Cast & Crew
Cast
Rick Miller (he/him) is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer / director / actor / musician / educator who has performed in five languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. He has created and toured solo shows such as the BOOM Trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ), MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; and family shows with Craig Francis and Kidoons, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, Dragon’s Trilogy, and on the film Possible Worlds. Current projects in development include MONEY, and The Time Machine. Rick hosts an intergenerational podcast called Xing The Gap, and sometimes teaches an interdisciplinary class at the University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity. He lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist. www.rickmiller.ca
Michael makes theatre in the USA and Canada, but calls Toronto home. He is the Artistic Director of November Theatre, who produce and develop alternative musicals, including their celebrated National Tour of Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and Williams S Burroughs’ The Black Rider. Favourite acting credits include: Hard Core Logo (November Theatre / PuSh Festival); El Terremoto (Tarragon Theatre); A Good Place (Factory Theatre); Mata Hari (New York Musical Theatre Festival); Refugee Hotel (Theatre Passe Muraille); Th’owxiya (Axis Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Theatre Network / Sterling Award Winner); The Blue Orphan (Catalyst Theatre / UK Tour); Alice Munro Stories (Belfry Theatre); Little Mercy’s First Murder (Touchstone Theatre); Tideline (Neworld Theatre / Jessie Award Nomination); Taming of the Shrew (Jessie Award Nomination), Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach); and Cloud Tectonics (Vancouver Playhouse / Pi Theatre). Select Film and Television credits include: Cross (Amazon/Paramount), Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (Paramount); Chucky (SyFy/NBC); Fringe (Fox); Smallville (Warner Bros.); The Collector (CHUM); Jeremiah(Showtime) and Special Unit 2 (UPN). Michael is thrilled to be working again with Rick, Craig and the whole WYRD team after helping out in the development of HANS: My Life In Fairy Tales and MONEY. www.novembertheatre.com
Arun’s love of acting goes way back to when he would perform William Wallace narration pieces from Age of Empires II to amuse his family at parties. It took two decades and a detour into studying neuroscience at the University of Toronto before those little spores of performance mania truly took hold, but he now counts himself firmly in the clutches of the dramatic arts. He is based in Toronto with his partner and two chaotic cats, but is thrilled to have the opportunity to take Jungle Book out on the road to a whole host of exciting new venues and audiences! Selected theatrical credits include: Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre); Frankenstein: A Living Comic Book (Kidoons); From the Stars (Geordie Theatre); Counter Offence (Teesri Duniya). Other credits: Interstellar Ella (original animation/Apartment 11 Productions); Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (video game/Ubisoft); The Bold Type (TV/Freeform); About Sex (TV/CBC Gem); Future Man (TV/Hulu). Arun is very excited to be a part of this most brain-tingling and funny-bone-tickling production of “Frankenstein”. He hopes you enjoy the show!
Mondoux has worked in the Canadian theatre scene for a decade, having productions with Shakespeare in the Park, Just For Laughs, Montreal Fringe, Fierté Montréal and Place des Arts under her belt. She works regularly in voice-over and motion capture for video games (Eidos, Red Barrels, Nintendo) and sings and plays with Montreal’s most promising all-girl traditional Irish band, Gráinne. She is a recent recipient of a Montreal English Theatre Award for an outstanding lead performance and is represented by Haus of Marc Talent.
Creative Team
Rick Miller (he/him) is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer / director / actor / musician / educator who has performed in five languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. He has created and toured solo shows such as the BOOM Trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ), MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; and family shows with Craig Francis and Kidoons, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, Dragon’s Trilogy, and on the film Possible Worlds. Current projects in development include MONEY, and The Time Machine. Rick hosts an intergenerational podcast called Xing The Gap, and sometimes teaches an interdisciplinary class at the University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity. He lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist. www.rickmiller.ca
Craig Francis is a playwright, director, and visual artist. His plays have toured Canada and the US, including Off-Broadway. A founding member of The 20K Collective, Craig co-created Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, and HANS: My Life In Fairy Tales with Rick Miller; and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book with Miller and Paul Van Dyck. He's a producer, dramaturg, and stage manager for Miller's BOOM trilogy and MONEY productions in Canada, the US, France, and Taiwan. Current projects include CYNIC, The Time Machine, and The Turn of the Screw. Craig is an educator, speaker, and emerging artist mentor, including co-authoring Redwood Woman with Andrea Friesen. He has performed improv and sketch comedy with Just For Laughs, CBC, CTV and Showtime. Craig lives in Montréal, has illustrated books, and voiced animated series. Videos he co-created with Kidoons and not-for-profit organizations are installed in museums in six provinces.
Born in Brockville, Ontario, Paul Van Dyck is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and performer whose work has been produced across Canada and around the world. Paul holds a BAH in Stage and Screen Studies from Queen's University and a Masters in Creative Writing from UBC. He has received numerous awards including The Tom Hendry Playwrights Guild of Canada Comedy Award, The Montreal English Critics Circle Revelation Award, and The Montreal English Theatre Awards Outstanding Direction. Paul is a past Intern Directors Project participant at the Shaw Festival, a National Forum Representative of Quebec for the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the founding Artistic Director of Rabbit in a Hat Productions. As an actor, Paul has appeared in dozens of plays, films, and TV shows, and voiced characters for video games and animation, including Unicorn Academy on Netflix and SuperKlaus with Colm Feore. Paul’s newest play, The Last Hanging at Redbridge, received an OAC Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators and a staged reading at the inaugural St. Lawrence Writers’s Festival.
Jeff has a lifelong passion and vision for combining art and technology to develop original works. His projects are inspired by a love of storytelling and innovation. Through WYRD Productions, Kidoons theatrical productions, and digital works on the Kidoons Network, Jeff's artist collaborators help organizations to tell their stories onstage and online. He works with Not-for-Profits and corporate clients across Canada and the United States with a vision to inspire and empower all generations. Jeff dedicates this show to his mother, Evelyn Lord.
Aidan Ware hails from Calgary, Alberta, and is a graduate of the BFA Technical Theatre program at the University of Alberta. Upon completing an 18-month lighting practicum program at the Banff Centre, Aidan moved to Toronto where his creativity and passion for bringing new technologies to live performance have led him to work with various creative houses including Solotech, Moment Factory, TIFA, and TOlive. He has worn many hats including Assistant Technical Director at Canadian Stage and Director of Production for Fall for Dance North. He is currently helping to design a new state-of-the-art space for the BMO lab, focussing on emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in performance. He continues to freelance as a Technical Director and Lighting Designer in Toronto. Previous credits with Kidoons/WYRD Productions include BOOM YZ (TD/Lighting Design) & BOOM X (TD/Assoc. Lighting Design).
Irina is a multidisciplinary artist with expertise in graphic design, video production, and multimedia storytelling. She has been a longstanding collaborator with Rick Miller and Craig Francis, contributing to onscreen media projections for MacHomer, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Game of Clones. Recent work includes branding and projection/media design for BOOM X and BOOM YZ, for which she was nominated—alongside Rick Miller and Nicolas Dostie—for the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Projection or Video Design. Irina is the multimedia designer for Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. Upcoming projects include MONEY and The Time Machine. As a web and video production artist, Irina also serves as the designer and editor of the Kidoons Network animated series.
Sabrina is a set, costume and puppet designer originally from the west coast. Production designs in Montréal include From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days (Geordie Theatre) Birthmark (Teesri Duniya), Bluenose (Black Theatre Workshop) and Animal Farm (Kaleidoscope Theatre). Costume designs include Frankenstein: A Living Comic Book (Kidoons), The Sages of Chelm (Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (Dawson College) and Elle's Black Space Voyage: An Afrodiasporic Odyssey (MAI). Sabrina recently won awards for Best Costume Design at YES! Let's Make a Movie Film Festival Canada for the short film Wraith (2023), and the META for Outstanding Costume Design (From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, 2022).
As a freelance, full-time designer & maker of Puppets and Masks, Mathieu René works with a wide range of tools and techniques, originating in countless disciplines and traditions, from Crafts to Fine Arts. As an instructor of custom creative workshops, he has a passion for encouraging people to discover their inner artistic & problem-solving potential. We're all artists-in-becoming! www.youtube.com/user/Creaturiste/playlists
Andrea Lundy is an award-winning Lighting Designer and Production Manager who has worked professionally across Canada and internationally for 37 years. She is the recipient of 9 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and 2 Montreal English Theatre Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design. She has worked extensively with the National Arts Centre, Shaw Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Stage, Necessary Angel Theatre, among others. At Centaur Theatre she has recently designed The 39 Steps, Choir Boy, Constellations and Last Wife and at Geordie Theatre she designed Instant, Chloe’s Choice, The Odyssey and The Iliad. Andrea is proud to have been Director of the Production Design and Technical Arts Program at the National Theatre School of Canada for the last 11 years.
Richard has been creating music and soundscapes for theatre, dance & film since 1992. He has won seven Dora Awards, the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, and was the first sound designer ever shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize, in 2012. For Kidoons: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (music & sound design), Jungle Book (audio consultant). Other recent credits: Public Enemy, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure For Measure (Canadian Stage); Hamlet (Stratford Festival); The Cold War (VideoCabaret); Every Brilliant Thing, Perfect Wedding, Miss Caledonia (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Going, Going (short film by Fiona Highet); Carmen (feature film score); The Flick (Outside the March/Crow’s Theatre). Upcoming: Grand Ghosts (The Grand Theatre)
Julian Smith is a recent graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada's Production Design and Technical Arts Program. A born and bred Newfoundlander now living in Quebec, Julian is curious about all facets of Management and Design. Julian and his company “This Might be Satire Productions” are recent recipients of The Canada Council of the Arts Concept to Realization for a show in current development. Recent select credits include- APM and ASM Wonderbolt International Circus Festival (Wonderbolt). Assistant Sound and Video Designer Everybody Just Calm the F*ck Down (Artistic Fraud) and Sound and Video Designer Out of It (Rising Tide). Julian is incredibly excited for everyone to see this show and would like to thank his partner Robyn for always believing in him. For Lottie.
Photo credit: Riley Harnett
Jessica Campbell-Maracle (She/Her) is a mixed Kanien’kéha:ka / settler theatre artist from Toronto. She is currently studying at The National Theatre School of Canada in the Production Design and Technical Arts New Pathways Program. She also graduated from Humber College’s Theatre Production Program in 2017. Select theatre credits include: Reckoning (ARTICLE 11), Almighty Voice and His Wife (Soulpepper) theatre, and Honour Beat (The Grand Theatre). She is super excited to be working with Kidoons and Geordie theatre for the first time.
Thomas Giroux (He/Him) is honored to be working with Kidoons and Geordie theatre for the very first time. He is taking on the dual roles of Production Manager and Technical Director for Frankenstein, A Living Comic Book. Thomas is currently completing his second year of an Independent Residency at the National Theatre School. Thomas joins us from Alberta where he has worked in the arts for ten years as a lighting technician. He spent time at the Banff Centre, at the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing arts Centre, and with the Alberta Ballet.
Past Cast & Crew members
Rosie is simply ecstatic to be finally mounting Frankenstein, after being with the project for almost 3 years! Rosie is an award-winning performer originally hailing from Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Rosie just finished up her first season with the Gros Morne Theatre Festival in Newfoundland, and is so excited to be back in her hometown for this incredible show. She is a graduate of both Dawson College’s Professional Theatre program (Valedictorian) and of Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Selected Credits: April Fools (Segal Centre) It Shoulda Been You (Segal Centre/DWYT), Last Night at The Gayety (Centaur Theatre), Robin Hood (Festival Antigonish), The “Captain Aurora” Saga (Montreal Fringe/Mainline), tick, tick… BOOM! (Rentrobuff), and Spring Awakening (Persephone Productions), among others. When not onstage, Rosie works as a VO artist, having done spots for Via Rail, Air Canada, Circle K, Spotify, Desjardins, and many others. Rosie has received numerous awards for her work, including the prestigious Banks Prize from The Musical Stage, a BroadwayWorld Award, and an Alternative Film Fest award. Much love to her Mo for always believing in her and being by her side.
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Eloi has been seen on various Montreal stages including the Segal Centre (Marjorie Prime), Centaur Theatre (Hosanna, Intimate Apparel, With Bated Breath), Duceppe (Sunderland, Frères de sang), and in many shows for young audiences (The Halloween Tree, Geronimo Stilton, Holy Cow!). A two-time recipient of a META (Montreal English Theatre Award) for Outstanding Performance, he was recently featured in Juste Pour Rire's production of the musical Annie and starred in Mamma Mia! at Théâtre Saint-Denis. Screen credits include District 31, Jack Ryan, 19-2, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix.