Doug is delighted to be making his debut with Acting Up.  For the past thirteen seasons, he's been a member of the Shaw Festival company, where he has appeared in such shows as "Saint Joan", "Rosmershölm", "Floyd Collins" and "Three Sisters", to name a few.  He has worked in theatre, TV, film and radio across the country, and he is also an accomplished playwright.  Since its publication in 1993, his first play, "Who's Under Where" (written with Marcia Kash) has had scores of productions in countries around the globe and been translated into four languages.  He and Marcia have also penned "A Party to Murder", and "Too Many Cooks", and they are currently working together on a musical based on Sherlock Holmes.

Liz is delighted to be a part of the Canadian premiere of A Man of No Importance. Most recently, Liz played Teri Stern in the world premiere of Muhammed of Yorkville for the Toronto Summerworks Festival. Film and television credits include: Degrassi The Next Generation, Regenesis III, Lizzie Takes an Ax, Atonement. Toronto theatre credits include: The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Same Time Next Year, Company, The Shadowbox, Deathtrap, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Nunsense, Jake’s Women and The Second Time Around.  Another passion of Liz’s is directing.  Productions include:  The Goodbye Girl, Over the River and Into the Woods, and Crossing Delancey.

After a brief hiatus from the acting world, Chris is overjoyed to debut with Acting Up.  Selected theatre adventures include A Winter's Tale, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Driftwood Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Brampton Heritage Theatre), Lady Windermere's Fan, Angels in America Part I and Three Penny Opera (GBC).  He is a member of "The Nearly World Famous Dufflebag Theatre" which creates and performs interactive adaptations of fairy tales and Shakespeare classics for young audiences across Canada and the U.S.  Chris also voiced numerous characters in the television cartoon series "Lets & Go".  He is a graduate of George Brown College's Conservatory Acting Program.  Next up for Chris is a remount of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Toronto's Papermill Theatre, as well turning his hand to writing to co-create and develop a play based on the life of Russian composer Alexander Scriabbin.

An eleven year veteran of the Stratford Festival, Mr. Deakin has appeared in over two dozen of Shakespeare plays, including The Tempest, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, Anthony and Cleopatra, Henry IV and Troilus and Cressida. He appeared as the Duke of Albany in the Broadway production of King Lear, and off Broadway was seen in Much Ado About Nothing, and the Miser. His musical credits include Blind Pew in Julie StyneÕs Pieces of Eight: He originated the role of Inspector Closely, in The Last Resort, and has appeared in the Sound of Music first as Rolf , in his early career, at the Theatre in the Park, Vancouver, and more recently as Uncle Max at the Neptune Theatre. Other musicals include Oliver, Cabaret, and West Side Story. Mr. Deakin twice appeared in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and is delighted to be appearing in A Man of No Importance.

Bethany is thrilled to officially debut with Acting Up Stage, having had the immense privilege of working with Mitchell in the early days of his producing adventures playing Mary Snow in Salt-Water Moon. Most recently, Bethany spent a fantastic fall working with Daniel MacIvor (and several other wonderful, talented and inspiring artists) at the Tarragon Theatre as Brooke in How It Works. Other credits include:  Tough! (Factory Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Driftwood Theatre Group),  Brecht: 50 Years Later (UCDP/Piccolo Teatro di Milano), A Fibber’s Fable Workshop (Theatre Gargantua), and Romeo and Juliet (Hart House Theatre). Also a dancer and choreographer, Bethany has choreographed for the Driftwood Theatre Group, Cadence and worked extensively with the Silhouettes Dance Company. Bethany is honoured to have the opportunity and is looking forward to the challenge of performing My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Theatre Panik) at the Tarragon Extra Space this June.  I can’t quite express my full gratitude to family, friends and fellow artists for such faith, support, love and laughter - but thanks all the same.

Among Nora’s work on the large and small screen are the feature film The Mighty and network television movies The Grid, Me and My Shadows, One Kill, Trapped in a Purple Haze, Guilty Hearts, No Greater Love, The Dan Jansen Story...Select series credits include the upcoming Long Island Confidential, Puppets Who Kill ,The Jane Show, Eleventh Hour, Queer as Folk, Wonderfalls, The Associates, Earth:Final Conflict, Due South and Street Legal. Nora can also be heard on the CBC radio dramas, The Viola Desmond Story and Afghanada

However, it’s the theater where Nora feels most at home. Memorable stage highlights include leading roles in A Christmas Carol, Fireweeds, Thumbs, Rumours, Chapter Two, Drinking Alone, Cabaret, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, Nunsense, Steel Magnolias and Sylvia.