Who is Brenda Kamino?

  • A 40 year veteran stage, TV, film and radio actor
  • Actor/creator at Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Young Peoples’ Theatre, Cahoots Theatre Projects, fu-Gen Theatre
  • A former member of the Shaw Festival Acting Company
  • Director, mentor, writer and dramaturge
  • Performer in the Dora Nominated “Naomi’s Road”
  • Performer at National Arts Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Theatre, Aquarius, the Centaur in Montreal and The Citadel in Edmonton
  • Actor, host, narrator in over 100 T.V., radio and film productions, including regular and recurring in three series
  • 25 year acting teacher including Theatre Ontario, the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Tarragon’s Spring Arts Fair, and Young Peoples’ Theatre
  • Private coach and teacher
  • Cultural Activist and speaker
  • Advocate for Equitable Participation in film and theatre for over 30 years
  • Winner of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association’s 2005 Larry McCance Award for her work in diversity and Non-Traditional Casting
  • Jurist: Dora Mavor Moore Awards – TYA, General Theatre and Independent Theatre as well as Community Theatre Adjudicator for Act-Co
  • Former Humber College Theatre Performing Arts Advisory Board member (9 years)
  • Producer – Emerald City Theatre Company and Renaissance Canadian Theatre Company (with Andrew Moodie)