For TIP: Kingfisher Days

Elsewhere: Dead Metaphor (Aquarius Theatre), Peace River Country (Tarragon Theatre), Freud (The Harold Green Theatre).

Other: Layne Coleman is a former Artistic Director of Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. He spent a few summers working in Kingston for the Kingston Summer Festival and Salon Theatre.

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Through the Bamboo – Staged Reading (Soulpepper, Shen Development Series); Hilot Mean Healer – Staged Reading (Cahoots); Perfect Couples (Pencil Kit Productions); Anak, Kaldero, In the Shadow of Elephants (Carlos Bulosan Theatre)

Other: Ergo Arts Pink Festival, fu-GEN’s Potluck Festival XIV; 2017 release of debut EP, All I Am (featured on CBC Radio’s Fresh Air program); Co-created and appeared in multidisciplinary show, #LOOP at the 2016 Toronto Nuit Blanche (Participant of Expect Theatre’s Beats + Intentions Emerging Artist Program); performance residency at the Art Gallery of Ontario (New Lineage Vocal Ensemble).

www.belindacorpuz.com 

For TIP: As actor: Mary’s Wedding, Cost of Living. As playwright: Bed and Breakfast, The Birds and the Bees.

Elsewhere: Recent acting credits include A Christmas Carol (Theatre New Brunswick), Bed and Breakfast (Centaur Theatre and Belfry Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure (Groundling Theatre Company). Other plays as a writer include Stag and Doe; Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures; and The New Canadian Curling Club, which just premiered at the Blyth Festival this summer.

Upcoming: Bed and Breakfast is being produced by Soulpepper Theatre Company (Toronto) this summer and is part of next season at Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), Globe Theatre (Regina), and Arts Club Theatre Company (Vancouver). 

Other: It’s always great to be back in Gan! Thanks for coming to the show.

For TIP: Harvest

Elsewhere: The Berlin Blues, If Truth Be Told, Our Beautiful Sons: Remembering Matthew Dinning, Beyond The Farm Show, Falling: A Wake, Pearl Gidley, The Lonely Diner, Having Hope at Home, The Nuttalls, Courting Johanna (Blyth Festival); Dalton and Company (The Theatre Centre); The Ladies Foursome (Grand Theatre); Harvey (MTC); Dead Metaphor, Jack of Diamonds, Half Life (Theatre Aquarius); Taking Shakespeare (New Stages); Scratch, Escape From Happiness (Factory Theatre); Orpheus Descending (MTC, The Royal Alex). Film and Television: Designated Survivor (ABC); Cardinals (Cardinal Pictures); Picture Day (Foundry Films); Away From Her (Pulling Focus Pictures); Niagra Motel (Indian Grove/Muse Ent); Profoundly Normal (CBS); Saving Hope (CTV); Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury); Living In Your Car (TMN); This is Wonderland (CBC); Slings and Arrows (TMN/Showcase); Butterbox Babies (Sullivan Films); South of Wawa (Accent Ent.)

Catherine has been nominated for three Canadian Screen /Gemini Awards and won one. 

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Bad Baby Presents: Rules Control the Fun, Virginia Aldridge, BSc, Fantastic Extravagance, Eternal Friendship with a Spotless Smile (Toronto Fringe); King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Coriolanus, Alcestis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre at York); Frankenstein Live (The Arts Engine); Knot Tied (Lab Cab Festival); Commencement, Swell Broad (Convection Productions); Romeo & Juliet, Last Man Hanged, Pillar to Port Walkabout (Gairbraid Theatre); Anne of Green Gables (Stirling Festival Theatre). Film & Television Credits: Eligible (BravoFact); Clutch (mojoPro Films); Neighbourhood Watch, The Duvet (Film Army); Out With Dad (JLeaver Presentations).

Upcoming: Janelle is currently working on her second solo show Stand Up or Shut up.

Janelle is a graduate of the Masters in Acting Program at York University, as well as the joint acting program at UofT/Sheridan (Theatre Erindale). @janellemhanna

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Film and TV: Ponytail (Reel Asian International Film Festival), The Housekeeper, Philip (Canadian Film Centre), Royal Canadian Air Farce (CBC); Web series: Haunted or Hoax (NYC Web Fest; Audience Choice Award); Theatre: Anak (playwright and performer, Carlos Bulosan Theatre), Hey ‘90s Kids, You’re Old (Toronto Fringe Festival, New York Frigid Festival).

Other: Isabel Kanaan was born in Manila and was performing in live theatrical productions in her mother tongue of Tagalog by the age of ten. By the time she was 14, she was dancing acting and improvising professionally. Isabel’s parents decided to leave the Philippines when she was 16 and along with her three brothers, moved to Canada where she continued performing in high school productions and local theatre. Following her desire to perform, she enrolled in Seneca College’s Acting for Camera and Voice Program and graduated in 2016. She won the NBC/Universal Bob Curry Fellowship Award. Most recently, NOW magazine named Isabel as Toronto’s breakthrough stage artist of 2017. 

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Prairie Nurse (Factory Theatre); The Diddlin’ Bibbles Live at Comedy Bar (Toronto Sketchfest 2018); The Diddlin’ Bibbles Live in Concert! (Toronto Fringe Festival 2017); WILF (Theatre Genesis Toronto); King John (Shakespeare Bash’d)

Upcoming: Bike Show; (Bad Hats Theatre)

Matt Shaw is an actor living in downtown Toronto. He is one half of the musical comedy duo The Diddlin’ Bibbles who had a sold out show at the 2018 Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival and won Patron’s Pick at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival. He is very excited to be performing at The Thousand Island’s Playhouse for the first time with such a wonderfully kind, ridiculously fun, and wickedly talented cast and crew.

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: James and the Giant Peach (YPT), Prairie Nurse (Blyth Festival), The Tempest (Canadian Stage).

Upcoming: Princess Frownsalot (Bad Hats), Rumi Fables (ICOT/Ladom Ensemble), Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman (George Brown Theatre School).

Other: As co-artistic director of Pea Green Theatre Group with Mark Brownell, credits include Three Men in a Boat, Clique Claque, and The Barbeque King. She has garnered several Dora Nominations and has taught and directed at Sheridan, Theatre Erindale, Toronto Film School and is currently the coordinator of George Brown Theatre School. Love and thanks to Mark, Lily and Gavin.

For TIP: The Canadian, Million Dollar Quartet 

Elsewhere: Chamber Werx (Banff Centre for the Arts); The Secret Garden (Costumes, Young People’s Theatre); Calpurnia (Set, Nightwood and Sulong Theatre); Sir John A: Acts of A Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion (National Arts Centre); Million Dollar Quartet (Sudbury Theatre Centre); MAMMA MIA! (Theatre St. John’s); Ayre (Costumes, Against The Grain); Up The Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre); Superior Donuts (Coal Mine Theatre); The Public Servant (GCTC, Nightwood and Common Boots); Trigonometry, Shannon 10:40 (Timeshare); The Dog and the Angel (Costumes, Theatre Columbus); The Tin Drum (UnSpun Theatre, DORA Nomination- Costume Design); Free Outgoing (Set, Nightwood Theatre); Every Letter Counts (Factory Theatre); Mary Poppins, Grease (Set, Theatre St. Johns).

Anna is a Set and Costume Designer based in Toronto. She has been nominated for such awards as the Pauline McGibbon Award, the Virginia Myrtle Cooper Award and been the recipient of one DORA award for her work on Tails From The City (Costumes, Common Boots).

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Select Credits include Prairie Nurse (Factory Theatre); Risky Phil (YPT); Black Boys (Buddies in Bad Times + Canada Tour); Punk Rock, The Glass Menagerie, (The Howland Company); Chautauqua (Pearle Harbour Presents); Dusk Dances (2015-2018); Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff) Crazy For You (Port Hope Festival Theatre). Upcoming: The Wolves (The Howland Company/Crows); Chautauqua (Theatre Passe Muraille); Yellow Rabbit (Silk Bath / Soulpepper). Member of the Associated Designers of Canada. Online @ Jareth.Li

For TIP: The Canadian

Elsewhere: Select Sound Design: Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Morro and Jasp,9 to 5 (Factory Theatre); Morro and Jasp in Stupefaction (Kabin and U.N.I.T. Productions); The Last Donnelly Standing, If Truth Be Told(Blyth Festival); Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille); Beaver (Storefront Theatre); The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon); A City (Necessary Angel); Risky Phil (YPT)

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Salt-Water Moon (Factory Theatre, WhyNote Theatre, Mirvish); Late Night (ZoomerMedia/Theatre Brouhaha); Byhalia, Mississippi (Cue6 Productions); 
S h e e t s (Veritas Theatre); Poison (Coal Mine Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Oedipus Rex, Macbeth (Classical Theatre Project); The Journey (Artscape). 

Upcoming: The Prince Hamlet (WhyNot Theatre)