Current Season

Guy Bannerman

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Most recent credits include Star Chamber and The Devil’s Disciple (Shaw Festival), and Florence Gibson’s Missing, directed by David Ferry (Factory Theatre, Guy’s 50th anniversary production in Toronto). Other credits: 22 seasons at the Shaw Festival, in productions including Summer and Smoke, The Invisible Man, The Crucible, Bus Stop, Man and Superman, Happy End, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Doctor’s Dilemma, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Our Town, A Christmas Carol, That Was Then, The Weir (Geva Theatre Center, Rochester NY); St. Joan (Theatre Calgary); Three in the Back, Two in the Head (Tarragon Theatre/NAC); The Stillborn Lover (Theatre Passe Muraille); The House of Blue Leaves (Theatre Aquarius); Inherit the Wind (Crest Theatre, 1958). Guy has also appeared at Young People’s Theatre, the Stratford Festival, St. Lawrence Centre, Grand Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and Vancouver Playhouse. Television series: Lieutenant Murphy in Daring and Grace (CBC/YTV), Gil in Love and Hate (CBC), voice of Mr. Bear on Rupert the Bear. Etcetera: Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford, 1969), Newton Award (Shaw Festival, 2003). Guy last appeared at the Royal Alexandra in Rolf Hochhuth’s Soldiers (Theatre Toronto, 1968).

Anthony Bekenn

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2009)

Toronto theatre credits include Kindertransport (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); One for the Pot (Royal Alex Theatre); The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (Toronto Workshop Productions); The Common Pursuit, The Real Inspector Hound (Theatre Plus); Hunting Cockroaches, The Dresser, Toad of Toad Hall (Canadian Stage). Sixteen years with the Shaw Festival include Born Yesterday, Devil’s Disciple, Hotel Peccadillo, The Crucible, Gypsy, Journey’s End, Pygmalion, Blood Relations, The Royal Family, The Return of the Prodigal, His Majesty, Peter Pan, The Apple Cart, The Matchmaker, Getting Married, Rebecca, Waste, Eden End and Saint Joan. Television and film credits include Murdoch Mysteries, The Two Mr. Kissels, Doc, Tracker, Comics, Wind at My Back, Street Legal, ENG, Counterstrike, Top Cops, Secret Service, Danger Bay, The Greening of Ian Elliot, The Private Capital, Hot Paint and Atom Spies. Anthony lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake with his wife Sharry Flett and their daughter, Michaela.

RICHARD BINSLEY

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2009)

Recent stage credits include Democracy, It’s All True (Necessary Angel, Tarragon); Amadeus (Theatre Aquarius); Bunnicula, Hana’s Suitcase (LKTYP); Mamma Mia! (Toronto and Broadway). Richard was a member of the Shaw Festival Ensemble for eight seasons and Theatre Plus Toronto’s rep company. Richard’s voices are heard on many cartoons including Angela Anaconda (Fox) and Redwall (Teletoon), as well as several CBC Radio dramas.

DEREK BRUCE

Associate Sound Designer

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2009)

Derek has been working in the theatre industry in Canada for the past 17 years as a Production Manager, Sound Designer and Technician. He was the Production Manager for both the Toronto Fringe Festival and George Brown College Theatre School. Derek has had the opportunity to sound design for such theatre companies as The Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Vancouver Playhouse and Neptune Theatre to name a few. He has been nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore awards and won the Victoria Critics’ Choice Award for his Sound Design on Earshot. He was also the recipient of the 2001 Pauline McGibbon Production Craftsperson Award.

LIZ CAMPBELL

Apprentice Stage Manager

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

As Apprentice Stage Manager, Liz’s credits include Mambo Italiano (Sudbury Theatre Centre/Bellweather Productions); Alias Godot, The Black Rider, Another Home Invasion (Tarragon Theatre Mainspace); Gift to Last, Wally’s Café, The Affections of May, Out of Order, Perfect Wedding, Wrong for Each Other, Cash on Delivery (Upper Canada Playhouse); Seussical (Sheraton Niagara Falls/Silvermist Productions). As Company Manager: High School Musical 2 (Niagara Centre for the Arts/Silvermist Productions).

IAN D. CLARK

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Ian is happy to be back with the talented cast of Stuff Happens, having been a member of the earlier company. He has played leading roles at The Annenberg Center (Philadelphia), Bradford Center (Boston), Royal Alexandra, Canadian Stage, Shaw Festival, National Arts Centre, Citadel and Neptune to name a few. Recent credits include Half Life, Assorted Candies, Trying (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Wild Mouth, Humble Boy (Tarragon); Enchanted April (Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia); Trying (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Constant Wife (Coconut Grove, Miami and Walnut Street – Best Actor Award, Miami). Ian has played five continuing roles in television series: Road to Avonlea, The Associates, Little Men, Paradise Falls and MacPherson’s Herd. Recent guest series credits include Copper, Flashpoint and Murdock Mysteries. His film work includes Equus, Maneater, 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould, Lilies, Piano Man’s Daughter, The Arrow and Cruel Intentions 2. Ian is also a playwright, whose credits include A Collection of British Rubbish (which he also starred in – Bradford Centre, Boston) and For a Good Time, Call (with Marcia Kash). Ian now makes his home in Kingston, Ontario.

PAUL ESSIEMBRE

Actor

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Paul most recently appeared in Le Dîner de Cons (Théâtre Français de Toronto). Other credits include To Kill A Mockingbird, The Odyssey, The Duchess of Malfi, Don Juan (Stratford Festival); Don Juan (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde); Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Art (Théâtre Français de Toronto); Tillsonburg (Canadian Stage); Zadie’s Shoes, OUI (Factory Theatre); Sleuth (Saidye Bronfman); Othello, The Matchmaker, Pygmalion (Atlantic Theatre Festival); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Centaur Theatre); Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet (Great Canadian Theatre Company). Film and television credits include Murdoch Mysteries (City TV); Regenesis, Blue Murder (Global); At the Hotel, The Newsroom, Freedom of the Air, A People’s History of Canada (CBC); Kevin Hill (UPN); Queer as Folk, Coast to Coast (Showtime); Degrassi, Plague City, Sue Thomas F.B. Eye (CTV). Animation credits include Silver Surfer (FOX); My Dad The Rock Star, George Shrinks, Bob and Margaret (Nelvana); Rescue Heroes (WB); The Accuser (Stan Lee Media).

DAVID FOX

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook

David has received numerous accolades for his stage performances across the country, including a Toronto Dora Mavor Moore Award for Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy, a Maritime Merritt Award for Michael Cook’s Jacob’s Wake and an Edmonton Sterling Award for Paul Quarrington’s The Invention of Poetry, as well as six other theatre nominations. In the early 1970s, he was part of the vital collective theatre movement at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, creating The Farm Show and 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt among other works. His focus on new Canadian work continues to this day. Over the years, David has worked with such filmmakers as Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World), Peter Mettler (The Top of His Head), Sir Richard Attenborough (Grey Owl), Patricia Rozema (When Night is Falling – Genie Nomination, Supporting Role), Chris Grismer (Clutch), Fabrizzio Filippo (The Human Kazoo), Charles Binamé (H2O II: Trojan Horse) and Jeremy Podeswa (Fugitive Pieces). He has worked with such actors as William H. Macy in the TV film Reversible Errors and Lou Gossett Jr. in For Love of Olivia. On television, David played the title role in Shakespeare’s King Lear and, for five seasons, played teacher Clive Pettibone on Road to Avonlea. He has appeared in such series as Due South, The Eleventh Hour, Poltergeist, This is Wonderland, Puppets Who Kill, the CBC/ Sienna Films pilot The Altar Boy Gang, CBC’s six-part series Northern Town, directed by Gary Burns, and the CBC series Heartland. Recent credits include the series lead in Across the River to Motor City, created by Bob Wetheimer, directed by Michael de Carlo and produced by Chum/City and David Devine, a recurring role on the CBC/Temple Street Series Being Erica and a Guest Star role in the new Showcase series Crash Burn.

MICHAEL GIANFRANCESCO

Set and Costume Designer

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project

Michael’s recent credits include In Colour (National Ballet of Canada), In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (Shaw Festival), It’s a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage Co.), Fiddler on the Roof – costumes (MTC), Little Shop of Horrors – set (Canadian Stage Co.), The Miracle Worker (Neptune Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (LKTYP), The Rocky Horror Show – set (MTC/Canadian Stage Co.), The Spitfire Grill – costumes (Grand Theatre) and the Canadian premiere of Kaleidoscope with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. In 2006 Michael toured with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden to present the new Canadian opera The Midnight Court. Michael’s work at the Stratford Festival includes The Triumph of Love, Edward II and The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Studio Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Festival Theatre); and the sets for The Comedy of Errors (Avon Theatre) and An Ideal Husband (Festival Theatre). He is the 2008 recipient of the Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design (Ontario Arts Foundation).

ANDREW GILLIES

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Andrew’s most recent credits include The Devil’s Disciple (Neptune Theatre – 2009 Merritt Award for Best Supporting Actor) and Missing (Factory Theatre). Other credits include Hamlet in Hamlet (Vancouver Playhouse); Cyrano in Cyrano (Royal Alexandra Theatre); 14 seasons at The Shaw Festival with Christopher Newton as Artistic Director; 2 seasons at The Stratford Festival with John Hirsch as Artistic Director; 11 productions at The Manitoba Theatre Centre; and appearances for Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects playRites 97/98, Theatre Aquarius, National Arts Centre, Toronto Free, Canadian Stage, Tarragon and Necessary Angel. Film and television (selected): The Virgin Suicides, How to Deal, That Touch of Pink, The Associates, Code Name Eternity, Mutant X, Paradise Falls, Monk, Angela’s Eyes, Missing, Degrassi: The Next Generation. Upcoming: The Wild Girl (Hallmark Productions). Andrew is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University Theatre Program. He has been nominated for a Best Actor Dora Award and the Andrew Allen Award in radio for The Christmas Adventures of Fatty Nicholson (CBC).

JOEL GREENBERG

Director

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Blackbird, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project (2003/2004), The Passion of the Chris

Joel is a Chalmers and Dora award–winning playwright and director who has directed and/or choreographed more than 100 professional productions across Canada in the past 35 years. In addition to his work with Studio 180, directing credits include The Underdogs, What the Butler Saw (Just For Laughs – English Theatre), Taking Sides, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Dora Award), The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me a Tenor, Dave Broadfoot’s Comedy Crusade, Second City (Toronto and Chicago), Little Shop of Horrors (Dora nominee), Forbidden Broadway (Dora nominee), Side By Side By Sondheim (Winter Garden Theatre), The Rothschilds, Dames at Sea and You Can’t Take It With You. Writing credits include Drink the Mercury (Dora Award) and The Nuclear Power Show (Chalmers Award). Joel is a Professor in the Drama Department at the University of Waterloo where he teaches acting, directing, film studies and dramatic literature. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of Studio 180.

DEBORAH GROVER

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Deborah is very pleased to be back again for this production of Stuff Happens, and especially to be performing it at the glorious Royal Alex Theatre. She has worked in various theatres across the country for over 30 years. Selected performances include Corinne in Beaux Gestes and Beautiful Deeds, the Writer in Sylvia Fraser’s My Father’s House, Marc Antony in the all-female Julius Caesar and Simone in Marat Sade. She recently returned to The Blyth Festival to perform Innocence Lost – a play about Steven Truscott. Deborah’s selected film credits include the short film Mordu, Atom Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies, Six Figures, The Shipping News, James Allodi’s The Uncles and Norman Jewison’s Agnes of God. Most recently, Deborah has been working in television, in episodes of Being Erica, Warehouse 13 and as a recurring character in the new YTV series How To Be Indie. She is currently working on the ABC series Happy Town. Deborah is proud to be serving as a Board member for The Actors’ Fund and is blessed with the love and support of Beech, Kyle, Tess, Chris, Andrea and Elisabeth.

ROBERT HARDING

Stage Manager

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Blackbird

Robert’s stage management credits include British Invasion, British Invasion II (Charlottetown Festival); How It Works, Past Perfect, A Beautiful View (Tarragon Theatre); Marion Bridge, A Whistle in the Dark, Festen (Company Theatre); Seussical (LKTYP); Carmela’s Table (Centaur Theatre); Tally’s Folly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Prince (Resurgence Theatre Company); Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks). Upcoming, he will be stage managing the premiere of Daniel MacIvor’s Communion at Tarragon Theatre.

DAVID HARE

Playwright

David Hare was born in Sussex in 1947. He helped start two theatre groups: Portable Theatre Company (1968) and Joint Stock (1974) and was the Literary Manager at The Royal Court in 1970-1 and an Associate Director of the National Theatre from 1984 to 1997. In 1998 David Hare was given a knighthood for services to the theatre. His plays have been widely produced at the Hampstead Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Comedy Theatre, ICA, National Theatre, Wyndhams Theatre, Albery, Vaudeville, Aldwych, Almeida and Theatre Royal Haymarket in England; the New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theater, Music Box and elsewhere on Broadway in New York; and the Mark Taper Forum in LA. Plays include Slag, The Great Exhibition, Brassneck (written & directed), Knuckle, Fanshen, Teeth’n’Smiles (written & directed), Plenty (written & directed), A Map of the World (written & directed), Pravda (written & directed), The Bay at Nice (written & directed), The Secret Rapture (written & directed on Broadway), Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War, Skylight, Amy’s View, The Judas Kiss (directed on Radio), Via Dolorosa (also acted), My Zinc Bed (written & directed), The Breath of Life, The Permanent Way, Stuff Happens, The Vertical Hour, Gethsemane, Berlin, Wall and The Power of Yes. Screenplays include Wetherby (written & directed), Plenty, Paris by Night (written & directed), Strapless (written & directed), Damage, The Secret Rapture, Via Dolorosa (also acted), The Hours, My Zinc Bed and The Reader. Films for TV include Licking Hitler (written & directed), Dreams of Hitler (written & directed), Saigon: Year of the Cat, Heading Home (written & directed) and The Absence of War. Adaptations include The Rules of the Game (from Pirandello), The Life of Galileo (from Brecht), Mother Courage & Her Children (from Brecht), Ivanov (from Chekhov), The Blue Room (from Schnitzler), Platonov (from Chekhov), The House of Bernarda Alba (from Lorca) and Enemies (from Gorky). Opera Libretto: The Knife. Books: Writing Lefthanded, Asking Around, Acting Up, Obedience and Struggle and Revolt. Plays as Director Only: Christie in Love, Fruit, Blowjob, England’s Ireland (Portable Theatre); The Provoked Wife (Palace, Watford); The Pleasure Principle (Theatre Upstairs); The Party, Weapons of Happiness, King Lear, The Designated Mourner (National Theatre); Devil’s Island (Joint Stock); Total Eclipse (Hammersmith); Heartbreak House (Almeida Theatre). Film as Director Only: The Designated Mourner.

MICHAEL HEALEY

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Michael trained as an actor at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties. He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award as best new play. The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999 and won the Dora Award for best new play, a Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award. It has been produced across North America and internationally, and has been translated into German, French and Japanese. Michael’s other plays include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B (which won the Dora in 2002 for best new play) and Rune Arlidge (which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2004). The Innocent Eye Test premiered in early 2006 and his newest work, Generous, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play in 2007. Michael starred as the mentally unstable James Ryder in the acclaimed series This Is Wonderland for the CBC and Late Fragment for the Canadian Film Centre. He recently performed in the Canadian premiere of Frost/Nixon for Vancouver Playhouse and Canadian Stage. Other recent theatrical credits include Them and Us (Theatre Passe Muraille), The Optimists (Tarragon Theatre) and Olympia (Soulpepper).

SAM KALILIEH

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Selected Theatre: Territories (Theatre PANIK); Two Doors Twice (Sunday Night Blues); Relative Good (Great Canadian Theatre Company); Omnium Gatherum (Canadian Stage); Life of the Party (African Stage Festival); Generation X Files (Second City); Italian Straw Hat (Alumnae Theatre); Return Engagements, Escape from Happiness, The Good Doctor, The Courageous One (Manny Greenfield). Film & Television: Little Mosque on the Prairie, The Border, Til Death Do Us Part, The Trojan Horse, Hotel Metropolitan, Cheaper By The Dozen II, Mayday, 72 Hours: True Crimes, Human Cargo, The Farm, Street Time, Exhibit A, The Matthew Shepard Story, Twice in a Lifetime, Queer as Folk, History Bites, Supertown Challenge.

NATHANIEL KENNEDY

Production Manager

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Blackbird, Offensive Shadows

Nathaniel has worked in theatre production across Canada and internationally. Most recently he has worked with Tarragon Theatre and Necessary Angel and is currently the Technical Director of the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People.

EMMA LAIRD

Assistant Stage Manager

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming, as Stage Manager), Stuff Happens (2009)

Emma is simply delighted to be joining Studio 180 for their 2009/10 season, having just completed her fourth season with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret, COMPANY in Concert and Pentecost). Previous credits include Another Home Invasion in Toronto (Tarragon Theatre) and in Calgary (Alberta Theatre Projects), bedbound (MacKenzieRo), Upstaging Cancer (Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation), A Dickens’ of a Christmas (Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus), COMPANY in Concert (PAL Fundraiser), Everyone Jump (Children’s Hour Productions, National tour), Queen of Hearts (Les Saints Productions) and The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski (Groundwater Productions). Emma is a graduate of York University and is the recipient of two Tyrone Guthrie Awards, the Kenneth Ford Award and the Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award. Emma would especially like to thank her family, friends and a ginger haired man for their heaps of constant support and love.

MICHAEL LAIRD

Sound Designer

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Blackbird, Offensive Shadows

Based in Toronto, Michael’s work has been heard in theatre productions throughout North America. In addition to his work with Studio 180, selected credits include Evil Dead: The Musical (Off Broadway, Toronto & Montréal); A Beautiful View (da da kamera – 2006 Dora Award nomination); Forbidden Phoenix, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Wizard of Oz (LKTYP); Festen, Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Noble Parasites (Theatre Passe Muraille); Tijuana Cure, Norway.Today, Tiny Dynamite (Theatre Smash).

HARDEE T. LINEHAM

Actor

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Blackbird

Hardee’s recent stage credits include Dying to be Sick (Pleiades Theatre); Crave (Nightwood Theatre); Omnium Gatherum, Proof, Richard III (Dora Winner), Henry VI, Edward VI, Tempest, Spring Awakening, Summerfolk, Plenty (Canadian Stage); Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, School for Wives (Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver); Scary Stories, Madboy Chronicles, Six Degrees (Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary); Love and Anger, White Biting Dog, As You Like It (Stratford). He also received Dora nominations for Crackwalker, Lie of the Mind and Science Fiction. Hardee’s film and television credits include Cary in The Jane Show, Loving Loretta, Santa Baby, Shoemaker (Genie nomination), Top of the Food Chain, The Big Hit, The Italian Machine, Dead Zone, Puppets Who Kill, Traders, P.S.I. Factor, Twice in a Lifetime, Relic Hunter and The Edison Twins.

KATHERINE LUBIENSKI

Associate Costume Designer

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2009)

Design credits include Ever Yours, Oscar (Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford 2009), Palmer Park (Costumes, Studio Theatre, Stratford 2008), The Odyssey (Costumes, Studio Theatre, Stratford 2007) and The Honest Whore (Costumes, Monument National 2006) and Angels in America Part 2 (Set, Monument National 2006). Assistant design credits include The Importance of Being Earnest with Desmond Heeley and Brian Bedford (Avon Theatre, Stratford 2009), Cabaret (Avon Theatre, Stratford 2008) and others. Katherine is a graduate of The National Theatre School and was the Ian and Molly Lindsay Young Design Fellow at the Stratford Festival in 2007.

MARK MCGRINDER

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Offensive Shadows, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Passion of the Chris, The Laramie Project (2003/2004)

Mark is a co-founder and member of the Core Artistic Team for Studio 180, has performed in almost all Studio 180 productions to date and was the Assistant Director for Blackbird. He performed with The Second City and was a member of the acting company at The Shaw Festival for five seasons. Other stage credits include The Kitchen Witches, Over the River and Through the Woods (Theatre North West); No Good Reason (Red Socks Company/Young Centre); The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge (Theatre and Company); The Beggar’s Opera (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (Tarragon Extra Space); The Foursome (Port Colbourne); Alexander Graham Bell I Want to Have Your Love Child (Canadian Fringe Tour); The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, Tough (Adelaide Fringe); and Wild Abandon (Waterloo Fringe).

DANIEL MCILMOYL

Associate Lighting Designer

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2009)

Daniel’s design credits include Harvest (New Stages, Peterborough), The Changeling (National Arts Centre) and Bella Donna (Burning Passions). Daniel has been an assistant lighting designer at the Stratford Festival for the past three seasons, most recently working on West Side Story. He has also assisted on the Theatre Aquarius production of The Diary of Anne Frank, and the Tarragon/ATP production of Another Home Invasion. Daniel lives in Hamilton with his wife Stefanie.

SARAH ORENSTEIN

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Sarah has appeared on stages across Canada including the Neptune, the Centaur, MTC, the Citadel, TNB, The Vancouver Playhouse and City Stage in Vancouver, most recently debuting at the Stratford Festival in Zastrozzi. She has played in Band Council halls on the Queen Charlotte Islands and spent 13 seasons as part of the Shaw Festival’s company. Selected Shaw credits include The Millionairess, Heartbreak House, Blithe Spirit, Counselor at Law and Too True to be Good. Sarah is a regular on Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre stage, and was thrice nominated for Dora awards for her work in The Retreat, The Hope Slide and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, winning the Dora for her role in Patience. Recently she was seen there in Wild Mouth and Scorched. Other recent appearances include Beyond Mozambique and Apple for the Factory Theatre, The Doll’s House for GCTC (winning the critic’s circle award) and Hana’s Suitcase for LKYPT. Some of her film and TV credits include The Battle of Maggie Hill (Fox TV), Fugitive Pieces (Serendipity), Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury) and Molly: American Doll (Disney).

KIMBERLY PURTELL

Lighting Designer

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009), Blackbird

Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre and dance. Her designs have been critically acclaimed on both national and international stages. They have been seen across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Russia. Selected credits include It’s a Wonderful Life, Palace of the End, A Number (Canadian Stage); The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Stratford Festival, Vancouver Playhouse); Tono (The Banff Centre); Stitch (World Stage); How it Works, The Fall (Tarragon Theatre); Crave, Age of Arousal (Nightwood Theatre); Love You Forever… and More Munsch, Dead Ahead (LKTYP); Marion Bridge (The Company Theatre); Lu Xun Blossoms (Theatre Smith-Gilmour/Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); In On It, Cul-de-sac, A Beautiful View, House (da da kamera); The Mansfield Project, Chekhov’s Heartache, Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6, Chekhov Longs… In the Ravine, Chekhov’s Shorts (Theatre Smith-Gilmour); Beyond Mozambique, Apple, Escape From Happiness, Better Living, The Leisure Society (Factory Theatre); Noble Parasites (Theatre Passe Muraille); The Russian Play (Harbourfront Centre); Platform 33 (DanceWorks/Harbourfront Centre). Kimberly was also the assistant lighting designer on the Toronto production of Hairspray. Kimberly has received eight Dora Mavor Moore nominations for outstanding lighting design and was the 2005 recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.

KAREN ROBINSON

Actor

For Studio 180: Stuff Happens (2009)

Karen’s stage credits include The Tempest (Canadian Stage), Eternal Hydra (Crow’s – Dora Nomination), Doubt (Citadel – Sterling Award for best performance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage) and four seasons at the Stratford Festival including performances in Shakespeare’s Universe, Harlem Duet, The Duchess of Malfi, The Swanne, Electra, Agamemnon, Shadows and an earlier version of Eternal Hydra. Additional credits include da KINK in my Hair (Hackney Empire Theatre, London, and San Diego Repertory Theatre), Two Can Play (Obsidian Theatre – Dora Award nomination), The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish Productions), Angelique (Alberta Theatre Projects – Betty Mitchell Award nomination), three plays in George F. Walker’s Suburban Motel series (Factory Theatre), two seasons with Soulpepper, and Factory Theatre’s production of Riot, for which she received a Dora Award. Karen also numerous film and television credits including Lars and the Real Girl, Killshot, H20 (CBC), Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, The Line (TMN), Slings and Arrows (Showcase) and My Louisiana Sky (Showtime). Upcoming: If We Were Birds (Tarragon), The Africa Trilogy (Volcano).

NIGEL SHAWN WILLIAMS

Actor

For Studio 180: The Overwhelming (upcoming), Stuff Happens (2008/2009)

Nigel’s selected theatre credits, as an actor, include Palmer Park, Fuente Ovejuna, Odyssey, Harlem Duet, Our Town, Twelfth Night, Treasure Island (Stratford Festival); The Ventriloquist (Factory Theatre); Salieri in Amadeus (Alberta Theatre Projects – Betty Mitchell Award Nomination); Hedda Gabler, Varieté (Dora Nomination), Two Words For Snow (Dora Award for Best Actor) (Volcano); Wade in The Water (Centaur Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Arts Centre); Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Consecrated Ground (Obsidian Theatre); Belle (Factory Theatre); Six Characters in Search of An Author, The Millionairess, Rashomon, Simpleton of The Unexpected Isle, Petrified Forest (Shaw Festival); Harlem Duet (world premiere – Nightwood/Canadian Stage); Angels in America (Canadian premiere – Manitoba Theatre Centre); Othello (Ford Centre For the Performing Arts); Six Degrees of Separation (Canadian premiere – Alberta Theatre Projects/Canadian Stage – Dora Award for Best Actor); Omnium Gatherum, Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III (Canadian Stage). Directing credits include Shakespeare’s Dog (Alberta Theatre Projects), The Bewitched (York University), Home (playRites Festival ATP), Laius: City of Wine (Nightswimming/York University), Falling in Time (CrossCurrents Festival/Factory Theatre), Blacks Don’t Bowl (Black Theatre Workshop – Mecca and Masque Nominations), The Monument (Obsidian Theatre – Dora Award for Best Director) and Simple, Celibate, Sober (Toronto Fringe). Film and television credits include XIII, Phantom Punch, Odyssey V, John Q, Vendetta, Down in The Delta, series regular for the Jane Show (Global), The City (CTV) and The Famous Jett Jackson (Disney Channel). Nigel is currently an Artistic Associate at the Factory Theatre. Special thanks to his Choreographer Robin, and the Curly Haired Blue Eyed Fairies.