The People
Trevor Copp (he/him), Artistic Director
Trevor founded Tottering Biped Theatre (TBT) in 2009, a professional company that emphasizes highly physical and social-issue-oriented work. He completed Theatre Studies at Waterloo, an MA at Guelph, and Mime at the Marcel Marceau School in Paris.
As a devised theatre co-creator, Trevor performed/co-created in TBT’s First Dance, The Second Life, Searching for Marceau, Bulfinch's Mythology, and MT Space’s The Last 15 Seconds, Body 13, and Amal. These 6 shows performed multiple times at the Theatre Passe Muraille, Grand Theatre, Firehall Theatre, and as part of Theatre Aquarius seasons, IMPACT (x5), Magnetic North, Prismatic, Undercurrents, In the Soil, Grand River, and Canoe festivals. They were also taken on national tours and a tour of the Middle East, Tunisia, Egypt, Germany, and Albania. As an actor, he also performed in TBT’s Thom Pain, Home Free, and The Ends of the Earth; Oakville Festival of the Classics’ Pericles; Theatre & Company’s Beauty and the Beast, Metamorphosis, Ten Times Two, and Barefoot in the Park; and Motus O Dance Theatre’s The Shunning.
Trevor is also a former latin/ballroom dance competitor and has coached Canada’s 2 sets of World Amateur Salsa Champions. He co-invented a gender neutral form of partner dancing whose TED.com talk has garnered 800,000 views and led to further international speaking engagements. Trevor went from street busking to professional mime and creating/touring solo physical shows 'Physical Illusions' and 'Carnival of Animals' which have performed to over 40,000 audience members. He is currently on the performer's rooster with Cirque du Soleil. He has taught/coached physical Theatre for The Shaw Festival, CanStage/Studio 180, Theatre Beyond Words, Pat the Dog Playwright Centre, Zacada Circus, Irish Classical Theater, The Iberoamerican Festival in Bogota, and in the university theatre departments of Guelph, Waterloo, Niagara, Brock and McMaster. He has been recognized with the Hamilton Theatre Award, the Burlington Artist of the Year Award, the Ontario Presenters Artist of the Year Award, and a Chalmer’s Fellowship. His work has been featured in the Canadian Theatre Review, TED.com, CBC Television, WholeNote, and the Dance Current. Trevor's practice as an artist is captured here.
Alma Sarai (she/her), Associate Artistic Director/Manager of Summer Shakespeare Series
Alma is an artist and arts advocate from Burlington, ON and a proud graduate from the Theatre and Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto-Mississauga joint program with Sheridan College. With roots in Hamilton, Alma has sung with the Hamilton Children's Choir, performed and taught at Theatre Aquarius' various programmes, and danced since the tender age of 3. She is currently an actor and Associate Producer with Tottering Biped Theatre, an actor with 'It's a Mystery to Me,' and has gone international with TLV's "Escape Show" facilitating online escape rooms. Alma also works with various other local education programs, helping to promote youth education and development through the arts.
With Tottering Biped Theatre, Alma is the Associate Producer and has played in every "Shakespeare by Nature" since its conception in 2016. Credits with TBT include Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Malvolia in Twelfth Night, Trinculo/Gonzalo in The Tempest and Phebe/Celia/Silvius in As She Likes It. For the Summer Shakespeare Project she has been the Executive Director since 2020.
Other credits include Canadian Screen Award Winner “Patty vs. Patty,” Acting ensemble in the COC’s “The Cunning Little Vixen,” and Sandy the Starfish in “Finny the Shark.”
Lee Shirk, Accountant
'Money makes the world go 'round....'
TBT's Board
Colin Umbach, President
‘I disregard you entirely and declare myself emperor’ – from ‘The Insect Play’
Henny Hamilton, Vice President
‘Common sense is not so common.’ – Voltaire
Adrial Fitzgerald, Board Member
‘They should have never let me use the alphabet.’ - Will Eno, Tragedy: A Tragedy
Alma Sarai, Board Member
'Okay, That's- that's me. Call me, we can talk more about it.' -Michael Cera
Rebecca Durance Hine, Board Member
'We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering.' - Mystery Men
