The 2022 Summer Company

Nicholas Simmons (Technical Director)

Nicholas Simmons is a professional technician and videographer with experience in both the worlds of broadcasting and theatre. His interest in both fields began in high school, and continued at MetU's School of Media with an emphasis on live broadcasts. Since moving to Toronto in late 2011, he has worked on productions with the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the Lower Ossington Theatre, and T.Y.T. Theatre, both backstage and behind the camera. This is his second time with Frog in Hand, having worked on Stories in the Woods in the summer of 2021 as Technical Director.

Clara Isgro is a dancer, teacher, performer, and artist based in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently entering her 4th and final year in the Performance Dance Program at MetU. Clara is also an assistant teacher, teacher, and choreographer at For The Love Of It School of Dance where she assists and teaches multiple classes and dance styles including jazz, ballet, lyrical, and contemporary. She had the opportunity last year to choreograph and create her own dance film that was featured in Toronto Metropolitan University's Choreographic Film Festival where she was featured in other student films as well. Clara has recently been involved in a dance piece titled "The Ianos Gate" choreographed by Louis Laberge-Cote which premiered at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has also been involved in many virtual/film and live performances including works created by Louis Laberge-Cote, Alyssa Martin, Ryan Lee, Kelly Shaw, Bonnie Kim, Jeff Dimitrou, and more. Clara will be receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree when she graduates in 2023.

Kaitlyn Seibold

Seibold is a movement researcher, performer, choreographer, and dance educator who received a BFA from MetU and an MFA from York University for Dance, Choreography & Collaboration. During her studies at MetU she was awarded the Lipson Family Endowment Award for the most promising choreographer. Throughout her professional experience she has been able to perform and train under choreographers such as Vicki St Denys, Louis Laberge-Cote, Kate Hilliard, Robert Glumbek, Ryan Lee, Hanna Kiel, Matjash Mrozewski, Victoria Mehaffey and Apolonia Velasquez in a diverse range of techniques and movement styles. Taking part in an ongoing investigation with the moving body in the theatre and alternative performance spaces, her current research involves discovering boundaries between physicalized theatre and contemporary movement. Her most recent works include: Meeting at R9 (Dance Ontario’s Dance Weekend’21), and Escapists, presented at Springworks. Most recently Seibold was commissioned to create on MetU's 2nd year Dance Performance Students.

Abby Silvera

Abby (she/they) is an interdisciplinary dance and theatre artist currently living on the stolen land we call Toronto. In 2020, Abby graduated from Randolph College where they discovered their love of physical theatre and devising. They are a musician and songwriter who use guitar, piano, and their voice to craft musical worlds that create vessels for their poetry. Most recently, their collective received a recommenders grant from Theatre Gargantua to devise and present a show that explored loss through a childhood-like sense of play. They love watching and creating performances that utilize the entire body, as well as work that leaves you with more questions than answers, whether it is through film, theatre, dance or something outside of these categories. They love to be in spaces that challenge and surprise them, where they can sit in the magical uncertainty of where their artistry is going to evolve to next. Abby is excited to share physical and creative space with such wonderful humans this summer.