The Company

Natasha Pedros is co-founder of Suitcase in Point Theatre Company. She’s a performer, a collaborator, and a designer. She’s performed in nearly all of SIP’s cabarets and main stage productions and she recently co-directed a remount of Paris La Nuit by founding member of the Niagara Artists Centre, Dennis Tourbin. Natasha has worked at the Niagara Artists Centre since 2005 where she coordinates, promotes, and helps determine NAC’s full slate of exhibits and programs. In 1989 she co-founded KIM MITCHELL, a two person acapella Kim Mitchell tribute band, with her best friend Becki Stacey and toured the show throughout Wellington Street Public School for a week.

Pegged as the breakout star of Suitcase In Point from its inception, Brian shone brighter than any other member of the company. Unfortunately his star burned out quickly leaving Brian to wander the wilderness alone for many-a-year armed with only a dream and bottle of whiskey at his side. Humility brought Brian back down to earth and into the open arms of his Suitcase In Point family. Since his return, he has been an active participant in SIP’s Cabaret’s on the stage and on the page being a main contributor in the writer’s room. Brian has also appeared on  London’s (Ontario) West End in his one man show “Fight! Live! Love! Cry! Fight! Wait, Already Said Fight…” which has the dubious honour of closing on opening night just ten minutes after the curtain came up. What’s next for Brian? He’s going to go for that second piece of Apple Pie.

Cole Lewis is a director and theatre-maker who hails from southern Ontario. She is a graduate of Brock University’s theatre program, attended the National Theatre School of Canada and is a graduate of Yale School of Drama’s MFA in Directing. Cole is a founding member of St. Catharines’ award-winning Suitcase In Point Theatre Company (SIP), a group of like-minded artists who strive to engage and excite through collaborative play development.

As an artistic associate of SIP for ten years, she worked on 23 original cabarets and directed six original productions, including BeWearing Wolf at Harbourfront Hatch Festival, Emily Chesley at SummerWorks Festival, and The Keith Richards One Woman Show at Fixt Point in Toronto. She also directed Ministry of Love, an original adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 for Theatre Rien Pantoute in Edmonton, Alberta. In Calgary, she worked as an ensemble member at Theatre Junction, where she performed in Archaeology and assisted Artistic Director Mark Lawes throughout the season. Her production of Antigonick by Anne Carson won her the Theatre Centre Emerging Artist Award at SummerWorks Performance Festival in 2014. Other credits include And All for Love (assistant director, National Arts Centre of Canada); the world premiere of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses(assistant director, Yale Repertory Theatre); The Visit by Caryl Churchill, Mexico Play (A Farmer’s Almanac) by Kate Tarker, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama); Marius von Mayenburg’s The Ugly One (Yale Cabaret), Ain’t Gonna Make It (Ars Nova AntFest in NYC) and Moderato Cantabile (SummerWorks Performance Festival). She also works as an Assistant Professor in Theatre at Simon Fraser’s School for Contemporary Arts.

Alexandra Brown is co-founder and the first artistic director of Suitcase in Point. Back in the day, she brought her passion to building the foundation of SIP with her amazing collaborators and friends. Currently she is the administrative director enjoying the many responsibilities of being a part SIP’s programs and accomplishments as a local, cornerstone performing arts organization. You can catch her performing at Comedy nights or in Cabarets… her appetite for participating in the comic genius of the SIP ensemble never wanes. Laughter is by far her best medicine. She is formerly owner of Pan Café and a passionate cooker of local foods.Alex is the mother of two beautiful children and currently a blossoming psychotherapist. Her friends call her Al.

Rebecca returned to the Niagara Region, after a long stint in Montreal attending Concordia University for Fine Arts, and brought home a deep appreciation for the arts and their value and impact on individuals, families and communities. She has spent decades working in many aspects of professional theatre including at the Membership Services at Shaw Festival, in Donor Relations and Development and she is actively involved in the Niagara theatre and art scene working and volunteering for: Strutt Wearable Art Show, Niagara Artists Centre, Culture Days, Niagara Night of Art and Carousel Players, to name a few. She is a very proud mama to her 20 year old daughter, (a talented Toronto Actor), and her a 15 year old son, (punk rocker extraordinaire).