Belinda Corpuz is a Dora and BroadwayWorld award-winning actor, singer, musician, composer, theatre creator, producer and arts educator, born in Manila, Philippines, raised in Scarborough, ON, and based in Toronto, ON. SOULPEPPER 2025: Narnia. FOR SOULPEPPER: Alligator Pie, Ladies of the Canyon, 2024 Soulpepper Academy. OTHER THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (Capitol Theatre), Dear Rita (Tweed & Co - 2024 BroadwayWorld Award - Best Supporting Performer in a Musical, Professional), Ms. Titaverse (Tita Collective - 2023 TO Fringe Patron’s Pick, Second City Outstanding New Comedy), Ursa: A Folk Musical (Tweed & Co/Uncommon Folk Collective), As You Like It (Canadian Stage), Tita Jokes (Tita Collective - 2019 TO Fringe Patron’s Pick, Second City Outstanding New Comedy), Kwento (Tita Collective/Theatre Direct), Lady Sunrise (Factory), Hilot Means Healer (Cahoots/bcurrent), Prairie Nurse (Factory/Thousand Islands Playhouse/CBC PlayMe Podcast). FILM & TELEVISION: The God of Frogs (HighballTV), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS), Lola’s Wake (Canadian Film Centre), Jezebel (Reel Asian International FF), Clown Killer (Toronto After Dark FF). SELECTED MUSIC: Belinda's debut EP, All I Am, has garnered national radio-play, including features on CBC Radio. Her voice has been featured on film soundtracks including Robert Eggers’ The Witch, and Netflix’s In the Tall Grass. She has played various festivals and notable venues including Massey Hall, the Rex Hotel, Harbourfront Toronto’s Music Garden, the Toronto Jazz Festival, and Sofar Sounds Toronto and Waterloo. OTHER CREDITS: Belinda is a founding member of award-winning all Filipina sisterhood, Tita Collective. She was featured in ACTRA’s inaugural Asian Performer Showcase. As an actor she has workshopped new pieces with various companies in Toronto including Soulpepper, Crows, Factory Theatre, Nightwood, Cahoots, fu-GEN, and the Toronto International Film Festival's Writers' Studio. She is the Communications and Development Coordinator at Bad Dog Theatre. EDUCATION/TRAINING: Belinda is a graduate of the the University of Toronto-Faculty of Music (BMus in Performance - Jazz Voice) and the Soulpepper Academy. Thank you always to my family, my mares, my friends, and Malcolm. For you, Mom, it's always been for you.

James Daly is an award-winning Canadian Actor. Recent theatre credits include; Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (Menier Chocolate Factory, in London & New World Stages, off Broadway), La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan (Stratford Festival), Damn Yankees, Grand Hotel, Oh What A Lovely War (The Shaw Festival), Mythic (The Segal Centre), Cabaret (The Grand Theatre), Master Harold... and the boys (The Shaw Festival/Obsidian Theatre). On-camera credits include: Crave's hit comedy series Letterkenny, CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries, Netflix’s Workin’ Moms and CBC’s, Frankie Drake. He is a proud graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. *instagram: @jamespatrickdaly

Landon Doak (they/them) is a Dora award-winning actor and composer. Throughout their career, they have been fortunate enough to work with the Stratford Festival, The Blyth Festival, The Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Factory Theatre, Musical Stage, and featured in the DC Superhero film, Shazam! and in Murdoch Mysteries. They are the Artistic Associate of Bad Hats Theatre, and their composition work for Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and Life in a Box have all received Dora awards and nominations. They would like to thank their parents, the Bad Hats, and the Talent House for their ongoing support.

SIERRA HAYNES (she/her) is an emerging, multiple Dora Mavor Moore Award winning, multi-disciplinary artist from Treaty 4 (Regina, SK), now establishing herself in Toronto, ON. Working primarily in theatre across the country, some of her recent credits include: BAD HATS PETER PAN (Globe Theatre); directing & devising THE RAFT (Studio 58); MISS CALEDONIA as Peggy Ann Douglas and music director (Globe Theatre); A TONIC FOR DESPERATE TIMES (Theatre Gargantua); THE DROWNING GIRLS as Asst. Director and Composer/Sound Designer (Guild Festival Theatre). She recently released a podcast commissioned by the Globe Theatre, STAGE WRITE: The Playwright’s Podcast, where she facilitated conversations between some of Canada’s most exciting playwrights in discussion about their craft. She was the Apprentice Dramaturg at the Banff Centre’s 2024 Playwrights Lab. Sierra has been the 2025 dramaturgy and producing intern through the Metcalf Foundation with Nightswimming Sierra is a series writer on AMI-tv network’s award-nominated scripted comedy series, THE SQUEAKY WHEEL: CANADA. Sierra is a proud graduate of Studio 58.

Hello Reader, thanks for checking out my bio! Bad Hats makes timeless magic, and I'm eternally grateful to be apart of that this go around. As this is my Soul Pepper Debut, I'd like to thank my family ( chosen and blood ), for their support, as well as my agents for this opportunity. Enjoy the show! I wish you presence, laughter, and sturdiness. If you're looking to keep up with me and what I'm up to, check me out at @_matthew_joseph on all socials.

Born and raised in the Prairies, Matt Pilipiak is a Toronto based actor, dramaturg, and theatre producer.  Matt is best known onstage for his work in Bad Hats’ Dora Award-winning Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland (Dora Winners for Outstanding Production), as well as Pea Green Theatre’s Dora Award-nominated Three Men in A Boat (Outstanding Ensemble), and smash-hit sequel, Three Men on a Bike. Other favourite credits include Every Brilliant Thing, Bed And Breakfast (Orillia Opera House), Murder for Two (Globus Theatre), Boys Girls and Other Mythological Creatures (Carousel Players), Finishing The Suit (Bear & Co), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Humber River Shakespeare). He has worked as dramaturg on Bad Hats’ Princess Frownsalot and provided dramaturgical support for Peter Pan. Matt has also independently produced for many Toronto companies, championing large-scale and genre new works. Matt is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and the Managing & Artistic Producer for Bad Hats Theatre.

Jonathan Tan is an avid home cook and balcony gardener who enjoys dabbling in theatre, music, and silly voices in his spare time. SELECT THEATRE: A Christmas Carol, On the Razzle, Too True to Be Good, The Glass Menagerie (Shaw Festival); Snow in Midsummer, carried away on the crest of a wave (NAC); Cowboy Versus Samurai (Soulpepper); Seussical (YPT); Amadeus, Assassins (TIFT). SELECT VOICE: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Ubisoft); Rubble and Crew (Nickelodeon); Vida the Vet (Spin Master); Let’s Go Bananas (CBC); Barney’s World (Mattel); My Little Pony G5 (Hasbro).

Amaka Umeh was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and Calgary, AB. SOULPEPPER 2025: Narnia, A Strange Loop. FOR SOULPEPPER: Three Sisters (2024); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (2023); Dialect Coach for 'da Kink in my Hair (2022); 1851: Spirit and Voice, Her Words Festival, Around The World in 80 Plays (2021). OTHER THEATRE: Fall On Your Knees (Eastern Canadian tour); Death and the King's Horseman, Hamlet, (Stratford Festival); The Wolves (Howland Company/Crow's Theatre). TELEVISION & FILM: Interview With The Vampire (AMC), The Stranger's Case (CBC Gem). OTHER: Audiobook: Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (ECW Press).

Astrid was part of the original COME FROM AWAY company from La Jolla Playhouse

to its final performance on Broadway. She was nominated for both a Helen Hayes

(Washington, DC) and a Dora (Toronto) for her work as Beulah & others. For the last

three summers she has taken on the role of Diane in an all new staging of COME FROM

AWAY where it all began - Gander, NFLD! Astrid has played Mattie Fae in AUGUST:

OSAGE COUNTY in St. Louis; Harriet in POTUS in Montreal; Margo in DRIVE in St.

John’s and Bobby in THE CURVY WIDOW in Sag Harbor. Other theatre credits include

originating leads in: LES BELLES SOEURS: The Musical (Segal/Montreal & National

Arts Centre/Ottawa); BAAL- A ROCK 'N ROLL PLAY (Mercury/Buddies) and THE

COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS (Artistic Fraud/St. John’s). Her stellar

performance in the drama THIS WIDE NIGHT earned her a Dora award for

Outstanding performance in a leading role. Astrid was honoured to host the Dora Awards

in 2018. astridvanwieren.com