Three Sisters

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Akosua Amo-Adem was born in Ghana West Africa and raised in Toronto, ON. Akosua is a published author with an article called “See Me” in Intermission online magazine and is currently in the process of developing her first full length play!

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: School Girls; (Obsidian Theatre / Nightwood), Venus’ Daughter, 21 Black Futures (Obsidian / CBC Arts).

FOR SOULPEPPER: Billie, Ella, and Sarah: Revolutionary Women in Jazz; Pipeline; Streetcar Named Desire; Innocence Lost; Idomeneus; For Colored Girls…; Father Comes Home I, II, III; The Crucible.

OTHER THEATRE: Much Ado About Nothing, Les Belles Soeurs, Death and the King’s Horseman (Stratford Festival); The Middle Place, Domesticated, Tartuffe (Canadian Stage); The Assembly (The NAC); The Home Project (The Howland Company).

FILM & TELEVISION: Frankie Drake Mysteries; 21 Black Futures; In The Dark, Most Dangerous Game, American Gods, Kim’s Convenience.

Nne Chukwu

Virgilia Griffith is an actor based in Toronto.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters 

FOR OBSIDIAN: 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre / CBC Gem); Other Side of the Game (Cahoots / Obsidian Theatre); Up The Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre).

FOR SOULPEPPER: Queen Goneril, King Lear, Betrayal, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

OTHER CREDITS: Serving Elizabeth (Stratford Festival); Contractions (Studio 180); Guarded Girls (Tarragon Theatre/ Greenlight Arts); The Wedding Party (Crow’s Theatre); ‘da Kink In My Hair (Theatre Calgary/ NAC), How We Are (Mikaela Davies and Polly Phokeev Productions), 

AWARDS: Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Performance for Harlem Duet written by Djanet Sears. Winner of the Meta Emerging Artist Award for Gas Girls written by Donna Michelle St. Bernard. She was also a Dora Mavor Moore nominee for Outstanding Female in an Independent Division for her performance of Honesty directed by Jordan Tannahill and a Dora nomination for Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) (Saga Collectif) written by Jeff Ho and Our Place (Cahoots/ Theatre Passe Muraille) written by Kanika Ambrose. She was also a recipient of the Jon Kaplan Legacy Award for Canadian Theatre Performer in 2021.

OTHER: Grateful to my agent Alicia Jeffery and my supportive family. I am so excited to be a part of this incredible story.

Ikemba

Daren is a stage and screen artist whose love for acting continues to grow. Daren has practiced at LS&Co. Studios + Gracemoon Arts Company for over a decade under the mentorship of Michele Lonsdale Smith. He serves as a member of the Sheridan College Music Theatre Performance PAC and is a Musical Stage Co. board member. Daren has also earned an MFA in Drama at The University of California, Irvine and a BFA in Theatre Arts from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. #allblacklivesmatter

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: The Wild Party (Obsidian / Musical Stage)

FOR SOULPEPPER:  The Brothers Size; Jesus Hopped The A Train

FILM & TELEVISION: Recent television appearances include recurring roles on CBC series Kim’s Convenience and Pretty Hard Cases.

AWARDS: Darren’s theatre work includes Dora and Toronto Theatre Critics Award winning roles in The Brothers Size and Jesus Hopped the A Train at Soulpepper as well as The Wild Party with The Musical Stage Co.

Eze

Sterling Jarvis is an award winning actor and singer from Toronto. Sterling earned a Dora Award for his work in Caroline of Change and has sung anthems for the Blue Jays, the Raptors and the Toronto Maple Leafs. He can also be heard singing the themes for the popular kid’s shows Donkey Kong Country, Wild Kratts and Zaboomafoo.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters 

FOR OBSIDIAN: Ruined, Caroline or Change (Obsidian/Musical Stage)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Debut

OTHER THEATRE: Book of Mormon (US Tour/Broadway); The Lion King (Mirvish); We Will Rock You (Mirvish); Driving Miss Daisy (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). 

FILM & TV: The West Wing (NBC), The Bridge (CBS), Covert Affairs (CW), Suits (Netflix), Degrassi (CTV), The Boys (Amazon)

Oyiridiya

JD Leslie was born and raised in Scarborough, ON. JD is honored to make her official Soulpepper debut. “Big Love to my family and dearest friends; Cadence, Camille, Missem, and #BBFA. You are my world.”

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters 

FOR OBSIDIAN: Is God Is (Obsidian, Canadian Stage, NAC)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Her Words Festival – Queen Goneril (Workshop) 

OTHER THEATRE: On The Air (Lighthouse Festival); Vierge (Factory); Snow White (Young People’s Theatre); Portia’s Julius Caesar (Hart House); Elbow Room (Toronto Fringe). 

FILM & TELEVISION: A New Diva’s Christmas Carol (Green Door Pro.); Good Witch (Hallmark); The Anniversary (Dir Shaun Boyd)

Onyinyechukwu 

Tawiah M’Carthy is a Ghanaian born, Toronto based theatre practitioner, notable as a director, playwright and performer. Tawiah has worked with various organizations across Canada including Soulpepper Theatre, Factory Theatre, National Arts Center, Shaw Theatre Festival and MTSpace. Tawiah is a Dora-nominated playwright and performer.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Playwright: 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre / CBC Arts); Director: Fairview (Obsidian / Canadian Stage)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Sizwe Banzi is Dead

OTHER: His creator/playwright/performer credits include Maanomaa, My Brother (Blue Bird Theatre Collective), Black Boys (Saga Collectif), Obaaberima (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) and Yɛn Ara Asaase Ni. Tawiah’s directing credits include, Death and the King’s Horseman (Stratford Festival) and Rihannaboi95 (Young People’s Theatre). He is a founding member and co-artistic director of Blue Bird Theatre Collective.

Nmeri Ora

Ngabo Nabea was born and raised in Toronto, ON. This will be his first project with Soulpepper and Obsidian, and he looks forward to bringing this classic to life with this talented cast.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

OTHER THEATRE: Twisted (Factory Theatre); The Postman (Appledore Productions); The Number’s Game (Storefront Theatre); You (Globe Theatre); Fences (Grand Theatre); Death and the King’s Horseman (Stratford Festival); King Lear (Shakespeare Bash’d). 

FILM & TELEVISION: The Expanse; the Strain; and Anne with an E

Udo

Makambe K Simamba is a multiple award-winning playwright and actor. Makambe’s intention is to be of service through her ability to tell stories.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters, Debut for both companies

OTHER THEATRE: The First Stone (New Harlem Productions), Serving Elizabeth (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Giant (Ghost River Theatre), Winners and Losers (Chromatic Theatre), Bea (Sage Theatre), inVISIBLE (Handsome Alice Theatre) and Sia (Pyretic Productions).

FILM & TELEVISION: On screen, she can be seen in projects such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for Paramount+, Titans for Max, True Dating Stories for CBC Gem, Grand Army for Netflix and more. 

OTHER: As a playwright, her solo work includes the multiple Dora Award-Winning Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers, And Little Brothers; A Chitenge Story and Makambe Speaks. Her works in progress have been supported by The Stratford Festival, Banff Playwright’s Lab, Downstage Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, b current performing arts, Citadel theatre, Obsidian Theatre, and Green Thumb Theatre. Makambe was the 2020/21 Urjo Kareda Artist in Residence at the Tarragon theatre, and the co-host of Cahoots Theatre’s Blackstage Pass Podcast.

Dimgba

Tony was born in Toronto, ON. He is a Humber College and York University Alumni. Want to know what’s next for Tony? Check him out at www.tonyofori.com.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Actually (Obsidian/Harold Green)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Wildwoman, Pipeline (2022 Dora Nomination – Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role).

OTHER THEATRE: Fall On Your Knees (NAC/Vita Brevis/Canadian Stage/Neptune/Grand); Bunny, Copy That (Tarragon Theatre); Serving Elizabeth (Western Canada Theatre). 

FILM & TELEVISION: Supergirl, A Royal Queens Christmas, Amazing Grace, The Boys, Coroner, Murdoch Mysteries, Star trek. Currently, Tony can be seen on Apple TV’s season 3 of Daytime Emmy winning show Ghostwriter as Malcolm Turner.

Abosede

Ms. Oladejo graduated from the prestigious Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts in Toronto, having immigrated to Canada from Nigeria in her teens.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Is God Is (Obsidian, Canadian Stage)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Crucible; Tartuffe; Eurydice; A Doll’s House and Noises Off 

OTHER THEATRE: In This World (Roseneath Theatre); Tomorrow Love (Outside the March) 

FILM & TELEVISION: Star Trek: Discovery; Endlings; Orah 

AWARDS: The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in the theatre production In This World.

Nma 

Ordena Stephens-Thompson was born in Jamaica, West Indies.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Fairview (Canadian Stage/Obsidian Theatre);

FOR SOULPEPPER: A Streetcar Named Desire; For Coloured Girls…;        da Kinki in My Hair

OTHER THEATRE: Sweat (Canadian Stage/Studio 180); Fences (The Grand Theatre); Harlem Duet (Tarragon Theatre). 

FILM & TELEVISION: Skymed; Christmas at the Drive Inn; Ruby and the Well. 

AWARDS: Two Dora Award nominations.

Igwe

Amaka Umeh was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and Calgary, AB.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Debut

FOR SOULPEPPER: Sizwe Banzi is Dead; Dialect Coach for ‘da Kink in my Hair; 1851: Spirit and Voice, Her Words Festival, Around The World in 80 Plays

OTHER THEATRE: Fall On Your Knees (Eastern Canadian tour); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Death and the King’s Horseman, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford Festival); The Wolves (Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre).

FILM: The Stranger’s Case (CBC Gem).

AWARDS: Umeh has received two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Peter Donaldson Award, and a BBPA Harry Jerome President’s Award.

Standby: Onyinyechukwu

Matthew G. Brown was born and raised in Toronto. OBSIDIAN: Is God Is. SOULPEPPER: Debut. OTHER THEATRE: The Real Mccoy (Blyth), Appropriate (Associate Director, Coal Mine), Intimate Apparel (Belfry), Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelfth Night, (Stratford Festival), Calpurnia (Nightwood), Wizard of Oz, Cinderella: A RATical retelling, I Think I Can (YPT), Hair (The Grand), Jersey Boys (Dancap, Dodgers). SELECTED FILM & TV: Fellow Travelers (Showtime), Pretty Hard Cases (CBC), Pinkalicious & Peterrific (PBS Kids), The Kennedys (History Television), Hailstorm (CFC) Instant Star (CTV). UPCOMING: Look for Matthew in the upcoming feature film Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Frank. TRAINING: Randolph College, The CFC Actors Conservatory. Follow on IG & Tiktok: @ItsMrMGB

Writer

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of: The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates poetry & hip hop, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates Poetry and Film. Identity, Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring themes in his work, where he tries to mix the old with the new: traditional African oral storytelling with contemporary poetics, paint with pixel, texture with vector. His books are published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches, Penned In The Margins, Oberon & Methuen.

Director

Mumbi is the Artistic Director of Obsidian Theatre Company. Founder and Artistic Director, IFT Theatre. 

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters; Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape . 

FOR OBSIDIAN: Director: Is God Is, (Obsidian / Canadian Stage / Necessary Angel), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian / CBC),

FOR SOULPEPPER: Director: Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Brothers Size, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The 27 Club, Porgy and Bess. Assistant Director: For Colored Girls, It’s A Wonderful Life.

OTHER THEATRE: Post Democracy (Tarragon), Trout Stanley (Factory), We are Proud to Present (UTSC).

AWARDS: Recipient of a Dora Award, Toronto Theatre Critics Award, Canadian Screen Award, Pauline McGibbon Award, amongst others.

Assistant Director

Natasha Mumba was born in Zambia and is now based in Toronto.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play (Obsidian, Nightwood)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Debut

OTHER THEATRE: Henry V, The Adventures of the Black Girl, Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, Hound of the Baskervilles (Shaw Festival); Silver Arrow (Citadel); Trout Stanley (Factory); Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing (Canadian Stage); Middletown (Crows) The Millenial Malcontent (Tarragon)

FILM & TELEVISION: Handmaid’s Tale (MGM); The Last of Us (HBO); Y: The Last Man(FX); Beacon 23(AMC); Matlock (CBS); Five Days At Memorial(APPLE +). 

OTHER: Natasha previously served as the Apprentice Artistic Director and participated in the Directing program at Factory Theatre with the generous support of the Metcalf Foundation. Her directing credits include; Balance (Driftwood Trafalgar); Lady Sunrise (Assistant Director- Factory); The Water Gun Song (YPT); Vierge (Factory). She was awarded the 2021/22 Nightswimming Writing Commission to develop her new play and is also a Dora Nominated actress. It’s her greatest joy to get the opportunity to explore storytelling in the many different mediums and perspectives this career provides. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. IG: @Tashamum

Set Designer

Over the past 15 years, Joanna has been a Set & Costume Designer on over 100 productions; almost half of them, World premieres. Joanna’s designs have been seen on stages across Canada and Internationally.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

OTHER: Most recently, set designed the World Premiere of 1939 (Stratford Festival); the set & costume design of The Queen in Me (COC|Nightwood|Amplified Opera|Theatre Gargantua); the costumes for the World Premiere of R.U.R. Torrent of Light (Tapesty Opera); Joanna has been a guest artist at The National Theatre School, TMU, York University, Sheridan, Humber, George Brown, and continues to mentor early-in-craft designers whenever possible. Joanna is a board member of the Associated Designers of Canada (ADC659), founding member, IBPOC Designer Circle, Co-creator of Designing the Revolution. 

AWARDS: Set & Costume design for the World Premiere of among men (Factory Theatre, Dora Award – Outstanding Scenic Design); recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award and the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for Costume Design. Joanna is grateful to be part of the 20th anniversary of ‘da Kink! www.joannayudesign.com

Costume Designer

Ming Wong is a Toronto costume designer, stylist, and wardrobe technician. She has worked on a variety of projects ranging from dance, theatre, film, and television.

For OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER:  Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Is God Is, (Canadian Stage/Obsidian/Necessary Angel); hang; The Gravitational Pull of Beatrice Trimble (Obsidian/Factory) 

FOR SOULPEPPER: The Guide to Being Fabulous; Sizwe Banzi is Dead; Pipeline.

OTHER THEATRE: Hamlet 911, (Stratford Festival); Orphans for the Czar, (Crow’s Theatre); Trouble in Mind, (Shaw Festival); Hansel und Gretel, (Canadian Opera Company); Julius Caesar, (Crow’s Theatre/Groundling Theatre)

DIGITAL: Alice in Winterland, (Ross Petty Productions); New Monuments (Luminato/Canadian Stage); Savitri, Against the Grain; Alice in Wonderland, (Bad Hats Theatre/Soulpepper)

AWARDS: Winner of the 2021 Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design

Lighting Designer

Andre du Toit was born and raised in Toronto, ON.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters: Oraltorio

FOR OBSIDIAN: speaking of sneaking (Groundwork Redux / Obsidian/Buddies)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Animal Farm; A Delicate Balance; Vimy; The 39 Steps.

OTHER: Here Lies Henry (Factory Theatre); The Queen in Me (Canadian Opera Co. / Amplified Opera / Nightwood / Gargantua); Maanomaa, My Brother (Canadian Stage / Bluebird Collective); Prince Hamlet (Why Not Theatre)

Sound Designer & Composer

John Gzowski worked on over 250 theatre, dance and film productions for which he has done composition, sound design, live foley, live music and as musical director. He has played banjo for opera in Banff, studied Carnatic classical music in India and played oud and guitar in jazz and folk festivals across Canada and Europe. Gzowski has played on numerous CD’s, with releases with Patricia O’Callghan, Tasa, and Autorickshaw as well as a Juno nomination with Maza Meze. He has run Canada’s first microtonal group, touring Canada playing the works of Harry Partch, composed and performed with several new music groups and worked as co-artistic director of the Music Gallery.

THEATRE / AWARDS: His theatre work has won him 6 Dora’s, from 18 nominations for companies like Ex Machina, Stratford, Shaw Festival, Luminato, National Arts Centre, the Mirvishes, MTC, the Arts Club, Canstage, Soulpepper, Obsidian, Dancemakers, Red Sky, Tarragon, Factory Theatre and YPT.

Music Coach

A multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Kunle’s folk and soul music bridges contemporary styles with roots in West African rhythms and stories. Nigerian-born and currently based in Toronto, Kunle brings together his vocals, guitar, harmonica, and talking drum to take audiences into what he terms “music with no boundaries.”

FOR OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER:  Three Sisters – Debut

OTHER CREDITS: Music director and composer of and percussion (live) in Death and The King’s Horseman (Stratford Festival; Saga Tiata (Isabel Bader Theatre); Acting, Abusolon in Wahala Dey Oh (adaptation of Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale);  Music Performance: Mariposa Folk Festival; Summer Folk Festival; Muskoka Festival; Africa Day Festival, Hamburg, Germany. Production Credit: Emotional Intelligence EP- Vincent Jamal. Training: OCAD Hons Music Industry Arts and Performance, Post Grad Diploma Arts Management Centennial College, Toronto. 

AWARDS: Best Instrumental, Folk Music Ontario, Peter Dickinson Award, Ontario Premier Award Nominee, Alumnus of Distinction, Centennial College.

Fight and Intimacy Director

Anita is Combat Instructor, Fight Director, and Sexual Choreographer at the National Theatre School.

FOR OBSIDIAN: Fairview (Obsidain / Canstage)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Wildwoman (Soulpepper)
Selected Fight Director and Sexual Choreographer Credits: Bad Roads (Crow’s); Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP), Fall on Your Knees (CanStage / Neptune / NAC); Counter Offence (Segal Centre); Prodigal (Crow’s); Trojan Girls and The Outhouse of Atreus (Factory); Our Place (Cahoots / TPM); The Last Wife, The 39 Steps, Successions (Centaur); Whole World (Carousel Players).

FILM / TV: Selected Stunt Performer/Stunt Actor Credits: Law & Order:
Toronto, SEE, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, Titans, The Boys,
Rabbit Hole, What We Do in the Shadows, various Ubisoft motion capture
productions.

Dialect Coach & Cultural Consultant

Sodienye Waboso Amajor is a Dora Nominated Nigerian Actor, Writer, Performer and Mother who lives and works in Ontario. Dienye holds an MA in Theatre and Performance studies from York University with a keen interest in Pre-Colonial African Theory, Performance and Development. She currently works with Suitcase in Point Multi arts company as the Arts Mentorship Program director. Dienye is currently continuing her studies as a PhD student in the Theatre Dance and Performance program at York University.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Debut

OTHER: A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare in Action’s adaptation);
Binti’s Journey (Theatre Directs) Gas girls (New Harlem productions); Shine
your Eye, (Volcano Theatre’s – Africa Trilogy / Luminato) Another Africa
(Canstage / Volcano Theatre) The Power of Harriett (YPT)

Dienye is a published writer whose work can be found on the online publication She Does the City. In 2022, she developed and debuted a new visual and photographic work titled “Rest” which seeks to prioritize and localize the exploration and imagery of Black bodies in a state of Rest.

Dialect Coach

Paul de Jong is the Co-Head of Coaching at the Stratford Festival where he has served as a Voice, Text, and Dialect coach for thirteen seasons. Paul also teaches for the School of Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada, the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, and for the Theatre Performance program at Humber College where he served three years as director of the program and six years as its Head of Voice. Paul has coached at theatres across the country: Teatro Proscenium, the Grand Theatre, Artistic Fraud, the Globe Theatre, and Soulpepper to name a few. Paul received his post-graduate degree in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama and is a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatory.

Movement Director

Esie Mensah is an award winning choreographer, director, dancer, movement director, educator, and TEDx speaker. A member of the Canadian Guild of Stage Directors and Choreographers as well as a two-time Dora nominated artist who has worked with megastars like Rihanna, Drake, Janelle Monae, Nelly Furtado and Arcade Fire to historic brands like Holt Renfrew, Coca-Cola, TIFF, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Raptors, and more.

OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Dixon Road (Obsidian / Musical Stage)

FOR SOULPEPPER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

OTHER: In theatre Mensah has worked on Russian Play, Victory, Farmers’ Revolt (Shaw Festival); New Monuments (Canadian Stage), and Serving Elizabeth (Theatre Aquarius). Esie was the choreographer for Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha: A Musical Reimagining presented by TO Live, the Luminato Festival and Volcano Theatre.

Original creations include ZAYO and Dora-nominated Shades.

FILM & TV: A Revolution of Love, and TESSEL. Recently commissioned by Canada’s National Ballet School for Assemblée International, Robert Binet (Ballet) and Mensah (Afrofusion) co-choreographed the world premiere of “The Call” on a cast of local and international students.

Historical Consultant

Ugochukwu Okoye was born and raised in Jos, Northcentral Nigeria.
Ugochukwu is currently a Teaching Assistant and Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is an alumnus of both the University of Nigeria and the University of Edinburgh, and the co-author of the book “A Tale of Two Neighbours: A Sociopolitical History of Ukwa and Ngwa Nations”, which was published in 2022.

Stage Manager

Robert Harding. Born and raised in Lewisporte, NL., Production Stage Manager 2015 – 2019 (Soulpepper)

For OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER:  Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: Once on this Island (Obsidian/Musical Stage),

FOR SOULPEPPER: Stage Manager credits include: The Guide to Being Fabulous, The Seagull, Queen Goneril, King Lear, Draw Me Close, Almighty Voice and his Wife, Rose: A New Musical, Bed and Breakfast, La Bête, Waiting for Godot, Spoon River, Of Human Bondage, It’s a Wonderful Life, The 39 Steps, The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, Marat/Sade, Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

OTHER THEATRE: Clybourne Park, Stuff Happens (Studio 180/Mirvish Productions), The Best Brothers, Communion, A Beautiful View (Tarragon Theatre).

Assistant Stage Manager

Emilie is a stage manager for theatre, dance, and experimental work based in Toronto, Ontario.

FOR OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

FOR OBSIDIAN: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Obsidian / Nightwood), hang

FOR SOULPEPPER: Art.

OTHER THEATRE: Century Song (Volcano Theatre); The Men In White (Factory Theatre); Lady Baby, Portrait (The Dietrich Group); Freedom Singer (Project:Humanity).

Apprentice Stage Manager

Keleshaye Christmas-Simpson was born and raised in Toronto, ON. Keleshaye would like to thank her family, both chosen and blood, your support means the world. Much gratitude and love to each and every one of you

FOR OBSIDIAN & SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters

OTHER THEATRE: Intimate Apparel, The Music Man (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Artist Mentorship Program 2023 (Black Theatre Workshop); Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (Volcano/Luminato); Prodigal (The Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre); RENT (BurlOak Theatre Group)