Here are a few highlights of where you’ll find Soulpepper Academy members and alumni making news.

Alexandra Lord (2018) is assisting Astrid Jansen with her design for Soulpepper’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange, directed by Djanet Sears.

Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster (2012) is working with the Paprika Festival as a training day facilitator and as an Associate Producer on Paprika’s Intersection Conference. She is involved in ongoing projects with The Howland Company, and in May will be in Public Recordings’ Other Jesus, a new play by Evan Webber directed by Frank Cox-O’Connell.

Frank Cox-O’Connell (2015) is performing in the Millennial Malcontent at the Tarragon Theatre, running March – April, and will be directing Other Jesus for Public Recordings.

Hailey Gillis (2015) and Peter Fernandes (2015) will be in The Musical Stage Company’s Onegin this May.

Ins Choi (2011) is head writer and co-show runner for CBC’s Kim’s Convenience TV show. Season two premieres September 2017.

Jennifer Villaverde (2008) is in YPT’s James and the Giant Peach, and will be at Soulpepper as Lead Instructor for the Soulpepper City Youth Academy, July 24 – Aug. 25.

Ken MacKenzie‘s (2011) set design can be seen on stage currently in Kim’s Convenience, and recently George Brown’s As You Like It and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Katherine Gauthier (2015) has been working on the web series Running With Violet.

Marcel Stewart (2018) will be performing this March in Brock University’s re-enactment of the August Wilson vs Robert Burstein debate as August Wilson.

Michelle Tracey (2018) is set designing for Crawlspace a Soulpepper Solo Series production, and assisting Academy graduace Lorenzo Savoini (2008) with the upcoming Cage. She is also designing the set and costumes for University of Toronto’s opera Imeneo, by Handel in the Macmillan Theatre, directed by Tim Albery.

Mikaela Davies (2015) is one of Canadian Stage’s 2017 RBC Emerging Artist in their Director Development Residency, developing her solo show Facebook Anonymous. She is also creating and directing Mars Interviews with Polly Phokeev, and will be at the Stratford Festival in The Changeling, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Timon of Athens.

Nicolas Billon‘s (2008) X-Company is in its third season on CBC. His adaptation of Treasure Island will be premiering at Stratford this season and the award-winning Butcher, directed by Weyni Mengesha (2008), returns to Toronto as part of the Mirvish season.

Qasim Khan (2012) has been workshopping new work with Theatre Passe Muraille, Studio 180, Common Boots and Soulpepper. Upcoming, Qasim will be at Stratford Festival in Timon of Athens, The Changeling, The Madwoman of Chaillot.

Producer and performer Sascha Cole‘s (2018) HROSES: Outrage à la raison is in Toronto at the Waterworks running February 22 – March 4.

Shannon Lea Doyle (2015) has designs up with The Company Theatre (John), upcoming design with Crow’s Theatre for Breath in Between, and both I’m Doing This for You and Vimy at Soulpepper.

Thomas McKechnie‘s (2015) 4 1/2 (ig)noble truths will be touring to Victoria this May for UNO Fest.

Weyni Mengesha‘s (2008) direction can be seen on stage now in remounts including Kim’s Convenience at Soulpepper, and Butcher at Mirvish. This spring she will be directing Martín Zimmerman’s Seven Spots from the Sun at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York.