David Anderson has worked in theatre for thirty-four years. He is the founding artistic director of Clay and Paper Theatre. He has performed and directed across Canada, in the USA, Europe, the Republic of Georgia and Russia.

His work has been informed by his desire to touch as wide a cross section of the population as possible. He has performed for no kings, popes, potentates or principalities. He has concentrated on developing forms suitable to public performance. Accordingly he has spent most of his time performing and producing theatre in non-traditional public spaces like parks, plazas and even on the streets. He has developed a style of narrative theatre using large-scale imagery and exaggerated gesture to bring simple and complex issues to the public. Most Clay and Paper productions are peopled by a mix of seasoned professionals and young theatre aficionados.

Joseph Romain is a strange character who has packed a lot into about fifty years. He has been the curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame, the author of dozens of books on many subjects (from Baseball to Marijuana), an award winning playwright, novelist, editor and poet, a reference librarian, a glazier, a ghost buster, and currently works as ‘practical theologian’, providing advice to governments on accommodations required by religious adherents. He owes his interest in Lilith to a burning curiosity about the roots of human archetypes and the practical ramifications of religious mythology.

Leah brings a wealth of experience to Clay and Paper Theatre as both a community artist and activist. In 2002, she graduated from York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, where she studied the revolutionary potential of creativity. In that same year she produced a zine entitled-“Making,” an exploration of revolutionary arts practices in Toronto. Leah has worked with such diverse groups as Earthroots, Kensington Carnival, and Voice of Women for Peace, Harbourfront Centre, PaperFire, the Spiral Garden, Zagadka Zoological Society and the Festival of Possibilities as a facilitator, administrator, fundraiser, designer and builder, mask maker and graphic designer. During the illegal occupation of Iraq, Leah co-founded an organization called “Puppets for Peace,” a collaborative street theatre project that involved Toronto puppeteers and others in creative, street level resistance to American imperialism.

From humble roots in church choirs and a music teacher named Bud, Chris Wilson learned to write for and lead jazz bands in high school. His love of music led him to earn his honors degree in music composition from the University of Toronto.Since then Chris has played jazz, punk, klezmer, calypso, country, reggae and Turkish music as a saxophonist, pianist and accordionist. He has also worked as a composer, arranger and bandleader. In the last ten years, Chris has worked as a musical director in theatre, with groups such as Shadowland, Clay and Paper, Swizzlestick, and LeThal Theatre Companies. He has written music as well for children’s plays and has worked on projects with Shadowland Theatre and Jumblies Theatre where he has taught songwriting and arranging to youth. Chris is the musical director of the Arithmix, a drum-and-horn band from the Toronto Islands. He currently works with Clay and Paper Theatre and has a private practice teaching musicianship to young and old alike. Chris leads, composes for and performs with “the Liquidaires” (a West Indian Jazz ensemble) and “the Jeremiahs” (an urban newgrass country band).

Mark Keetch brings a wealth of art and design knowledge to every project with an ability to visualize and realize ideas on an extraordinary scale. He also has an extensive background in carpentry and sculpture, which makes him well suited for theatre and especially puppetry. He has worked on many projects for Clay & Paper Theatre over the last six years including last summer’s over-the-top look at the insanity of war, The Sylliad, for which he designed some of the most outrageous staging outdoor theatre has ever seen.

Mark has also collaborated with Shadowland Theatre, Puppetmongers, Cardboard Heart and Red Pepper Spectacle among others and has founded his own puppet theatre called Zagadka Zoological Society.

Mark performed in the original version of Lilith in 1999, and sculpted many of the giant puppets that have become so well known in the intervening years. It just seems right that he should return to design and build all the new elements for this year’s show. Mark’s innovative approach brings Clay & Paper’s puppets to a whole new technological level, but alas; everything is still made out of paper, bamboo, rattan and fabric.

Fedora is new to the Clay and Paper Theatre, she is the front of house manager and administrator. Fedora has been studying performance art, installation, film and video art for the past five years and has attended Ryerson University and The Ontario College of Art and Design. She is very excited to be working with this community.

Lisa Pijuan is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Toronto. For the past 10 years her work has been presented in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Mexico and Ireland. She has created dance theatre pieces for fFIDA, Residance, Series 8:08 and Harbourfront festivals. When she is not performing, she is found carating the very popular RED: A Night of Live Performance which showcases an eclectic mix of dance, puppetry, theatre, spoken word, film and music. Her upcoming performances include her one woman puppet show, The Zoë Show, as part of the Groundswell Playwright Unit with Nightwood Theatre. She is tickled pink to be in Clay and Paper’s production of Lilith. Check her out online at www.girlcancreate.com .

Born in London, Ontario, bundled off to Vancouver at three days of age, and raised around the factories and farms of Kitchener, John Slavik inexplicably found himself at age 18 pretending to be a miner in Northwestern Ontario. Plumbing the depths of the earth, his soul and pretense, he took the logical leap into...Philosophy. It was whilst pretending to be an existentialist at Wilfrid Laurier University that Slavik finally realized he was acting. Since then, he has never looked back (nor forward, for that matter). Slavik joyously portrayed the hapless knight, Sir Gawain, in the Clay and Paper workshop production of Gold in the summer of 2001 and the full production of Gold in 2002, regardless - he says - of incurring every category of injury. Apart from Sir Gawain, Slavik’s other favourite roles have been the narrator in Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, Mr. Dussel in The Diary of Anne Frank, and the multiple character demands in The Story Chain. In 2003 Slavik returned to Clay and Paper to perform as Zeus and Hector in last year’s production of The Sylliad-My Big, Fat Greek War Story.

Karl Ang is an ex-paperboy, ex-law student, ex-waiter, ex-tree planter, ex-philosophy student, ex-receptionist for the Minister of Transportation, ex-toddler, ex-amateur pole vaulter, ex-model airplane enthusiast, and present theatre student at George Brown College. He hopes to put his keen expertise as a paperboy to good use with Clay and Paper theatre but remains sheepish as to his clay-handling duties. He would like to thank his parents, and the world at large for their forbearance.

David Fuhrman studies Drama at the University of Toronto. Although he is an avid actor, director and writer of community theatre, he also reserves time to explore his roots as a busker. You may remember him and his infamous yo-yo from such street corners as Queen and Spadina, or Yonge and Eglinton. His other areas of interest include physics, Kanji, objectifying everything and eating muffins.

Minh is currently a student at Studio 58 in Vancouver. He is back in Toronto for the summer and is more than happy to be working with Clay and Paper on Lilith. He last performed in Meeting Place- part of the line up in Summerworks 2003. The best part of his Clay and Paper-filled summer is meeting some very special people. “There is no right decision, a decision is a decision and no more, but an experience”. Don’t know where that came from, but I usually like to put something inspiring in my bio.

Tiffany Martin is a first time Clay and Paper-er and is enjoying it immensely. She especially would also like to thank everyone for attending the show and hopes they enjoy it. Before this production she enjoyed working on the Mixed Company’s production of Runaway Dreams. She has experience both behind the scenes and on stage.

Jacquelyn Piper is a young, energetic actor who has just completed her second year at George Brown Theatre School. She has enjoyed a diversity of roles- from playing one of the evil step sisters in The Brother Grimms, to Queen Isabell from Edward the Second. She has also been keeping busy this summer as she has just completed a stage combat show entitled, Shakespeare Fights. She loves a good fight! Jacquelyn is having a great time with the troupe this summer and is looking forward to playing one of the two Liliths.

Anna Linda Siddall first worked with Clay and Paper as an actor in the 2002 production of Gold: The Play. This time she is a musician.