Maggie at Theatre Aquarius

Dharma Bizier

Will Lincoln

Lawrence Libor

Aidan Burke

Jeremy Legat

Nicola-Dawn Brook

Jamie McRoberts

Michelle Bardach

Sweeney MacArthur

Adam Stevenson

Kaitlyn Post

Liam Crober-Best

Jay Davis

Alyssa LeClair

Andrew McAllister

Clea McCaffrey

Julius Sermonia

Aaron Ryder

Matt Murray

Matt is a Toronto-based musical theatre book writer, playwright and lyricist. Musical credits include: Grow – book writer (collaboration with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal). Maggie - co-book, co-music and co-lyric (collaboration with acclaimed recording artist Johnny Reid). Going Under - book writer (collaboration with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal). Matt has written six Ross Petty Pantos – Peter’s Final Flight! Lil’ Red Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Carol, all at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as two digital productions, There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays and Alice in Winterland. A Christmas Carol was recorded for broadcast by CBC/Family Channel. Plays include: Myth Of The Ostrich, Remember, Maggy? (collaboration with Carol Anne Murray) and Chronicles of Sarnia.

Johnny Reid

Over an illustrious career spanning more than two decades, JUNO Award winning singer-songwriter, Johnny Reid has captured the hearts of fans and audiences around the world. The critically acclaimed singer is widely known for his lyrical honesty and musical ability, as demonstrated by an extensive catalogue of hit songs, album sales totaling over 1.5 million units in Canada, countless awards and multiple sold-out national arena tours.

Bob Foster

Bob Foster is a Toronto-based Music Director, Composer and Orchestrator/Arranger. His theatre credits include: Come From Away, Rock Of Ages, Hairspray, Dirty Dancing, Wizard Of Oz, Billy Elliot, The Boys In The Photograph (Mirvish Original Canadian Casts).He is Head Of Music at the Charlottetown Festival, and Music Supervisor for Tell Tale Harbour , Evangeline, Maggie and Bittergirl, the Musical. Bob has been Music Dirrector of the Ross Petty Christmas Panto in Toronto since 2005. He wrote the hit songs Good Mother and Looking For It, among others, with Jann Arden, and has played guitar and keyboards with her both live and in the studio. He is recipient of two SOCAN Airplay Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards.

Mary Francis Moore

Mary Francis Moore is an award-winning director, playwright and dramaturg. Recognized for championing new works, Mary Francis has dramaturged and directed numerous plays that have toured across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. She has also developed several new musicals with established recording artists Johnny Reid, Amy Sky, Twin Flames and the Estate of Rita MacNeil. Her directing credits at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, ON, where she currently serves as Artistic Director, include: The Hours That Remain, Hairspray: The Broadway Musical and Home for The Holidays. She co-wrote the smash-hit play Bittergirl with fellow collaborators, Annabel Fitzsimmons and Alison Lawrence. This acclaimed show was produced across Canada (including Theatre Aquarius), London UK, and showcased in NYC.

Yasmine Lee

Yasmine Lee is a dance & movement-centered artist who has worked across concert dance, theater, film, television, ceremonies & music videos in over 35 countries. Lee is Georgie’s Mama 24/7. Select credits include Upcoming: Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola), Let The Right One In (Berkeley Rep), Disco Show (Caesar’s Palace). Now Playing: Parable Of The Sower, A Beautiful Noise, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child. Past: Made For Love (HBOMax), Social! with David Byrne, Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theater); Wild Goose Dreams, Katy Perry for SNL (NBC); The Crucible (dir: Ivo van Hove); The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime; Once, RENT, Opening & closing Ceremonies World Expo ’20 (Dubai); Opening Ceremonies XXII Winter Olympic Games (Sochi), Knives In Hens, Tender Napalm, PEARL (Lincoln Center), My Name’s Not Indian Joe, Issey Miyake product launch (Louvre Museum); AMICI Di Maria Di Felipe (Canale 5 Italia), Across The Universe (Sony Pictures), Dunham Technique Video (Commissioned by US Library of Congress/Archived at Smithsonian Institute), Joan Peter’s Dance Company, MOMIX, Earl Mosely’s Diversity of Dance (Founding Member).

Anita Nittoly

This is Anita’s Theatre Aquarius Debut. Selected Fight Director and Sexual Choreographer credits include Fall on Your Knees (Canstage); Counter Offence (Segal Centre); Fairview (Canstage); Prodigal (Crow's Theatre); Trojan Girls and The Outhouse of Atreus (Outside The March/Factory Theatre); Our Place (Cahoots/TPM); Full 2019 Season at The Stratford Festival; Kitchen Radio, Stag & Doe, Full 2018 Season at The Blyth Festival; The Last Wife, The 39 Steps, Successions (Centaur Theatre); Whole World (Carousel Players); Don Quichotte, Die Walkure, Carmen (Canadian Opera Company, *Associate Fight Master). Anita is a Stage Combat Instructor, Fight Director, and Sexual Choreographer (National Theatre School). Her selected stunt performer/stunt actor credits include: SEE, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, Titans, The Boys, Rabbit Hole, What We Do in the Shadows, various Ubisoft motion capture productions.

Rachel O’Brien

Rachel O’Brien makes her Theatre Aquarius debut with MAGGIE. Rachel (she/her) is a Toronto-based music director, pianist, and educator originally from Valley, Nova Scotia. Selected theatre credits include: Music Director, Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre/Soulpepper); A Christmas Carol (Shaw Festival); Twelfth Night (Theatre Sheridan); Anne & Gilbert (The Guild). Associate Music Director, Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, Tell Tale Harbour, Munschables (Charlottetown Festival). A graduate of Mount Allison University's Bachelor of Music program, Rachel is also a former Shaw Festival Music Intern (Holiday Inn, Gatsby's Jazz/Sonny's Blues, Shawground/Fairground, etc).

Julius Sermonia

Other Theatre: Selected: Miss Saigon, The King and I, Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Contact, Cats (Broadway); Chicago, Tommy, Camelot, Evita, Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story, A Funny Thing…Forum (also Mirvish), Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes (Stratford); Holiday Inn (Shaw); Yoshimi…Pink Robots (La Jolla); Elf, Mary Poppins (Neptune); Shrek (Grand); Marathon of Hope, Damn Yankees (Drayton); The Little Mermaid, Cinderella (Ross Petty); The Drowsy Chaperone (MTC); Sweet Charity (StageWest); Hair (Canadian Stage); West Side Story (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Beauty and The Beast (Theatre Aquarius) Film/TV: Mother of All Shows (Feature Film), The Boys (Sony/Amazon), Hellcats (CW)

Ken McDonald

This is Ken McDonald’s Theatre Aquarius debut. Other theatre credits include: The Overcoat – A Musical Retailoring, Canadian Stage/Vancouver Opera/Tapestry Opera, A Thousand Splendid Suns, ACT (San Francisco), Theatre Calgary, The Grand Theatre, Old Globe San Diego, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, RMTC and Arena Stage, Newsies, Anything Goes, Sovereignty, The Shoplifters, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), Engaged, Our Town, Sweet Charity, Arms and The Man, Our Betters, Doctor’s Dilemma, Shaw Festival; Wanderlust, Moby Dick, The Trespassers, Stratford Festival. Upcoming Frankenstein Revisited, Stratford Festival. Ken’s film and TV credits include The Overcoat, CBC Television. Ken is a Gemini Award winner for Outstanding Production Design; he also has two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Betty Mitchell Award and seventeen Jessie Mitchell Awards. You can find Ken online at www.kenandmorris.com.

Samantha McCue

This is Sam McCue’s Theatre Aquarius debut. Other theatre credits include: Rubaboo (The Grand); The Breathing Hole (National Arts Centre); Where the Blood Mixes, Kamloopa (Soulpepper Theatre Company); The Herd (Citadel Theatre); Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer (The Belfry, Theatre Calgary); I Am William (Stratford Festival, co-designed with Michelle Bohn). A graduate of York University’s theatre program, Sam is also a member of Associated Designers of Canada. Sam was nominated for a Dora Award in 2022, and she is a 2023 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award Nominee and a 2023 Pauline McGibbon Award Nominee. You can find her online at www.sammccuedesign.com and on social @sammccuedesign.

Kimberly Purtell

Kimberly is a Toronto based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance. Her designs have been critically acclaimed across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Moscow and Mongolia. She has designed for Mirvish Productions, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, National Arts Centre and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Philadelphia, Arena Stage, DC, Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, The Grand Theatre, The Charlottetown Festival, among many others. She has also designed productions for the Pan Am Games and the Vancouver and Beijing Cultural Olympiads. Kimberly has been nominated for numerous awards for outstanding lighting design and is the recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, a Montreal English Theatre Award, a Toronto Theatre Critics Award, an Ottawa Critics Circle Award and an Elizabeth Sterling Award. Kimberly is the Vice President of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Josh Liebert

Josh Liebert makes his Theatre Aquarius debut with MAGGIE. Other theatre credits include New York: [title of show] (2019 Reunion), Regional: Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Joseph… (Tuacahn); Next to Normal, In the Heights (Westport, with Domonic Sack); Part of the Plan (Nashville); The Rocky Horror Show (Bucks County); Story of my Life, South Pacific (Delaware Theatre Co.). International: Central Avenue Breakdown (Daegu, ROK), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (European Tour). Off-Broadway: Brilliant, We are the Tigers, NYMF Festival Designer (2018 & 2019), The Other Josh Cohen (2012), Son of a Gun. Streaming: We Have to Hurry. Broadway/Tour Associate (selected): MJ (Tony, Best Sound Design); Summer; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; A Bronx Tale; Spring Awakening (2015). Josh holds a BFA from Ithaca College and an MFA from UC - CCM. You can find Josh at www.joshliebert.com.