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Playwright
ROYAL MTC Playwright: The Comeback. Director: Mix Tapes From My Mom (Regional Tour/Warehouse). Actor: The Myth of the Ostrich, Miracle on South Division Street.
TPM In the Chamber.
OTHER THEATRE Trish is an actor and playwright (Social Studies at PTE, The Centaur, Firehall) and many Fringe shows, including with the sketch comedy troupe the Royal Liechtenstein Theatre Company.
TRAINING Honours Theatre Degree University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Big love to Gerri, Jill, Geoff, Sam, Mau, Val, Sam, Cooper and Isaac.
Director
ROYAL MTC Director: among men (with TPM). Apprentice Director: Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel). Apprentice Stage Manager: Hirsch.
TPM Prophecy; among men (with Royal MTC).
OTHER THEATRE Selected Directing: Oh The Humanity! (U of W); God’s Ear; Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (U of A Studio Theatre); Baba Yaga (Alberta Musical Theatre Co.); Tragedy: A Tragedy (Blarney Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel Young Co.); Over Her Dead Body (Small Matters/Fringe Theatre Adventures); Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi (Manitoba Underground Opera); The Cherry Orchard (TBTR/little ECHO theatre).
TRAINING/TEACHING Suzie holds an MFA in Directing and a teaching award from the University of Alberta and is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg Dept of Theatre & Film.
ET CETERA Suzie is the Artistic Director of Theatre Projects Manitoba, check out all cool things TPM is up to at theatreprojectsmanitoba.ca.
Set Designer
ROYAL MTC Lighting Designer: A Number. Costume Designer: King James, Yaga. Assistant Designer: As You Like It, Matilda the Musical. Design Apprentice: The Seagull, Cabaret, Sherlock Holmes. 2020/21 National Mentorship Program. Design team member for MTC/MBA Lawyers Plays: Mamma Mia!, Urinetown.
TPM Lighting Designer: None of this is Happening.
OTHER THEATRE Selected recent set, costume and/or lighting designs: Gather, The Velveteen Rabbit (MTYP); Rock of Ages, Breaking Up, Cash (Rainbow); The Band’s Visit, Address Unknown (WJT); Yaga (Belfry); Much Ado (SIR); Katharsis (PTE); It’s a Wonderful Life (Magnus).
TRAINING/TEACHING Training: U of W (BAH), U of Alberta (MFA), Pratt Institute, Banff Centre. Teaching: Creative Manitoba, U of W, Musical Stage, MTYP, Theatre Alberta.
ET CETERA Ksenia is Royal MTC’s Education and Enrichment Manager, a Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Professional, audio describer and ADC659 member. Grateful for support of my parents and friends (love you!). Thrilled to be working with Suzie again in our home province! broda-milian.com
Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC Costume Design: A Number, Waitress, The Recipe (with TPM), among men (with TPM). Set Design: Mix Tapes From My Mom. Upcoming: Hockey Mom Hockey Dad (Set and Costumes).
TPM Costume Designer: The Recipe (with Royal MTC), among men (with Royal MTC), End of the Line (with Walk & Talk). Set & Costume Designer: Red Earth (with One Trunk).
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Costume Design: Rock of Ages, Rent (Rainbow); Twelfth Night (SIR); Narrow Bridge, Bar Mitzvah Boy (WJT). Set Design: Raised by Women, Year of Magical Thinking (PTE); The Dark Lady (SIR); PLÉ (Plé Collective/MTYP). Set, Prop and Costume Design: Glad to Be Here, Meet Me at Dawn, Edward II, Cock, Bull (TBTR); Hamlet, Timon of Athens (SIR).
ET CETERA SATA Nomination for Production Excellence (The Dark Lady); Evie Award for Outstanding Design (Red Earth).
Lighting Designer
ROYAL MTC Assistant Set Designer: Murder for Two. Assistant Lighting Designer: Little Women, The Recipe (with TPM), among men (with TPM). Apprentice Lighting & Video Designer: The Lehman Trilogy. Apprentice Lighting Designer: The Mountaintop.
TPM Lighting Designer: Prophecy. Assistant Lighting Designer: The Recipe (with Royal MTC), among men (with Royal MTC).
OTHER THEATRE Production Design: Afterlight (The Keep). Lighting Design: Croquis (Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers); Women of the Fur Trade (Magnus). Costume Design: Every Christmas Story Ever Told, Liars at a Funeral (Magnus); Macbeth, Waiting for Godot (SIR). Lighting & Costume Design: Miss Shakespeare (WST). Costumes & Set Associate Design: Serving Elizabeth (PTE).
TRAINING BA Hons. in Theatre and Film from the University of Winnipeg, with specializations in Design, Stage Management & Production, and Directing.
ET CETERA Anika would like to thank her friends, family and mentors for their endless support.
Lighting Design Mentor
Composer & Sound Designer
ROYAL MTC Sound Designer: The Comeback, The Three Musketeers, The Rez Sisters, Women of the Fur Trade. Performer: All is Bright.
TPM First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Sound Designer: Théâtre sans animaux, Le boucher, Plus (+) que toi (TCM); The Flats, What To Do With Albert (PTE/TCM); Flesh + Machine (Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers); PLÉ (MTYP); Le ciel est bleu comme une orange (TCM/EMC Shemsy, Morocco).
FILM/TV Voice Actor: Supa Strikas, Canot Cocasse, Wolf Joe, La Brigade, Chums.
TRAINING Beauty school dropout; as a musician, mostly a mix of self-taught and private lessons.
ET CETERA Multi-instrumentalist, composer and award-winning singer-songwriter, Daniel Roy has been contributing to Manitoba’s artistic community for three decades. His skill and versatility allow him to work across all genres of music. He divides his time between performing and recording with different artists, album production, artistic direction, and sound design for theatre and television.
Fight Director
ROYAL MTC Fight Director (selected): Indecent, Waitress, The Recipe (with TPM), The Mountaintop, Clue (with Grand), Yaga, Into the Woods, The Rez Sisters, Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), Vietgone (with fu-GEN/Hope and Hell), Hand to God, Private Lives, Gone With the Wind, August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Actor: The Three Musketeers, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Top Girls.
TPM Fight Director: The Recipe (with Royal MTC). Director/co-creator: In Time.
OTHER THEATRE Fight Director (selected): Macbeth (Bard on the Beach); Indigenous Playwrights New Works Workshop (PTC – Vancouver); Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow); The Flood Thereafter (CS); Don Giovanni (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); Prairie Nurse (PTE).
TEACHING U of Winnipeg, U of Manitoba, Trinity Western, Simon Fraser University, Kansas State University.
ET CETERA Jacqueline was a founding member of the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated sketch group Hot Thespian Action.
Production & Accessibility Dramaturg
Assistant Set Designer
ROYAL MTC Assistant Set Designer: among men (with TPM), Burning Mom. Apprentice Set Designer: Tiny Plays, Big Ideas.
TPM Assistant Set Designer: among men (with Royal MTC). Set Designer: None of This is Happening.
OTHER THEATRE Set & Props Designer: Munsch Upon A Time (PTE); Blue Beads and Blueberries (MTYP). Apprentice Set Designer: Ma-Buhay! A New Musical (Rainbow). Set Designer: Bastard (Out From Under the Rug).
TRAINING Graduate of The University of Winnipeg with a BA in Theatre: Design.
Apprentice Director
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Assistant Director: Ponderosa Pine (PTE). Director: Him, Taming of the Shrew (King’s Theatrical Society).
ET CETERA Samantha was the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 Scripts on Fire New Play Competition for The Incomplete English Dictionary of Lexical Gaps.
Apprentice Sound Designer
ET CETERA 2026 marks 35 years Tyler Sneesby has been producing and performing music. As a DJ, he has been a fixture on the local dance party scene for decades and has recorded on dozens of albums including most of the releases from Peanuts & Corn Records, the acclaimed independent hip-hop label he cofounded in 1994. His work behind the turn tables also provided his first foray into theatre, performing as the musical accompanist for the internationally, renowned improv duo Crumbs. Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2015 and subsequently losing his vision, Tyler has become more and more involved in the disability community and has performed as an actor on stage with Sick + Twisted Theatre. Always looking to grow as an artist, Tyler is grateful to Theatre Projects Manitoba and Royal MTC for the opportunity to learn the craft of sound design and to collaborate with so many talented creators.
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Mix Tapes From My Mom, The Piano Teacher, Burning Mom, Women of the Fur Trade, John, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, The Humans, Outside Mullingar, Million Dollar Quartet, Unnecessary Farce, The Devil’s Music, The Glass Menagerie, The Penelopiad, The Fighting Days, The 39 Steps, The Syringa Tree and more.
TPM Prophecy.
OTHER THEATRE Escaped Alone (Full of Days Collective); Awaken (SIR/zone41). Other theatres include PTE, Manitoba Opera, MTYP and Royal MTC co-productions with the Citadel, Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse, Royal Alex, Saidye Bronfman.
Apprentice Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: Waitress, The Recipe (with TPM), The Piano Teacher, Trouble in Mind. Assistant Stage Manager: The Man Who Came to Dinner (2025 Lawyers Play). Child Supervisor: The Comeback, The Sound of Music.
TPM Apprentice Stage Manager: The Recipe (with Royal MTC). Stage Manager: Climate & Main.
OTHER THEATRE Tosca, La Bohème (Apprentice Stage Manager – Manitoba Opera); Disney’s Frozen (Child Supervisor – Rainbow); The River, Pool (No Water) (Stage Manager – Winnipeg Fringe Festival). For U of W (selected): 365 Days/365 Plays, Alunsina’s Love (Stage Manager), Love of the Nightingale, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Assistant Stage Manager), Everybody (Set Designer). FAME the Musical (Design Mentee – WST).
TRAINING University of Winnipeg Bachelor of Arts – Stage Management & Production. SMArts Conference 2023.
ET CETERA All my love to my family and friends!
Carrie
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
TPM Actor and Playwright: Prophecy.
OTHER THEATRE Actor: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (FreeWill Shakespeare Festival); Mary of Shanty Bay (Theatre by the Bay); Brontë (Studio Theatre); Queen Lear is Dead (The Fox Den Collective).
TRAINING Graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program (2016).
ET CETERA Jessy is a playwright as well as a performer. This fall, you can see her adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac on the Royal MTC Mainstage, as well as her immersive site-specific show R&J: Closing Night with Theatre Projects Manitoba and The Fox Den Collective. She sends lots of love to both of her families, and deepest gratitude to Beth and Itamar for looking after her through this process (and many others).
Paul
ROYAL MTC Elf – The Musical.
TPM First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Les Misérables (Broadway, National Tour); Rock of Ages, Frozen, RENT (Rainbow); Guys and Dolls: In Concert (WSO/Rainbow); True West (Theatre Raleigh); The Ballad of Little Jo (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Sweeney Todd (Geva Theatre Center); Phantom (Music Theatre of Wichita); Oklahoma! (Paper Mill Playhouse). Assistant Director: Les Misérables (Maine State Music Theatre).
TV The View (ABC); As the World Turns (CBS); Guiding Light (CBS).
TRAINING B.F.A. from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; M.S.Ed. from Bank Street Graduate School of Education.
ET CETERA Denver Post Ovation nomination for performance in Les Misérables (National Tour).
Rudy / Jim / Garry / Officer Miller
ROYAL MTC The Recipe (with TPM), Clue (with Grand), Yaga, All is Bright, Women of the Fur Trade, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Nine Dragons (with Gateway/Vertigo), Sarah Ballenden, Hand to God, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC).
TPM The Recipe (with Royal MTC), White Rabbit / Red Rabbit.
OTHER THEATRE Selected: Pauline Boutal, entre les toiles et les planches (TCM); The Golem’s Mighty Swing, After Jerusalem (WJT); Chicago (Pizza Party Prod.); Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play (District Theatre); Outside Joke: The Improvised Musical, Outside Joke: Big Dickens Energy (Outside Joke/PTE); The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley, The Dishwashers (PTE); Le Jardin (Cercle Molière); The Winter’s Tale/Le Conte d’Hiver (SIR/Cercle Molière); Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra (SIR); The Snail and the Whale, The House at Pooh Corner, The Hobbit, Liars (MTYP).
FILM/TV Sniper: Rogue Mission, Tales from the Loop, Channel Zero, The Pinkertons, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.
TRAINING University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Toby is a performer / producer with musical improv collective Outside Joke.
Alice
ROYAL MTC The Cottage, A Doll’s House, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Myth of the Ostrich, Billy Elliot, The Secret Annex, A Christmas Story, The Penelopiad, Next to Normal, White Christmas, Pride and Prejudice, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel – Betty Mitchell nomination, best actress), My Fair Lady, A Christmas Carol – The Musical, Steel Magnolias.
OTHER THEATRE Selected leading roles: Jacques Brel (PTE); The Drowsy Chaperone (Globe); Spamalot (Drayton); Guys and Dolls (TiFT); The Road to Hell (Persephone); My Fair Lady (Arts Club); Skylight (TNB); Comet in Moominland (MTYP/YPT/Montreal/Broadway); 19 shows at Rainbow Stage (Wall of Fame recipient); Man of la Mancha, The Miracle Worker (Stratford); The Who’s Tommy (Mirvish/Toronto/Canadian Tour – Dora nomination, best actress).
Rachel / Ms. Watson / Nurse / Officer Lafleur
ROYAL MTC The Piano Teacher, Private Lives.
TPM None of This Is Happening.
OTHER THEATRE Outside Joke’s Holiday Musical Extravaganza, Munschbusters (PTE); The Winter’s Tale (SIR); Que Faire d’Albert (TCM/PTE); Sunday in the Park with George (Gallery Works).
TV Le Monde de Gabrielle Roy (ICI Télé); Less Than Kind (Citytv).
TRAINING Theatre Degree: Acting Honours, University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA In memory of her dad, Brian Testar, Jane invites you to look into the Winnipeg-based organization: U-Turn Parkinson’s. They do great work providing support and fitness classes for people living with Parkinson’s disease.