Meet the Cast

Key Creatives

  • Director

    John Bolton is an award-winning filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada, and the founder & chief creative officer of Opus 59 Films. As knowledgeable about music, literature and art as he is about film and television, he brings a very particular erudition and sensibility to Opus 59 Films’ portfolio of projects. 

  • Star

    Niall McNeil is a multidisciplinary artist who, in his 20-plus year career has created, written plays, filmed, recorded and performed in works for stage and film across Canada. He is the first Canadian artist with Down Syndrome to be a 2022 recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Composite Grant to support the development of three new multidisciplinary works.

  • Marcus Youssef has written or co-written fifteen plays that have been performed at theatres and major international festivals across North America, Australia, Europe and Asia. In 2017, he received Canada’s most prestigious theatre award, the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize for Theatre. He was Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre from 2005 to 2019.


Additional Support

Veda Hille

Veda Hille is a Vancouver musician, composer, theatre maker, and performer. She writes songs, makes records, co-writes musicals, collaborates in devised theatre, and fulfills other interesting assignments as they arise. Veda performs in a wide of array of places, alone or with bands, ensembles, symphonies, and casts. Her career spans 30 years of working in Canada and abroad, and shows no sign of flagging.

James Long

James Long is a director, actor, writer and teacher whose creative practice occurs in a wide variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative contexts, including as a co-founding Artistic Director of Theatre Replacement (2003-2022) and as an independent artist working in live performance, community engaged practice and public art.

AMI

AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more, visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.