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.  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 Macbeth at 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, Star Trek: Discovery, Fubar, 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 fifteen years touring an original one-woman show for the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario around Ontario and the Maritimes entitled Maud of Leaskdale, chronicling 15 years of the famed author’s life.

Jennifer is also a stage manager and producer, stage managing productions such as Her, Witless, 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 Proscenium Club include The Life and Death of John the Milkman, Barefoot on the Moon, and most recently, 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

Matt Lishman is the Technical Director of Theatre Canadore. Last year was his first year in the role for Theatre Canadore’s production of Frankenstein, however he has been working with Theatre Canadore for a number of years now. His previous work with the program was as Stage Manager for plays such as: Laughter on the 23rd Floor and Orphans for the Czar. Matt is also the Technical Director for local professional theatre company: The Proscenium Club as well as North Bay’s On the Edge Fringe Festival. As an alumnus of Canadore College’s Acting for Stage and Screen, Matt is a professional actor. Some of his notable credits include: D’Artagnan in Proscenium Club’s Three Musketeers, Billy in Proscenium Club’s Happy Jack’s Motel and Roderigo in the upcoming feature film: Ripping Off Othello. Matt works behind the camera as well as a professional photographer and filmmaker specializing in headshot photography and narrative short films.

Morgan Bedard – Set Builder

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, 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 debut production 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 the Netflix series V-Wars. He appeared in the feature films Spare Parts, Anti-Birth, Mary and Joseph, Mums the Word, Frat Pack, Lead with Your Heart, Goalie, James vs. His Future Self, The Bet, Country at Heart, Astonishing Tales of Terror, and USA/NBC series Eyewitness.

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

Michelle Jackett- Producer

Michelle Jackett is an actor, choreographer and director based in North Bay. She has been the Program Coordinator for the Acting for Stage and Screen Program for the last 7 years and a faculty member for 11 Michelle has over 30 years experience in professional theatre and film. Michelle has worked with the Ontario Arts Council as an artist in education, grant advisory member, and Northern outreach Coordinator through Ontario Dances. She is the founder of Can-do Theatre and a founding member of The Dressing Room Collective. She is proud alumni of the Music Theatre Performance Program at Sheridan College.

Kaitlyn Stewart – Scenic Painter

Kait Stewart is an actor and scenic painter based in North Bay, Ontario. After graduating from Canadore's Acting for Stage and Screen program in 2014, she performed and painted for a few local productions before joining touring theatre group, The Proscenium Club, as a performer and resident scenic painter. Her brush has been on many sets in the last 10 years including Happy Jack's Motel, The Three Musketeers, Frankenstein, and Misery.