Seth Drabinsky is an actor and singer currently based in Toronto and a founding member of Breathe.Feel.Love. Seth has been performing Hedwig on and off over the last several years earning critical acclaim. His other theatre credits include And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens (Afterglow theatre), Loving The Stranger (Ecce Homo/Next Stage Festival ’12), Woody Allan’s play Death (art & lies productions), Pretty Little Instincts (SNAFU Dance/SummerWorks’11), Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie (TUTS); Henry Spofford in Lorelie, Ozzie in Irene, and Gigi (Applause!); Guys and Dolls (Gateway); Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream (The Banff Centre). Film: Alan’s Study (Ryerson Student Short). Seth also holds a Bachelors of Music from UBC.

L.A. Lopes is an actor currently residing in Toronto, ON. With a resume that includes characters such as Germaine Lauzon in Les Belles Soeurs, Maria Gonzalez in Smile, Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and heading the rock funk band Critical Overture, she is no stranger to the stage. L.A.'s introduction to theatre started with writing plays which led to her staring in them. Winning top prizes for writing, acting and directing for her debut play World Against Will and rave reviews for her fairy tale musical with a twist Once Upon a Happily Ever After, L.A. thrives on being the best at what she does. Thankfully with the great support system around her, she feels as though she's getting closer to that reality. L.A. is honoured and extremely excited to be apart of the Breath. Feel. Love. Arts Initiative.

Jeremy is a well-rounded active musician in Toronto and owner of Dunce Cap Management Inc. who regularly tours North America and Japan with various artists, including The Clicks (Tommy Boy/Warner), Junior Achiever (Engeneer Records, Trust Records), Ramona (Fixing a Hole Records), Ministry, Blackburner, Paul Di’Anna, Icarus Witch, John McDermott, DOA, and many others. As a driving force behind Breathe.Feel.Love, Jeremy is a founding member, drummer, and tour manager for the 2010 Canadian tour and 2011 Winnipeg Fringe production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Tim Lindsay graduated from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 2008 and chose to pursue a career in theatre. He studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music as well as sound engineering and production at Boston's Berklee College. In 2009, Tim interned at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival under its resident sound designer Peter McBoyle, working on "West Side Story", "Julius Caesar" and "Bartholomew Fair" (with composer Steven Page). He has since contributed sound designs and technical direction to independent theatre companies in and around the city.

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Marianne is a student in Ryerson Theatre School’s Performance Production program. Based in Toronto, she has been designing and building costumes since the age of 16. Past credits include assistant designer for Ecce Homo’s Loving the Stranger (workshop and SummerWorks), The Pastor Phelps Project (U of T Remount) and The Ecstasy of Mother Teresa (Summerworks 2009). She has also been the stage manager for BergArts’ Leer (Abrams Studio workshop) and Skinny Girl (Ryerson University’s New Voices Festival).

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EMILY BRIDLE: GUITAR & KEYS

Matthew Trotter is a resident of Toronto has been playing Bass Guitar for 18 years and involved in the music industry and touring extensively for 12 of those years with numerous live rock acts across North America. Regularly performing to sold out houses across the continent and recording an album with multi-platinum selling producer Sylvia Massy-Shivy (Tool, Powerman 5000), Matthew has still never lost his love of the indie scene. Matthew is a current member of Canadian power-pop trio "Ramona" (Fixing A Hole Records) and is also an accomplished fine art photographer whose works can be seen in galleries across the city.

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Alex Naylor is a lighting designer, production manager, and technical theatre administrator working and living in Toronto, currently acting as Scene Shop Co-ordinator for the Canadian Opera Company. Select lighting design credits include: Biome and|shift| (random acts of dance), Just East of Broadway (Fringe Toronto ’09/Next Stage ’10), and The Fire Raisers (Theatre@York).

Christopher Rouleau is a freelance graphic designer living in Toronto. A former set and costume designer, Christopher received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (in Drama) from the University of Calgary, and has been working in the arts & culture industry in various creative capacities for over 10 years. Some recent projects include: The Classical Theatre Project, The Shakespeare Company (Calgary, AB), Calgary Opera, Audio Ciné Films (Montréal), Toronto Star, University of Toronto, and Pride Toronto. Christopher's current focus is print design, brand development, custom typography & lettering.

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Mikah has been a Toronto, Canada based stylist for the last 25 years with his wig work being used in film/television, department store windows , on several local and international pageant stages, theatre stages and on the heads of men/women, dragqueens and crossdressers alike.

Devrim studied Jazz and various popular styles of guitar at GIT in California and earned his degree in Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He since has been a performer and session musician in the US, Canada and Europe. His live and studio credits include a wide range of singer/songwriters from Universal artist Keshia Chante, Canadian Idol winner Kalan Porter, Philosopher King frontman and Track & Field producer Jarvis Church and Hip Hop artists Saukrates (Nelly Furtado) and Redman and Sony artist Elise LeGrow. Devrim shared the bill with Sarah Harmer, Andy Kim, Sam Roberts, Ron Sexsmith, Simple Plan, The Sheepdogs, Our Lady Peace, Buck 65, Lights, Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Tim Robbins, Jann Arden, Shawn Desmond, Fefe Dobson and Platinum Blonde. He has worked with Juno award winning producer L Stu Young (Prince "Musicology") and platinum record producer Matt DeMatteo (Mobile, Big Wreck, Serena Ryder). His live TV appearances include Canadian Idol, Much Music, The Marilyn Denis Show, BT, Canada AM, ET Canada, CBC Sunday Morning, Recipe To Riches, a.o.

Sarah Burton is a Canadian independent touring and recording musician, who has been leaving tracks across North American for the last 5 years. Her career has seen her play NXNE, Canadian Music Week, Winterfolk, We Are Many Festival, Brandon Folk Festival, North Country Fair, and BC's Music on the Mountain, in addition to many live music venues across Canada and the US. She's enjoyed CBC and community radio play across North America, and rave reviews from tastemakers near and far.  Known for her guitar-slinging folk-rock originals, Sarah is also classically trained on the piano through the Royal Conservatory of Music. When she’s not performing, Sarah works as a professor of music business and entrepreneurship at Toronto’s Seneca College, in the Independent Music Production program. Sarah is excited to be returning to the cast of Hedwig right here in her hometown.

Stephen is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and academic. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he moved to Toronto at age 19 to attend the Randolph Academy of the Performing Arts. After receiving his Diploma in Musical Theatre, he completed a Bachelors of Arts from University of Toronto studying Dramatic Literature and Queer Theory. He won the Hart House Playwriting Competition in 2004 for his sexy and provocative short play Theatre of Desire. With the UC Follies at University of Toronto, he directed Nine (2007), and Cabaret (2008) at Hart House Theatre. While studying for his Masters in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin, he wrote, directed, and starred in a sold-out one-man show called Sex In Public: Or Lessons in NOT Looking For Love. Stephen is currently a PhD candidate in Theater Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.