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BRENDAKAMINO-Playwright/Performer
Brenda Kamino has been seen as a performer onmany of Canada's best knownstagesforover40years.AveteranperformeroftheShawFestival,shehascreatedmany roles in new plays at such theatres as Theatre Passe Muraille, FactoryTheatre, fu-GenTheatre,Cahoots TheatreProjectsandYoungPeoples' Theatre inTorontoaswellasthePrairieTheatreExchangeinWinnipegandATPinCalgary.Hertheatrical career has taken her from the National Arts Centre in Ottawa to theCitadel in Edmonton in shows as varied as the Dora Award Nominated "Naomi'sRoad"to"M.Butterfly"to“ChingChongChinaman”workingwithsuchdirectorsas
CanadiansMajaArdal,NinaLeeAquino,DouglasCampbell,PeterHinton, JackieMaxwell,NeilMunro,DennisFoon,SueMiner,EdRoy,SallyHan,GuillermoVerdecchia,VinettaStrombergsandKimBlackwell.aswellasBritishDirectorTudor Davies and American Directors LaneNishikawa and Raul Aranas. Her appearance in KennethWilliams’ play“suicide notes” garnered her NOW MAGAZINE’s Outstanding Performance at Summerworks Festival in 2004, Hertelevision and film career includes over 100 guest and lead performances including two seasons of the SonyInternational television series, “Carter”,one seasonof “Warigami” forCBCand the feature film “TheGlassCastle”starring Brie Larson. Parallel to her acting career Brenda has been a cultural activist on behalf of non-mainstreamperformers in theatre, film and television and for thiswork she has received Canadian Actors' Equity Association'sLARRYMcCANCE AWARD for outstanding contribution to Equity and its membership of performers in the field ofdiversityandaccess.ShehasalsorecentlybeenawardedActraToronto’sLifetimeMembershiphonour.Asaproducerand Artistic Director, she founded Emerald City Theatre Company with her husband, Scott Fairweather, havingproduced the ground-breaking non-traditionally cast production of Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” starring DenisSimpson at Factory Theatre. She currently teams upwith her friend, awardwinning playwright, director and actorAndrewMoodiewithwhomsherunsRENAISSANCECANADIANTHEATRECOMPANY.TheylookforwardtoproducingAndrew’splay“Riot”foranewgenerationaudiencein2022.
BRENLEYCHARKOW-DIRECTOR/CO-PRODUCER
BrenleyCharkowisaSterlingawardnominatedCanadiandirector,dramaturgeand producer. Recent directing credits include:Girl in theMachine (Bustle &Beast); theworldpremiereofTheBalladofPeachtreeRose (WorkshopWest);the North American premiere of Scorch by Stacey Gregg (Theatre PasseMuraille/ThePlayhouse);Blood:AScientificRomance(MaggieTree);SisterAct!(Storybook Theatre), Spelling Bee (Concordia University); the CanadianpremiereofTonyKushner’sABrightRoomCalledDay (StudioTheatre), IfWeWere Birds (Bleviss Laboratory Theatre) and Tom at the Farm (BlevissLaboratoryTheatre).AssistantdirectingcreditsincludetheCanadianpremiere
ofTheHumans(CanStage/CitadelTheatre,JackieMaxwell),TheDevil’sDisciple(ShawFestival),DesireUndertheElms(Shaw Festival), Mamma Mia (Citadel Theatre/ Ashlie Corcoran), Parade (Studio 180 and The Musical TheatreCompany), Hair (Grand Theatre). Brenley is the former Associate Artistic Director of Workshop West PlaywrightsTheatre,andistheArtisticProducerofBustle&Beast. Thisspringandsummer,BrenleyisapartoftheNeilMunroDirectingProgramattheShawFestival.SheholdsanMFAinDirectingfromtheUniversityofAlberta.
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BONNIEANDERSON-VIDEOGRAPHER&EDITOR
Bonnieisadirector,editor,writerandactor.Shebeganherartisticcareerasatheatrical lightingdesigner. In 2010Bonnie foundedMoxie Produc4ons, a fullservice video production company where she has directed and edited musicvideos,liveconcerts,shortfilms,educationalvideosandTVcommercials.SheissoexcitedtobepartoftheAttheEndoftheDayteam.
LYONSMITH-SOUNDDESIGN
Lyon isaTorontobasedmultidisciplinary theatreartistwhospecializes in thecreation and development of new works. Lyon has worked as an actor,playwright/deviser, director/dramaturg, photographer andmost notably as asounddesigner.Selectprojecthighlightsinclude:7seasonsasanactortouringwith Theatre Direct, 5 seasons as the sound designer forCanadian Stage’sShakespeareinthePark,deviser/actorandcomposerforAlunaTheatre’sDORAnominatedwhat I learnedfromadecadeof fear,soundcraftingandvirtualpitband forEcce Homo’s multi nominatedOf a Monstrous Child: A GagaMusical,actorandmusician in Tarragon Theatre’s production ofan Enemy ofthe People,actor/collaborator for the red light district’sLuluv2at Buddies inBad Times,creator and composer forthe Last Donnelly Standingat Blyth and
twocollaborationswithclownduoMoroandJasp:9to5andStupefaction.AsaphotographerLyonhasshotprocessand production shots for Obsidian, Buddies in Bad Times, Shakespeare in the Rough,Canadian Stage, the BlythFestival,theatreSmith-Gilmour,theredlightdistrict,FactoryTheatre,Tarragon,BadHats,tonameafew,aswellasbeinga go tophotographer for Toronto’s indiemusic sceneandart-car raveandevent community. In the last fewyears Lyon has began to look at focusing on video creation as away to combine and evolve his sound design andphotography practices and has recently created online video content for Human Cargo’s production ofthe
Runner.Lyonhasalsoworkedasaninstructor/mentoratHumber,YorkandUofT.
BUSTLE&BEAST-Coproducer
Bustle & Beast is an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes award-winning, and Toronto Theatre Criticsawardnominatedindependenttheatrecompany.Wepresentfearlesslychallengingplaysthatquestion our perceptions aboutwhatwe *think*we know, creating unforgettable theatrical
experiences.Throughtheplaysweproduce,ourworkcontinuestoelevateandchampionwomen'svoices in theatre.Bustle&BeasthasrecentlyrelocatedfromAmiskwacîwâskahikan(Edmonton)toTkaronto(Toronto.)
