Posts tagged April 2020
Morro and Jasp

Morro and Jasp are a Dora and Canadian Comedy-Award winning clown sister duo who have created 12 full-length plays about their lives together. They recently traveled to Finland and Cape Breton to perform Morro and Jasp: Save the Date (their most recent play about planning a wedding) which now seems like it was a dream that happened in the land before time. They are staying sane by serenading each other over Zoom and every now that then stepping outside to howl at the moon. They really miss hugs and rooms full of people laughing together.

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Tommie-Amber Pirie

Tommie-Amber Pirie is a Canadian Screen Award Nominated actress and an emerging director. Named as Hollywood Reporter’s TIFF Top Ten To Watch, Tommie graces screens large and small and streamed from the comfort of your isolated couch. Most recently, she can be seen in James Versus His Future Self, now available on iTunes. Tommie-Amber is seasoned in self-isolation and finally feels affirmed in her stay-at-home tendencies. When not studying her craft, you will find her DIY-ing the shit out of her house and disappearing down a Pinterest rabbit hole.

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Natasha Ramondino

Natasha Ramondino is a queer, female identifying theatre artist based in Toronto. Some recent theatre credits include: Worry Warts (Convergence Theatre), Above and Beyond (JackieTol Productions), FEARLESS (fu-GEN Theatre), Othello, Volpone (Shakespeare BASH’d), A Bear Awake in Winter, Get Yourself Home Skyler James (Binocular Theatre), Crow Hill: The Telephone Play (4th Line Theatre). After her upcoming gigs were cancelled, she was lucky enough to find work as a nanny for a young family caught without childcare upon school closures. She can now confidently sing the complete musical works of The Wiggles, and has brushed up on her Playdough sculpting and living room fort construction skills. She is thrilled to be working alongside old and new friends on this unique immersive experience and is always proud to collaborate with the ever-evolving and ingenious Convergence Theatre. natasharamondino.com

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Neil Silcox

Neil Silcox is an educator, director, and actor. He is the founder of the Canadian Theatre Educators’ Conference, the country's first conference for theatre teachers. He is currently the Crake Drama Fellow at Mount Allison University in Sackville NB., although Covid brought him back to Toronto (and his fiancée Ali) several weeks before the end of term. Neil spends much of his self-isolation time cooking and baking, and the rest of it eating.

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Andy Trithardt

Blind (Phone) Date: May 11, 12, 16, 19, 23, 27, 30, 31
Too Close For Comfort: May 15, 20, 24, 28

Andy Trithardt is an actor and composer originally from Saskatchewan, based in Toronto, and currently isolating in Bradford with his partner Tennille and their dog Barrington. This experience has above all made him want to touch his face immediately.

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Noah Beemer

Noah Beemer is an actor and recent graduate from Sheridan’s Music Theatre program. Some of his credits include Pinocchio at YPT, as well as touring to long term care and CAMH as a Serenader with Smile Theatre. Since the world ended, Noah has been keeping busy in his apartment by doing lots of Yoga with Adriene, while also trying to let himself not be busy (and be okay with that).

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Melody A. Johnson

Melody A. Johnson is an actor, writer and educator who has spent lots of time performing on Toronto stages and touring Canada & the UK with her self-penned Miss Caledonia, and most recently her bad neighbour comedy/drama, Person of Interest. Since you’re inside these days baking bread and washing your hands, you might also hear Melody's voice on weekends as Nola the turtle in Binky: Pets of the Universe on Treehouse TV. More Melody hijinx can be found at: www.melodyjohnson.ca

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Stewart Arnott

Stewart Arnott has been happily at this for 4 decades, this being acting, directing, voicing, teaching and coaching. His recent directing gig was Marjorie Prime at Coal Mine Theatre, and his COVID-19-interrupted acting gig was Room at The Grand/Off-Mirvish. One thing about this plague: he is in excellent and multitudinous company.

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Tennille Read

Blind (Phone) Date: May 11, 12, 16, 19, 23, 27, 30, 31
Too Close For Comfort: May 15, 20, 24, 28

Tennille Read is an actor. She spends her COVID-19 days with her fiancé Andy and sweet dog Barrington. She enjoys cooking, exercising with Ryan Heffington over Instagram, and finding ways to make her living space more aesthetically pleasing. Because if you haven't re-arranged at least one room during a pandemic, are you doing it right?

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Ali Joy Richardson

Ali Joy Richardson is a playwright, director, producer, and sometimes performer in the event of a plague (or if she has a really good idea for a one-woman-show). Her mother has been telling her to use disinfectant wipes on airplane armrests her entire life (but is thankfully too classy to say "I told you so"). Ali has discovered that running, writing, and dancing in the kitchen with her partner Neil are the best defences against bottomless existential dread these days. www.alijoyrichardson.com

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