ARTISTS

Tim Campbell James Piper

Theatre Credits: Tim has appeared in over 35 productions at the Stratford Festival, including John Proctor in The Crucible, Buckingham in Henry VIII, Chris Keller in All My Sons, and Horatio in Hamlet. Other theatre credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC); Death of a Salesman, Twelve Angry Men, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Soulpepper); and Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare). Film/TV: Robyn Hood (Global), Under the Banner of Heaven (FX), You Can Live Forever (Prospector Films), and V/H/S/94 (Shudder.)

Janelle Cooper Adelaide Taylor / Sweet Jessie Hogan

Janelle Cooper is an award-winning Actor, a Director, Choreographer, Producer, Writer, and a Founder and the Artistic Director of Ellipsis Tree Collective. Janelle’s expertise is in the excavation of lived experience through performance creation/devising and multigenre storytelling, IBPOC artistic mentorship, and EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization) education through organizations like Black Pledge and The SCPA EDID Action Committee. Select Acting Credits: John Ware Reimagined (Blyth), The Color Purple (Neptune/Citadel/Royal Manitoba), Twelfth Night (Theatre Calgary/NAC), Adventures of a Black Girl, I Am For You (NAC); Speed Dating (Lunchbox);Charlotte’s Web, Penelopiad, Toad of Road Hall (ATP).

Diane Flacks Sister St. Monica / Giles MacVicar /Mrs. Luvovitz

Diane Flacks is a writer/actor. Her 5th solo play, Guilt, dir. by Alisa Palmer, just premiered at One Yellow Rabbit, and is being developed with Tarragon. Pre-Covid, Diane played Nathan in Nathan the Wise (Stratford) and wrote & starred in the Dora nominated Unholy (Nightwood).

Selected Acting: 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (WJT), Body Politic (Dora nom), Yichud (TPM). Selected Playwrighting: Waiting Room, SIBS and Care with Richard Greenblatt (Tarragon), Luba, Simply, Luba (Kobzar award) and her hit solo shows Myth Me, By A Thread, Random Acts and Bear With Me (adapted from her book). She was CBC radio’s longtime National parenting columnist & TV writing includes Workin’ Moms, Baroness, and Kids In The Hall.

Eva Foote Lily Piper

Theatre Credits: Jenna, Hamlet-911, Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford Festival); Eva, April Fools (Segal Centre); UnCovered: Notes from the Heart (Musical Stage Co.); Girl, Once (Segal Centre); Audrey, As You Like It, Phillipa, The Taming of the Shrew (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Andrea, Dark Vanilla Jungle (Blarney Productions); Halley, Armstrong’s War (Theatre Network); Mary Pickford, Murdoch Mysteries (Season 15). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Two-time nominee – Sterling Award; three-time nominee – Edmonton Music Award; recipient of 2019 Montreal English Theatre Award for Lead Performance in a Musical & Emerging Artist; recipient of 2019 Shirley Banks Prize for Emerging Musical Theatre Artists.

The National Arts Centre is proud to partner with Grand Theatre, Vita Brevis Arts, Canadian Stage and Neptune Theatre on the World Premiere stage adaptation of Fall On Your Knees.

We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to two of Canada's greatest theatre champions: NAC Foundation board member Margaret Fountain, C.M., D.F.A.(hc), D.H.L.(hc) and her husband David Fountain, C.M. of Halifax.

Their generous leadership support has helped to bring this acclaimed Canadian story to stages across the country.