Upcoming Episodes
Dr. Janet McMordie is a Sport & Exercise Medicine Physician with specialty training in Women’s Sexual Health. She completed medical school, family medicine residency, and sport medicine fellowship at McMaster University. She holds a diploma in Sports Medicine from the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) and is a member of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH). See her in VITALS at Factory Theatre May 2–10, 2026.
Lisa Marie is the Artistic Director of Theatre Direct Canada, formerly Artistic Director and founder of FIXT POINT Arts and Media, and co-creator of The Tale of a Town, a site-specific theatre and media project that has toured to every province and territory in Canada. She is a Dora nominated Director and the co-creator of Main Street Ontario an animated series now airing its second season on TVO.
Susanna Fournier is an award-winning Canadian playwright, theatre maker/director, and educator. Her play texts include: The Empire Trilogy (The Philosopher’s Wife, The Scavenger’s Daughter, Four Sisters), take rimbaud, PYPER, Next Time I Die, HEART/BODY, Always Still the Dawn, and antigone lives*. Her work centres on form-as-meaning and holistic dramaturgies. As an educator, she is the Artistic Director at Armstrong Acting Studios where she shapes performance pedagogy for beginner to master-level actors.
Actor, Theatre Maker & Co-Artistic Director Gangway! Theatre Co. Blythe holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Alberta, but calls Toronto home, where she is an active member of the community. For Gangway she is currently working on their play Digital Divergence, a design first creation process centring on who we are in different mediums. For her solo projects, Blythe is developing her play Uplifting Stories for Seniors, which won Second Place Winner of the Toronto Fringe 2025 24 hour Playwriting Contest.
Chantel Winters is an actor, playwright and producer born and raised in Toronto. Select theatre credits include: ‘Honey Never Spoils’ Toronto Fringe 2025; ‘Good People’ Bloor West Village Players; ‘An Atlas, a Necktie & Other Concerns’ Toronto Fringe 2019; ‘Professionally Ethnic’ Summerworks 2017. Now Magazine named Professionally Ethnic one of the outstanding ensembles of the season. She recently re-mounted her one-act play, ‘Dear Ms. Kitt’ under Hard-Bitten Productions.
Stephen is a dramaturg and director who is originally from Newfoundland and who gratefully resides on the lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. He is a four-time recipient of a Jessie Richardson Award for directing, has been the Associate Director at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, the Artistic Director at Rumble Theatre, and currently oversees New Works and Professional Engagement at the Arts Club where he develops and dramaturgs new plays.
Kathleen Welch is a playwright, composer, director, and actor. She is a founding member of Spindle Collective, a group of gender-marginalized artists focused on the creation of dark folklore epics. With Natalia Bushnik, she co-wrote and composed the music for their Dark Mother Trilogy, made up of the plays SAMCA, síofra, and spilleHOLLE. Kathleen’s play, Bluebeard’s Wives is also being developed by Spindle Collective.
Micaele (Mikaylee) rolled into playwriting via actor and alumni of Circle In The Square Theatre School. A Canadian from North West BC, and Southern SK, her plays mainly centre around the reality for women’s right of autonomy in love, business, life and death within western Canadian rural paradigms. She earned a certificate with University of Oxford Continuing Education in “Writing for Drama”. She is an associate member of the Dramatist Guild of America.
