ARTISTS

Jenny L Wright Mercedes Piper

In addition to this novel being her all-time favourite, she has been involved in its creation as a piece of theatre for over a dozen years. Theatre Credits: Jenny has been in over fifty productions at the Shaw Festival since 1996, including You Can’t Take It With You, Time And The Conways, Peter Pan, Merrily We Roll Along, Pal Joey, Albertine in Five Times, Happy End, Guys and Dolls, Peter And The Starcatcher, Oh What A Lovely War, Androcles And The Lion, Holiday Inn. Other Credits: The Fighting Days (ECT), The 39 Steps, Educating Rita (Lyndesfarne), Cyberia (NAC). Training: BFA Concordia University.

Antoine Yared Mr. Mahmoud / Tommy Jameel / Maestro

Credits: Born in Lebanon and raised in Montreal, Antoine has worked in theatres across Canada and the US. His love of Shakespeare prompted a move to Stratford, where he spent five seasons performing classical plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, King John, The Merchant of Venice, John Gabriel Borkman, The Alchemist, The Madwoman of Chaillot and Mother Courage. Antoine’s taste for adventure then spurred him to seize the opportunity of appearing in Groundling Theatre’s production of King Lear in Toronto, before accepting a role in The Last Wife at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre. More recently, he was employed south of the border at Washington DC’s Arena Stage in A Thousand Splendid Suns – a role he’d reprised a few months after the production toured San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.

Naomi Ngebulana Rehearsal Swing

Naomi got her start in community shows in Calgary, then moved to Toronto “for the culture”, eventually ending up in England, where she graduated with an MFA from the Guildford School of Acting in 2020. She has been waiting ever so patiently for theatres to re-open and is excited to have made her professional debut this year. Theatre Credits: Educating Rita (Watermark Theatre), DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors (Segal Centre). Other: Outside of living the dream, she’s a certified yoga instructor and either on her mat or eating ice cream. Haagen Dazs. The vanilla one with the chocolate covered almonds.

Kira Chisholm Rehearsal Swing

Kira Chisholm (she/her) is an actor and theatre-maker who grew up on the land of the Wolastoqiyik (Fredericton, NB). She graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada’s Acting program in 2022 and is currently based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. Recent Theatre Credits: Sally Bowles in Cabaret, The Brother/ Mother-Showman/Gradeschool Chum in Venus, Jezebel in An Irresistible Urge to do Something Inadvisable, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre School of Canada).

Velma Kelly in Chicago, Agave in The Bacchae (Theatre St. Thomas); Isabella in Measure for Measure, Lady Anne in Richard III (Bard in the Barracks).