Jill Frappier

For the past 37 years, Jill Frappier has performed in theatres across Canada, including The Bastion Victoria, The Citadel, Edmonton, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Theatre Aquarius, The Grand Theatre, London, Huron Country Playhouse, Grand Bend, The Centaur Theatre, Montreal, The Royal Alexander Theatre, and Canadian Stage in Toronto as well as the Stratford and Shaw Festivals.

She has played roles as varied as Actress/Lizzie in Sharon Pollack's Blood Relations, Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives and Lysistrata, the power mistress in George Bernard Shaw's The Applecart. Her latest favourite was playing Dottie in Noises Off at Theatre Aquarius.

Jill has guest starred in many TV series including Night Heat, Beyond Reality, Friday's Curse, Street Legal, Traders, TekWars, Hangin In, WH Adderley, Phoenix Team, and mini-series like Spearfield's Daughter, where she played Christopher Plummer's wife, Emma Cruise and Chasing Rainbows where she played Michael Riley's mom, Ruth Blane, and Anne of Green Gables, the Continuing Story and, most recently in Quebec, appeared in the mini-series Samuel et La Mere. Film credits include Gertrude in Strange Brew with Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas and the ditsy countess, Paulina, in Strauss Master of 3/4 Time in the composer series.

She is a well known voice on CBC radio plays. Her favourite was Lay Down with the Lion a six hour radio play by Jim Nichol about William Lion Mackenzie's life as seen from his wife, Isabelle's POV. Jill was Isabelle, and Neil Munro, "the Lion".  Director Bill Howell.

Jill has dubbed movies and cartoons in Montreal and Toronto (with Optimum Productions) for years. Her most famous role is Luna in Sailor Moon. She also dubbed Keroppi, the frog in Keroppi. Her most recent feature dub was Adeline in Jalna on Global. For the past few years Jill has enjoyed doing animation voice work too, particularly for Nelvana. You can hear her in Pippi Longstocking as Mrs. Prysellius, in Anatole as Doucette and Birdz as Miss Finch. One of her favourites was the voice of Little Mutt in ANIMAL SHELF, the beautiful claymation series for preschoolers.

Jill writes and performs her own stories for children in schools, libraries and theatres such as The Blyth Festival and Huron Country Playhouse. See Storyplaying for more information.

Jill has written over 7 plays for young audiences including: I Remember Roswell, Tweenie's Triumph, A Crack in the Concrete, Operation: Ella. These are available for performance at reasonable rates.

AKA PLAYERS, DRAGONTRAILS and Jill can be contacted via:

• e-mail:    info@dragontrailsdrama.com 
• Tel:         416.536.6553
• Fax:        416.536.4366

Casey Hudecki

Casey Hudecki is a graduate of the University College Drama Program at the University of Toronto. Her favourite roles include Clarice in The Servant of Two Masters (Scaramouche Theatre), Desdemona and Mercutio in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (AKA Players), Twin Dromios in A Comedy of Errors (UCDP Showcase), and Lady Macduff in Macbeth (Tempest Theatre). In film Casey has gone from an innocent babysitter in CTV’s mob drama Falcone, to a bloodsucking stunt vampire in i.e. Productions’ The Vampire Conspiracy. An Advanced Actor Combatant with Fight Directors Canada, Casey has had considerable training in dramatic combat. Casey is as comfortable slicing up her enemies with a smallsword, as she did as La Maupin (Fight Night, 2005), or slugging it out hand to hand, which she did in her debut as Nora Nutcracker in The Rude Mechanicals (Rapier-Wit) at this past Toronto Fringe.

Sandy Pool - teacher

Gareth Crew - lighting designer

Erin McKinnon - associate teacher

Shannon Donaldson - office manager