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Emily Morwen is a native Torontonian who got her first taste of performing when she was 11 years old with the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus. She went on to graduate from Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC where she combined her forces with a few other graduates to form a theatre company, Unbound Theatre. While living in New York, Emily appeared in Under Milkwood (Kraine Theatre), The Green Stockings (Urban Stages), she was a featured soloist in Cabaret Nights (Triad Theatre), Twelfth Night (Circle in the Square). Emily also spent a season at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where she performed in Once in a Lifetime, Fancy, All That’s shiny, The King Stag, Renaissance, and Window. Some of Emily’s Toronto stages credits include: The Other Annie (Berkeley Street Theatre), Summer and Smoke (Alumnae Theatre), Wonkytalky (Tarragon Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Stage 324). Emily has spent the last year touring through the US and Toronto with her critically acclaimed solo-show, Spotless, that she both wrote and starred in.
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MELISSA MCNAMARA A native of a small town in Northeast Ohio, Melissa traveled to Toronto to study Acting and Collective Creations at York University’s Theatre Program. At York, she was co-creator for a total of 12 shows. She was chosen as one of twenty international theatre practitioners to study physical and political theatre with the Tony-Award winning company, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, culminating in a show, which she co-created and performed. She has studied extensively through the Second City Conservatory (Toronto), Upright Citizen’s Brigade (NYC), Annoyance (Chicago), Imatient Theatre Co (Toronto); is a member of The Canadian Comedy Company, and can be found performing regularly with the Impatient Theatre Company, Bad Dog Theatresports cast, and as one of the five ladies of District 38 Ladies Improv Auxillary. Past credits include: Tony ‘N Tina’s Wedding, at Toronto Second City; Theatre Blarney’s original farces, My Wife’s Husband Isn’t Me and Vino Loves Tomatoes; Picnic: A Clown Love Story; Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. Other training includes: Clown, Commedia dell’arte, Melodrama, and Viewpoints. Most recently, she directed the one-woman show, Spotless, which debuted at the 2006 Frigid Festival and received rave reviews in the Minneapolis and San Francisco (Best Female Drama) Fringe Festivals.
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