Described by the Toronto Star as “one of Toronto’s most exciting playwrights,” Michael Ross Albert is a Dora Award-nominated writer whose work has been staged across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Production credits include The Bidding War (Crow's Theatre) Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects), When I’m Gone (Mountain Movers Theatre Company), Two Minutes to Midnight (The Assembly Theatre), Miss (Unit 102), The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (published in "Best American Short Plays 2014-2015) and Tough Jews (Dora Award nomination, Outstanding New Play). Michael's work has been presented in multiple Fringe festivals, including Edinburgh, Brighton, and FringeNYC. Five of his plays were staged in the Toronto Fringe Festival, including: The Huns, Anywhere (both: Patron’s Pick and Best of Fringe), and most recently, Good Old Days. He is currently working on new plays commissioned by the Stratford Festival and the Blyth Festival. 

Diana is a Dora Award winning producer, actor, director and writer and the co-founder and former Artistic Director of Coal Mine Theatre. She’s a graduate of UofT, LAMDA and the CFC Actors' Conservatory. She is a director (People, Places & Things, Yerma) and takes the stage regularly (most recently she starred in the Coal Mine’s production of Hedda Gabler). She has performed in many tv shows and films such as Handmaid’s Tale, Sort Of, Departure, Frontier, Locke and Key, Cabinet of Curiosities and The Expanse to name just a few. She is also the recipient of an Equity Award of Distinction. Diana is the proud mother of Henry, step-mother of Rosie and Theo Dykstra and partner of Ted.

Breanna Dillon is a Dora-nominated actor and a producer based in Toronto.  She trained in New York City and is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. In 2014, she co-founded Witchboy Theatre in Toronto, producing and acting in all four of their successful productions. Her past acting work also got her recognized as one of NOW Magazine’s "Breakthrough Stage Artists of 2018". Her most recent appearance on stage was in Michael Ross Albert’s “The Huns'', which won Best of Fringe in 2019 and was remounted in Toronto in 2022 before it traveled to the Brighton Fringe Festival in the U.K where it received much critical acclaim. Breanna has appeared in TV shows on Netflix, Apple TV, FOX & Amazon Prime. You might recognize Breanna from downstairs in the Coal Mine Theatre where she is the Front of House Manager. Breanna loves to read, write, sing and spend time snuggling with her sweet French Bulldog Pedro. Thank you Diana, Michael, the cast and the entire creative team that made this all possible. Now, let’s play in the Vault Creation Lab and get a little closer!

Anthony is an Associate Producer at Coal Mine Theatre, Artistic Director of Icarus Theatre, and a Founding Associate of The Vault Creation Lab. He has produced critically-acclaimed indie productions of both new and existing works including: Constellations, Fiji (new work), and Lobby Hero, as well as workshops of Toronto, 1989 and Skylark: A New Musical with his company, Icarus Theatre. He also produces and hosts the monthly Dark Day Cabaret Series, which has been running monthly in Toronto for 2 years. As an actor and director, he has played a part in numerous productions both in Ontario, and in his home province of BC. In his spare time, he enjoys Muay Thai, rock climbing, and metal. Thanks to Emily and Erik, Diana and Charlotte.

Cameron is a Toronto based actor and theatre producer. He recently completed his 4th season at the Blyth Festival where he performed in Saving Graceland, The Trials of Maggie Pollock, The Donnelly's Trilogy, The Drawer Boy and Our Beautiful Sons. Cameron is also a Founder and Artistic Leader of The Howland Company, where he has performed in a number of shows including Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Prodigal, Three Sisters, Punk Rock and Casimir & Caroline, for which he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Ensemble. He most recently appeared in this winter's Shakespeare Bash'd production of The Merchant of Venice.

Annie Luján (she/her) is a Dora award winning Costa Rican-Canadian actor and clown. She is a graduate of the 2022 Soulpepper Academy and Concordia University. As a clown, Annie has trained and worked internationally in Italy, the U.S., and across Canada. She is the co-creator/performer of the smash-hit show MONKS (Critics Pick, Globe and Mail). Her credits include: MONKS (Fringe, Crows, The Theatre Centre, County Stage-upcoming) A Little Closer (The Vault at Coal Mine) Last Landscape (Buddies in Bad Times/Bad New Days), Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God, King Lear (Soulpepper), Comedy of Errors (The Grove) and Storybook Search (Bad Hats).

Steve Lucas is an award-winning set and lighting designer and mentor. With a career spanning decades, Steve has designed over 500 productions across 27 countries, including premieres of celebrated works like 2 Pianos 4 Hands, The Drawer Boy, and The Drowsy Chaperone. Known for his innovative and diverse style, Steve has collaborated with leading theatre companies such as Obsidian, Canadian Stage, and the Stratford, Shaw and Blyth Festivals. Steve has received numerous awards, including five Dora Awards for his set and lighting designs. He has been nominated for awards such as the Siminovitch Prize, a Sterling Award, and 36 Doras. He is delighted to be back in the Coal Mine!

Theatre: My Name is Asher Lev (Segal Centre/RMTC), John (RMTC), Fifteen Dogs (Segal Centre) Sheets (TheTheatreCentre). Film/TV: Close To You (TIFF), Less Than Kosher (HollywoodSuite), My Dead Mom (CRAVE), The Boys (Amazon), Suits (USA/Netflix), Murderbot (AppleTV).

Erik Richards (he/him) is a Sound Designer, Production Manager and Theatre Maker from Treaty Six. Selected work includes, Brother Rat, Talk Treaty to Me (ReadyGo); Infinite Life, DION: A Rock Opera, People, Places and Things (Coal Mine Theatre); The Pillowman, Dead in the Water (TheatreYES); La Bete, Boy Falls From the Sky (Talk is Free). Erik's practice explores the intersection between theatre, and music, through multimedia elements and live performance. Erik sends his heart back home to his family, and wife Frances who have been incredible as he continues his time out east.