CAST AND CREATIVES
DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGE: Jonathon Young
PLAYWRIGHT: Amy Rutherford
SOUND DESIGN: Adam Taylor Campbell
PROJECTION DESIGN: Jonah Luscombe
STAGE/PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Aidan Ware
PRODUCERS: Anthony Goncharov and Diana Bentley
FOR THE VAULT
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Diana Bentley
PRODUCER: Anthony Goncharov
CREATIVE PRODUCER: Charlotte Dennis
SOCIAL MEDIA: Kirin Axelson
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Kostis Petridis (studio-banjo.com)
FRONT OF HOUSE/BAR: Emily Anne Corcoran, Shayna Linds, Aidan Reimer
ABOUT THE TEAM
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AMY RUTHERFORD - PLAYWRIGHT
Since graduating from The National Theatre School of Canada and Stratford's Birmingham Conservatory, Amy has worked in theatre, film and television with some of Canada's leading directors and playwrights.
Playwriting Credits include: The Public Servant (The Great Canadian Theatre Company, Nightwood, Canstage) and Mortified (Studio 58, Touchstone Theatre) which won The Playwright Guild of Canada's Carol Bolt Award and is currently in development as a TV series. Amy is also a celebrated performer. Recently she performed in Heidi Shrek's Pullitzer-Prize nominated play What the Constitution Means to Me and reprised her award-winning turn as Blanche Dubois in Soulpepper's production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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ADAM CAMPBELL - SOUND DESIGNER
Adam Campbell is a versatile sound designer, composer, percussionist and singer-songwriter. Originally from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Adam has worked as sound designer/composer with Stratford Festival, Blyth Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Human Body Expression, Edmonton Opera, Capitol Theatre, Lights On Stratford and more. Adam has toured and performed throughout North America as a percussionist with TorQ Percussion Quartet and Ladom Ensemble, and regularly plays in the pit for musical theatre productions with companies such as Mirvish Productions and Stratford Festival. In 2019, Adam released his debut solo singer-songwriter album, Guess I’m A People Too, featuring a mix of folk, rock and 90’s-tinged original music. Adam currently lives in Stratford, Ontario, with his wife Alice and their cats Ninja and Nazca.
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KATHERINE GAUTHIER - FLORA
Katherine is an actor, writer, and creator who has performed on many of Canada’s leading stages, including the Shaw Festival, Arts Club Theatre, Théâtre la Seizième, and in more than a dozen productions at Soulpepper Theatre. She is a four-time Dora Award nominee, a two-time Jessie nominee, and most recently won Best Actress at the Hamburg Film Awards.
A graduate of the Soulpepper Academy and Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip program, Katherine is passionate about telling her own stories. Her critically acclaimed play Meeting, developed with Coal Mine Theatre, premiered in May 2025 at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver. Her short film Age of Consent has received international acclaim, and her next screenplay, Meat Baby —a top-three finalist at Slamdance—is slated for production in 2026. On screen, she has appeared in The Boys (Amazon), Albatross, The Strain (FX), and Deep Six. She is currently developing a new play on death and mortality with Tarragon Theatre.
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MAGGIE HUCULAK - NURSE SVOBODA
Maggie Huculak has performed on Canadian stages for 45 years. Cherished artistic collaborations include Necessary Angel (with Canadian writers Michael Ondaatje, Colleen Murphy and John Mighton/directors Richard Rose and Daniel Brooks), the late great Theatre Columbus (Martha Ross/Leah Cherniak), Soulpepper Theatre, Quote Unquote Collective, and Globe Theatre. She’s premiered scores of Canadian plays, and is the co-author of five collectively created plays produced in Toronto: Mein, Hysterica, The Betrayal, Lonely Nights and Other Stories, and Now You See Her (published by Coach House Press). She’s worked extensively in film, television, radio and audiobooks, and was the sole narrator of the epic CBC documentary series Canada: A People’s History. Maggie is a seven-time Dora Award nominee and is the recipient of a Dora Award for Mein and a Chalmers Award for The Betrayal.
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JONAH LUSCOMBE - PROJECTION DESIGN
Jonah has a deep background in technical video production working in professional theatre, concerts, large corporate events and broadcast studios. Recent work on theatrical productions include: McNeal (Lincoln Center Theater), Beaches The Musical (Theatre Calgary), Super Freak: The Rick James Story (USA Tour), and VIZION by Cirque Du Soleil (Jeddah, KSA).
For this production, Jonah has designed reactive visual elements in Unreal Engine. -
RICK ROBERTS - DR. KULT
Rick appeared in Cymbeline, The Goat, R+J (Stratford), Feast (Tarragon), Prodigal(Crows/Howland). His digital play Orestes premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in 2021. Recent appearances include Transplant (CTV);The Light Before The Sun ((Blackbird, ACTRA Award); Nurses (Corus/Global); This Life and Fortunate Son (CBC); All My Puny Sorrows and the upcoming film North of Albany (Slykid & Skykid). He played the role of Jack Layton in the CBC TV movie Jack. He recently appeared at the NAC in Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet. Other recent favourites include Animal Farm, Waiting for Godot, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Soulpepper); Within the Glass and Enemy of the People (Tarragon Theatre). Rick has written and directed several plays and has developed projects for television. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
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TYRONE SAVAGE - NEIL
Tyrone is so happy to be making his debut at the vault.
Recent credits include work at St Lawrence Shakespeare, Drayton, and Mirvish.
Tyrone spent 9 seasons with the Stratford festival and his work has taken him coast to coast.
He is proud dog dad of his pup Pantufla and you can catch him most of the time puttering in his garden.
Upcoming work: 15 Dogs at the NAC in September and Repriduktion at Here for Now in Stratford.
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AIDAN WARE - STAGE MANAGER/PRODUCTION MANAGER
Aidan Ware is a Technical Director and Lighting Designer from Calgary, Alberta. After obtaining a BFA in Technical Theatre from the University of Alberta and completing an intensive 18-month lighting practicum at the Banff Centre, Aidan relocated to Toronto, where his expertise in integrating new technologies into live performance has led to collaborations with creative houses such as Moment Factory, Carbon Arc Projects, Solotech and Level Productions. Aidan was the Assistant Technical Director at Canadian Stage for multiple seasons before becoming the Director of Production for Fall for Dance North. Aidan is the Technical Director at the BMO Lab at the University of Toronto which is currently in the process moving into a cutting-edge new space. This lab provides artists with state-of-the-art resources, such as motion-capture, interactive video & lighting systems, and other AI-driven tools to push the boundaries of theatrical expression. Recent projects include Rick Miller’s BOOM Trilogy (Technical Director/Lighting Designer), HANS: My Life In Fairytales (Technical Director/Lighting Designer), and MONEY (Technical Director/Lighting Designer).
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JONATHON YOUNG - DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGE
Jonathon is a Canadian theatre artist based in Toronto. He is Playwright-in-Residence with Kidd Pivot, a Core Artist and Co-Founder of Electric Company Theatre, and an award-winning actor working across Canada in theatre, film and television. With Kidd Pivot, Jonathon creates dance-theatre alongside choreographer Crystal Pite. Their productions (Assembly Hall, Revisor, Betroffenheit) have toured extensively in North America, Europe and Asia with recent sold-out performances at Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) and Sadler’s Wells (London) and won two Olivier Awards for Best New Dance Production. Both Revisor andBetroffenheit were filmed by the BBC and Betroffenheit received two prestigious European prizes: The Golden Prague and the Rose d’Or Award in Berlin. In 2016 they created a piece called The Statement for Nederlands Dans Theatre and is now included in the repertoire of London’s Royal Ballet. With his collaborators at Electric Company, Jonathon has written and devised over 20 original plays, garnering several Canadian theatre awards since the company’s inception in 1996. Jonathon's latest work Don't Go Home (co-created with celebrated choreographer Guillaume Côte) recently premiered at New York City Center.
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