CHRISTINE HORNE as Mummy/Faerie Queen
Christine Horne’s stage credits include Infinite Life (The Coal Mine); Angels in America (That Theatre Company); Richard Three, Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Things I Know To Be True (Company Theatre/Mirvish); Three Sisters (Howland Co.); Light (Tarragon); Prince Hamlet, Iceland (Why Not Theatre); Asking For It (Crow’s/Nightwood); Tom At The Farm (Buddies); The Seagull (Crow’s); Belleville (Company Theatre); Vimy, Farther West (Soulpepper); Between the Sheets (Nightwood); The Great Gatsby (The Grand); Andromache (Necessary Angel); Romeo and Juliet (Canadian Stage); The Turn of the Screw (DVxT); and Miss Julie: Sheh’mah (KICK Theatre). She was part of the Stratford Festival’s Langham Director’s Workshop in 2021, and is currently a member of the Collective Artistic Leadership of Shakespeare in the Ruff. As a writer, Christine has contributed personal essays, artist profiles, and interviews to Intermission Magazine and CBC Arts. She co-adapted R+J with Ravi Jain and Alex Bulmer for the Stratford Festival in 2021. All My Pretty Chickens, her exploration of Lady Macduff from Macbeth, was presented as part of Stratford’s Langham Director’s Workshop Project, also in 2021. Her original play Old Miranda, written for and in collaboration with Chick Reid, is in development with Shakespeare in the Ruff. Christine also works extensively in film and television, and can currently be seen in the Peabody-winning limited series, Fellow Travelers. She has received a Dora Award, a Canadian Screen Award, and the Birks Diamond Tribute to Women in Film.

QIANNA MACGILCHRIST as Rose the Wise
Qianna MacGilchrist is an actor, writer and theatre maker. Recent credits include Daughter in Three Women of Swatow (Centaur Theatre); Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Signorina Zampa in Grand Magic, and Marlene in Hamlet 911 (Stratford Festival); Irina in Three Sisters, Gulliver in The Birds (Birmingham Conservatory); Lily in The In-Between, Old Witch in Little Witch (Geordie Theatre). Qianna is a graduate of the National Theatre School. Qianna fondly remembers when TYA shows would come to her school as a kid and is thrilled to be bringing theatre to the next generation!

DAVINDER MALHI as Wicked Nix
Davinder Malhi is an actor and playwright based in Toronto. Some of his performance credits include: rihannaboi95 (YPT); Fifteen Dogs (Segal Centre); Casey and Diana (Soulpepper Theatre/Stratford Festival); No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre); Towards Rebirth (Shakespeare in the Ruff); and Concord Floral (Canadian Stage). Furthermore, he is the co-founder of Saawan Collective, a South-Asian theatre collective focused on developing new plays and creating space for emerging South Asian playwrights. Their first full-length play, shuht chondi hai (the roof is leaking), is currently in production with Pleiades Theatre.

JAMES DALLAS SMITH as Man-People
James Dallas Smith is a performer with Ohsweken Mohawk (Turtle Clan) from the Six Nations of the Grand River and Scottish/Irish heritage. He’s thrilled to be performing at YPT for the first time. Favorite credits include: Almighty Voice and His Wife (Dora Nomination for Outstanding Performance), Where the Blood Mixes, King Lear, Our Town (Soulpepper); The Secret to Good Tea (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Grand/NAC); Hamlet (No More) (Canadian Stage); This is How We Got Here (Native Earth Performing Arts); The Donnellys Part I, II and III, Ipperwash, Cottagers and Indians, The Berlin Blues (Blyth); Hard Times: For These Times (NAC); and The Drawer Boy, Proof (Centaur). J.D. lives in Toronto with his wife, beloved kitten, and small, barbarian child.

MICHAEL SPENCER-DAVIS as Mr. Green
Michael Spencer-Davis is delighted to be returning to YPT after a 25-year hiatus when he played Elrond in The Hobbit. During the past several seasons at the Stratford Festival he has appeared in many productions including London Assurance, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Paradise Lost and The Front Page. Other credits include Dock Spider (Magnus Theatre); Silence, Art (Grand Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Western Canada Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Globe Theatre); Boeing Boeing, The Pitmen Painters (Theatre Aquarius); Vigil, Lawrence and Holloman, Apple (Prairie Theatre Exchange); The Lonely Diner, Having Hope at Home (Blyth Festival); Putnam County Spelling Bee (Thousand Islands Playhouse); and The Stone Angel (Centaur Theatre).

STEPHEN COLELLA, Director
Stephen is the Associate Artistic Director & Literary Manager at Young People’s Theatre (YPT). Past productions here include: Director for The Fixing Girl, Director/Dramaturg for Selfie and Co-Director/Dramaturg for Antigone: 方; Dramaturgy for over two dozen world premieres including: Hana’s Suitcase, i think i can, Scarberia, Sultans of the Street and Minotaur (YPT/Polka Theatre/Theatr Clwyd); Co-adapter of Love You Forever…And More Munsch and Munschtime!. His work for other theatres includes: Director – Tiny Treasures, Snow White (MTYP); Dramaturgy – Alameda Theatre, Marionetas de la Esquina/Kennedy Center, fu-Gen Theatre, Theatre Direct and The Paprika Festival. He has served on the boards of LMDA, LMDA Canada and ASSITEJ Canada, where he was president for five years.

PAULA WING, Playwright
Paula is a playwright, translator, dramaturge, and teacher. Upcoming plays are: a translation of Stefano Massini’s Intractable Woman at Brandeis University (in 2025); and Roadkill, a play for teen audiences for Roseneath Theatre (in 2026). Paula has been a story consultant for the Calgary Stampede Museum, and wrote the program notes for productions at Soulpepper Theatre for more than 15 years. Her teaching takes her across the province with the Gryffon Trio’s Listen Up program. She is the Educator in Residence at Tarragon Theatre where she facilitates writing programs, the National Youth Playwrights Unit and the Writer’s Room this year. Paula is a Sessional Professor at the University of Windsor and the University of Waterloo and for the past twelve years she has been the creative writing instructor at the Native Men’s Residence in Toronto.

TING – HUAN 挺歡 CHRISTINE URQUHART, Set & Costume Designer
Ting’s selected theatre credits include: Antigone 方 (YPT); The Orphan of Chao (Shaw Festival); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Sheridan); Set and Costume Design for Craze and Cockroach 曱甴, Costume Design for Come Home – The Legend of Daddy Hall and Feast (Tarragon); Universal Childcare (Costume Design, Quote Unquote Collective); Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) (Saga Collectif/Theatre Passe Muraille); Juno’s Reward (Grand Theatre); Mulan Rouge (The Vaults, London UK); Unsafe (Set Design, Canadian Stage); CAN x Two Temple Place (Digital Design, Chinese Arts Now, London UK); First Trimester (Performance Design, Battersea Arts Centre). Upcoming: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Shaw Festival); You, Always (Canadian Stage); Second Trimester (Performance Designer, Battersea Arts Centre). Ting received a Dora Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design for Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) and Outstanding Set Design for Cockroach 曱甴 and Antigone 方, Ting is the recipient of the Lead by Design Bursary Award (Envelope Room and Grid Iron Theatre, UK) and Digital Storytelling Award – CAN x Two Temple Place (Chinese Arts Now, London UK).

RAHA JAVANFAR, Sound Designer
A musician, theatre performer, lighting/projections designer, and educator, Raha is a multi-faceted artist, working on and behind stages across Canada and internationally. She is a Slaight resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre, front-woman and bassist of the blues/R&B band, Bad Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes, and was one of six co-creators of the Dora-nominated Now You See Her. As a lighting designer she’s been nominated for Dora Awards for Brothers Size (Soulpepper) and Is God Is (Canstage/Obsidian). She has toured internationally with the renowned Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, as projection designer, and currently teaches lighting design at Toronto Metropolitan University.

KAT CHIN, Stage Manager
Kat is a Chinese-Jamaican, Toronto-based stage manager, and has worked across Canada, Off-Broadway, and at the Palace of Versailles in France. She has worked extensively with Opera Atelier and Soulpepper Theatre Company, and was the stage manager for Kim’s Convenience for six years – from the 2011 Fringe Festival to NYC in 2017. She has also worked on various projects that involved film and digital components, most notably 1851 (Myseum of Toronto) and 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre/CBC). Recent credits include: Alice In Wonderland (Bad Hats); Sweeter (Cahoots); Orpheus & Eurydice (Opera Atelier); Bittergirl: The Musical (TIP); Kelly v. Kelly (Musical Stage); Of The Sea (Tapesty/Obsidian); Dixon Road (Musical Stage); Three Sisters (Howland); Queen Goneril and King Lear (Soulpepper); I Am William (Stratford). She has been an active member of the CAEA SM Committee since 2013, the International Cohort of the US Stage Managers Association since 2019, and has taught at TMU and the SMArts Conference. Kat is delighted to be returning to YPT after having worked on The Fixing Girl, The Monster Under The Bed and The Invisible Girl. Upcoming: Aportia Cryptych (COC), Christmastown (Port Hope); Acis & Galatea (Opera Atelier).

EMMANUELLE SO, Assistant Stage Manager
Emmanuelle is a Chinese-Canadian, Toronto-based Stage Manager. She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Performance Production program. Her Apprentice Stage Manager credits include:Of The Sea (Tapestry Opera & Obsidian Theatre Company, 2023); The Marriage of Figaro (Canadian Opera Company, 2023); The Ex Boyfriend Yard Sale (Never Mind the Noise, presented by Soulpepper Theatre Company, Outside the March Theatre Company & the red light district, 2022); Boy Falls From The Sky (Past Future Productions & Mirvish Productions, 2022). As Stage Manager: Boy Falls From The Sky Regional Tour (Talk is Free Theatre, 2023); John Who (Preamble Productions, 2022). Upcoming: Age Is A Feeling (Soho Theatre & Haley McGee Production, presented by Soulpepper Theatre Company, in association with Luminato Festival Toronto).