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.

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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.

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!

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