Peter N. Bailey graduated from the Humber College Theatre Performance program in 2003. Peter’s acting credits include Other Side of the Game (Cahoots Theatre Co. and Obsidian Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird, An Ideal Husband, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford Festival), Fences (Grand Theatre), Here Are the Fragments (The Theatre Centre), Romeo and Juliet, Sweat, Fairview (Canadian Stage Company), A Few Good Men (Drayton Entertainment). Peter’s voice coaching credits include: Stratford Festival, National Theatre School, and Sheridan College Theatre and Drama Studies. Peter is thrilled to be back at the Blyth Festival!

Blyth: Debut.

Elsewhere: Intimate Apparel (Belfry), Is God Is (Obsidian, Canadian Stage), Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelfth Night, Stratford Festival), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Dream in High Park),Calpurnia (Nightwood), Sister Act (Drayton), Wizard of Oz, Jacob Two Two meets the Hooded Fang, Cinderella: A RATtical retelling, I Think I Can (YPT), Hair (The Grand), Jersey Boys (Dancap, Dodgers).

Selected Film & TV: Pretty Hard Cases (CBC), Good Witch (Hallmark), The Kennedys (History Television), Pinkalicious and Peterriffic (PBS Kids), Hailstorm (CFC) Instant Star (CTV).

Upcoming: Look for Matthew in the upcoming Showtime drama Fellow Travelers and the feature film Mother, Father, Sister, Brother Frank.

Training: Randolph College, The CFC Actors Conservatory. For updates, follow on Instagram: @ItsMrMGB

Richard is delighted to be making his stage debut with the legendary Blyth Festival, in Andrew Moodie’s beautiful and important play. 

Recent credits: King Henry V (Driftwood Theatre); The Cold War Part One (VideoCabaret)

Selected credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Rusticle); Confederation Parts One and Two, The Great War (ensemble Dora Mavor Moore Award), Trudeau and Levesque, and more (Video/Cabaret); The War of 1812 (VideoCabaret/Stratford Festival/Soulpepper-ensemble Dora);  Art (Theatre North West), Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood); Miracle on 34th Street, It’s A Wonderful Life (Theatre New Brunswick/Sudbury Theatre Centre); King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre) The Taming of The Shrew, The Tempest (Theater By The Bay); Audience Unveiling Protest, Waiting For Lefty (The CO); The Graduate (The Grand Theatre); Measure For Measure, Othello, Titus Andronicus and many more for the original Shakespeare In The Rough. Film and TV: Workin’ Moms; Suits; Reign; Murdoch Mysteries, Charlie Bartlett.

Most recent: King Lear, The Beaux’ Stratagem. Stratford: Wanderlust, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, The Night of the Iguana. Other Credits: Oberon/Theseus (Shakespeare in Action/Canadian Stage), Toronto the Good (Factory Theatre), Othello (Driftwood Theatre), Macbeth(Workman Arts/Shakespeare in Action), This Is How It Goes, (Neptune Theatre), Counterfeit Secrets (Artword Theatre, Dora nomination). Film/TV: Nikita, Suits, Insecurity, King, The Rick Mercer Report. “Here’s to pixie feet on my soul. For my lovely lady, Leigh, and my amazing children, Myles, Bailey, Cole, Max, Lyric and Marley!”

York University’s MFA Acting & Diploma of Voice Teaching Programs. Now a Permanent Resident of Canada, Alicia calls Toronto her home. Her body of work spans television, film, theatre, and voice-over. Recent acting credits include: Pinecone & Pony (Apple TV+); Mistletoe Time Machine (Tubi); Zokie of Planet Ruby (Nelvana / Nickelodeon); Rosie’s Rules (PBS Kids); Diggstown (CBC / BET +); Red Iron Road (Lakeside Animation); and A Sisterly Christmas (OWN Network).  Follow her adventures here: IMDB.me/aliciarichardson or on social: @leesheelovesyou.

Much love to family, both chosen and blood!

Toronto-born multi-talent Nawa Nicole Simon has a passion for performing and creative community participation, which began as a teen participant in Fresh Arts.

She attended Humber College’s Theatre Performance Program, and soon after appeared in the Hart House production of Angelique.

Her stage roles include her Dora nominated role as Lola in the Dora winning play Gas Girls, Uma in New Harlem’s production of The First Stone in Toronto and most recently took the lead role as Girl in the remount in Ottawa at the Great Canadian Theatre Company.

Nawa’s film and television work include the Award winning Ruby Skye P.I. (Outstanding Supporting Actress – Interactive Narrative Comedy). Forensic Factor (Discovery Channel), Steadfast: The messenger and the message (Cannes Festival 2023) and most recently playing Eli in Roseneath Theatres Taking Care of Mamandirected by Djennie Laguerre.

Tamara Marie Kucheran is an award-winning set and costume designer who centers her practice in an atmosphere of collaboration, trust, and respect with a focus on supporting performers to do their best work. She has had the privilege of collaborating with some of the industry’s top theatre creators on stages across Canada.

Tamara is a recipient of the prestigious Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design (2017). Other awards include a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Costume Design (nomination for Outstanding Set Design), a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume Design (multiple nominations for Set and Costume), a Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival), and the Ian and Molly Lindsay Young Design Fellowship (Stratford Festival).
Tamara’s teaching credits include The National Theatre School of Canada, University of Victoria, University of Winnipeg, and Michigan State University. Tamara is a graduate of the University of Victoria (BFA with Distinction) and the National Theatre School of Canada. She recently completed her MA at the University of Guelph.

Tamara is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada | IATSE Local ADC659. Tamara is most proud of her role as Fynneas and Amelia’s mom. To learn more, please visit www.tamaramariekucheran.com

For Blyth: Set, lights and projections for: Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott; The New Canadian Curling Club, Test Drive and Billy Bishop Goes to War; Set and light design for: The Drawer Boy, The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, Queen Milli of Galt, The Pigeon Kin, If Truth Be Told, and A Huron County Christmas Carol. Lighting design for: Pearl Gidley, Stag and Doe, The Wilberforce Hote,; Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad; Set design for: Seeds 

Since 1987 Steve has designed award winning sets and lighting for more than 500 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen in 27 countries around the world. Steve has received several awards including four Dora Awards for his designs. He has also been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre and thirty three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.

Multiple award winning actor/playwright/director Andrew Moodie has performed in countless productions all across the country. Some selected credits include: Better Living, Second Sheppard’s Play, Our Country’s Good (Great Canadian Theatre Company), Macbeth (Stratford), Satchmo Suite (Eastern Front), Death in New Orleans (One Yellow Rabbit), Hamlet (Soulpepper), Race (Ground Zero), Othello (Shakespeare in the Rough), Master Harold and the Boys (Prairie Theatre Exchange), Thirsty (National Arts Centre), Romeo and Juliet (Globe Theatre), Lear (Ad Hoc Collective) Playwrighting credits include: Riot, (Factory Theatre, GCTC, 1995), directed by Layne Coleman (winner of the 1996 Chalmers Award for Best New Play). Wilbur County Blues, (Blyth Festival, 1998). A Common Man’s Guide to

Loving Women, (Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre, 1999). The Real McCoy, (Factory Theatre, GCTC 2007, 2008). Toronto the Good, (Factory Theatre 2009, Dora Award nomination).

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, The Drawer Boy & Liars at a Funeral. 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.

Other Selected Theatre: Billy Elliot, Elf, Beneath Springhill, Alice in Pantoland (Neptune); Tell Tale Harbour, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown), Cost of Living, The Candidate, Sweat, A Christmas Carol (Citadel); Heisenberg, The Comedy Company, Fly Me to the Moon, Annapurna (Shadow Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet (Mayfield); A Winter’s Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona  (Freewill Shakespeare); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Travesties, The Graduate (Segal); A Christmas Carol (TNB)