Elora Gorge: The Company


	Aviva works in Toronto as an actor, director and producer. She is the artistic director & founder of The Lab Cab Festival, an annual multi-arts festival at the Factory Theatre. Aviva is a Dora Award nominee, a Harold Award recipient and has been named one of Toronto’s Top Ten Theatre Artists and Best Producer of Works in Progress by NOW Magazine. Her recent acting credits include Biographies of the Dead and Dying (SummerWorks), Nine Parts of Desire (Seventh Stage), Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (Chemainus Theatre/Western Canada Theatre) and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre). Upcoming: Aviva is producing the sixth annual Lab Cab Festival, September 3rd and 4th at the Factory Theatre.

	Stewart Arnott has been a theatre artist in Canada for over 30 years, and has acted and directed across the country. As a director, his credits include Vincent River (Cart/Horse), Pobby and Dingan by Paula Wing (YPT) and Amadeus and The Mystery of Irma Vep for Theatre Aquarius. At Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg he directed Master Harold and the Boys, Strawberries in January and Kilt; and at The Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa he directed Patience, Unity: 1918, It's All True! and John Murrell's Democracy. Stewart has recently directed at Ryerson University and George Brown Theatre School. His stage appearances include Hallaj and Waiting for Godot for the multi-Dora Award winning company Modern Times; lady in the red dress (fu-GEN) and Gaslight and Sexy Laundry (Festival Antigonish). His recent film and television projects include Frenemies, The Murdoch Mysteries, Committed and The Kennedys. Stewart is a respected teacher and coach.

	Lindsay Anne has designed sets and costumes for theatre and dance of all sizes, both scripted and devised. Designs include: This Wide Night (Mermaid Parade), Macbeth (Driftwood Theatre Group), The Atomic Weight Of Happiness (Stand Up Dance), The Animals Are Planning an Intervention (Blue Ceiling Dance/Danceworks), Vincent River (Cart/Horse), Roshni (Theatre Passe Muraille), Peer Gynt (Thistle Project), My Mother's Lesbian Jewish-Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish), and Birnam Wood (Theatre Rusticle). She was the recipient of the 2007 Pauline McGibbon Award, and she's also been nominated for Dora Awards and stuff.

	Marjorie was recently seen onstage in Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel/Luminato) and paper SERIES (Cahoots/Young Centre). Previously for Summerworks, Marjorie appeared in Fear and Misery of the 3rd Reich, 7 Days/7 Days, Souvenirs of Home as well as directing The Wait Room. Nominated 5 times, Marjorie has received two Dora awards (TYA Performance & Outstanding New Opera) along with the K.M. Hunter Artists’ Award. She has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for her play, China Doll and the Canadian Citizenship Award for Crossing Gibraltar, a theatre program for refugee youth. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at Tapestry New Opera.

	Carlos is an actor, acting coach, writer and soon to be first time dad! Currently he is the voice of El Tabador in the Koodo commercials. He has worked in Film, Television, Radio, Theatre and Voice over animation for 17 years. He is grateful and proud to be working with this incredible group in this incredible Stantonized world of the Gorge and hopes you enjoy it immensely. Thanks Chris for the opportunity, Kate for suggesting me, Alan for your advice, Robyn for your support, Jenny for your womb and your love and Dov for your Aranciata.

	Carlos González-Vio has been working as an actor and performer in Toronto since 2001. His work and training have taken him from Toronto to Prague, Buenos Aires, Bogota and Havana. Being bilingual (Spanish-English) has allowed him the opportunity to work in both languages. Carlos’s Toronto stage credits include Nightwood Theatre’s Crave, Aluna Theatre’s Madre, La Comunion and Nohayquiensepa, Groundwater Productions’ The Epic Of Gilgamesh (up to the point where Enkidu dies) and Theatre Cipher’s 2010 production of Agamemnon. Recent screen credits include: XIII, Alphas and The Bridge. Carlos will play the role of Sharif in Modern Times Stage Company’s production of Hallaj at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in November of 2011.

	Recent Theatre: Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel/Luminato), Calendar Girls (Mirvish/MTC), Vincent River (Cart/Horse - Dora Nomination), Death of A Salesman (Blue Bridge Theatre), Missing (The Factory Theatre). Upcoming: The Rez Sisters (Factory Theatre). Film and T.V. credits include: Warehouse 13 (Sci-Fi Network), The Camera and Christopher Merck (Brandon Cronenberg), Human Target (Fox Network), Heartland (CBC), Anne of Green Gables-A New Beginning (Sullivan Ent.), Of Murder and Memory (Lifetime Channel), The Dresden Files (Sci-Fi), The Weapon for Archetype and Martha Behind Bars (CBS).

	Dov is a company member of Catalyst Theatre and has toured their award-winning House of Pootsie Plunket, Blue Orphan and Frankenstein across Canada and the U.K. Selected theatre: Amadeus (CanStage/Citadel), Reading Hebron (Sage Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CanStage), Trials of John Demjanjuk (Theatre Asylum), The Amorous Servant (Pleiades), Dying To Be Sick (Pleiades/NAC), Right Road to Pontypool (4th line), One of Ours (WJT) and Gladstone Variations (Convergence). Dov would like to thank his amazingly supportive family and friends!

	Leora is an actor, director, choreographer, dramaturg, and a Resident Artist with The Room. Recent acting credits include Shpitl in War of the Clowns (Pea Green/2011 Fringe), Rivka in The Right Road to Pontypool, Radium in El Dorado (4th Line Theatre) and The Mute in The Fantasticks (Red Barn Theatre). She recently directed a site-specific production of Ned Dickens’s Horse for the 2011 Fringe (Best Director, Outstanding Production, Outstanding Ensemble - NOW Toronto). Leora is a graduate of McGill and George Brown and is the Metcalf Dramaturgy Intern at Nightswimming under Brian Quirt. She is currently playing Eva in the Summerworks production of Hannah's Turn.

	Janet is the Artistic Producer of Actors Repertory Company and is currently producing ARC’s SummerWorks production of Out at Sea. Acting credits with ARC include: The City, Family Stories: Belgrade, The Sea and many staged readings. Other stage credits include: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Assassins (Birdland Theatre), Orson’s Shadow (Pilot Group), The Swearing Jar (6am Tango/Toronto Fringe 2008), Metamorphoses and Mary’s Wedding (Theatre and Company), Amadeus and Communicating Doors (Magnus Theatre), How the Other Half Loves (Sunshine Festival), Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Showboat Festival), Love’s Labours Lost and Macbeth (Driftwood Theatre). Film/TV credits include: Degrassi: The Next Generation, Who is Clark Rockefeller? (Lifetime/Sony), Rookie Blue (Showcase), Murdoch Mysteries (City TV) and Sundays at Tiffany’s (Lifetime). Janet is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School.

	Trevor is magic, and possesses an outrageous array of sexy sailor skills. He also didn't give us a bio, so we wrote this for him.

	A Toronto native, Marianna Rosato received her BFA as a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School’s Technical Production Program in 2006. Marianna has spent the past three years as the Assistant Stage Manager for Toronto Dance Theatre as the Metcalf Foundation Intern. Past work for TDT includes Nest Redux and Severe Clear, and Canadian tours of Timecode Break, and Pteros Tactics. Marianna has also stage managed several shows for the School of TDT during their 2007 through 2011 seasons. Outside dance, Marianna is the resident Stage Manager for Children’s Arts Theatre School and their MAINSTAGE program. Past productions include West Side Story, Les Miserables, The Drowsy Chaperone and Urinetown.

	Christopher Stanton is a Toronto-based director, performer, writer, musician and sound designer. Recent directing credits include Red Machine: Under The Knife (Harbourfront Centre/The Room), Red Machine: Part One (Toronto Fringe/The Room), Red Machine: Part Three (LabCab/The Room), Minotaur (UnSpun), A Minor Symphony in Bees (Rhubarb!/The Hive), and Panhandled (UnSpun). Sound design credits include The Tin Drum, Don't Wake Me, Minotaur and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (UnSpun), Tunguska (NAISA Deep Wireless Festival), Macbeth (Driftwood), Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood), New Electric Ballroom (MacKenzieRo), Bethune Imagined, Isitwendam, True Love Lies, Missing, Toronto the Good, Zadie's Shoes (Factory), and A Quiet Place (Single Threat). He has been nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards as a sound designer, and four as a performer, winning in 2011 for his performance in MacKenzieRo's New Electric Ballroom. He was also recently nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for his work as a director. Along with Brendan Gall and Geoffrey Pounsett, Chris is Artistic Director of indie performance company The Room.