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Drunk Ado About Nothing Cast & Crew

A.J. Richardson

Don Pedro

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing, Drunk Romeo and Juliet

Adrianna Prosser

Margaret Conrad

For Dauntless City Theatre: Ensemble, Two Noble Kinsmen, Drunk Macbeth, Drunk Ado About Nothing

Adrianna won Broadway World’s Best Female in Feature Role/Indie Theatre for her role in Urban Bard’s Two Noble Kinsmen. She is also one third of The Smashing Trio event and production team that brought you Drunk Macbeth. Adrianna has done some playwriting too, and her latest piece is focused on mental health awareness and suicide prevention in Everything but the Cat... www.everythingbutthecat.net
Likewise, please visit: www.adrianna-prosser.com for more about this fiery redhead.

Ashleigh Kasabowski

Ursula

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing

Christopher Mott

Don John/Dogberry/Friar Francis

For Dauntless City Theatre: Ensemble, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, Drunk Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, Drunk Ado About Nothing, Drunk Romeo and Juliet, Drunk The Tempest, Two Gentlewomen of Verona

With over 15 years of professional acting experience, Christopher has done everything from Shakespeare to stunts, improv to choreography. For stage and camera, he has performed in suits, uniforms, tights, tutus, togas, kilts and chainmail. He holds an B.A.(hon.) from the University of Guelph, and is a certified Instructor with The Academy of Fight Directors Canada. Past theatre credits include Kent (King Lear, Hart House), Macduff (Macbeth, Tempest Theatre), Talthybius (The Trojan Women, Canopy Theatre) and Errol Flynn (Duel of Ages, True Edge Prod./Toronto Fringe). He has appeared in over 100 episodes with Decoder Ring Theatre, award-winning producers of golden age radio inspired podcasts. He is also an instructor at Rapier Wit Studios, Canada’s only permanent school for stage combat. www.christophermott.com

Clare Blackwood

Beatrice

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing, Drunk Romeo and Juliet

James Wallis

Benedick

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing

Julia Nish-Lapidus

Beatrice

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing

Leslie McBay

Hero/Verges

For Dauntless City Theatre: Romeo & (her) Juliet, Drunk Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlewomen of Verona

Leslie McBay is a performer, producer and theatre creator. She is delighted to reunite with Scott Moyle/Dauntless City Theatre (Romeo and (her) Juliet, Drunk Ado About Nothing), and this time with her little dog too. Her professional goal is to be on every sci-fi show shot in Toronto (Orphan Black down, everything else to go). Leslie is a co-founder and Artistic Producer of Headstrong Collective, a company dedicated to creating more opportunities for female-identified, LGBTQ and diverse performers and audiences. For more, check out www.lesliemcbay.ca.

Melanie Hrymak

Beatrice

For Dauntless City Theatre: Midsummer Night's Dream, Drunk Macbeth, Drunk Ado About Nothing, Drunk Romeo and Juliet

Melanie Hrymak is a Toronto-based actor and producer. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, she is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies program at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto. Past theatre credits include the title role in Andromache (Theatre Erindale) and May in S-27 (Intersection Theatre/Toronto Fringe), as well as writing and performing her one-person show Licking Knives. She is a certified Intermediate Actor-Combatant with the Academy of Fight Directors Canada. Please visit melaniehrymak.com

Michael Booth

Leonato

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Macbeth, Drunk Ado About Nothing

Scott Emerson Moyle

Director, Benedick

For Dauntless City Theatre: Twelfth Night, Two Noble Kinsmen, Midsummer Night's Dream, Drunk Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, Romeo & (her) Juliet, Drunk Ado About Nothing, Love's Labours Lost, Drunk Romeo and Juliet, Drunk The Tempest, Two Gentlewomen of Verona

Scott Emerson Moyle is the Artistic Director of Dauntless City Theatre. Directing credits: Twelfth Night, The Two Noble Kinsmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labours Lost, and The Winter’s Tale, (Dauntless) as well as Romeo and (her) Juliet in co-production with Headstrong Collective (winner of “Best Director (Independant)” at the 2014 My Entertainment World Awards), and Solar Stage’s Dora-nominated Treasure Island. Acting credits include Antonio in Twelfth Night (Dauntless), Tom Snout in A Midsummer Nightmare (Leroy Street Theatre), and many odd parts in many Drunk Shakespeares.  He also works as an educator in Shakespeare, having directed As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet with the Lost & Found Young Company, and has four times been invited to teach Shakespeare at the International School of Brussels in Belgium. He attended George Brown Theatre School, certified as an Advanced Actor-Combatant with Fight Directors Canada, and is apprenticing with Intimacy Directors International. Scott is a member of Generator’s 2017-2018 Artist Producer Training program.

Shawn Ahmed

Borachio/Messenger

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing

Stephen (Stevie) Joffee

Claudio/Sexton

For Dauntless City Theatre: Drunk Ado About Nothing

Stevie Baker

For Dauntless City Theatre: Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Drunk Ado About Nothing, Love's Labours Lost, Drunk Romeo and Juliet

Stevie Baker is a producer, director and stage manager. Internationally, she has worked with Kansas City’s Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre and served as Artistic Director for the Daegu Theatre Troupe in Daegu, South Korea. Stevie is extremely proud to be the resident Queen of Production at Toronto’s Dauntless City Theatre. Favourite credits include directing Zora Neale Hurston’s Lawing and Jawing and A Streetcar Named Desire. Recent productions include One More and the Bill  (Little Boy Lost), Drunk Ado About Nothing (Dauntless City Theatre) and Out At Sea (Leroy Street Theatre). Stevie is ever grateful for her wonderful Nampyeon and her completely perfect spawn, Stella.