Ensemble
Stewart Arnott (From A Distance)
Stewart Arnott has been an actor and a director for over 40 years. As a director, favourite credits include Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine: 5 Dora Award nominations, 4 wins including Best Production and Direction); Bed and Breakfast (Lighthouse Festival); Risky Phil (YPT: 5 Dora nominations); Seminar (Royal MTC and Mirvish Productions); Title and Deed (Nightfall Theatrics/Tarragon Workspace); Tragedy: a tragedy (Summerworks); The Swearing Jar (Prairie Theatre Exchange) and Pobby and Dingan (YPT). As an actor, his recent credits include Room (The Grand Theatre); Hedda Noir (Theatre NorthWest); Waiting for Godot, Halaj and Stories from the Rains of Love and Death (Modern Times Theatre). Film and TV projects include The Shape of Water, Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Schitt's Creek, Murdoch Mysteries and Suits. Stewart is also a respected teacher and coach.
Susan Coyne (The Princess, From A Distance)
Susan is well known as both an actor and a writer. As an actor, she has played leading roles across Canada, including the Stratford Festival, the Tarragon Theatre, and Soulpepper Theatre, of which she is a founding member. She is the author of a bestselling memoir, Kingfisher Days which she also adapted for the Tarragon stage. She has also adapted plays by Turgenev and Chekhov for the Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival and Soulpepper. For television, she co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the award-winning series Slings and Arrows. She was a writer and producer on the Emmy-nominated Amazon series, Daisy Jones and the Six. She was an Executive Producer and writer on the CBC/Netflix/APTN comedy North of North. Her second feature film, Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones, will be released this fall.
Rena Polley (The Princess, From A Distance)
Rena is an actor, director, producer and teacher. She is the artistic director of The Chekhov Collective and has performed in The Chekhov Collective's The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night's Dream and I Take Your Hand In Mine …, which toured Washington D.C and recently in Kingston, Ontario. Rena has been involved for over 20 years with the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov (Anton’s nephew) and is a founding member of Michael Chekhov Canada. She sat on the board of The Michael Chekhov Association in NYC for 2 years and is part of the Michael Chekhov Studio Co-op of independent studios from around the world. She has also taught at George Brown College, the Canadian Film Center and teaches independently in Toronto and online to the international community. She will be performing in I Take Your Hand in Mine…. in Ottawa in June 2026.
David Storch (The Princess)
David is an actor, a director, and a teacher. He has worked on stages and taught in theatre schools across the country. The Princess is his sixth Page to Stage experience. This season he played Majnoun in Crow’s Theatre’s 15 Dogs at the NAC; he can be seen in Hudson & Rex and Law and Order, in Sonny Atkin’s short film The Session, and in the features Shook(Amar Wala), and In the Heart of the South(Nyla Inukshuk). David is a member of AACE, a visual artist (@verydavidstorch), and an award-winning pickleball player.
Helen Taylor (The Princess)
Helen Taylor, a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, is a Toronto theatre, television, film and voice actress. She has performed in theatres across Canada, including twelve seasons at the Shaw Festival and a season at Stratford. Favourite roles include Mary Ellen in Halfway There (Drayton Entertainment); Molly in Fire (Theatre Passe Muraille) and, for the Shaw Festival, Ms. Biddulph in Serious Money, and Lulu in Lulu. She loved playing the crusty Agnes on Season 3 of Reacher. She received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance of the alcoholic mother in Wrecked for Roseneath Theatre, which toured Toronto high schools.