CAST:
Mac Fyfe
Role: Justin
Hometown: Born in Fergus, Ontario, and raised in Toronto
For The Howland Company and Crow’s Theatre: Debut
Recent Theatre: Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper)
Additional Theatre: Dionysus, The Bacchae (Stratford Festival), Trudeau and the FLQ (Dora award) (VideoCabaret), The Thirst of Hearts (Soulpepper); Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (CanStage); The Elephant Song (Stratford); Narcissus, Britannicus (Next Junction).
Film/TV: Frankie Drake (CBC), Saving Hope (CTV) Reign (The CW/Netflix)
Ruth Goodwin
Role: Teresa
Hometown: Toronto
For The Howland Company: Entrances and Exits, Three Sisters, The Wolves, Punk Rock, Entrances and Exits, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, 52 Pick-Up. Ruth is part of the Founding Artistic Leadership of The Howland Company
For Crow’s Theatre: The Wolves
Film and TV: Wedding Season (Netflix/Imagine Entertainment), Private Eyes (Global TV), Workin’ Moms (CBC/Netflix), Baroness Von Sketch (CBC), Save Me (CBC).
Awards: Dora Nomination (Punk Rock), Toronto Theatre Critics Choice Award, Canadian Comedy Award nomination (Entrances and Exits).
Other: Ruth is an actor/writer/producer/director. Through her work with Howland, Ruth has won a Theatre Critics Award and been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award and a Dora Mavor Moore Award. Ruth can currently be seen in the popular film, Wedding Season on Netflix and she recently directed a short film called, The Strangers’ Case which is now streaming on CBC Gem.
Social Media: @Ruth_Goodwin
Cameron Laurie
Role: Kevin
For The Howland Company: Prodigal, Three Sisters, Casimir and Caroline, Punk Rock, 52 Pick-Up. Cameron is part of the Founding Artistic Leadership of The Howland Company
For Crow’s Theatre: Prodigal
Recent Theatre: The Donnellys: A Trilogy – Sticks and Stones, The St. Nicholas Hotel, Handcuffs (Blyth Festival)
Additional Theatre: The Drawer Boy, Our Beautiful Sons (Blyth Festival), Stag & Doe (Bluewater Summer Playhouse), Mercury Fur (Seven Siblings Theatre)
Film: The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight)
Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award “Outstanding Ensemble” – Casimir and Caroline, Dora Mavor Moore Award Nomination “Outstanding Ensemble” – Punk Rock
Other: Singer of Toronto indie-punk band Stuck Out Here and co-host of the Kevin Costner dedicated podcast Talkin’ Costner
Social Media: IG: @cam_out_here, x: @camlaurie
Maria Ricossa
Role: Gina
For the Howland Company: Debut
For Crow’s Theatre: Debut
Recent Theatre: Gloria, A Life (Harold Green Jewish Theatre)
Additional Theatre: Four Seasons at the Stratford Festival including Hamlet, Clybourne Park (Studio 180)
Film/TV: Painkiller (Netflix), Blood and Water (OMNI), Designated Survivor (Netflix), The Strain (FX)
Other: Maria teaches acting for film & tv at Humber College
Hallie Seline
Role: Emily
Hometown: Sutton, Québec
For The Howland Company: Prodigal, Three Sisters, Casimir and Caroline, The Wolves, Punk Rock, 52 Pick-Up. Hallie is part of the Founding Artistic Leadership of The Howland Company
For Crows: Prodigal, The Wolves
Recent Theatre: The Donnellys: A Trilogy – Sticks and Stones, The St. Nicholas Hotel, Handcuffs (Blyth Festival)
Additional Theatre: Prairie Nurse (Lighthouse Festival/Showboat Theatre), Stag and Doe, Jonas and Barry in the Home (Bluewater Summer Playhouse); As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare BASH’d); SHANNON 10:40 (timeshare, Videofag); Oliver! (Capitol Theatre Port Hope)
Film/TV: Everything’s Going to be Great (eOne), Fellow Travelers (Showtime), The Grind (Neon Grey Films), Mayday (Discovery)
Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award “Outstanding Ensemble” – Casimir and Caroline, Toronto Theatre Critics Association Award “Best Ensemble Performance” – The Wolves.
Social Media: IG: @hal_e x: @HallieSeline TikTok: @hallieseline w: hallieseline.com
Creative Team:
Philip Akin
Role: Director
Hometown: Toronto
For The Howland Company & Crow’s Theatre: Debut
Recent Theatre: Of the Sea (Tapestry Opera and Obsidian Theatre), Gem of the Ocean, Master Harold…and the Boys (Shaw Festival), Passing Strange (The Musical Stage Company and Obsidian Theatre), and Pass Over (Obsidian Theatre).
Upcoming Projects: The Lehman Trilogy (Canadian Stage)
Actor, director, and founding member of Obsidian Theatre, where he served as artistic director from 2006 to 2020, Philip Akin is the most awarded Black director in Canada.
Highlighted Direction Awards/Nominations: Slotkin: Gleaming with Humanity Award: Gem of the Ocean (2022)
Toronto Theatre Critics Award: Best Director: (2017) Master Harold…and the Boys, (2019) Actually and Pass Over
Dora Awards Best Direction: 2012 Topdog Underdog, 2017, Master Harold…and the Boys + 8 other nominations
My Entertainment Award: Best Director- Venus’ Daughter (2016)
Evie Nomination (Winnipeg) The Humans (2018)
Merritt Award Nomination (Halifax): Intimate Apparel (2012)
The Herbert Whittaker/CTCA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Theatre (2019)
Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2018)
William Kilbourn Award for the Celebration of Toronto’s Cultural Life (2014)
Life Membership Award from CAEA (2014)
Playwright’s Guild Women’s Caucus Bra d’Or Award for supporting and promoting the work of Canadian women playwrights (2011)
Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award (2011)
TAPA Silver Ticket Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts (2010)
Canadian Artist of the Year: Runner up: Globe and Mail (2019)
The Grid’s #2 2013 Theatre MVP
The Toronto Sun Performing Artist of the Year (2011)
Will Arbery
Role: Playwright
Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters.
His play Heroes of the Fourth Turning premiered at Playwrights Horizons in Fall 2019 and was a Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of numerous awards, including the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play and the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award. Arbery also won the Whiting Award for Drama in 2020.
His play Corsicana will be having its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in the summer of 2022 in a production to be directed by Sam Gold.
In addition to Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Corsicana, Will’s other plays include: Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Neighborhood), You Hateful Things (NYTW Dartmouth Residency), and Wheelchair (3 Hole Press). He’s currently under commission from Playwrights Horizons, MTC, and Audible. He’s a member/alum of New Dramatists, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page 73’s Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. His plays have been developed at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, The Vineyard, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Cape Cod Theater Project, The New Group, EST/Youngblood, The Bushwick Starr, Alliance/Kendeda, and Tofte Lake Center.
Will was a Consultant on Season 3 of Succession, and has television projects in development with A24 and Frank Rich, Endeavor Content and Littlefield Company/Hulu. He also has several features in development, including with BBC Films and Sight Unseen.
MFA: Northwestern. BA: Kenyon College. He’s represented by John MacGregor and Olivier Sultan at CAA, and Eva Dickerman at Odenkirk-Provissiero.
Wes Babcock
Role: Set & Props Designer
Hometown: Waterloo, Ontario
For The Howland Company: Punk Rock
For Crow’s Theatre: Stars, Judas Noir, The Flick, The Assembly, and many more
Recent Theatre: The Sound Inside (Set & Lights – Coal Mine Theatre), Ballad of the Motherland (Set – Neptune Theatre), Educating Rita (Set – Watermark Theatre)
Awards: Theatre Nova Scotia Wes Daniels Design Award
Social Media: @wildrnesswes
wesbabcock.com, act1consulting.ca, Whatxwhen.ca
Logan Raju Cracknell
Role: Lighting Designer
Hometown: Hamilton
For The Howland Company: Prodigal
For Crow’s Theatre: Prodigal, Orphans for the Czar, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling
Recent Theatre: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Theatre Calgary), Fairview (Canadian Stage/Obsidian Theatre Company), Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre)
Additional Theatre: Dixon Road (The Musical Stage Company/Obsidian Theatre Company), The Extinction Therapist (Theatre Aquarius)
Upcoming Projects: Bremen Town (Next Stage Festival), Sweeney Todd (Theatre Sheridan)
Laura Delchiaro
Role: Costume Designer
For The Howland Company: Prodigal
For Crow’s Theatre: Prodigal, Head of Wardrobe: Orphans for the Czar, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Julius Caesar, Towards Youth, A&R Angels
Recent Theatre: Costume Design: Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival), Into the Woods (YES Theatre), The Great Shadow (4th Line), La Bete, Sweeney Todd (Talk is Free Theatre)
Additional Theatre: Costume Design: The Judas Kiss, Into the Woods, Herringbone, The Yalta Game, For Both Resting and Breeding (Talk is Free), Poison (Coal Mine), Romeo and Juliet (Lost & Gone), Little Thing, Big Thing, Don’t Misunderstand Me (Festival Antigonish). Head of Wardrobe: Peter’s Final Flight, Alice in Winterland (Ross Petty Productions), Is God Is, New Monuments, (Canadian Stage)
Awards: Nominated: Dora Award – Sweeney Todd (TIFT), Pauline McGibbon Award (2022)
Online: lauradelchiarodesign.com
Jacob Lin 林鴻恩
Role: Sound Designer
Hometown: Toronto
For The Howland Company: Prodigal
For Crow’s Theatre: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Recent Theatre: Otihew (Shakespeare in Action), The Hooves Belonged to the Deer (Tarragon Theatre), Ok, You Can Stop Now/X and Da Spirit (Theatre Passe Muraille)
Additional Theatre: Postdemocracy (Tarragon Theatre), Cast Iron (Factory Theatre)
Upcoming Projects: Withrow Park (Tarragon Theatre)
Social Media: Insta: @jacoblin.jpg
Website: Jacoblin.ca
Thank You: Thanks to the cast and crew of Heroes!
Hannah MacMillan
Role: Stage Manager
Hometown: Guelph ON
For The Howland Company: Stage Manager – Punk Rock and Assistant Stage Manager – The Wolves
For Crow’s Theatre: Assistant Stage Manager – Gloria (ARC)
Recent Theatre: Assistant Stage Manager – Little Shop of Horrors (Capitol Theatre), Book Assistant Stage Manager – A Wrinkle In Time (Stratford Festival – Avon Theatre), Assistant Stage Manager – Martyr (ARC), Stage Manager – New World (George Brown Theatre School), Assistant Stage Manager – 9-5: The Musical (Capitol Theatre), Stage Manager – Storybook Search Workshop (Bad Hats Theatre), Stage Manager – The Antipodes (Coal Mine Theatre), Apprentice Stage Manager – Lady Sunrise (Factory Theatre), Apprentice Stage Manager – Reprint (Musical Stage Company), Apprentice Stage Manager – The Philosophers Wife (Paradigm Productions), Stage Manager – Dry Land (Cue 6), Assistant Stage Manager – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Ruff)
Other: Hannah is a stage manager and patron service manager for musicals, dance and theatre. In her spare time, she loves board games, ultimate frisbee and eating great food!
郝邦宇 Steven Hao
Role: Assistant Director
Hometown: Xi’An, China
For The Howland Company: Three Sisters
For Crow’s Theatre: The Chinese Lady
Recent Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage), Dragon’s Tale (Tapestry Opera) Additional Theatre: Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre), Trojan Girls & Outhouse of Atreus (Factory Theatre)
Upcoming Projects: Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera/Crow’s Theatre)
Social Media: @steven_haoby
Thank You: Huge thank you to the generous team at The Howland Company, to Phillip, and to my conceivers (mom and dad).
Jeremy Hutton
Role: Production Manager
Hometown: Kitchener, ON
For Howland: Casimir and Caroline, Entrances and Exits
Recent Theatre: Man of La Mancha (Magnus Theatre)
Additional Theatre: Othello, Julius Caesar, and Peter Pan (Shakespeare by the Sea); Richard III, King Lear, the Tempest, Night of the Iguana, JCSS, Into the Woods (Hart House Theatre); Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (Classical Theatre Project); Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, Spamalot (Lower Ossington Theatre)
Upcoming: Ruby and the Well (Season 4)
Film/TV: Orphan Black Echoes, the Handmaid’s Tale, Ruby and the Well, Strays, Shelved
Awards: 2 Merritt Awards: Best original score and best musical direction – Theatre Nova Scotia – for Snow White (Shakespeare by the Sea)
Social Media: IG: @jeremystanleyhutton
Thank You: Jeremy would like to thank the artists at Howland for their continued generosity, support and trust after all these years. It is a great honour for him to have played a small part in their amazing growth as artists and collaborators.
Katie Saunoris | KSPR
Role: Publicist
Hometown: Toronto, ON
For The Howland Company: Three Sisters
For Crow’s Theatre: The Chinese Lady (Studio 180/Crow’s), Gloria (ARC/Crow’s)
Recent Theatre: Capitol Theatre Port Hope – summer season, NEW (Necessary Angel), Martyr (ARC)
Upcoming Projects: Bremen Town (Next Stage), Comedy is Art. (The Theatre Centre), Letters From Max, a ritual (Necessary Angel), Chris, Mrs. – A New Holiday Musical (Boldly Productions),
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