Reid Martin

​Reid Martin (She/Her) is a Toronto-based actor, singer, and performer. She is a graduate of Sheridan College and UTM’s Theatre and Drama Studies program, she holds a diploma in Professional Actor Training and an HBA Specialist Degree in Theatre and Drama.

Recent credits include Sarah in After Prom (Theatre Aquarius), Mother in Innocence Lost (Theatre on the Ridge), Swing for #11, #25, and #46 in The Wolves (All the Hats), and Desdemona in Othello (Knockout Theatre), amongst many others.

Outside of theatre Reid loves everything textiles from sewing to embroidery to knitting! And yes her closet is exploding, Thank you for asking! Ask her about anything board games, cats or sitcoms and she will also talk your ear off.

Reid has a great passion for all kinds of theatre, but recently devised theatre has really allowed her to explore her love of community. And she is so excited to be welcomed into the Paprika community to see what magic we create together!

Mackenzie Mccallum-Mallory

Mackenzie Mccallum-Mallory (he/him) is a transgender, multi-disciplinary artist. He is a playwright, photographer, projectionist, puppeteer, dancer, and sound designer. He’s interested in creating more spaces for queer artists to share space, collaborate, and create with care. His work spans from topics of sex and sexuality, kink, queer identity, and neurodivergence. He’s interested in choreographic research and the process of experimentation and discovery over polished completion.

Selected credits include: Eyes on Beginnings (Toronto Dance Theatre, 2022), TDT Emerging Artist’s Roundtable (Theatre Gargantua, 2023), Summer Company Apprentice (Clay and Paper Theatre, 2023), Queer Youth Cabaret: Queer Icons (Soulpepper, 2022), QUEERCAB: PLAYING WITH ABUNDANCE (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 2022). He is also a graduate of York University’s Theatre BFA (’23) with a focus in Performance Creation.

Reena Goze

Reena Goze (she/they) is a Filipinx-Canadian multidisciplinary theatre artist and educator from Milton, ON. Armed with a deep love of collective creation, discovery, and spicy cucumber salad, Reena seeks to learn and execute as many methods of storytelling as possible! Select acting credits: Mom/Holly/Teacher in Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (Roseneath Theatre) Everybody in Everybody; #7 Striker in The Wolves (Theatre Erindale). Select directing credits: Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties (EDSS); PHOTOGRAPH (Beck Festival of Creation). Reena is honoured to create alongside the stellar artists that is the 2023/4 Creator’s Unit, xLq, and the Paprika Festival team. <3

Reena Goze appears with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

Caleigh Adams

Caleigh (She/Her) is an emerging actor, writer and theatre creator, based in the GTA. Trained in devised and physical theatre through Humber’s Theatre Performance Program, she is drawn to socially engaged and physically rigorous projects. After spending time in film school, she hopes to combine her enthusiasm for film production with her lifelong love of theatre and pop culture. Since graduating from Humber in 2021, she has kept her craft alive by always being on the move, writing, spending time outdoors, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and doing what she calls “paid artistic research”, or what others might call “working in the service industry”. Caleigh is eager to collaborate with more extraordinary Canadian artists and create work with kindness, joy, a sense of humour and camp!