Aidan Shipley is a Toronto-based actor, writer, producer and director. Interview by Rebeccah Love How did the world of theatre and film surface in your childhood? What creative activities did you most enjoy when you were a kid? I grew up about 100 paces from the Stratford Festival and my dad is a theatre director and arts programmer, so it was kind of hard to avoid. I immediately fell in love with the theatre community and the love and warmth that came with it. Being the youn

Karen Smythe is a Toronto-based writer. Interview by Rebeccah Love What are your earliest memories of writing or storytelling? When I was very young, I developed an interest in the sounds of words and I liked to write rhyming “poems.” When I was about ten years old, I published a poem in the (a community paper in the Toronto community where I grew up); it was called “Windfields Farms,” named after the estate where E. P. Taylor raised horses. Our back yard looked out on its fi

Rich Aucoin is a Halifax-based musician. Interview by Rebeccah Love How would you describe your childhood? Were you involved in music? I grew up in Halifax and was very much a jack of all trades sort of kid interested in joining lots of clubs and trying different things. I always really liked that line from that show The Wonder Years when Kevin is giving up piano and lamenting that when you're a kid you do so many things and that life is a series of a giving things up thinkin