For TIFT: Debut

Elsewhere: Theatre: Black Is the New Black (NAC–Curator/Director); REV-elations (Stratford–Director/Co-Producer); This Alien Nation (Buddies in Bad Times–Writer/Director/Performer). Dramaturgy: A Cloud of Ink in the Shape of Herself by Nathaniel-Hanula-James; The Eighth Fire by Yolanda Bonnell, Dramaturgy Clinics, PuSh Festival, Jumping Ship, Marcia Johnson and many others.

Other: Sadie has written about dramaturgy for Howlround and the Canadian Theatre Review amongst others. She is also a durational performance artist who has performed across Ontario.

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For TIFT: Debut

Elsewhere: RISE: Fall Dances (Production Manager); R.A.V.E. (Outside The March–Stage Manager), Guillaume Cote’s To the Ends of the Earth (Production Manager); Esie Mensah’s The Audition (Production Manager); Festival de Cirque des Iles 3e Edition (Stage Manager).

Other: Jadi is a Toronto-based Production and Stage Manager. In their spare time, Jadi enjoys carpentry, hand embroidery, and driving big trucks.

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For TIFT: Vigil (Apprentice), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Toronto, Buenos Aires) (ASM), Open The Window (SM)

Elsewhere (selected): The Chemical Valley Project (Broadleaf), Take d Milk Nah?, Shove It Down My Throat, Situational Anarchy, Mahmoud, The Lost Sagas of Tjorvi the Flaccid (Pandemic Theatre); White Heat, ...And You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next (Pressgang); #KanderAndEbb (Colored Lights); Cake, Sound of the Beast (New Harlem Productions); Dead End (Theatre Lab); The Ties That Bind (Our Souls). ASM: The First Stone (New Harlem Productions). Head Chaperone: The Nutcracker (National Ballet of Canada).

Other: Heather has worked in stage management on 90+ shows throughout Canada and internationally, ranging from small-scale Fringe productions, to pieces in festivals such as World Pride and Panamania, to large scale shows at the Stratford Festival and for Mirvish. Additionally, Heather is an apprentice producer at New Harlem Productions; she won a Harold Award in 2021; and she has even stage managed a private performance for royalty. See credits at heatherbellingham.wordpress.com Follow @blue84HB

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TIFT: Jesus Christ Superstar

Elsewhere: Costume Designer for Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Obsidian Theatres); Costume Designer for Tyson’s Song (Pleiades Theare); Costume Designer for Appropriate (Coalmine Theatre); Assistant Costume Designer for Frankenstein: Revived (Stratford); Associate Costume Designer for Treemonisha (Volcano Productions); Assistant Costume Designer for Fairview (Canadian Stage); Assistant Costume Designer for Maanomaa (Canadian Stage); Costume Designer for The Flight (Factory Theatre); Assistant Costume Designer for Yerma (Coal Mine Theatre); Assistant Costume Designer for Da Kink in My Hair (Canadian Stage); Costume Designer for The First Stone (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Assistant Costume Designer for Little Women (Stratford).

Other: 2024 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume Design; 2024 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. Des’ree would like to thank her family and loving partner Emmanuel for all of their support. Instagram @desreegraydesigns; Website www.desreegraydesigns.ca

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