Ross Manson:  Director 
The tireless, creative, performance-engine of Volcano Theatre.  He runs the internationally acclaimed company from a run-down office in the Distillery District with a full time staff of exactly 1.  Known to pick up French girls at parties in Edinburgh by talking about The Meech Lake Accord.  If anyone can make this project work, it is this eccentric and fiercely intelligent nationalist.

Michael Redhill:  Author
He’s written a few award-winning novels (including the Booker nominated Consolation) and can speak with authority on morality in a shrinking world but he is also in possession of a supremely filthy sense of humour.  After a few drinks see how long it takes him to convince everyone to take their pants off.

Tara Hughes:  Actor
Blond, vivacious, Albertan.  Farmgirl sensibilities with a diva heart.  Never known to back down from a fight, her tenacity can lead to drama in the rehearsal room.  And subsequent, teary apologies worthy of Sally Field.  A captivating actor who delivers.

Lili Francks:  Actor
Transplanted African-American.  Former dancer, bon vivante, and member of the Plains Cree nation.  This petite woman drinks, smokes and swears like a sailor. She’ll freeze you with a look and cut you down in an instant but is always ready with an infectious, ridiculous laugh.  Punishes herself severely in pursuit of excellence.  A beauty, a legend and a true eccentric.

Layne Coleman:  Actor
Prairie-lad-cum-theatrical-revolutionary.  He was around in the glory days of Toronto theatre, the seventies.  Back when they passed the long winters by taking acid and writing plays about Nazi swinger parties. Live sex shows, raids by the morality squad, artistic collectives, Rochdale.  You name it: he was there.  Recently lost his wife (novelist Carole Corbeil) to cancer after a long, terrifying battle.  Open-hearted and in love with creation.  A beautiful man wobbly with heartbreak. 

Amy Rutherford:  Actor
Of Swedish/English ancestry.  Gorgeous and ridiculous. A cross between Amy Sedaris and Julianne Moore.  She’ll bring three suitcases to Kigali, agonize over what boots to wear and then improvise a long – and completely engrossing – self-mockery worthy of Rowan Atkinson.

Jack Nicholsen:  Actor
An urban cowboy with a heart of gold.  Women go crazy for this guy and he has no idea.  A caring father, a devoted musician.  He runs – with his wife – a landmark cultural institute in Toronto: The Cameron House.  He’s open, sensitive, generous.  He embodies that true, rural Canadian quality of someone who listens to everyone for as long as they want to talk, and then gives a considered, humble response.   Wears a plaid shirt wherever he goes.

Gord Rand:  Lead Actor
Nervous, polite, eager to please and highly suspicious. The neuroses of Goodness’ main character comes easily.  Curious, good-looking, and intellectual (though not as smart as he thinks).  The only way to have a really good time with him is to get him drunk – which he is more than happy to do.  Then he loses his tightly held reserve, barks Shakespeare and airfucks a monkey.