Eve Cohen
2nd Season for AlvegoRoot. For AlvegoRoot: Viola in Lawrence Station (a Fridge Door Live production). A newcomer to Canada, Eve studied theatre at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles. Selected Credits: The Dining Room (Theatre Woodstock), Four Weddings and an Elvis (ITOPA), and Human Voices Wake Us (TAP Centre for Creativity). Favourite roles in the US include Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple (Parker Arts, Denver), Pam in The Full Monty (Sasquatch Productions, Denver), and Nancy in The Goodbye People (Vintage Theatre, Denver). Natalie Grant 2024 Season: Performer in The Manor Park Evening Post. 1st Season. Natalie is so happy to be sharing her talents for this evening of Irish fun! Natalie’s career has brought her across the pond from one London (UK), to the other London (Ontario). Selected credits include: Fringe Festival Award Winner for Judy Garland in JUDY: Stonewalled! (LINK Theatre), Dinah in Starlight Express (Original German Cast), Celine Dion in Stars in Concert (Estrel Showtheatre in Germany), Gloria in Return to the Forbidden Planet (FreiVolks Buhne Theatre in Germany), The Muppet Show Live (UK Tour), Chess (UK Tour), as well as multiple productions around the world of Summer of Love, Magic of Motown and Sweet Soul Music. Natalie is a graduate of The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England. When not on adventures with her dog Lady and partner Darren, she now spends her days supporting her two greatest accomplishments, her daughters Alexandra and Ellena. Sarah Hagarty 2024 Season: Izzy Slate in Slate Sisters. 2nd Season for AlvegoRoot. Sarah is a creative human completely incapable of committing to one medium; an actor, writer, musician, (emerging) producer, and as many other hats as she can balance atop her head. Past roles include Miss Stacey (Anne of Green Gables in Concert, Kiwanis Festival), Gertrude (Lawrence Station, Fridge Door Live Theatre) and Mrs. Cassilis (The Cassilis Engagement, University Players). Endless thanks to Adam, Kydra, Elizabeth, Eve, Keith, and the two very special heartbeats at home in Stratford. Patricia Nacamoto 2024 Season: Playwright/Figueira in The Fig Tree. 4th Season for AlvegoRoot. For AlvegoRoot Patricia has played: Figueira in The Fig Tree (2023), Mattie in Gyroscope, Charlie French in The Boy with an R in His Hand and performed in Cambium. Patricia has been writing her play The Fig Tree with support of AlvegoRoot between 2022 to 2024. Selected Credits: for the Peanut Gallery Patricia directed Punch Up by Kat Sandler and performed in Seven Stories by Morris Panych. Her work in Oshes Theatre Company as a story teller and theatre artist has taken her around the world including to South Africa. David Pasquino 2024 Season: Will in County Fair. 2nd Season for AlvegoRoot. This is my first full production with AlvegoRoot – I was part of the Staged Reading of “Gentle Rain Food Co-op” in November 2023 – and I am delighted to have this opportunity to work with such an amazing and talented group of people! I studied theatre at York University in the 90’s, but it wasn’t until 2013 – after I finished my accounting designation – that I ventured back on-stage. Since then I have been in numerous plays: “To Kill A Mockingbird” (2013), “Middletown” (2015), “Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii (2018), “1949” (2019), “On A First Name Basis” and “Pride & Prejudice” (2022) and “Speed Dating for Sperm Donors” (2023) for the London Community Players; “My Name is Margaret Harmon” (2017) and “The Merchant of Venice” (2017), “As You Like It” (2018), “Party in Petrograd” and “ Madrigal’s Cruel Christmas” in 2019 for Crow Bait Productions; “Jake’s Women” (2016) and “Sandy Toes and Salty Kisses (2019) for the Elgin Theatre Guild; “Happy Days” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2013) for Passionfool Theatre Company, and others. I have also been in a couple of short films, a TV show and a few commercials. Did I mention I am an accountant? None of this would be possible without the continued love and support from my amazing wife Diana and our daughter Rosalind who continues to inspire and astonish me and keeps me young. Take care and play on! Jessica Pereira 2024 Season: Riley in County Fair. 2nd Season for AlvegoRoot. For AlvegoRoot: Fox/Neil McAlpine in The Lawyer of La Salute. Jessica is thrilled to be back for her 2nd Season with AlvegoRoot Theatre. Select past theatre credits include: Civil Dawn (Banished by the King Productions), Marion Bridge (Theatre Aezir), Dracula (Odesa Company & London Community Players), The Lawyer of La Salette (AlvegoRoot Theatre) and Exit Laughing (Elgin Theatre Guild). She loves everything about county fairs, but especially the food. Elizabeth Rodenburg (she/they) 2024 Season: Iris Slate in Slate Sisters. 1st Season for AlvegoRoot. Selected credits include Antonio in Twelfth Night (Louie the Goat), performer and creator of Party Games (Buddies in Bad Times), Girl in Joyce and Florence (Alumnae Theatre), Deirdre in I Hate Hamlet (South Simcoe), Procne in If We Were Birds (University Players), Molly in The Smell of the Kill, Claudio/Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Brutus/Esther in Portia's Julius Caesar (University of Windsor). Elizabeth is a 2022 graduate from the University of Windsor's BFA in Acting program, and recent participant in Tarragon Theatre's Young Playwrights Unit. Kydra Ryan (she/her) - Associate Artistic Director 2024 Season: Sylvia Slate in Slate Sisters, Playwright & Taylor in County Fair, Co-Director of The Fig Tree, Writer & Performer of The Manor Park Evening Post. 8th Season for AlvegoRoot. Kydra is the associate artistic director of AlvegoRoot as of 2022. She’s an actor, writer, and director. Selected acting credits with AlvegoRoot include: Buster in The Lawyer of La Salette, her in february: a love story, Hilda in Gyroscope, Sylvia Slate in Slate Sisters (2022), Marie in Sweet Marie, Sylvia in Tales for a Reaney Day, Annie Pixley in Shall Not Be Taken, and Elsie in Elsie: Dreams and Sketches. Outside of AlvegoRoot: multiple characters in Lawrence Station (Fridge Door Live Theatre Company), and Portia in Pandemic Julius Caesar (Western Shakespeare). She was the assistant director of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Timon of Athens as a returning graduate of Fanshawe College. Jack Sizeland 2024 Season: Performer in Manor Park Evening Post. 5th Season for AlvegoRoot, Previously with AlvegoRoot: Jones in Gentle Rain Food Co-op, Manor Park Evening Post (2023, 2022, 2021), Grimes of the Borough (2009). Selected credits: Edmunds & Winzeler: Perfect World, Ranjbar & Schindler: Where do we Begin? (workshop - 2019). Kings Players: Heathers (2020) Catch Me if you Can (2019) First Date (2018). Theatre Western: A Chorus Line (2017). Musical, Other: St. James Westminster Chamber Quartet (2020-present) Woodstock Fanshawe Singers (2016-2020). |