Meet Ivy Abbott-Charles, Logan Robins, and Kate Redding!
The trio has been traveling around North America since October touring Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia's staged adaptation of It's Okay To Be Different: Stories by Todd Parr!
Ivy Abbott-Charles (she/her) is a Nova Scotian actor with a Master's degree in Classical and Contemporary Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has performed and collaborated on immersive theatre, children's theatre, new script development, and performance art projects, working with many Atlantic Canadian theatre companies including DaPoPo Theatre, Zuppa Circus, BARE Theatre, Unnatural Disaster Co., and more. Ivy has been teaching drama workshops and classes for five years through Neptune Theatre School, for toddlers, children, and teens.
Kate is a stage and production manager, based in Kjipuktuk, Mi’Kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She is passionate about theatre for young audiences; one of her earliest theatre memories is watching a Mermaid performance, and she is ecstatic to be joining the company for this production. Recently worked with Theatre Baddeck, Red Sky Performance, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Tarragon Theatre, and Shakespeare by the Sea. Love and thanks to Joe, who makes it all possible.
Logan (he/they) is an environmental theatre maker, improviser, puppeteer, educator, musician, writer, designer, and creator of exhaustive lists-based in the Sipekne’katik region of Mi’kma’ki (colonially known as Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia). Logan is thrilled to be exploring the world and sharing stories through puppetry with Mermaid Theatre! You can find Logan on Instagram: @loganrobins @unnaturaldisastertheatre