Lucy is delighted to be returning to Blyth this summer! She was last seen on the Blyth Festival Stage as ‘Tiffany’ in Cakewalk, wearing her favourite costume ever, a ginormous 80s wedding dress. In addition to performing on stages across Canada, Lucy has also appeared in the TV series Hudson & Rex, Murdoch Mysteries, and The Baroness von Sketch Show. Most recently, Lucy had the honour of voicing a young Dr. Ruth for the podcast Exile.

I’m thrilled to be back in Blyth after appearing in The Birds and the Bees. Recently appeared in Sense and Sensibility at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. Spent many seasons at Shaw and Stratford Festivals. I play Sister Rose on Son of a Critch CBC and CBC Gem.

Justin is a former baseball player, drunk, hillbilly turned actor, writer, producer. His theatrical curiosities include new work, masculinity, the working class, adaptation, and actual chaos. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg, Second City Toronto, and a bunch of other fancy places. Justin was last seen in the premiere of Frances Koncan’s SpaceGirl (PTE) and bullying adults as Malvolio in Tim Crouch’s award-winning solo piece –  I, Malvolio (4.5 stars Winnipeg Free Press, NNNN). Upcoming: Alter Boys (CBC). His new play HORSES goes into workshops this fall. And look for updates on his short film, Drunk All the Time. 

E-transfers (commissions & treats) : justinjonotto@gmail.com

IG: @btbamotto

Also here to call out all the nepotism and class barriers to acting and the arts. Give these articles a read. Or don’t. And don’t take these bios too seriously.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/24/nepotism-in-the-movies-its-time-to-call-out-the-acting-school-of-mum-and-dad

https://citygirlnetwork.com/magazine/working-class-in-theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/27/class-ceiling-working-class-actors-study

Sophia is a playwright, actor, director, and educator. She is thrilled to be making her debut at the Blyth Festival. As an award-winning playwright, her works include: The Philanderess (The Second City Award for Best New Comedy, 2015), Liars at a Funeral (Ellen Ross Stuart Opening Doors Award, 2018), and her newest project, Why It’s Impossible to Raise a Girl is set to premiere next year (stay tuned). Recently, she directed Every Brilliant Thing at the Thousand Islands Playhouse (2022) where she served as the Associate Artistic Director for three seasons. She’s also a graduate of the Bell Media Prime Time TV Writing Program at the Canadian Film Centre and completed her Bachelor of Education at Queen’s University. For more: sophiafab.com

Brynn Godenir is a multi-disciplinary artist and a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She has a passion for movement-based play, classical text, and fluffy dogs. Recent theatre credits include Space Girl (PTE), Like We Used To (Roseneath theatre), and Nell Gwynn (NTS). During the theatre industries pandemic hiatus, Brynn also found passion for film and has appeared in the TV shows Titans (Netflix/CW), Burden of Truth (CBC/CW) and Coroner (CBC/CW), and the films Erase & Rewind, Love Strikes Twice, Writing a Love Song, Christmas Reboot, The Love Subscription, On the 12th Date of Christmas, and Christmas by the Book.

Liars at a Funeral is Louise’s 20^th lighting design for Blyth Festival since starting her career here in 1981. Since then she has designed lights for almost 600 shows across Canada and in the United States.  Recent credits include Casey and Diana (Stratford Festival); Beneath Springhill (Theatre Orangeville); Post-Democracy (Tarragon). Next project is Les Belles Soeurs (Stratford Festival).  It is always special to come back to the theatre where her career began!

Blyth Festival: First Engagement.
Selected Directing: Space Girl (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Dock Spider (Magnus); Iago Speaks (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Dancing at Lughnasa (Shaw Festival); A Doll’s House: Part 2 (Mirvish/ Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Lion in Winter, (The Grand); Perfect Wedding (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Associate Director: All My Sons (Stratford Festival).
Upcoming: Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Retreat (Imago Theatre). Artistic Director of Imago Theatre in Montreal.  www.kristajackson.net

Sue LePage has been designing for theatre, dance and opera for more than 40 years. Last season she designed the set for Too True to be Good at the Shaw Festival. Her new designs for “Anne of Green Gables the Ballet” (Canada’s Ballet Jorgen) had premiered and commenced to tour Canada and the United States when Covid shut them down. Other recent designs include Jani Lauzon’s I Call Myself Princess (Globe Theatre), sets for Bend it Like Beckham (Starvox) and costumes for Brigadoon at the Shaw Festival, where her credits include Me and My Girl, Ragtime, Saint Joan, Arcadia, Born Yesterday and many others.

In the world of opera her designs include the premiers of new work such as John Estacio and John Murrell’s Filumena, Frobisher, and Lillian Alling. Recent Toronto productions include Disgraced (Mirvish/ Hope in Hell), Beauty and the Beast (YPT), Innocence Lost (Soulpepper) and many shows over the years at Canadian Stage, Tarragon and Factory Theatre. Her work has appeared at major theatres across the country including The Banff Centre, Citadel, RMTC, National Arts Centre, Charlottetown Festival, Neptune Theatre and the Stratford Festival. Sue has been lucky to work with many great directors and some of Canada’s finest playwrights including James Reaney, David French, Judith Thompson, Tomson Highway, John Murrell and Carole Frechette. She is thrilled by the return of live performance and a new era of fresh voices and exciting new work.

Emma is an actor and stage manager working to obtain a BA in Dramatic Arts at Brock University. She has been an actress in a variety of educational videos for D2L (Desire to Learn). Her stage management credits include: Girls and Boys, The Pomegranate Project, Spit (Here For Now Theatre Company), Nobody’s Children, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Yellow Door Theatre Project). Emma would like to thank the Blyth Festival as their Young Company and dedication to local youth talent was integral to her journey as a theatre artist.

Blyth Credits: The Drawer Boy (Assistant Stage Manager) The Berlin Blues and Ipperwash

Selected Credits: Orphan Song, Bunny, (Tarragon Theatre), The Fish Eyes Trilogy, Boys with Cars (Nightswimming), This, Flood Thereafter, (Canadian Stage Company), Dividing Lines, Madre, (Aluna Theatre), Public Servant, Weather the Weather, (Theatre Columbus / Common Boots), Gladstone Variations, Yichud (seclusion) (Convergence), The Silicone Diaries (Buddies in Bad Times), and 7 summers with Dream in High Park. Sandy is the great-grandson of Morley Plunkett of the almost forgotten WW1 Canadian Vaudeville Troupe, The Dumbells.

Select credits: 5 seasons as the sound designer for Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in the Park as well as designing the productions Venus in Fur, Liv Stein and Game of Love and Chance, creator and composer for the Last Donnelly Standing at Blyth in addition to designing productions of Mary’s Wedding,In the Wake of Wettlaufer, Truth be Told and The Drawer Boy. Lyon designed sound for clown duo Moro and Jasp with 9 to 5 and Stupefaction, Venus’ Daughter for Obsidian theatre, and Prairie Nurse, the Waltz  and You Can’t Get There From Here, Vol. 3 for Factory Theatre and the Gig at theatre Aquarius.