford Festival/colored lights); She’s Not Special (Fatuma Adar), Northern Lights (Theatre By The Bay).
Other: Joe is a professor of scenography and technical theatre at Queen’s University, product photographer for King’s Lock Craft Distillery, avid ttrpg player, wolf parent, and loves being back making art! @j_pagnan www.joepagnan.ca
Joe Pagnan
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Laura Delchiaro
Costume Designer
For TIFT: Sweeney Todd, The Judas Kiss, For Both Resting and Breeding, The Yalta Game, Herringbone, Into the Woods (2019, 2021).
Recently: Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival); Into the Wood (YES Theatre).
Elsewhere: Costume Design: The Great Shadow (4th Line Theatre); Poison (Coal Mine Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Lost & Gone); Little Thing, Big Thing, Don’t Misunderstand Me (Festival Antigonish). Assistant Costume Design: Chicago, The Crucible, Coriolanus, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tartuffe (Stratford Festival). Costume Coordinator: Peter's Final Flight (Ross Petty Productions), Is God Is (Canadian Stage Company), Orphans for the Czar (Crows Theatre).
Other: Laura is a Dora Award-nominated costume designer and technician based in Toronto. In 2022 she was also nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for production craftsperson. She doesn’t have social media so don’t look for her there, but you can check out her work at lauradelchiarodesign.com.
Laura Delchiaro
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Jeff Pybus
Lighting Designer
For TIFT: The Other Place, The Judas Kiss, Herringbone, The Yalta Game, Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Lighting & Video Design), Tales of An Urban Indian (Touring Production Manager).
Elsewhere: Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects); Come on Dreamer (Brooke Gilmour Dance); Seagulls, The Killing, The Madness of Lady Bright (Shaw Festival Director’s Projects); Come Down From Upriver (Theatre Orangeville); Just to Get Married, Gaslight, Trouble in Mind, Chitra, Desire Under the Elms, Victory, The Russian Play (Shaw Festival; Assistant Lighting Design); The Runner (Human Cargo; Assoc. Lighting Design); Musik für das Ende (Tour—Soundstreams; Assoc. Lighting Design); Between Riverside and Crazy (The Coal Mine; Assoc. Lighting Design); A Huron County Christmas Carol, The Pigeon King (Blyth Festival; Assoc. Lighting Design); Vigilante (Catalyst & Grand Theatre; Assistant Lighting Design); Silence (Grand Theatre; Assistant Lighting & Video Design).
Other: Jeff (he/him) is a Lighting & Video designer and Technical Director for live performance across Ontario, and has spent much of his professional time in recent years assisting under many of the top lighting designers in Canada. He is also a hobbyist astrophotographer and cat Dad.
Jeff Pybus
Lighting Designer
Properties
JB Nelles
Properties
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Select theatre credits: Requiem for a Gumshoe (Eldritch Theatre); Orphans for the Czar (Crows Nest Theatre); Cold War Part I (Videocabaret); Indecent, Boy Falls from Sky (Mirvish); Stephenville Theatre Festival 2019. Film/TV: Height Markers, Murder Balloon (Basement Juice Productions). Award nominations: Pauline McGibbon Award nominee, 2022.
Other: JB is a graduate of York University’s Theatre Production and Design program, and currently works as a costume maker, scenic artist and props maker. When they aren’t at the theatre, JB loves to crochet, paint their apartment a million colours, or jam out behind a drum kit. You can find them on Instagram @thecostumewitch
JB Nelles
Properties
Sound Design
James Smith
Sound Design
For TIFT: Sweeney Todd, The Other Place, Assassins, Great Expectations, Guys and Dolls, Darling of the Day, Herringbone/The Yalta Game.
Elsewhere: Writer/Performer of Lessons in Temperament (Outside the March–Summerworks Production Award); Composer/Lyricist of Chasse Galerie (Soulpepper/Kabin–Dora Award for Sound Design/Composition); Sound Designer/Composer for The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, Dance of Death, and Faith Healer (The Shaw Festival); The Effect (Coalmine Theatre); Music Director for Brantwood (Theatre Sheridan); Conductor/Pianist for Rose (Soulpepper Theatre); Canada Rocks (Charlottetown Festival). Actor in La Bête, A Moveable Feast, The 27 Club, Chasse Galerie, It's a Wonderful Life (Soulpepper Theatre); Marky Ramone in Four Chords and a Gun (Starvox). Next up, James will be the Associate Conductor for Spamalot at the Stratford Festival.
Other: Graduate of the Soulpepper Academy and the Shaw Festival's music director internship. Holds a Bachelor of Music from Queens University. Likes animals, reading, oxford commas, and synthesizers.
James Smith
Sound Design
Stage Manager
Bona Peacock
Stage Manager
For TIFT: Herringbone/The Yalta Game, Do You Turn Somersaults?
Elsewhere: Twenty-two seasons and many shows with The Stratford Festival as Production Stage Manager, Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager. Most recently: Production Stage Manager, The Avon Theatre; Stage Manager–1939, The Rez Sisters.
Upcoming: The Stratford Festival 2023 Season: Production Stage Manager–The Avon; Stage Manager–Frankenstein Revived.
Other: Graduate–Technical Production Section–The National Theatre School of Canada; Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Bishop’s University. Love and Gratitude to Dan and Georgia.
Bona Peacock
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Lily Cardiff
Assistant Stage Manager
For TIFT: Assistant Stage Manager of The Other Place.
Elsewhere: Stage Manager of Adam’s Unplugged Puppet Party (The Pucking Fuppets Co.); This Is How We Live (Frantic Assembly and TMU School of Performance); The ’94 Club (Crave Productions); The Women (TMU School of Performance); and Folks Like Us (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Apprentice Stage Manager of All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford Festival); Light (Tarragon Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sudbury Theatre Center); Come Down From Up River (Theatre Orangeville); and Driving Miss Daisy (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia).
Other: In her spare time (when she has any), Lily enjoys reading historical fiction, watching British comedy shows, and walking with her dog. Lily would like to thank her family, friends, and professors for all their love and support!
Lily Cardiff
Assistant Stage Manager
Production Manager
Aden Altamirano
Production Manager
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: StageManager/Production Consultant, Narnia (Bad Hats Theatre); Assistant Production Manager, Margarita (Fall for Dance North and Holla Jazz); Production Crew, Mashup Pon Di Road (Why Not Theatre); Production Coordinator, WeeFestival 2022 (WeeFestival); Production Manager, Love and Information (TMU School of Performance); Assistant Production Manager, TMU Dances 2019 (TMU School of Performance); Assistant Sound Designer, This Is How We Live (Frantic Assembly and TMU School of Performance).
Other: When Aden isn’t doing theatre, you can find him playing music and writing songs, or playing a borderline-unhealthy amount of video games. Aden would like to thank his friends, his family (Mom, Dad, Landon, Grandma and Grandpa), his partner, Deanna, and mentor, Crystal Lee, for their support, both in his personal and professional life. You can follow Aden, if you feel so inclined, on Instagram @aaltamirano99.
Aden Altamirano
Production Manager
CAST
CREATIVES
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Written by David Hirson
Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bête is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe, is incensed. His patron, the Princess, has decreed that the Court ensemble admit a new actor – the scandalously boorish street entertainer, Valere. With Elomire's pride and the troupe's livelihood on the line, the company is duty-bound not only to accept the outrageous troubadour, but to perform one of his ludicrous plays, an event that has dramatic consequences for them all.
Hosted by
Mike Nadajewski
For TIFT: Herringbone and The Yalta Game, Sweeney Todd (UK), Candide, Sunday in the Park with George, Harvest Moon Rising, One Night Stand, Snappy Tales.
Elsewhere: Damn Yankees, A Year with Frog & Toad: In Concert, Charley’s Aunt, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse, The Russian Play, Brigadoon, Happy End (Shaw Festival); Peter Sellars’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play, Timon of Athens, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Physicists, Hamlet, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Jesus Christ Superstar (also on Broadway), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (also with Mirvish) (Stratford Festival); Outside Mullingar, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Drowsy Chaperone, Cotton Patch Gospel, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton Entertainment).
Film/TV credits include Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries, Private Eyes, Gracie & Pedro.
Other: You can find Mike playing at the Shaw Festival this season in On the Razzle and Gypsy.
Mike Nadajewski
Rylan Wilkie
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well, Little Women, The Crucible, The Neverending Story, To Kill A Mockingbird, Timon of Athens, Shakespeare In Love, Pericles, Christina The Girl King, Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford Festival); Lion in Winter (Grand Theatre); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth Festival); Vincent in Brixton (Alberta Theatre Projects - Betty Award Winner); Shakespeare’ Dog, East of Berlin (Alberta Theatre Projects - Betty Award Nominations); Am I Not King? (Zone 41 Theatre - Winnipeg Theatre Award Nomination); The Story (Common Boots Theatre - Dora Best Ensemble Nomination); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Mother Courage (Caravan Farm Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada; Much love to my family.
Rylan Wilkie
Josue Laboucane
For TIFT: Debut.
Elsewhere: Hamlet, Death and the King’s Horseman, Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Front Page, Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello (The Stratford Festival); Henry VI in Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elbow in Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach); Captain Hook in Bad Hats Theatre’s Peter Pan, Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Toad in A Year with Frog and Toad, Horton in Seussical (Carousel Theatre); The Emperor’s New Threads (Axis Theatre).
Other: “I’m so excited to be doing my first TIFT show with this incredibly inspiring team of theatre makers! Many thanks to Dylan and the cast & crew!”
Josue is a Métis actor, teaching artist, and mask maker from Treaty 8, traditional territory of the Dene-za, Fort St. John, BC. He has trained at the Birmingham Conservatory, the Canadian National Voice Intensive, and is a graduate of the acting program at Studio 58. Next up, Josue will be playing Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing and appearing in King Lear this season at the Stratford Festival.
@laboucanej
Josue Laboucane
Katarina Fiallos
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Theatre: Chloe in Hookman (School of Performance/Soulpepper); Bianca in Untamed (School of Performance/Tarragon); Aumerle in Richard II (Foolscap Theatre); Olga in Three Sisters, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Nurse in Romeo & Juliet (School of Performance); Ensemble in Start Swimming, Lisa in An Adult Night of Shel Silverstein (Third Wall Theatre); Sol in Sol (Tarragon YPU). Film/TV: Breaking up for the Modern Girl (Notice Me Kid Vicious/CBC Gem), Get Together (Really Big Group Productions).
Other: Katarina recently graduated from TMU's (formerly Ryerson) School of Performance this past year. Outside of performing, she is a writer and director and will be directing at this year's Toronto Fringe and Next Stage Festival.
Katarina Fiallos
Amelia Sargisson
For TIFT: Amadeus
Elsewhere: Theatre: Eve in Paradise Lost, Luciana in The Comedy of Errors, Desdemona in Othello, Peggy in The Front Page, Sue in Hamlet 911 (Stratford); Red Velvet, The Watershed, Seeds (Crow’s); All I Want For Christmas, The 39 Steps, The Madonna Painter, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Centaur); Viola in Twelfth Night, Cordelia in King Lear (Canadian Stage); The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon); If We Were Birds, down from heaven—Cartes Premières Award for Best Actress (Imago); Tender Napalm, The Art of Catching Pigeons by Torchlight—Spotlight Award (SummerWorks). Film/TV: See (Chernin Ent./Apple TV+); Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury/CBC/UKTV). Audiobooks: Minique, Burning Questions, Crow Lake, Songs for the End of the World, I Become a Delight to My Enemies (Penguin Random House).
Other: Amelia is a co-creator of ARCS, a program for fostering more compassionate and communicative collaborative spaces, as well as of the TIFT Two-Way Mentorship Program. She’s working on a solo show, Fer Shame, and her play, 30 People Watching, co-written with nisha ahuja, is published in ReView: an anthology of plays committed to social justice (Sense Publishers). She works frequently as a mentoring artist with directing students, resident artists and artists doing independent studies at the National Theatre School. She’s ever grateful to - and adoring of - her loving, whacky family: Troy, Andy, Dylan, Janet & Julian. Omnia vincit amor. @akathesarge
Amelia Sargisson
Heeyun Park
For TIFT: Debut
Elsewhere: Emily Brontë in Brontë (U of A Studio Theatre); Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTS) Irina in Three Sisters (NTS); Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Princess Laoula in L'etoile (Opera U of A); Clara in The Light in the Piazza (Walterdale); Rosaline in After Juliet (Citadel Young Company).
Other: Acting–National Theatre School of Canada; Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance–University of Alberta. This goes out to Vincenzo, my baby bengal. www.heeyunpark.com
Heeyun Park
Justan Myers
For TIFT: Mahagonny Songspiel, The Judas Kiss, Tales of an Urban Indian, The Written in Blood Trilogy
Elsewhere: Canadian Tire’s Celebration of a Century (Birch River Productions); Sparky in Forever Plaid (Starvox Entertainment); J.D. in Heathers: The Musical (Hart House Theatre); The Emcee in Cabaret (Lower Ossington Theatre); Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz: A Panto, White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland: A Panto (Diversified Theatre); Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (St. Clair College, Huntsville Theatre Company).
Other: Justan is a graduate of the St. Clair College Music Theatre Performance program, an avid board game and video game nerd, and proud cat dad. You can find him on Instagram at @justanmyers. Big love goes out to his fiancé Ethan and the whole team at daCosta Talent for the love and support.
Justan Myers
Amy Keating
For TIFT: I, Claudia; Amadeus; For Both Resting and Breeding (Tour)
Elsewhere: Theatre: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); Laura in The Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); Lucille in This Is How We Got Here (Green Light Arts); Jessica in Hand to God (Coal Mine); Gemma in A City (Necessary Angel). Amy is a founding member and Artistic Associate with Outside the March Theatre Company. OtM credits include Ned/Cassandra in Trojan Girls; Rose in The Flick (Dora Nomination); Lisa/Colleen in Mr. Burns; Lucy in Mr. Marmalade (Dora Nomination); Violet in Passion Play (Dora Award–Ensemble). Film/TV: Ginny & Georgia (Netflix); Reacher Season 2 (Amazon); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Culprits (Disney/Hulu); Killjoys (SyFy); P!GS (Short Film); Succulent (Short Film).
Other: Follow Amy on Instagram @lil_keats! Love to Mitchell, Rosencatz & Guildenpurr, and the fam.
Amy Keating
Courtenay Stevens
For TIFT: Raconteur in The Written in Blood Trilogy
Elsewhere: The Pianist (Circo Aereo–solo show, world tour); Dralion (Cirque du Soleil–world tour); Henry G20 (Luminato Festival); The Cherry Orchard (Modern Times); OIL (Actor's Rep Company); The Election (Theatre Passe Muraille/Common Boots); The 39 Steps (Grove Theatre); The Overcoat (CanStage–world tour); Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Stratford Festival); Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); The Number 14 (Axis Mime); Mary's Wedding, Game of Love and Chance (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Pride and Prejudice (Grand Theatre). Courtenay's been lied to, punched out or shot at on The Boys, Frankie Drake, Designated Survivor, The Umbrella Academy, Suits and other TV shows.
Courtenay Stevens
Madelyn Kriese
For TIFT: Herringbone/The Yalta Game
Elsewhere: June in Gypsy (upcoming), Brigadoon, The Horse and His Boy, Grand Hotel, The Magicians Nephew (The Shaw Festival); Pure 90s (StageWest). Film/TV: Unspoken (CMC Pictures).
Other: Training: Honours Bachelor of Musical Theatre Performance - Sheridan College. Love to my family, to Daniel, and to the team at TIFT for allowing me the space to be a part of this celebration of words and theatre. Thank you for supporting live theatre, we are so thrilled to be back!
Madelyn Kriese
dates
February 2-11, 2023
venue
Five Points Theatre
1 Dunlop Street West, Barrie
duration
advisory
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schedule
Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb 10, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m.
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