Nikolai Afanasev
Nikolai is a Russian actor who immigrated in Canada 10 years ago. He teaches yoga, meditation, and collaborates with artists in Ontario.
Andreja always wanted to be theatre director. When she was 5 and a half she did her first show with a group of 7 friends. They wrote a story about winter kidnapping spring and she played a snow bell, one of the early spring flowers whom helps rescue spring and get things back on track. Their performance was watched only by their parents but they were hooked. Later on this group of early childhood friends went on to produce some outstanding professional artists: a publisher, a ballet dancer, painter, and her, an award winning, critically acclaimed professional theatre director.
Since that early age she kept on trying new hats in theatre. She started a theatre group in grade school and incorporated a professional theatre company in high school. Obviously Andreja applied for the prestigious Directing program at the National Theatre School of Canada and against all the naysayers got accepted. From then on, her life has become infused with professional theatre, from classics, to contemporary plays, new writing, development, touring, administration, puppetry, opera and she has truly done it all. She love it and cannot imagine her life without it. And because but.
Let us introduce you our board member: Arun Pillai!
Our Board, Core Team, Summer Ensemble, Artists, Volunteers past and present make us who we are. Meet all of the amazing people who work with us.
Nikolai is a Russian actor who immigrated in Canada 10 years ago. He teaches yoga, meditation, and collaborates with artists in Ontario.
Tanisha Amara is an independent theatre and film actor who is solely studio trained, and a former member of the 2019 Summer Ensemble.
Crane Creations acknowledges that the land on which we are grateful to work, and which the city of Mississauga operates on, as being part of the Treaty and Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and The Huron-Wendat and Wyandot Nations. We recognize these peoples and their ancestors as peoples who inhabited these lands since time immemorial.
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