C A S T
ASTRID VAN WIEREN
(Stevie)
performed on Broadway in “Come From Away” in the role she originated in La Jolla, California, and Seattle, Washington, and Toronto, before New York. (2015-2022) Canadian premiere theatre credits include leads in the musical “Belles Soeurs” (Montreal, and NAC, Ottawa), and in Artistic Fraud's production of the play “Colony of Unrequited Dreams” (St. John's, Newfoundland) Astrid's performance of a lead role in the women out of prison drama “This Wide Night” (Canadian premiere in Toronto) received a Dora Mavor Moore award. Film & TV credits: numerous Canadian TV shows, and indie features & shorts by Valerie Buhagiar. Jeremy Podesma, and Sudz Sutherland
DANIEL BRIERE (Karl)
FILM & TV: A Dark Matter, Reign, Rookie Blue, The Bridge, Murdoch Mysteries. THEATRE: The Diary of Anne Frank, Oedipus Rex, Antony and Cleopatra, King John, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice (Stratford Festival), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Shrew! (Red One/Storefront Theatre), Gone with the Wind (Manitoba Theatre Centre), The Game of Love and Chance (Odyssey Theatre), Courageous (New Stages), The Mail Order Bride (Blyth Festival)
CLAIRE BURNS (Tracy)
FILM: The Drawer Boy. Shark Week THEATRE: The Chance, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Red One Theatre Collective), Human Furniture (Triangle Pi/ROTC), The Skriker (ROTC), Abigail's Party (Precisely Peter Productions), This Wide Night (Mermaid Parade), The Nuttalls, The Mail Order Bride (Blyth Festival), Pride and Prejudice (Grand Theatre), 911 (HumanZoo), SHREW (ROTC). Claire was the Managing Director of Toronto's Storefront Theatre Company.
SHARMILA DEY (Mina)
FILM & TELEVISION: People of Earth, The Border, The Listener, Flashpoint, and Remedy. THEATRE: Dora Award winning opera Sanctuary Song for Luminato Festival. Shakespeare: Miranda in The Tempest with Resurgence Theatre. With Theatre Direct: Danny, King of the Basement, Head a Tete, Beneath The Banyan Tree and Dora Award winning Walking the Tightrope. Alice in Alice in Wonderland for Theatre Northwest, Prince George, BC.
MARCEL STEWART (George)
FILM & TV: Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries, The Bridge. THEATRE: It’s a Wonderful Life, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III), Incident at Vichy. (all at Soulpepper:) Up the Garden Path (Obsidian); We Are Proud To Present... (Theatre Centre); Wilberforce Hotel (Blyth Festival); Small Axe (Theatre Centre); History of Breathing (Persephone Theatre)
WES BERGER (Ben)
FILM & TV: Good Witch, Designated Survivor, recurring roles on The Lottery, Falling Skies and The Incredible Hulk. Also: Defiance, Lost Girl, Nikita, King, Breakout Kings, The Kennedys, Degrassi, Covert Affairs, The Border, Plague City, Show Me Yours, Street Time. THEATRE: Theatre Aquarius, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Blyth Festival, Young Peoples Theatre.
MICHAELA WASHBURN (Aiyana)
FILM: Remedy, Breakout Kings, By The Rapids, The Thaw, Rez Bluez, Hockeyville, Stepping Out, Only The Devil Speaks Cree. THEATRE: Video Cabaret * and many others. She’s a scholarship graduate of Toronto’s Second City’s Conservatory Program, and a three-time Dora nominee, and her work has taken her across Canada, and to festivals and theatres in Wales, Aruba, and throughout the United States. * Best Actress Dora Award 2018.
ANDREW JACKSON (Gabe)
FILM & TV: lead and guest star roles on Sea Wolf, Merlin's Apprentice Junction , Criminal Minds , Charmed , Deadly Betrayal , Seed ,All I Want, Scared Silent, The Last Don II, Family of Cops II , My Brother's Keeper ARLI$$ , The Highlander , King , Breakout Kings , The Listener, Warehouse 13 , Lost Girl, Being Erica and Smallville. Recurring roles include The Collector series, Kyle XY and Earth Final Conflict . Series leads: All My Children, Wind at My Back.
ANITA LASELVA (Inez)
FILM & TV: Running With Violet, We, The Romanoffs, Suits, So That Happened, Rogue (recurring), Orphan Black, and 4 years on Earth: Final Conflict (Gemini Nomination). THEATRE: The Living (SummerWorks Festival), La Maleta/The Suitcase (Dora nomination - Best Performance Ensemble), Pie in the Sky (Milton Centre for the Arts), Brothers Karamazov (Wordsmyth Theatre) Madre (Aluna Theatre), The Perfect Pitch (Lighthouse Festival), The Melville Boys (Drayton Entertainment), The Carpenter (Centaur Theatre), Carmela’s Table (Centaur), Bye Bye Baby (Imago Theatre).
SERA-LYS MCARTHUR (Ailene)
TV: Running With Violet, Burden of Truth, Hard Rock Medical , Skye and Chang, Arctic Air, (3 seasons), Revenge of the Land, The Englishman's Boy. FILM: Hard Core Logo II . THEATRE: In Spirit (Article 11/ Native Earth), Where the Blood Mixes (Western Canada Theatre/ Theatre Network/ Theatre Aquarius), Mistatim (Red Sky), Evangeline (Charlottetown Fest/ Citadel), Smoke (Signature Center, NYC), Sacagawea: Bird Woman (Urban Stages, NYC)
SEAN BAEK (Detective Jones)
TV: Utopia Falls, Killjoys. THEATRE: trained at Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre at the Stratford Festival, where he spent 3 seasons performing. Honors Graduate of York University’s Theatre Program. Played Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Angelo in The Comedy of Errors for Can Stage's Shakespeare in High Park.
Also featuring: Herbie Barnes Ryan Cunningham Renee Hackett Camille Hollet-French Bruce Hunter Philip Douglas Kerr Jani Lauzon Margaret Lamarre Zarrin Darnell-Martin Andrew Moodie Adrian Proszowski Tara Renwick Tennille Read Jsin Sasha Jimi Schlag