ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

2025: Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: An Inspector Calls (Drayton); Three Sisters, Casimir and Caroline (The Howland Company); To Kill A Mockingbird, Hana's Suitcase, Selfie (Young People's Theatre); Blackbird, Spider's Web, Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Gloria: A Life (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Bash'd); Where You Are, Early August (Lighthouse Theatre); Stag and Doe (Theatre Orangeville); Whit's End (Foster Festival); Cockfight, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Storefront Theatre); We Are The Bomb (Theatre Brouhaha). Radio/Recordings: The Girls (Penguin Random House Canada); Selfie (CBC's Playme Podcast); The Artists (Factory Theatre). Training: George Brown Theatre School. Awards: Two Dora Awards with five nominations. Online: carolinetoal.com, @toalbooth. Et cetera: HUGE love to my family and friends.

2025: Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables and understudy in Forgiveness. 13th season. Stratford: (Selected) Henry VIII, The Crucible, An Ideal Husband, To Kill a Mockingbird, Timon of Athens, The Changeling, All My Sons, Bunny, Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV (pt1 and 2), Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. Elsewhere: Fall On Your Knees (Canadian Stage/NAC/Neptune/Grand Theatre); Twelve Angry Men, Death of a Salesman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company, D.C.); Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare). Film/TV: (Recent) The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu), Brilliant Minds (NBC), A Season to Remember (OWN), SkyMed (CBS), Fellow Travellers (Showtime), Under the Banner of Heaven (FX), You Can Live Forever (Prospector Films), V/H/S '94 (Shudder), The Expanse (Syfy). Awards: Dora Award, Best Ensemble (Twelve Angry Men); 'Dora Mavor Moore' Guthrie Award.

2025: Marilla Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables and Gaylax, Anax, Andromache in Ransacking Troy. 14th season. Stratford (selected): Maria (Twelfth Night), Sian Ap Dafydd (1939), Mollie Malloy (The Front Page), Sin (Paradise Lost), Dr. Livesey (Treasure Island), Miss Prism (The Importance of Being Earnest), Lady Anne (Richard III), Electra (Electra, The Flies), Sibyl (Private Lives) and Lady Macduff (Macbeth). Elsewhere (selected): The Antipodes, Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine); Mustard, The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Communion, The Fall, Humble Boy (Tarragon); Domesticated, A Whistle in the Dark, Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Age of Arousal, The Penelopiad (Nightwood); Terminus (Outside the March/Centaur/Belfry). Film/TV: Priscilla, Hudson and Rex, Anne with an E, Titans, Ginny & Georgia. Awards: Two Dora Awards with four nominations, a Toronto Critics' Award and a Jerry.

(she/her)

2025: Mitsue in Forgiveness and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Mizushōbai (Tableau d'Hôte); God Said This (Pacific Theatre); Forgiveness (Arts Club/Theatre Calgary); Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Globe); The Orchard (Arts Club); Griffin & Sabine (Belfry); JAPANESE PROBLEM (Universal Limited/Soulpepper); Pride & Prejudice (Chemainus); Home Is A Beautiful Word (Belfry/Persephone). Select Film/TV: Superman & Lois, Emily Owens M.D. (CW);  Bones of Crows (CBC);  Alaska, A Million Little Things (ABC); Bates Motel (A&E); Loudermilk (Prime).Podcast: Eli in Apocrypha Chronicles (re:Naissance Opera). Training: UBC. Awards: Jessie Award - Ithaka, Excavation Theatre; Jessie nom - The Double Axe Murders, Rusticate Theatre; META nom - Mizushōbai, Tableau d'Hôte; Vancouver Critic's Choice Award - JAPANESE PROBLEM, Universal Limited. Online: @YoshieBancroft.

2025: Rachel Lynde in Anne of Green Gables and Penelope, Odysseus in Ransacking Troy. Ninth season. Stratford: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Annabelle (Wedding Band), Gertrude (Hamlet), Jane (Death and the King's Horseman), Cookie (The Front Page), Elmire (Tartuffe), Sneerwell (The School for Scandal), Sorrel (Bunny), Kate (The Last Wife), Kate Hardcastle (She Stoops to Conquer), Goneril (King Lear). Elsewhere: My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage); Letters from Max, The Great Fire (Necessary Angel); August: Osage County, Little Menace: Pinter (Soulpepper); Terminus (Outside the March/Mirvish); Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon); over 30 Canadian premières including her co-creations Montparnasse, Goblin Market and Secret Life of a Mother (Playwrights Canada Press). Awards: Multiple Dora-winner, 14-time nominee. Film/TV: Beau is Afraid (dir. Ari Aster), Mouthpiece (dir. Patricia Rozema), Murdoch Mysteries. Online: maevbeaty.com. Et cetera: For Esmé, and all my Sirens, Witches and Queens. 

Birmingham Conservatory, 2015/2016

2025: Psamathe, Briseis in Ransacking Troy and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Ninth season. Stratford: Mattie in Wedding Band, Linda Lauzon in Les Belles-Soeurs, Much Ado About Nothing, Guildenstern in Hamlet, Co-host of Showstarters, Tituba in The Crucible, Death and the King's Horseman, The Neverending Story, As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Hay Fever. Elsewhere: Death and the King's Horseman Radio Play (Soulpepper); Romeo & Juliet (Spontaneous Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Theatre New Brunswick); five seasons with Shaw Festival including Major Barbara, Serious Money, Ragtime, Born Yesterday; Binti's Journey (Theatre Direct); The Aftermath (Nightwood Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Hamlet (2022), Death and the King's Horseman, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Macbeth, Timon of Athens (Stratfest@Home). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; BFA, University of Windsor. Et cetera: To my loves J, Z and S. 

Birmingham Conservatory, 2017/2018

2025: Jane Andrews in Anne of Green Gables and Ron, Ichiro in Forgiveness. Second season. Stratford: Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Li Shilong in Salesman in China. Elsewhere: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Pirithous/Wooer in The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare Bash'd); Scott The Rat Man/Mr.Rumpelstiltskin in Storybook Search (Bad Hats Theatre); Cockroach in Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre); Duke of Burgundy/Gentleman in King Lear (Shakespeare Bash'd); Dionysus/Zeus in Trojan Girls & Outhouse of Atreus (Outside the March/Factory Theatre). Director: A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Kick & Push Festival/Toronto Fringe Festival); Death to Prometheans (Studio 180); Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University. Awards: Toronto Workshop Productions (George Luscombe Award); Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble. Online: @steven_haoby. Et cetera: Please say hi if you ever encounter Steven on the street! 

2025: Tomi in Forgiveness and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Stratford debut. 

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2025: Madga in The Art of War, appears in Sense and Sensibility and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Third season. Elsewhere: Every Brilliant Thing (Burnt Thicket/Live Five, Fire Exit, Globe Theatre, Winterruption); Our Town (Theatre Rusticle/Buddies in Bad Times); Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Birds and the Bees (Globe Theatre/Persephone Theatre); Drowning Girls, Secret Mask, Pride and Prejudice (Globe Theatre); Farndale Ave...Christmas Carol (Persephone Theatre). Other: House Co (Second City). TV/Film: Workin' Moms (CBC), Benched (Short). Training: Globe Theatre Actor Conservatory, University of Saskatchewan (BFA). Awards: SATAward for Outstanding Performance (Narrator in Every Brilliant Thing, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, and Callie in Stop Kiss). Online: www.jennaleehyde.com. Et cetera: Born-and-raised on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, Jenna-Lee now lives in Tkaronto. She's very grateful to be here. 

(he/him) Birmingham Conservatory, 2012/2013

2025: Nick in The Art of War, Moodie Spurgeon in Anne of Green Gables and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. 12th season. Josue is a Métis actor, teaching artist and mask maker from the traditional territory of the Dane-zaa, Treaty 8, Fort St. John, BC. Stratford: Lazarus in The Diviners, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, King Lear, Hamlet, Death and the King's Horseman, Merry Wives of Windsor, Front Page, Comedy of Errors, Napoli Milionaria!, Tempest, Timon of Athens, Madwoman of Chaillot, The Changeling, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aeneid, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beaux' Stratagem, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello. Vancouver: Four seasons at Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival; The Exquisite Hour (Relephant); Wizard of Oz, Seussical (Carousel); The Emperor's New Threads (Axis). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Director Martha Henry; Studio 58; Canadian National Voice Intensive. Instagram: @laboucanej. 

(she/her) Red River Métis

2025: Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables, Heather, Eva in The Art of War and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Second season. Stratford: Helen, Ghost Mother in Cymbeline and Young Pique, Scots Morag in The Diviners. Elsewhere: Louise in Gypsy, Bella in Gaslight, On The Razzle, Everybody, Flush, Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, Sarah Ballenden (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Timon of Athens (Shakespeare In The Ruins); Charlie Brown, James and the Giant Peach (MTYP); Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (Magnus Theatre); Les Flats (Le Cercle Molière); Les Misérables (Rainbow Stage). Opera: Mother in Amahl and The Night Visitors (Edmonton Opera); Rose/Marguerite in Li Keur (Manitoba Opera); Peer Gynt (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra); MESSIAH/COMPLEX (Against The Grain/The Banff Centre). Training: Bachelor of Music (Voice Performance), University of Manitoba. Awards: Juno Award Nominee. Online: www.julielumsden.com. Et cetera: "Onward and upward!" For Uncle Darin, always. 

2025: Composer, and plays Diane and Socialite in Forgiveness and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Stratford debut. Allison has appeared as an actor, singer, MD or sound designer/composer on stages across Canada and internationally, including the NAC, The Grand, Drayton Festival, Arts Club, Persephone, Rainbow Stage, Calgary Folk Festival, the Malaysian Philharmonic, Calgary International Jazz Festival among others, and as a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic. Allison has five Betty Mitchell Awards - four for acting, one for Outstanding Score - and a Critic's choice award (Outstanding Design) from the Victoria Regional Awards. Allison wrote and performed the song "Try" for episode 6 of Hudson on CBC Gem and recently scored seven documentary shorts for the new SAM Centre at the Calgary Stampede. Allison was named one of Avenue Magazine's 2024 'Top 40 Under 40.' Her album Skin & Flame is available on all streaming platforms. Love to Joe.

(he/him)

2025: Stan, Pat in Forgiveness and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Stratford debut.  Elsewhere: Max in The Little Mighty Superhero (Geordie Theatre); Reverend Parris in The Crucible (Canadian College of Performing Arts); Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona (Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival); Marshall in 7 Stories, Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone (UVic); Various roles in Beginning/Middle/End (Victoria Fringe); Ferdinand in The Tempest (GVSF); E. Antipholus in The Comedy of Errors (UVic); Horatio in Hamlet (UVic Student Alternative Theatre Company); Pierre in The Madwoman of Chaillot, Jacques in The Inspector (UVic). Film/TV: Ry (principal) in Cruel Intentions (Amazon Prime). Training: University of Victoria, The Phoenix Theatre. Online: @dougoyama. Et cetera: Doug would like to dedicate this performance to his mother Yukari, his partner Lara, and his cat Momo.

2025: Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, Agamemnon in Ransacking Troy and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. 12th season. Stratford: Pisanio in Cymbeline, Morag in The Diviners, Thérèse Dubuc in Les Belles-Soeurs, Marmee in Little Women, Interpreter in All's Well…, Katherine in Henry VIII, Catalina in Mother's Daughter, Jean Louise in To Kill a Mockingbird, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Breath of Kings, Kate in The Little Years, Katherina in Taming of the Shrew, Olga in Three Sisters. Elsewhere: Bakelite Masterpiece, The Little Years (Dora Award, Tarragon); Leisure Society (Dora Award, Factory Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Dora Award, Birdland); Happy Place, The Gigli Concert (Soulpepper); How Do I Love Thee? (Canadian Rep); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Buddies…). Film/TV: Frankie Drake, Salvation, Indian Horse, Cardinal, Reign, Murdoch Mysteries, Republic of Doyle. Et cetera: For my Labrador family.

(she/her)

2025: Dennis, Matthaeus in The Art of War and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. 10th season. Stratford: Cool in London Assurance, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Cornwall in King Lear, Balthasar in Much Ado…, Parolles in All's Well…, Reverend Hale in The Crucible, Professor Bhaer in Little Women, Lucullus in Timon…, Wessex in Shakespeare in Love, Karl Gustav in Christina, The Girl King, White Knight in Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Elsewhere: La Bête (Talk is Free); Lion in Winter (Grand); East of Berlin, The December Man (ATP); Am I Not King? (Zone 41); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth); The Story (Common Boots); Macbeth (Caravan Farm); A Doll's House (Globe). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Wilfrid, Charity, Blue Smoke, The Secret of the Nutcracker, See This Movie. Training: NTS. Instagram: @wilkierylan. Awards: John Hirsch Award; Betty Award for Vincent in Brixton. Et cetera: In memory of Agnes Wilkie, the only nurse from all three Canadian divisions - navy, army, air force - to be killed by enemy action in WWII.