Indecent

Paula Vogel

Playwright

Paula Vogel has written How I Learned To Drive (Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and many more.)  Other plays include A Civil War Christmas, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, Hot ‘N’ Throbbin, The Baltimore Waltz, Desdemona, And The Baby Make Seven, and The Oldest Profession. Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, the Vineyard Theatre, Roundabout, and Circle Repertory Company.  Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country at the Center Stage, Intiman, Trinity Repertory, Woolly Mammoth, Huntington Theatre, Magic Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre Berkeley Repertory, and Alley Theatres to name a few.  Harrogate Theatre and the Donmar Theatre have produced her work in England. Her plays have been produced in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand as well as translated and produced in Italy, Germany, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Romania, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland Slovenia, Canada, Portugal, France, Greece, Japanese, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and other countries.

Joel Greenberg

Director

For Studio 180: (selected) Oslo, King Charles III, My Name is Asher Lev, You Will Remember Me, Clybourne Park, The Normal Heart, Our Class, Parade, The Overwhelming, Blackbird, Stuff Happens, The Laramie Project. A co-founder of Studio 180, Joel is a Chalmers and Dora award–winning playwright and director who has directed productions across Canada. Elsewhere: Ain’t Misbevain‘, What the Butler Saw, Taking Sides, Vanities, Bells Are Ringing, Second City (Toronto and Chicago), Dames at Sea (too many times), Tonight at 8:00…8:30 in Newfoundland (all three editions), The Foreigner, Alice, Drink the Mercury and The Nuclear Power Play. Joel taught at Humber College Theatre School from 1984 to 1989 and the Drama Department at the University of Waterloo from 1991 to 2014, also serving as the Chair of each department.

Matt Baram

Lemml

For Studio 180: debut. Matt Baram is a proud alumnus of the legendary Second City Comedy Theatre in Toronto where he wrote and performed in six revues. He is a co-creator of the improvisational hits; The Script Tease Project, Impromptu Splendour and The Carnegie Hall Show. He is a graduate of The University of Alberta Conservatory Acting School and can be seen on stages and screens both large and small. You can catch Matt in the up-coming Netflix limited series, Painkiller starring Matthew Broderick.

Jonathan Gould

Avram

For Studio 180: debut. On Broadway Jonathan appeared as Ned in School of Rock (Winter Garden Theatre/NY). Selected Theatre includes several seasons with the Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Belfry Theatre, Grand Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Banff Centre and 78th Street Theatre Lab in NYC. Jonathan is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and The Birmingham Conservatory at the Stratford Festival. Selected Film/Television: Suits, Scaredy Squirrel, Star Falls, BeyWheelz, Buck Calder Experience, Kim’s Convenience. Upcoming: Zone (Apple Studios), Essex County (CBC).

Jessica Greenberg

Chana

For Studio 180: King Charles III, NSFW, Cock, Our Class, Parade, Blackbird, Offensive Shadows, The Passion of the Chris. Jessica (she/her) is Studio 180’s Director of Youth and Community Engagement, a co-creator of the IN CLASS program, and a core member of the company since 2004. She is a Dora-nominated actor and a leader in drama education with a passion for promoting youth empowerment and building community through theatre. As an actor she has performed on stages across Canada and the US, including Studio 180, Canadian Stage, Crow’s Theatre, Mirvish Productions, Project: Humanity, Magnus Theatre, YPT, The Citadel, MTYP, Passe Muraille, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Theatre New Brunswick, Willow Cabin Theatre and Theatreworks/USA. She has appeared on The Handmaid’s Tale, Murdoch Mysteries and Being Erica as well as the animated series Fish ‘n Chips. At Studio 180 Jessica oversees all education and Beyond the Stage programming including the creation of study guide resources and the curation of lobby exhibits, chats, panels, talkbacks and other special events. She worked as Education Coordinator for ARCfest: Toronto’s Human Rights Arts Festival, and is the Director of Child Engagement for the Child-ish Collective. She holds an Honours BA in political science and women’s studies from McGill University and completed her classical acting training at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York and as an apprentice at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky.

Tracy Michailidis

Halina

For Studio 180: Parade. For Mirvish: Piaf/Dietrich. For Musical Stage Company: Life After (Dora Award), Parade, The Light in the Piazza. During Covid times: Into the Woods (Talk is Free Theatre, Dora nomination), Divine Interventions (Corpus Theatre). Just before the world shifted, Tracy played Aurora in Eclipse Theatre’s inaugural production of Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Don Jail, for which she received a Dora nomination, and she spent the Spring touring Europe with Theaturtle’s production of Charlotte: A Tri-Colored Play. She has spent seasons at the Shaw, Stratford, and Charlottetown Festivals. Favourite roles include Sarah Brown at the Segal Centre in Guys and Dolls, Harper in WJT’s Angels in America, Jenny in Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Outside the March), and Bella in Lost in Yonkers (Theatre Northwest). A proud graduate of Queen’s University, Tracy is also a teaching artist who runs her own private studio and is on the faculty for both The Performing Arts Project and MTCA in New York City. Upcoming: directing The Other Place for Talk is Free Theatre.

Dov Mickelson

Mendel

For Studio 180: debut. Dov Mickelson is thrilled to make his Studio 180/Mirvish debut with Indecent. He’s an actor, writer and teacher based in Toronto. He toured Canada and the U.K. with Catalyst Theatre’s award-winning productions of Pootsie Plunket, Blue Orphan, and Frankenstein. Dov has written and performed original works at Rhubarb, Hatch, The Red Cabaret and Lab Cab festivals. Selected Theatre: Indecent (Segal Centre) Munschtime (YPT) Hogtown (Hogtown Collective) Bingo (Factory), Wizard of Oz (Globe), Amadeus (CanStage/Citadel), The Jones Boy (Surface/Underground), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CanStage), The Trials of John Demjanjuk (Asylum), The Amorous Servant (Pleiades), Dying To Be Sick (Pleiades/NAC), Gladstone Variations (Resurgence) Like The First Time (One Little Goat), Winslows of Derryvore, and Right Road to Pontypool (4th line). Dov is in the award-winning feature film Lune by Aviva Armour-Ostroff/Arturo Perez and the short Found Objects (Old World films). He has appeared on tv in Baroness Von Sketch, Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Wedding Season (Netflix) Finding Christmas (Hallmark), Fairyland (Nickelodeon), and The Associates (CTV).

Sarah Orenstein

Vera

For Studio 180: Oslo, My Name is Asher Lev, God of Carnage, The Normal Heart, Stuff Happens. Sarah has appeared on stages across Canada, from her hometown of Halifax to the Queen Charlotte Islands, winning multiple awards in her career. Some of her many Film and T.V. credits include the film Albatross and the series Station Eleven and Less than Kosher. Selected theatre credits: 13 seasons at Shaw Festival, including Millionairess, Blithe Spirit , Councillor at Law and Heartbreak House, Tarragon Theatre including Patience, Collected Works of Billy The Kid, Scorched (Canadian tour) and The Message, 5 seasons at Stratford Festival, including Shakespeare in Love, Birds of a Kind and Nathan the Wise. She Is strongly committed to new play development and mentoring the next generation of actors and directors.

Nicholas Rice

Otto

For Studio 180: debut. Nicholas is delighted to appear in Indecent. He comes straight to this production from runs of his solo-show, A Side of Rice, at Fringe festivals in Hamilton and Victoria. Other theatre credits include Bar Mitzvah Boy, Angels in America, and The Golden Land (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre); Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Pygmalion (Classic Theatre Festival); Oliver! (Port Hope); Waiting for Godot (Centaur Theatre); Nature of the Beast (Safeword); Diary of Anne Frank (Manitoba Theatre Centre and Segal Centre); The Odd Couple (Leah Posluns); Fiddler on the Roof (YES Theatre); and The Price (Persephone). His screen credits include Look Who’s Talking and The Grey Fox, as well as episodes of Suits, Coroner, and Locke and Key. A Winnipegger, Nicholas trained at UBC and settled in Toronto in 1981. He is a teacher, a writer, a proud dad, and a student at High Park Martial Arts. He dedicates his performance in Indecent to his cousin, Tom Churchill.

Laetitia Francoz-Lévesque

Musician

For Studio 180: debut.

Emilyn Stam

Musician & Music Director

For Studio 180: debut. Emilyn Stam is an Ontario-based fiddler, pianist and accordionist who creates, performs, records and teaches in traditional folk styles from Europe and Canada. Her unique style is largely influenced by her mentor, the late Oliver Schroer. She has toured throughout Canada and Europe with The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Filippo Gambetta, John David Williams, and more. She regularly crosses over into other art forms, collaborating with improvising clowns, theatre groups, contemporary dancers and poets. In 2013 she co-founded Balfolk Toronto, a movement of social folk dancing in Toronto which hosts weekly dance evenings with live music jams and larger ‘bals’ featuring international performers throughout the year. In 2018 she started Canada’s first “Balfolk” Festival, The Big Branch, featuring performers from Europe set in rural Ontario. She has released over 20 albums, many of which have been nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards, including her 2020 album Honeywood with John David Williams. www.emilynstam.com

John David Williams

Musician

For Studio 180: debut. John David Williams is a clarinettist based in Ontario. After studying classical music with the late world renowned clarinetist Avrahm Galper and at the University of Toronto, John began his own exploration of improvisation, composition, traditional jazz, klezmer, and folk dance traditions of Western Europe. He has played mostly with Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Jaron Freeman-Fox and the Opposite of Everything, his duo with Emilyn Stam, and his own band The Boxcar Boys. He has performed in China, Australia, throughout Europe, USA, and across Canada and can be heard on many acclaimed and award winning recordings (including LBO’s Juno nominated albums Lume, Lume and Moorka, The Opposites’ Canadian Folk Music Award winning self-titled album, and three releases that predominantly feature his own compositions by The Boxcar Boys).

Laura Baxter

Stage Manager

For Studio 180 Theatre: Sweat, Oslo, My Name is Asher Lev, My Night With Reg, You Will Remember Me, NSFW, God of Carnage, Clybourne Park.  Other selected theatre credits: Black Boys, The 20th of November, Arigato Tokyo, Obaaberima, The Maids, The Silicone Diaries, Breakfast, (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), Actually (Obsidian/ Harold Green), The Story, Tails From the City, Happy Days (Common Boots Theatre), Trout Stanley, Little Pretty and the Exceptional, Age of Arousal (Factory Theatre), Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille), I Call myself Princess (Cahoots/Paper Canoe/Native Earth), Sweat, Love and Information, Venus in Fur, 7 seasons of Shakespeare in High Park (CanadianStage), Soliciting Temptation, More Fine Girls (Tarragon Theatre), The Berlin Blues, Ipperwash (Blyth Festival), Speaking in Tongues, Festen (The Company Theatre), A Christmas Carol, The Story, Macbeth (Caravan Farm Theatre). Laura is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, 2005.  Thank you to my amazing wife Shawn for all your love and support.

Michaela Steven

Assistant Stage Manager

For Studio 180: debut. Michaela is a stage manager for theatre and live events. Previous theatre credits include: A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Capitol Theatre), SensoryBoxTYA, Mary Poppins (Young People’s Theatre), Love from Afar, Romeo & Juliet (a Company of Fools), Behaviour, Rule of Three (Great Canadian Theatre Company), Beautiful Man, Little Pretty and the Exceptional (Factory Theatre), A&R Angels (Crow’s Theatre), Onegin (Musical Stage Company & NAC English Theatre), Leading Ladies, You Are Here, Rose’s Clothes (Thousand Islands Playhouse).

Rebecca Gibian

Assistant Director

For Studio 180: debut. Rebecca Gibian is a bilingual director and actor, and newly co-artistic director of Persephone Productions Montreal. A graduate of the National Theatre School’s acting program, she has since worked in both Ontario and her home province of Quebec, in both film and theatre, and in both languages. Recent theatre credits include: Pool No Water (Persephone Productions Montreal, co-Director), All Shall Be Well (Repercussion Shakespeare in the Park 2022 tour, Director), Paradise Lost (Centaur Theatre, META nomination outstanding supporting actress), Clean Slate (Talisman Theatre, META award winner best ensemble), The Cane (Studio 180 READS, Director), Measure for Measure (Repercussion Theatre, Assistant director), The Wolves (Howland Company, Assistant Director), The Madness of George III (Shaw Festival.) Recent film credits include: Sex/Life (Netflix), Le Purgatoire des Intimes (Cormier Productions), Most Dangerous Game (NBC/Roku), Blue Moon (Illico). Rebecca is thrilled to be returning to Studio 180 as the RBC Emerging Director.

Ken Mackenzie

Set Designer

For Studio 180: Sweat, Oslo. Ken is an award winning set, costume and lighting designer, actor, director, teacher at the University of Saskatchewan. For Soulpepper⎯Costume Designer: Bed and Breakfast. Lighting Designer: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Peter Pan (with Bad Hats), The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine; Performer & Production Designer: (re)Birth: E.E. Cummings in Song; Set & Lighting Designer: Spoon River, The Just, Cowboy Versus Samurai, The Heidi Chronicles; Co-Creator: Alligator Pie; Set & Costume Designer: Animal Farm, Kim’s Convenience, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Set Designer: King Lear, Queen Goneril, Where the Blood Mixes,The 39 Steps, Bedroom Farce, The Norman Conquests, Oh What a Lovely War. Other theatre⎯Set Designer: Angels in America (Arts Club); Sherlock Holmes and the RAven’s Curse (Shaw Festival). Ken is the President of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Michelle Tracey

Costume Designer

For Studio 180: debut. Michelle Tracey is a scenographer based in Tkaronto working in the fields of theatre, opera, tv, film and events in between. She specialises in set and costume design but she also enjoys working with lighting and projections. Michelle is also a trained wardrobe technician and has constructed costumes for numerous professional productions. She has worked with The Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Stage, University of Toronto Opera and Tapestry Opera among many other collaborations. Michelle is a founding member of Triga Creative, a collective of designers committed to ecoscenography, intergenerational artistic exchange and the development of new sustainable working models. http://www.michelletraceydesign.com/

Kimberly Purtell

Lighting Designer

For Studio 180: Oslo, My Name is Asher Lev, My Night With Reg, Clybourne Park, God of Carnage, The Normal Heart, Stuff Happens. Kimberly is a Toronto based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance and is thrilled to be working with Studio 180 once again. Her designs have been critically acclaimed across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Moscow and Mongolia. She has designed for the Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage Company, Soulpepper Theatre, Mirvish Productions, National Arts Centre and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Philadelphia, Arena Stage in Washington DC, Tapestry Opera, Hamilton Opera, Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Place des Arts, among many others. She has also designed productions for the Pan Am Games and the Vancouver and Beijing Cultural Olympiads. Kimberly has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, a Sterling Award, and a Montreal English Theatre Award. She is the Vice President of the Associated Designers of Canada and IATSE ADC659.

Cameron Davis

Projection Designer

For Studio 180: Sweat, Oslo. Projection design credits include: The Magician’s Nephew, Dracula, You Never Can Tell, Sweet Charity (Shaw Festival); A Christmas Carol (Ross Petty Productions); The Enchanted Loom, Ultrasound (Cahoots Theatre); Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pacific Opera Victoria); Up The Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre); The Gay Heritage Project (Buddies in Bad Times/Canadian tour); Domesticated (Company Theatre); Life, Death and the Blues, Crash (Theatre Passe Muraille); Watching Glory Die (Canadian Rep Theatre); Yukonstyle, Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage); Feng Yi Ting (Luminato Festival, Lincoln Center, Spoleto Festival USA); Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc). Lighting design credits include: How Do I Love Thee? (Canadian Rep Theatre); They Say He Fell, Birth (Pandemic Theatre). Cameron teaches projection design at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Thomas Ryder Payne

Sound Designer

For Studio 180: Oslo, King Charles III & My Name Is Asher Lev. Thomas Ryder Payne is a composer and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. Selected past theatre work includes designs for Stratford, Shaw, Mirvish, Soulpepper, CanStage, Tarragon, Factory, TPM, YPT, Crows, Modern Times, Aluna, BIBT, Nightwood, Toronto Dance Theatre, NAC, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, RMTC and many others. Thomas has received 4 Dora awards and 25 nominations.

Chynah Philadelphia

Head of Props

For Studio 180: debut. Chynah Philadelphia graduated from the Performance Production Program at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2019. There she specialized in props building and design. Her work includes Set & Props Designer: D-Cup (Alumnae Theatre), Prop Designer: The Old Wolf & Sacred Trout  (Arbez Drama Projects), Props Assistant: Jumbo, Cake Walk, Team on The Hills, In The Wake of Wettlaufer, Bed & Breakfast (The Blyth Festival Theatre), Head of Props: SpongeBob The Musical (Mainstage Theatre), Head of Props: Rinaldo (Royal Conservatory of Music), Props Assistant: Is God Is, As You Like It (Canadian Stage). Chynah is very excited to be joining this talented cast and crew and thanks her mentor Mary Spyrakis for all that she’s taught her.

Siobhan Richardson

Intimacy Direction

For Studio 180: debut.

Siobhan Richardson is an internationally-recognized Fight Director, an Intimacy Director (an international pioneer in this specialty), and an award-winning actor/fighter/singer/dancer. Her work has been seen on some of Canada’s most recognized stages, and her teaching career has spanned Canada, USA and Europe. Along with her continuous work in universities and in professional development programs as an educator and fight/intimacy director, Siobhan has recently received an Arts Response Initiative grant (Ontario Arts Council) to bring her unique approach to stage combat to Ontario and the world, increasing accessibility for skills development and maintenance in this specialty. Look for her courses to start being released over the next 6 months: www.joyfulworkspaces.teachable.com. Theatre (Selected): Orphans for the Czar (Crow’s Theatre), Room (Grand Theatre, Mirvish), Sex, Getting Married, The Russian Play (Shaw); Phaedra’s Love, Othello (Stratford Festival); Betrayal (Soulpepper); Trout Stanley (Tarragon Theatre) www.SiobhanRichardson.com, Instagram: @fighteractress

Julia Lenarden

Dialect Coach

For Studio 180: debut. Selected Theatre coaching: USA: Broadway: Associate Voice Coach, Matilda the Musical, Shubert Theatre; Off Broadway: Associate Voice Coach Tamburlaine, Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA); La Belle et La Bete, 4Dart Theatre at BAM NYC; American Dream, Carnegie Hall NYC Gad Elmaleh debut; Canada: Boy Falls from the Sky, Past/Present & Mirvish Productions, Mother’s Daughter, Soulpepper, Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West, The Other Side of the Moon/The Andersen Project (World Tour for Yves Jacques), National Arts Centre; Under the Lintel, Indecent, The Angel and the Sparrow, Segal Centre; Good People, Intimate Apparel, Centaur Theatre. Selected Film/TV coaching: Cat Person and Fairyland (for Emilia Jones), Three Pines, The Umbrella Academy, Locke & Key, On Becoming A God in Central Florida, Cardinal (for Karine Vanasse), X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, Brooklyn, Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft).