This marks the inaugural production of all day breakfast theatre and launches The Search Party’s New Cartography program.

The Sound Inside was nominated for six Tony Awards in 2020, including Best New Play and Best Actress.

“Adam Rapp’s new play is a stunning character study of someone you’d like to know.” 

—Variety

Cast and Crew Bios

Kerry Sandomirsky

Kerry Sandomirsky has 130 professional credits on stage and screen. At the Cultch, she originated the role of Sunna in the GG award-winning play Unity 1918 (Jessie nomination), starred in Touchstone’s Late Company (Jessie nomination) and recently played Emma in The Search Party’s Stupid F***ing Bird. Favourite credits include: King Arthur’s Night (Jessie for best ensemble, Neworld), The One That Got Away (NAC/Electric Company), Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing (Bard on the Beach) and How It Works (Jessie for Best Actress, Touchstone). She is a graduate of UBC and The Writer’s Studio at SFU. For twelve years, Kerry has taught at Studio 58, Langara where she was lucky to have Jacob as a student.

Jacob Leonard

Jacob Leonard (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Oshawa, Ontario. After completing his Bachelor of Science degree at Queen’s University, he made the big decision to move across the country and begin his acting career in Vancouver, where he received his acting diploma from Studio 58. He has now performed in numerous theatrical works across the country including the touring production of FORGIVENESS (Arts Club/Theatre Calgary), MARY’S WEDDING (The Firehall Arts Centre), HILDA’S YARD (Western Gold Theatre) and Concord Floral (Theatre Kingston). He is also a singer. He does not sing in this production. Too bad. He would like to thank Kerry Sandomirsky for approaching him two years ago with a strange play about writers, loneliness and connection. Check out his website at www.jacob-leonard.com

Jacob Leonard (he/him) is an actor, singer and writer currently living in Vancouver, BC. He is incredibly excited to be a part of The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp and is extraordinarily grateful to be amongst such an extraordinarily talented and hardworking team. 

Insta:@jacob_leonard101

Mindy Parfitt

Mindy is the founding Artistic Director for The Search Party and has directed all its acclaimed productions. Other selected directing credits include: The Cull, You and Me, The Valley, Armstrong’s War (The Arts Club), This Stay in The Room, Palace of the End, 4.48 Psychosis and You Are Here (Horseshoes & Hand Grenades) and co-created am a with Amber Barton.  She is a graduate of both Concordia University (BFA) and UBC (MFA). Mindy is an artist in residence at Concordia University where she will be working with a group of student directors and actors on a short play festival.

Stephen Courtenay

Stephen has contributed his stage management expertise to about fifty Shakespearean productions over his twenty-seven-year career with Bard on the Beach. Prior to that, he spent ten years touring with the Vancouver Opera Touring Company. In addition, he has worked for many theatres including the Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, The Citadel, Studio 58/Green Thumb, Touchstone Theatre, Pi Theatre, the Electric Company and numerous others. Previous ventures have included a number of workshops for newly minted pieces including Leslie Mildiner’s Coming Up For Air. Most recently, he completed a well-received run of Kat Sandler’s Yaga at the Richmond Gateway Theatre with director Roy Surette. His soundscape for Metro Theatre’s just-closed The Woman In Black has been another quiet success. Stephen is pleased to be working with old friends from previous Bard productions, Kerry Sandomirsky and Mindy Parfit and this talented Artistic and Production team.

Peter Wilds

Peter is an interior designer, whose firm was established in 2011. His work has garnered national and international editorial print and online features in publications such as Canadian House & Home, Style at Home, Casa Vogue Brazil, Architectural Digest Italia and Architectural Digest Mexico. For the second year, Peter Wilds Design has been selected as one of the top 100 design firms in Canada by Canadian House & Home.

Prior to his work as a designer, Peter spent a decade acting with leading theatre companies throughout Canada, performing recurring roles in episodic television and lent his voice to numerous animation series. Peter is thrilled to be a part of the creative team for The Sound Inside.

Hina Nishioka

Hina Nishioka is a Japanese Canadian lighting designer for stage and live events based in Metro Vancouver, BC. Her recent lighting design credits include As You Like It (the Grand Theatre; original lighting by Gerald King), Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach HFS studio), Hurricane Mona, Yaga (Touchstone Theatre), The Musical Spongebob (Capilano University). She has assisted lighting designers at theatre companies such as Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Opera, and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre.

https://hinalighting.com/

Owen Belton

Owen Belton lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1993 with a degree in Fine and Performing Arts (concentration music), studying acoustic and computer music composition with Owen Underhill and Barry Truax. Owen has created sound design for dozens of shows in Vancouver, for companies such as the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Electric Company Theatre and The Search Party. Owen has also scored pieces for The Paris Opera, Ballet Nuremberg, Monte Carlo Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre and Kidd Pivot. He won a Dora Mavor Moore award for best dance score for Emergence (National Ballet of Canada) in 2009, and has since been nominated 3 times for Jesse Awards for sound design/music for theatre in Vancouver.

Sabrina Banks

Sabrina Banks is a Métis theatre artist living in Vancouver, and originating from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is thrilled to work with all day breakfast theatre and The Search Party, for this production of The Sound Inside. Sabrina would like to thank Kerry and Jacob for encouraging her to try her hand at publicity for the first time, as well as the support they gave alongside Mindy Parfitt, Megan Liao and Lisa Mennell.

Thank you, dear reader, for coming and continuing to support live theatre. Enjoy the show!

Raïna von Waldenburg

Former full-time faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, adjunct at SFU and UFV, currently teaches workshops in Grotowski-based physical performance. Raïna is a dramaturg, writer, director and performer in Vancouver and the experimental downtown NYC theatre scene. She has been facilitating artists in the development of original performance material for thirty years.

Raïna has worked creatively with EDAM, O.Dela Arts, The Biting School, Fight With A Stick, Kinesis Dance, The Falling Company, Generous Mess, among others. Raïna recently served as assistant-director and dramaturg for Ne.Sans Opera and Dance’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy. Raïna received a Distracted Globe Grant Award and the 2012 New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for “Outstanding Solo Performance” for her one-woman show at LaMaMa Experimental Theater (NYC). Raïna received her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College, and her BFA in acting from New York University.