Deborah Shaw-Producer, Performer, Writer
Deborah's experience includes numerous Toronto/GTA productions as an actor, stage manager and costumier. But creating and performing her own work has been a particular joy. She is a founding member of Carpe Dinero (commedia dell'arte) before moving into Bellydance, studying, teaching and performing with Arabesque Academy and Arabesque Earthshakers. This led Deborah to create her own unique style of dance fusion in her show Raqs Macabre, for which she was producer, writer, costumier and dance artist. Her first play, her. was produced at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival with a reprisal in 2023 at The Red Sandcastle Theatre. It's story of a Holocaust survivor living in 1954 Toronto, earned her second place in the 2023 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition. This was followed by Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2024 and 2025's Love Letters. The next production, opening May 2026, is another original play.
David Agro-Director, Performer
David’s professional debut performance was as Andrei Vukhov in the Canadian premiere of Judgement— Barry Collins’ harrowing full-length solo drama.
David continued to develop his acting and directing skills at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, where he had the immense good fortune of learning from many of his theatre heroes.
A diverse range of experiences in the Toronto area eventually brought him full circle with his latest projects—directing Deborah Shaw’s original one-actor drama, her. and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for zippysaidproductions, as well as performing his own one-person show, Bedrooms of the Nation. LOVE LETTERS was his third collaboration with Shaw.