AMY KEATING, Performer “LUCILLE”
Amy (she/her) is a Toronto-based actor originally hailing from Treaty 6 territory in the Prairies. She works in both theatre and film and is a three-time Dora Mavor Moore-nominated actor. She is a founding member and associate artist of Outside the March. OtM credits: The Flick; TomorrowLove; Passion Play; Mr. Marmalade. Fave film/TV credits: Reacher (Season 2); Murdoch Mysteries; Ginny & Georgia; Killjoys; SUCCULENT (short film which she wrote, produced, and acted in). Fave theatre credits: Cathleen in Long Day's Journey Into Night (Stratford Festival); Laura in The Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); Jessica in Hand to God (Coal Mine Theatre); The Daughter in Wormwood (Tarragon Theatre); Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Capitol Theatre). Follow her on Instagram: @lil_keats.
BIOS - This is How We Got Here
CARIN LOWERISON, Producer
Carin (she/her) is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Green Light Arts. She has been working as a professional theatre producer, arts administrator, educator, choreographer and performer for nearly 20 years. Before co-founding Green Light Arts, she was the General Manager and Producer of fu-GEN Theatre Company in Toronto, the longest running professional Asian Canadian theatre company in Canada. Other: Carin began her theatre career as a performer and is a member of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association. She is an occasional sessional instructor for the Theatre & Performance Program at the University of Waterloo and teaches regularly at The Branches Yoga. She has been nominated for the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award three years in a row. Instagram: @carinlowerison
CHARLOTTE PETERS, Stage Manager
Charlotte Peters (she/her): Green Light Arts debut! Other theatre: Constellations (Cosmic Fishing Theatre), mixed(er) (Inter Arts Matrix), Sweeney Todd (Talk Is Free Theatre), Back Home For the Holidays, Elf: The Musical, Jack and the Beanstalk: the Panto (Drayton Entertainment), A Belly Full (Theatre Aquarius). Charlotte is also a scenic painter and writer. Thank you to the cast and crew for the boundless compassion they poured into this project and each other.
EMILY RADCLIFFE, Assistant Director
Emily Radcliffe is a 5th year undergraduate student studying Theatre and Performance and Business at the University of Waterloo. This is Emily’s second season with Green Light Arts, and is pleased to return as GLA’s Artistic Associate and Assistant Director of This Is How We Got Here. Since GLA’s WE COULD BE, in summer 2021, Emily has continued to dive deeper into the world of Theatre Creation and Arts & Culture having found herself in the roles of Assistant Director and Hair & Make-up for the University of Waterloo’s Theatre and Performance Winter 2021 production of Mustard; She has been featured on the CBC Radio Ottawa’s ‘Ontario Today’ show, alongside her close friend and co-host of ‘the PIGMENTED podcast’, Kim Madume, to discuss an episode on re-thinking Black History Month; and Emily has also produced and staged select scenes from her original play, ‘The Inevitable’, at the University of Waterloo. (www.instagram.com/pigmentedpodcast/)
JACQUELINE MELDRUM, Marketing Coordinator
Jacqueline (they/she) is a multi-disciplinary artist, communications professional, and University of Waterloo Theatre and Performance student. After working with GLA this summer, they are thrilled to be back, and even more thrilled to create a variety of social media and marketing tomfoolery for This Is How We Got Here, including theatre-themed ASMR. She has written and performed a one-woman show at the University of Waterloo (PLSTC 101: A Guide to Becoming Plastic), as well as designed and created costumes for numerous high school and community theatre productions in her hometown of Ottawa. Jacqueline is the Head of Props for the University of Waterloo's production of EVERYBODY, running November 22 - 26, and in January 2023 will be performing her original poetry in the Pinch Cabaret. Find them on LinkedIn.
JANICE JO LEE, Sound Designer
Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is Korean-Canadian settler artist based in Toronto, Ontario. She is a folk-soul-jazz singer songwriter, composer-sound designer, spoken word poet, theatre maker, bouffon-clown, and arts and anti-oppression facilitator. On stage she creates looping landscapes with her voice, guitar, trumpet and Korean janggu drum. Janice is a hard femme, queer, radical, comedian, truth-teller and trickster. She is interested in using art to build flourishing communities based in justice and joy. Lee's work explores gender justice, antiracism, friendship, community, ancestry and the Earth. Her theatrical work has been produced with Green Light Arts, MT Space, Theatre Passe Muraille, and fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre. She has facilitated theatrical creation with performers at Randolph Kids, MT Space, Mikw Chiyam, N’we Jinan, Kitchener-Waterloo Poetry Slam, Musical Stage Company, and Sweet Action Theatre. Coming out this year is her third studio album Ancestor Song. Visit her Website.
KIRSTEN WATT, Lighting Designer
Kirsten studied theatre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and specialized in lighting design at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. While this show will be her first collaboration with Green Light Arts, other lighting designs at the Conrad Centre include: Outside Mullingar, and Charles Dickens Writes A Christmas Carol. Kirsten has designed elsewhere for: the Shaw Festival, Drayton Entertainment, Lost & Found Theatre, K-W Musical Productions, the Segal Centre, Centaur Theatre, Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Neptune Theatre, Watermark Theatre, Gros Morne Theatre Festival, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Magnus Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Carousel Players, Hart House Theatre, George Brown Theatre School, Theatre Sheridan, the University of Waterloo, the University of Windsor, and Concordia University. She resides in Kitchener.
MATT WHITE, Director
Matt (he/him) is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Green Light Arts. Prior to Green Light Arts Matt was the Associate Producer and then General Manager of Necessary Angel Theatre Company, and he has also held administrative positions with The Company Theatre and Factory Theatre in Toronto and Theatre & Company in Kitchener. Directing credits for Green Light Arts: WE COULD BE, Touch, Will You Be My Friend, The Amish Project, Andy Warhol presents: Valerie, You Be Me, Camp Knot-a-Cult, Adam Bailey is on Fire. Other select directing credits: There Are No Gays (Page1 Productions); #churchtoo (Theatre of the Beat); The Seagull and Eurydice (University of Waterloo); Adam Bailey is on Fire (National Fringe Circuit); Twelfth Night and Hamlet (KW Youth Theatre); Bone Cage (Hart House Theatre), and Eirlys and Eckhart (Cart/Horse Theatre). Matt is currently a sessional instructor for University of Waterloo Drama and Speech Communication program and National Theatre School of Canada.
NADIA URSACKI, Production Manager
Nadia Ursacki is a K-W based Stage Manager, Lighting Designer and Production Manager, but is also known to do many other theatre supporting jobs. She has done lighting design for K-W Musical Productions (Titanic, Spring Awakening), The Singer’s Theatre (Heathers, In the Heights), and Elmira Theatre Company (The Wild Guys), and has stage managed for Green Light Arts (Touch), Lost & Found Theatre (Outside Mullingar, Charles Dickens Writes a Christmas Carol), and many others over more than twenty years.
TIM WALKER, Performer “JIM”
Tim was born and raised in Peterborough Ontario. He graduated from PCVS integrated arts high school program then went on to graduate from George Brown's Theatre Arts program in 2007, he is a graduate of Italy's prestigious International school for comedic acting where he trained in mask and physical comedy. He is a two time Dora nominee, Canadian Comedy award nominee and a recipient of the Second City’s Tim Sims award for comedy (George Brown). He has been working, both; nationally and internationally in theatre, film and television and voice work since graduating in 2007. Recent theatre credits include: Mules (Hit and Myth/Bygone theatre) Dryland (Cue6) Punch Up (Theatre Brouhaha) Penible : A Canadian tale of Tartuffian Magnitude (Centre for Indigenous Theatre) Northern Lights (Theatre by the Bay) The Libertine (Talk is free theatre) White Heat (Presgang theatre) Recent film credits : The Neddeaus of Duquesne Island (CBC Gems) Murdoch Mysteries (CBC) Solitude by Black Sabbath (Pagliacci Prod - Toronto short film fest - National Screen Institute - Real to Reel Fest) American Gothic (ABC Television) L’dor V’dor (Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Forest City Film Festival) I lost my mind (Hollywood north FF - won for best actor).
KEITH BARKER, Playwright
Keith Barker is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario. He is a playwright, actor, and director from Northwestern Ontario. Keith is the Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program at the Stratford Festival, and the former Artistic Director at Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. He is the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild’s Carol Bolt Award for best new play. Keith was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for English Drama in 2018 for his play, This Is How We Got Here. He received a Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Excellence in Playwriting for his play, The Hours That Remain, as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change. His new short zoom play, in a little plastic bag, in a tiny little jar, on a mantel in the house will premiere as part of the Stratford Festival’s Viral Transmissions Series that will be found on the stratfest@home site. His audio play, Every Minute of Every Day premiered as part of Factory Theatre’s You Can’t Get There From Here podcast play series in March 2021.
NICCO LORENZO GARCIA, Performer “PAUL”
Nicco is a first generation Filipino-Canadian and Dora Award Winning actor, playwright, collective creator based in Toronto. He can currently be seen as Ruben in the Shaftesbury series “Topline” on CBC Gem and as series regular on the sketch-comedy show “Abroad” on OmniTV. Selected Theatre: Through the Bamboo (TOFringe); Same Same, But Different (Nightswimming); People Power (Carlos Bulosan) 2008 Dora Award—Performance; paper SERIES (Cahoots) 2011 Dora Nomination; Long Division (Pi); King and I (Gateway); Lady in the Red Dress (fu-Gen); Hana’s Suitcase (Grand); Andrew’s Tree, Beneath the Banyan Tree (Theatre Direct); Ice...Beyond Cool, Fire...Where There’s Smoke (DanceArts Vancouver). Nicco is elated to be performing onstage once again and to be working with Green Light Arts. He was last onstage in tech-dress rehearsal for Arts Club Theatre’s production of David Yee’s carried away on a crest of a wave when the pandemic shut the whole world down. Upcoming: “Slip”, by Zoe Lister Jones (Hulu) and Peter Berg’s “Painkiller” (Netflix)
PATRICIA REILLY, Set Designer
Patricia (she/her) is an Ontario-born, B.C.- and Alberta-raised interdisciplinary theatre artist. Credits include: For Stratford Festival, assistant designer of Three Tall Women, The Bakkhai; assistant costume designer of Death and the Kings Horseman, The Merry Wives of Windsor, An Ideal Husband. Elsewhere: Designs for Chemainus Theatre Festival (Lumberjacks in Love, Glorious!); Puente Theatre (Fado); Pacific Opera Victoria (Rattenbury, La Voix Humaine); Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre (The Drawer Boy, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Of Mice and Men); Theatre SKAM (Concord Floral, Joan, Shop Talk) Training: Graduate Degree in 3D Animation and Character Design (Fanshawe College), Masters of Theatre Design (Wimbledon College of Arts), BFA in Theatre Design (University of Victoria) Online: patriciareilly.com.
NATALIE ROBITAILLE, Performer “LISET”
Natalie is honored to have been asked to step into the role of Liset with Green Light Arts. She has worked as a professional actor for over 20 years. Since graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, her career has taken her across Canada, into the United States and as far as Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. Most recent credits include performing in The Christmas Tree by Norm Foster, directing Real Estate by Alanna Harkin and lending her voice as the character “White Wraith” in the animated series The Legends of Akedo. She is also the Artistic Director of Bruce County Playhouse in Southampton. She would like to thank her family for their constant support, the cast and crew for welcoming her so warmly and Keith Barker for his amazing story.
WANDA KIDD, Costume Designer
Wanda (she/they) is a fourth year student studying Theatre and Performance at the University of Waterloo. I spend most of my time thinking about and researching costuming and historical clothing, and the rest of my time making/sewing. I'm also an executive member of the Indigenous Student Association, focusing on building community and supporting new students.