Dead Siblings Society is an exploration of grief, nostalgia and personal growth. Throughout the show two characters navigate the various struggles associated with mourning late siblings, eventually managing to celebrate the lives of their loved ones and help one another heal. Interspliced during the story are a series of flashbacks to beloved and relatable childhood memories. This one-act play has been described as a love letter to all those who have lost a family member. The show has received critical acclaim and has already won four awards for its premiere run at the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival.

Shauna is a director, stage manager, clown and performer. She studied theatre at Bishop's University and has completed Baby Clown at One North Clown and Creation. Shauna has recently worked as stage manager/co-director for 9th-hours «The hunchback of Notre Dame" and Stage Manager for "Silent Sky" with Three Sisters. She lives with her three cats in centretown, where she plays DnD and moonlights as an HR Generalist.

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Aimee Bouchard is an artist educator, arts administrator and theatre maker, as well as an Ontario Certified Teacher. She works as the Learning & Engagement Coordinator for English Theatre at the National Arts Centre, where she manages all education and community engagement activities and accessible performances. Before joining the NAC, Aimee worked as the Education & Participation Programs Manager for Young People's Theatre and as the Education Coordinator for Theatre Direct.

Aimee is especially passionate about collaborating with equity-deserving communities to remove barriers to accessing the arts, and some of the professional experiences that have been most meaningful to her have included facilitating drama programming with young people in family shelters and children’s hospitals, and programming accessible performances for audiences of all abilities.

Aimee holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Drama and a Bachelor of Education with a focus in Artist in Community Education from Queen’s University.

Dead Siblings Society is an exploration of grief, nostalgia and personal growth. Throughout the show two characters navigate the various struggles associated with mourning late siblings, eventually managing to celebrate the lives of their loved ones and help one another heal. Interspliced during the story are a series of flashbacks to beloved and relatable childhood memories. This one-act play has been described as a love letter to all those who have lost a family member. The show has received critical acclaim and has already won four awards for its premiere run at the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival.

Murph Hickey is an award-winning actor, producer, and stunt performer based in Ottawa, with both an undergraduate and a master's degree in acting. As a performer she has been in projects such as Thanks for the Room, The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd, Slasher Film, The Byward Heights and the Butchers franchise. Murph also wrote and co-produced Dead Siblings Society, the webseries High and Lows, and several short films. She is the president of Fable for Five Films Inc, an all-female company that makes epic, yet heartwarming, films. In her down time Murph can be found teaching acting at the Ottawa Acting Studio and being an all-around goofball. For bookings please contact The Meus.

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Denice Lewis is a family physician in Ottawa. She currently works at CHEO providing family medicine focused care to children and youth with mental health needs, and the University of Ottawa’s Department of Family Medicine where she holds the academic rank of Assistant Professor and the position of Educational Innovation and Transformation Director.

Denice comes by her interest in the arts and in education early as a daughter of parents who encouraged and supported intellectual curiosity in their daughters and led by example. Her greatest educational inspiration is her mother – who was a dedicated elemtary school educator and champion of all learners, especially those in need of advocacy. Denice’s post-secondary education includes an honours Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology (Univ of Waterloo), a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (Univ of Liverpool) a Masters of Science in Experimental Medicine focused on reflective learning in continuing professional development of family physicians (McGill Univ). She completed her post graduate family medicine training at the University of Ottawa. She is classically trained in piano and also played clarinet in various concert bands and junior youth orchestra.

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Dead Siblings Society is an exploration of grief, nostalgia and personal growth. Throughout the show two characters navigate the various struggles associated with mourning late siblings, eventually managing to celebrate the lives of their loved ones and help one another heal. Interspliced during the story are a series of flashbacks to beloved and relatable childhood memories. This one-act play has been described as a love letter to all those who have lost a family member. The show has received critical acclaim and has already won four awards for its premiere run at the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival.

Nicholas Maillet is a versatile actor, with a passion to make people laugh! A graduate of Humber College's Theatre program, Nicholas has graced the stages of esteemed productions such as 9th Hour's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" as Clopin and Kanata Theatre's "Twelfth Night" as Sebastian. As a creative, he co-created and performed in the innovative show "I Forced A Bot To Watch 1000 Hours Of..," which toured to the Fundy Fringe Fest in 2019 which won many festival awards! When not bringing characters to life, Nick can often be found quoting Star Wars lines in his car. May the Force be with you.

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Alan Ng is an academic family physician and clinician-educator, and is currently the lead physician in Behavioural Medicine for the Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Ottawa. He holds postgraduate diplomas in Child Health, Obstetrics, Family Planning and Tropical Medicine, and a Masters in Medical Education. He has worked in urban, suburban, inner-city, rural and remote environments worldwide including First Nations communities in Northern Saskatchewan, the British National Health Service, rural Kwazulu in South Africa and with the Rohingya population in western Myanmar. His clinical and academic interests include the use of health humanities and Balint groups in medical education, and the study of the consultation in family medicine.