Student Performance Bios
Alexei DeLuca – Actor
Born and raised in Stratford, Ontario, Alexei DeLuca was immersed in theatre from a young age. He began his training at Playmakers! Theatre School being taught by founder Susan Kennedy, who helped nurture his love for performance and the adrenaline of live theatre. While there, Alexei took on classic roles such as Hamlet (Hamlet), Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), and Macduff (Macbeth). In 2016 and 2017, he fulfilled a dream by appearing in the Stratford Festival’s productions of Macbeth (as a Messenger) and Romeo and Juliet (as Paris’s Page). Now in his fourth year in the Acting and Performance Program at York University, Alexei continues to deepen his craft and expand his understanding of the industry. Upcoming credits include Cheque Please (Brent Davis), HAY NAKO (Mira del Prado), and The Children’s Hour (Lillian Hellman), directed by Rob Kempson.
Rimah Jabr – Co-Director
Rimah Jabr is a theatre director, playwright, screenwriter and Ph.D. candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University. She completed a master's degree in theatre-making from the RITCS in Brussels. She wrote and directed several plays produced in Belgium, Canada, and Palestine, including Broken Shapes (2022), Raya(2018), High Heels & Stuffed Zucchini (2015), and Two Ladybugs (2013). Known for her collaborations with visual artists, she creates performances that blur boundaries between disciplines. Her doctoral research is a performance-ethnography project with Palestinian designers from Hebron, examining the impact of confinement on the creative process involved in set design. Expanding into film, she has directed two shorts: De-Clutter (2024) and You’ve Seen It on TV (2025/26).
Natalie Maddyn – Actor
Natalie Maddyn (They/She) is thrilled to be a part of the launch of Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder. A final-year Acting Focused student in AMPD’s Theatre program at York University, their recent work includes playing Eurycleia in the third-year production of The Penelopiad, assistant directing the studio production of Concord Floral, and co-creating, writing, and co-directing Rosemary Lies Where The Hill Meets The Sky and All Of Them Gone for YorkU’s PlayGround Festival. Natalie is looking forward to playing Martha in The Children’s Hour as part of the graduating production at Theatre@York.
Sasha Singer-Wilson – Co-Director
Sasha Singer-Wilson (she/her) is a Tkaronto based multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, theatre-making, research, writing, music, and facilitation. Sasha's work explores climate justice, place, caregiving, ritual, intergenerational relationships, and the voice. She has co-created performances in basements, alleyways, bathrooms, schools, theatres, lofts and online. Sasha has trained and worked with companies like Next Stage Theatre Festival, The Arts Club, Soulpepper, Jumblies, Brave New Play Rites, Convergence Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Gargantua, Pleiades Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, SummerWorks, and Playwright’s Theatre Centre. She co-ran the artist-driven theatre company the blood projects where she made immersive and site-specific performances in intimate spaces such as the critically acclaimed Little Tongues, This Is It, and Inside. With a BFA in Acting from York University and an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC, Sasha is a second year research-creation PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at York, where her research centres on performance as a place to imagine and rehearse emergent liberatory futures. Sasha is honoured to teach Voice & Speech at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York, and she has facilitated workshops in theatre-making, creative writing, and voice across Turtle Island. When not creating, you might find Sasha walking by the water, dancing with her kid, or reading poems aloud. www.sashasingerwilson.com
Emily Swartz – Actor
Emily Swartz is an interdisciplinary theatre artist, entering her fourth year of the Acting & Performance program at York University. She recently wrote and performed in "Wired For Connection,” a one-act play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025. Other performance credits include lole in "The Penelopiad" (York University), Greenhouse in "Concord Floral" (York University), and Laura in "The Labyrinth of Desire" (Vanier College Productions). She has also been a proud member of the Vanier Improv Company since 2022. This spring, she will be performing as Rosalie Wells in The Children's Hour (York University). Find her on Instagram @emilyy.swartz.