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Trevor Copp (he/him), Artistic Director
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Trevor Copp founded Tottering Biped Theatre (TBT) in 2009, known for its commitment to original, issue-driven, and intensely physical theatrical work - totteringbiped.ca . As a multifaceted theatre professional with over 20 years of experience, Trevor’s expertise spans acting, dance, directing, choreography, education, and arts advocacy. His dynamic career has taken him across classical and contemporary stages across Canada and in more than 40 cities worldwide.
Text-based acting credits include Will Eno’s Thom Pain, Panych’s The Ends of the Earth (TBT), Shakespeare's Pericles (Oakville Fest. of Classics), Chelsea's Story (MT Space), and the Canadian professional premier of Metamorphosis (Theatre & Company). He was a resident artist with Theatre & Company, MT Space Theatre, and Motus O Dance Theatre. Trevor also founded the popular 'Shakespeare by Nature' series in 2016 which performs Shakespearean theatre each summer in Hamilton, ON.
As a devised theatre co-creator Trevor performed in TBT’s First Dance, The Second Life, Searching for Marceau, and Bulfinch's Mythology and MT Space’s The Last 15 Seconds, Body 13, and Amal. These 7 shows performed multiple times at the Theatre Passe Muraille, Grand Theatre, Firehall Theatre and Theatre Aquarius TA2 seasons; the IMPACT (x5), Magnetic North, Rutas, Prismatic, Undercurrents, In the Soil, Springworks, and Canoe Festivals; National tours, and tours of the Middle East, Northern Africa, Eastern and Western Europe.
Trevor is also a former Latin/Ballroom Dance competitor and has coached Canada’s 2 sets of World Amateur Salsa Champions. He co-invented a gender-neutral form of partner dancing whose TED.com talk has garnered 800,000 views/international speaking engagements.
He went from streetbuskering to professional Mime, creating/touring his solo shows which have performed to over 40,000 audience members. He has taught/coached physical Theatre for The Shaw Festival, CanStage/Studio 180, Theatre Beyond Words, Pat the Dog Playwright Centre, Zacada Circus, Irish Classical Theater, The Iberoamerican Festival in Bogota, and the 6 University Theatre Departments.
He has been recognized with the Hamilton Theatre Artist of the Year, Burlington Artist of the Year, the Ontario Presenters Artist of the Year, a Paula Award, and a Chalmer’s Fellowship Award. His work has been featured in the Canadian Theatre Review, TED.com, CBC, Dance International, and the Dance Current. Trevor's practice as an artist is captured here.
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Alma Sarai (she/her), Associate Artistic Director/Manager of Summer Shakespeare Series
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Alma is an artist and arts advocate from Burlington, ON and a proud graduate from the Theatre and Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto-Mississauga joint program with Sheridan College. With roots in Hamilton, Alma has sung with the Hamilton Children's Choir, performed and taught at Theatre Aquarius' various programmes, and danced since the tender age of 3. She is currently an actor and Associate Producer with Tottering Biped Theatre, an actor with 'It's a Mystery to Me,' and has gone international with TLV's "Escape Show" facilitating online escape rooms. Alma also works with various other local education programs, helping to promote youth education and development through the arts.
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With Tottering Biped Theatre, Alma is the Associate Producer and has played in every "Shakespeare by Nature" since its conception in 2016. Credits with TBT include Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Malvolia in Twelfth Night, Trinculo/Gonzalo in The Tempest and Phebe/Celia/Silvius in As She Likes It. For the Summer Shakespeare Project she has been the Executive Director since 2020.
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Other credits include Canadian Screen Award Winner “Patty vs. Patty,” Acting ensemble in the COC’s “The Cunning Little Vixen,” and Sandy the Starfish in “Finny the Shark.”
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Lee Shirk, Accountant
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'Money makes the world go 'round....'
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TBT's Board
Colin Umbach, President
‘I disregard you entirely and declare myself emperor’ – from ‘The Insect Play’
Henny Hamilton, Vice President
‘Common sense is not so common.’ – Voltaire
Adrial Fitzgerald, Board Member
‘They should have never let me use the alphabet.’ - Will Eno, Tragedy: A Tragedy
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Alma Sarai, Board Member
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'Okay, That's- that's me. Call me, we can talk more about it.' -Michael Cera
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Rebecca Durance Hine, Board Member
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'We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering.' - Mystery Men
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