Sedina Fiati is a Canadian actress and theatre director. [1] She is most noted for her role as Ese in the web series Tokens , for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. [2]
A native of Toronto, Ontario, and a graduate of the theatre program at the University of Windsor, Fiati coordinated the Feminist Fuck It theatre festival in 2018, [1] and made her stage directing debut as director of Andrea Scott and Nick Green's Every Day She Rose for Nightwood Theatre in 2019. [3] She was named Nightwood's artist-in-residence in 2021. [4]
As an actress her noted credits have included stage productions in productions of Shirley Barrie's Queen Marie [5] and Rick Chafe's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey , [6] and guest roles in the television series The Listener , Coroner and Murdoch Mysteries .
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Kim Renders was a Canadian writer, director, actor and designer and a founding member of Nightwood Theatre, the oldest professional feminist theatre company in Canada.
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