Resident Artists

Aviva works in Toronto as an actor, director, writer and producer. Most recently, Aviva appeared in ARC’s production of Human Animals, in which the cast was nominated for a Best Ensemble Dora Award. Previously to that, as Tereza in Susanna Fournier’s The Philosopher’s Wife.

Aviva has appeared in three previous ARC productions: Dissidents, Pomona, (Dora Award Nomination for Best Ensemble) and Moment (Dora Nomination for Best Performance). along with Chris Stanton, Aviva co-directed ARC’s latest production, Oil. Other acting credits include VideoCabaret’s The Great War (Dora Award for Best Ensemble), Berta in Hedda Gabler (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage), Virginia in Age of Arousal (Factory Theatre), Annie Sullivan in Western Canada Theatre’s The Miracle Worker, and Layne Coleman’s film, The Shape of Rex.

Aviva was the founder and Artistic Director of The Lab Cab Festival for thirteen years. She is the producer and co-director of the film adaptation of Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy. Aviva is in post production for her feature film, Lune.

Deb is now the proud co-Artistic Producer of ARC, having been a part of the resident artistic company for the past 15 years.

Deb’s ARC credits include A Kind of Alaska, The City, Bea (Dora nomination), Moment (Dora nomination), Pomona and Human Animals (both of which were Dora nominated for best ensembles) and most recently, OIL, cut short by COVID-19, as well as numerous staged readings.Deb has worked across the country from Kamloops BC to PEI. Her goal is to work in every province and territory.

She has also worked extensively with Soulpepper Theatre in Innocence Lost, Parfumerie, Marat/Sade, Happy Place, (Dora nominations), Blood Wedding, Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Waiting For The Parade.

Deb has so many other favourite shows. Like a lot. She is a lucky gal. Here are a few recently: The Penelopiad (Grand Theatre), Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Angelo in an all female cast of Measure for Measure (Thought for Food), Boston Marriage (Headstrong Collective) and lately, playing Shirley in the one woman show Shirley Valentine (Thousand Island Playhouse and beyond…) And then there is Rabbit Hole, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Dining Room, The Laramie Project, Same Time Next Year, The Importance Of Being Earnest, This Is How We Got Here.

And Deb has done some TV and film and voice work.

She resides here in Toronto with her husband, actor Oliver Dennis, and their two amazing kids, Charlotte and Philip.

Oh yah, and Deb is a teacher too – with Soulpepper Theatre and Young People’s Theatre, as well as with the TDSB.

Ryan Hollyman is a resident artist with ARC and has performed in Oil, Human Animals, Pomona and Moment.
He is an award-winning actor that has worked with Soulpepper, Canadian Stage and many other companies throughout Canada and has been to numerous countries, playing some of the world’s most renown theatres with The Overcoat and Helen Lawrence touring productions. He is known in the TV world, with guest spots on Hudson and Rex, Suits, Saving Hope and others and recurring parts on Murdoch Mysteries, The Strain and The Expanse. He is a graduate of Concordia University’s performance program and was a member of the Montreal Young Company.

Nabil Traboulsi is a Canadian-Lebanese film, television and stage actor based in Toronto. Nabil is a Meisner-trained actor and a graduate of the 2-year conservatory program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York. He has appeared in short films and has recently been part of stage productions at the New York Fringe Festival, the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), the Kaaitheater in Brussels, and the Toronto Fringe Festival. For the Théâtre Français de Toronto (TFT): Les Zinspirés: Six Degrés de Séparation, Le Menteur, and La Seconde Surprise de l’Amour. The cast of Les Zinspirés was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Performance – Ensemble (TYA division). In 2020, Nabil was part of ARC’s production of Oil by Ella Hickson. For Film/TV: Titans (Netflix/Warner Bros.)

Nabil is fluent in English, French and Arabic and has lived in different cities including New York, Paris, Beirut and Montreal.

Tamara is a Toronto based Stage Manager, Director and Producer in
primarily Theatre and Opera. Her work has taken her across Canada, from
Toronto to Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, and Halifax; to cities in the
US such as San Francisco and New York; and across seas to Italy &
Estonia. She has been ARC’s Managing Producer since 2018, and their
Resident Stage Manager since 2014. She has also been the Resident SM of
opera performance company Off Centre Music Salon since 2010.

Recent Stage Management credits include: Oil (ARC); Marjorie Prime (Coal
Mine); Hell’s Fury (Soundstreams); The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare in the
Ruff); Hook Up (Tapestry Opera); Flying Hearts Tour (Theatre Direct);
The Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); La Bohème (Against the Grain); Dead
Man Walking (Vancouver Opera); Birds of a Feather (Roseneath Theatre).
Her most recent directing credit is AD’ing ARC’s last production of Oil,
and the Co-Director of ARC’s Dissidents.