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CHRISTIAN SMITH (Ensemble) [he/him] is an Actor, Writer, Sketch Comedian and Improviser from Toronto. Alumni of the Second City Mainstage and Co-Creator of the CBC Digital Comedy; Soul Decision Comedy. One half of YouTube darlings Christian & Nat and co-founder of channel Pulp Comedy. Christian is also half of the award winning sketch troupe Soul Decision whose performed all around North America and Europe including JFL, JFL42, Zoofest and more! Catch him on screen on the series Run The Burbs, 18-35, Alias Grace, Abroad, Workin’ Moms or True Dating Stories. He has a perfect daughter and that’s the coolest thing about him..

JACK MOSSHAMMER (Ensemble) [he/him]
I am Jack Mosshammer of the clan Mosshammer. I have walked many worlds, performing across the Second City stages of Toronto, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines, I played across the seven seas. I can be found in the silver glow of movies like Dick and Trust me, I’m a Doctor and flickering across TV screens in Train 48, The Boys, and Accused. Now at the Toronto Film School, I forge the next generation of chaos, teaching improvisation, sketch comedy, and song parody… and occasionally tweaking scenes about Labubus and 6/7

SHARJIL RASOOL (Ensemble) [he/him] is an actor, comedian and writer. He is an alumni of The Second City Toronto Mainstage and was featured in JFL42’s New Faces. You can catch him as Nikhil in Run the Burbs (CBC/Hulu), and hear his voice as Jasper in Piñata Smashlings (YTV) and Ajit in Bakugan: Battle Planet (Cartoon Network/Netflix). Other television credits include What We Do in the Shadows (FX), Adults (FX), Baroness von Sketch Show (CBC/IFC), SkyMed (CBC/Paramount+) and the upcoming series The Miniature Wife (Peacock). Sharjil has also written for This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC). He is a Dora Mavor Moore Award winner (Best Ensemble) for SwordPlay: A Play of Swords. Follow him on Instagram (@sharjilr

ELLIE POSADAS (Ensemble) [she/her] is a Filipinx-Canadian actor, singer, and creator from Scarborough, Ontario. A graduate of Randolph Academy’s Triple Threat Program, she is a co-creator and performer with the award-winning Tita Collective (2023 Patrons’ Pick & Second City Award – Toronto Fringe; 2022 BroadwayWorld Toronto Award; 2022 Just For Laughs Award – Montreal Sketchfest).Ellie’s film work includes Scarborough (TIFF 2021, Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee – Best Supporting Actress), Wexford Plaza (CAAMfest, Slamdance), The Morning After (Inside Out, Outfest LA), and Baby Blue Canoe (Toronto After Dark).Stage credits include Swipes Right, U Up? (Second City, Understudy), The Penelopiad (Hart

House), Emily and EV (Nota Collective), SILENCED (HERstory Counts), Avenue Q (The LOT), and Monsters By Nature (Kindling Collective).Ellie continues to develop new work that celebrates Filipinx identity, community, and storytelling through comedy and performance.

LIZZIE SONG (Ensemble) [she/they] is an actor, singer, dancer and director based in Toronto. She’s a proud member of sketch troupe Potato Potato who has performed at Spotlight at Second City, Toronto SketchFest, Montreal SketchFest and winners of the 2024 Sketch to the Death competition. Lizzie’s stoked to be back at Second City after being a Mainstage Understudy. Select credits include: I Was Unbecoming Then (Next Stage Festival), Playground (Toronto Fringe), Rooted: A Musical Poem (Blackman Productions/Toronto Fringe), Legally Blonde (Hart House), *Cell Block Tango: Reimagined (EveryBODY on Stage). Hi mom! @lizziesong_

LIZ JOHNSTON (Ensemble) [she/her] is an award winning improviser, actor, and producer. She is so happy to be joining the Second City Mainstage company! Liz has been a repertory member of the Bad Dog Theatre Company and the co-creator of the hit show, and Canadian Comedy Award nominated Entrances & Exits. She has also worked collaboratively to bring other hit shows to the stage including Roses & Thorns (Bad Dog Theatre), The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (Outside The March), Hookup (Bad Dog Theatre). On TV, you can catch her as a series regular on Nickelodeon’s Star Falls, or CMT’s Almost Genius, as well as on Murdoch Mysteries, CBC Comedy, and several commercials for snack food and eggs. IG: @lizjohnston12

MARK ANDRADA (Director) [he/him] is a Canadian Comedy Award–winning performer, director, and writer. He voices Amado the Eagle on PBS Kids’ Work It Out Wombats!, directed The Second City’s sold-out hit Improv Brunch, and if you like your comedy mean-spirited and riddled with air horns, he’s the DJ on CTV’s Roast Battle Canada. On stage, Mark originated Swan/Chief in the world premiere of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical, puppeteered with the Canadian Opera Company, clown with Canadian Stage, was in the pre-Broadway workshop of Jason Robert Brown’s Parade directed by Harold Prince, and headlined the Toronto International Circus Festival. Film/TV: Ghosts (CBS), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Odd Squad (PBS). One time, he designed the lights for Dinosaurs Unearthed! a touring animatronic dinosaur exhibit. Neat, huh?

SEANN MURRAY (Stage Manager) [he/him] is an improviser and stage manager from Fredericton, N.B., where he got his start with Theatre Free Radical. Selected SM credits include Second City’s If I could #Throwback Time, Laura Ramoso’s Sit Up Straight tour, Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus’ Scriptease, Ajahnis Charley’s Thots and Prayers and the Canadian Comedy Award winning The Adventures of Tom Shadow. Seann is also the Technical Director for Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, a member of Dora Award winning comedy company Sex T-Rex, and Dungeon Master of D&D Live! at Comedy Bar Bloor.

NICOLE BYBLOW (Music Director) [she/her] is a musical director and a lifelong pianist. Her favourite band is The Monkees and she loves to ride her bicycles. Performance highlights include COVID Zoom concerts for her sister’s kids, touring across Canada with Second City Works to play and visit the Grand Railway Hotels, and playing for Chris Hadfield’s Generator 2020 at Roy Thompson Hall. She once played two shows with a broken wrist immediately following a bike accident, and she hopes to one day be good enough to be a pianist in a silent movie theatre. Thank you for coming to the show. We will do our best.