Wahsontí:io Kirby is a Kanien’kehà:ka artist belonging to the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawà:ke. They strongly believe in exploring the Indigenization and Decolonization of performance art, specifically theatre and acting. They were raised surrounded by Kanien’keha and Haudenosaunee culture. 

Wahsontí:io has worked with Geordie Theatre on their 2Play Tour for the 2020-2021 season, and the 2018-2019 seasons in the Young Company at the Confed. Centre of the Arts. Wahsontí:io is a part of the Birmingham Conservatory at the Stratford Festival, and will appear in their first season at the Festival this summer.  

Other than acting, Wahsontí:io enjoys beadworking as well as spending time with their family and community. 

Rae-Michelle Comodero is an emerging professional actor born and based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. A lifelong dancer, an alumni of Concordia University’s BFA Acting program, and Imago Theatre’s ARTISTA Mentorship program, she has been continuously working with established and independent theatre companies across Montreal. Rae-Michelle believes her purpose as an artist is to uplift underrepresented communities and tell stories that foster truth, empathy, and human connection. 

Vassilios Iliopoulos is a young actor/writer who was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. Vassilios started his adventure in the arts at an early age, from participating in choirs to commercials. In his later years he attended John Abbotts Professional Theatre Program. Some of his favourite roles he has played have been Nino in Amelie (Penumbra Theatre), Baker in Into The Woods (Starcatcher), Ernst in Spring Awakening (Contact)and The Beggar in Decomposed Theatre (JAC Theatre). He is eager to join the Geordie family and embark on the 2Play Tour!

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma is a director and theatre maker originally from Kathmandu, Nepal. She is primarily based in Tkarón:to (TO) but currently resides in Tiohtià:ke (MTL). She completed her Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Program in Artistic Direction at Theatre Passe Muraille, was in the 50th edition of The Banff Playwrights Lab in 2023 and is currently the Directing artist in residence at the National Theatre School of Canada. Her recent work includes: Orlando (Talk is Free Theatre, 2022), Transfers (SummerWorks, 2022), How We Play(ed) (Forward March,2023), Eventually, We Land (Tarragon x TMU, 2023) and Lysistrata (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024),  1984 2061 (Geordie Theatre, 2025). 

Tania has been working in costumes for live entertainment for 18 years, mainly as a headpiece creator for Cirque du soleil. She is thrilled to be working with Geordie again. 

HeatherEllen Strain (she/they) is a queer and disabled sound designer and stage manager working and living in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Taking a break from professional stage management, they are currently focusing on sound design, as well as being the Venue Coordinator and Stage Management Coach for the Concordia University theatredepartment.  

Recent credits include: White Lion Brown Tiger (Sound Designer, Teesri Duniya Theatre), All Shall be Well (StageManager & Sound Designer, Repercussion Theatre), Superdogs: The Musical (ASM, Segal Centre), Small Mouth Sounds (Stage Manager, Segal Centre), Tomorrow (Stage Manager/Sound Designer, Hooks and Crooks) 

Katey Wattam (she/they) is a director and helper of mixed English, Irish, Franco-Ontarian, and Anishinaabe ancestry. With familial ties to the Lake Nipissing region in Ontario, she was born and raised in Tkaronto/Toronto and currently has roots in Tio’tiá:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal, where she serves as the Director of Indigenous Perspectives at the National Theatre School. 

Her practice spans Turtle Island, where she is drawn to stories that resonate with her ways of knowing and by the relationships she nurtures with artists, individuals, and communities. Through her work, she supports both people and the spaces they create together. Recently, she directed The Unplugging at GCTC in Ottawa and Dreary and Izzy with Gwaandak Theatre in Whitehorse. She also supported Bad Roads at Crow’s Theatre and The Flood at Imago Theatre as a Relational Care Holder and worked on Jordan with Geordie Theatre Productions. She teaches at the National Theatre School and has mentored emerging artists through Black Theatre Workshop’s Artists Mentorship program and Why Not Theatre’s ThisGen Fellowship. 

A registered social worker, Katey holds a Master’s in Social Work specializing in Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency from the University of Toronto. She provides wholistic, human-centered, and culturally humble therapeutic care through Weaving Wellness Centre, supporting Indigenous and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals and communities, as well as those navigating intergenerational, complex, and developmental trauma. 

Her approach—rooted in the body—is guided by blood memory and deep attunement with others to uncover ancestral knowledge, reclaim, and decolonize bodies, minds, and spaces. Advocating for the synergy of art and wholistic health, she specializes in relational care-based theatre practices through an Indigenous lens offering mentorship, consultation, and support to theatre artists, individuals, and communities to foster generative, equitable, and transformative processes. 

A former dancer/choreographer turned lighting designer, Tim Rodrigues has worked with an array of companies on creation-based projects and international tours. Notable lighting designs include: Jordan (Geordie Theatre); The Wolves (Geordie Theatre / Imago Theatre); Sakura: After Chekov (Centaur Theatre); Selma Burke (Theatre Calgary / Alberta Theatre Projects); Dominoes At The Crossroads (Infinithéatre); The Flood (Imago Theatre); Paint Me This House Of Love (Tarragon Theatre); English (Soulpepper / Segal Centre); Serving Elizabeth (Theatre Aquarius); From The Stars In The Sky, To The Fish In The Sea (Geordie Theatre); The River (Magnus Theatre). Tim is a seven-time Montreal English Theatre Awards nominee for Outstanding Lighting Design, and was the recipient of the award in 2023. In addition to his designs, he proudly serves on the Board of Directors for Parts+Labour_Danse

potatoCakes_digital is the award winning production design, digital arts, and technical services company of Emily Soussana and Andrew Scriver, incorporated in 2021. Formed as a collective in 2018 with a video design at Osheaga Music Festival for John Jacob Magistery, they have been unofficially working together for over seven years as an all-encompassing artistic and technical team offering digital dramaturgical support, production management, and technical direction, as well as designing video, lighting, sound, set, and costumes for live performance, installation, and digital art, with productions and companies in Tiohtià:ke and across Canada.  

The company’s main artistic mandate is to technically helm and forge singularly cohesive designs for productions from conception to performance. Though, they are known to focus on one or two particular elements of a production, zeroing in on their complexity and delving into the heart of the story. Some of potatoCakes_digital’s main interests in the performing arts involve the integration and interrelation of technology and traditional art forms, and the exploration of how visual and digital art can help facilitate and elevate the telling of a story. Their philosophy of creation is story and character based, and in such intent, all design elements become characters in their own rights. Their work is to create worlds, and to see them through to the end.  

As digital dramaturgs, Emily and Andrew have helped push the boundaries of the Canadian performance digital landscape, through their work with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal’s Digital Dramaturgy Integration Strategy, Digital Dramaturgy Initiative, Digital Clinics, and Experimentation in Digital Creation residencies, and in curating and administrating 2021’s highly successful Level UP symposium, and Live Virtual Experiments 2021-2022 with the Associated Designers of Canada. With these and other consultation work they are able to offer technical and digital assistance for others’ creations, to help artists realize their digital dreams.  

potatocakesdigital.ca 

Credits Include: Nanatasis – Projection Design (Musique 3 Femmes, 2025); Cycle – Lighting and Projection Design (Surreal SoReal/Espace Libre, 2025) Echoes:Vibrations from Japan to Canada – Projection Design (Takako Segawa, 2024); Megalodon and The Velveteen Rabbit – Projection Design (Geordie Productions, 2024) Everything Has Disappeared – Set, Lighting, and Video Design (Mammalian Diving Reflex, 2024); Universal Child Care – Video Design (Quote Unquote Collective, 2024 ) QUEERasure Sex Garage – Visual Design (Ragtag Collective, 2023); What Rough Beast – Set, Lighting and Video Design (Theatre Ouest End and Tantalus Theatre, 2023); Making The Mystics – Stage Production Design (Kim Senklip Productions, 2022); Kamloopa – Lighting and Video Design (Soulpepper Theatre Co. 2022) Pipeline – Video Design (Black Theatre Workshop, 2022), Antioch – Visual Design, Videography and Editing (Talisman Theatre, 2021); Tuning In – Visual Design and Streaming Support (Imago Theatre, 2021); Break Horizon : A Rocking Concert Documentary – Lighting and Video Design (Kim Senklip Productions, 2021); Behaviour – Production Design (Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal and The Segal Centre, 2021); SKIN – Video Design and Technology (The Bakery, 2021); Seven Deadly Sins and Lucrezia – Video and Projection Design (The Glenn Gould School – RCM, 2020); Skyborn: A Land Reclamation Odyssey – Projection Design (Savage Society, 2020) 

Eo Sharp is a set and costume designer. Eo works across the country and designs for theatre companies large and small. Over the years, she has designed eleven productions with Geordie. In 2024 Eo was nominated for a META (set design) for POTUS at the Segal Centre. This past fall she designed Pirate and the Lone Voice for Black Theatre Workshop and her next production is CRASH for Imago Theatre

Kahentanó:ron is a Kanien’kehá:ka theatre artist from Kahnawà:ke who aims to bring more opportunities to her community to strengthen our connection to each other through storytelling. She is a graduate of the National TheatreSchool of Canada and John Abbott College. 

Past: Lighting Design: Stone & Bone Spectacular (Centaur), Cottagers & Indians (1000 Islands Playhouse), Salvage theWrecked, Verdigris (NTS), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (JAC); ATD: Pawâkan Macbeth (Akpik), Lighting Design Associate: Jordan (Geordie); Assistant Set Design: Feather Gardens (Hudson Village Theatre) 

Upcoming: In the Shadow Beyond the Pines (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Gespeg (NTS).

Morgandy is a stage and production manager based in Toronto/Tkaronto. She has worked on over 20 productions specialising in new works, musicals, and stand-up comedy. In 2022, she expanded her practice to include production management alongside her stage management work. Recent projects include Resurrection (SM), Max and Aaron Write a Musical (PM/TD), and Cult Play (PM/TD). This is her fourth time collaborating with Geordie Theatre having previously worked on the 2022 iteration of the Playground Festival, last year’s production of Jordan, and the 2025 2-Play Tour (Beyond Belief and 2061). She currently works as a production manager for TOLive bringing a wide range of productions to the stage at the Meridian Arts Centre, Meridian Hall, and the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts.