Cast and Team

Dylan Thomas-Bouchier is a Cree and Dene dis-arts storyteller. Born and raised in Fort McMurray and the Fort McKay First Nation (Treaty 8), He graduated from The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS) acting program. Dylan is based on Calgary (Treaty 7)  

If this is your first theatre experience Dylan is happy you’re with us. Be excited. Enjoy it. And keep enjoying art and theatre for years to come. 

Theatre is about good stories with real people performing right in front of you. We feel your energy. Have a good time. Hiy Hiy 

Todd Houseman is a Nehiyaw actor, writer and improviser from Edmonton, Treaty 6. Todd is a graduate of the acting program (2020) and a current teacher at the National Theatre School of Canada. He is the co-creator of the award winning play Whiteface and the author of Ayannisach which can be found in Moonshot Vol. 1 The Indigenous Comic Book Collection. Todd is also the co-creator of Folk Lordz, an improvised play turned web series, which has toured across Turtle Island. In 2021 Todd was awarded a position on the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation’s Top 30 Under 30 list in recognition of both his artistic and cultural facilitation work. In 2020 Todd was awarded Alberta’s Best Actor at the Alberta film and Television Awards for his work in the short film version of Whiteface (Dir. Everett Sokol). Todd is currently working with Toronto’s Outside the March on his new play The Children of the Bear, which has been in development as an immersive, indigi-fantasy play. In his free time, Todd enjoys building masks, climbing mountains, or participating in ceremony with his family back home. 

KRYSTLE PEDERSON is a Saskatchewan-based Cree/Metis actor, singer/songwriter performing across North America and New Zealand. Krystle is a recipient of the CBC Future 40 Award, shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Arts Awards as well as a nomination for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards. Krystle’s list of acting credits includes a supporting role in Run: Broken Yet Brave, CBC Gem Series: Zarqa (Season 1), APTN: Chums, RMTC: The (Post) Mistress, NAC: Gabriel Dumont Wild West Show, Persephone Theatre: Reasonable Doubt, MTYP: Frozen River, Caravan Farm Theatre: The Nutcracker, IMAGO: The Flood, Savage Society: You Used to Call Me Marie. Krystle is honoured to be a part of  this amazing production of “Jordan”, and hope’s you enjoy the show. 

Dawson Dome-raised, Ravyn R. Bekh is an afro-indigenous creator based in Tiohtià:ke (mtl). Inspired by the likes of Hansberry and Parks, Ravyn aims to bring to life those homegrown stories of grime and grit — with a dash of soul and poetry. She hopes to do so with the optimism and natural beauty she has found life to be full of. 

Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg who works across Turtle Island. Her works include The Art of War, The Unplugging, The Birds, The Diviners (with Vern Thiessen). She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, Reasonable Doubt, which premiered at Persephone in 2020.  Recent directing credits include Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade at the Globe Theatre in Regina and the Stratford Festival, Julie Tamiko Manning’s Mizushōbai at Tableau d’Hôte, Leah-Simone Bowen’s The Flood at Imago, both in Montreal, and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s play The First Stone at New Harlem and GCTC in Toronto and Ottawa. She is currently working on a libretto about AI called Sophia with Tim Brady, a play called Unearthing, and an adaptation of Richard III with Caravan Farm. From 2003-2011, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. 

Jimmy is an off-reserve member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, with a mix of Plains Cree, English, and French settler heritage. Born and raised in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), he is a director, actor, writer, dramaturg, teacher, and mentor, as well as the Artistic Director of Geordie Theatre, where he helps bring powerful stories to young audiences.

Over the past 15 years, he has collaborated with companies like Native Earth Performing Arts, The Stratford Festival, The National Arts Centre, The Centaur, Repercussion Theatre, Porte Parole, La Licorne, Imago Theatre, and Black Theatre Workshop. Whether he’s shaping a production, performing on stage or screen, developing new work, guiding new voices in the industry, or bringing ideas to life, storytelling is at the heart of everything he does.

But his most rewarding (and often most unpredictable) role? Being a dad. Parenthood, much like theatre, is full of surprises, improvisation, and unforgettable moments—and Jimmy is all in.

Barry Bilinsky (he/him) is multifaceted Artist from Edmonton, Alberta of Metis, Cree, and Ukrainian lineage. Primarily a professional theatre and film writer and director, Barry pursues work focused on the support, proliferation, and creation of indigenous stories often linked to the cultural intersections he embodies. Working in technical as well as artistic roles, Barry believes that collaborative and holistic practices are the best way to ensure that diverse perspectives are represented.  

It is through the web of beautiful friendships and connections that he owes the basis of his practice. Key credits: Indigenous Artist in Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada; Artistic Director of Taproot Actors’ Academy; Creative Director of Media for Fort Edmonton Park’s “Indigenous People’s Experience”; Associate Director of Akpik Theatre; Writer and Co-director of Shumka’s “Ancestors and Elders”; and Production/Stage manager of Making Treaty 7.  

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Amy is a Montreal-based theatre designer and art director for film and television. This is her 7th collaboration with Geordie productions.  Other theatre projects include: costume designs for Corpuscule Danse (Fonderie Darling), set and costume design for The Lehman Trilogy (Theatre Calgary), Cispersonnage en Quête d’Auteurice (Joe Jack et John/Festival TransAmérique), Les Waitress Sont Triste (Joe Jack et John/Éspace Libre), Alice and the World We Live In (Centaur Theatre), Fun Home (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Once (Segal Centre for the Performing Arts), Measure for Measure (Repercussion Theatre) and Kill Me Now (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/National Arts Centre). Amy also teaches in the Scenography program at Concordia University. 

Zoë Heffring (she/her) (Assistant Set Designer) is in her final year of Scenography at Concordia University. Her work is based in design, music, writing and performance. She is inspired by chance encounters, serendipity, coincidences, conversations, and the palpable, potential energy that exists in everything around us. 

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: 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 six 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.  

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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) 

Danielle is a theatre artist based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal. She got her start in professional theatre as an assistant costume designer and assistant director (with Geordie Theatre!) while working towards her BFA in Design for the Theatre at Concordia University. She later apprenticed in stage management and theatre design at the Portland Playhouse in Portland, Oregon, where she fell in love with stage management as a craft, and as an approach to life in general. She earned her MFA in Stage Management from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and interned at the Public Theatre in New York, before returning to Canada. She has been a working stage manager in Montreal since 2017, and has been a member of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association since 2018. She has been the Managing Producer at Imago since 2022, and is also the founder of Interplay Performing Arts Agency, a touring agency aiming to connect Montreal theatre companies with touring opportunities and audiences beyond their local markets. She served 5 years on the Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs) Committee as a jury liaison. Dani is grateful to be a part of the Montreal theatre community, where she has had the pleasure of working with a variety of companies including The Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, Geordie Theatre, Repercussion Theatre, Porte Parole, Centaur Theatre, Imago Theatre, and Tableau D’Hôte. 

Lia Wright is an emerging Stage Manager and aspiring Lighting Designer based in Montreal. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in the Production Design and Technical Arts program. She also holds a DEC from John Abbott College with a Specialisation in Technical Theatre and Management. She is passionate about telling stories that bring people of all walks of life together to experience something for the first time. Thanks for coming and enjoy the show! Recent Credits include: Apprentice Stage Manager “Three Women of Swatow” (Centaur Theatre), Apprentice Stage Manager “Cymbeline” (Repercussion Theatre), Assistant Stage Manager “Feather Gardens” (Hudson Village Theatre), Assistant Stage Manager “From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea” (Geordie Theatre) 

Morgandy is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. This is her second time collaborating with Geordie Theatre and she is thrilled to be part of the team bringing Jordan to the stage. As a stage manager, she has worked in theatre, dance, musicals, comedy, and immersive experiences. In 2022, she expanded her practice to include production management and technical direction. She has worked as a production manager for the Geordie Theatre Fest, the Just for Laughs festival and the Leeds 2023 Year of Culture. Select Montreal Credits: Foxfinder (Imago Theatre), Pipeline (Black Theatre Workshop), and Justin Eddy and the Great Cosmic Crisis (Doorstep Theatre Project). Select UK credits: Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit (Old Laundry Theatre), Lines (Sheffield Theatres), and Mayflies (York Theatre Royal). 

“A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to,” — The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. 

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.