Nick is a physical theatre performer specializing in clown, bouffon and performance creation. As an actor, director, musician and teacher, he has worked both across Canada and Internationally.

His past work with Theatrophy as a performer and Artistic Director includes The Epoch of Coming and Going (2006) and Moribund (2008 – Rideau Award nominee for Best New Creation) and was toured nationally. Selected credits include Igor Gouzenko (The Rideau Project, Magnetic North Theatre Festival) Butterball Billy (A Guy Named Joe, Odyssey Theatre), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet, Torchlight Shakespeare) and Queen Margaret (Richard III in Bouffon, A Company of Fools).

He is a graduate of Ecole Philippe Gaulier (Paris, France), The International School of Comic Acting (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and the University of Ottawa (BA Theatre and World History). In March 2010 he will begin touring The Tooth Fairy with Calgary’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop.

Emily works across disciplines as a performer, writer, director and dramaturg. Her award winning solo shows Swimming Lessons with Paisley Kite, Radio Collar and Free Range have toured across the country on the Canadian Fringe circuit. She has produced art festivals, created radio documentaries for CBC, and hooked up a golden bicycle to an amplifier so that when you pedal, it plays stories about cycling. In new performance creation her experience includes work as director and/or dramaturg with playwrights Patrick Gauthier, Marianne Miller, Diane Forrest, award-winning poet Lisa Pasold, and dance, film and sound artists. She thinks a lot about sustainable transportation, food politics, art as gift and common sense as a cultural system.

Emily holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Performance Creation from Simon Fraser University. She has studied with One Yellow Rabbit in Calgary (performance creation), Karen Hines in Toronto (Bouffon), and at Concordia University (Theatre and Religious Studies).

Catriona loves to tell people what they are doing wrong so that they can reach their highest potential as performers. Her nearly 15 years in theatre have taken her across Canada and abroad to act, devise, direct, movement coach, instruct and learn. She is an MFA in Directing candidate at UBC where she also teaches movement and acting in the BFA Acting Programme. Her specialized interests are in bouffon, clown and non-traditional approaches to classical text. Catriona has also worked as a gardener for the Prime Minister, publicist for the Ottawa Fringe Festival (where she hosts a nightly talk show entitled Chats with Cat) and was briefly brainwashed by lululemon. She is all better now but still owns too many yoga tops.

Favourite shows Catriona has been involved in: Unity, 1918, Better Living, An Acre of Time (Great Canadian Theatre Company), A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare’s Danish Play (a Company of Fools), Lentement la beauté, Le périmètre (Théâtre la seizième), As You Like It (First Impressions Theatre), Gormenghast, The Trojan Women (Theatre UBC).

A graduate of Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, France, Catriona holds a BFA in Acting from UBC and a Diploma in Horticulture. She is a recipient of the JBC Watkins Award in Theatre from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Sidney J. Risk Award for Directing. Next up, she directs Romeo and Juliet at the Telus Theatre in Vancouver in January 2010.

Patrick is a multiple award winning Ottawa-based theatre creator. Playwriting credits include Tourist Things (Theatre la Catapulte/Magnetic North Theatre Festival), 8 Words That Ruined My Relationship (Gruppo Rubato), The Churchill Protocol (w/ Kris Joseph; Gruppo Rubato), The Man Who Went to Work One Day and Got Eaten by a Bear (Gruppo Rubato). As a director, Pat’s recent credits include Criminals in Love, (Encore! Theatre) Listening (Gruppo Rubato), Conservatives in Love (Leave the Pants at HomeEquity co-op), The Learned Ladies, The Maids, and Agatha (all at Theatre UBC). In 2007, Pat’s production of The Churchill Protocol was named “Best New Creation” at Ottawa’s Rideau Awards; and in 2005 his short play Dawn of the Dad won the Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s “Magnetic Words” playwriting contest.

Pat is a founding member and Artistic Director of Ottawa creation-company Gruppo Rubato, and is a member of GCTC’s 2008/09 Playmaker’s Society. He holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa and an MFA in Directing for the Theatre from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.