For TIFT: Herringbone, The Yalta Game, La Bête.

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Elsewhere: Director: Wakey, Wakey (Stratford Festival Forum/County Stage Company); Macbeth, Requiem for a Gumshoe, Space Opera Zero!, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (Eldritch Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, TomorrowLove (U of T CDTPS); Every Brilliant Thing (Festival Players). Associate Director: The Shape of Home (CSC/Crow’s Theatre). Actor: Julius Caesar, Tribes (Canadian Stage); Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello, Titus Andronicus (Stratford Festival); Dirty Dancing (London’s West End); Peter Pan, The Matchmaker, Coronation Voyage, Widowers’ Houses, Rutherford and Sons (Shaw Festival). Film/TV:  Reacher, Titans, The Handmaid’s Tale, Workin’ Moms, Stealing the Sky.  

Other: 2017 Critics Pick Award for Best Supporting Actor. Creative Director at B Street Collaborative.  @dylantrowbridgeyyz @bstreetcollaborative

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For TIFT: Sweeney Todd (Dora nomination), The Curious Voyage, Into the Woods, Sin and Sorrow, Pal Joey, Sunday in the Park with George

Elsewhere: Carole King in Beautiful (RMTC/Segal Centre) Alice in Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats/Soulpepper – Dora award); Petra in A Little Night Music (Royal Conservatory of Music); Dot in Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse – Dora nomination); Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Grand); Girls Like That (Tarragon); Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown). Tess spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival – highlights include Top Girls, Cabaret, Philadelphia Story, Sweeney Todd and The Next Whiskey Bar.

Other: Tess Benger is an actor, singer, dancer and environmentalist, born and raised in downtown Toronto. She is the co-founder of The Canadian Green Alliance, a not-for-profit devoted to bridging the gap between sustainability and theatre. For more info head to canadiangreenalliance.com or @canadiangreenalliance on Instagram.

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For TIFT: As Designer: La Bête, 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: Once, Mary's Wedding (Thousand Islands Playhouse); SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Nine, 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, avid ttrpg player, wolf parent, and loves when nature and art co-create. @j_pagnan www.joepagnan.ca

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For TIFT: La Bête.

Elsewhere: Selected Theatre Credits: Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot (Eldritch Theatre, assistant set and costume designer), DION: A Rock Opera (Coal Mine Theatre, wardrobe and props assistant), Jack: a Beanstalk Panto (Capitol Theatre, scenic artist), (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them) (Videocabaret in association with Crow’s Theatre, set designer), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Crow’s Theatre, scenic artist); Award Nominations: Pauline McGibbon Award Nominee (2022).

Other: JB is an emerging set and costume designer based in Toronto. They are also a scenic art and prop making instructor at York University where they also hold a BFA in Theatre Production and Design. You can find them on instagram @thecostumewitch

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For TIFT: La Bête, Sweeney Todd, The Judas Kiss, For Both Resting and Breeding, Herringbone/The Yalta Game, Into the Woods (2019, 2021, 2024).

Recently: Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival); Into the Woods (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.

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For TIFT: Bejart in La Bête.

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: The Other Place, The Judas Kiss, Herringbone, The Yalta Game, Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Lighting & Video), Tales of An Urban Indian (Touring Production Manager).

Elsewhere: Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects); Whole New World (Tyler Hutchings); Come on Dreamer (Brooke Gilmour); Seagulls, The Killing, The Madness of Lady Bright (Shaw Festival Director’s Projects); As an assistant: The Shadow of a Doubt, Prince Caspian, Mahabharata, Gaslight, Trouble in Mind, Chitra, Desire Under the Elms, Victory, The Russian Play (Shaw Festival); I Forgive You (Artistic Fraud) Vigilante, The Invisible (Catalyst & Grand Theatre); Silence (Grand Theatre); As an associate: The Runner (Human Cargo); Musik für das Ende (Soundstreams); Between Riverside and Crazy (The Coal Mine); A Huron County Christmas Carol, The Pigeon King (Blyth Festival)

Other: Jeff (he/him) is a Lighting & Video designer and Technical Director for live performance across Ontario.  He is also a hobbyist astrophotographer and cat Dad. www.jeffpybus.ca

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For TIFT: La Bete, 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/Storefront–Dora Award for Sound Design/Composition); Associate Conductor for Something Rotten and Spamalot (Stratford Festival); 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); Moe in The Golem's Mighty Swing, Sideshow Mel in Mr. Burns (Outside the March); Marky Ramone in Four Chords and a Gun (Starvox).

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.

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For TIFT: Boy Falls From The Sky.

Elsewhere: Theatre: The Pillowman, Dead in the Water (Sound Designer–YES Theatre); DION: A Rock Opera (Production Manager–Coal Mine); Evandalism (Sound Designer–Fringe Theatre); Talk Treaty To Me, Hacking and Slashing, Lemon, CHANZO, Monster, Constellations, Air (Producer, Director–ReadyGo Theatre).

Other: Erik is a freelance Production Manager, Audio Designer, Director and Playwright. He sends his heart home to his family and partner Frances in Edmonton who he is away from following his passion out east.

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For TIFT: The Other Place, The Judas Kiss, Into the Woods, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, In Lieu of Flowers.

Elsewhere: Casey and Diana, Death and the King's Horseman, All's Well That Ends Well, Little Shop of Horrors (Stratford Festival); Prodigal, The Home Project, Casimir & Caroline, The Wolves, Lemons..., 52 Pick Up, The Glass Menagerie (The Howland Company); Detroit: Music of the Motor City, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Picture This, Parfumerie, Riverboat (Soulpepper); Jerusalem, Mr. Burns (Outside the March); Disgraced (Mirvish/Citadel/Hope & Hell); Fall for Dance North (FFDN/TO Live); The Realistic Joneses, An Enemy of the People (Tarragon); Body Politic (Buddies in Bad Times/lemonTree Creations), Angels in America (That Theatre Company).

Other: Sam has also worked for dance: made in canada, University of Toronto, TIFF, Hot Docs and serves as a stage management mentor at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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For TIFT: Debut

Elsewhere: Catalyst Theatre: The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Assistant Stage Manager), Vigilante in Concert (Stage Manager); Drayton Entertainment: Kinky Boots (Assistant Stage Manager); Citadel Theatre: Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol, Network, Pride and Prejudice, Clue (Assistant Stage Manager); Teatro Live!: Listen, Listen (Stage Manager); TheatreYes: The Play’s The Thing, Dead In The Water (Stage Manager).

Other: Frances is also a co-creator of ReadyGo Theatre Collective in Edmonton and is so excited to back in her home city with such an excellent group of people! She would like to thank her parents for her passion for art and Erik for being her rock every day.

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For TIFT: Vigil (Apprentice), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Toronto, Buenos Aires) (ASM), Open The Window (SM)

Elsewhere (selected): The Chemical Valley Project (Broadleaf), Take d Milk Nah?, Shove It Down My Throat, Situational Anarchy, Mahmoud, The Lost Sagas of Tjorvi the Flaccid (Pandemic Theatre); White Heat,  ...And You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next (Pressgang); #KanderAndEbb (Colored Lights); Cake, Sound of the Beast (New Harlem Productions); Dead End (Theatre Lab); The Ties That Bind (Our Souls). ASM: The First Stone (New Harlem Productions)  Head Chaperone: The Nutcracker (National Ballet of Canada).

Other: Heather has worked in stage management on 90+ shows throughout Canada and internationally, ranging from small-scale Fringe productions, to pieces in festivals such as World Pride and Panamania, to large scale shows at the Stratford Festival and for Mirvish. Additionally, Heather is an apprentice producer at New Harlem Productions; she won a Harold Award in 2021; and she has even stage managed a private performance for royalty. See credits at heatherbellingham.wordpress.com Follow @blue84HB

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