THIS FEELS LIKE THE END

~ CREATIVE TEAM ~

  • Bonnie Duff

    Playwright / Actor - EMMI

    Bonnie Duff is Finnish-Canadian theatre artist, who works as a performer, playwright, producer, and arts administrator. Bonnie holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia, where she was the recipient of the Joy Coghill Award in Acting, and attended the Preliminary Acting Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England. She has worked as an actor, director, educator and more with organizations such as Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, UpintheAir Theatre, Carousel Theatre for Young People, Shifting Ground Collective, KidSafe Productions, Shakespeare in Action, and many, many Fringe festivals over the years. As an arts administrator, she has worked with Crow’s Theatre, Guild Festival Theatre, Arts Umbrella, Bravo Academy, and others. Her playwriting has been supported with grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. In her artistry, Bonnie aims to facilitate the experiences of boundless curiosity for audiences and creatives. 

  • Michelle Blight

    Director / Co-Producer

    Michelle Blight is an “all-around theatre artist,” Clown, and goofball currently based in Toronto. Her creative work is  driven by a desire to build and maintain communities of all shapes and sizes. She is a firm believer in the power of jokes and lives for small, intimate moments onstage and off. Michelle is one half of CAMP MENSES and one cup of PEEP SHOW - both projects have been supported through the OAC. She likely has a million other things on the go, or nothing at all. Michelle holds an Honours BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor.

  • Sabrina Weinstein

    Stage Manager / Co-Producer

    Sabrina is a stage manager, producer, and multidisciplinary theatre artist. She graduated from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies in 2022, and has since worked with such companies as Canadian Stage, Crow’s Theatre, Musical Stage Company, Nowadays Theatre Company, and Theatre by the Bay.

    Recent stage management credits include Bad Roads (Apprentice Stage Manager, Crow’s Theatre), Earworm (Stage Manager, Crow’s Theatre), Maanomaa; My Brother (Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager, Canadian Stage / Bluebird Theatre Collective), The Gray: A Wilde Musical In Concert (Stage Manager, Hart House Theatre), and Gulp (Stage Manager / Producer, Toronto Fringe 2024)

  • Mathilda Kane

    Lighting Design

    Mathilda (She/They) is a Tkaronto based Lighting Designer, Theatre Maker, and Canadian Green Alliance 2024 Green Mentorship Recipient. She is a Queer second generation Canadian of Scottish, Indian, German, and Guyanese descent. She attended Toronto Metropolitan University for Performance Production and Design. Within their practice they are focused on exploring the boundaries of ‘designable space’ in theatre, they take a collaborative approach to creation and care greatly for fostering long term creative relationships.

    Select credits Include: Cymatix (Citadel + Compagnie), UNCOVERED (Musical Stage Company), Killing Time: A Game Show Musical (Mixtape Projects), ECHO (a front company), A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Send Noods Productions). More at mathildakane.com

  • Jake Schindler

    Sound Design / Compositions

    Jake Schindler is a Toronto based composer, music director, and orchestrator. From large commercial theatre to Fringe shows, Jake works on projects that are music-forward and use music to tell stories in new and interesting ways.

    Recently, he has worked on two Dora-nominated shows (Mirvish, Mixtape Productions), three TO Fringe Patron’s Pick musicals, is completing a cast recording of his show "Ursa, A Folk Musical", was the 2023 Associate Keyboard Programmer at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and is a music director at The Second City (Toronto) and Comedy Bar Danforth.

    Check out more of his work: jakeschindler.com.

  • Meredith Wolting

    Production / Scenic Design

    A scenic artist, set and props designer, and children’s book illustrator, Meredith Wolting’s artistic style ripples with notes of fairy-tale magic and bold colours. Her work in brand and graphic design ranges from logo creation to album art and merchandise, including a postcard for the Toronto Hilton Hotel and a limited-edition T-shirt for the Toronto Maple Leafs. She is the illustrator of The A-G Piano Book Series as well as Opera Atelier's series of student resource comic books. Meredith strives to empower the next generation of artists and is pursuing her passion for arts education as a teaching artist in design at Bravo Academy and at the Canadian Opera Company.

  • Jasmine Case

    Actor - ROBIN

    Jasmine is a recent Dora Award winning actor for outstanding performance by an individual in the TYA category for her role in YPTs Truth. She is a Jamaican-Canadian artist, born and raised in Toronto, where she currently lives and works, where she first fell in love with theatre! She has been attending and participating in drama since she was little, and as child she was always drawn towards the stage and was often making her own shows. She still loves watching a stage light up and hearing the excitement grow in the theatre as a show begins. Last year, she graduated from the National Theatre School Of Canada where her love for theatre grew as she worked with many amazing artists over her 3 years!

    Other credits: Productions: Kara in seven methods of killing kylie jenner Lucy in The Fiancée at Chemainus Festival Theatre Phoebe in Truth at Young People’s Theatre. Workshops: Emma in Wake by Rachel Mutumbo at Persephone Theatre, Black Girl in In Search Of… by Oprah Lemorin at Tarragon Theatre Ensemble Keeping Up with the Joneses.

  • Tara Koehler

    Actor - SANDY

    Tara Koehler is a Toronto-based artist who works on stage and screen, and in voiceover and audiobook narration. She trained as an actor at the National Theatre School of Canada, holds a BA in English from the University of Alberta, and has won several awards for her creative writing. Her favourite projects explore the edges of authenticity and connection, and are always, if possible, a wee bit scary. Coming up, you can see her on the new Stephen King TV series Welcome to Derry, and listen to her narration of Corinna Chong's new novel Bad Land.

  • Cameron Laurie

    Actor - ERIC

    Cameron is thrilled to join the Theatre Aurinko team and the cast of This Feels Like the End. He recently completed his 4th season at the Blyth Festival where he has appeared in productions of Saving Graceland, The Trials of Maggie Pollock, The Donnelly's Trilogy, The Drawer Boy and Our Beautiful Sons.

    Cameron is also a Founder and Artistic Leader of The Howland Company, where he has performed in a number of shows including Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Prodigal, Three Sisters, Punk Rock and Casimir & Caroline, for which he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Ensemble.

  • Landon Nesbitt

    Actor - JAMIE

    Landon Nesbitt is an actor and artist from Edmonton currently based in Toronto. Landon is thrilled to be joining the cast of This Feels Like The End! He is a recent graduate of TMU’s BFA in Acting. 

    Previous credits include The Inheritance (Canadian Stage Company) for which he was nominated for a Dora Award (outstanding performance by an ensemble),  Boys Girls and Other Mythological Creatures (Theatre Orangeville), The Miser (Odyssey Theatre) Andrew Kushnir in Andrew Kushnir’s The Division (Tarragon/TMU)  TomorrowLove (WhyNot/TMU), King Edward II in Edward II (TMU). Cyrano, Punch Up, Something From Nothing (Theatre on the Ridge), After Juliet (Citadel Theatre). 

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