For TIP: The Importance of Being Earnest, Waiting for the Parade

Elsewhere: Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott, Marat/Sade, Happy Place, Blood Wedding, Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Waiting for the Parade (Soulpepper Theatre); Pomona, Moment, Bea, The City, A Kind of Alaska (Actors Repertory Theatre); Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Hedda Noir (Theatre Northwest); Measure for Measure (Thought for Food); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Grand Theatre); Rabbit Hole, Same Time Next Year (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Laramie Project (Studio 180); Sibs (Marquis Entertainment), among many others.

Upcoming: Human Animals (Actors Repertory Company)

Other: Favourite film and television gigs include the David Cronenberg film “A History of Violence” and “Cracked” for CBC. Deb is also a teacher for the Toronto District School Board and an artist educator for Soulpepper.

For TIP: Leading Ladies, Bed and Breakfast, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Pirates of Penzance (co-adaptor with Ashlie Corcoran).  

Elsewhere: The Gay Heritage Project (Buddies In Bad Times, national tour); Peter and the Starcatcher (Western Canada Theatre), Passion Play (Outside the March/Convergence/Sheep No Wool); Frankenstein (Catalyst Theatre, national tours), The Middle Place, Hair, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage), Small Axe, Wormwood (as playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre), Freedom Singer (playwright/director – national tours).

Upcoming: His next play Towards Youth: A Play On Radical Hope premieres in spring 2019 in a co-production between Project: Humanity and Crow’s Theatre.

Andrew is a Toronto-based director, actor and playwright who also serves as artistic director of the socially-engaged theatre company Project: Humanity (www.projecthumanity.ca). He is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee, a graduate of the University of Alberta, and a Loran Scholar. This season, he was a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival of Canada.

Set & Costume Designer

For TIP: Prairie Nurse, The Birds and The Bees, Maggie And Pierre, A Grand Time In The Rapids, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Driving Miss Daisy 

Elsewhere: Flying Heart (Theatre Direct), Kiss (set), Das Ding (costume) (Theatre Smash), Snow Queen (Theatre New Brunswick), Tideline (Hart House Theatre and Canadian Rep Theatre), Armstrong’s War, Pacamambo (costume-Canadian Rep Theatre), Durango (Fu-gen theatre and Theatre Smash), Small Axe (Project Humanity and The Theatre Centre), Minotaur (set-YPT), Passion Play (set-Outside the March, Convergence Theatre and Sheep No Wool Production), Boblo (Kitchenband Production and The Theatre Centre, Dora nomination for outstanding set design), The Great Mountain (set-Red Sky Performance with YPT), Pub Opera (Tapestry New Opera), After Akmatova (Tarragon Theatre), Montparnasse (Theatre Passe Muraille and Groundwater Theatre, Dora nomination for outstanding costume design

Upcoming: Now You See Her (Quote Unquote Collective and Why Not Theatre)

For TIP: Debut 

Elsewhere: The Orchard (after Chekov) (The Shaw Festival); The Changeling, Treasure Island, Breath of Kings I and II, The Aeneid (The Stratford Festival); The Secret Garden, Minotaur, Hongbu and Nolbu and The Magic Pumpkins (Young People’s Theatre); Unmoored, The Perfect Word, Split Screen/Stereophonic, Move, Confluence, In a Landscape/Unfold (Peggy Baker Dance Projects); Freedom Song, Small Axe (Project Humanity); We Are Proud to Present… (Why Not Theatre/Theatre Centre); Crash (Theatre Passe Muraille/Soulpepper Theatre); Happy Place, The Just, Eurydice, Idomeneus (Soulpepper Theatre).

Upcoming: The Secret Life of a Mother (Theatre Centre); Rochdale (York University Theatre)

Debashis has won two Dora Awards and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award for his work on the theatre stage; new CD The White Dog out now on Establishment Records http://debsinha.com 

For TIP: The Canadian, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Bed and Breakfast, A Grand Time in the Rapids, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, The Birds and the Bees

Elsewhere: Fun Home (Musical Stage/Mirvish); Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools(Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Infinity (Volcano/Tarragon/NAC), James and the Giant Peach (Young People’s Theatre), Fish Eyes Trilogy (nightswimming)

Rebecca has received three Dora Awards for excellence in lighting design. 

For TIP: Androcles and the Lion (Young Company 1993), Nunsense II, Jitters, Twelfth Night (Production Assistant)

Elsewhere: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tempest, Macbeth, Trouble on Dibble Street (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); alterNATIVES (Firehall Theatre); Anatomy Lesson, Thunderstruck or The Song of the Sooth-Sayer(Pi Theatre); W;t (Globe Theatre); The Tempest, Henry IV Part 1 (Bard on the Beach). Two seasons with Alberta Theatre Projects, work with the Vancouver Fringe, the Ottawa Fringe, Canada Day on the Hill, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. 

Rebecca also works for the National Arts Centre Foundation, has taught Fundraising for the Arts at the University of Ottawa and currently teaches Stage Management at Queens University. She lives in Kemptville with her husband John and their two boys.

For TIP: 2 Pianos 4 Hands

Elsewhere: Venus in Fur (Theatre Kingston); Chicago (Blue Canoe); Cloudburst (Reelout Film Festival); UNFAMILIAR (Juvenis Festival).

Alysse is a Bachelor of Music graduate from the Queen’s School of Music.