For TIP: Blind Date

Elsewhere: Undercover (Tarragon Theatre/  Vertigo Theatre/ Citadel Theatre), Murder In the Cottonwoods (Toronto Fringe), Blind Date (Across Canada/ The West End), Legend Has It (ATP/ Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Forum (Stratford Festival), DINK(Factory Theatre), Private Lives (Broadway), Panic! (Second City Toronto), Jenny’s House of Joy (Lighthouse Festival Theatre)

Upcoming: Blind Date at Festival Players of Prince Edward County

Other: Christy can be found improvising and teaching in Toronto at The Bad Dog Theatre and for The Second City. As always, her love and thanks to PB and BBB.

For TIP: Leading Ladies

Elsewhere: The Philanderess (Toronto Fringe/The Second City); Brave New World (Litmus Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille); Shipwrecked!, The Grandkid (Theatre Kingston); In Piazza San Domenico, The Snow Queen (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Gentleman Clothier, When the Reaper Calls (Lighthouse Festival Theatre) 

Sophia is also an award-winning playwright. She is a semi-finalist for the Ellen Ross Stuart Opening Doors Award and is currently in residence at Tarragon Theatre, Hart House Theatre, and the Blyth Festival. www.sophiafab.com

For TIP: 2016 Playwrights Unit, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate (playwright Young Company Tour 2018), Instructor Young Company 2014–16

Elsewhere: Risky Phil (YPT), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (“Canadianization” of Dario Fo, Soulpepper, Best Production Dora Award)

Upcoming: Intractable Woman (translation of Stefano Massini, Play Company NYC), Women in Clothes (Adaptation with Michael Shamata, Soulpepper), Psychedelic Marilu (translation of Pierre-Michel Tremblay, Imago Theatre)

Other: Resident Artist at Soulpepper and Young Peoples Theatre, sessional professor at the University of Windsor

Paula Wing is an actor, playwright, and translator whose work has been internationally produced. Recently, her Risky Phil premiered at Young Peoples Theatre and her translation of Stefano Massini’s Intractable Woman was part of the PEN International Playreading Series in New York, with a full production to come this fall by The Play Company. Paula’s musical adaptation of Margaret Mahy’s The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate toured Eastern Ontario this spring with TIP’s Young Company. She’s thrilled to be making her TIP début with this play, this team, and cherished colleague, Rob Kempson.

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Chimerica (Royal MTC/Canadian Stage); The Kite Runner (Theatre Calgary/Citadel Theatre); Even This Old Town Was A Forest (Birdtown & Swanville/The Theatre Centre); The Memo (Thought For Food); Fugitives (Theatre Conspiracy); Filthy Rich (Firehall Arts Centre); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Gateway Theatre). Film and Television: Resident Evil: Afterlife (Constantin Film/Sony Pictures); Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (Aircraft Pictures/Corvid Pictures/Space); Filth City (LaRue); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); King (Showcase); Rookie Blue (Global/ABC)

Upcoming: As Playwright: Theory (Tarragon Theatre)

Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award – First Prize for Theory; Dora Award – Outstanding New Play nominee for Pu-Erh

For TIP: 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).

Upcoming: Prairie Nurse (Costumes, Thousand Islands Playhouse and Factory Theatre)

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: 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: Debut

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: As a fight director, Zach has choreographed stunts and battles for productions such as The Three Musketeers, Peter Pan, Romeo & Juliet, Frankenstein (Capital Critics’ Circle Award), Macbeth, Les Miserables, Sherlock Holmes, The Servant of Two Masters, and The 39 Steps. You can catch Zach over in Prescott this summer at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival performing As You Like It and The Taming of the Shrew.

Zach is a fight director, actor, magician, and special effects designer currently based in Toronto.

For TIP: The Birds and the Bees, Das Ding, Dear Johnny Deere,The Ugly One, Salt Water Moon. As Assistant Stage Manager: Leading Ladies, Blithe Spirit

Elsewhere: Hamlet, Sequence, Within the Glass, The Bakelite Masterpiece, The Ugly One (Tarragon Theatre); The Return of Ulysses, Dido & Aeneas (Opera Atelier); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth: Walking Shadows, Richard III, Two Gents (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Kiss (Theatre Smash, ARC and Canadian Stage); Durango (Theatre Smash and fu-GEN); Das Ding (Theatre Smash with Canadian Stage); The Ugly One (Theatre Smash). Concert Manager for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Tour Manager for Opera Atelier’s biennial residency at the Opera Royal in Versailles.

Upcoming: Actéon & Pygmalion (Opera Atelier); Guarded Girls (Tarragon Theatre)

For TIP: Debut

Elsewhere: Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (Roseneath Theatre); Godspell (Theatre Sheridan); The Drowsy Chaperone, Footloose, The Addams Family, Spring Awakening, Spelling Bee, Curtains, If We Were Birds, Nine (Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts); Seussical Jr. (Capitol Theatre); Anne of Green Gables, Evita, Shrek the Musical (Lower Ossington Theatre); Assistant Concert Manager 2013-2017 (Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra). As Apprentice Stage Manager: Hamlet (Tarragon Theatre); Bakkhai (Stratford Festival); The Magic Flute (Canadian Opera Company); City of Angels (Theatre By The Bay); The Story (Theatre Columbus); The Test (The Company Theatre). 

Upcoming: Boy Beatle (KWLT).