Uncle Vanya

Adaptor

Liisa last appeared in Festival Players production of a Beautiful View. Other theatre credits include: What A Young Wife Ought to Know (2b Theatre), The Boy in the Moon (Crows Theatre), The Watershed and Seeds (Porte Parole), Other Desert Cities (The Citadel Theatre) Creditors (Coalmine Theatre), Happy Place, Uncle Vanya, Antigone, The Lesson, School for Wives, Top Girls (Soulpepper) Eternal Hydra (Crow’s Theatre) Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford Festival) King Lear (Stratford Festival).ion goes here

Vanya

Selected Theatre: Benevolence, Generous, Oxford Roofclimbers Rebellion (Tarragon Theatre). 11 Seasons at the Stratford Festival, Cyrano de Bergerac, Victory (Shaw Festival), Robert Lepage's Romeo et Juliette (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan), Dora Award for best actor in Someone Else (Crows Theatre), three best supporting Gemini nominations for CBC's This is Wonderland.

Alexandre

During the last fifty odd years Eric Peterson has appeared on most major stages across Canada, as well as Broadway, London’s West End, the Edinburgh Festival and the Melbourne International Theatre Festival. His work in Canadian and American television includes numerous guest star appearances as well as series regulars on SURREAL ESTATE (SyFy), CHAPLEWAITE (MGM), STREET LEGAL (CBC), THIS IS WONDERLAND (CBC), CORNER GAS (CTV) and CORNER GAS ANIMATED (CTV). as well as recurring roles on AMERICAN GODS (Starz!), THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (Netflix) and CHAPELWAITE (MGM/EPIX). Eric’s many feature films include HIS MASTER’S VOICE, CAS & DYLAN and the Canadian classic BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR.

Sonya

bahia watson is an award-winning actor, writer and creator based in toronto and los angeles. bahia wrote, co-directed and starred in the summer stage hit MASHUP PON DI ROAD, a caribbean musical circus comedy, and its cabaret sized version MASHUP ting! a commission for The Public Theatre’s Joe’s Pub. her one woman show shaniqua in abstraction will have its world premiere in Crow’s Theatre’s 2023/2024 season in toronto. on the screen she can be seen in festival favourites like White Noise, The Death Doula, Cranks and The Archivists. on the small screen she can be found recurring on The Handmaid’s Tale, Star Trek: Discovery and The Expanse. bahia has recently won two ACTRA Awards for outstanding vocal performance and can be heard in series like My Little Pony: Make Your Mark and My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale; Strawberry Shortcake: Berry In the Big City; The Loud House; Rugrats; Stillwater; Superkitties and Big Blue.

Yelena

Shannon has spent 7 seasons at the Stratford Festival. Her Stratford roles include: Goneril (King Lear), Marie-Ange Brouillette (Les Belles-Soeurs), Mary, Queen Elizabeth I (I Am William), Mary (Mother’s Daughter), Elizabeth Proctor (The Crucible), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Viola (Shakespeare in Love), Angélique (The Hypochondriac), Margot Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank), Oedipus Rex, She Stoops to Conquer, The Sound of Music, Inherit the Wind. ELSEWHERE (selected): Uncle Vanya (Crow’s Theatre); Room (Mirvish/Grand Theatre); A Doll’s House (RMTC); King Charles III (Mirvish/Studio 180); The Road to Mecca (Soulpepper); Pride and Prejudice (NAC/Theatre Calgary); The Jones Boy (Surface/Underground); Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Little Women: The Musical (Citadel Theatre). FILM/TV: Don’t Hang Up, Private Eyes, Mayday. TRAINING: Birmingham Conservatory; Toronto Metropolitan University (BFA). AWARDS: Mary Savidge Award; Dora nomination for Outstanding Performance.

Astrov

A trained multilingual, multifaceted and experienced, professional creative powerhouse of an Actor/Director & Producer. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan and he now lives in Toronto, Canada where he went to Film School and Drama school and started his career again from scratch. Hailing from a family of Creative juggernauts (Actors and Directors-Rahat Kazmi & Sahira Kazmi, sister Nida Kazmi and Grandfather Bollywood actor Shyam) it is inherent within him. He has been working successfully both on and off camera, in the industry in Pakistan, India, Canada & USA for 17 years in the creative fields of theater, television & film. Working on projects from conception to completion is his strong suit. Ali has a penchant for languages and can speak English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Persian, Pashto/Dari, French (basic) and Arabic. He has amassed a portfolio, peppered with multi-layered diverse characters.

Marina

Carolyn Fe is a Filipino-Canadian award-winning tri-lingual Actress (English/French/ Tagalog), a Juno long-listed nominee Blues Singer-Songwriter and a former contemporary Dancer-Choreographer who amplifies voices of the marginalized. At an age when her peers have long established themselves, Carolyn’s continuous pursuit of artistic evolution adds a new voice to her art as an Emerging Playwright. As the Peter Allen song goes, “Everything old is new again”! Selected Credits onstage and on-screen: Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon), Calpurnia (Nightwood/Sulong), Hilot Means Healer (Cahoots), Through the Bamboo (Uwi Collective), Miss Orient(ed) (Teesri Duniya Theatre), Blue’s Clues and You! (Nickelodeon), Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW Network), Abroad (Omni, as of Spring 2022)

Maria

dTaborah (Tabby) Johnson is a professional performer, with more than five decades of experience, on both stage and screen. She has entertained audiences of all ages, from Porgy and Bess and Hair to The Big Comfy Couch and The Polka Dot Door.

Telegin

Anand is an improviser, actor, playwright, director, musician, teacher & puppeteer. Most recently, he was in Buffoon by Anosh Irani and Mustard by Kat Sandler (Dora award for best performance in each), adapted/performed in Rohinton Mistry’s The Scream, at SummerWorks (Winner Best Production), and has performed at Second City, Stratford, CanStage, VideoCabaret, and others. He is an accomplished film and tv performer as well as voiceover artist for video games and cartoons. You may sometimes hear him as a panelist on CBC Radio’s Because News. He is artistic director of @N@f@N@, currently creating AR digital content for live streams under the banner of his company, Cardboard Dreams.