Dan Jeannotte (Texte, Bleeding Art)

Dan Jeannotte is an actor, improviser and writer. An alumni of the Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre, he has had recurring roles on TV shows such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Way Home, The Bold Type, Reign and The Good Witch. In 2026 he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Guest Performance in a Comedy, for his work on the Netflix series North of North. His theatre credits include Equus, The Real Inspector Hound, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, Cherry Docs, The Heretics of Bohemia, and Dracula. He is the writer of the play A Love Unbecoming, which was directed by Heidi Hawkins for the 2025 Montreal Fringe Festival, where it won the Patron’s Pick Award. A Montreal native, he is a founding member of award-winning improv & sketch comedy troupe Uncalled For. Dan currently improvises regularly as one half of duo Fist Time; with the longform improv show The Squeeze; and in the Every Thursday Show at Theatre VME.

Jennifer Wade (Mise en scène, Bleeding Art, comédie)

Jen is thrilled to be stepping into the director’s chair for the comedy interpretation of Bleeding Art in Creative Differences. A graduate of John Abbott College’s Professional Theatre Program, she brings more than 30 years of theatre experience and a love of colourful characters, shared discoveries, and a well-earned laugh. Recent performance credits include Sandy in Hurry Hard, Janine in Halfway There, Queen Gynecia in Head Over Heels, and Buckingham in Shakespeare by the Lake’s Richard III. As a director, Jen focuses on building an ensemble where collaboration and a spirit of play give the actors room to take chances while discovering the story’s humour and humanity together. This project is teamwork at its most creative and she can’t wait to see what a little collective imagination can stir up.

Dominique Gagnon (Assistance à la mise en scène, Bleeding Art, comédie)

Dominique Gagnon is a Montreal-based improviser, actor, PhD candidate in Communication, and occasional writer and video editor. She’s been part of two Montreal Improv house teams (Chesterfield, 2025; Horse Fire, 2026) and regularly performs in community shows and independent productions, as well as local and international improv festivals (Le Grand Yes And, 2025, 2026; Big Pond Festival, 2025, 2026; Le Mini Grand Yes And, 2026). She was a stage manager for Moment Theatre Collective’s inaugural short play festival One Acts Now (April 2026), and an assistant director for the collective’s second festival, Stage Fright (August 2026). She recently performed in Time Travel Not Guaranteed at the Montreal Fringe Festival (OwlySprockets Productions, 2026).

Aude Gingras (Régie, Bleeding Art, comédie · Four Apples, comédie · Four Apples, drame)

Aude Gingras is a scenography student at Concordia University who has worked on a few productions in various creative roles. As stage manager for Creative Differences, she is excited to contribute to the creative process behind the scenes and to explore the collaborative nature of theatre, particularly the many ways a play can be interpreted and brought to life.

Vance Gillis (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie)

Vance Gillis is a performer, writer and director originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Stage credits include Trampoline (Weeping Spoon Productions), Surprise! (Mojo Comedy Co.) and This Thing Between Us (Moment Theatre Collective's Stage Fright) while screen credits include The Twentieth Century, The Edlerwyn and 24x36. He’s the former Artistic Director of Montreal Improv Theatre and former Education Director at Toronto's Bad Dog Comedy Theatre. These days he can be seen in the monthly comedy shows Wassup at Montreal Improv and Megafauna at Mile End Improv.

Marissa Blair (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie)

Marissa has spent many years as a theatre artist in Philadelphia, New York City, and Montreal. Since 2019 she has been a presence at the Montreal Fringe Festival, where audiences may have encountered one of her strange and bloody shows. Marissa is currently in her fifth season as Artistic Director of Dramatis Personae - Westmount's Community Theatre. She also manages Espace Freestanding Room - celebrating its reopening this month.

Eve Majzels (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie)

Eve Majzels is an actor, writer and director from the UK and Winnipeg. She studied acting at the University of Winnipeg and film at Concordia and the University of Amsterdam. She has appeared as an actor onstage and in independent and experimental films, and has written and performed two solo shows. She also wrote and directed several short films that have screened in festivals across Europe and North America. She’s excited to be performing in Creative Differences following her first project with The Moment Theatre Collective, as director of The Metal Detector for the Stage Fright festival.

Chris Wardell (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie)

Normally seen backstage as a Lighting/Video/Puppet designer, Chris (he/they) is very excited to stretch his acting muscles again on stage. Chris is a 2015 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada Production program and has been known to take the stage every once in a while, especially with a puppet on one or both hands. Chris has been nominated for lighting, video and puppet designs with an award in Outstanding Lighting Design in 2024. Chris thanks the MTC for giving this opportunity to be creative. See you on the stage!

Andrew Jamieson (Mise en scène, Bleeding Art, drame)

Andrew Jamieson is a Montreal-based experimental immersive artist and multidisciplinary creator, captivating audiences through boundary-pushing work that spans writing, spoken word, singing, acting, dancing, graffiti art, and sculpture. As the President and Creative Director of Forget The Box Media, a Montreal-based not-for-profit amplifying the voices of ground level, underground, and marginalized artists, Andrew is deeply committed to fostering community and accessibility within the arts. He further shares his passion and expertise through teaching, performance coaching, and dramaturgical support, and is a sought-after event producer within Montreal's vibrant artistic landscape.

Hanno Raihert (Apprenti·e à la création, Bleeding Art, drame)

Hanno Raihert is beginning his second year in Performance Creation at Concordia University. His passion for theatre began three years ago when he took a public acting class, sparking a love for acting and improv, which he continues to practice regularly. Hanno is excited to be part of Creative Differences and looks forward to discovering new possibilities in the performing arts!

Charity Adzie (Interprète, Bleeding Art, drame)

Actor, Improviser, teacher and Spongebob Squarepants enthusiast. A Dawson Theatre alumni who spends her days working on set, her weekends clowning around with her improv troupe @chesterfieldimprov and teaching for Geordie Theatre School. You can find her at the gym, reading on the bus or thrifting!

Laura Donohue (Interprète, Bleeding Art, drame)

Laura Donohue is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She arrived at acting after years of performing as a guitarist (Mono No Aware, Blue Odeur) and running the experimental DIY performance and studio space Poisson Noir (2015-2019). She studied acting at Concordia University (BFA, 2024), where she cultivated a passion for expressionist forms of theatre, devising, and improvisational modes of composition. Laura most recently performed in WORKING TITLE, a performance piece she co-created with Turret Theatre.

Fary Fall (Interprète, Bleeding Art, drame)

My name is Fary Fall. After years working as a scientist and engineer, I felt called to the arts. Today, I am an actor and theatre creator, trained in the Professional Theatre Program at Dawson College. I believe that art and humanity have the power to help heal our fractured world, and that empathy is our most powerful tool. Through theatre, I seek to explore the depths of human experience, build connections, and remind us of our shared humanity.

Tamir Virani (Interprète, Bleeding Art, drame)

Curious about storytelling in all its forms, Tamir Virani is thrilled to return to Moment Theatre Collective for Creative Differences after making his stage debut in MTC’s Stage Fright. His creative interests have led him to filmmaking, poetry, graphite drawing and live storytelling, including performances with Confabulation Montréal and poetry featured during Montréal’s Nuit Blanche. He currently studies acting at the National Theatre School of Canada and works professionally in communications and youth mental health. When he’s not creating, he’s usually sketching, reading or exploring Montréal with his dog, Chico.

Olivia Peet (Mise en scène, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

Olivia Peet is a Montreal-based director who lives and breathes for a good story. She wrote, directed, and starred in the musical FLOPS!, the Best of the Fest winner for MTC’s One Acts Now 2026. She lives and breathes for a good story, and she can’t wait to share her interpretation of Bleeding Art with you.

Habib Zekri (Direction musicale, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

For over 15 years, Habib Zekri has been composing music that brings stories to life, transporting audiences into imaginative and immersive worlds. His versatile career spans video games, musical theatre, film, and multidisciplinary art installations, blending a passion for storytelling with a distinctive musical voice. Beyond composition, his creative practice extends to lyric writing, dramaturgy, and narrative development, exploring the interplay between words, music, and theatrical storytelling. In 2014, he was named a finalist in Hans Zimmer's Bleeding Fingers Contest, an international competition recognizing emerging talent in composition for visual media. His notable credits include Strawberries in January – The Musical, and he is currently the composer for Gameloft's BAFTA- and D.I.C.E.-nominated video game Disney Dreamlight Valley. His upcoming work includes Swashbuckling, premiering at Montreal's Centaur Theatre in December 2026.

Espérance Love (Apprenti·e à la création, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

Espérance Love is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke whose primary disciplines include poetry, playwriting, and producing. She holds a B.A. in French Literature and training in Financial Management for Non-Profits, grounding her practice in both creative vision and sustainable community building. Guided by a commitment to centring underrepresented voices, Espérance develops mythopoetic theatre rooted in epic poetry, catharsis, and collective healing. Her work explores memory, trauma, and the socio-political realities of our world. She has developed her practice through programs such as Imago Theatre (Artista), Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (Young Creators Unit), and Theatre Passe Muraille (Black Arts Mentorship Program). Her work has been showcased at Centaur Theatre’s Catalyst Project, the Montreal Fringe Festival, and Revolution They Wrote.

George Bekiaris (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

George Bekiaris is a Montreal actor who has not been seen in a goddamn thing since forever. Long ago, you may have seen him in Nothing Never Happens in Norway, Reefer Madness (Processed Theatre), Jesus Jell-O (Sheep In Fog), Sexy Dirty Bloody Scary (Mainline) and Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Lion in the Streets (Tableau d’Hôte). Favorite role: Zoé and Lucie's papa.

Charlotte Greaves (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

Charlotte Greaves (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary Vancouver Island born theatre artist residing in Montreal, QC. Most known for her vocal capabilities, Charlotte brings over 10 years of formal voice training to her work; including one year as lead singer for a Montreal indie band. Charlotte brings a sense of self into every project and is influenced by her west coast upbringing. In addition to singing, Charlotte started dance lessons at age 9 and has participated in countless community theatre productions in her teenage years. Most recently Charlotte worked in Northern Italy teaching students English through Musical Theatre. She is so excited to be a part of this project and can’t wait to bring it to the stage!

Jacqueline Levitan (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

Jacqueline is an actor, singer, and improviser who has spent the past few years performing in scripted and unscripted shows across Montreal. Most recently she’s been heavily involved in the city’s musical improv community, and is beyond excited to be making a return to scripted shows as part of the musical team for Bleeding Art in the Creative Differences Festival!

Christian Henegan-Comeau (Interprète, Bleeding Art, comédie musicale)

Christian (no relation) is a Montreal-based artist and performer working at the intersection of music, theatre, improv and comedy, both onstage and behind the scenes. He’s performed music and improv across Canada and internationally, from humble NDG front porches, to large crowds at the Montreal Jazz Fest. His work leans into the awkward, the absurd, and the unexpected. He’s interested in raising the stakes, experimenting, and learning to live in the moment. He’s a co-producer of Le Grand Yes And! Improv Festival and one of the founders of Soul of the City MTL.

Vinny Francois (Texte, Four Apples)

Vinny Francois has over 25 years experience as a theatre maker in both English and French. He's a founder of the Montreal Improv Theatre and online school, Improv College. He has performed in Just For Laughs and taught at improv festivals around the world, most recently the 2026 Manila Improv Festival. He currently writes for The Beaverton.

John Sheridan (Mise en scène, Four Apples, comédie)

John's involvement with theatre goes back almost 40 years. What started off as joining an improv group with some friends for laughs became a lifelong passion for performance and the creative, collective process that drives theatre-making. He began directing in 2018 when he directed (and wrote!) the Hudson Village Theatre Annual Pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. From there, he was hooked! He went on to write and direct two more Pantomimes, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood Strikes Back. Other directing credits include Norm Foster's Skin Flick (Hudson Village Theatre) and The Full Monty by Simon Beaufoy (Hudson Player Club). He has taught improv at The Actors Studio in Montreal and has led improv workshops for Hudson Players Club and Lakeshore Players and he has been in way too many improv shows to list (or remember). Previous acting credits include Hurry Hard (Kristen Da Silva), The Game’s Afoot (Ken Ludwig) and Rumors (Neil Simon).

Olivia Collette (Assistance à la mise en scène, Four Apples, comédie)

Four Apples marks Olivia Collette's assistant directing début. A graduate of The Second City (TSC), Olivia recently launched her playwriting career at the 2026 Montreal Fringe Festival with The Paranoid King, an extremely goofy comedy about the Assyrian empire that managed to be both mildly historically accurate and wildly anachronistic. To her delight (but mostly to her surprise), The Paranoid King was nominated for a Frankie Award in the category of Outstanding English Production. Olivia also wrote Inconvenient House Ghost, which was performed during the Moment Theatre Collective's Stage Fright festival in August 2026.

Matt Enos (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie)

Matt Enos is a Montreal based artist. Previous acting credits include Never Swim Alone, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tour), As You Like It (Rose Theatre, Kingston-Upon-Thames in London), A Hero of Our Time (Edinburgh Fringe), Much Ado About Nothing, Seduced, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as Caught and A Love Unbecoming at the Montreal Fringe. You can catch him in venues around Montreal playing with his electric blues-rock band, Matt Enos & The RiverMen. Matt teaches full time at Dawson College in the Professional Theatre department and also works in radio, tv/film, and video games.

Robin Glance (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie)

Robin couldn’t be more excited to be participating in Moment Theatre’s Creative Differences! She previously had the pleasure of taking part in the inaugural festival, One Acts Now, playing the role of Mother in Gages. After stepping away from acting since high school, Robin recently returned to the stage as Agatha Wheeler in Hudson Player’s Club’s 2025 production of The Game’s Afoot — and she was hooked! Offstage, Robin works as an Anti-Diet Dietitian, passionately helping clients heal their relationships with food. In her spare time, she enjoys catering to the every whim of her beloved cat, Tetley, feeding the squirrels, and attempting to befriend her local murder of crows.

Lydia Derry (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie)

Lydia Derry is a Montreal based actor currently studying to get her BFA in Acting for the Theatre at Concordia University. Some of the most recent and most notable productions she has performed in are Twelfth Night, Dante’s Inferno, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Christmas Carol. She is also a co-writer and co-director of the original play PIT. Lydia has performed in a range of theatrical genres, including but not limited to comedy, drama, musical, and classics.

kurichka (Mise en scène, Four Apples, drame)

kurichka is an interdisciplinary artist, experimental playwright and poet currently based in Tio'tia:ke on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. They have read for the Bellitrist series and the flywheel reading series by the literary magazine Filling Station and have been published in The Capilano Review. They have completed the National Young Playwrights Unit with Tarragon Theatre in 2025 and the Young Creators Unit with Playwrights Workshop Montreal in 2022, which led them to be one of the chosen playwrights for the Queer Reading Series in 2023 at Centaur Theatre. kurichka is composed of deconstructions of self, origin, family, and convention. after experiencing deracination after deracination, they are on the path of sowing themselves back together. kurichka feels an inner pull toward the stars, toward the future, at all times.

Gabriel Chernitsky (Apprenti·e à la création, Four Apples, drame)

Gabriel is a producer, playwright and director. He's put on “Afraid of Everyone!” and “My Boyfriend is a Sack of Potatoes!” at the Montreal Fringe. He has a background in improv, sketch comedy and clowning. During regular hours he can be found teaching college physics.

Natalie Demmon (Interprète, Four Apples, drame)

Natalie Demmon (She/They) is an all-around theatre artist in Montreal with experiences ranging from the onstage to the offstage with performance, direction and design credit. Natalie manages the Segal Centre's Broadway Café, actively directs/teaches with theatre programs in the city and recently graced the stage as Maria Rainer in the CSLDS' sold out spring run of The Sound of Music. After having participated in Moment Theatre's Stage Fright, they are excited to be a part of Creative Differences.

Dhruv Vinay (Interprète, Four Apples, drame)

Dhruv is a first-time actor excited to make his stage debut. Originally from Toronto, then Kingston, Ontario, before moving to Montreal last September. He has taken acting classes over the past year and looks forward to bringing that experience to the stage.

Mike Yu (Interprète, Four Apples, drame)

Mike Yu is a Montreal-based improviser and the sometimes-producer of improv shows including Portal in the Break Room and Pride 'Prov. He grew up on the stage—literally, as his mom was a choreographer. However, he didn't really perform on one until a few years ago. He likes to deconstruct different forms of performance (and the scientific method) and try to rebuild them into new things. He has never performed in New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia or Hong Kong, but has lived in all of those places. Well, actually there was a terrible middle school play in Hong Kong.

M. Leander Kalil (Mise en scène, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

M. Leander Kalil is a director and interdisciplinary artist whose work in text, musical composition, sculpture, pictures, and design constellate in projects for screen and stage. Core themes include dreams, jokes, spatiality, and play. His writing has been published in journals such as Dispatches, and he has a mid-length fiction film called Water Tricks, about an exiled princess going blind, currently in post-production. Leander's work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and PRIM Centre. Four Apples is Leander's third original short operatic production and his second with Moment Theatre Collective. He lives and works in Montréal.

Elaf Wehbe (Apprenti·e à la création, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

Elaf Wehbe is a Montréal-based emerging interdisciplinary artist and scenographer with a background in architecture. She is currently studying Scenography at Concordia University, exploring the relationship between space, storytelling, and performance. Her creative experience spans set, costume, and production design for theatre and film. Her artistic interests lie in visual storytelling through spaces, objects, and costumes, as well as the imaginative and experimental possibilities of performance. She is particularly drawn to collaborative and unconventional approaches to theatre and filmmaking.

Emma Yee (Régie, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

Emma Yee (she/her/elle) is an interdisciplinary musical artist based in Tiohtià:ke and excited to work with Moment Theatre Collective for the first time! She holds a BMus in Voice from Mount Allison University and a MMus in Opera and Voice Performance from McGill University. Recent stage management credits include: Così fan tutte (Canadian Opera Company), R.U.R.: A Torrent of Light workshop (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity/Tapestry Opera), Miroir de nos Peines workshop (Banff Centre/Opéra de Paris), Cassation workshop (Banff Centre), The Medium (Opera McGill), Come Closer (Opera 5), and The Sapphic Passion (Sapphonix Collective). She is also an active performer across opera, musical theatre, and choral scenes. Performance highlights include Hecate Earth in In Her Hands (Essential Opera), Cordelia in Falsettos (Contact Theatre), Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia (Opera McGill), various roles in Elegies (Opera 5), and Serse in Serse (Halifax Summer Opera Festival). www.emmayee.ca

Amanda Caron (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

Amanda is a Montreal-based actor with a special interest in bringing unique characters to the stage and screen, and across different genres. JAC Theatre Workshop Alum, Amanda went on to study Musical Theatre Performance at Randolph College in Toronto and most recently completed the Circle in the Square Theatre Summer Intensive program in NYC. Stage credits include Trina (Falsettos- Contact Theatre/Segal Centre), Doralee (9 to 5- EMT) and Constance Sack (Rock of Ages- Papermoon). Proud recipient of two BroadwayWorld Montreal awards for Adelaide (Guys and Dolls- LPD) & Niki Harris (Curtains- EMT), Amanda is thrilled to join Moment Theatre’s Creative Differences!

Julie Santini (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

Julie is a Montreal-based actor, comedian, and improvisor. Her screen credits include the Fantasia 2025 premieres Corporate Culture and It Takes Two, and Apple TV’s The Last Frontier. Following her studies at McGill University (English: Drama and Theatre), she trained at Montreal Improv, Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, and studied Commedia dell’arte with Antonio Fava. Julie has performed at LadyFest Montreal, Mprov Festival, FRINGE Montreal, the Ottawa Improv Festival, Big Pond Improv Festival in Vermont, Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto, The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, Das Improv Festival in Berlin, and OFF-JFL in Montreal. Julie is thrilled to be joining Moment Theatre Collective for this exciting experiment.

Lucy Nichols (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

Lucy Nichols is a 19-year-old acting student at Concordia University. She has always loved to sing, and she enjoyed taking part in multiple musical productions throughout high school, including Once Upon a Mattress, Fiddler on the Roof, and Anne of Green Gables. In the past couple years, Lucy has enjoyed exploring more absurdist pieces and roles that once intimidated her. She is extremely excited to be part of the Creative Differences project, as it will be her first official musical opportunity outside of school.

Loris Kecaj (Interprète, Four Apples, comédie musicale)

A librarian by profession, Loris is also a singer, multi-instrumentalist and an occasional composer. She lives and works in Montreal.