26/27 Season Company
Marion Adler - Sejanus His Fall
MARION ADLER is an actor and award winning lyricist whose work has been seen and produced across North America and Europe. For the Stratford Festival of Canada: Grandma (Billy Elliot), Lady Markby (An Ideal Husband), Gabrille (The Mad Woman of Chaillot), Goneril (King Lear). For The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Hermione and Paulina (The Winter’s Tale), Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Lady Bracknell (The Importance of Being Earnest). For Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Princess of France (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Emilia (Othello), Mistress Quickly (Henry IV Part 2, Henry V) the Queen (The Man in the Iron Mask), Gertrude (Hamlet), Miss Prism (The Importance of Being Ernest). T.V. : Speaker of the House in “CROSS”
Cooper Bilton - Henry IV
Cooper Bilton is a Dora nominated actor and graduate of the George Brown Theatre School. Selected Theatre credits includes: Harry in Secret Service (Lighthouse Festival - World Premiere), Zach in Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures (Theatre on the Ridge), Guard 1 in The Ensemble (Toronto Fringe/Second City Spotlight), Russell in Maggie’s Getting Married (Upper Canada Playhouse), Mercutio/Montague in Romeo and Juliet (YES Theatre/STC), & Kevin in Bone Cage (Assembly Theatre/One For One Collective). Some other companies Cooper has worked with include Video Cabaret, Theatre Orangeville, & Capitol Theatre Port Hope. Most recently, he toured Ontario with an adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit (Rule of Three). Cooper is also one half of the comedy duo Cooped Up With Tom (Keat) who regularly produce their own original work. To keep up with what’s next find him on instagram @cooperbilton
Monique Danielle - Henry IV
Monique Danielle (she/her) is a many-“Mad”-hatted artist with a BA from York University in Performance Creation and Research. Select credits include, Apprentice Stage Management: La Traviata (Canadian Opera Company), Much Ado About Nothing, Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Hour (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Stage Management: Songs for Bones, Flesh, Sweat (Toronto Dance Theatre), Passed Down (Sigh No More Productions), I, Joan (UTM/Sheridan), Constellations (Icarus Theatre), Stiff & Sons (Bare Theatre Collective); Assistant Stage Management: 2024 Winter and Spring Double Bills (Toronto Dance Theatre), Hamlet (The Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth Productions); and Production Assistant for the Avon and Studio Theatres at the Stratford Festival for the 2026 season. Thanks for supporting live theatre made by real people!
Jon de Leon - Henry IV
Jon is a Toronto born actor and has worked in theatre and TV/Film for over 25 years, including 4 seasons at The Stratford Festival of Canada. Outside his family, friends and cat, favourite things include Star Trek, Blue Jays baseball, Shakespeare, and Guinness. He dedicates this performance to the memory of Ash Knight. Flights of Angels my dear friend.
Déjah Dixon-Green - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Déjah Dixon-Green is a proud artist of the African Diaspora with roots in Jamaica and Trinidad. Dedicated to her craft, she hopes to inspire change through fearless storytelling and her commitment to inclusive representation in the arts.
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Déjah has been fortunate enough to lend herself to a variety of projects across the theatre and TV/film industries. Most recently, she appeared in the world premiere of Wake, presented by Persephone Theatre and WCT, and she was previously seen in Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, presented by Obsidian Theatre and Crows Theatre.
Déjah is beyond thrilled to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d again.
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Déjah has been fortunate enough to lend herself to a variety of projects across the theatre and TV/film industries. Most recently, she appeared in the world premiere of Wake, presented by Persephone Theatre and WCT, and she was previously seen in Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, presented by Obsidian Theatre and Crows Theatre.
Déjah is beyond thrilled to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d again.
Deborah Drakeford - Henry IV
Deb has been fortunate enough to perform in shows across the country from British Columbia to Prince Edward Island! She spent 19 years as a Resident Artist with ARC (Toronto), the last 4 of which she was the Artistic Director. Deb has also done some film and tv and audiobook recordings.
Deb is delighted to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d - a company she has long admired.
Deb is delighted to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d - a company she has long admired.
Jennifer Dzialoszynski - The Shoemaker's Holiday & Henry IV
Jennifer is an actor, fight director, stage combat instructor, intimacy director, and voice artist. Shealways has a blast working with the team at Shakespeare Bash’d, and is excited to return to the Monarch Tavern once again.
For BASH’d as an actor: Troilus and Cressida, Two Noble Kinsmen, Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, and various readings. For BASH’d as a fight director: Troilus and Cressida, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Tragedy of King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew.
Jenn has worked in theatres across Canada, both on and off the stage, including: The Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage/Obsidian/ Necessary Angel, The Lighthouse Festival, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel, Magnus Theatre, Harold Green Jewish Theatre, The Grand Theatre, The Tarragon Theatre, The Coal Mine, The Stratford Festival.
For BASH’d as an actor: Troilus and Cressida, Two Noble Kinsmen, Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, and various readings. For BASH’d as a fight director: Troilus and Cressida, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Tragedy of King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew.
Jenn has worked in theatres across Canada, both on and off the stage, including: The Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage/Obsidian/ Necessary Angel, The Lighthouse Festival, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel, Magnus Theatre, Harold Green Jewish Theatre, The Grand Theatre, The Tarragon Theatre, The Coal Mine, The Stratford Festival.
Austin Eckert - Sejanus His Fall
Austin Eckert is an actor originally from Regina, Saskatchewan. Theatre (select): Troilus andCressida (Shakespeare BASH’d) 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.
Diana trained at the Theatre and Drama Studies joint program at UTM and Sheridan, studied Dramaturgy and Drama Studies alongside Creative Writing at UTM, and completed her training at George Brown Theatre School.
They are particularly drawn to stories that centre characters at the fringes of society; figures who are off kilter, 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 her work.
Diana trained at the Theatre and Drama Studies joint program at UTM and Sheridan, studied Dramaturgy and Drama Studies alongside Creative Writing at UTM, and completed her training at George Brown Theatre School.
They are particularly drawn to stories that centre characters at the fringes of society; figures who are off kilter, 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 her work.
Dylan Evans - Henry IV
Dylan is a Toronto-born, Calgary-raised performer. He is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s BFA acting program. Theatre credits include Soulpepper Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Howland Company, Luminato, lemonTree Creations, Rock Bottom Movement, and, of course, Shakespeare BASH’d (Othello; Volpone). He has also toured across Canada for three years with Dufflebag Theatre performing for young audiences. Now working in marketing, Dylan is stepping out of retirement and returning to the stage for the first time in half a decade — and he couldn’t be more excited!
Alex Fallis - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Alex Fallis has recently returned to Toronto after 15 years based in Newfoundland, where he was a faculty member at Memorial University. He has been a Canadian arts professional for over fifty years, performing and directing across Canada, from St. John’s to Victoria, for the Belfry, RCAT, YPT, Manitoba Theatre Centre, nightswimming, the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, the Charlottetown Festival, and others. He has performed in the Dream in High Park five times, including a Dora nominated performance as Feste. His career has also taken him as far as Rome, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Prior to moving to Newfoundland, he taught at numerous training programs including George Brown College, Humber College, the University of Waterloo, Laurentian, and the University of Toronto (Mississauga, and Scarborough). He has completed training as a teacher of Emotionally Integrated Voice. He is super happy to be joining Shakespeare BASH’d for this reading!
Prior to moving to Newfoundland, he taught at numerous training programs including George Brown College, Humber College, the University of Waterloo, Laurentian, and the University of Toronto (Mississauga, and Scarborough). He has completed training as a teacher of Emotionally Integrated Voice. He is super happy to be joining Shakespeare BASH’d for this reading!
Jacklyn Francis - Sejanus His Fall
Most recently Alice in Sexy Laundry at The Drayton Festival, Nine Seasons with the Stratford Festival, Sister Aloysius in Doubt (Thousand Islands Playhouse) Queen Elizabeth in Richard III (Shakespeare in the Ruff) Lady Croom in Arcadia (Citadel Theatre) Candida in Rock n Roll, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Canadian Stage), As well as appearances in; The 39 Steps, The Love List, How it Works, Blithe Spirit (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Wit (RMTC), Measure for Measure, Love’s Labours Lost (Resurgence Theatre) Measure for Measure (Thought for Food), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like it (Theatre By The Bay) How It Works (Theatre North West) also shows for Brookstone Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Buddies In Bad Times, Equity Showcase, as well as the Toronto Fringe, The Edmonton Fringe, and Summerworks Festivals.
James Graham - The Shoemaker's Holiday
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.
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.
Jordin Hall - Sejanus His Fall
Jordin is extremely grateful to be working with BASH'd again.
Eight seasons at the Stratford Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Anne of Green Gables, The Art ofWar, 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.
Eight seasons at the Stratford Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Anne of Green Gables, The Art ofWar, 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 - Sejanus His Fall
Kevin is an actor/director/producer, 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), Henry V (Pear Theatre) and The Taming of the Shrew for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Kevin is also a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festivalwhere he spent two seasons as an Assistant Director. Since the pandemic he has been the Director of Development for The AFC (The Actors’ Fund of Canada) and - most importantly - proud puppy dad to Zoe.
Madelaine Hodges (賀美倫) - Henry IV
Madelaine Hodges (賀美倫) (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian queer artist from Scarborough. She is thrilled to be working with BASH'd again on another exciting production! For BASH'd: The Man of Mode, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Dora Nom. Best Ensemble), The Tragedy of King Lear. Elsewhere (selected): Pu Songling: Strange Tales (Crow’s Theatre/Theatre Smith-Gilmour), Iris (says Goodbye) (Mixtape Projects), Woking Phoenix (Theatre Passe Muraille/Silk Bath Collective - John Kaplan Audience Choice Dora Award). Upcoming: National tour of Woking Phoenix, and a new play at Theatre Passe Muraille in the spring. Film/TV (selected): Mayday (Cineflix), The Boys (Sony Pictures), Cruel Intentions (Amazon Freevee), BÖRJE (Warner Brothers). When she's not in acting class, you can find her at the gym, dance class, sharing a yummy meal with her loved ones, or at book club with her besties. Shoutout to her fiance, family, and friends for their love and support. @maddy_hodges_11
Andrew Iles - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Andrew Iles is a graduate from the University of Windsor’s B.F.A. in Acting program (2015), the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory (2017), and Soulpepper Academy (2025). Andrew has worked as an actor and musician in Theatre, TV/Film, and the music industry for the past 18 years. A songwriter, producer, and session musician for Thicc, The Wanderlust Club, The Brandy Alexanders, Andrew is currently working on a new album of original music set for release in 2027. Website: www.andrew-iles.com Instagram: @iles4miles
Beck Lloyd - Sejanus His Fall
Beck Lloyd is a Toronto-based actor, writer, and educator. She is a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre and holds an MFA in Performance from York University. Beck spent four seasons with the Stratford Festival, where her work extended across performance, education, and audience engagement.
Recent theatre credits include Isabella in Measure for Measure at Crow’s Theatre, Teá in Slave Play at Canadian Stage, Amina in Dance Nation with Coal Mine Theatre and Rock Bottom Movement, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice at The Grand Theatre, Ophelia in Hamlet at Canadian Stage, and Viola Desmond in Controlled Damage at The Grand.
Her work as a writer and creator includes the play Bird Blood: Magnus is Eating Birds, a playwriting residency with Nightwood Theatre, and And Introducing…, an eight-episode Stratford Festival digital series exploring the artists and stories behind the work. Beck is passionate about classical text, contemporary performance, and making Shakespeare feel immediate, unruly, and alive.
Recent theatre credits include Isabella in Measure for Measure at Crow’s Theatre, Teá in Slave Play at Canadian Stage, Amina in Dance Nation with Coal Mine Theatre and Rock Bottom Movement, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice at The Grand Theatre, Ophelia in Hamlet at Canadian Stage, and Viola Desmond in Controlled Damage at The Grand.
Her work as a writer and creator includes the play Bird Blood: Magnus is Eating Birds, a playwriting residency with Nightwood Theatre, and And Introducing…, an eight-episode Stratford Festival digital series exploring the artists and stories behind the work. Beck is passionate about classical text, contemporary performance, and making Shakespeare feel immediate, unruly, and alive.
David Mackett - The Shoemaker's Holiday
David recently appeared in Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare BASH’d) and The Tempest and She Stoops to Conquer (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.
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.
Robert Markus - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Robert is a Stratford based Actor and performer. Credits include: Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen (Dora Nomination, Toronto Theatre Critics Award); Tommy in Tommy, Mark in Rent, Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show, and appeared in A Wrinkle in Time, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, and Chicago. (Stratford Festival). He has performed on stages across Canada, including The Shaw Festival, Theatre Aquarius, Grand Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Ross Petty Productions, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, and Musical Stage Company. Robert’s work has been nominated for Dora Mavor Moore, BroadwayWorld, My Entertainment World, Sterling, Betty Mitchell, and Calgary Critic’s Awards. Online: robertmarkus.com
Kate Martin - Sejanus His Fall
Kate is an actor and arts educator originally from rural Saskatchewan and based in Toronto. Theatre performances: Troilus and Cressida, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Spanish Tragedy (staged reading), 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore (staged reading) with Shakespeare BASH’d; 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. Assistant director for The Tragedy of King Lear with Shakespeare BASH’d. As an arts educator: Toronto Metropolitan University’s Performance Youth and Community Programs, Young People’s Theatre, Junior Theatre Festival, and Free My Muse Studio. Tv: Finding Her Edge (Netflix). Kate holds her BFA in Acting from Toronto Metropolitan University. You can find her face on gas pumps, subway posters, and romance novels.
Jonathan Mason - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Jonathan Mason is honoured to perform on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples, lands covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties. Jonathan trained at the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory and spent several seasons with the Festival, with credits including Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and All’s Well That Ends Well. Recent screen credits include SkyMed, Ready or Not 2, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, and Wild Cards. Jonathan is delighted to join Shakespeare BASH’d for The Shoemaker’s Holiday.
Julia Nish-Lapidus - Henry IV
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 Troilus and Cressida, 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.
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 Troilus and Cressida, 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.
Marissa Orjalo - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Marissa Orjalo is a Hapa Filipina Canadian actor, producer, and writer who is excited to be making her BASH’d debut! Her recent Stratford Festival credits include Ariel in The Tempest, Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, Hermione in Ransacking Troy, and Grace Harkaway in London Assurance. Marissa is the Managing Producer of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre, where her passion for amplifying Asian Canadian artists is realized through artistic leadership, producing, and new play development. Elsewhere, she was in David Yee’s FEARLESS and Marie Leofeli Barlizo’s Lucky. She trained at the Birmingham Conservatory under Janine Pearson and participated in Factory Theatre’s Mechanicals program under Nina Lee Aquino. Film and television credits include 13: The Musical, Titans, and ReGenesis. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto. Insta: @marissa.orjalo, Web: marissaorjalo.com
Cara Pantalone - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Cara Pantalone is a Canadian actor, singer, creator, director, and theatre educator with more than two decades of experience across theatre, film, television, and comedy. At the heart of her work is a deep love of collaborative storytelling and the joy, connection, and spontaneity of live performance.
Her theatre credits include Into the Woods, Cabaret, The Tempest, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, She Stoops to Conquer, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Full Monty. She has a particular passion for Shakespeare and has performed with Shakespeare BASH’d and the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival.
Teaching is an equally important part of Cara’s artistic life. For more than 20 years, she has shared her love of theatre with young performers, developing programs and directing productions across Ontario. She believes deeply in the power of theatre to bring people together, spark imagination, and create meaningful connections. She is delighted to be part of this reading and grateful to share in the storytelling with this wonderful company.
Her theatre credits include Into the Woods, Cabaret, The Tempest, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, She Stoops to Conquer, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Full Monty. She has a particular passion for Shakespeare and has performed with Shakespeare BASH’d and the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival.
Teaching is an equally important part of Cara’s artistic life. For more than 20 years, she has shared her love of theatre with young performers, developing programs and directing productions across Ontario. She believes deeply in the power of theatre to bring people together, spark imagination, and create meaningful connections. She is delighted to be part of this reading and grateful to share in the storytelling with this wonderful company.
Alyssa Pothier - Henry IV
I am a dramaturg, playwright, theatre creator, and actor currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. I am the Co-Artistic Director of Panoply Theatre Collective, a charitable theatre company dedicated to reimagining classics and supporting the development and production of new Canadian feminist theatre. As a playwright, my work includes In Your Own Backyard, shortlisted for the Robert Beardsley Award at the PGC’s Tom Hendry Awards and published in 2019, with a production forthcoming in 2027; and Falling Sickness, developed through multiple workshop processes.
Iza Rincon - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Iza (she/her) is an actor and singer from Tijuana, Mexico. In 2022 she moved to Toronto to study and graduate from George Brown Theatre School focusing on realizing her dream to perform and create art across borders. She is passionate about using magical realism to bridge the border between Mexican and Canadian theatre in order to blend the depth of the former with the richness of the latter. Notable credits include: Conspirator 9 in The Ensemble (Old Soles,Toronto Fringe, Second City), the title role in Anna Karenina, Mary in Mary Stuart, Ms. Gomez in Carnival of Munsch (GBTS), and Mads in The Last Mammoth (Good Old Neon). You can find her behind the bar attempting to pour fancy latte art and nailing it (occasionally).
Morgan Roy - Henry IV
Morgan Roy is an emerging actor and graduate of George Brown Theatre School. At George Brown, she played such roles as Lydia Languish in The Rivals, Ringmaster in Carnival of Munsch, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet where she worked with Shakespeare BASH’d artistic directors for the first time. She is also a founder and producer of Old Soles Theatre Collective, a small theatre group based in Toronto who focus on new, absurd, and ensemble driven work by young theatre creators. Selected credits include: The Ensemble (Old Soles/Second City), DNA (Icarus Theatre), Women Beware Women staged reading (Shakespeare BASH’d). She also worked as a producer and stage manager for God Save the Sodomites (Old Soles/TOLive/Theatre on the Ridge). She is so excited to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d again, especially on such an interesting new project with such wonderful artists!
Navtej Sandhu - Henry IV
Navtej Sandhu is a Dora award-winning Toronto actor with recent credits including Maria in Shakespeare in High Park’s Twelfth Night directed by Gregory Prest, 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
“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
Carson Somanlall - The Shoemaker's Holiday
An actor and artist, holding a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University’s Performance Acting program, Carson has been truly honoured to have worked with James and Julia from Shakespeare BASH’d on multiple occasions and can’t get enough of it! Recent credits include The Merchant of Venice with BASH’d, and 86 Me with Dead Raccoon Theatre at Fringe 2024 (both had sold out runs, nbd). Carson enjoys sharing their visual art on Instagram and TikTok (@mongo.draws), and working with other passionate artists in the world of theatre. Carson would like to thank James and Julia for creating this and so many other opportunities for young and experienced actors alike, and for being all-around awesome human beings. Stay groovy.
Deivan Steele - Sejanus His Fall
Deivan Steele is an actor, writer, and director born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Previous credits for Shakespeare BASH’d: Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Knight of the Burning Pestle. Elsewhere: Canadian Stage, Grand Theatre, Aquarius, Tarragon, Neptune, St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, 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. Four Dora nominations and one win. More info at: deivansteele.com.
Sruthi Suresan - Henry IV
Sruthi is thrilled to be working with BASH'd again. Her past credits include Lighting Design: Troilus and Cressida, Merchant of Venice, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shalespeare BASH'd); The Words of War: A Churchill and Shakespeare Cabaret [The Meighen Forum], Langham Directors' Workshop Presentations 2025, 2024 and 2022 (Stratford Festival Theatre); Walden (Icarus Theatre); Lifegaurd (Fringe); Alkebulan: A Musical African Tale (Batuki Music Society); Legally Blonde, London Road (MacEwan University); La Boheme, Is He Dead?, Almost Maine, The Underpants, Stupid F***ing Bird, Threads: Impact (University of Wisconsin - Madison); The Drawer Boy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Three Sisters (University of Windsor). Associate Lighting Designer: The Mars Project (Fall for Dance North); 1939 (Canadian Stage), FRONTIERS | FRONTIÈRES and WATER SPIRIT (Lua Shayenne Dance Company); Maggie the Musical (The Savoy Theatre), The Rhubarb Festival (Buddies in Bad Times). Assistant Lighting Designer: Something Rotten!, Guys and Dolls, Waiting for Godot and 12 other Productions(Stratford Festival Theatre); My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage). Training: MFA - Theatre and Drama - Lighting Design (University of Wisconsin - Madison); BAH: Drama and Communication Media and Film (University of Windsor).
Breanne Tice - Sejanus His Fall
Breanne is an actor, producer, and playwright. Previous BASH'd credits: Cressida (Troilus and Cressida), Cordelia (The Tragedy of King Lear), Queen (The Two Noble Kinsmen). She has also worked with companies including Soulpepper, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, YES Theatre, Theatre by the Bay, Theatre Direct, Crossroads Theatre, SpringWorks Festival, Theatre on the Ridge, and Eastern Front. Breanne is the associate producer of CBC’s acclaimed PlayME podcast. www.breannetice.com
James Wallis - Henry IV
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: Macbeth at the Tower, 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), Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Theatre Erindale), 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).
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: Macbeth at the Tower, 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), Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Theatre Erindale), 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).
Scott Wentworth - Sejanus His Fall
Scott Wentworth is a Tony and Olivier nominated theatre artist. Broadway credits include Lost In Yonkers, Anna Karenina, Getting Married and Welcome To The Club. A leading actor at Canada’s Stratford Festival for 28 seasons, he has played such roles as Iago, Macbeth, Shylock, James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof and the title role in John Gabriel Borkman. Directing credits include both parts of Henry IV, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar and All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford), as well as The Winter’s Tale, Henry V, As You Like It, Othello, Love’s Labours Lost and Much Ado About Nothing. He has written adaptations of Ibsen’s Ghosts (Indiana Repertory Theatre) and The Man In The Iron Mask (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), as well as collaborating with lyricist Marion Adler and composer Craig Bohmler on Gunmetal Blues (Off- Broadway) and Enter The Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse). Favourite recent roles include Henry in The Lehman Trilogy (St. Louis Rep), Garfield in The Rules Of Playing Risk (Here For Now) and Lear in King Lear (Shakespeare BASH’d).
Ben Yoganathan - Henry IV
Ben Yoganathan is an actor, writer, composer, and director born in Sri Lanka and based in Toronto. He is thrilled to be working on his third 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), Om in A Fine Balance (Crows Theatre).
Jeff Yung 容海峯 - Henry IV
Jeff Yung 容海峯 is an actor, martial artist and sometimes poet and ¼ of the Shakespeare in the Ruff leadership collective. Most recently Jeff played Orlando in the Ruff production Pastoral, a sequel to As You Like It written by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho). Other recent work includes in the new musical The Crossroads by Kalos Chu & Ian Chan for Musical Stage Company. Previous BASH’d credits include: Two Noble Kinsmen, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, King John, and the readings The Spanish Tragedy, Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Gorboduc. Recent screen credits include the award winning short Shrimp Fried Rice and the upcoming Netflix mini series Below.