Judas Acting Company
Philip Akin |
Brendan Gall |
Alon Nashman |
Philip Akin
Philip Akin has been an actor/director for the last 30 years. Philip has appeared in a huge range of shows. Everything from Highlander: The Series to Othello (Arts Club Theatre) to Someone to Watch Over Me (Tarragon & Centaur) Philip’s directing credits include: Stage3 Born Ready & Pusha Man by Joseph Jomo Pierre, CBC Radio Out Front: Beat Down by Joseph Jomo Pierre, Afri-Cdn Playwrights Festival: Life of the Party by Gerry Atwell, Factory Theatre Mainstage: El Paso by Michael Miller. He is a Founding Member of the Obsidian Theatre Company and is currently its Administrative Producer.
Aviva Armour Ostroff
Raised in Toronto, Aviva Armour-Ostroff has been acting professionally since graduating from George Brown Theatre School in 1997. Her “big break” came when she landed the lead role in Canadian Stage’s Communicating Doors. From there she went on to perform at the Tarragon Theatre, CanStage, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Buddies in Bad Times, Banff Centre, the Fringe, Rhubard! and Summerworks Festivals, The Grand Theatre and The National Arts Centre. She was nominated for a Dora Award for her ensemble work in Michael Hollingsworth’s Confederation. Aviva produces “Lab Cab”, a monthly cabaret at the Factory Theatre. A staple in the Toronto independent arts scene for almost six years, Lab Cab provides a venue for new works by upcoming and professional artists of any discipline. Aviva is currently developing the Lab Cab Festival, a two day multi-disciplinary performance festival. Aviva has been collectively creating The Rochdale Project for four years. A play based on Toronto’s Rochdale College, The Rochdale Project is being produced at Theatre Passe Muraille in March 2006. Aviva would like to thank which ever God is responsible for uniting her with such a great cast and crew.
Stewart Arnott
Stewart has been a theatre artist for over 27 years, and has acted and directed across the country. Highlights have included being a company member over multiple seasons with the Stratford Festival, the Atlantic Theatre Festival and Autumn/Necessary Angel Theatre Company. He has also had wonderful, ongoing relationships (in both his capacities) with the Great Canadian Theatre Co. (Ottawa) and Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg). This year, he found the experience of playing his first school tour (Roseneath Theatre’s Smokescreen) richly rewarding, and had a grand time playing “Gremio” this summer in Shakespeareworks’ The Taming of the Shrew, also directed by David Ferry. Television appearances recently have included Wild Card, Sue Thomas F.B. Eye and The Eleventh Hour, and Stewart is the voice of the Discovery Health Channel.
Paul Braunstein
Paul has worked in theatre, film, television and radio for over a decade across Canada. Some favourite credits include Picasso in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Belfry/Alberta Theatre Projects), Kilt, Midnight Sun (Tarragon Theatre), Bill Sykes in Michael O’Brien’s adaptation of Oliver Twist at Alberta Theatre Projects, The Overcoat at the World Stage Festival, Grumio in Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks). Paul recently spent two seasons on Train 48 as Johnny McLaughlin. Paul also plays drums for the band Battlestar.
Tim Campbell
Selected theatre credits include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Sudbury Theatre Centre), The Executive in Platinum Travel Club (Theatre Passe Muraille), Fred Gayley in Miracle on 34th Street (Grand Theatre), Owen in The Melville Boys (Sudbury Theatre Centre), The Prince in The Dispute (Sweat Theatre), Cassio in Othello (Lovers and Madmen), and six seasons at the Stratford Festival where roles included Paris in Troilus and Cressida, Lord Dewhurst in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Koryphaios in The Birds, Mortimer in Henry IV Pt. 1, Charles in As You Like It, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Tim has also performed in the Fringe, Summerworks, and Rhubarb Festivals, as well as staged readings of Rune Arlidge (Tarragon Theatre) and The Brothers Karamazov (Stratford). Film and television credits include the upcoming feature Truth, Justice, and the American Way (Focus Features), the made-for-tv films Playing House (CTV) and Twitches (Disney), and episodes of The Eleventh Hour (CTV), Kevin Hill (CBS) and Queer as Folk’(Showtime).
Brendan Gall
A graduate of George Brown Theatre School, Brendan has worked with David Ferry four times previously: as Branwell Brontë in James Reaney’s Zamorna or The House By The Churchyard while at George Brown, Miles in The Drawer Boy for Bluewater Summer Playhouse, Verges in Much Ado About Nothing and Jess in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) for Resurgence Theatre. Other roles include Damage in Panhandled (UnSpun Theatre), One in Excess Unwanted Growth (Animus/SummerWorks Theatre Festival), Bruno in The Tourist (Interzone/Toronto Fringe Festival), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Repercussion Theatre), and Karl in The Marriage of Bette & Boo (Inkling Theatre). In addition to acting, Brendan is also a playwright. For the stage he has written A Quiet Place (Single Threat/Toronto Fringe Festival) and Panhandled (UnSpun Theatre), as well as co-created and directed UnSpun Theatre’s Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump collective. Brendan can be seen next as Alex in Past Perfect at Tarragon Theatre where he is also a member of the 2006 Tarragon Playwrights Unit.
Garnet Harding
Garnet is pleased to be making his BirdLand Theatre debut and has been awed by such a dynamic and talented cast, director and production team. Having already worked with David Ferry on such productions as Cheating Hearts and Balm in Gilead, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot has been another challenging and inspirational journey. A couple of his favourite theatre gigs include: The Piano Lesson (Obsidian Theatre) and You Can’t Take It With You for The Shaw Festival. Garnet looks forward to working on The Monument for Obsidian Theatre in March 2006.
Zorana Kydd
Dr. Kydd is the founding Artistic Producer for BirdLand Theatre. She began work in theatre fourteen years ago in Belgrade, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia) and is the seventh actor in her family. Since then her work has been seen in England, United States and now in Canada. Most recently she portrayed Frankie in Frankie and Johnny at the Jane Mallett Theatre and Tamara Lotsky in the feature film Neil (Montreal International Film Festival 2005). Other credits include Leah in The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by Arthur Miller at Berkeley Street Mainstage, Rose in The Woolgatherer in New York City and Paulinka in The Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner in Chicago. She holds Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Theatre from The University of Toronto and has trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London, England, New Actors Workshop and with Anne Bogart’s Sity Company in New York City. European producing credits include: The Birds, Lower Depths, Dybbuk, Madam De Sade and Three Tall Women. Her wide reaching educational work includes courses and projects at various universities. Dr. Kydd has been included in 2006 edition of Who’s Who of Canadians published by The University of Toronto Press and has recently been awarded by The Ontario Ministry of Culture.
Diego Matamoros
Diego Matamoros is a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre Company as well as a resident artist. A Gemini and three-time Dora Mavor Moore Award winning actor, Mr. Matamoros has performed more than a dozen leading roles for Soulpepper Theatre since the company’s inception in 1998. These include the title role in Uncle Vanya, Clov in Endgame, Theseus in Phedre, Turai in The Play’s the Thing, Robert in Betrayal, Hugh in Brian Friel’s Translations and Hjalmar in Ibsen’s The Wild Duck. He has performed leading roles at most of the major theatre across Canada as well as in the United States including five seasons with the Stratford Festival, The Court Theatre in Chicago, several new Canadian plays for the Tarragon Theatre, the Citadel Theatre, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Jewish Repertory Theatre off-Broadway. He has appeared in principal roles in more than forty Canadian and American television and film productions and was awarded a Gemini Award for Best Performance in 1997. He has been a teacher of theatre for twenty years, teaching theatre professionals as well as theatre students at acting schools, universities and colleges in Canada and the U.S.
Frank Moore
Frank has won a Best Supporting Acting award for his role in the film The Far Shore, has been nominated for a Best Actor Gemini for the television show Twice in a Lifetime and was nominated for Dora Awards for the musicals Tommy and Urinetown. Other selected theatre credits include Hair and Les Miserable (The Royal Alexandra), The Drowsy Chaperone (Winter Garden Theatre), The Crackwalker (Centaur Theatre, Montreal), plus the original productions of Leaving Home, Creeps and Russell Hill –all at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. His most recent stage roles were The General in Olympia and The Old Man in Fool for Love, both for Soulpepper Theatre. His many roles on TV have included Hans Frank in the mini-series Nuremberg, Donald Reagan in the mini-series The Reagans, Hubble in Earth: Final Conflict and guest starring roles on Sue Thomas FBEye and The Eleventh Hour. He can soon be seen in the recurring role of Frank Richards in the upcoming Ken Finkleman series Hotel.
Alon Nashman
Alon Nashman’s theatre credits include: The Wild Duck (Soulpepper Theatre); Hedda Gabler (Volcano/Buddies in Bad Times); Kafka and Son (Theaturtle/Treshold) Macbeth (Modern Times); Alphonse (Theatre Direct); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Canadian Stage, Dora nomination); This Hotel, Wedding Day at the Cromagnons (Theatre Passe Muraille); Remnants (Tarragon Theatre); Howl (Treshold/Buddies); Hotel Loopy (Theatre Columbus); None is Too Many (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre/MTC); The Hobbit (YPT). Alon’s film and television credits include: Dark Water, Cinderella Man, Our Father, The Pact, The Assistant, Our Hero (recurring), Sweating Bullets (regular), Slings and Arrows, The Eleventh Hour, Earth: Final Conflict, Traders, Doc, Due South, The Newsroom, More Tears, Foolish Heart.
Irene Poole
Irene last appeared in The Leisure Society at the Factory Theatre, for which she received a 2005 Dora Award. Other credits include: Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Factory Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre and Prairie Theatre Exchange; Dona Juanita in Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, Resurgence Theatre; Fighting Words, Factory Theatre; The Game of Love and Chance and The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls, Sudbury Theatre Centre; Margaret in The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum, Factory Theatre; Cathy in Wuthering Heights, Theatre Aquarius.
Irene has been involved for two years in the workshop process of Florence Gibson’s wonderful and much anticipated new play, Missing. Originally from Labrador, she spent several years in Halifax where she worked at Shakespeare by the Sea and Neptune Theatre and taught at Dalhousie University. Upcoming: a stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler, at Artword Theatre.
Cara Ricketts
Cara Ricketts is a recent graduate of the Humber College Theatre Program. Acting credits include Born Ready (Obsidian Theatre), Pusha Man (Obsidian Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks), Seamless Songs (Madhouse Theatre), Comedy of Errors (RBC Festival of Classics, Oakville). She also taught Shakespeare for the first time at the ShakespeareWorks summer program with David Collins.
Camilla Scott
Selected credits include: Due South, Mamma Mia (Royal Alex), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Resurgence Theatre), Three Days Of Rain (Berkeley St. Theatre), Crazy For You (Royal Alexandra Theatre), Pyjama Game (Princess Of Wales Theatre), Shenandoah (Broadway) and the daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives as Melissa Anderson and Guiding Light as Natalie Porter. Camilla appeared on Law and Order Criminal Intent and was seen last fall guest starring on the season premiere of Law and Order: SVU.
Sanjay Talwar
Originally from Halifax, he was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Rough for the last four years and directed their most recent production, The Merchant of Venice, this past summer. Recent acting credits include: Rosencrantz in Hamlet (Soulpepper) and two productions of Helen’s Necklace (Tarragon Theatre and Pi Theatre in Vancouver where he won a Jessie Award for Best Supporting Actor). He will appear in Bombay Black (Cahoots/Nightswimming) at the Theatre Centre in January.
