Originally from Ottawa, Jessica starting performing at an early age. Her formal training began at the Canterbury High School for the Performing Arts. She then went on to complete her Bachelor in Arts (majoring in theatre) at Ottawa University. Jessica co-ordinated a drama camp during her summers as well as directed multiple children's shows for Dream Makers Theatre. She moved to Vancouver in 2008 to further her training by attending Vancouver Film School, where she graduated with a diploma in Acting for Film and Television.

Some of her theatre credits include Carnelle in The Miss Firecracker Contest, God in Making Deals with Gods which won the Best in Venue award at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, and Jane in The Women.

Leah Gibson grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. She began dancing at the age of four, marking the beginning to her many years of training and performance in such dance forms as ballet, modern, contemporary/lyrical, jazz and broadway jazz. She discovered musical theatre through her early years of dancing and singing performance. In her graduating year, Leah transferred to a high school specializing in fine arts. Following graduation, Leah went on to the University of Victoria where she studied psychology.

Leah's first lead role on a feature film was starring opposite Daryl Hannah in The Cycle. Her career has grown exponentially since. She worked on Zack Snyder's Watchmen, was featured as a recurring character on the television series Caprica, appears in Twilight: Eclipse, A Night for Dying Tigers, and the soon to be released Rise of the Planet Apes

Leah represented the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television as chairperson and jury member for the 2011 Gemini Awards.

Cara trained at the Ryerson Theatre School acting program, the University of Victoria Theatre program, the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and YOY Drama outreach program for Playback Theatre. She has taught drama and acting for Peterborough Children's Theatre, Victoria Board of Education: Antiracism Workshop, Cook's Down Under: Theatre for Disadvantaged Youth, and Actor's Studio, Victoria. She is currently a senior instructr in Vancouver Film School's acting program.

Some of her recent credits include the Canadian independent feature film Everyone, and the lead role in the comedy Constant Wife with United Players in Vancouver. She also directed Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes, and performed in David Mamet's Oleanna.

Paul was born in Warsaw, Poland, and raised in Melbourne, Australia. Whilst completing his degree at Monash University in a completely unrelated field, he discovered acting after taking a workshop run by the university's theatre department. This inspired him to take his life in a different direction and in 2007 Paul moved to Vancouver where he attended Vancouver Film School graduating with a diploma in Acting for Film and Television.

Recent film and television credits include Callum Keith Rennie's Shattered, and a role in the Official Sundance Selection film by acclaimed Japanese director Shunji Iwai, Vampire.

Will was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His professional career started with a shot of the back of his head in I Love You Beth Cooper. From there he appeared in the Emmy-Nominated web series Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy. He then watched his friends blast off into space in the ABC/CTV/BBC series Defying Gravity. Will's latest series is CBC's Men With Brooms, based on the Paul Gross film of the same name. Will plays the dim-witted, but kind-hearted Curler, Matt.

Some of Will's recent theatre credits include Erwin in Strangelet, and Martin in Fool for Love.

Jerry grew up in New York and first got involved in theatre when he was cast in a college musical that went on a USO tour to Germany in 1966. He received graduate degrees in English from the University of Chicago and Cornell. He moved to Vancouver in 1972 to teach at UBC. His professional acting career grew in tandem with his teaching career at UBC. In the 1970s and 80s he worked with most of Vancouver's major theatre companies including the Arts Club, Playhouse, City Stage, Westcoast Actors, and New Play Centre. When Hollywood came north in the 1980s Jerry got involved in film and television. Since then has appeared in features such as Look Who's Talking, Alive, I Robot, and Watchmen, as well as lead and recurring roles in series such as The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Booker, M.A.N.T.I.S., Beggars & Choosers, Madison, and Mysterious Ways.

This year alone Jerry has appeared in the Arts Club production of The Graduate, in the feature film Everything & Everyone, and the Lifetime TV movie The Killing Game.

At UBC Jerry is Professor of English & Theatre and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film. He has won UBC's Killam Teaching Prize and the Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance and Development in the Visual and Creative Arts.

Widely regarded as one of Canada's top Casting Directors, Stuart has worked with such motion picture directors as Clint Eastwood, Ed Zwick, Francis Ford Copella and Jon Favreau. He was the recipient of an Emmy Nomination and a Casting Society of America Award for his work on the mini-series Traffic.

Stuart's roots however are in directing, having received an MFA in Directing from Temple University in Philadelphia. In the early 70's he worked for the CBC, where alongside the legendary Lloyd Richards of the O'Neill Foundation, he was tasked with creating a Training Course for Directors in Dramatic Television. He mostly recently directed a production of The Hobbit for Capilano University, where he also serves as a faculty member in their theatre department.