Cast & Creative Team

Rick is a writer/director/actor/musician/educator who has performed in five languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called "one of the 100 most creative people alive today". He has created solo works such as MacHomer, BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ; (with Daniel Brooks) Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; (with Robert Lepage) Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, and Possible Worlds; (with Craig Francis) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, GAME of CLONES, Jungle Book, HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales; (with Craig Francis and Paul Van Dyck) FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book. Rick is from Montreal, sometimes teaches at University of Toronto’s Drama Centre and BMO Lab, and lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist.
 

Maev Beaty is a critically-acclaimed stage and screen actor, writer and voice-over artist with over 50 theatre performance credits. She has originated roles in over two dozen Canadian premieres (including Hannah Moscovitch’s Bunny, Michael Healey's Proud, Kate Hennig’s The Last Wife, Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End and Sharon Pollock’s Angel's Trumpet); She has co-written and starred in the award-winning Secret Life of a Mother, Montparnasse, and Dance of the Red Skirts; and has interpreted lead classic roles across the country and over eight seasons at the Stratford Festival, as well as epic theatre endeavours (Soulpepper August Osage County, Sheep No Wool/Outside the March/Convergence’s Passion Play, Nightwood’s Penelopiad, Volcano’s Another Africa, TheatreFront’sThe Mill). She is a Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award winner, multiple Dora Award winner and fourteen-time Dora nominee. She’s a former Equity Council member, activist and mum.
 

Rachel Cairns is an award-winning actor who has performed on stages across Canada. In addition to her work in theatre, she’s also produced award-winning digital content, like her web series Mom & Me which has been viewed over 7 million times on YouTube. Her podcast ‘Aborsh’ which explores the landscape of reproductive rights in Canada and received a Planned Parenthood Choice Award for excellence in sexual and reproductive health and rights advocacy. Her solo show ‘Hypothetical Baby’ - about the practical and existential components of deciding to become a parent, or not - premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in December of 2023. In addition to her various creative endeavours, Rachel is a professor at George Brown College’s film program and directs audiobooks for Penguin Random House Canada.
 

Ryan is Nēhiyawi/Cree/ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐃ from Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) who’s family comes from The Michel Band First Nation. Ryan has worked as an actor, producer, director, manager and event creator for over 25 years. His company, Cunning Concepts & Creations, produces and tours the Award winning production, HUFF written and performed by Cliff Cardinal. Originally produced by Native Earth Performing Arts under the Artistic Direction of Ryan Cunningham. Most recently Ryan has acted with Crows Theatre (Julius Caesar), The Shaw Festival (AN OCTOROON) and can be seen playing the role of Darcy Douglas in all 5 seasons of the award winning APTN series, BLACKSTONE. An alumni of the RBC Director Development Residency at Canadian Stage and current Artist in Residence at the Canadian Stage-University of Toronto, BMO Lab. He has been nominated for the KLM Hunter Artist Award and the inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize.
 

Sébastien Heins (actor, producer, writer, director) is Associate Artistic Director of multi-Dora winner Outside the March (No Save Points, Trojan Girls, Mr. Burns, Mr. Marmalade, Mundane Mysteries). Theatre credits include: Topdog/Underdog (Canadian Stage), The Tempest, School for Scandal, Breath of Kings (Stratford 2016-18), Bang Bang (Factory, RMTC, Belfry) and Wedding at Aulis (Soulpepper). His first solo show Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera (Best Emerging Artist, NYC United Solo Festival) toured North America and India. Screen credits: Ghosts of Xmas Past, The Listener, Cracked, and his short Her Chance to Dream (City Stories Award). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, School at Steppenwolf in Chicago. Recent highlight: He is the creator/performer of No Save Points, the interactive memoir where audiences use a hacked Gameboy to pilot his body through games depicting his family’s struggle with Huntington’s Disease. Developed by OtM, it premiered at Lighthouse Immersive in 2023.
 

Yanna McIntosh is one of Canada's pre-eminent stage actors. Theatre credits include The Master Plan (Crows) Ruined (Obsidian), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (San Francisco), The Baroness and the Pig (Shaw), Hedda Gabler (Volcano), Belle (Factory), and Skylight (Tarragon). Onscreen recurring roles include: Y: The Last Man (FX), Good Sam (CBS), Beyond Black Beauty (Amazon), Pretty Hard Cases (Global TV), This is Wonderland (CBC), and other roles in Coroner (CBC/CW), The Marsh King's Daughter (Black Bear Pictures), Doomstown (CTV), and Slumberland (Netflix). She was educated at Vaughan Road Collegiate, the University of Toronto, and Harvard University. She has starred in many shows at the Stratford Festival, including Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, Elektra, Trojan Women, A Little Night Music, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Oedipus, and has won a Gemini, a Toronto Critics Circle award, and several Dora awards.
 

Most recently Oliver played Herr Hund in Bremen Town by Gregory Prest, at Caravan Farm Theatre in Luke Reece's The Wonderful and The Seagull at Soulpepper Theatre where he has also had the opportunity to play in over 100 works by: Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov, Miller, Williams, Albee, Beckett, Ionesco, Orton, Simon, Sarah Ruhl, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tracey Letts, David French, Morris Panych/Brenda Robins, Mike Ross/Sarah Wilson, Lee MacDougall, Vern Thiessen, Michael Shamata, Shaffer, Story, Stoppard, Frayn, Aykbourn. Other theatres include: Theatre New Brunswick, Grand Theatre London, CanStage, Factory, Tarragon, Passe Muraille, Crow's Theatre, Theatre Columbus. Please support Canadian Film by catching American Hangman and Don't Get Killed in Alaska on a popular media platform. And also, Slings and Arrows!
 

Heeyun Park 박희윤 is an actor, singer and creator based in Toronto. Select credits: Mary in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Madeleine Bejart in La Bête (Talk is Free Theatre), carried by the river (Red Snow), Lady Triệu in ANIVIA (Caminos), Morning After (a front company), Emily Brontë in Brontë (Timms Centre), Sally Bowles in Cabaret (NTS), Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (UofA Opera), HANS: MYLife in Fairy Tales (20K Collective). Heeyun trained at the National Theatre School of Canada for Acting and has a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Alberta. She is currently writing a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Arachne supported by Canada Council of the Arts.
 

Craig Francis is a writer, director, illustrator, and multidisciplinary creator. His shows have toured Canada and the US, including Off-Broadway in 2016 and 2019. A founding member of The 20K Collective, Craig co-created Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Game of Clones, and Jungle Book with Rick Miller; and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book with Miller and Paul Van Dyck. He's a producer, dramaturg, and stage manager for Miller's solo BOOM Trilogy. Craig co-directed a workshop of the musical Blocked (TheaterWorksUSA), and is a mentor of emerging artists, including co-authoring Redwood Avenue with Andrea Friesen. New projects include HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales, and CYNIC, Craig is a speaker on LGBTQA2S+ issues. He performed improv comedy with Just For Laughs, CBC, CTV and Showtime, and his animated videos with Kidoons are installed in museums in six provinces.
 

Aidan Ware hails from Calgary, and is a graduate of the BFA Technical Theatre program at the University of Alberta. After an 18-month lighting practicum at the Banff Centre, Aidan moved to Toronto where his creativity and passion for bringing new technologies to live performance have led him to work for Solotech, Moment Factory, TIFA, and TOlive. He was the Assistant Technical Director at Canadian Stage and Director of Production for Fall for Dance North for multiple seasons. He is currently part of a team designing a new state-of-the-art space for the BMO lab at the University of Toronto, focusing on emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in performance. He continues to freelance as a Technical Director and Lighting Designer in Toronto. Other credits with Kidoons/WYRD Productions include BOOM X (TD/ALD), BOOM YZ (TD/LD), and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales (TD/LD).
 

Irina is a creative artist, graphic designer for print and web, and video production artist. She has worked on multimedia campaigns for Performing Arts Centers across Canada and the U.S, from The Joy of Dance Studio Toronto to TELUS Skins. Irina has been a longstanding multimedia collaborator with Rick Miller and Craig Francis, including creating multimedia for MacHomer, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, and Game of Clones. Recent work includes branding and projections media design for BOOM X and BOOM YZ, for which she was nominated alongside Rick Miller and Nicolas Dostie for the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Projection or Video Design. Irina is the multimedia designer for Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. As a web and video production artist, Irina is the designer and production editor of the Kidoons Network animated series.
 

Paul Van Dyck is a playwright, screenwriter, director, performer, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, a BA in Film Studies, and a BAH in Specialized Studies in Stage and Screen from Queen’s University. Awards include: The Tom Hendry Playwrights Guild of Canada; The Montreal English Critics Circle Revelation; META for Outstanding Direction; The New York Frigid Festival, Atlantic Fringe Festival, and Montreal Fringe Festival Best Production. Paul is a past participant of the Directors Project at the Shaw Festival, and the founding AD of Rabbit in a Hat Productions. Recently, Paul co-wrote Kidoons’ production of FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and the feature film, Snow Angel, which premiered at the Festival de Cinéma in Québec. Paul has appeared in dozens of films, TV series, and plays.