David Agro-Director, ANDY
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 is his third collaboration with Shaw.
Deborah Shaw-Producer, MELISSA
Deborah has worked on numerous Toronto productions as an actor, stage manager and costumier, but creating and performing her own work has been a particular joy. She was a founding member of Carpe Dinero (commedia dell’arte), then launched into Belly dancing with Arabesque Academy, where she performed as one of the Arabesque Earthshakers. This led Deborah to create her own unique style of dance fusion in her show Raqs Macabre, for which she is the producer, writer, choreographer, costumier and dance artist. In 2022 Deborah performed her own one-actor drama, her., at the Red Sandcastle. Its story of a Holocaust survivor earned it 2nd place in that year’s Canadian Jewish Playwrighting Awards. This was followed by Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and now, LOVE LETTERS. The next project will be a production of one of Deborah’s new original scrips, currently in development.