Kiki is a grade 10 student in the Integrated Arts Program at Eastwood Collegiate Institute. She has competed at the Stratford Kiwanis Festival, OMFA provincial finals, and NATS. Last summer she played Minnie in the Canadian premier of The Battle of Boat with The Singers Theater. She is very excited to perform in Anne of Green Gables and thanks everyone involved for their hard work.

Talitha enjoys musical performance, and is nearly 12 years old. She has taken on major and minor roles in dramatic productions such as Matilda and Mulan.

She won 1st place singing in school competitions in 2019 and 2023. She performed both songs with choreography that she came up with herself.

Talitha thinks that the arts festivals are one of the most exciting things about Stratford. She is so glad to be able to meet and work with professionals in the field of music and acting. Her dream is to pursue it further and make it a career.

Ilona can typically be found behind the scenes organizing events, helping backstage, and being her family's glue. In a bit of a change from the usual, she decided it would be fun to be a citizen of Avonlea (and she was right). She says thank you to Anne's incredible creative team and her fabulous family.

Ella Cave is a grade 4 student from Perth East. This is her first time singing in the Kiwanis festival. Ella loves basketball, art, photography, cooking and music. Ella has been enjoying singing lessons for 2 years now and has been singing with her Dad since she was a toddler.

Elizabeth has been involved in community theatre in Stratford and St Mary's for many years, and loves to sing in choirs when she can. She works at the United Way Perth Huron as a fundraiser and is a freelance writer for Huron Perth Boomers Magazine. She is honoured to be part of the "great workers for the cause" called Kiwanis Music Festival!

Esmé is a Grade 5 student at Romeo public school. This is her first year at the Kiwanis Festival and is really enjoying it. She is a dancer at On Stage dance studio and comes from a theatre family so she has been to lots of festivals. She is currently playing the Queen of Hearts in her school production of Alice in Wonderland. She enjoys dance, acting, singing, and badminton. She would like to thank her friends and family who have supported her throughout this program.

Elena's dream growing up was to be an opera singer. Well, that, and changing the world! Careerwise she entered the field of human rights but art has always been an important part of her life journey. She's been a member of her school choir and in an a cappella women group in Romania, her native country, but Anne of Green Gables is her first musical. Her love of art brought her to St. Marys where her visual artist partner and herself transformed a historical house into a private art gallery/museum. More info: www.artofideasgallery.com. Chocolate is also an important part of her life.

Maija, a fourth-grader from Stratford, has been taking vocal lessons for one year. She loves art, singing, acro, and playing with friends and her cat, Sophie. Stepping onto the stage for her first-ever performance, she's excited about the learning and growth she's experienced through this adventure, thanks to the wonderful creative team.

Sarah is a Stratford local who's very pleased to sing with this fabulous group. In her free time she enjoys finding creative ways to have less free time. Enjoy the show!

Rose is a grade 5 student in Stratford. She studies singing and piano with Brooke Dufton and has performed in NATS and ORMTA festivals. This is her first Kiwanis Festival, and she is loving being part of Anne of Green Gables! She also loves art, creating stories and spending time with her animals, friends and family.

Lorraine is a retired lady, who has been singing since her 1-room S.S.#6 Hibbert school days, when the Music teacher traveled from School to School to give classes. She sang in the Mitchell High School Glee Club in the 1970's and has been a member of the Sing for the Joy of It Community Choir for several sessions. She actually visited the Anne of Green Gables Heritage Site in PEI but had never seen any stage productions of this familiar story. Lorraine has now stepped out of her comfort zone to participate in the Anne: The Musical. And is thoroughly enjoying the process and working with the Cast and Creative Team. Thanks goes to all her past (and present) Music teachers, and those who encouragement and support mean so much.

Jonah Aron Manley is 17 years old and home schooled. He enjoys writing
and telling stories, as well as singing and playing the piano.

Linda lives on a farm outside Stratford with her husband and quite a few sheep. She was inspired by the Anne show in Charlottetown last summer.

Gordon is very excited to be a part of Anne of Green Gables with this wonderful group of people. He is in Grade 4 at Bedford Public School. Last year his class participated in Kiwanis and the Ontario Music Festival for choral singing. Gordon played Pirate Captain in BPS's junior musical production of "High Seas."
In his spare time he enjoys playing hockey, baseball, soccer, piano, and rubik's cube.

Aoife Odell is a Grade 6 student at Little Falls Public School in St. Marys. She likes listening to music, editing videos, sketching, geography, reading and cubing. She has been taking vocal lessons for two years. This is her first year singing solo at Kiwanis and though she's scared out of her wits, she's excited and very happy to be in the Anne of Green Gables production.

Carol grew up in Stratford, attending opera ( first opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors on T.V. In 1957 ), operettas, ballet, and chamber recitals, and competing in the Kiwanis Music Festival. She has sung in choirs most of her life, and has appeared in several amateur and university productions in choral, dance, instrumental, and walk-on roles. She holds a degree in music history from U.of T., where she concentrated on early music. As pianist, she has played in many solo and collaborative recitals in Stratford and area. She is music director at Community of Christ.

Meredith teaches organizational behaviour and leadership at Wilfrid Laurier University. Locally, she has sung with Sing For The Joy of It and Festival Sounds Chorus. A fellow freckleface, Meredith has loved Anne and her musical for decades. She lives in Stratford with her husband Tristan and their black lab, Midnight.