Amariah Faulkner is a Canadian actress, dancer, and singer raised in Barrie, Ontario. She takes pride in her curiosity, silliness, and versatility. Amariah has been featured in tv, film, voiceover, theatre, and motion capture, especially in media for young audiences. Highlights include Katerina Kittykat in Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, appearances in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and appearances at Mirvish, Musical Stage Company, and Neptune. Most recently you can hear Amariah in BYU’s new animated series Saving Me, and see her in Imran J. Khan’s recent film Mustache. She is excited to join the company of Pop! Pop! with Carousel Players. A recent graduate of Sheridan College, she is grateful to her many mentors in and outside of school. After graduation, Amariah has been continuing her work in film, voice over, and theater, recently received her basic FDC certification, and continues to write. Outside of her work, she enjoys bouldering, video games, and spending time with her family.

Michael Williamson is a Dora nominated performing artist from Port Perry, Ontario and graduate of George Brown College’s theatre program. Michael has recently returned from Saskatchewan where he played Galileo (We Will Rock You) for SaskExpress. Previously, he has spent time with the Guild Festival Theatre (Alice in Wonderland), and several seasons with Theatre on the Ridge where some of his roles included: Peter Pan (Peter Pan), Connor (The Valley), Jacob (Salt-Water Moon), and Jim (The Glass Menagerie). Michael also writes music for himself and stage productions; credits include: Wind in the Willows (Theatre on the Ridge) Munsch on the Moon (George Brown Theatre), and Monsters and Milfoil (Theatre on the Ridge).

Monica Dufault has been Artistic Director of Carousel Players since January 2018. Previously she performed with The Shaw Festival, The National Arts Centre, Theatre Aquarius, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and other companies across Canada. Shehas acted in many plays for young audiences and was nominated for a Dora Award for her performance in Where the Wild Things Are. Monica was the Artistic Director of Essential Collective Theatre from 2014 to 2018, where she directed twelve productions. For Carousel Players, she has created live and digital productions, including Tomson Highway’s The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito, whichtoured to Vancouver and Saskatoon in 2019. Ms. Dufault was selected as the Canadian delegate to the 2019 ASSITEJ Germany Directors in TYA Conference in Berlin, and is now a member of the board of ASSITEJ Canada. She holds a BA in Theatre, MA in Comparative Literatures and Arts, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Sara Allison is a St. Catharines based Stage Manager and Scenic Artist. Currently the Resident Stage Manager at Carousel Players, she is super excited to be working on Simone, Half and Half. Sara has stage managed over 10 productions with Carousel Players! Other credits for Carousel Players include; Tiny Treasures, Pop! Pop!, The Velveteen Rabbit, Meet Chloe, Mask Minis, HBD2Me, Lig & Bittle, Water Wonder, Whole World, Hare & Tortoise. Recent credits elsewhere: Jack & The Beanstalk, A Pack of Thieves, On The Air, The Real Sherlock Holmes, Sugar Road, Lunenburg, Fair & Square (Lighthouse Festival Theatre), Starwalker (Urban Ink Productions), This Is How We Got Here (Native Earth Performing Arts @ The Shaw Festival), East of Berlin (Essential Collective Theatre), Becoming Dr. Ruth (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Co.), Master Harold and the Boys (Obsidian Theatre Company) Dracula, Me and My Girl (Shaw Festival). Thank you to all my family and friends who continue to encourage me while I fulfill my theatre dreams.

Kim has worked as a writer, director and actor in Canadian theatre for over 40 years. From the fall of 1991 to the spring of 1996 Kim served as the Artistic Director of the Playwrights Theatre Centre (formerly The New Play Centre). During that time he restructured the organization to include playwright development, as well as producing new works; created the Vancouver New Play Festival, the Seedlings Projects, and over saw the merger of The New Play Centre and the Betty Lambert Society to become the Playwrights Theatre Centre. In September of 1999, he took over as Artistic Director of Carousel Players in Southern Ontario until 2006. He was a Theatre Officer at the Canada Council for the Arts from 2006 to 2012. He is currently Artistic Director of Presentation House Theatre (PHT) in North Vancouver. He has collaborated with theatre companies in England, the US., Japan, Mexico, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Quebec. He has been a guest lecturer and instructor at several major Universities in Canada and the US.

Kelly Wolf is a Theatre Maker, a Set and Costume designer and an Artist Educator who is interested in exploring ways that design can augment the theatrical experience. She has created designs for many theatres across Canada ranging from small independent companies to the major festivals. Other designs for Carousel include Hare and Tortoise and The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito Most recently designing The Team on the Hill at the Blyth Festival and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Brock University.  

Recent work has taken her into the realm of site specific theatre creation. With her Hamilton based company Open Heart Arts Theatre, Kelly has worked in collaboration to create new devised performances that ask questions about the society that we live in. Upcoming Conversations around the Table will take place as a part of the Theatre Aquarius New Voices Festival. It is the culmination of a two year investigation into the stories of those who have experienced homelessness.

Other recent designs include: A Christmas Carol (Grand Theatre) Pantalone’s Palace and Top Girls (Brock University) Waiting Room (Tarragon Theatre), Quiver (Nightwood, Theatre Aquarius Studio), Rukmini’s Gold (Toronto and Hamilton Fringe), Commercials for Hamilton (Hammer Theatre/Staircase), Sanctuary Song (Theatre Direct – NAC), The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh (Roseneath)The Old Man and the River (Theatre Direct) Queen for a Day – set (Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts), Midsummer Night’s Dream –costume (Citadel Theatre),Sound of Music – set (Drayton) and Between the Sheets (Nightwood).

Alexa Fraser is multi disciplinary artist from St.Catharines, Ontario. With a B.Des in Fashion Design from The Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University, 2006), Alexa has worked as a Technical Designer for Abercrombie and Fitch Co. in Columbus, Ohio (2006-2008), in the Tailoring Department at the Shaw Festival (2014 and 2015 seasons) and as the Head of Wardrobe for Carousel Players since 2015. Alexa has displayed textile and installation art in many solo and group exhibits, designs and sews costumes for theatre, makes and performs puppets and teaches textile and puppet making workshops. Recent selected costume design credits include A Vampire Story, Brock University DART Winter Mainstage production (2023), Jenny’s House of Joy (2023), Danny and Delilah (2023) and The Foursome (2022) with The Foster Festival, Mary Poppins Jr, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Nobody’s Children and Shrek Jr with Yellow Door Theatre Project (2022/2023), and Pop Pop (2021/2022, developed in partnership with Presentation House Theatre), Lig and Bittle (2020), The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito (2017/2019/2023) with Carousel Players. Recent puppetry credits include puppet design and creation for Cosmic Fishing Theatre Company’s Discover and SHADED (2022/2023), Yellow Door Theatre Project’s Nobody’s Children (2022), Carousel Player’s Pop Pop (2021/2022) and design and performance for Carousel Player’s Culture Days event, Drama Garden, 2022 (This event received Spotlight Recognition from Ontario Culture Days, receiving “Best In Person Program-Runner Up”) and for Concrete Cabaret’s Exquisite Collaboration (2021) and #7 A VERY SPECIAL Holiday SPECIAL (2020). Alexa has studied puppetry construction and performance with David Lane (founding member of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop) at the New England Puppetry Intensive, the Puppetmongers and CLUNK Puppet Lab at the Humber College Puppetry Intensive, with Frank Meschkuleit and Mike Petersen at the Toronto School of Puppetry, mask making with Michelle Jamieson at the Off the Wall school of theatre production in Stratford and online with Mark Down of Blind Summit Theatre (England) and Bernd Ogrodnik of World of Puppets (Iceland).  Alexa has taught the Carousel Players’ Puppet and Mask summer camp since 2021 and is looking forward to teaching Puppets at Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts this year, along with Wardrobe and Props.