Mauralea Austin

Mauralea has been a professional actor for over twenty years since graduating with an MFA in Theatre.  She has taught acting for over fifteen years.  Other teaching experiences include Acting for the Camera classes, Audition, 'Introduction to Theatre' and Public Speaking at Mount Saint Vincent and ongoing private coaching.  She is also a certified Hatha Yoga instructor and integrates that practice into her approach to actor training.  She is a co-founder of Luna/Sea Theatre which recently produced "Perfect Pie". Other recent plays include the Equity Co-op "The Donahue Sisters", "To Kill a Mockingbird" at Neptune and "Spin" with Mulgrave Road Theatre. 

Samantha Wilson

Neptune: Shape of a Girl (director), Derwent is  Different (director). Other Theatre: How I Learned To Drive (DMV   Co-op) Marion Bridge (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Cloud Nine (The Belt Theatre), See Bob Run (Epicentre Theatre), As You Like It, No Exit (The Looking Glass Theatre), The Rape of Emma Bunch, Loyalties (The Actor’s Jam), Towards Zero, Winnie-the-Pooh (Festival Antigonish), Beowulf (Exodus Theatre), Gypsies (Pencil-Neck Productions), The Exhumation of Ginger Cat (Slop Girl Productions), Death and the Maiden, Uncle Vanya (Theatre@York).  Film/TV: Queer As Folk, Legends, Love & Death on Long Island, So Close, Street Cents, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, A Love in the Darkness, Gallows’   Humor.  Directing: Answers, 4am (The Actor’s Jam),  Alone with a Head of Lettuce (Theatre in the Raw), The Interview (Centauri Arts Retreat), Tuesdays and Sundays (Neighbourhood Watch). Training: M.F.A. (York University), Canadian National Voice Intensive, B.Sc. (Acadia University), Master Class with Cameron Thor.  Et Cetera: Samantha has taught for many arts organizations across Canada - most notably, as a Studio Instructor at York University in Toronto and at the Gateway Theatre School in Vancouver. She is currently the Director of Neptune Theatre School.

Garry Williams

Other Theatre: The Magic Flute, Così fan tutte (HSOW); La bohème (MCO); Café DaPoPo, Sunday in the Park With George, Apocalypse 2006, 13 Ways of Looking at a Madman, Four Actors in Search of a Nation (DaPoPo); Creatures of the Moment (Metamorphic); Midnite at the Starlite, The Importance of Being Earnest (Berliner Grundtheater); Grafton Street Dinner Theatre and FEAST Dinner Theatres, P.E.I.; Stage Directing for The Mikado, Patience (G&S Society NS); The Sex Play, R.U.R. (DaPoPo); Footloose, Fiddler On the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun (Garnet & Gold Society); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare On the Quad, Mt. A); Vocal Coach for The Veil (OneLight); Pirates of Penzance (YPCo); Bartholemew Fair, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Family Album (Berliner Grundtheater); Choreography for Babes in Arms, The Music Man, High Society (Sacred Heart). Training: Mount Allison University, Manhattanville College (NY), FU Berlin, Berkshire Ensemble for Theatre Arts Et Cetera: Garry is the Artistic Director of DaPoPo Theatre, teaches at the Canadian Conservatory of Music.

Alexis Milligan

Alexis hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia.  She is a senior company member with Canada’s leading international puppetry company, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia.  Her work with Mermaid includes tours in Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Mexico, Newfoundland, and most of the USA.  She is also a company member with Theatre Gargantua and was nominated for a Dora Award for her work in their 2005 production of e-DENTITY. Other theatre credits include: Rachel Richards in The Invisibility of Eileen (Theatre NorthWest); Isabella in Fool’s Gold (Meta-Physical Theatre); Swimmy, Fredrick, and Inch By Inch; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; When Dinosaurs Dine By Moonlight (Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia).  Before she began working in theatre Alexis was a soloist dancer with the Halifax Dance Young Company and Coastal Dance Theatre.  She has performed with the Danny Grossman Dance Company, and has trained at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival and the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre.  Alexis is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School, and is a certified Stott Pilates Instructor.

Sherry Lee Hunter

Sherry Lee Hunter founded and was the Artistic Director of Jest in Time Theatre, a nationally recognized Physical Theatre ensemble, which toured nationally and internationally from 1987 to 2003 and recieved two Merritt Awards. The company created and performed six original full length performances and a myriad of original Physical Theatre creations. Sherry Lee is an actor, writer and teacher. She has performed as an actor in many productions outside of her activities with Jest, one favorite, was playing ‘Gollum’ in Theatre New Brunswick’s ‘The Hobbit’ in 2003 and most recently playing Belinda in The Atlantic Theatre Festival’s production of ‘Noises Off’ inthe summer of 2006. She is currently writing her first independant play and is creating “Ed’s Silly Shorts’ for Children’s television.