BRENDA KAMINO
Directing: MJ Kang’s “Harabogee & Me” – Shakespeare in Action; “Restless Night” -Shadowpath; Janet Lo’s “Eminent Domain” and “Half the Sky” – Women at Play(s) Festivals. Upcoming: “Bachelor Man” – at Tarragon Theatre for Renaissance Theatre which she co-runs with Andrew Moodie.
A veteran performer of the Shaw Festival, she has created roles in new plays at Theatre Passe Muraille, Nightwood, fu-Gen Theatre, YPT, Factory Theatre, Cahoots Theatre Projects, ATP (Calgary) with directors Neil Munro, Nina Lee Aquino, Maja Ardal, Sue Miner, Ron Jenkins, Guillermo Verdecchia, Peter Hinton and Yvette Nolan. She recently was nominated for Best Ensemble for Tableau d’Hote’s “Mizushobai” (Montreal), performed in the Dora nominated “Naomi’s Road” and her one-woman show “At the End of the Day” which she wrote.
Film/TV: Two seasons of Sony International’s “Carter”, CBC’s “Warigami”, “The Glass Castle” and dozens of Canadian episodic TV shows.
She has been honoured by both CAEA and ACTRA for her work as an advocate for diversity and has served on Dora Juries for TYA, Independent Theatre and General Theatre over the past 20 years.