For Blyth Festival, Mark has appeared in Vimy, Bed and Breakfast, and Chase the Ace. Blyth has premiered three of his plays as a writer: Stag and Doe, The Birds and the Bees, and The New Canadian Curling Club, and has also produced Bed and Breakfast and Chase the Ace. His newest play, The Gig, premiered at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius in March. His plays have been produced extensively in Canada and around the world in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, England, and the United States. Closer to home, The New Canadian Curling Club is on stage this summer at Drayton Festival Theatre and Huron Country Playhouse, and Bed and Breakfast plays at Lighthouse Festival Theatre and Orillia Opera House. As an actor, Mark has performed at theatres from coast to coast. Most recently, he spent over a year performing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with Mirvish Productions in Toronto. Mark grew up on his family’s beef farm near Glencoe and now lives in Stratford. He’s happy to be back at Blyth, working on Matt’s play with Miles and this great cast and creative team.

Murray (he/him) is thrilled to be making his Blyth debut.

Originally from North Bay, Ontario, he has performed in over 80 plays.  Some favourites include Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival of Classics, Oakville), Pumbaa in The Lion King (Mirvish, Toronto), and Danny M1 in last years smash hit The Antipodes (Coal Mine Theatre, Toronto). On tv, he did four seasons as Dr. Lasky in 12 Monkeys, one season as Syd in The Umbrella Academy, and will next be seen as a guest star on season 4 of The Boys. As a playwright, Murray had his first play, Our House, debut at the Port Stanley Festival last summer.

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 include: The Flick; Mr. Burns; TomorrowLove; Passion Play; Mr. Marmalade. Other 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); Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Capitol Theatre). Fave Film/TV credits: Reacher (Amazon); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Ginny & Georgia (Netflix); Killjoys (SyFy); P!GS (short film); SUCCULENT (short film which she wrote and produced). Follow her online: @lil_keats.

Severn is an actor, director, theatre creator and associate artistic director for the Blyth Festival.  She began acting with the Blyth young company and has since worked in theatres across the country as well as in a variety of tv/films.  Acting credits include Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille & tour), Seeds (Blyth Festival), and several seasons at the Shaw and Stratford Festival.  Blyth directing credits include: Fair Play, Pigeon King, and Wing Night at the Boot.

Laura is a Toronto-based costume designer, seamstress and all-around wardrobe person. Recent design credits include Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival), Into The Woods (YES Theatre Sudbury), Prodigal (Howland Company), La Bete, Sweeney Todd, The Judas Kiss, Into the Woods (Talk is Free Theatre).  Laura spent four seasons as an assistant costume designer at the Stratford Festival, and has coordinated costumes and stitched for theatre companies, dance, and operas all across Canada.  This spring, Laura will be designing The Sound Inside at The Coal Mine in Toronto, and Jersey Boys with YES Theatre in Sudbury.  She doesn’t use social media so don’t look for her there, but you can check out Laura’s work at lauradelchiarodesign.com.

Sean Downing is a NB based sound designer and graduate from Sheridan College. Sean is ecstatic  to be a part of The Chronicles of Sarnia and The Blyth Festival’s 2023 season. Selected credits include: Ride the Cyclone, Mamma Mia!, Haunting of Hungerford House  (Tweed and Co), Sense and Sensibility, Annie (Saint John Theatre Company), 99 to 1 (Badlands passion play).

Matt is a Toronto-based playwright, musical theatre book writer and lyricist.

Plays include: Myth Of The Ostrich (RMTC), Remember, Maggy? (collaboration with Carol Anne Murray), Chronicles of Sarnia (Blyth Festival). 

Musicals include:  Maggie – Co-creator (collaboration with acclaimed recording artist Johnny Reid), Grow – Book writer (collaboration

with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal).Going Under – Book writer (collaboration with Colleen & Akiva). Matt wrote six Ross Petty Pantos: Peter’s Final Flight!,
Lil’ Red Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Carol, all at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as two digital productions: There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays and Alice in Winterland. A Christmas Carol was recorded for broadcast by CBC/Family Channel.

Instagram: @mattymurray123

Miles has been connected to the Blyth festival since its inception. He has acted on its stage and directed such shows as Innocence Lost, Stag and Doe, and The New Canadian Curling Club among many others. He has worked at virtually every Canadian theatre including numerous shows on all of the Stratford Festivals stages. He is pleased to be back at Blyth with a few old friends and some new ones.