Writer & Director

Selected Theatre: As Director – Rose: A New Musical (Dora Award), Hosanna, The Heidi Chronicles (Soulpepper); Punk Rock (Howland Company); Fish Eyes (TPM, Canadian Tour, The Other Festival – Chennai, India). As Creator – Alligator Pie, re(birth): e.e. cummings in song (Soulpepper). As Actor – most recently played Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish), over 40 shows in 12 seasons at Soulpepper, shows with Crow’s Theatre, Company Theatre, Canadian Stage, Tarragon, YTP, and the Canadian Opera Company.

Film/TV: Pillow Talk (Bell Media/Crave – Canadian Screen Award nomination).

Other: As Teacher: Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto, National Theatre School, Soulpepper Academy. Graduate of the National Theatre School.

Composer/Vogel

Tatjana has extensive experience as an actress and a musician in both theatre and TV productions in North America and her native Serbia, where she was a resident actress at the Novi Sad National Theatre. Favourite productions include: War Horse (Mirvish); The Cherry Orchard, (re)birth: e.e.cummings in song, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Time of Your Life, Death of a Salesman, Oh, What a Lovely War (Soulpepper); Agamemnon And His Daughters, The Crucible, In The Blood, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, and one-woman show The Human Voice (Brandeis University); Sweeney Todd (New Repertory Theatre); and two off-Broadway shows: Waiting For My Man at CAP 21 and Silver Nitrate at Juggernaut Company.

Frau Esel

Nancy has been acting in Toronto for over 40 years. Selected Theatre: She last performed in Prodigal with The Howland Company. She is a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre (Queen Goneril, King Lear, August Osage County, The Testament of Mary, Angels in America, Ghosts, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hamlet, A Winter’s Tale, King Lear). Nancy has performed across Canada at The Belfry, The Citadel, Theatre Calgary, MTC, Tarragon, NAC, Centaur, Stratford, Shaw, and in NYC for Theatre for a New Audience, and The Public.

She has taught at the Coal Mine, NTS, Humber, George Brown, Tarragon and Soulpepper.

Film/TV credits include: How To Work A Crowd, Catch and Release, The Other Half, and Rogue.

Herr Hund

Most recently Oliver was seen at Caravan Farm Theatre in Luke Reece’s The Wonderful and The Seagull at Soulpepper Theatre where he has also had the opportunity to play Shakespeare and Moliere, Miller and Williams and Albee. Beckett, Ionesco, Orton. Simon. Sarah Ruhl and Suzan-Lori Parks and Tracey Letts. David French and Morris Panych/Brenda Robins and Mike Ross/Sarah Wilson and Lee MacDougall and Vern Thiessen and Michael Shamata. Shaffer, Story, Stoppard, Frayn and Aykbourn. To name some. Other theatres include: Theatre New Brunswick, Grand Theatre London, CanStage, Factory, Tarragon, Theatre Passe Muraille, Crow's Theatre, Theatre Columbus. Please support Canadian Film by catching American Hangman and Don't Get Killed in Alaska on a popular media platform. And also, Slings and Arrows!

Herr Katze

William began his professional theatre career as an apprentice in acting and stage management with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1962 (Michael Langham A.D.). Eventually, as the senior SM, he stage-managed (selected) Twelfth Night, The Three Musketeers and Antony and Cleopatra, the latter seen at Expo 67, before SMing The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on Broadway, starring Zoe Caldwell. He directed The Importance of Being Earnest and Dracula for Theatre Calgary (Christopher Newton A.D.) while the production manager there. Then rejoined Stratford (Jean Gascon A.D.) as an actor in As You Like It, King Lear and Lorenzaccio before touring with the company in 1973 to Denmark, Holland, Poland, and Russia. Martin Kinch A.D. for Toronto Free Theatre asked him to join his company where he acted (selected) in Clear Light, Red Emma, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and Baal over three seasons. He was invited by Robin Phillips A.D. to Stratford in 1979, cast as Boyet in Love’s Labours’ Lost, Cornwall in King Lear and Montjoy in Henry V, and was directed by Mr. Phillips in 46 productions over the next 19 years, including Journey’s End, Don Carlos, Beggars’ Opera, The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, The Music Man, Our Town. In 1998 Albert Schultz A.D. encouraged him to be on of 12 founding members of his new company – Soulpepper. Over the next 20 years he played many roles including King Lear, Nathan the Wise, Juror 10 (Twelve Angry Men), Polonius (Hamlet), The Rebbe/Exorcist (The Dybbuk), Peachum (The Threepenny Opera), The Messenger (Phaedre). A two-time Dora Award winner and the inaugural Soulpepper Artistic Director’s Award. An acting coach and mentor (National Theatre School, Debajamajig, Soulpepper and various elementary and high school theatre programmes throughout Toronto). Recipient of the Toronto Critics’ Thespis Award (2005). Still gratefully trudging!

Frau Henne

Theatre: Stuff Happens (Studio 180); Innocence Lost (Blyth Festival); Beaux Gestes, and Beautiful Deeds (Pleiades Theatre).

Film: Don’t talk to Irene (Edyson Ent). TV: From (Epix); Jann (CTV); My Next Door Nightmare (Lifetime), Anne with an E (CBC); Mary Kills People (eOne); Sensitive Skin (Rhombus).

Nominations: Dora Award (Ensemble); Actra Award: 2 CSA (Guest Star).

Other: Happy to join this Merry Band of Creators.

Young Actor 1

Selected theatre: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish); Antigone: 方 (Young People’s Theatre); A Million Billion Pieces (Young People’s Theatre); Prairie Nurse (Lighthouse Festival Theatre); Rose’s Clothes (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Rover, The Threepenny Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre School of Canada).

Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Queen’s University.

Young Actor 2

Selected Theatre: Meg - Little Women, Crystal - Every Little Nookie (Stratford Festival); Sadie - Prodigal, Mary - Casimir and Caroline (The Howland Company); Amy - Dry Land (Cue6). Veronica has had the pleasure of working with Shakespeare in the Ruff, Tarragon Theatre, and YPT on the development of new plays.

Training: Toronto Metropolitan University, BFA Acting.

Awards: Dora Award: Best Ensemble for Casimir and Caroline.; Des McAnuff Award for Excellence in Contemporary, Classical & Musical Theatre, Toronto Metropolitan University; Recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts: Research and Creation Grant for her devised work with The Raccoons.

Young Actor 3

Selected Theatre: The Seagull (Soulpepper); Coriolanus, The Front Page, Napoli Milionaria!, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night (Stratford Festival).

Film/TV: Star Trek: Discovery, Capture Kill Release, Ghostwriter, A Higher Loyalty, Man Seeking Woman, Pretty Hard Cases, Dark Matter.

Lighting Designer

Logan is Dora-nominated theatre designer. Select works include: Give ‘em Hell (Prairie Fire, Please), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Crow’s Theatre/Howland Company), Bobbie (Theatre By The Bay), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage), Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Theatre Calgary), Fairview (Canadian Stage/Obsidian Theatre Company), Prodigal (Howland Company), The Extinction Therapist (Theatre Aquarius), Jesus Christ Superstar (Theatre Sheridan), Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre), Dixon Road (The Musical Stage Company/Obsidian Theatre Company), William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal (Crow’s Theatre).

Fight Director

Jeremy is a Toronto-based actor, director, fight director, composer, sound designer, production manager, and set decorator.

Recent stage combat credits include: Man of La Mancha (Magnus Theatre), Peter Pan, Cabaret, Peter and the Starcatcher (Lower Ossington Theatre), Peter Pan, Othello, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare by the Sea), Robin Hood, Macbeth, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (Hart House Theatre), Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre Project).

Recent film credits include: Ruby and the Well, Orphan Black Echoes, The Handmaid's Tale, Strays, Shelved.

For his musical compositions, Jeremy was nominated for the Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt awards seven times; he won twice.

Currently Jeremy is the production manager for Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Crow's Theatre and Howland Theatre Company).

Stage Manager

Favourite credits include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish Productions); Other People (Canadian Stage); Let’s Run Away (reWork Productions/High Performance Rodeo); A Streetcar Named Desire, The Royale, Cage, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III), Eurydice, Angels in America Parts I & II, Parfumerie, A Christmas Carol, The Glass Menagerie, Salt-Water Moon (Soulpepper); over 30 productions with Opera Atelier, including Medee; Persee; Armide (Opera Atelier/Royal Opera House, Versailles; Glimmerglass Festival); I; Claudia (Crow’s Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); The Africa Trilogy (Volcano/Luminato); The Dishwashers, The Domino Heart, Side Man, The Good Life, Midnight Sun (Tarragon Theatre); Vida!, The Drowsy Chaperone, Disgraced (Mirvish Productions); productions/seasons with the Art of Time Ensemble, The Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival.

Other: Arwen is a proud honours graduate of the Baking and Pastry Arts program at George Brown College. For my Mama.

Costume Designer

Nancy is a Windsor-based set and costume designer. They love working on new and collaborative pieces and is excited to be part of the Bremen Town team.

Select Production Design credits: Three Sisters, Punk Rock (Howland Company), Alice in Wonderland (Guild Festival), C'mon Angie! (Leroy Street), Othello (Driftwood), Deceitful Above All Things (Storefront), Hamlet (Hart House). Select Set Designs: Niizh (Native Earth), Goodnight Bird (Festival Antigonish), Of Human Bondage (Magnus).

Other: She is the recipient of the Ian and Molly Lindsay Young Design Fellowship, a Tom Patterson Guthrie Award, nominated for three Dora Awards and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. Nancy also enjoys building the next generation of theatre practitioners through her teaching and design work with University of Windsor, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Mount Allison University.

Publicist

Founder of KSPR, Katie has over 15 years of experience in arts, culture and social justice public relations. She has worked with major Canadian institutions including the Stratford Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Luminato Festival, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Clients of KSPR include Boldly Productions (Chris, Mrs. - A New Holiday Musical), The Howland Company (Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Three Sisters), The Theatre Centre (Comedy is Art.), the Indigenous Voices Awards, the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Capitol Theatre Port Hope, and ARC theatre company.

Graphic Designer & Marketing Coordinator

As Graphic Designer: Currently the graphic designer for Crow’s Theatre. Previously: 2 years with Shopify and Shopify Plus. Branding and brand strategy for countless start-ups across the country and internationally. Aaron spent a year working with the Government of Prince Edward Island adapting new legislation into digestible visuals for print and video.

As Actor: Three seasons at The Shaw Festival; Nine seasons with The Charlottetown Festival including Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Hamlet in Kronborg: The Hamlet Rock Opera, Sky in Mamma Mia!, Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables, and The Prince in Cinderella. Elsewhere: Roger in Rent (Panasonic Theatre); Burt in Mary Poppins (Capitol Theatre); Link in Hairspray, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Theatre Aquarius), Evita (Vancouver Opera); Sky in Mamma Mia! (The Grand, Aquarius).

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Magic Consultant

Credits include: The Master Plan, Fifteen Dogs (Crow’s Theatre); Kelly v. Kelly (Musical Stage Company); Almost a Full Moon, Peter and the Starcatcher (Citadel); The Importance of Being Earnest, Damn Yankees, Charley’s Aunt, Gatsby’s Jazz/Sonny’s Blues, Christmas Carol, Russian Play, Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Rose, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Alligator Pie, Incident at Vichy, The Just, Marat/Sade, The Dybbuk, Spoon River, Tartuffe, The Crucible, Idiot’s Delight (Soulpepper); Vietgone (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love and Information, Twelfth Night, King Lear (Canadian Stage); Jerusalem (Outside the March/Company Theatre); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! (MTYP); Onegin (NAC/Musical Stage); Passing Strange (Musical Stage/Obsidian); Evil Dead: The Musical (Hit & Myth/Ground Zero). FILM/TV: 21 Black Futures, Pretty Hard Cases, Odd Squad.

TRAINING: BFA, University of Alberta; Soulpepper Academy. AWARDS: Dora Award - Outstanding Performer in a Featured Role, inaugural Philip Akin Black Shoulders Legacy Award.

Producer