CAST & CREATIVE
Kenton Blythe (Player 2 / Peasant Boy)
Kenton is very excited to be telling this epic tale with these amazing people! Past credits include: Joe Orton's Loot (Bygone Theatre), Heart of Steel (Toronto Next Stage Theatre Festival), Juno and the Paycock, and Cabaret (Shaw Festival), Evil Dead: the Musical (Starvox Entertainment). Kenton co-produced and starred in Looking For Today, a short film that was later accepted into the Canadian Film Festival, and can now be seen on YouTube. Recently, Kenton and the ensemble for Grey (Toronto Fringe/ThreeFive Productions) won a "My Entertainment World Award" for Outstanding Ensemble. You can find him on Instagram and Twitter as: @KentonBlythe, and on Facebook as: @actorkenton. Enjoy the show!
Kenton is very excited to be telling this epic tale with these amazing people! Past credits include: Joe Orton's Loot (Bygone Theatre), Heart of Steel (Toronto Next Stage Theatre Festival), Juno and the Paycock, and Cabaret (Shaw Festival), Evil Dead: the Musical (Starvox Entertainment). Kenton co-produced and starred in Looking For Today, a short film that was later accepted into the Canadian Film Festival, and can now be seen on YouTube. Recently, Kenton and the ensemble for Grey (Toronto Fringe/ThreeFive Productions) won a "My Entertainment World Award" for Outstanding Ensemble. You can find him on Instagram and Twitter as: @KentonBlythe, and on Facebook as: @actorkenton. Enjoy the show!
Lana Carillo (Player 1 / Princess)
Lana's selected theatre credits include: Cannibal! The Musical (Starvox Entertainment), I'm Right Here (2015 Fringe Festival); James and the Giant Peach (YPT; Dora nominee), The Little Mermaid (Ross Petty Productions; TTCA winner - Best Supporting Actress), Prairie Nurse (Blyth Festival), Just East Of Broadway (2009 Fringe Festival Patron's Pick, Next Stage Festival), Funny Business: The Musical (2007 Best of Fringe, Diesel Playhouse), Grease: The Musical (Fallen Rock Productions/Escape Productions). She is also thrilled to be the voice of "Ruby" in the animated treasure, Max and Ruby (seasons 6 and 7). Lana is thrilled to be back at the Fringe, and to work with this fantastic company! Love to family and friends, and enjoy the show!!
Lana's selected theatre credits include: Cannibal! The Musical (Starvox Entertainment), I'm Right Here (2015 Fringe Festival); James and the Giant Peach (YPT; Dora nominee), The Little Mermaid (Ross Petty Productions; TTCA winner - Best Supporting Actress), Prairie Nurse (Blyth Festival), Just East Of Broadway (2009 Fringe Festival Patron's Pick, Next Stage Festival), Funny Business: The Musical (2007 Best of Fringe, Diesel Playhouse), Grease: The Musical (Fallen Rock Productions/Escape Productions). She is also thrilled to be the voice of "Ruby" in the animated treasure, Max and Ruby (seasons 6 and 7). Lana is thrilled to be back at the Fringe, and to work with this fantastic company! Love to family and friends, and enjoy the show!!
Catarina Ciccone (Player 5 / Princely Suitor #3 / Soothsayer)
Catarina is thrilled to be making her Fringe debut with The Princess of the Tower! A graduate of St. Lawrence College, Catarina has performed all over Canada. Select theatre credits include Hairspray (Drayton), Mamma Mia! (Theatre St. John’s), Voices of Canada (Charlottetown Festival Young Company), and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (SLC). Film/TV: Massive Monster Mayhem (Nickelodeon). Catarina also has an extensive folk background and has performed alongside Canadian Folk Music Award winner and sister, Adrianna Ciccone, at the Celtic Colours International Festival as well as the Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival. A huge thank you to the folks at The Talent House and to my family, friends, and mentors for their continued support and inspiration. Instagram: @catarinaciccone | www.catarinaciccone.com
Catarina is thrilled to be making her Fringe debut with The Princess of the Tower! A graduate of St. Lawrence College, Catarina has performed all over Canada. Select theatre credits include Hairspray (Drayton), Mamma Mia! (Theatre St. John’s), Voices of Canada (Charlottetown Festival Young Company), and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (SLC). Film/TV: Massive Monster Mayhem (Nickelodeon). Catarina also has an extensive folk background and has performed alongside Canadian Folk Music Award winner and sister, Adrianna Ciccone, at the Celtic Colours International Festival as well as the Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival. A huge thank you to the folks at The Talent House and to my family, friends, and mentors for their continued support and inspiration. Instagram: @catarinaciccone | www.catarinaciccone.com
Camila Diaz-Varela (Player 4 / Princely Suitor #1 / Physician)
Camila Diaz-Varela is a first-generation Mexican-Canadian musician, theatre maker and performer based in Tkaronto, on Dish with One Spoon wampum belt treaty territory. She was born in Kjipuktuk on unceded Mi'kmaq territory (also known as Halifax, Nova Scotia) and is very proud of it. Camila performs both as a singer-songwriter and for theatre, and her weapons of choice are voice, guitar, piano, ukulele, and tuba. She was most recently seen in Our Lady of Delicias with Essential Collective Theatre, a new play about Mexican migrant farm works in the Niagara wine country, and in The Silver Arrow: The Untold Story of Robin Hood with the Citadel Theatre, a new musical written by Meiko Ouchi and composed by Hawksley Workman.
Camila Diaz-Varela is a first-generation Mexican-Canadian musician, theatre maker and performer based in Tkaronto, on Dish with One Spoon wampum belt treaty territory. She was born in Kjipuktuk on unceded Mi'kmaq territory (also known as Halifax, Nova Scotia) and is very proud of it. Camila performs both as a singer-songwriter and for theatre, and her weapons of choice are voice, guitar, piano, ukulele, and tuba. She was most recently seen in Our Lady of Delicias with Essential Collective Theatre, a new play about Mexican migrant farm works in the Niagara wine country, and in The Silver Arrow: The Untold Story of Robin Hood with the Citadel Theatre, a new musical written by Meiko Ouchi and composed by Hawksley Workman.
Rick Hughes (Player 3 / King)
Rick is excited to perform on the Fringe for the first time since appearing in Pinter’s Betrayal (Pick of the Fringe 2007). Selected Theatre - Persephone: Biloxi Blues, At the End of Her Rope; STC: Christmas Carol, Tuesdays With Morrie, How It Works, Real Estate; MTC: Hamlet; Charlottetown: Full Monty, the Buddy Holly Story, Anne of Green Gables; Drayton: the Affections of May; Globe: the Tempest, Twelfth Night, Fire. Selected Film/TV: Mouthpiece, Murdoch Mysteries, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Hemlock Grove, RoboCop. Rick, originally from Shaunavon, SK, studied at the National Theatre School of Canada and now lives in Toronto with his outrageously talented wife, Donna Garner, appearing on the Fringe in Polly Peel.
Rick is excited to perform on the Fringe for the first time since appearing in Pinter’s Betrayal (Pick of the Fringe 2007). Selected Theatre - Persephone: Biloxi Blues, At the End of Her Rope; STC: Christmas Carol, Tuesdays With Morrie, How It Works, Real Estate; MTC: Hamlet; Charlottetown: Full Monty, the Buddy Holly Story, Anne of Green Gables; Drayton: the Affections of May; Globe: the Tempest, Twelfth Night, Fire. Selected Film/TV: Mouthpiece, Murdoch Mysteries, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Hemlock Grove, RoboCop. Rick, originally from Shaunavon, SK, studied at the National Theatre School of Canada and now lives in Toronto with his outrageously talented wife, Donna Garner, appearing on the Fringe in Polly Peel.
Michael MacEachern (Player 6 / Princely Suitor #2 / The Ziz)
Michael has played Rob Delaney in Opening Night, Munsch Upon a Time, The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre) Salt Water Moon, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (Single Thread), Jack and The Beanstalk (Cow Over Moon Theatre), Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Laurie in Little Women (First Act Productions). His upcoming films include: Scottish Signaller in 100 Days to Victory (100 Days Productions), and John Muir in John Muir at Trout Hollow (Angst and Ardour Productions).
Michael has played Rob Delaney in Opening Night, Munsch Upon a Time, The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre) Salt Water Moon, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (Single Thread), Jack and The Beanstalk (Cow Over Moon Theatre), Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Laurie in Little Women (First Act Productions). His upcoming films include: Scottish Signaller in 100 Days to Victory (100 Days Productions), and John Muir in John Muir at Trout Hollow (Angst and Ardour Productions).
Jen Shuber (Director)
Jen Shuber is a director, writer and choreographer. Jen is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of The Arts, London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts , Lyric and Book Labs at NMI and is an alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Writer's Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. She has worked for Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Harold Green Jewish Theatre and many more. She is the book writer of The Journey That Saved Curious George which has recently completed the ASCAP/Stephen Schwartz workshop in Toronto, a residency at Interlochen Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Musical Theatre Project at Sheridan College and the Margret and H.A. Rey residency from the Curious George Foundation. In 2013 Jen was nominated for the Siminovitch Prize in directing and has also been a multiple time Mike Ockrent Fellowship and Dora award nominee.
Jen Shuber is a director, writer and choreographer. Jen is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of The Arts, London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts , Lyric and Book Labs at NMI and is an alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Writer's Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. She has worked for Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Harold Green Jewish Theatre and many more. She is the book writer of The Journey That Saved Curious George which has recently completed the ASCAP/Stephen Schwartz workshop in Toronto, a residency at Interlochen Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Musical Theatre Project at Sheridan College and the Margret and H.A. Rey residency from the Curious George Foundation. In 2013 Jen was nominated for the Siminovitch Prize in directing and has also been a multiple time Mike Ockrent Fellowship and Dora award nominee.
Scott Christian (Musical Director / Music)
Scott is a Toronto-based composer, musical director and composer. He composed the music for A Misfortune, based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, which debuted at the 2014 Next Stage Festival and was part of the 2017 Charlottetown Festival season. He is scoring a number of projects currently in development including Dead Reckoning with Lezlie Wade, and Burden Of Proof with Rob Kempson and La-Nai Gabriel. As a musical director, Scott has worked all over Canada. Selected MD credits include A Misfortune, The Dream Catchers, The Voices Of Canada, and Glenda’s Kitchen (Charlottetown Festival); Once, Shrek, and The Addams Family (Neptune Theatre); Snow White (Drayton); Company (Theatre 20); and Second City Toronto. For Fringe, Scott composed the music for Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (2009 Patron's Pick & Best Of Fringe) and The Soaps! A Live Improvised Soap Opera. Scott is married to Albanian-Canadian singer/songwriter and actress Tringa Rexhepi.
Scott is a Toronto-based composer, musical director and composer. He composed the music for A Misfortune, based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, which debuted at the 2014 Next Stage Festival and was part of the 2017 Charlottetown Festival season. He is scoring a number of projects currently in development including Dead Reckoning with Lezlie Wade, and Burden Of Proof with Rob Kempson and La-Nai Gabriel. As a musical director, Scott has worked all over Canada. Selected MD credits include A Misfortune, The Dream Catchers, The Voices Of Canada, and Glenda’s Kitchen (Charlottetown Festival); Once, Shrek, and The Addams Family (Neptune Theatre); Snow White (Drayton); Company (Theatre 20); and Second City Toronto. For Fringe, Scott composed the music for Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (2009 Patron's Pick & Best Of Fringe) and The Soaps! A Live Improvised Soap Opera. Scott is married to Albanian-Canadian singer/songwriter and actress Tringa Rexhepi.
Lezlie Wade (Lyrics)
Lezlie Wade – is a director, writer, lyricist and actor. Currently her production of An Ideal Husband is playing at The Stratford Festival. Other recent directing credits include, H.M.S. Pinafore at the Stratford Festival and The Twelve Pound Look at the Shaw Festival, Les Belles Soeurs and Blue Stockings at The University of Windsor.
She was assistant director on four shows at the Stratford Festival including Fuente Ovejuna with Laurence Boswell, As You Like It and A Word or Two with Des McAnuff. She also assisted Des McAnuff on Jesus Christ Superstar at Stratford, The LaJolla Playhouse and on Broadway. She was associate director on Henry V, also at the Stratford Festival. Other directing credits include: Obeah Opera – PanAm Games, Dream A Little Dream – The Grand Theatre, Queen Milli of Galt – Theatre Aquarius, Dog See God – Rubinoff Productions, The Yalta Game – Shaw Festival, Elegies and A Man of No Importance – The Musical Stage Company, for which she received a Dora nomination. Lezlie was resident director / choreographer on The Toxic Avenger for Dancap Productions and resident director for Love, Loss and What I Wore – Roth / Rubinoff productions. As a writer, her musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol has been produced across Canada and her play, Rule of Thirds was recently workshopped at Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo N.Y and Theatre Aquarius. Lezlie is an alum of the BMI workshop in NYC. She is currently working on Dead Reckoning with Scott Christian, and a new commissioned work of Robin Hood for Yellow Door Productions. Her musical, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen with her collaborator, Daniel Green has been workshopped at Finger Lakes Musical Theatre, AMTP in Chicago, and was one of two musicals chosen for the ASCAP DreamWorks workshop where it was presented to Steven Schwartz, Stephen Flaherty and Dick Scanlan. It was one of four musicals chosen as part of the Kaufman Center’s Bound for Broadway series and has been optioned by Somerled Arts Foundation. It was short-listed for the Tom Hendry award for best new musical.
Lezlie Wade – is a director, writer, lyricist and actor. Currently her production of An Ideal Husband is playing at The Stratford Festival. Other recent directing credits include, H.M.S. Pinafore at the Stratford Festival and The Twelve Pound Look at the Shaw Festival, Les Belles Soeurs and Blue Stockings at The University of Windsor.
She was assistant director on four shows at the Stratford Festival including Fuente Ovejuna with Laurence Boswell, As You Like It and A Word or Two with Des McAnuff. She also assisted Des McAnuff on Jesus Christ Superstar at Stratford, The LaJolla Playhouse and on Broadway. She was associate director on Henry V, also at the Stratford Festival. Other directing credits include: Obeah Opera – PanAm Games, Dream A Little Dream – The Grand Theatre, Queen Milli of Galt – Theatre Aquarius, Dog See God – Rubinoff Productions, The Yalta Game – Shaw Festival, Elegies and A Man of No Importance – The Musical Stage Company, for which she received a Dora nomination. Lezlie was resident director / choreographer on The Toxic Avenger for Dancap Productions and resident director for Love, Loss and What I Wore – Roth / Rubinoff productions. As a writer, her musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol has been produced across Canada and her play, Rule of Thirds was recently workshopped at Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo N.Y and Theatre Aquarius. Lezlie is an alum of the BMI workshop in NYC. She is currently working on Dead Reckoning with Scott Christian, and a new commissioned work of Robin Hood for Yellow Door Productions. Her musical, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen with her collaborator, Daniel Green has been workshopped at Finger Lakes Musical Theatre, AMTP in Chicago, and was one of two musicals chosen for the ASCAP DreamWorks workshop where it was presented to Steven Schwartz, Stephen Flaherty and Dick Scanlan. It was one of four musicals chosen as part of the Kaufman Center’s Bound for Broadway series and has been optioned by Somerled Arts Foundation. It was short-listed for the Tom Hendry award for best new musical.
Alisse Lee Goldenberg (Book)
Alisse Lee Goldenberg is an award winning author of Horror, Young Adult Paranormal Romance, and Young Adult Fantasy fiction. She is currently working on four series: The Sitnalta Series, The Children of Colonodona, The Dybbuk Scrolls, and The Bath Salts Journals (co-authored with An Tran). Alisse is also a screenwriter and playwright, having co-written There is No Maybe: a play about consent (Commissioned by York University), and last year's KidsFest hit Jay and Shilo (a musical featuring songs by Anthony Bastianon and Brett McCaig). Website: www.alisseleegoldenberg.com | Instagram: @AliLGoldenberg
Alisse Lee Goldenberg is an award winning author of Horror, Young Adult Paranormal Romance, and Young Adult Fantasy fiction. She is currently working on four series: The Sitnalta Series, The Children of Colonodona, The Dybbuk Scrolls, and The Bath Salts Journals (co-authored with An Tran). Alisse is also a screenwriter and playwright, having co-written There is No Maybe: a play about consent (Commissioned by York University), and last year's KidsFest hit Jay and Shilo (a musical featuring songs by Anthony Bastianon and Brett McCaig). Website: www.alisseleegoldenberg.com | Instagram: @AliLGoldenberg
Laura Moniz (Stage Manager)
A high school drama teacher during the year, this is Laura’s twelfth year working with in the Fringe Festival as a stage manager or producer. Favourite credits have included stage management for The Diddlin’ Bibbles Live in Concert (Patrons Pick 2017), Songbuster! An Improvised Musical, and several seasons of Shakey-Shake and Friends at FringeKids! (Patron’s Pick, Best of FringeKids! Multiple years). When not working with this fantastic team, Laura can be found down the road at the Monarch Tavern, stage managing for Lighters in the Air, also as a part of this festival.
A high school drama teacher during the year, this is Laura’s twelfth year working with in the Fringe Festival as a stage manager or producer. Favourite credits have included stage management for The Diddlin’ Bibbles Live in Concert (Patrons Pick 2017), Songbuster! An Improvised Musical, and several seasons of Shakey-Shake and Friends at FringeKids! (Patron’s Pick, Best of FringeKids! Multiple years). When not working with this fantastic team, Laura can be found down the road at the Monarch Tavern, stage managing for Lighters in the Air, also as a part of this festival.
Jeff Jones (Technical Director)
Jeff is excited to be back at the FRINGE this summer! As a multi-skilled Theatre Practitioner, Jeff has performed many tasks on many shows at the FRINGE since 2007. Some highlights include writing and performing an acclaimed one-man show, "This is the Thing" in 2009, playing guitar in "Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl" in 2014 and Producing and Audio Engineering for last year's smash, "Maddie's Karaoke Birthday Party". He's also been a director, lighting and sound designer, stagehand, composer and promoter for shows in the festival. Despite continuing to expand his work elsewhere, Jeff will always enjoy coming home to the FRINGE each July.
Jeff is excited to be back at the FRINGE this summer! As a multi-skilled Theatre Practitioner, Jeff has performed many tasks on many shows at the FRINGE since 2007. Some highlights include writing and performing an acclaimed one-man show, "This is the Thing" in 2009, playing guitar in "Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl" in 2014 and Producing and Audio Engineering for last year's smash, "Maddie's Karaoke Birthday Party". He's also been a director, lighting and sound designer, stagehand, composer and promoter for shows in the festival. Despite continuing to expand his work elsewhere, Jeff will always enjoy coming home to the FRINGE each July.
Brian Goldenberg (Producer)
Brian is an experienced theatre producer and a two-time graduate of York University (BFA in Music, Schulich MBA specializing in Arts & Media Management). Brian has worked as Assistant Producer at Acting Up Stage Company, Executive Director for Theatre 20, and founding Artistic & Executive Director for Angelwalk Theatre, a musical theatre company that has produced 17 musicals with 11 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. Brian's original musical, Seven of Us made its Toronto debut in the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival and he conceived the 2017 original musical Maddie's Karaoke Birthday Party (nominated for Outstanding New Work, My Entertainment World). In 2017, Brian produced three hit Toronto Fringe Festival productions that all received 4Ns in NOW, including Jay & Shilo's Sibling Revelry, Bad Date: a cautionary tale, and Maddie's Karaoke Birthday Party. Brian is a recipient of three SINGular Sensation BackDoora Awards for contributions to the Toronto theatre community.
Brian is an experienced theatre producer and a two-time graduate of York University (BFA in Music, Schulich MBA specializing in Arts & Media Management). Brian has worked as Assistant Producer at Acting Up Stage Company, Executive Director for Theatre 20, and founding Artistic & Executive Director for Angelwalk Theatre, a musical theatre company that has produced 17 musicals with 11 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. Brian's original musical, Seven of Us made its Toronto debut in the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival and he conceived the 2017 original musical Maddie's Karaoke Birthday Party (nominated for Outstanding New Work, My Entertainment World). In 2017, Brian produced three hit Toronto Fringe Festival productions that all received 4Ns in NOW, including Jay & Shilo's Sibling Revelry, Bad Date: a cautionary tale, and Maddie's Karaoke Birthday Party. Brian is a recipient of three SINGular Sensation BackDoora Awards for contributions to the Toronto theatre community.
Linda Ge (Production Assistant)
Linda is excited to be a part of her first FRINGE festival experience and to work behind the scenes of producing a show. She studied Acting at York University starring as Rick in "Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave", and Bleeding in "If We Were Birds". She starred as Ganymede in Wexford's "As You Like It". She has a huge passion for health and fitness and aspires to be a lifestyle coach traveling the world on her yoga mat while youtubing the experience. Linda is a seasoned yogi, runner, and holistic wellness guru.
If you see her, give her a hug because hugs are great and release oxytocin. Namaste. Youtube: @thefitty | Instagram: @thefitty | Website: www.thefitty.com
Linda is excited to be a part of her first FRINGE festival experience and to work behind the scenes of producing a show. She studied Acting at York University starring as Rick in "Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave", and Bleeding in "If We Were Birds". She starred as Ganymede in Wexford's "As You Like It". She has a huge passion for health and fitness and aspires to be a lifestyle coach traveling the world on her yoga mat while youtubing the experience. Linda is a seasoned yogi, runner, and holistic wellness guru.
If you see her, give her a hug because hugs are great and release oxytocin. Namaste. Youtube: @thefitty | Instagram: @thefitty | Website: www.thefitty.com