PROGRAM
PROGRAM
Roles: Artistic Director, Co-Lighting Design, Sound Designer (He-He-He & Bob and The Willow Tree)
Taylor is an actor, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist, currently creating art for and within the Niagara Region. He is a graduate of Fanshawe College’s Theatre Arts Acting Conservatory, and Brock University’s Dramatic Arts program. Since then, Taylor has frequently been seen working with Carousel Players as an actor, director, puppeteer, and more! Over the last several years, Taylor has diversified his art practice, delving into the worlds of sound design, self-producing, and immersive works. His recent interdisciplinary creations include an interactive digital story-sharing experience (The Forest of Us - co-creator), an ongoing audio thriller series (The Moonlight Frequency), and an interactive outdoor installation for the Niagara Children’s Festival (The Pirate Mystery). Last year, Taylor took on an Internship in Artistic Direction at Carousel Players, and was nominated for an Emerging Artist Award at the St. Catharines Arts Awards. Taylor is grateful that he still gets to make art with his friends.
Roles: Production Manager, Co-Lighting Designer, Sound Designer (The Last Of My Kind & Stormlight
Alex is a Niagara-based lighting and sound designer. He’s a passionate storyteller who primarily works with light and sound to tell stories that make you, think, laugh, cry, and wonder as these are the stories he loves himself. Alex is a graduate of Brock University and The National Theatre School of Canada’s Production, Design and Technical Arts program.
Roles: Set Designer & Co-Founder
Josh is an artist from St. Catharines. He writes, performs, directs, designs, builds, plays, draws, creates, and dreams just about anything he can. Josh is yet to find an art form that doesn’t excite him, he’s always trying new things, learning, and pushing boundaries. Alongside his theatrical experience, Josh has been developing as a woodworker, creating multiple beautiful pieces. I’m just a weird guy who’s had lots of opportunities to try lots of different things. I love a challenge, I love an adventure, I believe passionately in love, community, hope, and joy. Find a reason to love someone today.
Sound Designer & Composer for: Betty The Baby Bat & The Sock Wash Song
Zoe Daca (She/Her) is a stage manager, sound designer, and composer based in Toronto and Montreal. Driven by her dedication to theatrical excellence, Zoe strives to create an environment that fosters creativity and supports individual artistry within the collaborative process. Zoe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Trumpet from McGill University, where she also pursued studies in theatre and philosophy and she is a recent graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada's Production, Design, and Technical Arts program.
The Last Of My Kind
Travis Seetoo is an actor, writer and musician living in the Niagara Region. An actor at the Shaw since 2013, his two Dungeons and Dragons based plays The Roll of Shaw and Through The Wardrobe were produced at the Shaw in 2024 and 2025. Travis' other acting credits include work at The Stratford Festival, The National Arts Centre, The Tarragon Theatre, The Citadel Theatre and many others. Travis holds his masters degree in comparative literature from Brock University and has spoken at symposia internationally on game based theatre and his secret love of the Brontë sisters juvenalia and how it was essentially Victorian era D&D. Travis lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake with his partner Emma and their 2 year old Saint Bernard George.
He-He-He
Eliza Martin is an award-winning actor, writer, and creator. She is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College and has since performed on stages in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Eliza has created such works as: O (NYC United Solo Award Best Satire, All About Solo, Critics' Choice), Harvey & The Extraordinary (My Entertainment World - 2018 Critics' Pick Award Nominee, Outstanding Solo Performance) and BLOOM (Bad Hats Theatre, 2019 Creator-in-Residence). Eliza's first novel Harvey and the Extraordinary, based on her play of the same title, was published by Annick Press in 2021 (Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens), and translated into Czech in 2022. Her second and third books will hit bookshelves in 2027 and 2028, respectively. Off the stage and page, she can be found working with children and youth in creative and therapeutic programs (M.A. CYC). @elizavmartin www.elizamartin.ca.
Betty The Baby Bat
Lena is a Dora Award winning actor / theatre creator / artist-educator from Toronto. Her work involves writing and performing in new musical adaptations of classic stories, including Moby: A Whale of a Tale, winner of 4 Dora Awards (Art & Water); The Velveteen Rabbit (Carousel Players); Pippi: The Strongest Girl in the World (Gorgon Theatre, Art & Water). Other acting credits include Cabaret (Contact Theatre); I Love You and It Hurts (Theatre of the Beat); Peter Pan, winner of 3 Dora Awards (Bad Hats Theatre). As an artist-educator, Lena has worked as the Education Coordinator at Theatre of the Beat and is currently the lead instructor for Soulpepper Theatre’s City Youth Academy.
Stormlight
Committed to storytelling that bridges borders and nurtures a more empathetic global culture, Michelle Mohammed is a Toronto-based artist working both nationally and internationally as an actor, director, and arts leader. She is currently working as an Associate Artist at Why Not Theatre. Internationally, she joined the Theatertreffen International Forum (Berlin, Germany 2025), a prestigious program for the world’s most exciting emerging theatre-makers, and worked with Katie Mitchell at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK 2024). Recent acting stage work includes What You Won’t Do For Love (Why Not Theatre), Trident Moon (Crow’s Theatre/NAC), Yerma (Coal Mine Theatre), A Poem for Rabia (Tarragon Theatre). Her screen credits include Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Murdoch Mysteries, The Handmaid’s Tale, Ruby and the Well, and the 2025 Disney+ feature A Very Jonas Christmas. Recent directing work includes workshops for The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Man-Man, and Machinal by Sophie Treadwell. To learn more about Michelle, visit www.michellemohammed.com
The Sock Wash Song
Amariah Faulkner is an actor, vocalist, and creator based in Toronto. Currently performing at the Shaw Festival, she’s appeared onstage across the country with companies including Mirvish Productions, Neptune Theatre, and St. Catharine's own Carousel Players. You may recognise her voice from some of your kid’s favourite shows such as Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Arthur, Wild Kratts, and Saving Me. A graduate of Sheridan’s Musical Theater program, she enjoys exploring all the possibilities of language and music in her work as a writer, lyricist, and copyist.
Bob & The Willow Tree
Salomae Lapinski is an 8 1/2 year old from St. Catharines who loves cats, riding her bike, reading and writing, and nature. She loves going on walks in the summer, fall, and spring. NOT the winter. She also loves sketching and doodling. She is an artist, musician, actor and dancer, and has completed many Carousel Players theatre camps since she was 5 yrs old. Over the years, she has grown to love making up stories. She is very proud to be part of this year’s Niagara Children’s Theatre Festival.
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Joe Lapinski is a St. Catharines–based sound designer and composer with over 20 years of experience creating sound and music for theatre. An active musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer, he brings a broad musical perspective to his theatrical work. Joe is the lead producer at WOW! Recording Studio and has collaborated with a wide range of artists across genres and disciplines.
He is a co-founder of the In the Soil Arts Festival and a former music director with Suitcase in Point Theatre Company. Selected theatre credits include Metamorphosis (Brock University, 2025), Hare & Tortoise (Carousel Players, 2018/2025), Pop! Pop! (Carousel Players, 2021–2025), Antigonick (SummerWorks Festival, 2014), Topdog / Underdog (Shaw Festival Theatre / Obsidian Theatre, 2011), A Downtown Stupor (Suitcase in Point, 2009), and 1984 (Théâtre Rien Pantoute, 2008).
Hue is the last of a strange species that express themselves through colour. But if you listen to Hue’s plea, maybe there’s a way you can help!
Writer & Voice over
Sound Designer
Peter comes from a neighbourhood of laughers. But what do you do when you don’t have a laugh of you own?
Writer & Voice over
Sound Designer
The sun’s coming up, which means it’s bedtime for Betty the Bat. But she can’t fall asleep! Betty seeks out some help from her forest creature pals.
Writer & Voice over
Sound Designer
A little girl becomes the toast of the town, when she becomes famous for her sock washing song. But maybe being famous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Writer & Voice over
Sound Designer & Composer
It’s moving day for Bob the Bird, and he’s got his eyes set on a new nest in the big willow tree! In this jointly told tale, Bob’s quest for a new home doesn’t quite go to plan.
Writers & Voice over
Sound Designer
12 year old Anabelle is woken up by a thunder storm, and discovers something mysterious left on the front porch.
Writer & Voice over
Sound Designer
Loewen Design Studios
Annie Slade
Shannon Fletcher
Tony Bogaert
Isabella Saranchuk
Carousel Players
Suitcase In Point
Patrick Avery-Kenny
Monica Dufault
Sara Allison
Carolyn Hafer
Marcel Stewart
Deanna Jones
Gavin Fearon
David Vivian
Bea Freedman
David Bogaert
Zakk Milne