Rachel Bowron (Laurette Hastings) Rachel made her Teatro debut in 2011 as Oiseau in The Hoof and Mouth Advantage, and has since appeared with the company in Eros and the Itchy Ant, Barefoot in the Park, Saint Albert, Going, Going, Gone, A Lesson in Brio, A Likely Story, Caribbean Muskrat, and Love is for Poor People. Her recent local credits include Clue, The Garneau Block and The Candidate/The Party at the Citadel, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for Shadow Theatre. She’s also appeared at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre, and has numerous Fringe credits. Rachel is a graduate of Grant MacEwan University Theatre Arts, and was music director of the St. Albert Children’s Theatre for 10 years. She was also a producer/performer/host on the Varscona’s Oh Susanna, and That’s Terrific!. She’s recently become a Teatro costume designer with A Grand Time in the Rapids and The Exquisite Hour/Love is for Poor People, as well as the filmed production A Fit, Happy Life.

Cathy Derkach (Princess Volodevsky) Cathy debuted with Teatro in Neck-Breaking Car-Hop/Swiss Pajamas in 1988 and her other acting credits with the company include Fever Land, The Bad Seed, The Finest of Strangers, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Rocky Night for His Nibs, The Hoof and Mouth Advantage, and all three productions of Eros and the Itchy Ant (in two different roles). Earlier this season she was musical director for Teatro’s Far Away and Long A-Gogo, and she also appeared in Shadow Theatre’s Crescendo. Cathy works as a an accompanist and vocal coach for MacEwan University’s BFA Theatre Program, and was musical director of their recent productions of The Drowsy Chaperone, Into the Woods, City of Angels, and And the World Goes Round, and she was musical director for The Theory of Relativity at Concordia University this spring. Cathy is a two-time Sterling Award winner, for both acting and musical direction and she was a cast member of CBC Radio’s The Irrelevant Show for several seasons.

Beth Graham (Marian Ogilvy) A longtime Edmonton actor, Beth made her Teatro debut in Cause and Effect in 2013 and returned in Cocktails at Pam’s in 2016. Her other credits include Pride and Prejudice and The Penelopiad at the Citadel, Girl in the Machine for Bustle and Beast, and she appeared in Catalyst Theatre’s Nevermore across Canada, in the U.K., and Off Broadway in New York. Beth is also a playwright and her credits include The Drowning Girls, The Last Train, Comrades, and Mules, all co-written with Daniela Vlaskalic, and The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble which was produced at Theatre Network and at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and published by Playwrights Canada Press. Beth received a Sterling Award for her play Working it Out, commissioned and presented by the Workers’ Health Centre, and she was recently the Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta.

Mathew Hulshof (Charlie Hastings) Mathew made his debut with Teatro in Mrs. Lindeman Proposes at the 2011 Fringe, and has subsequently appeared in The Euphorians, The Nutcracker Unhinged, Hey, Countess!, For the Love of Cynthia, I Heard About Your Murder, A Lesson in Brio, A Likely Story, A Momentary Lapse and in the 2021 streaming video production A Fit, Happy Life. His most recent local credits include Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly and A Christmas Carol for the Citadel, Bed and Breakfast at Theatre Network, Happy Birthday, Baby J at Shadow Theatre, and Our Man in Havana for Bright Young Things. He’s also been seen at Workshop West, the Mayfield Dinner Theatre, and his performance in Concrete Theatre’s 2012 touring production of Smokescreen won him a Sterling Award. Mathew was also a producer and host for the Varscona’s variety shows Oh Susanna and That’s Terrific.

Leona Brausen (Costume Designer) Leona has worked regularly with Teatro as a performer and designer since the company’s inception at the first Edmonton Fringe in 1982. Her appearances include such classic Teatro shows as Cocktails at Pam’s, and The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas, and she was Nancy in the original cast of Pith. Leona has been Teatro’s principal costume designer for four decades, and her recent company costume credits include Pith, Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s, Deathtrap, The Margin of The Sky, Evelyn Strange, Fever Land, and The Bad Seed. Her other recent credits include Clue, and Jersey Boys at the Citadel, and The Drawer Boy and Tiny Beautiful Things for Shadow Theatre. She’s worked on many shows for The Mayfield Dinner Theatre including this season’s Canada Rocks: The Reboot. Leona designed costumes for the recently released feature film Before I Change My Mind, directed by Trevor Anderson, and in 2021 created a series of window installations at the Varscona featuring costume tributes to distinguished Canadian women. She was honoured with a 2020 Edmonton Artist’s Trust Fund Award from the Edmonton Arts Council, and she’s a three-time Sterling Award winner for costume design. Next up, she’ll be designing Teatro’s Private Lives.

Belinda Cornish (Director) Belinda was a Co-Artistic Producer with Teatro from 2020 through 2023. She made her company debut in A Grand Time in the Rapids in 2005, and has subsequently been seen in Witness to a Conga, The Exquisite Hour, Vidalia, and most recently Evelyn Strange. She also directed the three online streaming offerings in Teatro’s 2021 season- Lost Lemoine Parts 1 and 2, and A Fit, Happy Life, as well as the live production of Fever Land. Belinda has appeared frequently with the Freewill Shakespeare Festival and The Mayfield Dinner Theatre, and she’s been in both versions of A Christmas Carol at the Citadel and in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which also played at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. With her own company, the Varscona-based Bright Young Things, she produced and appeared in No Exit, The Real Inspector Hound, Our Man in Havana, and The Bald Soprano. Belinda has won two Sterling Awards for playwriting - for Little Elephants at Shadow Theatre, and Category E with The Maggie Tree. Her adaptation of Todd Babiak’s novel The Garneau Block premiered at the Citadel in the fall of 2021 and her play Hiraeth played at the Varscona shortly thereafter. Her next Teatro endeavour is playing Amanda in Private Lives this July.

Chantel Fortin (Set Designer) Chantel made her Teatro debut with Cocktails at Pam’s in 2016 and her many subsequent set designs for the company have included those for The Exquisite Hour/Love is for Poor People, Deathtrap, A Grand Time in the Rapids, Evelyn Strange, The Bad Seed, A Likely Story, Skirts on Fire, Shockers Delight!, and Witness to a Conga, the last of which earned her a Sterling nomination. She also designed the sets for Teatro’s 2021 streaming project Lost Lemoine: Parts One and Two. She’s a freelance scenic artist and prop master who’s been working in film and theatre in Edmonton for the past 12 years. Her other set design credits include Our Man in Havana for Bright Young Things, Going to St. Ives and Mesa for Atlas Theatre, and Shadow Theatre’s Fly Me to the Moon. She’s also done scenic painting and prop work for Workshop West, The Citadel, and Edmonton Opera. In other media, she was the production designer for all of the Government of Alberta’s Mr. Covidhead commercials, and she did the art direction for a pair of music videos by singer Roya Yazdanmehr. She has also served as production designer for a number feature length films produced locally by Northern Gateway Films under the Hallmark banner.

Stewart Lemoine (Playwright) Stewart has been writing and directing for Teatro La Quindicina since the first Edmonton Fringe in 1982. His most recent works premiered by Teatro include Love is for Poor People, A Likely Story, A Lesson in Brio, The Finest of Strangers, I Heard About Your Murder, and For the Love of Cynthia. In recent seasons, Teatro has also presented revivals of his Pith, The Exquisite Hour, The Margin of the Sky, Evelyn Strange, A Grand Time in the Rapids, Fever Land, Vidalia, Skirts on Fire, and Cocktails at Pam’s. His published work includes A Teatro Trilogy, At the Zenith of the Empire, and Witness to a Conga and Other Plays, all from from NeWest Press. Stewart is a ten-time winner of Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards for  Playwriting, and in 2008 he was the winner of The Tommy Banks Award, presented by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He’s a recipient of both the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee Medals, and in 2010 he was inducted into Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame. Last season he collaborated with Andrew MacDonald-Smith and pianist Frances Armstrong on a original cabaret show entitled Andrew MacDonald-Smith: My First Hundred Years, presented by Edmonton Opera.

Narda McCarroll (Lighting Designer) Narda is a set, costume, and lighting designer based in Calgary. Since graduating with an MFA in theatre design from the U of A in 2000, she has worked steadily in Alberta and across the country. A selection of her work seen in Edmonton includes The Garneau Block, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Penelopiad, Julius Caesar and Vimy for The Citadel, Vigilante for Catalyst Theatre, Rock the Canyon & Hair for The Mayfield Dinner Theatre and Beth Graham’s Mermaid Legs for SkirtAfire. She was the costume designer for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival for 16 seasons. Narda’s favourite Calgary credits include To the Light, The Circle, Red, and Mary’s Wedding for Alberta Theatre Projects, and The Extractionist, Cipher and Sweeney Todd for Vertigo Theatre. Her national credits include set and costumes for Bronte: The World Without at the Stratford Festival, lights for Rock of Ages at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, set for Cinderella at Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage, set for The Wizard of Oz for Western Canada Theatre & Rainbow, and national tours of Glory (Western Canada Theatre) and The Drowning Girls (Bent Out of Shape). She also designed costumes for the feature film Cutbank. A recipient of 4 Sterling Awards and 4 of Calgary’s Betty Mitchell Awards, Narda first worked for Teatro as a lighting designer for Damp Fury in 2000. Since then she has returned to light Evelyn Strange, A Grand Time in the Rapids and Listen, Listen.

Tiana McLean (Production Manager) After doing Scenic Construction/Carpentry on numerous Teatro shows in recent seasons, Tiana steps up as the company’s first official Production Manager. A graduate of MacEwan University’s Theatre Production program, Tiana has spent the last two decades working in Edmonton Theatre, where extreme weather, fire, illnesses, broken scenery, aggressive prop handling, and squirrels have taught her much about problem solving and remaining calm in a crisis. Past credits include: working as Production Manager for Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Head of Lighting and Carpentry for Theatre Network, and Technical Director for Alberta Musical Theatre (formerly Alberta Opera). Her favourite show experiences include doing scenic construction for AMTC’s Pinocchio while 7 months pregnant, and building the fun and creepy set for Theatre Network’s The Woman in Black, with all its ghostly tricks. She'll be back with Teatro Live for Private Lives and an exciting soon to be announced season opener in October.

Steven Sobolewski (Stage Manager) Making his Teatro Live debut with this production, Steven is a proud mixed-Filipino theatre artist based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan. He has worked as a stage manager all over Treaty 6 with companies such as Prison Dancer (Citadel Theatre) Million Dollar Quartet (Theatre Calgary), Working it Out! (Workplace School Programs), Smoke, This Won't Hurt I Promise, I Don't Even Miss You (Tiny Bear Jaws), Carmen, Don Giovanni (Edmonton Opera), The Debut (RISER). Steven was also a part of the Citadel's RBC Emerging Artist program in Artistic Leadership/planning and the Belfry Theatre's Emerging Arts Leadership Training Program. He is also one of the Equity Stage Management Councillors. Thanks to Casey for all the love and support.