THE CAST of TAKE RIMBAUD:
Thomas Mitchell Barnet
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Thomas is an actor and musician based in Toronto. Most recently, he played Cuddy in Soulpepper’s production of Witch. He has also performed for Mirvish, The Stratford Festival, and The Citadel in Edmonton, as well as a handful of tv gigs here and there. In the future, he hopes to produce any of several unfinished one-person shows as well as record a second album.
Julian De Zotti
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It’s been almost a decade since Julian has set foot on stage – last in Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s tour of AS I LAY DYING (Dora nomination). He is relieved his former mistress “the theatre” has opened her kimono for another one-night stand. Previous Buddies credits include Sky Gilbert’s AS YOU LIKE IT. He also moonlights in the film + TV world, having written & led four scripted TV series and a feature film that took him to SXSW and Canneseries; landed on CBC Gem, FuseTV, Amazon, and Vimeo; and won him a Canadian Screen Award.
Ruth Goodwin
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Ruth is a Toronto-based actor and co-founder of The Howland Company. Her screen credits include Global TV’s Private Eyes, Netflix’s Wedding Season, CBC’s Baroness Von Sketch Show, Workin’ Moms, Murdoch Mysteries, and more. Ruth has also spent the past decade creating and performing critically acclaimed stage work, earning a Toronto Theatre Critics Award and two Dora Award nominations. Select theatre credits include The Wolves (Crow’s Theatre & Howland), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Crow’s & Howland), The Assembly (Porte Parole), and Entrances and Exits (Howland), which she co-created and for which she received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination.
Rose Tuong
Sapph
Rose slides around on the slick back of a turtle. Anagram of eros, duly sybaritic. Previously at Buddies: lulu v.7//aspects of a femme fatale & The Herald.
breton lalama
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breton lalama is an award-winning writer, performer and filmmaker. The film he co-wrote and starred in, Really Happy Someday, is now available on Crave. As an actor, he’s worked with Talk Is Free Theatr, Young People’s Theatre, Canadian Stage, Bad Hats, Soulpepper, Neptune Theatre, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Center and more. FILM/TV includes: Be Better (Bell Fibe TV1); Law and Order: Toronto (CityTV), The Madness (Netflix), Y: The Last Man (FX/Hulu), Slasher (Shudder), Pretty Hard Cases (CBC/NBC), Let’s Go Bananas! (CBC Gem). His plays and screenplays include: LAST SHOW ON EARTH TRADEMARK SYMBOL! (Neptune Theatre premiere); SOMETHING FOR WHAT (in development); Really Happy Someday (also co-producer, TIFF 2024 premiere); when i was a boy i wasn’t (also director, self-produced, screened internationally), LUCKY BASTARDS (in development; Summerworks and Side Stream Festival). Breton is the co-founder of the Spindle Films Foundation to support transgender Canadian filmmakers and a member of the Pink Triangle Press advisory council. ~ this 1 4 g ~ . @bretonlikethecrackers
Hallie Seline
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Hallie Seline is a Québec-born, Toronto-based actor, theatre-artist, and a part of the Founding Artistic Leadership of The Howland Company. For Howland: The Welkin (with Soulpepper Theatre & Crow’s Theatre), Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Prodigal, The Wolves (with Crow’s), Three Sisters (with Hart House), Casimir and Caroline, Punk Rock, 52 Pick-Up. Other Select Theatre Credits: Upcoming – Dry Streak, The Last Mayor of Rusty River (Blyth Festival); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare BASH’d); The Farm Show: Then & Now, Resort to Murder, The Donnellys: A Trilogy (Blyth Festival); Prairie Nurse (Lighthouse Festival); As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare BASH’d). Selected Film/TV Credits: Fellow Travelers (Showtime), Everything’s Going to be Great (Lionsgate). Hallie has won a Dora Mavor Moore Award and a Toronto Theatre Critics Association Award. take rimbaud is Hallie’s Buddies debut.
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster
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Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster is a founding member of the collective The Howland Company, and an assistant professor at York University. She has performed with the Shaw Festival, Soulpepper, Public Recordings, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, Blue Bridge Repertory, Cahoots, Native Earth, Tarragon and beyond. Selected Directing Credits include Witch (Soulpepper), Steel Magnolias (Capitol Theatre) The Orphan of Chao (Shaw Festival), Hypothetical Baby (Howland/Nightwood), Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon), The Home Project (Howland Company/Native Earth/Soulpepper), The Wolves (Howland/Crows’ Theatre), 52 Pick-Up (Howland), Everybody (York University) and Casimir and Caroline (Sheridan College).
Cameron Laurie
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Cam is an actor who puts on plays with The Howland Company. Past Howland Credits = The Welkin, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Prodigal, Three Sisters, Casimir & Caroline, Punk Rock. Past Credits for Other People = The Donnellys Trilogy, The Drawer Boy, Saving Graceland, The Trials of Maggie Pollock (Blyth Festival), A Little Closer (The Vault), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Bash’d), This Feels Like The End (Next Stage). Cam also plays guitar and yells a little in the band Stuck Out Here.
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