• Joshua Bainbridge – Director

    Joshua Bainbridge is an actor, writer, director, and the Artistic Director of the Proscenium Club Touring Theatre Company. His original works include The Life and Death of John the Milkman; Sit, James; Paper Dolls; Poison Ground; Barefoot on the Moon; I Live with Him Every Day: The Tragedy of David and Dave; and Happy Jack’s Motel.  Notable roles include Edmund in the Watershed Shakespeare Festival Collective (WSFC) production of King Lear, Ben in The Night of the Living Dead, Hank in Marvin’s Room, Richard in You Are Here, and Mercutio in the WSFC production of Romeo and Juliet. In March 2019 Joshua starred as John Procter in the Sun Dog Theatre Festival production of The Crucible. In winter 2013 Josh’s production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross won him the honour of Best Director at the 2014 QUONTA festival as well as winning Best Production. In summer 2017, Josh adapted, directed, and played the titular character in Macbethat the On The Edge Fringe Festival, which won two Best in Fringe Awards—Jurors’ Choice and Audience Choice.

    In film and television Josh has appeared in numerous projects. His most recent roles include the titular role in the upcoming feature Nobel and the Kid, a multi-episode role on Hudson and Rex, as well as Star Trek: Discovery, The Boy in the Woods, Beyond Black Beauty, All My Puny Sorrows, and many others. Joshua also works as a northern OSLO ACTRA representative.

  • Jennifer Carroll – Stage Manager

    Jennifer Carroll is a graduate of the inaugural year of the Canadore College Theatre Arts program in North Bay, Ontario. Upon graduation Jennifer moved to Dublin to live and work abroad as an actor, producer, writer, and stage manager. She most enjoyed working with theatre companies focused on developing new, original work from young Irish writers, including numerous productions for found-space company Come As Soon As You Hear, Broken Doll Productions, and The Talisman Theatre Company. Her focus dramaturgy and workshop production has informed much of her theatre career to date.

    She has spent 13 years touring around Ontario and the Maritimes with an original one-woman show for the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario. Maud of Leaskdale chronicles 15 years of the famed author’s life.

    Jennifer is also a stage manager and producer, stage managing productions such as HerWitless, and most recently King Lear for Watershed Shakespeare Collective, which she also produced.

    Jennifer is the acting producer for the Proscenium Club and also served as co-director on the 2018/2019 production Sit, James. Previous credits, both acting and producing with the Proscenium Club include The Life and Death of John the Milkman, Barefoot on the Moon, and Happy Jack’s Motel. She also appeared in the inaugural production of Saint City Sparrows, continuing her engagement with original works in the north.

  • Matt Lishman – Technical Director

    Morgan Bedard is a professional actor working out of North Bay. Morgan played the Musketeer Porthos in all three chapters of The d’Artagnan Romances, as well as in the most recent re-adaptation of The Three Musketeers, He has also portrayed Will Donnelly in The Donnellys, Roy in Lone Star, and Justin in You Are Here. He shared the win for Best Ensemble at the Theatre Ontario showcase for his portrayal of John Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross. In fall 2014 he played the title character in Robin Hood: King of the Outlaws. In fall of 2016 he portrayed Mark in the Proscenium Club’s debut production of I Live With Him Every Day: The Tragedy of David and Dave, as well as playing the title character in Dracula. In winter 2017 Morgan starred as Romeo in The Watershed Shakespeare Festival Collective production of Romeo and Juliet. Morgan directed Final Log at the On the Edge Fringe Festival and also appeared as Macduff in Macbeth. He spent his 2017/2018 on tour with the Proscenium Club in The Life and Death of John the Milkman. He then played Walter in Sit, James, the Proscenium Club’s 2018/2019 touring production. Morgan appeared as Rev Hale in the Sun Dog Theatre Festival production of The Crucible in March of 2019 and then as Agostino in Artemisia at On the Edge Fringe 2019, and as Howard Bailey in the Club’s 2019/2020 tour of Barefoot on the Moon.

    Morgan has most recently appeared in the final season of Letterkenny as Micky Gibralter, as well as a supporting lead in the film Ora, which premiered last year at TIFF. He has also appeared on the television show Paranormal Witness on the Space Channel. Morgan had a multi-episode guest role in Hard Rock Medical as well as in the Netflix series V-Wars. He appeared in the feature films Spare Parts, Anti-Birth, Mary and Joseph, Mum’s the Word, Frat Pack, Lead with Your Heart, Goalie, James vs. His Future Self, The Bet, Country at Heart, Astonishing Tales of Terror, and the USA/NBC series Eyewitness.

    As well as being an accomplished actor, Morgan is the lead set builder for the Proscenium Club, a Northern Ontario touring company that tours annually throughout the province. He has devised and built the set for every production that the Proscenium Club has toured, as well as sets for The Crucible; the Proscenium Club’s most recent community engagement project, The Three Musketeers; and now the set for Theatre Canadore’s Frankenstein.

  • Morgan Bedard – Set Construction

    Morgan Bedard is a professional actor working out of North Bay. Morgan played the Musketeer Porthos in all three chapters of The d’Artagnan Romances, as well as in the most recent re-adaptation of The Three Musketeers, He has also portrayed Will Donnelly in The Donnellys, Roy in Lone Star, and Justin in You Are Here. He shared the win for Best Ensemble at the Theatre Ontario showcase for his portrayal of John Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross. In fall 2014 he played the title character in Robin Hood: King of the Outlaws. In fall of 2016 he portrayed Mark in the Proscenium Club’s debut production of I Live With Him Every Day: The Tragedy of David and Dave, as well as playing the title character in Dracula. In winter 2017 Morgan starred as Romeo in The Watershed Shakespeare Festival Collective production of Romeo and Juliet. Morgan directed Final Log at the On the Edge Fringe Festival and also appeared as Macduff in Macbeth. He spent his 2017/2018 on tour with the Proscenium Club in The Life and Death of John the Milkman. He then played Walter in Sit, James, the Proscenium Club’s 2018/2019 touring production. Morgan appeared as Rev Hale in the Sun Dog Theatre Festival production of The Crucible in March of 2019 and then as Agostino in Artemisia at On the Edge Fringe 2019, and as Howard Bailey in the Club’s 2019/2020 tour of Barefoot on the Moon.

    Morgan has most recently appeared in the final season of Letterkenny as Micky Gibralter, as well as a supporting lead in the film Ora, which premiered last year at TIFF. He has also appeared on the television show Paranormal Witness on the Space Channel. Morgan had a multi-episode guest role in Hard Rock Medical as well as in the Netflix series V-Wars. He appeared in the feature films Spare Parts, Anti-Birth, Mary and Joseph, Mum’s the Word, Frat Pack, Lead with Your Heart, Goalie, James vs. His Future Self, The Bet, Country at Heart, Astonishing Tales of Terror, and the USA/NBC series Eyewitness.

    As well as being an accomplished actor, Morgan is the lead set builder for the Proscenium Club, a Northern Ontario touring company that tours annually throughout the province. He has devised and built the set for every production that the Proscenium Club has toured, as well as sets for The Crucible; the Proscenium Club’s most recent community engagement project, The Three Musketeers; and now the set for Theatre Canadore’s Frankenstein.

  • Stephanie Kast – Costume Designer

    Stephanie Kast, originally from Dorchester, Ontario, moved to North Bay to pursue a career in the arts, graduating from Canadore College’s Theatre Arts program. Stephanie has appeared as Prissy Andrews in Anne of Green Gables, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls, and a bride of Dracula in Joshua Bainbridge’s adaptation of the classic novel. Stephanie played the role of Alex in the Canadore College production of I Live with Him Every Day: The Tragedy of David and Dave, then reprised the role in the show’s professional premiere, which toured in the fall of 2016. Stephanie appeared as Balthazar in the Watershed Shakespeare Festival Collective production of Romeo and Juliet; she directed the world premiere of her original script The Bonds that Hold Us for the On the Edge Fringe Festival in 2017. She also appeared as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Winner of The Juror’s Choice and Audience Choice awards. Stephanie appears in the feature film Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe and the TV series New Eden.  In the Proscenium Club’s 2017/ 2018 tour Stephanie appeared as Joan Marshall in The Life and Death of John the Milkman. At the 2018 On the Edge Fringe Festival, she directed One Man, All Woman, as well as her original work The Cavewoman. Stephanie played Mercy Lewis in the Sun Dog Theatre Festival production of The Crucible. She then played Beth in the Proscenium’s 2018/ 2019 tour of Sit, James. At On the Edge Fringe 2019 Stephanie wrote and directed Artemisia, which won for best original work. Some of Stephanie’s remaining Proscenium Club credits include Teresa in Barefoot on the Moon, Alice in Happy Jack’s Moteland Madame Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers. Stephanie recently became a published author with the release of her first novel, Little Joe, with Renaissance Press.

  • Clayton Windatt – Specialty Props Designer

    Clayton Windatt is a curator, multi- arts performer and filmmaker living and working in Ontario. As the former Executive Director of the White Water Gallery, Aboriginal Curation Collective, and current Executive Director of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference, Clayton has an extensive history working in Artist-Run culture and community arts. Clayton maintains contracts with various governments, colleges, and non -government organizations as a writer, consultant, and knowledge broker negotiating between peoples, places, and communities. Clayton works in/with community, design, communications, curation, performance, theatre, technology, and consulting, and is a very active artist.

  • Kaitlyn Stewart – Scenic Painter

    Kaitlyn Stewart graduated with a Specialist High Skills Major certificate in drama as well as Canadore College’s theatre arts diploma.

    She has performed in a variety of productions including Breath of the Wolf, People Grieving, and The Man in the Iron Mask. She starred as Rosalind in As You Like It, Joan in The Life and Death of John the Milkman, Abby in Poison Ground, and a Bride of Dracula in a stage adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In fall 2016 Kaitlyn took on the role of Ginny in the inaugural Proscenium Club production of I Live With Him Every Day: The Tragedy of David and Dave. She played Benvolio in the Watershed Shakespeare Festival Collective production of Romeo and Juliet. She appeared as Esther Ross in the Proscenium Club’s 2017/2018 touring production of The Life and Death of John the Milkman.  Kaitlyn also played Maggie in the Club’s 2018/2019 tour of Sit, James. 

    In television and film Kaitlyn has appeared in Hard Rock Medical, Trouble in the Garden, V-Wars, New Eden and Country at Heart.

    In Barefoot on the Moon, the 2019/2020 Proscenium Club touring production, Kaitlyn played Sudbury Performing Arts Club Chairwoman, Betty Lynn West. She also appeared as Ruth in the 2021/2022 tour of Happy Jack’s Motel.

    Kaitlyn is involved with a number of arts organizations and serves as a Festival coordinator for On the Edge Fringe. She is also an accomplished set painter and is the resident set painter for the Proscenium Club.