i carry your heart with me Creative Team

Writer and Performer

Michelle Martin

Michelle Martin is an actor, playwright and producer who has worked extensively across Canada in theatre, film & television.  Michelle is the co-founder, producer and Marketing & Communications Director for Classic Chic Productions, a theatre company dedicated to producing all-female versions of the classics, based in Vancouver.  She played Antigonus in Classic Chic’s inaugural production of The Winter’s Tale directed by Lisa Wolpe, Artistic Director, Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, and enjoyed a career highlight playing Ricky Roma in their acclaimed production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross directed by Rachel Peake.  She then played Tom Hagan and Carlo in Corleone:  A Shakespearean Godfather at Pacific Theatre.  Selected theatre credits include The Way You Carry On at the 2019 Revolver Festival, Collette in Four Dogs and a Bone (Egg Theatre), See Bob Run and To Hear With Eyes (One Yellow Rabbit, Workshop West), Les Liaisons Dangereuses and A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary), The Importance of Being Earnest and Fool for Love (Theatre Junction), Cressida (Workshop West), Misalliance and Night Must Fall (Shaw Festival), 1-900-Dee-Lite (Persephone Theatre), All in the Timing (Summer at the Roxy), Hitting Town (Alchemy Theatre Projects), Cymbeline (Shakespeare in the Rough), Twelfth Night (U of T, Graduate Centre for Drama) and Summerfolk (Equity Showcase Theatre).  Film/TV credits include Christmas in Evergreen, The Wedding Dance, The Good Doctor, Lost in Space, Frequency, Dead of Summer, The Romeo Section, The Whispers, Gracepoint, Supernatural, A Novel Romance, Accidental Obsession, two seasons as a series lead on the CBC evening drama, Riverdale, CTV’s Traders, the independent feature film, Backroads, and the short film Sleepwalk (2012 Audience Choice Award, New York City Horror Film Festival).  Michelle is a graduate of York University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program.

Lynna Goldhar Smith

Director

Lynna Goldhar Smith is an award winning Multidisciplinary Artist from Coast Salish Territory, who divides her time between her Theatre and Visual Art practices. She has worked on a diversified array of  productions from rock opera to solo performance and all points in between, including writing and creating for Sesame Street. Her work has been seen throughout North America. England, Germany, and Romania. Most recently Lynna has directed for Canadian playwrights Sally Stubbs, Beverley Elliott and Dolores Drake. Lynna feels honoured to be working on Michelle Martin’s beautiful new script, with an amazing team of brilliant artists. Thank you, Claire, Cande, Keagan and Araceli.

Ndola Hutton

Toronto Stage Manager

Ndola is a tech worker by day, Stage Manager by night, therefore a full time email sender. This is Ndola’s 5th Toronto Fringe and she has been stage managing for 12 years this summer. Select credits include: Bridges of Madison County, The Addams Family, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Scarborough Music Theatre), Dance Animal (Toronto Fringe), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hart House). In her spare time, Ndola loves hiking, hanging out with her dog, and not sending emails.

Edmonton Stage Manager

Louise Mallory

Louise Mallory is an Edmonton theatre artist. Fringe shows she has stage managed include White Guy on Stage Talking (2022 Sterling nomination for Best New Work - Fringe), A Golden Girls Tribute: Sofie's Wild Ride, and How I Lost One Pound, the Musical.  She directed Brad Fraser's 5@50 at Walterdale Theatre and is on the Walterdale board. Louise is an emerging playwright and a theatre blogger at ephemeralpleasures.com. Thanks, Michelle, for this opportunity!

Claire Fabian

Vancouver Stage Manager

Claire is a recent graduate of Capilano University's Technical Theatre program and an avid theatre lover. She began working backstage in high school at the age of 15 at the Massey Theatre in an assistant stage management role for her school’s production of Crazy For You (2018). She loves all elements of live entertainment and is so happy to learn and gain new experiences everywhere she can. Her most recent stage management roles have been with Railtown actor’s studio’s Venus in Fur (2022) and School’s out production’s Shrek the Musical (2023). She is very lucky to be working with such a passionate team and is happy to be back at the Fringe!

Keagan Elrick

Lighting Designer

Keagan is a Studio 58 Graduate. Living with a love of and passion for lighting. As a gender-fluid non-binary designer they love working with masculine, feminine and other aspects of themselves to add to the creative process. As a designer they paint the performers and their environments with light, working to build an atmosphere that pulls the audience in.

They love playing with the emotions of lights, and how lighting effects the tone and reality of what is being poured on stage. Playing with the psychology of lighting and colour theory.

Cande Andrade

Sound and Projections Designer

Candelario Andrade is a video editor and multimedia designer. Recent theatre design credits include Julius Caesar (Bard on the Beach); White Noise (Savage Society/Firehall); Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer (Savage/Belfry/NAC); Mom’s the Word Talking Turkey (Arts Club); White Girls in Moccasins (The Frank); Six of One (Studio 58); Clean/Espejos (Neworld); DYMISH (Theatre Replacement) and Anywhere But Here (Electric Company). Cande is also a projection design instructor at Langara College’s Studio 58 theatre faculty.

Araceli Ferrara

Dramaturgy and Marketing

Araceli Ferrara is a non-binary Canadian theatre artist. They graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2023 with an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre, and graduated from York University in 2021 with a BA in Theatre, specializing in Dramaturgy and Devised Theatre, with a minor in History. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, she is the daughter of a refugee and celebrates both her Chilean and Italian heritage. Their past credits include: fried chicken (playwright, Brave New Play Rites Festival 2022), Bug (director/playwright, New Work Play Festival 2021), There's a Ghost in the House (director/playwright, playGround Festival 2020), and SOL (playwright, Tarragon YPU 2019, Ergo Arts Pink Fest 2018). Araceli is a lover of theatre; you can often find her working on her own play or helping with someone else's.