25/26 Season Company

Geoffrey Armour - Troilus and Cressida

Geoffrey Armour is a multidisciplinary artist. An actor first and foremost, but also a collective creator, conspirator, director, musician, technician, carpenter, technical director / production manager, adjudicator and stage manager with a 30 year career creating theatre.
Geoffrey is delighted to be returning to the beloved company Shakespeare BASH'd. His last performance with the company was in 2018 as 'Angelo' in Measure for Measure directed by Catherine Rainville. Shakespeare BASH'd is a singular and exceptional company in the city and it is an honour to be a part of their unique and conscientious exploration of Shakespeare's works. It is with great pleasure that he treads the boards with you on this day.

Felix Beauchamp - Troilus and Cressida

Felix is a Jessie Award winning and Dora/Prix Gémeaux-nominated actor based in Toronto. He has worked in English and French across the country over the past decade, both in theatre and on-camera. Recently, he’s had the pleasure of starring in the French youth TV series Makinium, which airs on CBC (Radio-Canada). He has always had a love for Shakespeare’s work and has been a part of numerous classical theatre productions over the years. He also completed his stage combat certifications through Rapier Wit and loves to play live music with various artists around the city. He’s excited to be working with Shakspeare BASH’d again, alongside such wonderful artists!

Rhys Bernier - Galatea

Rhys Bernier (he/him) is a Dora Nominated Toronto actor who studied Musical Theatre at Randolph College and is very excited to be making his BASH’d debut! Some recent credits have included Fin in ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls’ (Roseneath Theatre), Bottom in ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ (BarTeam), The Man in the Yellow Hat in ‘Curious George’ (TYT), and Officer Lockstock in ‘Urinetown’ (RCPA). Rhys is a strong advocate for gender inclusive casting and productions that demonstrate queer and trans identities, and is very excited to be included in this story that explores these themes from almost 500 years ago! (Instagram: @rel_91).

Cooper Bilton - Women Beware Women

Cooper Bilton is a Dora nominated actor and graduate of the George Brown Theatre school. Selected Theatre: The Ensemble (Second City), Maggie’s Getting Married (Upper Canada Playhouse), The Velveteen Rabbit (Video Cabernet/Rule of Three), Romeo & Juliet (YES Theatre), Bone Cage (Assembly Theatre), & Table Top (Pea Green Theatre). Some other companies Cooper has worked with include Capitol Theatre, Carousel Players, & Theatre Orangeville. Currently he is co-developing a new kids show titled 'My Learning Resource Teacher Is Alien!' with a grant from the Guild Festival. Cooper is also one half of the comedy duo Cooped Up With Tom who produce silly things with silly people. You can find him on instagram @cooperbilton

Richard Alan Campbell - Galatea

Richard has been at this a looong time! And he’s very happy to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d once again.
Selected Theatre: The Time Capsule (Theatre Aquarius); The Real McCoy (Blyth Festival); Henry Five, The Tempest, King Lear and more (Driftwood Theatre); The Cold War (VideoCabaret); Confederation Parts 1 & 2, The Great War, Trudeau and Levesque (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper), The War of 1812 (VideoCabaret/Stratford Festival); Art (Theatre Northwest); Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood); It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th St. (Theatre New Brunswick/Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest (Theatre By The Bay); The Graduate (Grand Theatre); Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus and more (Shakespeare in the Rough). Film/TV: Workin’ Moms; Suits; Reign; Murdoch Mysteries

Kyle Claeys - Galatea

Kyle Claeys is an actor, comedian, musician and producer, as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of A.C.T. Productions. He has worked as a performer with Shifting Ground Collective, Shakespeare BASH'd, Comedy Bar Danforth and is a member of the Toronto-based musical improv troupe RATS! Another Musical?!. He is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Acting program as well as The Second City, Toronto Conservatory. Most recently, Kyle has been performing in various improv comedy shows around Toronto and you can catch him performing in the musical improv show East Side Story every final Friday of the month at Comedy Bar Danforth.

Oliver Dennis - Women Beware Women

Recent productions include Fagin in Oliver! (Yes Theatre, Sudbury), People, Places and Things (Coalmine), Waitress (Capitol Theatre, Port Hope)15 Dogs (Sadie Bronfman, Montreal) Bremen Town by Gregory Prest (Next Stage Festival), The Wonderful by Luke Reese (Caravan Farm Theatre). Oliver has performed in close to 100 productions with Soulpepper Theatre where he has had the opportunity to play Shakespeare and Moliere and Chekhov, Miller and Williams and Albee. Beckett, Ionesco, Orton. Simon. Sarah Ruhl and Suzan-Lori Parks and Tracey Letts. David French and Morris Panych/Brenda Robins and Mike Ross/Sarah Wilson and Lee MacDougall and Vern Thiessen and Michael Shamata and Kevin Loring and Erin Shields. Shaffer, Story, Stoppard, Frayn and Aykbourn. To name some.

Deborah Drakeford - Women Beware Women

Deb has been around for a long time and has been fortunate enough to have worked across the country from BC to PEI. Selected Credits: A Kind of Alaska, The City, Bea, Moment, Pomona, Human Animals, Oil, Gloria, Martyr, Rockabye (ARC); Steel Magnolias (Capitol Theatre); Redbone Coonhound (Tarragon); The Penelopiad (Grand Theatre); Shirley Valentine (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Innocence Lost, A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper); Hedda Noir (Theatre Northwest); Same Time Next Year, Rabbit Hole, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, 1939, Oliver! (Sudbury Theatre Centre). Deb is also a voice actor and narrated the audiobook for The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.
Other: Deb was a member of ARC, a Toronto based indie theatre company, for 19 years, the last 4 of which she was the Co-Artistic Producer. She has also done film and tv, including appearing in HBO’s “Station Eleven”. Deb has been Dora nominated 10 times (individual and ensemble). She also holds a BEd and teaches for YPT, Soulpepper and for the TDSB.

Jennifer Działoszynski - Troilus and Cressida

Jennifer is an actor, fight director, stage combat instructor, and voice artist. She is excited to get to dive into this lesser produced play with the stellar Shakespeare Bash’d team! Jenn has worked in theatres across Canada including: Four seasons at The Shaw Festival; Fairview (Canadian Stage/Obsidian/ Necessary Angel), Hidden Treasures (The Lighthouse Festival), Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Canadian Stage); Two Noble Kinsmen, Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, (Shakespeare Bash'd); Antony & Cleopatra, Three Musketeers (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Jane Eyre, Gone With The Wind (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); August: Osage County (The Citadel); Boeing, Boeing, Perfect Wedding (Magnus Theatre); Kindertransport (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); Hana’s Suitcase (The Grand Theatre); among others. As a Fight Director she has worked with Canadian Stage, The Tarragon Theatre, The Coal Mine, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, Magnus Theatre, and many times with the fine folks of Shakespeare Bash’d.

Austin Eckert - Troilus and Cressida

Austin Eckert is an actor originally from Regina, Saskatchewan. He is honoured to be making his Toronto theatre debut with Shakespeare BASH’d. Theatre (select): The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Being Here:The Refugee Project, Taking Shakespeare, Spring Awakening (Belfry Theatre); As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare Theater/ Citadel Theatre/ MTC/ Bard on the Beach) MISS UNDERSTOOD (PuSh Festival); HAIR (Mayfield Theatre) The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Shakespeare in Love, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, (Bard on the Beach); Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Hamlet (Stratford Festival). Film/ Television (select): Supernatural, Batwoman, The Flash (CW), Colony (USA), The Magicians (SyFy), Narcoleap (CBC/Telus) Training: The Canadian College of Performing Arts Awards: Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (The Royale), Leo Award (Narcoleap), Max Helpmann Award (Stratford Festival) Online: @austineckert

Diana Eremeeva - Galatea

Diana Eremeeva is a queer artist and performer based in Toronto. They are passionate about theatre as a living, breathing art form that can continually
evolve, drawing on various traditions, styles and mediums. Having trained at the Theatre & Drama Studies joint program at UTM and Sheridan, studied Dramaturgy and Drama Studies alongside Creative Writing at UTM, Diana found her way back to George Brown Theatre School last year. Diana is particularly drawn to stories that center characters at the fringes of society—figures who are off kilter, odd, bold, and unapologetically expressive. Whether it’s experimental, contemporary, or classic theatre, Diana finds great joy in bringing to life characters who defy expectations. This fascination with the unconventional drives their work, as they love inhabiting roles that are strange, multifaceted, yet deeply resonant to the human experience. Diana approaches each project with an open mind, embracing the fluidity of theatre that allows her to explore and fuse multiple artistic forms.

M Fera - Troilus and Cressida

M (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist and producer. She is the Co-Founder of A.C.T. Productions. She has been stage managing in Toronto for over 10 years. M is thrilled to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d again!
Some of her recent credits include: The Second City; (as Stage Manager) Wozzeck, Don Pasquale (Canadian Opera Company); (as Apprentice Stage Manager) ; Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs; (Nightwood Theatre); (as Stage Manager) The Merchant of Venice, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Tragedy of King Lear (Shakespeare BASH’d).

David Gingerich - Women Beware Women

Dave’s happy to be back as part of the Shakespeare BASH’d reading of Women Beware Women. A veteran of the company, Dave couldn’t ask for a better group to play with since rebooting his career as a water resources engineer. To Wally & Julia, eternal gratitude for bringing the Bard and contemporaries to the hallowed grounds of communion and revelry - the City’s bars !

James Graham - Women Beware Women

For Shakespeare BASH’d: Othello, King John
Selected Theatre: Casimir & Caroline, Punk Rock, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, The Glass Menagerie, 52 Pick-Up (Howland Company) Out the Window (Luminato Festival/Theatre Centre), Mockingbird (NSTF, Dora Nominee), NSFW (Studio 180), Titus Andronicus, As You Like It (Canadian Stage), New Jerusalem (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Selected Media: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC).
Awards: Dora Award winner, two-time Dora Award nominee.

Hope Goudsward - Galatea

Hope Goudsward is a queer actor, singer and theatre creator, with a passion for new works, musicals, and classical theatre. She is beyond thrilled to work with BASH’d on this production, and is looking forward to exploring the world of Galatea. Selected theatre credits include Martha in Divine Monster (Toronto Fringe), Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Barteam Theatre), and swing in The Snow Queen (TYT). Up next you can find Hope playing Jojo in Seussical at TYT Theatre and producing the new Canadian play How to Feel. Hope wants to thank her community for their support and encouragement through this wonderfully crazy career.

Jordin Hall - Troilus and Cressida

Jordin is extremely grateful to be working with Bash'd again.
Seven seasons at the Stratford Festival: Anne of Green Gables, The Art of War, Cymbeline, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, All's Well That Ends Well,Richard III, Henry VIII, The Crucible, The Neverending Story, An Ideal Husband, Julius Caesar, To Kill a Mockingbird. Elsewhere (selected): The Other Place (TIFT), Serving Elizabeth (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Neverending Story (NAC); Othello (Driftwood Theatre); Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale (Dauntless City Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Seven Siblings Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Humber River Shakespeare). Film/TV: The Kings of Napa (OWN); The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu); Mayday (Discovery); See No Evil (Discovery ID). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; Brock University (Performance Concentration). Etc: Love, peace, and SOULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TRAIN.

Kevin Hammond - Galatea

Kevin is an actor/director, living in Toronto, where he has been the Artistic Director for both Humber River Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Rough. He has directed or performed in over 30 Shakespeare productions. Guest director credits include Othello and Hamlet for the Arabian Shakespeare Festival (San Francisco), Richard II for Perspective Theatre (San Jose) and The Taming of the Shrew for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. In the spring of 2025 he will be returning to California to direct Henry V for Pear Theatre. Kevin is also a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival where he spent two seasons as an Assistant Director. While there he also directed workshop productions of Double Falsehood and an original Shakespeare mash-up entitled A Most Unnoble Swerving. Since the pandemic he has been the Development Manger for The Actors’ Fund of Canada and – most importantly - proud puppy dad to Zoe.

郝邦宇 Steven Hao - Galatea

郝邦宇 Steven Hao is an award winning director, actor, and writer currently based in Tkaronto. Born and raised in China, Steven is very open about how his upbringing and cultural influences have often impacted how he tells stories and leads his processes. His work can be found across many stages in Ontario, primarily with a focus on new Canadian works. Most recently, Steven appeared in the world premiere of Kat Sandler’s adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, as well as Salesman in China at the Stratford Festival, and he’s grateful for the continued opportunity to support new play development everywhere he goes. His selected theatre credits include: For Directing: Assistant Director, CRAZE (Tarragon Theatre); Director, Death to the Prometheans (Studio 180); Director, One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company); Director, life and death and life and death and life and death and life. (CCTA/ACMJIS); Assistant Director, Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera/Crow's Theatre); Director, Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective); Assistant Director, Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre); Assistant Director, Dragon’s Tale (Tapestry Opera); Assistant Director, The Chinese Lady (Crow’s Theatre/Studio 180 Theatre/fu-GEN Theatre); Director, A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Toronto Fringe Festival/Kick & Push Festival); Director, I and You (Precipice Productions); Director, Constellations (Precipice Productions). For Acting: Two Seasons at the Stratford Festival, Anne of Green Gables, Forgiveness, Romeo & Juliet, Salesman in China (Stratford Festival); Pirithous/Wooer, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare Bash’d); Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Cockroach, Cockroach(Tarragon Theatre). Upcoming: Director, Ride the Cyclone (Shifting Ground Collective); Director, Concord Floral (Pucker’s); Performer, Pu Songling: Strange Tales (Crow's Theatre); Third Season at Stratford Festival. For More: @steven_haoby

Veronica Hortiguela - Women Beware Women

Veronica Hortigüela (she/her) is a Scarborough-born and raised actor and playwright who graduated from TMU’s Theatre Acting program. She’s one half of the creative/performance team behind MONKS (Theatre Centre, Crow’s, County Stage, Toronto Fringe Patrons’ Pick). Other performance credits include: Bremen Town, Feast (Tarragon), The Bidding War (Crow’s), Prodigal (Crow’s, Howland Co.), Casimir and Caroline (Howland Co., Dora Award - Best Ensemble), Little Women, Every Little Nookie (Stratford) and Dry Land (Cue6).

Andrew Iles - Troilus and Cressida

A graduate from the University of Windsor’s B.F.A. in Acting program (2015) and the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory (2017), Andrew has worked in Theatre, TV/Film, the music industry for the past 17 years. He is currently in Soulpepper Theatre’s Academy program (2025). TV: The Miniature Wife, What we do in the Shadows, Reign, and The Boys. Theatre: Henry VIII and The Neverending Story (2019), Three Tall Women (2021), Hamlet-911 (2022), King Lear (2023), Romeo & Juliet and Twelfth Night (2024), all at the Stratford Festival. A songwriter, producer, and session musician for Thicc, The Wanderlust Club, The Brandy Alexanders, South River Slim, Andrew creates music of many genres including Rock, Soul, Pop, R&B, Blues, Funk. Instagram: @iles4miles

Isaiah Kolundzic - Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare BASH’d is thrilled to welcome Isaiah Kolundzic to the cast of Troilus & Cressida! Originally from Vineland, ON, Isaiah is a lifelong cinephile and computer tinkerer who couldn’t be more excited to make his BASH’d debut with this electrifying production.
Recent stage credits include Common Ground (Orillia Opera House); The 39 Steps (Guild Festival Theatre); The Melville Boys, Niagara: A Christmas Carol (The Foster Festival); ICEMEN, Mary of Shanty Bay (Theatre by the Bay); The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Bridgerton: The Live Experience (Netflix/Fever); Water Wonder (Carousel Players); Venus in Fur, The Boys in the Band, bash: Latter-Day Plays (The Edge Productions).
Film/TV credits include Noel Next Door, Languages of Love (Hallmark); Lemons (Creekview Entertainment); Mayday(Discovery ID); Matches, Well Spent (Stompin’ Ground Films); and WWI: The Road to Victory (Discovery).
Isaiah trained at the Steppenwolf Academy in Chicago and holds a BFA from the University of Windsor. He extends heartfelt thanks to the phenomenal crew and production team—whose artistry makes the work on stage shine.

Beck Lloyd - Women Beware Women

Beck Lloyd holds an MFA in Performance from York University, is a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, and teaches acting, text and Shakespeare across Ontario. Theatre Credits (Select): [Slave Play, Hamlet (Canadian Stage)]; [Pride&Prejudice, Controlled Damage (The Grand)]; [Measure for Measure (Crows/House&Body)]; [The Tempest (Theatre Rusticle/Buddies in Bad Times)]; [The Miser, Grand Magic, A Wrinkle in Time, Richard iii, r+j (Stratford Festival)]; [The gruesome terror & most brave triumph of Bluebeard's Bride, The Madwoman of Chaillot (The Lunar Stratagem)]; [Portraits, Patterns, Possibilities (Culcha Works)]; [The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Lower Ossington Theatre)] @beckklloyd

jonnie lombard - Galatea

jonnie is a trans theatre-y thing from the woods stumbling through side quests of sentience. they write, perform, and frolic in playgrounds of pop-art melodrama, from bars to basements to bathrooms and back again. recently they have been an ancient greek unintelligible being, a crayola cryptid, a cyber-canine sex demon, a pigeon, and tiny tim. they have learned and grown at the Paprika Festival, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, and from all their friends. if you ask jonnie to go dancing they will always say yes!

Jamie Mac - Women Beware Women

Jamie Mac is honoured to make his Shakespeare Bash’d debut! He has performed 9 seasons at the Stratford Festival, as well as at many theatres across Canada including the National Arts Centre, Blyth Festival, GCTC, Canadian Stage, Upper Canada Playhouse, Stage West, Magnus Theatre, Two Planks & A Passion and more: In Film & Television you can see him in Frankenstein, Painkiller, What We Do In The Shadows, On The Count Of Three, Murdoch Mysteries, Republic Of Doyle, and Life With Derek. Jamie is proud Newfoundlander, and lived in Toronto and Stratford for 20 years.

David Mackett - Troilus and Cressida

David recently appeared in The Tempest and She Stoops to Conquer at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival. His past credits with Shakespeare BASH’d include: The Tragedy of King Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and staged readings of The Man of Mode, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Edward ll, and Gorboduc.
His other theatre credits include Arcadia (Citadel Theatre); The Good Thief, Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Cold Comfort (Fly on the Wall); Titus Andronicus (Hart House); After the Fall (Equity Showcase); The Weir (MacKenzieRo); Aftershock (SummerWorks); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Touchmark Theatre); Half Life (Rose Theatre); Lucrece (Willow Cabin Theatre); Peter Pan (TheatreWorks/USA); Candida, Of Mice and Men (Kentucky Rep); A Christmas Carol (Arts Trust).
David is a graduate of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC), and he completed his Classical Theatre Training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is the Co-Artistic Producer of Fly on the Wall Theatre.

Paige Madsen - Women Beware Women

Paige Madsen (she/her) is thrilled to be working with Shakespeare Bash’d! She is a theatre artist with a BFA in Performance Acting from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Paige is co-founding Artistic Director of Panoply Theatre Collective, a Toronto-based charitable non-profit theatre organization which is dedicated to collaborative creation of new works, with a focus on reclaiming the classics through an inclusive lens. Paige’s artistic practice includes work as an actor, director, writer, producer, and singer. She has worked with companies such as Motus O Dance Theatre, Shadowpath Theatre, Education Arts Canada, Skylark Vocal Trio, the Toronto Fringe Festival, the Parados Festival, and the National Arts Centre’s #CanadaPerforms program. She is also an arts educator with Ovation! Performing Arts Academy. A huge fan of Early Modern drama, Paige recently completed a Spring Into Shakespeare academic short course through the University of Birmingham's renowned Shakespeare Institute. You can learn more about her work at www.panoplycollective.com/paige.

Michael Man - Women Beware Women

Big fan of BASH’d, Michael’s glad to be back.
FOR SHAKESPEARE BASH’D: The Two Noble Kinsmen, Measure for Measure, Duchess of Malfi (reading).
SELECTED THEATRE: As You Like It, Forgiveness (Stratford Festival); Everybody, Prince Caspian, Village Wooing, Doctor’s Dilemma, Victory, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sherlock Holmes (Shaw Festival); Snow in Midsummer (Shaw/National Arts Centre); Lear, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, As You Like It (Canadian Stage/Dream in High Park); Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing (St. Lawrence Shakespeare); Birds and the Bees, The Jungle Book (Magnus); Meet Chloe (Carousel); Christmas Carol (Grand); Hymn of the Weaverbird (找我劇場 ESP-I, Taiwan); 彼岸 (Gateway).
WRITING: The Orphan of Chao (Shaw).
FILM/TELEVISION: What We Do in the Shadows, Backstabbing for Beginners.
TEACHING: National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan); George Brown Theatre School.
OTHER: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Board Member (2022-Present).
INSTAGRAM: @michaelman1n.

Eliza Martin - Women Beware Women

Eliza Martin is an award-winning actor, writer, and creator. She is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College and has since performed on stages in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. For Shakespeare BASH’d: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Isabella in The Changeling. Selected additional credits include: Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol (Three Ships Collective), Zoey in Like it Or Not (Carousel Players), Katie in The Money Tree (Roseneath Theatre), Molly in Peter and The Starcatcher(LOT), Hedvig in The Wild Duck Project (Re:Current Theatre), Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Hart House Theatre), Patricia in Hiding Like Elephants (Hangar Theatre), Hanna in Canadian independent film Otium (Seven to Forty Cinema), and most recently Save Me in the London UK workshop of Good Girls Don’t Go to Hell (SIQ Collective/Brooklyn Rep UK). Eliza has created such works as: O (NYC United Solo Award Best Satire, All About Solo, Critics' Choice), Harvey & The Extraordinary (My Entertainment World - 2018 Critics' Pick Award Nominee, Outstanding Solo Performance) and BLOOM (Bad Hats Theatre, 2019 Creator-in-Residence). Eliza's first novel Harvey and the Extraordinary, based on her play of the same title, was published by Annick Press in 2021 (Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens), and translated into Czech in 2022. Her next two books will be hitting shelves soon. @elizavmartin www.elizamartin.ca.

Kate Martin - Troilus and Cressida

Kate is a theatre artist and educator raised in rural Saskatchewan and based in Toronto. Previously with Shakespeare BASH'd: Emilia in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Lorenzo in The Spanish Tragedy (staged reading), Annabella in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (staged reading), assistant director for The Tragedy of King Lear. Elsewhere: A Million Billion Pieces, Antigone (workshop), the Kissing Game (workshop) with Young People's Theatre; Twelfth Night with Crane Creations Theatre. Twice Dora-nominated within Outstanding Ensembles. Kate holds her BFA in Acting from Toronto Metropolitan University. You can find her face on gas pumps, subway posters, and romance novels.

Julia Nish-Lapidus - Troilus and Cressida

Julia Nish-Lapidus (she/her) is a director, Dora-nominated actor, and producer, as well as a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Shakespeare BASH'd (Best Site Specific Theatre Company, NOW Magazine Readers’ Choice 2018, 2019). She is also the Co-Artistic Director of the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in Prescott, ON.
She was a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directing in, acting as the Assistant Director on Private Lives and Associate Director on All's Well That Ends Well, and as co-facilitator of the WordPlay series in the Forum. In the Festival's 2021 season she was Co-Director and Co-Curator of Play On! A Shakespeare-Inspired Mixtape.
For Shakespeare BASH'd, Julia has directed The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors. She has also performed in many BASH'd productions, including The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Tragedy of King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, among others.
Julia is a graduate of the joint acting program at UofT and Sheridan College.

Matt Nish-Lapidus - Troilus and Cressida

Matt Nish-Lapidus is an artist and musician based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Matt’s varied practice probes the myth that computers should be useful rather than beautiful through examining contemporary technoculture, its histories, and its impacts on society, people, and his own life. His work results in diverse outputs including publications, recordings, installations, performances, software, and objects. Matt has performed and exhibited locally and internationally including MOCA (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), INDEX Biennial (Braga), ACUD Macht Neu (Berlin), Electric Eclectics (Meaford), InterAccess (Toronto), ZKM (Karlsruhe), and more, including many DIY community spaces. He holds a H.BFA in New Media from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art from The University of Toronto. You can find Matt online and away-from-keyboard under various aliases and collaborations including emenel, New Tendencies, and <blink>.

Rianna Persaud - Troilus and Cressida

Rianna Persaud (she/her) is a queer, BIPOC performer and creator based in Toronto. After graduating from Randolph College for the Performing Arts, she had the pleasure of joining James and Julia for two staged readings (‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Knight of the Burning Pestle) and now is thrilled to be making her Shakespeare debut in Troilus and Cressida. Outside of BASH’d, Rianna has been training and performing in Improv and Storytelling (Bad Dog Theatre, Replay Storytelling). When she is off the stage, she is often writing and collaborating with fellow artists, musicians and actors alike.

Adriano Reis - Troilus and Cressida

Adriano is a bilingual Brazilian-Canadian actor, stunt performer and fight director. Shakespeare Bash’d credits: “The Merchant of Venice”, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”. Other selected credits: “Martyr” (ARC Stage, Dora nominated), “A Midsummer, Night’s Dream” (YES Theatre), “Romeo and Juliet” (YES Theatre), “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” (YES Theatre), “Cyrano de Bergerac” (Theatre on the Ridge), “Shanty Show” (The Lakeside Players). Adriano is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and is currently studying Portuguese Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He appreciates and thanks you for supporting live indie theatre!

Morgan Roy - Women Beware Women

Morgan is an emerging Toronto-based theatre artist and recent graduate of George Brown Theatre School. Born and raised in Ottawa, she is also a graduate of the Drama program at Canterbury High School where she was lucky enough to spend four years beginning her dive into the world of theatre. She is a lover of all things classical (especially Shakespeare) but has also begun exploring new work. She recently produced and performed in The Ensemble at the Toronto Fringe Festival and will be working on it again at The Second City in October. In her time in theatre school, she played such characters as: Lydia Languish in The Rivals; the Ringmaster in Carnival of Munsch, another new work; and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Shakespeare Bash’d artistic director Julia Nish-Lapidus. Morgan is so excited to explore this wild play and take this next step in her artistic journey with such an amazing company.

Navtej Sandhu - Galatea

Navtej Sandhu is a Dora award-winning Toronto actor with recent credits including Jin in The Caged Bird Sings directed by Rafeh Mahmud at the Aga Khan Museum and Karna/Satyavati in Mahabharata directed by Ravi Jain at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Navtej is also an experienced vocalist with credits including Devi Triptych by Red Beti Theatre and Jungle Book by Kidoons Productions. Navtej is currently an intermediate actor combatant and is now in the process of getting her advanced certification. She hopes to be able to tell her story and amplify the voices of communities that have had their voices stifled. Navtej’s goal is to continue to create and be a part of projects that she believes in, and that speak to those communities.
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”- Ossie Davis

Sienna Singh - Galatea

Sienna (she/they) is a mad, queer, actor/director/producer and a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s acting program. She has spent the last few years dedicated to her theatre collective Panoply which has produced multiple shows, including adaptations of Shakespeare, a punk version of The Bacchae, and a radio drama of Peter Pan. Directing Credits: Apprentice Director for Things I Know to be True (Company Theatre/Mirvish); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Panoply Collective); Unfunny, Little Accomplishments(TMU’s New Voices Festival). Select Theatre Acting Credits: Mass Exodus (BadFox Collective); Prove a Villain, LoveSick, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet (Panoply Collective); Portia’s Julius Caesar, Queen Margaret (Shakespeare in The Ruff). Select Film/Tv Credits: Fingernails (Apple TV); Locke & Key (Netflix); Grand Army (Netflix).

Deivan Steele - Troilus and Cressida

Deivan Steele is an actor, writer, and director born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Previous credits for Shakespeare BASH’d: King Lear, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Knight of the Burning Pestle. His work has received four Dora nominations and one win, taking him to theatres including the Grand Theatre, Aquarius, Tarragon, Neptune, St Lawrence Shakespeare, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Bad Hats, YES Theatre, Theatre Direct, Eastern Front, Shakespeare by the Sea, Driftwood, Crossroads Theatre, Unwrap Theatre, Villains Theatre, and Outside the March, as well as projects in Ireland, Czechia, and South Africa. His plays include Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Hour (commissioned by St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival), Ice/berg (co-commissioned by Tarragon Theatre and The Creative School, TMU), and The Assembly, co-written with Breanne Tice (commissioned by Theatre Direct). More info at: deivansteele.com

Breanne Tice - Troilus and Cressida

Breanne is an actor, producer, writer, movement choreographer, and intimacy coordinator. Her goal is to be a theatrical swiss army knife - useful in most situations. Previous BASH'd credits: The Tragedy of King Lear (Cordelia), Man of Mode (Bellinda), and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Various). She has worked with companies including St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Soulpepper, YES Theatre, Theatre by the Bay, Theatre Direct, Crossroads Theatre, SpringWorks Festival, Theatre on the Ridge, and Eastern Front. Breanne is the co-creator and performer of the five time Dora nominated show, The Assembly, and the associate producer of CBC’s acclaimed PlayME podcast. www.breannetice.com

Emilio Vieira - Galatea

Shakespeare BASH'd: Two Noble Kinsmen and Cymbeline. Stratford Festival: Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, London Assurance, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard III, The Miser, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, A School for Scandal, Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny. Elsewhere: Fulfilment Center (Coal Mine Theatre); HEIST (The Grand Theatre); The Three Musketeers (RMTC); february: a love story (Globus Theatre); Towards Youth: a play on Radical Hope (Crow's Theatre); Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park); Tartuffe (Canadian Stage); Coriolanus (Dartmouth, New Hampshire). Thank you for supporting live theatre. Instagram: @emiliovieira

James Wallis - Troilus and Cressida

James is a director, educator, actor. He is the Co-Artistic Director of both the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival and Toronto's Shakespeare BASH'd. For BASH’d, James has played the title roles in Hamlet, Richard III, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. With BASH’d, James directed over a dozen productions and staged readings.
James spent four seasons at the Stratford Festival. He was a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directing in 2016/2017 assistant directing Macbeth with director Antoni Cimolino (2016), the world premiere of Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Sarah Stanley (2016), Romeo and Juliet (2017) and Julius Caesar (2018) directed by Scott Wentworth. Additionally, James worked with the Birmingham Conservatory.
For Stratford, James co-created and co-directed, with Julia Nish-Lapidus and Robert Markus, Play On! A Shakespeare Inspired Mixtape outdoors for the Festival’s 2021 season.
His other directing credits include: Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Hour, The Tempest (SLSF), As You Like It (Theatre by the Bay), Titus Andronicus (Hart House Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (Secret Shakespeare Project), Scenes from The Tempest (Playing for Free), Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Theatre Erindale), Romeo and Juliet and Joni (Workshop Production), Pygmalion, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi (Toronto Metropolitan University), Romeo and Juliet (YES Theatre/Sudbury Theatre Centre), and Romeo and Juliet (George Brown Theatre School).

Katie Wise - Galatea

Katie Wise is a multidisciplinary performer from Sudbury, ON. She has been involved in many productions in many capacities such as choreographer, fight captain, dancer, assistant director, writer, and actor. Some recent credits include Diana in Casey and Diana, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roxie in Chicago, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (YES Theatre), and Masha Prozorov in Three Sisters and Co, Ensemble in Love and Information (George Brown Theatre School). Katie is endlessly grateful to be able to do this job, and would like to extend that thanks to you for your support and participation in Canadian indie theatre!

Ben Yoganathan - Troilus and Cressida

Ben Yoganthan is an actor, writer, composer, and director born in Sri Lanka and based in Toronto. He is thrilled to be working on his second Shakespeare Bash'd show! Selected credits include: Hal/Henry V in King Henry Five (Driftwood Theatre), Andrei in Three Sisters (The Howland Company), Todd Tweedie in Killing Time (Mixtape Projects), Ayub in Behind the Moon (Belfry Theatre), Flavius in Tiffn'y of Athens (Shakespeare in the Ruff).