“Thrilling theatricality… a dazzling collaboration of light, sound, set, puppets and humans” – 12thNight.ca Based on the best-selling novel, this epic story of courage, faith and survival roars to life with riveting storytelling and stunning puppetry. After Pi’s family and their zoo are lost during the chaos of a shipwreck, the teenager survives 227 days on a lifeboat in uneasy companionship with a Royal Bengal tiger. As Pi drifts aimlessly in the vast ocean, he struggles to keep his wits while avoiding being the tiger’s next meal.
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Novelist
Yann Martel is a Canadian writer. He is the author of a collection of short stories and four novels, most notably Life of Pi for which he won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. Writing credits include: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, Self, Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil, The High Mountains of Portugal and the non-fiction collection 101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper. Son of Nobody, a novel about the Trojan War, will be published in 2026. He lives in Saskatoon.
Playwright
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Playwriting: Life of Pi (West End & Broadway); Hamnet (RSC & West End); Hymn (Almeida Theatre & Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse, West End); Invisible Cities (Manchester International Festival & Brisbane Festival); The Greatest Wealth, Sylvia (Old Vic); Message in a Bottle (Peacock Theatre).
FILM/TV Acting: The Hunt (St Ann’s Warehouse); Screw (CH4); Vigil (BBC1); Showtrial (BBC1); Wheel of Time (Amazon); Hamlet (RADA); A Casual Vacancy (BBC1/HBO); Criminal (Netflix); Delicious (Sky One).
Director
OTHER THEATRE Heist (Citadel); Homes: A Refugee Story, A Street Car Named Desire, Einstein’s Gift (Grand); Heist, Clue, Nero Wolfe: Might As Well Be Dead (Vertigo); King James, In Wonderland (ATP); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arts Club); The Shoplifters, Romeo and Juliet (TC); The Three Musketeers, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (Shakespeare Company); A Prairie Boy’s Winter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dracula (Mount Royal University); Metamorphoses (U of C); Dracula (Red Deer College).
FILM/TV The Last of Us, The Revenant, Hell on Wheels.
ET CETERA Haysam is the Artistic Director of Alberta Theatre Projects. albertatheatreprojects.com
Puppetry Director
ROYAL MTC Fraulein Kost in Cabaret.
OTHER THEATRE Puppeteer in War Horse (Toronto/U.S. National Tour/Japan); Cirque du Soleil’s TORUK: The First Flight (World Tour). Puppetry Director/Specialist: Frozen (Neptune); Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Tangled, The Golden Mickeys, Disney Dreams (Disney Cruise Line). Favourite other credits include Cassie in A Chorus Line (Stratford/Riverside Theatre/Arvada Centre); Morticia in The Addams Family (Neptune); Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show (TA).
Set Designer
ROYAL MTC The Play That Goes Wrong (with Citadel/TC).
OTHER THEATRE The Secret Garden, Village Wooing, The Playboy of the Western World, Overruled, Bright Lights (Shaw); The Inheritance (CS); Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Jersey Boys (Citadel); Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Club/Citadel); Heist (Grand/Citadel); Legally Blonde (TC/Citadel); Metronome, Mob, Horseplay (Workshop West); Sleight of Mind (WCT).
ET CETERA Beyata is an award-winning set designer from Western Canada who lives with a lovely household of dogs and friends, enjoys long nights of model-building, good food, has a soft spot for Sondheim and magical, sometimes absurd theatre. On a good day, she can juggle a bit.
Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC (selected) Costume Designer: Indecent, Little Women, The Play That Goes Wrong (with Citadel/TC), The Comeback, The Piano Teacher, Calpurnia (with NAC/Black Theatre Workshop). Upcoming: Murder on the Orient Express, The Last Wife.
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Costume Designer: Prophecy, Mary’s Wedding, Iceland (TPM); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Grand Ghost (Grand); Snow White, Spelling 2-5-5 (MTYP); Volare, Space Girl, Voice (PTE); Plé (Plé Collective presented by MTYP); Women of the Fur Trade (Vault Projects).
TRAINING University of Winnipeg.
Lighting Designer
OTHER THEATRE Lighting Design: Skylight (TC). Costume Design: Blackbird, True Love Lies (Citadel); Slime (The Only Animal/Banff Centre); Butcher, The Circle, The Apology, Ash Rizin’, Thinking of Yu, Drama: Pilot Episode (ATP); Might As Well Be Dead, Murder on the Orient Express, Strangers on a Train, The Mousetrap, In the Heat of the Night (Vertigo Theatre). Production Design: Hello Hello, Romeo & Juliet (Kill Your Television). Set and Costume Design: As You Like It (Citadel); Bea’s Niece (Tarragon).
TRAINING/TEACHING April is the Chair of the Drama Department at the University of Alberta. She is a full member of Associated Designers of Canada/IATSE 659.
ET CETERA aprilviczko.com
Video & Projection Designer
OTHER THEATRE Heist, Playing With Fire (Citadel); Brigadoon (Shaw); Forgiveness, Salesman in China, Rent (Stratford); Homes (Grand); Evil Dead the Musical (Starvox); Into the Woods Jr, Newsies (Yellow Door Theatre Project); Mary Poppins, 1984 (Saint John Theatre); Rinaldo (Pacific Opera); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III (Shakespeare Company); Playing with Fire, You Will Remember Me (ATP).
TRAINING Graduate of the BPA Program at Capilano University, Studio 58 Acting Graduate.
ET CETERA corwinferguson.com
Composer & Sound Designer
OTHER THEATRE A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Women (Citadel); Behind the Moon (Touchstone); The Mousetrap (TC); Henry V (Bard).
FILM/TV Comedy Invasion (Hulu, Prime); Rolling Hills (Sunny Drake Productions).
ET CETERA Originally from Kenya, Joelysa is a multi-award-winning composer and sound designer from Vancouver. She’d like to thank Haysam Kadri, Craig Hall, the Citadel and Royal MTC teams, cast and crew for this incredible opportunity!
Fight Director
ROYAL MTC Fight/Movement Director: The Play That Goes Wrong (with Citadel).
OTHER THEATRE Recent and selected: Fight/Intimacy Director: Little Women, A Streetcar Named Desire (Citadel). Fight Director: Die Walkure (Edmonton Opera); Beauty and the Beast (WCT). Intimacy Director: Where You Are, After Mourning – Before Van Gogh (Shadow Theatre). Actor: The Three Musketeers, Pride and Prejudice, Peter and the Starcatcher (Citadel); Glory (Chemainus Theatre Festival/National Tour/Original Cast – WCT, et al.).
ET CETERA For more info on her work, morganyamada.com. Morgan is also one of Azimuth Theatre’s Artistic Producers.
Assistant Director
OTHER THEATRE Director: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Storybook Theatre); Good as Gold (Flipside Theatre); The Underlings (Wagonstage Theatre); Sideshow, Madagascar the Musical (Atlantis Theatrical); My Name is Asher Lev, Suicide Incorporated, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Wit (Twin Bill Theatre). Assistant Director: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Stratford); Beyond the Sea (Lunchbox Theatre); A Killing at La Cucina (Vertigo Theatre); Seafarer (ATP); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TC); Matilda the Musical, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Band’s Visit, Waitress (Atlantis Theatrical).
TRAINING MFA in Directing (University of Calgary).
ET CETERA Steven is a Board member at Theatre Alberta, Artistic Director at Flipside Theatre Collective and Artistic Associate at Vertigo Theatre.
Assistant Set Designer
OTHER THEATRE Hyena’s Trail (Here for Fear Collective); Sprouts (Concrete Theatre); Tom at the Farm, Witch (University of Alberta); Local Diva (Low Hanging Fruit Productions); Emergence of Self (Connections//Collisions).
TRAINING Graduate of the University of Alberta, associate member of Associated Designers of Canada and Canadian Institute of Theatre Technologies.
Stage Manager
OTHER THEATRE The Mountaintop, Rubaboo, The Royale, The Garneau Block, A Christmas Carol, Children of God, Peter and the Starcatcher, Made in Italy (Citadel); As You Like It, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre).
Assistant Stage Manager
OTHER THEATRE The Sound of Music, The Fiancée (Citadel); Die Walkure, Das Reingold, Die Fledermaus, Bluebeard’s Castle, Aquarius, Orphée+, La bohème (Edmonton Opera); The Fiancée (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Don Giovanni (NAC/Banff Centre).
TRAINING Theatre Production Program at MacEwan.
ET CETERA She works as an ASM and IATSE Local 210 theatre technician in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).
Apprentice Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Assistant Lighting Designer: The Man Who Came to Dinner (MBA/Lawyers Play).
OTHER THEATRE Stage Management: The Gallery Wall (Winnipeg Fringe Festival); Oh, the Humanity (U of W). Carpentry: White Girls in Moccasins, Forward, The Drowning Girls (U of W). Other: PAGBUO: A Story Building Workshop (UNIT Productions); MA-BUHAY! A New Musical! (Rainbow); Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
TV The Amazing Race Canada Season 9.
TRAINING University of Winnipeg Theatre and Film Department.
ET CETERA Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Apprenticeship recipient. Thank you to my parents for picking me up during late nights and to my sister who dragged me into theatre in the first place. Thank you to my friends who helped me get here and to my professors and mentors for the guidance and support. Thank you to Royal MTC for giving me this opportunity.
ROYAL MTC Indecent.
OTHER THEATRE Countess Ory, Rocking Horse Winner (Manitoba Underground Opera); Rock of Ages (Rainbow); La bohème, Carmen, Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North, Così fan tutte (MB Opera); A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP); The Cunning Little Vixen (COC); The Magic Flute (Little Opera Company).
TRAINING B.A. in Theatre Production and Stage Management from University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Special thanks to all the family for their support!
Pi Patel
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Wicked Nix, rihannaboi95 (YPT); Fifteen Dogs (Segal); Casey and Diana (Soulpepper/Stratford); No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre); Concord Floral (CS).
ET CETERA Thank you to my wonderful family, friends and agent. This is a dream come true. Instagram: @davinder.pdf
Nurse / Amma / Ensemble
OTHER THEATRE Sakura, Thy Woman’s Weeds (Centaur); Birthday Candles, American Fast (City Theatre); The Supine Cobbler, Behaviour, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (GCTC); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Grand, Arts Club); Intractable Woman, If We Are Birds (Imago); The Tempest (Pittsburgh Public); Dust (ATP); Rice Boy (CS, Stratford); Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night (Repercussion Theatre); The Aeneid (Talisman Theatre); Elli Valli Ottla (Théâtre Urbi et Orbi).
TV Transplant, Diggstown, This Life, Being Human.
ET CETERA Away from stage and camera, Deena works as a dramaturge, coordinator, and is a champion for equity and reform in the performing arts.
Mrs. Okamoto / Ship’s Captain / Ensemble
OTHER THEATRE The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Lunchbox Theatre); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Prospero); Urban Tales (Northern Light Theatre); The King and I (Citadel); Laughing Wild (Epiphany Theatre); Springboards New Play Festival (Workshop West Theatre); Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding (Theatre Republic).
TRAINING Andrea is a graduate of Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts Program.
ET CETERA AMPIA nomination for Best Performance, Sterling Award nomination for Fringe Performance by an Actress.
Lulu Chen / Jai / Ensemble; US: Mrs. Okamoto / Ship’s Captain
ROYAL MTC Little Women, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Network (with Citadel).
OTHER THEATRE Feast (PTE).
TRAINING University of Manitoba – Black Hole Theatre.
ET CETERA Special thanks to S, who supports me endlessly, and to my family and friends for all of their love.
Richard Parker Puppeteer 2 / Ensemble
ROYAL MTC Network (with Citadel).
OTHER THEATRE As You Like It (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); The Three Musketeers, Little Shop of Horrors (ArtsClub/Citadel); Pride & Prejudice, A Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, The Tempest (Citadel); Burning Bluebeard (Edmonton Actor’s Theatre); Bright Lights (Blarney Productions); Shakespeare’s R+J (Kill Your Television); The Salon of the Talking Turk (Teatro Live!); Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre).
TV The Irrational (NBC); Abracadavers (Numera Films).
TRAINING University of Alberta BFA; Frantic Assembly; Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Training Program.
Richard Parker Puppeteer 1 / Ensemble
OTHER THEATRE The Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel); War Horse, The Heart of Robinhood, The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish); Little Amal (The Walk).
FILM/TV Overlord in Overlord and the Underwoods (CBC); Score: A Hockey Musical, Reign, Stepping Up, Kill Order, On the Ropes.
ET CETERA Troy is a Toronto based actor, choreographer, (bboy/house) dancer, puppeteer and parkour artist. As a professional artist he has traveled across the globe performing. Special thanks and love to his AZ fam, Mom and Nadine.
Mrs. Biology Kumar / Zaida Khan / Ensemble; US: Nurse / Amma
ROYAL MTC Nine Dragons (with Gateway/Vertigo), The Drowning Girls (Bent Out of Shape Productions), Evita (with TC).
OTHER THEATRE Selected: Charlotte’s Web, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, The Drowning Girls – Cross Canada Tour, In Wonderland, Around the World in 80 Days, Blue Light (ATP); One Christmas Carol (Storybook); Dark Lady, Complete History Abridged, Blues in the Night (Lunchbox Theatre); The Mousetrap, Humble Boy, Counsellor-at-Law (TC); Dracula: Bloody Truth, Sherlock Holmes, The Ends of the Earth, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Vertigo); Steel Magnolias, Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Theatre NorthWest); The Gig (TA); The Coyotes, Abundance, Beggar’s Opera (Caravan); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Grand); Titus Andronicus, Richard III (Shakespeare Co.); What You’re Missing (Chutzpah Festival); Communion, Palace of the End, Life Skills (Network); Heroine, Love (Northern Light); Speaking in Tongues (Shadow); The Trespassers (Belfry/VP); Lion in the Streets (Sage); Deathtrap, Suite Surrender, Unnecessary Farce, Fiddler on the Roof, The 39 Steps (Stage West); Amadeus, Macbeth, The Constant Wife (Atlantic Theatre Festival); Speak (Globe).
Father / Ghost Father / Ensemble
OTHER THEATRE Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Crow’s); Uncle Vanya (Crow’s/Mirvish); Behind the Moon, Craze (Tarragon); New (CS).
FILM/TV Film: Funny Boy (Deepa Mehta); Beeba Boys (Deepa Mehta); The Breadwinner (Angelina Jolie/Nora Twomey); Umro Ayyar (Azfar Jaffri); Motorcycle Girl (Adnan Sarwar); Dobara Phir Se (Mehreen Jabbar); Baaji (Saqib Malik). TV: Taken, Law and Order TO, Designated Survivor, Transplant, Murdoch Mysteries, Baaghi.
TRAINING Toronto Film School, NAPA (National Academy of Performing Arts).
ET CETERA Dora nominated for Behind the Moon (Tarragon). Multiple awards for film and tv series. The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
Father Martin / Cook / Voice of Richard Parker / Ensemble
ROYAL MTC Recent and selected: ELEVATE: Manaaji'idiwin, The Sound of Music (with Citadel), Network (with Citadel), A Doll’s House, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, A Christmas Carol, Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), Sarah Ballenden, The Audience (with Mirvish), Chimerica (with CS), Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Romeo and Juliet, The Shunning, White Christmas, Bleeding Hearts, Our Town, The Tempest, Feelgood (with GCTC).
OTHER THEATRE Recent and selected: Rock of Ages (Rainbow); The Prom (Dry Cold); Othello (Echo/Beau/Raven); Mesa (PTE); Arcadia (Citadel); Antony and Cleopatra (SIR); Edward II (TBTR); John and Beatrice (TPM); Death of a Salesman (WJT); Peter Pan (MTYP).
FILM/TV Recent and selected: Acting Good, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Little Bird, Burden of Truth, The Pinkertons, Niagara Motel.
TRAINING 2015 Citadel/Banff Professional Training Program; University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Love to Charlene and Phoebe.
Rani / Ghost Rani / Ensemble; US: Pi Patel
OTHER THEATRE Mahabharata (Lincoln Centre, NAC, CS, Barbican Centre, Shaw); Twelfth Night (SIR); Assistance, The Last Five Years (Winnipeg Fringe Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret, Venus (NTS).
FILM/TV The Magic of Lemon Drops (Hallmark); Psycho Killer (Regency); Spencer Sisters (CTV).
TRAINING National Theatre School of Canada (acting program); University of Manitoba (BA, Political Science).
ET CETERA Anaka is a Dora Award-winning, gender non-conforming artist with a passion for storytelling that transcends conventional boundaries. Their work is inspired by a fascination with everyday life and the shared experience of theatre. After internationally touring WhyNot Theatre’s Mahabharata, Anaka is grateful to perform again in their hometown. They dedicate this performance to their ancestors and loved ones: for Nanie, Nana, Biji, Grandpa and Darius.
Mamaji / Pandit-Ji / Ensemble
OTHER THEATRE Canada (selected credits): 1184 (Aga Khan Museum/Phoenix Arts); Richard III (Metachroma Theatre/Segal); Three Men in a Boat & Bike (Guild Festival); Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Caesar & Cleopatra (Stratford); Alice in Wonderland (Theatre NorthWest). UK (selected credits): Macbeth (National Tour); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Greenwhich Playhouse); Henry V (Orange Tree); Ideal Husband (Leicester Haymarket); Close to Home (Theatre Alibi).
TV Fubar, My Perfect Landing, HotZone, Mayday, XIII, Warehouse 13.
TRAINING/TEACHING Trained at LAMDA, Azeem also teaches Shakespeare at George Brown Theatre School.
ET CETERA Currently working on his second play, 1462, Azeem continues to serve on the board of Theatre Passe Muraille and is a recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford) and three BWW Toronto nominations.
Ensemble; US: Rani / Ghost Rani, Mrs. Biology Kumar / Zaida Khan, Lulu Chen / Jai
OTHER THEATRE Dance Nation (SkirtsAFire); The Jungle Book, The Wedding Party (ATP); Barvinok (Pyretic Productions); A Fit, Happy Life, A Grand Time in the Rapids, The Scent of Compulsion, On the Banks of the Nut (Teatro Live!); Murder in the Studio, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse (Vertigo Theatre); Flight Risk (Lunchbox Theatre); The Scarlet Letter (TC); Under Cover (Concrete Theatre).
TRAINING Graduate of Grant MacEwan College Theatre Arts (2009) and University of Alberta Bachelor of Arts – Acting (2016).
ET CETERA Kristen has received Elizabeth Sterling Haynes nominations for her performances in Dance Nation (SkirtsAFire) and Under Cover (Concrete Theatre). She is an Associate Producer at Chromatic Theatre in Calgary and an Artistic Co-Producer at Impossible Mongoose in Edmonton. Love to D + A.
Russian Sailor / Admiral Jackson / Ensemble; US: Understudy: R.P. Puppeteer 1 & 2, Father Martin / Cook / Voice of R.P.
ROYAL MTC The Sound of Music (with Citadel), Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel).
OTHER THEATRE Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Peter and the Starcatcher, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet (Citadel); Nevermore, The Soul Collector, Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); Fever Land, I Heard About Your Murder (Teatro La Quindicina); Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse (Vertigo Theatre); Liberation Days (TC); Jack Goes Boating (Sage Theatre); Outside Mullingar, The Best Brothers, Beginning of August (Shadow Theatre); Chicago, Hairspray, Sheer Madness (Mayfield Dinner Theatre).
TRAINING Garett has a BFA in Drama from the University of Alberta and is a graduate of the musical theatre program at Grant MacEwan.
Ensemble; US: Father / Ghost Father, Mamaji / Pandit-Ji, Russian Sailor / Admiral Jackson
OTHER THEATRE Bombay Black (ATP); Jesus Christ Superstar (TiFT); The Tempest (Citadel); Bend It Like Beckham, North American Premiere (Star Vox); The Secret Garden (TC); Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on a Bike (Guild Festival Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in Action).
TRAINING Graduate of MA Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy (London, UK).
ET CETERA Often works and creates with Deaf and Disabled communities. Currently the Associate Artistic Producer of Common Boots Theatre in Toronto. Follow him on FB, IG, Twitter (X) – @Suchiththaw