Our Team

Mitchell Cushman

Artistic Director

Mitchell Cushman is a director, creator and founding Artistic Director of Outside the March. His work has been seen on stages as large as The Stratford Festival, as intimate as kindergarten classrooms, and as far flung as London, New York, Munich, Argentina and Japan. Previous Outside the March directing credits include: Rainbow on Mars, Performance Review, The Death of Disney, No Save Points, Trojan Girls, The Tape Escape, The Flick, Dr. Silver, Jerusalem, Lessons in Temperament, TomorrowLoveTM, Mr. Burns, Vitals, Terminus, Mr. Marmalade. Other recent directing credits: The Perfect Bite, A Knives Out Experience (Netflix/Secret City); Treasure Island, Breath of Kings, Possible Worlds (Stratford); Age is a Feeling, The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale, I’m Doing This For You (Soulpepper / Haley McGee); Comfort Food (Crows); Sweeney Todd (TIFT); The Effect, Hand to God, The Aliens (Coal Mine); Brantwood (Sheridan). In 2021, he directed his first feature film Lessons in Temperament (LevelFilm), which can currently be seen on TVO. Mitchell has received the Siminovitch protégé award, two Dora Awards for Outstanding Direction, four Doras for Outstanding Production, two Audience Choice Awards, and his productions have received 14 Toronto Theatre Critics Awards. He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta. In 2019, NOW Magazine named him as one of Toronto’s Top 10 theatre artists of the decade.

Laura McCallum

Managing Director

Laura McCallum (she/her) is the Managing Director at Outside the March, overseeing finance, human resources, strategy, and day-to-day operations. Her previous producing has involved activating unusual venues, including a federal prison in Kitchener, a penthouse suite in downtown Toronto, and a military fort in Niagara-on-the-Lake. She’s a graduate of Humber’s Arts Administration & Cultural Management post-graduate program, and the Theatre & Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College. She enjoys volunteering for the Toronto Theatre Database and making her seasonal theatre directories.

Lucy Coren

Artistic Producer

Lucy Coren is a theatre producer, creator and community arts facilitator. She received her MA in Dramaturgy from the University of Kent in 2015 and worked for several years in the UK for companies such as Theatre Royal Plymouth, Tramshed Arts, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Pegasus Theatre and Beyond Face.

Since returning to Canada in 2020 she has produced for Factory Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts and Outside the March. She was the Program Director for NEPA’s Indigenous Producers Training Program, the Acting Artistic Associate with the NAC’s National Creation Fund and Program Manager for their Creative Producer Fellowship. 

Her work centers around engaging people as they are in their lives, and working with them to unpack and repackage their stories into a dramaturgy which allows them to safely and insightfully communicate their identities and experiences. She is most interested in theatre as a tool for facilitating conversations between fractured and disparate communities that can activate real personal, cultural and social change.

Past works include: Football Fathers (De Grote Post, 2019); Transfers (SummerWorks 2021); How We Play(ed) (Theatre Direct, 2022); It’s a Shame (SummerWorks 2024.)

Griffin McInnes

Creative Director

Griffin McInnes (he/him) is a theatre maker and the Creative Director at Outside the March. He’s OtM’s senior manager of public fundraising and communications, and is responsible for shepherding the growth of its experiential media portfolio. He’s a core artist at the company, often serving as a director, dramaturg, creative producer and developer of new work. In 2025 he was Interim Executive Co-Lead, stewarding the company’s programming while being instrumental in the creative envisioning of its strategic direction and tri-leadership operational structure; in 2018-19 he was OtM’s Associate Artistic Director through a Metcalf Performing Arts Internship. 

He was the recipient of Tarragon Theatre’s 2023 Bulmash-Siegel New Creation Development Award and Residency, and holds a Master’s Degree from The School of Political Arts (SPEAP) at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Read more about his work at griffinmcinnes.com. 

Tori Morrison

Director of Production

Tori Morrison is a Toronto based production manager, producer, sound/video designer, and composer originally from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB) on Treaty 6 Territory. She is the Director of Production for Outside the March, where she supports artists in bringing immersive theatrical works to life across development, rehearsal, and production.

Tori is half of the producing team behind Tiny Bear Jaws—an independent theatre company with teeth—and creates work with writer David Gagnon Walker as Strange Victory Performance.

She has toured work across Canada and internationally, bringing productions to France, Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Her production and design work spans live performance, multimedia, audio and film.

Learn more at www.torigmorrison.com

Sébastien Heins

Associate Artistic Director

Sébastien Heins (actor, producer, writer, director) is the Associate Artistic Director of Outside the March (OtM). A founding member, he has contributed as a performer, marketing creator, and now as a leader of the company’s artistic vision.

Recent stage credits include Slave Play, Topdog/Underdog (Canadian Stage), Measure for Measure (H&B/Crows), Sweeter (Cahoots), The Tempest, Breath of Kings (Stratford), and Wedding at Aulis (Soulpepper). On screen, he’s appeared in Law & Order: Toronto, Ghosts of Xmas Past, and The Listener.

Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada and Steppenwolf in Chicago, Sébastien also created and stars in No Save Points, an interactive solo show about his family’s experience with Huntington’s Disease. The show won Columbia University’s Digital Dozen Award.

He believes in the delight of live performance, its power to bond people, and its role in making Toronto a world-class cultural city. He lives there with his wife, Dasha.

Justin Miller

Producer

Justin Miller (he/him) is a writer, performer, and producer, whose audience-centric work aims to celebrate the radical and transformative potential of collective experience. As his drag alter-ego Pearle Harbour, he has been called “one of the most engaging and thoughtful performance artists around” (NOW Magazine).

His award-winning original productions have been presented from coast-to-coast, to rave critical and audience acclaim, including some of the most prestigious stages in Canada.

Most recently, he was the Artistic Producer at Tarragon Theatre from 2022-25, where he launched and directed the Greenhouse Residency and Festival for interdisciplinary creators.

Selected accolades include: the Audience Choice Award (SummerWorks), Outstanding Solo Performance (My Entertainment World), 4 Dora Mavor-Moore Award nominations, Finalist for the Playwright’s Guild of Canada John Palmer Award, Siminovitch Prize Protégé (nominee: Karen Hines), and Winner of the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award for a Canadian Stage Performer. See more at pearleharbour.com.

Nick Blais

Head of Design

Nick Blais designs across Canada in all manner of discipline and venue: from theatres, parks, abandoned buildings, schools, storefronts, living rooms and concert halls. Nick specializes in creating and facilitating thematic, impactful designs, and transforming unconventional spaces into immersive, dramatic environments.  

The recipient of multiple Dora Mavor Moore awards in Toronto for both set and lighting design, nominated for the Virginia Myrtle Cooper award in costume design, and various other awards and nominations across the country; Nick’s design work was featured in Professional Lighting Magazine for his innovation in off-the-grid lighting design and site-specific scenography. As Head of Design for Outside the March, Nick has been working to expand the reach and importance of design in storytelling and placemaking.  Nblaisdesign.com

For OtM: Rainbow on Mars, Death of Walt Disney,  R.A.V.E, Lessons in Temperament, Trojan Girls, Jerusalem, The Flick, Tape Escape, Dr. Silver, TomorrowLove, Mr. Burns, Termins, and more.(Outside the March);

John Wamsley

Communications Manager

John Wamsley is of Anishinaabe-Ojibway and British descent, and a member of the Alderville First Nation. He is an actor, theatre creator and social media producer. Theatre credits include: Rez Gas (Capitol Theatre), 1939 (Canadian Stage), Richard II, Grand Magic, Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1939 (Stratford Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare BASH’d); Timothy Findley’s The Wars (Grand Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hart House Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Erindale). John has worked as a Social Media Producer and Community Manager for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Pride Toronto, and Paprika Festival, among others. John is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies Program at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College. For more: www.johnwamsley.ca

Keavy Lynch

Metcalf Performing Arts Intern

Keavy Lynch (she/her) is a prodigal theatre-maker. She’s currently completing a Metcalf Internship in Artistic Direction, mentored by Mitchell Cushman, which has included assistant directing on Outside the March’s Performance Review and Rainbow on Mars. Keavy founded an indie theatre company in 2009, where she directed 10 productions, including eco-feminist space opera Waiting for Alonzo (2015) and devised historical satire Votes for Women (and Other Lies) (2016). She considers theatre her home but has also worked as a television writer on some of Canada’s most beloved cancelled series like Shelved, Bria Mack Gets a Life, and the intended second season of CBC’s acclaimed drama, The Porter.

*position generously funded by the Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Internship

Ishai Buchbinder

Artistic Council - Founding Member

Ishai Buchbinder (he/him) is a writer, actor and an integral part of the Artistic Council for Outside the March. His love of the morbid, the comedic, and the absurd have led him to an eccentric profile as a theatre artist.

Before returning to Toronto in 2014, Ishai lived in Durham, North Carolina, where he explored the frontiers of immersive theatre. Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern. As a performer in Durham, Ishai’s favourite role was Alek Yelyuk, Ukrainian Badminton player in Tarantino’s Yellow Speedo with Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern. As a performer for Outside the March, his favourite roles include Mr. Burns, the radioactive boogeyman in Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, and Larry, the misanthropic five-year old dreamboat in Mr. Marmalade.

Ishai is currently writing Pets, a darkly comedic fable that investigates the plight of all the inhabitants of a suburban house: the pets, the pests, the plants, and the human in whose shadow they reside. Ishai’s first play, Apples and Oranges tells the story of a young couple marooned on a lifeboat who cannibalize their baby in hunger. On film, Ishai has written and played all eight characters in Traveling Medicine Show: Apocalypse, an absurdist story about the last surviving human living in a theatre with his increasingly outrageous imaginary friends.

Ishai is currently creating a program for youth that fuses adventure education with site-specific theatre creation, developing methods for implanting empathy through performance, and working on methods to game-ify audience participation.

Katherine Cullen

Dance Nation; Artistic Council - Founding Member

Katherine Cullen (she/her) is an actor and playwright based in Toronto. Originally from Vancouver, Katherine trained in Montreal and Edmonton, before moving across the country once more to Toronto—following Mitchell Cushman and Amy Keating to Toronto so she could continue to make theatre with Outside The March (and because she just really likes hanging out with them and didn’t want to watch The Wire all by herself). Katherine has appeared in numerous Outside The March productions including playing a series of unstable maternal figures in Mr. Marmalade, a stuttering carpenter with dreams of flight in Passion Play, a post-apocalyptic Marge Simpson in Mr. Burns, and a paramedic in the midst of her own emergency in Vitals (Dora Award Nomination – Outstanding Performance).

Katherine continues to collaborate with Britta Johnson on Stupidhead!: A Musical Comedy, a show based on her experiences growing up with dyslexia, and her overall experience navigating and organizing the world. Stupidhead! originally premiered at the 2015 SummerWorks Festival, where it won the award for Best New Performance Text. The show then enjoyed a successful run as part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s ‘16/’17 season.

Amy Keating

Dance Nation; Artistic Council - Founding Member

Amy Keating (she/her) is a Dora award-winning actor hailing from Edmonton, Alberta. From a very young age, Amy knew that her happiness lay in performing, and she has pursued her passion with a dedicated tenacity and wild abandon. She brings a combination of clown, impulse work and Utah Hagan technique to her acting practice. Amy now calls Toronto home, and is one of the founding members of Outside the March—working to foster deeper connections between the company’s dozens of Associate Artists. Right from the company’s very first production, Oh the Humanity, Amy has been one of the leading voices of Outside the March, creating unforgettable characters in Mr. Marmalade, Passion Play, Mr. Burns and The Flick.

A regular fixture of the local theatre scene, Amy has collaborated with a number of companies in Ontario, including the Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Necessary Angel, Common Boots, Nightwood Theatre, Canadian Rep, the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, Talk is Free Theatre and Carousel Players. She is also a founding member of the Edmonton-based troupe The Serial Collective.

Anahita Dehbonehie

Medusa; Artistic Council - Resident Designer

Anahita Dehbonehie (she/her) is an Iranian performance designer, creator and installation artist. Currently based in Toronto, her practice is founded on the principle that truths are communicated most powerfully through evocative sensory experiences. She is drawn specifically to work that questions form and content while creating space for contemporary conversation.

Anahita’s work has been featured across Canada and internationally, including at the Prague Quadrennial, The Vilnius Capital of Culture, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.  Since making Toronto her home in 2012, her designs have been recognized with a variety of nominations and awards, including two Dora Mavor Moore awards and eight nominations. She was a finalist for the Virginia Myrtle Cooper award in costume design in 2016- 2018 and was named one of Now Magazine’s top theatre artists in 2015 and 2019.

Jeff Ho

Artistic Council

Jeff Ho (he/him) is a Toronto-based theatre artist, originally from Hong Kong.

As a playwright, his works include Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land),
produced by Saga Collectif; Antigone: 方, produced by Young People’s Theatre; and
trace, produced by Factory Theatre/ b current performing arts. He has held residencies with the Stratford Festival, Nightswimming, Cahoots, the Banff Playwrights Lab, Factory Theatre, and the Tarragon Theatre. His works are published by Playwrights Canada Press.

Jeff is the Company Dramaturg with Outside the March. He is grateful to have been
honoured with a Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play (Iphigenia);
nominated for four Dora Awards, thrice for Performance (Box 4901, Prince Hamlet,
Hana’s Suitcase) and once as a Playwright (Iphigenia); the Bulmash-Siegal Playwright
Award (Tarragon Theatre); and a Harold Award (House of Nadia Ross). He is a
graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Michelle Yagi

Artistic Council

David Daniels

Consulting Producer, New Work Development