The Persistent Stain

Margo MacDonald

(she/they)

Margo is a multi-award winning playwright and performer. Her solo show, ”The Elephant Girls” (an all-female gang in 1920s London), just had it’s tenth anniversary remount. Other plays include: “Shadows” (lesbian theatre maverick Eva Le Gallienne), “Rap Once for Yes” (Radclyffe Hall and Noel Coward holding a seance), and “Toilet Paper for the Apocalypse” (art as protest).

Recently, Margo was nominated for a Dora Award for their performance in “Dressed as People—a Triptych of Uncanny Abduction.” Next up, they’ll appear in “Hurricane Diane” at GCTC in February. Margo and her friends used to make mixed tapes of punk music and dance to it in empty parking lots at midnight.

Geoff McBride

(he/him)

Late last century an awkward little nerd walked into a Sam the Record Man, and purchased a cassette tape. The first track was a song by a band called the Clash and the first notes of “London Calling” blew his adolescent mind. Torn between a love of punk and theatre he chose go study theatre, but took with him the DIY spirit, and the bullshit detector punk provided. Geoff is thrilled to be a part of the creative team behind The Persistent Stain. It feels like a “full circle moment” kinda of thing. 

Nick Di Gaetano

(he/him)

Nick is a comedian and musician whose career includes clown shows, puppet shows, improv shows, shows for children, bands, voice overs, music direction, sound design and original music for stage, screen and stereos. He holds a BA in Theatre, a diploma in Audio Engineering and is currently pursuing an MA. He’s bilingual and works regularly with the NAC, the GCTC, Théâtre la Catapulte, La Nouvelle Scène and the University of Ottawa. His space-folk band West Lodge was featured on Exclaim! Magazine's The Eh! List, and he performs solo electro-synth-croon as the Raccoon King. Find him at nickdigaetano.com

Trevor Lubin

(he/him)

Trevor Lubin is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, and ukulele, to name a few), music educator, and performer. Originally a founding member of Ottawa's Ramblin' Valley Band, he's since gone on to work, and tour internationally, with several Ontario groups, including Jessica Pearson and The East Wind, the Doc Yates Band, and more recently, live streaming from the Gladstone Theatre with Red Heaven. He's also led several of his own jazz, roots and rhythm & blues groups, and played solo, for various special events (weddings, reunions, parties, etc.). Since the pandemic began, he's expanded his teaching practice, and begun working with Craig Cardiff as a recording engineer.

Patrick Gauthier

(he/him)

Patrick Gauthier is an Ottawa based playwright and director. He is a member of CAEA, the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, and holds an MFA in Directing for the Theatre from the University of British Columbia. From 2013-2021 he was Festival Director of Ottawa Fringe. Currently, he teaches scriptwriting and dramaturgy (among other things) at the University of Ottawa.

Patrick's recent directing credits include The Comedy of Errors (a Company of Fools) Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Drama Guild), Exciting Cause (TACTICS), and @TheMayor (Gruppo Rubato) – for which he received the 2022 Prix Rideau Award for Outstanding Direction.

Margo MacDonald and Geoff McBride

Nick Di Gaetano

Patrice-Ann Forbes

Laura Wheeler

(she/her)

Laura Wheeler is Technical Director for the Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD) and has been a local theatre technician, designer and stage manager since 2012. She has lit dance, drag, concerts, comedians, musicals, and theatre. Wheeler developed and taught a technical theatre course at Canterbury high school in 2024.

Robin Treleaven

(she/her)

Robin Treleaven (she/her) is a stage manager and dance artist based in Ottawa, on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation. A graduate of the Contemporary Dance Programme at The School of Dance, she has been stage managing, performing, teaching, and choreographing since 2018. Robin loves all things theatre and dance and is thrilled to be SM for The Persistent Stain at Fringe this year! 

Titus Andor