Lamia Karam is an actor, translator, and educator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She trained at Concordia University, where she received her BFA in Acting for the Theatre. Raised as a third culture kid, Lamia grew up immersed in a mosaic of people and stories, which continues to shape her artistic voice today. She is drawn to performance that explores identity, culture, and selfhood. Making her professional debut with Geordie Theatre’s 2Play Tour, Lamia is no stranger to the company. Over the past two years, she has taught with the Geordie Theatre School, encouraging creativity, confidence, and a love of performance in young people. As a trilingual artist, she also works as a translator, trained at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal; she views translation as a practice of making theatre more accessible and bridging linguistic and cultural gaps. The 2Play Tour brings together her passions for performance, arts education, and accessible theatre, and she is excited to share these values with audiences across Canada.

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.

Barry Bilinsky (he/him) is an Indigenous artist from Amiskwaciywâskahikan (Edmonton) of Métis, Cree and Ukrainian lineage. Primarily a professional theatre and film writer/director, Barry pursues work focused on Indigenous stories that are often connected to the cultural intersections he embodies. Working in technical as well as artistic roles,
Barry believes that collaborative and holistic practices are the best way to ensure that diverse perspectives are represented. More recently, Barry taught and was the
Indigenous Artist in Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada; Writer and Content Developer at Rezolution Pictures; Co-writer for Terri Calder’s animated short film “Bastard”; and Artistic Director of Tantoo Cardinal’s “Taproot Actors’ Academy” in Kikino, Alberta. Recent theatre credits include Director of the 2025 community telling version of Pawakan Macbeth, Assistant Director of Geordie’s play “Jordan”, and workshop Director of Jojo O’Neil’s one woman show “Parricide.’

Masha (she/they) is a queer and neurodivergent actor, director and theatre creator with a background in physical theatre and a love for new work development. They thrive in chaos, curiosity, and movement. Amongst trees, playfulness, and loved ones. Between two main activities: wondering and wandering. Born in Russia, raised in the United Arab Emirates, and primarily based between Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) and T’Karonto (Toronto), they are deeply moved by the million ways in which language, place, and worldview impact how we tell stories. A graduate of Concordia’s Performance Creation program, Masha has spent the last few years working as an actor in film and theatre, building her practice as a director, developing experimental creation projects, and continuing her training abroad with ArtHaus Berlin and the Grotowski Institute in Poland. Her work in Geordie and Imago’s co-production of The Wolves in Montreal scored her a nomination for Outstanding Emerging Artist and won Outstanding Ensemble. An alum of the 2023-2024 2Play Tour, Masha is thrilled to be returning to work with Georide Theatre and the tour in a new role and bring two incredible new plays to students across Eastern Canada.

Select recent credits include: The Wolves (Geordie Theatre and Imago Theatre), Cornflake (Dense and Stage), Instant (Geordie Theatre), Perfect Storm (Geordie Theatre), Dances of Likeness (Studio Matejka), Transplant  (CTV / NBC), Windy (Young Hearts Theatre), and Les Temps (François Delisle).

potatoCakes_digital is the award winning production design, digital arts, and technical services company of Emily Soussana and Andrew Scriver, incorporated in 2021. Formed as a collective in 2018 with a video design at Osheaga Music Festival for John Jacob Magistery, they have been unofficially working together for over seven years as an all-encompassing artistic and technical team offering digital dramaturgical support, production management, and technical direction, as well as designing video, lighting, sound, set, and costumes for live performance, installation, and digital art, with productions and companies in Tiohtià:ke and across Canada. 

The company’s main artistic mandate is to technically helm and forge singularly cohesive designs for productions from conception to performance. Some of potatoCakes_digital’s main interests in the performing arts involve the integration and interrelation of technology and traditional art forms, and the exploration of how visual and digital art can help facilitate and elevate the telling of a story. Their philosophy of creation is story and character based, and in such intent, all design elements become characters in their own rights. Their work is to create worlds, and to see them through to the end. This is their third year back with the 2Play Tour & they’re so excited to see these bold new shows travel across the country!

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Sabrina Miller is a set, costume, and puppet designer based on Montréal/Tiohtià:ke land, and a member of Association Des Professionnels Des Arts De La Scène Du Québec and Associated Designers of Canada. Their award winning work has been presented across Canada, and they have designed for many companies including Segal Centre, Theatre New Brunswick, Black Theatre Workshop, Repercussion Theatre, Infinithéâtre, Hudson Theatre, Kidoons, Roseneath Theatre, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, Teesri Duniya Theatre, and many past productions of Geordie.

Geordie Theatre: Set Designer – The Wolves
Elsewhere: Stage Manager – You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Bishop’s University); Apprentice Stage Manager – Grow; Kimberly Akimbo; Fifteen Dogs (Segal Centre); Stone and Bone Spectacular (Centaur Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Repercussion Theatre and Persephone Theatre); Head Dresser – Clue: On Stage! (Segal Centre); Once Upon a Mattress; Eurydice (John Abbott College); Dresser – Titanique (Segal Centre); Head of Props – The Secret Chord (Segal Centre); Set Designer – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (John Abbott College); The Outsiders (Selwyn House); multiple Segal Academy productions. Training: John Abbott College
Online: @zomag.arts
Thank you to Geordie for trusting me on such an epic adventure!

M (they/them) is an upcoming stage manager based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They are a recent graduate from JAC’s LEDP program focusing on stage management and technical programming. During the time at JAC, M was the stage manager for Jekyll&Hyde directed by Jason Howell.