Serving Elizabeth

Playwright/Patricia

Marcia Johnson is a theatre, TV/film and audiobook artist based in Toronto. Her play Serving Elizabeth (in which she also performed) premiered at Western Canada Theatre in February 2020. She reprised her role in Thousand Islands Playhouse in October 2021. The play has had other productions at Stratford Festival, Peterborough Players (NH), Belfry Theatre and Theatre Aquarius. Other plays include A Magical Place (Stratford Festival/National Transformations Project – Zoom), Binti’s Journey, an adaptation of the teen fiction novel The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis (Theatre Direct Canada/Manitoba Theatre for Young People/Black Theatre Workshop) and Say Ginger Ale (SummerWorks Festival, adapted from her award-nominated CBC Radio Drama).
Opera works include the Dora-nominated My Mother’s Ring with composer Stephen A. Taylor at Tapestry New Opera. Selected acting credits include The Wonderful at Caravan Farm Theatre and The New Canadian Curling Club and The Farmers Revolt: 1837 Blyth Festival.

Faith, Tia

Recipient of the 2021 Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Theatre Award for Canadian Stage Performer. Winner of the META Emerging Artist Award for Gas Girls by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard. Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance for Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears. She was also a Dora Mavor Moore nominee for Outstanding Female in the Independent Theatre Division for her performance in Honesty, directed by Jordan Tannahill, and received a Dora nomination for Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) (Saga Collectif) by Jeff Ho. Selected credits: Guarded Girls (Tarragon Theatre/Greenlight Arts); Betrayal, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Soulpepper Theatre); The Wedding Party (Crow's Theatre); Other Side of the Game (Cahoots/Obsidian Theatre); Up the Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre Company).

Talbot

Accomplished actor and director, born in 1969 in Saskatoon Saskatchewan, and based in Toronto Ontario. He is a graduate of Queen’s University, and George Brown Theatre School. Geoffrey Pounsett has performed in theatres across Canada. Recent appearances include: If We Were Birds by Erin Shields (Tarragon Theatre 2010); How Do I Love Thee? by Florence Gibson MacDonald (playRites 2010); Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre by Larry Tremblay (playRites 2010); Chimera by Wendy Lill (Tarragon Theatre 2007); Much Ado About Nothing (2004) for the York Shakespeare Festival (dir. David Ferry); Noises Off (Theatre Aquarius); The Melville Boys by Norm Foster (Bluewater Playhouse, dir. Ferry); and The St. Nicholas Hotel by James Reaney (George Brown Theatre). Other roles include: Herchel in Fire (Theatre Calgary, Charlottetown Festival); Durance in Indian Ink (Canadian Stage/National Arts Centre); Dexter in The Philadelphia Story (Theatre Calgary), Charlie in Juno & The Paycock (Stratford Festival); and Pip/Theo in Three Days of Rain (Sudbury Theatre Centre). As a director, he has worked with many new playwrights, including Kate Hewlett (The Swearing Jar, Toronto Fringe Festival 2008). He was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2008 for his staging of Brendan Gall’s A Quiet Place.

HRH Princess Elizabeth/Robin

Amanda is a graduate of University of Victoria (BA Anthropology), the University of Alberta (BFA Acting), The Citadel/Banff Theatre Program and the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory.  Amanda’s acting credits include three seasons at the Stratford Festival (Titus Andronicus, Cyrano de Bergerac), Alberta Theatre Projects (Betty Mitchell Award for Venus in Fur), Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg Theatre Award Nomination for 23.5 Hours), The Segal Centre (Montreal English Theatre Nomination for Noises Off), and roles with Theatre Aquarius, The Arts Club, The Citadel, Blue Bridge Repertory, and The Belfry. TV credits include Suits, iZombie, Reign, A Veteran’s Christmas, Supernatural, and Private Eyes. Amanda is an educator, teaching courses in acting, voice, Shakespeare, and public speaking for various schools including the University of Victoria, the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Stratford Festival’s Teaching Shakespeare Program, and works as a Community Support Worker supporting adults with diverse abilities.

Montague

Cameron is a Toronto based actor, theatre creator and artistic director of Shakespeare in Action. His acting recent credits include Controlled Damage, (Grand Theatre London), The Fiancée (Persephone Theatre), Kim's Convenience (Thousand Islands Playhouse), 1851: Spirit & Voice, Soulpepper; Serving Elizabeth (Stratford Festival); 4 seasons at the Shaw Festival, Happy Birthday Baby J (Shadow Theatre); as well as productions with Talk Is Free Theatre, Theatre Animal, Theatre Erindale, Secret Shakespeare Series, Canadian Rep Theatre and Clay and Paper Theatre. As an emerging director Cameron has worked as an assistant director on the cecil hotel (Theatre Erindale), among men (Factory Theatre),Harlem Duet, (Bard on the Beach). Cameron’s first play Meet Chloe, a virtual play that explores the challenges Black students face in the education system and the lack of Black curriculum content in the study of Canadian History, continues to tour virtually across Canada after receiving its premiere at Carousel Players in the fall of 2021.