Vanessa Johnson - Viv, rabbit, child, nun

Vanessa is a third year theatre major at Concordia University. Her most recent roles include The Referee in Never Swim Alone as part of Renegade's Y Connection, Chorus Member in Scenes from Sophocles, and Sleeping Beauty in Fairly Stale: A Story Unbound at the Liverpool International Theatre Festival. This is her first time participating in the Fringe Festival and looks forward to the experience immensely.

Brandon Finegold - Man, seagull

Brandon comes from a lenghty lineage of non-actors, and has long wished to avoid continuing such a pattern by straying from the herd, hence his presence in No Cycle. This is his first show in the Montreal Fringe Festival and he is greatly looking forward to all the perks he has coming to him. He has most recently performed in Noel Coward's Private Lives at McGill's Players' Theatre and in Peter Shaeffer's Black Comedy with the University of Toronto's Hart House Drama Association. Prior to that he has acted and directed many a show including Albee's The American Dream, Nicky Silver's The Food Chain and a stage production of Clue which he adapted himself. He spends a lot of his "free" time working as a bookseller. When he is not involved in theatrical entities or chatting books with the locals, he studies the field of linguistics at Concordia University. The excitement in his life abruptly ceases after that. He is much looking forward to his performance in No Cycle.

Liesl Barrell - Dreamer, wife, mother, first woman

Liesl is very happy to have recently completed her McGill degree in Drama and Theatre. Originally South African, Liesl is a proud adopted Montrealer and is looking forward to participating in the Fringe again. The first time, back in 2001, she donned a toga and sang as an ethereal priestess in a musical adaptation of Plato’s Symposium… She promises not to subject her peers to her toga-sporting this year. Liesl recently directed Noel Coward’s Private Lives at Players’ Theatre and has performed in numerous roles, including a pantomime Cinderella, a cross-gendered false-mustachioed Laertes, a post-partum depressed/psychotic fifties housewife and an impossibly screechy Bride-to-be. Liesl will next be prancing onstage in Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth at Players’ Theatre (McGill) in September. She sings opera, she mixes mean cocktails and she dances badly. She’d like to thank the cast and crew for their diligence and, as always, long-suffering Kirk for his continued support. She’d also like to thank Prof. Carney for encouraging her throughout her last major project and her mother, for making a speech when Liesl was young that inspires her to this day. Finally, Liesl thinks she’s entitled to know where all the flowers have gone.

Derick Lengwenus - Christmas man, francophone man

It was January 2000 when Derick, sitting at his desk job, watched his computer crash for the seventh time that day and decided it was time for a career in Comedy. One year later, Derick landed a spot the 2001 Just for Laughs Festival. Since then, it’s been all uphill for him. Among Derick’s favourite things in life we find lemon pie, women’s hockey, long distance running, smoking, just joking. In 1998 Derick was disqualified from the Boston Marathon for false starting. According to race officials he tried to start the race half an hour before it began.

Okay, credits…I’d like to thank Mom, Dad, Jesus Fernandez, my mentor Ken Potter, you are the wind beneath my wings, Frank Nachos, you believed in me when no one else did, Jessie, Suzie, I love you both, my agent Karen, Brandon, Vanessa, Liesl, Sabina, where would I be without all of you, Tess Marco, Fran Nader, Jesus, Joshua “Juice” Rabinovitch, my best friend Trevor Kleinhippli, I hope I spelled that right, Pierre Lalonde, Laura Piniora, Jocelyne Theriault, your tattoo kills me, Jeb Hunter, Hank Dandiman, Coppertone ®, Barry Vegas, God, for looking the other way, Sol Freider, Laura Secord, Bobbi Joe, I like the way you tickle my elbow, Jerry Cant, Lisa Smechter, call me, James Murovic, I owe you $20 I haven’t forgotten, Halle Berry, for breaking your arm and getting a cast, I still haven’t signed it, Barb Bunker, Trip Trunker, Lake Ontario, my imaginary friend Beezer Tweezer, you were there that night when we set fire to the garage and you took the blame, the letter ‘E’, uppercase only, my AC adaptor, Harry Standjofski, Mona, Felicity, Sarah, Luna Balloona, Michelle, see ya soona, and of course the director Jana Van Geest, who was born in a barn stinking of tuna.

Sabina Sariyska - Her, Lily, 2nd woman, dying woman

Alright…Here it goes! Sabina will be entering her final semester at Concordia University as a Theatre/Psychology Major. Her most recent endeavor was adapting and directing Here Lies Henry, which was designed by Sarah Mansikka. This is Sabina’s initiation into the world of dance as a stage art! She loves every millisecond of this new experience!!! It is also her first time on a Fringe stage! Ah, so many firsts! This fall she will be appearing in Masque of the Red Death, directed by Robert Astle. What else?… Right now she’d rather stop here! Enjoy!