Art was bitten by the theatre bug (a very large and venomous one) at the age of eleven when he started attending his mother’s acting school. After learning everything possible and impossible about Stanislavski's Method of Physical Actions, he began to work as an Acting and Movement instructor.  After dabbling  in many fields, he finally dmitted to himself that theatre was his first and strongest love – much to the displeasure of one of his stern Armenian grandmothers, who considered theatre (as well as all of his other career choices) a ‘tragic waste of time’. He founded his first theatre company in 2004.

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Yury is multidisciplinary performer in film, theatre, and circus. Originally from Moscow, where he studied theatre and acting at Boris Shukin Theatre School, affiliated with Vakhtangov Theatre (2008), performance arts at The Green Theatre in Moscow (2005); He also holds MBA from Moscow University (2001); Yury is very proud to have studied with John Turner at the Clown Farm and at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.

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I am an Economist, an Engineer, a Philosopher, an Early Child Educator, a teacher, a dancer, a wife, a mother, a pretty decent farmer and gardener but right now I am decided to go full steam into acting and yoga teaching. I surely need to do it since the acting worm that consumes my insides if I am not on stage, has revealed me one more truth…I am probably an adopted mother to my kids…you see every time an opportunity arises for a volunteer to step into the space, I would go "me, me, pick me and my kids and hubby would be so embarrassed.  :)

Ziying Gloria Gao is a Toronto-based theatre artist, singer and dancer who came to Canada from China in 2011. She received her Honours B.A. in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto. In August 2016, Gao was selected to perform in ENSEMBLE Canadian Youth Theatre’s production TOUGH!. In March 2016 and May 2015, she co-wrote and performed in the earlier iterations of Toronto Laboratory Theatre’s multilingual theatre production In Sundry Languages. Gao is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. 

Ghazal Partou is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist, who moved to Canada in 2013. Ghazal is the recipient of Toronto Arts Foundation’s 2015 TELUS Newcomer Artist Award, Persbook Contemporary Art Award, and the National Sculpture Biennial Award in Tehran. Since landing in Toronto, Ghazal has been active in more than 20 art projects as an actor, creative director, and designer. These days, her effort is to make the most out of the multicultural atmosphere of Toronto, to find an international language as an artist, and expand the limits to connect with people beyond their race, language, nationality, and ethnicity.

Pooria Fard is an Iranian-Canadian theatre artist based out of Toronto. He is a graduate of the Theatre Performance program at Humber College, and a co-founder of Go Play Prouducing. He has also acted in number of plays, films both in Farsi and English including The Kite Runner (Theater Calgary/Edmonton’s Citadel), Cathrine Frid’s The Solitary (InspiraTo Short Play Festival), Circumstance (Marakesh Film), Friendship (Web Series), The Pillowman (Nowadays theater) performed in Canada, Iran and Russia. Also the creation and the presentation of Morrir de Pie or Die Standing at Rutas Panamericanas and Caminos festivals.

Née en Arménie, Vik a grandi dans un cadre multiculturel et multilinguistique, fait de voyages et de croisées de chemins. Elle a concentré la majeure partie de son travail sur la question de colonisation-décolonisation, le trauma identitaire et le dialogue interculturel. Après des études au Conservatoire d’art dramatique à Paris (Fr), Vik a travaillé sous la direction de metteurs en scène français, en répertoire classique et contemporain. Parallèlement, avec une formation en danse classique, elle a étudié les danses traditionnelles de différentes régions du monde. Établie à Toronto depuis 3 ans, elle est comédienne et autrice francophone.