Growing up performing theatre in Vancouver and graduating from the John Abbott Professional Acting Program in 2024, Samira is thrilled to be an actor and creator based in Montréal. Some of her favourite roles over the years include Hermia and Puck in separate productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Desdemona in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), and Éponine in Les Misérables. She is especially excited to add Abby and Madison to that list.

In her own creative work, Samira is drawn to exploring themes of faith, spirituality, family, and the formation of identity. She is grateful to be part of Geordie’s incredible team, who share her deep love of storytelling and creative collaboration.

Sarah Danielle Pitman is a playwright who grew up on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen and W_SÁNEC nations. Her plays have been performed with Vino Buono Productions, Hapax Theatre, Iuvenis Productions, and The Belfry Theatre in Victoria BC; The Cultch’s Ignite! Youth Festival in Vancouver; Alumnae Theatre in Toronto; Here For Now Theatre in Stratford; Théâtre Ouest End and Centaur Theatre in Montréal. She is a graduate of the playwriting program at Canada’s National Theatre School where her play Salvage The Wrecked was produced for the New Words Festival. Sarah is thrilled to be working again this season with Geordie Theatre, with whom her theatre-for-young audiences play Beyond Belief toured elementary schools around Québec and the Maritimes as part of last year’s 2Play Tour.

Dean Patrick Fleming is a professional in the world of theatre with extensive experience as a director, actor, producer and educator. He has directed over 70 productions and produced shows that have toured across the U.S. and Canada.

Dean is currently the Director of Residencies at the National Theatre School where he also teaches and guides various projects. He has also taught at Concordia University. As an Artistic Director, he has been at the helm of and premiered over 25 new plays, many of which he commissioned.

In 2015, he accepted the inaugural Equity, Diversity and Inclusion award on behalf of Geordie Productions where he spent 10 amazing years as Artistic and Executive Director. During his time at Geordie and as Artistic Director of Professional Theatre at Hudson Village Theatre, Dean’s leadership contributed to the creation of award-winning work.

Beyond his professional achievements, Dean has served as a volunteer board member for both local and national organizations. His dedication to the arts was recognized with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and both the Amyot prize for teaching excellence and the Sims Family award at the National Theatre School.

Diana is a Colombian theatre designer, plastic artist, interior designer and an eternal child. She has worked for over 30 years in design and the arts. In 2005, Diana moved to Canada and found a second home; she graduated in 2011 from the Theatre Design program at The National Theater School of Canada. Diana is interested in the way that theatre reaches people, in the world of possibilities, dreams and change that are inherent to theatre practice. Her passion for space and its relationship to humans, and how this affects the body and mind, have inspired her work, creating spaces and costumes that evoke a metaphor of our environment. As an artist and a human, she is aware of the imprint that we leave and the importance to engage in the exploration of ecological materials and renewed theatrical practices.