Cast
Catarina Ciccone as Olivia
Catarina Ciccone brings life to the stage while captivating audiences with her innate ability to engage and entertain.
A quadruple threat, Catarina is in high demand as an actor, singer, dancer & traditional tin whistle player. She has performed throughout Canada in theatre, film/tv, commercial and voice-over.
Catarina is a graduate of St. Lawrence College’s Music Theatre Program, where she studied under Forrest McClendon, Donna Garner, Ian Simpson, Rob Torr, Patrick Burwell, Chad McNamara, and Janet Venn-Jackson.
Catarina’s favourite credits include Jules in the North American Premier of Bend It Like Beckham (Starvox), Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls (Port Hope Festival), Oz in We Will Rock You (Starvox), and Shelley in Hairspray (Drayton). She can also be heard as the voice of Me- Ouch on Nickelodeon’s Massive Monster Mayhem. Recently, Catarina took part in Garner Theatre Production’s inaugural actor/muso workshop of A Man of No Importance where she played the tin whistle, autoharp and flute.
Catarina’s passion for the performing arts is infectious, and she in demand as an instructor. Catarina leads group and private classes in voice, piano, dance and audition prep to students of all ages and levels in the GTA.
Bó Bárdos as Lillith
Hungarian-born mezzo Margaret [Bó] Bárdos is based in Southern Ontario and loves touring. At home with classical as well as new, experimental music, Bó seeks out creative challenges and cherishes working with good hearted people.
With a voice described by Opera Canada as "mellow, fruity, that caresses the ears", appearances include interdisciplinary collaborative and site-specific projects that make use of her varied training: from Butoh dance and physical theatre to extended vocal technique and improvisation.
Recent and upcoming highlights include contributing to Polaris Prize Winner Tanya Tagaq's second album and the soundtrack to the recent hit movie The Witch, several oratorios including her favourite Mozart's Requiem with various choirs, orchestras and concert series throughout Ontario, interdisciplinary new work development with Inter Arts Matrix, workshop performances of new projects at IMPACT19 and at CAMINOS, the world premiere of Two Odysseys, two indigenous-language operas for Soundstreams, taking the theatre pieces The Last 15 Seconds and Amal with MT Space to the prestigious Carthage International Theatre Festival and the National Theatre of Tunisia, as well as touring the ground breaking show featuring the world premiere of Claude Vivier's Musik für das Ende to Europe with Soundstreams in 2020 and again in 2021. Bó continues as a grateful member of the studio of Tom Schilling and continues an association with the department of Music and the Mind and LiveLab at McMaster University in Hamilton, NUMUS, Inter Arts Matrix and MT Space in Kitchener, and the Mother Courage Collective in Stratford.
Taryn Wichenko as Daisy
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taryn Wichenko is a graduate of the Bachelor of Music Honors Performance (Voice) program at Western University.
Selected credits: Josie Pye u/s Anne in Anne of Green Gables (The Lower Ossington Theatre), Velma Kelly in Chicago, Elizabeth in If/Then (Theatre Western) Mary Lane in Reefer Madness (King’s Players) and Flora in The Turn of the Screw (UWO Opera).
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taryn Wichenko is a graduate of the Bachelor of Music Honors Performance (Voice) program at Western University.
Selected credits: Josie Pye u/s Anne in Anne of Green Gables (The Lower Ossington Theatre), Velma Kelly in Chicago, Elizabeth in If/Then (Theatre Western) Mary Lane in Reefer Madness (King’s Players) and Flora in The Turn of the Screw (UWO Opera).
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taryn Wichenko is a graduate of the Bachelor of Music Honors Performance (Voice) program at Western University.
Selected credits: Josie Pye u/s Anne in Anne of Green Gables (The Lower Ossington Theatre), Velma Kelly in Chicago, Elizabeth in If/Then (Theatre Western) Mary Lane in Reefer Madness (King’s Players) and Flora in The Turn of the Screw (UWO Opera).