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Travis Cannon (director, playwright, actor)

Travis Cannon is a Montreal-based writer and performer who has starred in the features Messy Legends (2025) and The Diabetic (2021) and the shorts Bangs (2023) and APE. He's produced and performed in sketch and improv comedy shows in Montreal for the better part of the past ten years including Kelp! a Self-Help Hour, The Sketch Republic, The Dollhouse Project, Travis Cannon is Special! and Emma Overton's Nasty Boys.

Emelia Hellman (actor)

Emelia Hellman is an actor, filmmaker and photographer from Vancouver Island, living in Montreal. Selected film and TV credits include: Messy Legends (2025), Afterlife (2019), Becca (2018), Moment (2018), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2018), Bellevue (CBC 2017), and Game of Death (2017). Selected theatre credits include Julie in Miss Julie (NTS), Viola in Twelfth Night (Repercussion Theatre), Grace in On This Day (Centaur Theatre), Margaret Hughes in Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Persephone Productions), Desdemona in Othello (Big Ideas Company), and Pam in A Beautiful Man (Imago Theatre). In 2024 she was nominated for an ACTRA award for her dubbing work on the feature film Nowhere (Netflix). She wrote and performed sketch comedy as half of the duo Employees of the Year from 2015–2020, where they were invited to perform main stage solo shows at Just For Laughs/Zoofest in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Her first short film, Bangs, premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2024 before touring festivals across the world, and her second short, APE, is in post production. She is the co-host of the comedy podcast Total Relaxation which is currently in its second season.

John Casey (director, playwright)

John is from Montreal. His debut feature film, House-Sitting, is currently in post-production. He received his PhD from Brown University where he was Jean Starr Untermeyer fellow in Poetry and Poetics.

Sarah Ellis (actor)

Sarah is an actor and improviser from Montreal with a background in media and communications. After completing a BFA in Film Production at Concordia University, she continued working behind the camera for several years in film and television as a camera assistant and operator before eventually transitioning into the spotlight via improv comedy. She is the former Education Director of Montreal Improv and can currently be found performing at various venues across town and pursuing acting on stage and on camera.

Catherine Fagan (actor)

Catherine is a Montreal-based performer and writer with her roots starting in the 2016 Newfoundland comedy scene. Since moving to Montreal to focus on acting and improv, she has become a frequent face at Theatre VME and Montreal Improv. She has appeared in productions such as The Dollhouse Project (Danielle Davidson), the Montreal Fringe show Once Upon a Time (Priddy Playful Productions), and Night Slime (Theatre VME) among many others. She has a passion for exploring dry, dark, and absurd characters, a style she's brought to shows across Montreal, the northern UK and Vermont — as well as several recent film and commercial projects.

Hannah Cartmel (actor)

Hannah is a performer originally from England and a seasoned improviser who has performed in Vermont, Toronto, Lake Placid NY, and Montreal. Her improv credits include the 'Cheap Medicine Comedy Show' during the 2018 Notre Dame Arts Week, 'Make it a Musical' at the 2019 Montreal Fringe Festival (nominated for Best English Production), and 'Bridgerton, Improvised' at the 2023 Toronto Blockbuster Week Festival (won Best Costume). Her team, Pisco Sour, won the Montreal Improv Theatre's annual Threepio Competition in 2019. Hannah is a producer and the founder of Priddy Playful Productions, putting on original improv shows including the Montreal Fringe shows 'Once Upon a Time and Never Again… An Improvised Fairytale', 'Bridgerton, Improvised', and the co-production 'Fever Dream: A Non-Linear Journey Through Time' that had a sold-out two night run. Although she spent her teenage years performing in pantomimes and musicals, it has been over 18 years since Hannah last picked up a script. She's excited to return to theatre for her Montreal debut.

Przemek Piwek (director, playwright)

Przemek is a Polish-Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in screenwriting and film production and is known for films such as Bomber Jacket, Olga's Mirage, and Bicycle. His work explores themes of connection and identity, often through comedic storytelling. When he's not writing, he's coding at work, hanging with his LCAZ besties, or rotting on instagram reels/reality tv/chess.

Jack Dundas (playwright, actor)

Jack is a Plateau-based performer who enjoys improvising, acting, writing, and striking up conversations with strangers. He has written and performed in Theatre VME's Night Slime, MTL Sketch Fest, and One Hit Wonders' Sloppy Sunday sketch shows. When he's not on stage, he's probably eating or sleeping. Moment Theatre Collective's "One Acts Now" is Jack's first time performing in theatre, and he thanks you for coming out to support the show.

Mike Yu (actor)

Mike likes to deconstruct things and then put them back together. He thinks that p-values get a bad rap for what's the fault of alpha levels and the whole mythos surrounding NHST in general. He writes evasive bios, since he genuinely doesn't like to talk about himself — and also genuinely feels that a lot of the foundations of empirical research, while they served their purpose, need to be revisited. In addition to deconstructing the holdovers of our late 20th century scientific method, he also enjoys figuring out how things like movies and television shows, theater, music, and improv comedy work so that he can attempt to reconfigure them in fun new ways. His success rate is middling. He also deconstructs furniture. His success rate is low.

Olivia Peet (director, playwright, actor)

Olivia has never done this before. Well, she's written songs for nearly 20 years. She also writes copy every day in her role as a Creative Director in advertising. Olivia did go to theatre camp and had a brief stint as an acting major in college. And making people laugh has always been her primary passion in life, be it through improv or trying to make the dental office administrator like her. But FLOPS is the first time she's ever written, starred in, and directed a full-blown play, and she can't wait to share it with you. Olivia wants to thank Eliazer Kramer, who composed the score for FLOPS and is the only reason you're seeing it today. She also wants to thank her friends and family who have believed in her since day one, including Walid Alhindi who helped design the logo for FLOPS. And finally, her amazing husband Will, who has heard this show on a loop for months and hasn't complained once. She loves you very much.

Pamela Balint (actor)

Pamela has been performing fairytale plays in family living rooms since the 90's. As a child, she enjoyed making people laugh, and discovered the stage was the place she loved to be the most. She has studied and performed from coast to coast, making her festival debut as "The Toilet Girl"; winning Best Comedian at the NBTA drama festival. With a preference for playing outlandish characters, she performed as a tap-dancing Humpty Dumpty in her high school's rendition of Alice Through the Looking Glass. Since then, her passion for acting led her to pursue improv and sketch comedy at The Second City, The Improv Centre, Mile End Improv and Impro Montreal.

Max King (actor)

Max is an improviser, writer, and musician. From Edmonton, he has performed in Toronto, Montreal and even (once) in Los Angeles. Based in Montreal, he contributes to the comedy community through performance, producing, and coaching. As a prolific project starter (and seldom project finisher), he combines comedy, science fiction, and music in whatever way he can.

Chelsea Cuffy (actor)

Chelsea Cuffy is a Montreal-based performer who has been performing improv and sketch comedy since 2023. With her awkward offstage demeanor, she is best recognized for confidently misusing words until eventually corrected. She currently performs with the troupes One Hit Wonders and Dial Up Internet at vicarious venues across the city.

Christian Henegan-Comeau (actor)

Christian (no relation) is a Montreal based artist, producer, and performer who blends music, theatre, and improvisation into work that feels alive and unpredictable. A vocalist and multi instrumentalist, he has performed across Canada from cozy front porches to crowded Jazzfests, bringing big energy and sharp comedic timing to every stage. His style is fun, quirky, and rooted in slice of life comedy. He leans into awkward pauses and honest observations, treating performance as a shared experience. As a producer and director, he creates shows that blur the line between concert and comedy, weaving narrative driven sets with playful audience interaction that make people laugh, feel seen, and leave buzzing.

Kate Conti (actor)

Kate Conti hails from the state of Florida, having earned Canadian permanent residency in July 2025 after many trials and tribulations, fueled by her love of the artistic community fostered in the wonderfully diverse city of Montréal. Kate's day job is as a construction lady boss maintaining and building semi-nude artistic photography studios (no, really, this is a real job) across North America while being headquartered in Montréal. Kate has been improvising since her elementary-age summer camp days, through college, and now as an almost-thirty-something, with stops along the way in opera chorus, musical theatre, and a whole lot of church singing.

Danielle Davidson (director)

Danielle is a performing artist, director and producer, working primarily in experimental and collaborative improvised dance and theatre forms. She has worked as an arts administrator, educator, consultant, choreographer, performer, producer and director in the performing arts industry for over 20 years, including at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, AS220, Doppelgänger Dance Collective, Opera Ontario and Bridge Repertory Theater. Danielle teaches workshops, classes and laboratories throughout North America in movement and performance practices, and regularly at several local institutions, including Mile End Improv, House of Actors, and Impro Montréal. She is the administrative assistant at Variations Mile End & Mile End Improv / Theatre VME.

Jordan Marini (playwright, actor)

Jordan is a local Montreal actor, writer, and two time children's book author. He grew up acting in school plays which eventually evolved into a focus on improv for a number of years. He also studied in Toronto before making his way back home to grow his career in Montreal's thriving arts scene. His work is inspired by the world and people around him with a focus on telling simple human stories in a fun and sometimes whimsical way. His favorite genres are horror, comedy, and adventure (not always in that order) and he hopes to bring his stories to a screen or theatre near you sometime soon! In his free time you can catch him on a hike, staring into his dog's eyes, or making pasta like his ancestors taught him.

Monika Schneider (actor)

Monika Schneider is a Canadian actor, improviser, and instructor based in Montreal. She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) with a B.F.A. in Acting and was awarded outstanding actress in her graduating class. After writing and touring her one woman show Nevil, she moved to New York City where she performed in a variety of plays including another one woman show at the acclaimed theatre P.S. 122. Her most recent acting credits include a lead role in the short film I Used To Live There directed by Ryan McKenna which screened at a number of festivals including Locarno, The Toronto International Film Festival, and Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. Monika is heavily involved in the improv community, performing regularly at Theatre VME and Montreal Improv. She has performed in several productions including Kevin McDonald does improv with the best of MTL, Films in Focus, and Shakespeare with a Vengeance. Past festivals include OFF JFL/Zoofest, Ladyfest, MPROV, Hartford, and the Big Pond Improv Festival. Monika also enjoys voice over work and has worked on a variety of projects including voicing various characters for video games, audio books, and radio.

Jessica Halpern (director)

Jessica Halpern is a passionate theatre artist and director from Toronto and is now based in Montreal. She is currently halfway through her undergraduate degree in Acting for the Theatre at Concordia University, where she has been in studio shows — Olga in Chekov's The Three Sisters — and Mainstage productions where she performed as Greenhouse in Concord Floral. She is now taking the world of direction by storm, making her directorial debut through Little Bird in last summer's Fringe production of Do Actors Dream of Psycho Pigs?. Her next steps are completing the Director's Process Workshop at the Segal Centre, performing in her second Concordia Mainstage — Don't Cry When Constellations Beg To Burn — and continuing to write, direct and act for her theatre company.

Olga R. Tsoncheva (playwright)

Olga R. Tsoncheva is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Montreal. Her work tends to center on nostalgia and resentment, but she also has a soft spot for sex and pop music. She writes and performs under a variety of pseudonyms.

Caitie Parsons (actor)

Caitie Parsons is excited to be back on stage this year after a long time away! She has a BFA in Theatre and Development and many years of experience performing and teaching acting, as well as an MA in Drama Therapy and an MHSc in Speech-Language Pathology. She currently works in private practice as a counsellor and speech-language therapist, supporting individuals of all ages.

Colin Nash (actor)

Colin Nash is a multidisciplinary creator who blends the performing arts with organizational leadership. He spent more than a decade as a professional actor in Toronto's film, television, and theater scenes. After leading high-growth teams in the startup world, Colin founded Moment Theatre Collective to bring these two worlds together. He focuses on creating a structured, experimental environment for Montreal artists.

Carolina Muñoz Jasa (director)

Carolina is a theatre artist who has worked across the field as both an actor and director. She's drawn to collaborative processes, character-driven work, and the messy, exciting stages of developing new pieces. She loves being in a rehearsal room where ideas can be tested, challenged, and sharpened. She's thrilled to be part of this new festival and to support other artists as they shape their work. When she's not directing or acting, Carolina enjoys producing shows, performing improv, and writing sketch comedy.

Emma Elizabeth (playwright, actor)

Emma Elizabeth is a Queer Montreal-based actor and writer originally from the UK. She holds a degree in Drama and Creative Writing from St Mary's University, London, where she focused primarily on screenwriting. Emma has worked across both theatre and television and recently completed a sold-out run of Lesbian Wilderness Retreat from Hell at Cabaret Lion d'Or in Montreal. The Final Boarding Call marks her first stage play as a writer. Emma is passionate about bold, character-driven storytelling and increasing representation for underrepresented voices. As both a performer and writer, she loves collaborating with artists to create work that is provocative, emotional, and a little bit dangerous.

Alex Sweeney (actor)

A bilingual actor from Montreal, Alex always had a profound interest in storytelling. His curiosity about the process of movie making lead him watching a lot of bonus features on most of the movies he would purchase. He found out early on about acting and instantly knew that's what he wanted to do. He did some background work as a teenager and for a while, decided to learn more about the work that goes on behind the camera. Then, he decided to fully commit to what he really wants to do. Over the years, he trained in both Montreal (Straeon Acting Studios, House Of Actors, Gannon Performance Studio and ISA) and is a graduate of Vancouver Acting School. Now an Actra member, with a decade of experience and training, Alex has been in independent and short films, commercials and plays.

Carolina Muñoz Jasa (director)

Carolina is a theatre artist who has worked across the field as both an actor and director. She's drawn to collaborative processes, character-driven work, and the messy, exciting stages of developing new pieces. She loves being in a rehearsal room where ideas can be tested, challenged, and sharpened. She's thrilled to be part of this new festival and to support other artists as they shape their work. When she's not directing or acting, Carolina enjoys producing shows, performing improv, and writing sketch comedy.

Pamela Balint (playwright, actor)

From her very first experience on stage, Pamela has been dedicated to the marathon experience of what it means to be an actor. She has been to film school, performed in plays and musicals, and worked alongside some legends in film and television. Her focus for the past few years has been improv and sketch comedy. The One Acts Now play festival will be her first time performing an original piece, and she is honoured to share it with you. Brink has been a collaborative process, and she wants to thank the team for their support in bringing it to life.

Thomas Victorio (actor)

Thomas is based in Montreal, Canada. He previously lived in Paris and started his acting training at the NYFA (New York Film Academy). It was followed by a four year study at the BAW (Bilingual Acting Workshop). He also had the rare opportunity of being taught by Joanne Baron and DW Brown for two seasons. While living in Paris he landed the part of a pilot in an episode of America: The Story of Us directed by Renny Bartlett. He was also the lead in the short-films Spy Dreams and A Sacred Gift: The Making of a Short Film. Now living in Montreal, he continues his training at Montreal Improv Theatre where he was also a regular performer in a House Team. He was a cast member of the show Make It a Musical at the Montreal Fringe Festival where the production adapted and improvised a musical theatre piece from movies which are not musicals.

Heidi Hawkins (director, actor)

Heidi Hawkins is a Montreal-based theatre director and actor with a passion for character-driven storytelling. A graduate of John Abbott's Professional Theatre Program, her directing credits include A Love Unbecoming (Montreal Fringe Festival Patron's Pick Award, Marsh Street Centre, and Lakeshore Players), The Game's Afoot (Hudson Village Theatre), The Real Inspector Hound (Marsh Street Centre and Lakeshore Players), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (McGill Players Theatre, Nani Tanifa), Let's Start a Country! (Montreal Fringe Festival and Tillotson Center, nominated for Just For Laughs Best Comedy, and Cirque Du Soleil Best Original Production) and Hot Pink (Montreal Fringe Festival, Mainline's Next Stage Award runner-up). She also had the pleasure to assist in the direction of Hippies and Bolsheviks (Freestanding Space) and Cherry Docs (Theatre Ste-Catherine, Persephone Productions). With a strong background in both theatre and voice over, Heidi's favourite acting roles include Felicity in The Real Inspector Hound (Mainline Theatre), Celia in As You Like It (Mainline Theatre), Erika in SubUrbia (Monument National), and Jen in Sunday On The Rocks (White Raven). Heidi hopes to bring a collaborative, creative and performance-focused approach crafting work that's engaging, honest, and hopefully not boring.

Dan Jeannotte (playwright, actor)

Dan Jeannotte is an actor, improviser and writer. 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. His theatre credits include The Real Inspector Hound, Equus, Hedda Gabler, The Heretics of Bohemia, Cherry Docs and Dracula. He is the writer of the play A Love Unbecoming, which was directed by Heidi Hawkins for the 2025 Montreal Fringe, and won the Patron's Pick Award. Dan is also an alumni of the CFC Actors Conservatory. A Montreal native, he is a founding member of award-winning improv & sketch comedy troupe Uncalled For.

Robin Glance (actor)

Robin Glance is thrilled to have found her way back to the world of drama, having, until recently, last performed in her high school days. Robin realized that after years of perfecting the art of over-acting at Halloween parties and posting ridiculous character videos on her professional social media accounts, that she was ready to seek out a real stage. It did not take much urging from her dear friend and director Heidi Hawkins for Robin to find herself in the 2025 Hudson Village Theatre production of "The Game's Afoot", playing Agatha Wheeler. The experience had her hooked! Robin could not be more thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in Moment MTL one act play festival alongside the incredibly talented Heidi Hawkins and Dan Jeannotte. When off-stage, Robin Glance practices as an anti-diet dietitian, passionately helping clients heal their relationships with food. She is also a lover of cats and would stop mid-scene should one cross her path. Kindly hide your cats during the show.