ROSALIND SAUNDERS

I am Rosalind Saunders and my pronouns are she/her. I’m a Canadian actor, dancer, singer and musician in my final year of my Honours BA in Performing Arts at Atlantic Technological University in Sligo, Ireland. I completed an Advanced Diploma in Music Theatre Performance at St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2022. Despite my focus on musical theatre, I have also worked behind the scenes as a production assistant with Westben Arts Festival Theatre and I’m passionate about all the roles that continue to foster a thriving theatre community. I started playing the violin and trombone ten years ago now, and I love to get involved with community bands and orchestras. My most prominent artistic interest for my future is being as silly as possible, as I believe there is always a new way of doing things. I aspire to be involved in new work, and I have a particular interest in Shakespeare (these can go hand in hand, I promise!). I am returning to Canada and I am ready to make a splash in the contemporary theatre scene with my energy, playfulness and my open mind.

Sarah M C Kibbin

Yeats Academy of Arts, Design and Architecture

Sarah McKibbin is an emerging musical theatre performer originally from the small town of Kemptville, Ontario. She is a graduate of St Lawrence College’s Music Theatre Performance program, and recently earned a Bachelors of Performing Arts from Atlantic Technological University (formerly IT Sligo) in Sligo, Ireland.

She is a very versatile vocalist with 13 years of training ranging from classical arias to contemporary musical theatre, although she is particularly fond of anything folk, rock, or blues.

Sarah has had experience working on new Canadian musicals such as Going Under and Theory of Relativity (David Connolly, Heather Braaten); creating and devising the original piece Manifest: A Collective Creation (Heather Braaten) – for which she helped write & arrange original music – and reimagining the Sondheim revue Marry Me A Little (Liz Gilroy) for a post-pandemic world. She also has experience in the creation and management of a production company (Phoenix Productions) along with her peers at St. Lawrence. Together, they wrote, developed, staged and starred in the new musical Under The Fig Tree, a contemporary folk musical based on Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar.

Sarah is eager to continue developing her skills as a young musician and artist, and she is excited to take part in new and imaginative projects as her career progresses.