Kristin Johnston (Virginia Tilford) Kristin is an Edmonton based performer and instructor, and a graduate of the Theatre Arts Program at Red Deer College and the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, BC. She made her Teatro Live debut last season as Myra Bruhl in Deathtrap. Her local credits include A Christmas Carol,  9 to 5, and Sense and Sensibility at the Citadel, the latter as part of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Training Program, and she’s appeared in MOB at Workshop West and Helen with Trunk Theatre. She’s also appeared regularly with Northern Light Theatre, where her credits include We Had a Girl Before You, Baroness Bianka’s Bloodsongs (Sterling Award Nomination), Origin of the Species, and Enough. Kristin’s many Fringe credits include Destination Wedding and Destination Vegas with Whizzgiggling Productions, Rivercity the Musical and The Unsynchables with Dammittammy Productions and Release the McCrakkin for Accidental Humour Co.

Andrew MacDonald-Smith (Jack Vail) Andrew is currently Teatro’s Artistic Director. He made his company debut the original production of The Salon of the Talking Turk in 2005, and his other credits include Witness to a Conga, Cocktails at Pam’s, Going Going Gone!, Skirts on Fire, Vidalia, Fever Land, A Grand Time in the Rapids, and he was Jack Vail in the 2012 production of Pith. He’s appeared at the Citadel Theatre in Crazy for You, Jersey Boys, A Christmas Carol, Shakespeare in Love, 9 to 5, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Mary Poppins, and One Man Two Guvnors, winning Sterling Awards for his performances in the latter two. Andrew has also appeared with The Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Shadow Theatre, and the Edmonton Opera. Last spring, Edmonton Opera presented him in the cabaret show Andrew MacDonald-Smith: My First Hundred Years, which he created in collaboration with Stewart Lemoine and pianist Frances Armstrong. He’s just returned from performing in The Sound of Music at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg and returns to the same production at the Citadel in March. His next Teatro appearance will be as Elyot Chase in Private Lives in July.

Jana O’Connor (Nancy Kimble) Jana has been a Teatro ensemble member for two decades, contributing as both writer and performer. Her first appearance was in Citizen Plate in 2001, and she returned in Hey, Countess!, A Rocky Night for His Nibs, Mother of the Year, The Ambassador’s Wives, Angels on Horseback, and The Margin of the Sky. Her writing credits include the 2017 Teatro screwball Going, Going, Gone!, as well as Lucy and Mr. Plate, which she co-wrote with Jeff Haslam and Stewart Lemoine, and in which she also appeared. Jana’s other theatrical writing credits include The Lonely Hearts, which won her the APN Discovery Prize for 2007, and The Early Bloomer, which Concrete Theatre has twice presented on tour in schools. In 2010, Jana was honoured with the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her writing, and she won an Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Award from the Edmonton Arts Council in 2015. She was a performer and writer for The Irrelevant Show on CBC Radio and a featured performer and writing consultant for APTN’s Caution, May Contain Nuts. Jana has also worked in an administrative capacity for the Edmonton Arts Council and Theatre Alberta, and she presently serves as the Executive Director of Edmonton’s LitFest.

Leona Brausen (Costume Designer) Leona has worked regularly with Teatro as a performer and designer since the company’s inception at the first Edmonton Fringe in 1982. Her appearances include such classic Teatro shows as Cocktails at Pam’s, and The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas, and she was Nancy in the original cast of Pith, performing the role regularly from 1997 through 2006 locally, as well as across Canada and three times in New York City. Leona has been Teatro’s principal costume designer for four decades, and her recent company costume credits include Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s, Listen Listen, Deathtrap, The Margin of The Sky, Evelyn Strange, Caribbean Muskrat, Fever Land, and The Bad Seed. Her other recent credits include Clue, The Fiancée, and Jersey Boys at the Citadel, and Fresh Hell, 10 Funerals, and The Drawer Boy for Shadow Theatre. She’s worked on many shows for The Mayfield Dinner Theatre including this season’s Canada Rocks: The Reboot. Leona designed costumes for the recently released feature film  Before I Change My Mind, directed by Trevor Anderson, and in 2021 created a series of window installations at the Varscona featuring costume tributes to distinguished Canadian women. She was honoured with a a 2020 Edmonton Artist’s Trust Fund Award from the Edmonton Arts Council, and she’s a three-time Sterling Award winner for costume design.

Stewart Lemoine (Playwright/Director) Stewart has been writing and directing for Teatro La Quindicina since the first Edmonton Fringe in 1982. His most recent works premiered by Teatro include Love is for Poor People, A Likely Story, A Lesson in Brio, The Finest of Strangers, I Heard About Your Murder, and For the Love of Cynthia. In recent seasons, Teatro has also presented revivals of his The Exquisite Hour, The Margin of the Sky, Evelyn Strange, A Grand Time in the Rapids, Fever Land, Vidalia, Skirts on Fire, and Cocktails at Pam’s. His published work includes A Teatro Trilogy, At the Zenith of the Empire, and Witness to a Conga and Other Plays, all from from NeWest Press. Stewart is a ten-time winner of Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards for  Playwriting, and in 2008 he was the winner of The Tommy Banks Award, presented by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He’s a recipient of both the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee Medals, and in 2010 he was inducted into Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame. Last season he collaborated with Andrew MacDonald-Smith and pianist Frances Armstrong  on a original cabaret show entitled Andrew MacDonald-Smith: My First Hundred Years, presented by Edmonton Opera. Still to come this season at Teatro is the first ever revival of his 2009 play The Oculist’s Holiday, opening in late May.

Gina Moe (Stage Manager) Gina first worked with Teatro on The Hothouse Prince in 2000, and returned in subsequent seasons for Witness to a Conga, Whiplash Weekend, The Euphorians, For the Love of Cynthia, Shockers Delight, A Lesson in Brio, The Bad Seed, Evelyn Strange, and A Grand Time in the Rapids. Among her other local credits credits are stage managing Almost a Full Moon at the Citadel, Metronome for Workshop West, The Empress and the Prime Minister and Titus Buffonius for Theatre Network, BitchSlap and The Edmonton Queen for Guys in Disguise, and Bloomsday and 10 Funerals for Shadow Theatre. Her recent credits with Edmonton Opera include La Boheme, Orphée, and Andrew MacDonald-Smith: My First Hundred Years. She’s also worked for Chemainus Theatre on Vancouver Island, where her credits include Glory and The Fiancée.  Gina is a two-time winner of the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production. She has also worked as the assistant producer of the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival and as the general manager of Northern Light Theatre.