PAUL GROSS is one of Canada ’s most popular actors. Recently he directed, starred in and co-wrote Men With Brooms, the most successful Canadian feature film in the last 25 years. Gross is internationally known for his role as Constable Benton Fraser on the multi-award-winning drama television series Due South, a role that ear ned him two Gemini Awards for Best Actor. He has starred in numerous film, television, and stage productions. Paul was born in Calgary , ear ned a degree in drama at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and currently lives in Toronto . He is a passionate advocate for the construction of a real, viable, growing and artistically vibrant Canadian film and dramatic television industry. As an actor/writer/director, he has helped build that industry in his work and has proven that “it can be done.” Paul was appointed to the board of the Canadian Television Fund in 2003.

TERRY O'REILLY is a Partner/Writer/Directorwith Pirate Radio & Television. In 1981, Terry began his career as copy chief at a small radio station in Burlington, Ontario. With over 150 ongoing retail clients, Terry learned that with meticulous planning and careful time management, you could still fall flat on your face. So from there, he begged his way into major advertising agencies in Toronto , writing for some of the most creative agencies in Canada including Campbell-Ewald, Lowe Goodgoll, DDB/Needham and Chiat/Day. Then in 1990, he begged his way out of agency life and helped start Pirate Radio, specializing in the writing and directing of radio commercials. Since then, Pirate has grown to become Pirate Radio & Television, with over 30 employees and four full recording studios. Terry has won over 300 national and international awards for his writing. He's also in demand as a judge at award shows, he hosts radio workshops throughout the year, and was featured as one of the industry's top radio writers on the recent Radio Bureau's ‘Radio Renaissance’ CD.

DEBRA TOFFAN is a winner of two Emmy Awards for Voice Directing the popular animated series Arthur. Debra has directed over 50 series including Braceface, Rupert the Bear, Babar, Tin Tin, and works regularly in Toronto , Los Angeles and London , England.

MIKE KIRBY’s Voiceworx is a training and production facility for performers who wish to pursue a career in commercial voice-over work. Mike has won 12 CLIO Awards for advertising excellence in his 30-year career as an actor, narrator, broadcaster, voice specialist and author. He is the Station Voice of HGTV Home and Garden Television Canada . His commercial clients have included Hyundai, Suzuki, Nissan, Toyota , Chevy Trucks, Toronto Blue Jays, Stratford Festival, Cogeco, Rogers Cable, Mobil Oil... Mike was Host/Announcer of the Special Olympics World Winter Games at Skydome in Toronto and Host/Announcer for the United Way Walk-A-Thon at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto , Canada . He has been the voice of numerous documentaries for PBS as well as the award-winning CBC documentary series Witness. Mike Kirby is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York City.

KIM HURDON is a member of the CDC and is a Toronto-based voice casting director who has been casting for the past 10 years. Her clients include Kellogg’s, General Motors, LG Electronics, Nintendo, IBM, Budweiser, KFC, Kodak, Chrysler, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s and hundreds more. Her company, Kim Hurdon Casting, casts voice for commercials, animation and feature films.

ERIC ARMSTRONG returned to Toronto in 2003 to teach voice, speech, dialects and Shakespeare text at York University in Toronto . He has also taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago , Brandeis University in Boston , Canada 's National Voice Intensive and at the University of Windsor . Eric trained with David Smukler at York University 's Voice Teacher training program. Professional coaching highlights include Just Stopped by to See the Man at Steppenwolf and Mary Stuart at The Court Theatre, as well as coaching Tom Wilkinson for his Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated performance in Normal . He is a director and board member of the Voice And Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), and recently hosted a GTA voice trainer get-together.

MARIUM CARVELL’s most recent performance was onstage as Nurse Logan in The Ride Down Mount Morgan for Birdland Theatre. Seven years ago she also performed at Canstage, in Theatre WUM's version of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires In The Mirror playing 23 characters Black and Jewish. Many different accents came to play in this work, including Black American, Jamaican, Australian, and " New York " Jewish. Having to study hard on accents assisted her in obtaining her role in the movie Jasper Texas where she played the town upstart Gloria Mayes alongside Lou Gossett Jr. and Jon Voight. The generic Black accent has helped her obtain recurring roles on DOC, and Sue Thomas F. B. Eye. Sometimes she actually has to work on her Canadian accent to do roles where they want her own accent, like in the nine episodes that she played Juanita Bascombe in the last season of Wind At My Back.

MARSHA CHESLEY has been a casting director for more than 28 years in every medium: feature films, movies-of-the-week, dramatic series, sitcoms, corporate videos, and commercials. Recent credits include all four seasons of Global’s Blue Murder, where, in the first 39 episodes she garnered 22 Gemini nominations for actors. Recent feature films include Julie Walking Home, written and directed by Agnieszka Holland, and Love Come Down by Clement Virgo. A productive collaboration with producer Bernard Zukerman and director Jerry Ciccoritti has resulted in four movies-of-the-week: The Many Trials of One Jane Doe, Big Sister Little Brother, and two Chasing Cain police dramas. Some film credits include Spinning Out of Control , with Kathie Lee Gifford and Howie Mandel, The Hanging Garden, The Planet of Junior Brown and Rude, both by Clement Virgo, Top of the Food Chain and Timothy Findley's The Piano Man’s Daughter. Series work includes the syndicated Adventures of Sinbad, Ready or Not for the Disney Channel, My Life as a Dog for U.S. Showtime, several Harlequin Romance movies for CBS, E.N.G for CTV, Super Rupert for BBC, and Wind at My Back for CBC. Early CBC work includes Charlie Grant’s War, Canada’s Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks, and The King Chronicle both directed by Donald Brittain; The Wordsmith and The Street both directed by Claude Jutra; four seasons of Seeing Things, and the final two seasons of King of Kensington. Fluent in French, Marsha has also helped in the casting of projects for a number of prominent French-Canadian directors including André Melançon, Robert Ménard, and Robert Lepage. For three years she was Casting Director-in-Residence at the Canadian Film Centre. Current projects include the second season of the televisions series This is Wonderland, and the feature film Niagara Motel, both to be produced by Bernard Zukerman and written by George F. Walker and Dani Romain.

NICHOLAS de KRUYFF has been working in front and behind the camera for 18 years. He has appeared in over a hundred national commercials and dozens of series. For the last four years he has concentrated on working behind the camera; casting, writing, and most recently producing and directing a series of short films.

DONNA DUPERE
Established in 1988, Dupere Casting Inc. is regarded as a first-rate background casting service in the Greater Toronto Area. With more than 15 years’ experience and over 200 credits to her name, Donna has served as background casting director on such feature films as The Hurricane and X-Men. With a reputation for excellence and an unwavering demand for quality, Donna has filled the needs of both Canadian and American productions, and continues to provide an exceptional casting service to the film and television industry.

LINDA KASH began her professional life at the Second City in Toronto . She appeared in a number of plays for Canadian Stage, The Limelight and regional theatre including Magnus Theatre, Theatre Calgary and Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. She was a regular cast member in The Comedy Mill, Max Glick, Variety Tonight in Canada and SheTV, Minor Adjustments and Style and Substance in the U.S. As well, Linda has been a guest on Seinfeld, Third Rock From The Sun, Cybill, Everybody Loves Raymond, Ellen and Sabrina. She can also be seen in Waiting For Guffman and Best in Show. She has co-created several shows for TV including My Talk Show, Go Girl!, and most recently The Joe Blow Show, which she also directed. Of late Linda has performed in a Michel Tremblay play for the Show Place Theatre, directed sketch comedy at Humber College , has a role in Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man and is writing an MOW for CTV. Linda is best known as The Philadelphia Cream Cheese Angel, but her proudest and best work to date is her three kids and partner, actor Paul O’Sullivan. They live on a farm outside Peterborough .

BRIAN KAULBACK
With more than 30 years as an actor, Brian started his career in 1973 with his first professionally paying gig, The Carousel Players in St. Catharines , Ontario . A year later, he and another actor from the theatre troupe moved to Toronto and quickly got involved with the Toronto Truck Theatre. There wasn’t a lot of film and television being shot on the streets of Toronto back then. When it started, Brian jumped in, working as a background performer, stand-in and in actor roles. Getting a good principal agent has certainly helped him in getting more actor roles. The years of stand-in work connected him with all the stunt coordinators, so he has been doing stunts as well. If you’re not doing anything else, why not do a day of background work? It helps build up your RRSPs, which is a good thing. His advice to all ACTRA and Apprentice members is quit your whining when working as a background performer. There are hundreds of other members who would like to be working that day.

EDNA KHUBYAR
For more than 20 years Edna Khubyar has established and built upon a niche for herself in the commercial, TV and corporate production, theatre, and television and film industries in Canada . Initially focusing on the voice business, Edna Talent Management has propelled into a recognized position as one of the best talent agencies in Toronto , and therefore Canada . Her career began in 1982 at the Characters Talent Agency where she learned the business. Her abilities as a valuable voice agent were further proven when she was hired by Noble Talent Management to initiate and build their voice business. In 1988, Edna took on a new challenge when she accepted the job of Managing Agent for the Voice department of The Talent Group. With total responsibility for all aspects of the voice business, her accomplishments during this time were outstanding. She designed a business plan for the voice department that expanded both the performer base and the client base, including the large French Canadian market. After five years at The Talent Group, Edna started her own agency, ETM Ltd. Anyone who knows Edna knows that her success is self made. She’s built her career and her reputation on integrity, tenacity and a thirst for conquering challenges.

BARBARA LAROSE has worked as an IPA film and television Steward with ACTRA Toronto Performers for the past five years. Originally from Montreal, Barbara attended Concordia University’s Theatre Program, studied directing at Université de Montreal and went on to complete the Program on Negotiations at Harvard University. In addition to several years of experience as a labour negotiator and senior contract administrator, Barbara has also worked as an actor, dramaturge, director, teacher, and theatrical producer for many years and serves on the Board of Directors of the Alumnae Theatre.

JAY MILLER’s broad training in speech sciences and in the performing arts, combined with his experience as an actor, speaker, and singer, uniquely equips him to work with a wide variety of clients. He received his Bachelor degree in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences from Temple University in Philadelphia , and his Master of Fine Arts degree and Voice Teaching diploma from York University . Jay maintains a private practice in the Rosedale/Yorkville neighbourhood, focusing on voice training, dialect acquisition and accent reduction, as well as coaching dialects for film, television and theatre on a regular basis.

JOHN NELLES enjoys a versatile career. Dialect coaching for more than 10 years, he has had the pleasure of working with many of our ACTRA members and internationally known actors including: Sam Neill, Jude Law, Forrest Whitaker, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek and directors David Cronenberg, Jonathan Kaplan, Paul Schrader, and Oscar winners Sir Ian Holm and Anna Paquin, among others. Some of the films John has worked on include: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Fly Away Home, RFK,  eXistenZ, Nikita, and many other miniseries and MOWs. For over 20 years he has been an actor, fight director and instructor. John holds a BA in Speech and Dramatic Arts, and an MFA in Acting from the University of Iowa 's renow ned theatre school. He has taught at the college and university levels in the U.S. and Canada for over 15 years, and lives here in Toronto .

DON PEURAMAKI has extensive experience in media: television, radio, video production, visual art and music. He is currently the president of Fireweed Media Productions Inc., an independent production company owned and operated by people with disabilities. The awards Don has won include ACTRA's Into the Mainstream Award, B'nai Brith's Media Human Rights Award, International Film and TV Festival of New York Awards and Columbus International Film and Video Festival Awards in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.

JENNIFER PODEMSKI is a well-known Canadian actor whose recent success on the other side of the camera has attracted much attention. Born to an Israeli father and Saulteaux mother, Jennifer made her first television appearance on Wonderstruck at age 12. While attending an arts high school, Jennifer signed with an agent and was cast in three productions, which led to a role as the supporting female opposite Sonja Smits in The Diviners. Following a year in York University , Jennifer was approached by director Bruce McDonald to play the lead female role in Dance Me Outside, which led to a two-season series of The Rez. She has also starred in Sarah Polley’s directorial debut, Don’t Think Twice as well as numerous television and theatrical performances. In 1999, Jennifer partnered with writer-director-producer Laura Milliken to form the Toronto-based company Big Soul Productions. Since its inception, the company has produced an award-winning aboriginal youth role model series for television, The Seventh Generation, which is hosted by Jennifer.

KARL PRUNER Although he began his professional acting career on the stage, Karl is best known for his leading roles in a number of popular television series, including: E.N.G., for which he received a Gemini Award nomination; Ready or Not; TOTAL RECALL 2070; and, in French, the popular Radio Canada series, L’Or. He has guest-starred on dozens of television programs, including Wind At My Back, Road to Avonlea, Forever Knight, Due South, The Associates, Doc, Mutant X, Political Animals, and Sue Thomas F. B. Eye. TV movie and mini-series appearances include The Fixer, Gotti, The Crossing, Trudeau, Chasing Cain, Crossed Over, Burn: The Robert Wraight Story, Open Heart , and The Elizabeth Smart Story. Karl’s feature film credits include, Dick, The Recruit, E xpecting and the upcoming Welcome to Mooseport. Karl is proud to be a councillor on ACTRA’s National Council and Toronto Council where he is also a member of the executive.

MERLE ANNE RIDLEY is a production consultant and voice director, providing project and script development, budgets, production planning and creative input for feature and series projects in animation and live action including development of Barbarella as an animated feature, budget and production planning for Chilly Beach and Robo Roach, and script consulting on the Medabots series adapted from Japanese for which she was also involved in casting. She was Supervising Producer for 26 half-hour episodes of Delta State . Voice direction credits include Atomic Betty, Sixteen, My Dad the Rockstar, Jacob Two Two and the Hooded Fang, Moville Mysteries, George Shrinks, Bob and Margaret, Timothy Goes to School, George and Martha and Little Bear. She was Supervising Producer at Nelvana from 1997-2000 where she supervised development of feature-length projects and visual development for short-form properties, including production of promos in traditional animation, flash and mixed media. She has produced three feature-length animated films: Franklin & the Green Knight, Babar, King of the Elephants and Pippi Longstocking. She has a BAA in Film from Ryerson University and a Masters of Social Work from the University of Toronto .

MILLIE TOM is a Toronto-based Casting Director with wide-ranging experience in casting series, shorts and features for film and television. Millie began her casting career in 1998 as a Casting Assistant at Alliance Atlantis Communications working under Emmy-nominated Casting Director, Deirdre Bowen. Millie’s assisting credits include the feature film Men With Brooms starring Paul Gross, the multi Gemini-nominated television series The Associates (CTV) and the Emmy-Award winning miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows (ABC). With Casting Director Stephanie Gorin she worked on such high-profile projects as the Academy-Award-nominated film Chicago , andthe Showtime series Leap Years. Millie most recently worked as a Casting Associate with Jon ComerfordCasting on the hit USA Network/ABC series Monk starring Tony Shalhoub and several Showtime movies including Soldier’s Girl directed by Frank Pierson. As an independent Casting Director, Millie has worked on such renowned Canadian Film Centre shorts as Ernest, Silent War: Short Hymn, Dog Walker and most recently The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles. Her feature film credits include the independent crime-drama feature It All Happened Incredibly Fast starring Maurice Dean Wint, and Rub & Tug, starring Don McKellar, which premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. And most recently she completed Olivier Assayas’ feature film drama CLEAN with John Buchan Casting for Rhombus Media. Currently she is casting the fourth season of the popular teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation.

RON WHITE played the role of Conrad Peters in the CBC television series Tom Stone and had a leading role in the television movie North of 60: Another Country. Selected new millennium credits include the mini-series Trudeau, the CTV movie Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story, the premiere production of George F. Walker's play Heaven, and the CBS mini-series Joan of Arc. Ron co-starred with Dan Aykroyd in the CBC celebrated mini-series The Avro Arrow and the telefilms Kissinger and Nixon and Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bambenek Story.

SHEILA VICTOR has been an ACTRA member for more than 20 years and has more than 25 years experience in modeling, both as talent and behind the scenes. As well, she has taught make-up and modeling at some of Toronto ’s foremost modeling agencies. For the last 16 years Sheila has studied painting and drawing and is well known for her use of vivid colours and complex textures. Her works are exhibited commercially and privately. In 2002 Sheila earned a diploma in the Special Effects Make- up course at Seneca College , where she studied such techniques as prosthetic making and application and creating bruises, burns and wounds. Sheila has worked as a make-up artist on commercials, corporate videos, private makeovers, print and film. Recently Sheila had the great pleasure of working for six weeks on the movie Dawn of the Dead where she created countless zombies. Sheila is enthusiastic about all three disciplines, and is happy to share her make-up tips with fellow ACTRA members.

TONI ELLWAND has been a professional actress for 20 years, gaining her Equity card from Stratford and subsequently getting her ACTRA affiliation through countless commercials. Toni holds a UDA membership from a stint as a furry beast called Frimousse on the TFO series, A la Claire Fontaine. Toni has produced and written and starred in several theatre productions, the most recent being Ciao Baby. She has also appeared on many TV series and MOWs, most recently Queer As Folk, Wild Card and Street Time. She’s married to actor Greg Ellwand and has three adventurous daughters.

JULIA LENARDON, an ACTRA and CAEA member, is currently Head of Voice at the National Theatre School of Canada. For film, Julia is also currently the dialogue/acting/U.S. dialect coach on Strange Days at Blake Holesy High (Fireworks Productions, Discovery Kids Channel). Previous to moving back to home to Canada , she was Assistant Professor of Voice/Speech and Acting at Michigan State University (the Spartans) and visiting Dialect/Voice Coach at The American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University in Boston . Julia received her MFA Acting and Voice Teaching Diploma with David Smukler at York University and voice apprenticed at the Canadian National Voice Intensive in Vancouver and The National Conservatory – The Denver Centre Theatre Company, Denver , Colorado , with Gary Logan. Acting credits include The Stratford Festival, and various regional theatres.

ANDREW CARDOZO is a consultant and public policy analyst. He is a member of the Canadian Opportunities Partnership (CANOPP) and is a former CRTC Commissioner. He is a former President of the Canadian Ethnocultural Council and editor of The Battle over Multiculturalism: Does it Help or Hinder Canadian Unity.

ROSEMARY DUNSMORE is an award-winning actress whose career has taken her on stages across Canada , the United States and Europe. Most recently she was nominated for a Dora Award for her much praised work in The Domino Heart at the Tarragon Theatre. She was awarded the Masque Award for Interpretation Feminine for her performance in Wit, the first English-speaking actress to be so honoured. Other highlights include a Dora-nominated one woman show Single (translated from the Quebecois play Bachelor), Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers (selected Best Performer at the Edinburgh Fringe ’81 by the London Daily Telegraph, Dora Award) two seasons at Stratford, and plays ranging from Private Lives, to The Changling, Fallen Angels, The Monument and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Her first major television appearance in CBC’s Blind Faith won her the Earl Grey Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role. Her frequent television appearances have garnered her four Gemini nominations. She is probably best known for her role as Katherine Brooke in Anne of Green Gables – The Sequel, and the title role in the CBC series MOM P.I. Some favourite roles were in Total Recall, Twins, Strike, Breaking the Surface, CBC’s Liar, Liar and most recently Dreamcatcher, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, Profoundly Normal and The Winning Season. Rosemary directed Measure for Measure this past summer at Resurgence Theatre in Newmarket . Recent productions she has directed include Dinner with Friends in Montreal , Wuthering Heights in Hamilton, Fighting Words (Dora Nomination for Best Director), Walking on Crimson and The Glace Bay Miner’s Museum in Toronto and Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad at the Factory Theatre in Toronto . She participated as a director in the Women In the Director’s Chair programme in 1999. She teaches at Equity Showcase, the National Theatre School , University of Toronto She is the Actor in Residence at the Canadian Film Centre. She was chosen by Maclean’s Magazine in 1990 for the Honour Roll of Canadians Who Make a Difference.

JOHN BUCHAN is a casting director of many film and television projects in Canada. Most recently he did the casting on Atom Egoyan's Ararat, CTV's The Eleventh Hour and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. He served as head of casting at Alliance for 10 years before becoming a freelance casting director and producer. While at Alliance, he worked on such shows as CTV's Due South and Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter. He produced the low- budget feature Sugar (based on short stories by Bruce LaBruce) and is developing several other projects for film and television. He was nominated for a Genie award for best live action short for Three Stories from the End of Everything.

PAUL de SILVA’s career has spanned radio and television broadcasting, independent film and television production, journalism and human rights. He is presently serving as Executive Director of the International Council for Diversity in Film and Television, and Executive Producer of Lawd have Mercy a comedy series set in a storefront Evangelical Church in the Caribbean community in Toronto for VisionTv, APTN and Showcase Television. Most recently he was Vice President of Programming for Vision TV /One The Body Mind and spirit Channel. Paul’s Gemini Award-winning Inside Stories, a ground-breaking 26-part drama anthology, brought new voices from Canada’s ethno-cultural communities to primetime television. Other producer/director credits include Shared Rhythm, Fantastic Visions, Two Families, Ballet Creole and Trade Secrets. Earlier in his career, Paul served as communications consultant to the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya, and as a Human Rights Officer with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Paul was Executive Producer/ Consultant for three seasons of Disability Network. He serves on the National Advisory Council, Canadian Film Centre. Other boards include Toronto Arts Council and Full Screen, an organization representing of filmmakers of colour and First Nations people. Awards include two Geminis, an International Movie Television Award, a Golden Sheaf Award, a U.S. Industrial Film Award for Creative Excellence, and a Prix Anik. Paul was born in Calcutta, India. He is married and has two daughters.

TONY NARDI’s acting experience has been diverse and prolific, in live theatre, television and film.  His leading roles have included the films La Sarrasine  (Genie Award), La Deroute (Genie nomination), Bonanno, A Godfather’s Story, Almost America, My Father’s Angel (second Genie Award), Atikkka, Bad Faith, Angel in a Cage, Rossini’s Ghost, Under my Skin, The Adjuster, Speaking Parts, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Concrete Angels (Supporting role Genie nomination). Tony has guest-starred or played the lead/principal in various television serials and movies of the week, including Loss of Faith, Viper: Manhunt, Kung Fu, Scales of Justice, E.N.G., and Street Legal. Tony’s theatre experience includes numerous Shakespearean roles and parts in classics such as A Doll’s House, Uncle Vanya, Guys and Dolls, Caesar and Cleopatra and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Toni is also an award-winning playwright. His play A Modo Suo (A Fable) which he wrote, co-directed and co-produced, was nominated for a 1990 Dora Award for Best New Play. La Storia Cavino (a collective) received a Dora nomination in 1985 for Innovative/Artistic Excellence, and his La Storia Dell-Emigrante, which he wrote, co-directed and co-produced, won the 1982 James Buller Award for the Best Original Canadian Play. Tony is fluent in English, French and Italian.

ANDREW MOODIE has performed in many theatrical, film and television productions including; Separate Development, The Second Shepherd's Play, Better Living and Our Country's Good at the Great Canadian theatre company. He played MacDuff in Macbeth for Grinning Dragon Productions in Vancouver, Minneapolis Dad in Whale, the Jabberwocky in Alice, Nelson Mandela in In the Freedom of Dreams: The Nelson Mandela Story for Young People's Theatre, Othello in Shakespeare in the Rough’s production of Othello (Dora nomination for Best Male Performance), Sam in Prairie Theatre Exchange’s production of Master Harold and the Boys, Bruce in Health Class for Roseneath Theatre. His television acting credits include Dr. Hyde in Side Effects, and Rachel Crawford's evil boyfriend in Clement Virgo's Rude. His writing credits include a radio play for CBC, an episode of Drop the Beat for CBC Television, the play Riot for which he won a Chalmers Award, Oui for Factory Theatre, 'Wilbur County Blues for Blythe Centre for the Arts, and A Common Man's Guide to Loving Women for the National Arts Centre, CanStage and Black Theatre Workshop, Montreal, and The Lady Smith for Theatre Passe Muraille. He is currently writing The Real McCoy about the life of black Canadian inventor Elijah McCoy and The Language of the Heart, a play about Harlem Renaissance writer Wallace Thurman. He directed a production of Michael Miller’s The Power of Harriet T! for Manitoba Theatre for Young People.