Rick Miller trained in Montreal as an architect, actor and singer, and has performed in five languages on five continents. He is the host of ABC's hit primetime series "Just for Laughs" and Entertainment Weekly has called him "one of the 100 most creative people alive today". As the Artistic Director of WYRD Productions, he has created and performed the award-winning solo shows Art?, Slightly Bent, and the worldwide hit MacHomer. He has also co-created Into the Ring with Dawson Nichols, and 2 plays with Daniel Brooks, HARDSELL and Bigger Than Jesus, winner of 3 DORA awards in 2005 including Best Actor. Rick has worked with internationally renowned director Robert Lepage on such plays as La Géométrie des Miracles, Zulu Time (co-created with Peter Gabriel), the film Possible Worlds, and the new 9-hour play entitled Lipsynch. He lives in Toronto with his wife Stephanie Baptist and their daughters Vivian and Ellen.
He would like to dedicate this show to the memory of Christopher Paul Miller.
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Director, writer, actor, and producer, Daniel Brooks has won accolades and awards for such productions as Here Lies Henry, The Noam Chomsky Lectures, House, Insomnia and Faust. Among the awards he has won or been nominated for are the Dora Mavor Moore Award, the Chalmers Award, The Edinburgh Fringe First Award and the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. He is the recipient of the inaugural Elinor & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. He co-founded the Augusta Company, helped build da da kamera as an International touring company, was an Associate Artist at Buddies in Bad Times, an artist in residence at the Tarragon Theatre and has an on going association with Soulpepper Theatre. His work has toured across the country and around the world. Daniel was appointed the Artistic Director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company in January 2003.

Beth has worked as a Lighting, Set and Projection Designer, and Stage Manager in rock and roll, dance, theatre, and opera across Canada, the U.S., Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Career highlights include Stage Manager for Evita (NZ Tour); Asst. Lighting Designer for Geometry of Miracles (Robert Lepage/Ex Machina). Set & Projection Designer for The Backyardigans 1 & 2 (Koba/Nelvana); Set & Costumes for All The World (Geordie Prod.) and the opera Get Stuffed; Lighting Design for Spurt of Blood and Miinigoowezewin (Banff Arts Festival), Morwyn Brebner's Music For Contortionist (Tarragon/Shaw Festival), and the French language world premiere of I Am My Own Wife (Theatre du Rideau Vert). Upcoming Designs include Lighting the Canadian premiere of Yellowman, and the English Premiere of Madonna Painter; and full production designs of Assassins (Birdland) directed by Adam Brazier, and Yichud/Seclusion (H.Green Jewish Theatre). In addition to designing Slightly Bent, MacHomer, Into The Ring, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL for WYRD Productions, Beth tours with the productions and has been WYRD's resident Designer and Stage Manager since 1999. Her work on Bigger Than Jesus earned her (along with hubby Ben Chaisson) two 2005 Dora Award nominations and the 2005 Dora Award (Canada's Tony's) for 'Outstanding Lighting Design'. Beth was also nominated for a 2007 Dora Award for her lighting of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World. In addition to the many projects she is currently helping to create, Beth enjoys taking photos in lovely cities around the world, and is a published photographer.
www.bethkates.com

Ben Chaisson is the Head of Audio at the Premier Dance Theatre (PDT) in Toronto. For three seasons he was Head of Audio and Sound Design at Montreal's Centaur Theatre. During his time there he created original sound designs for over 15 productions including the Masque nominated Wit, and the Dora Award winning For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. A graduate of Dalhousie University, Ben trained at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he was the audio engineer for the world premiere opera Zurich 1916. Ben has worked for WYRD Productions since 1999, and designed the sound and video for Into the Ring and Bigger than Jesus. He is also currently creating his own new work, Onamatapoeia.