Team
Shanice is a multiple award-winning actor and clown. Her comedy-clown show 'Mail Ordered' is the winner of 3 Canadian Awards; the Pick of the Fringe award (Vancouver), Patron's Pick Award (Toronto) and the Jester's Cap Emerging Artist Award (Calgary) and was nominated for the 'Artistic Risk' award at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.
She was also a featured artist in the award winning production 'Dance to Death' for El Festival Del Grec in Barcelona. She has worked internationally with Flamenco Dance maestro Antonio Vargas, UK Director David Glass, Spanish director Alberto Velasco, and Broadway Jazz choreographer Sue Samuels. Her work on-screen includes commercial brands such as Pokemon, McDonald’s, Twitch and Traveloka and the Singaporean webseries NSFTV.
She has has trained with the contemporary clown theatre company, Spymonkey(UK), E'cole Phillipe Gaulier (Paris) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.In addition to her acting and producing career, Shanice is a creative entrepreneur and the founder of Creatives Inspirit, a Singapore-based creative arts company. With her company, she teaches clown, play-based and dance workshops with diverse communities around the world.
Shanice Stanislaus
Creator/Performer
Aaron Coates
Director
Aaron is a Canadian director, writer, and actor. Directing credits include: Ticket to Love, The Bat, Figaro’s Wedding, NYC Meets YYC, Prison Divas, Archibaldo, The Bachelor, La Bohème, The Phantom of the Opera Sing-Along, The Sound of Music Sing-Along (Cowtown Opera); Nemorino and the Magic Potion, Cinderella, The Magic Flute, The Scorpions’ Sting, Hansel and Gretel, Hannaraptor (Calgary Opera); The After Party, The Way of All Fish (Lunchbox Theatre); Dying City (Pangloss), The Old Neighborhood (Rogues Theatre), Iraq and Back (Ghost River Theatre), and The End of the Rope (Vertigo Theatre).
Aaron spent nine seasons as Co-Artistic Producer of Dirty Laundry, Calgary’s live improvised soap opera, where he directed over 150 episodes. He is also an instructor at Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio in Calgary, Canada.
Michele Lim
Producer
Michele is an independent producer, arts educator and arts management consultant from Singapore. This is her second production with Shanice. She produced for Shanice in her first production ‘La Mariposa Borracha’, a community based performance project involving caregivers and people suffering from illness.
Producing credits include: Kingdoms Apart by Chong Tze Chien, an Esplanade commission for Esplanade’s new Singtel Waterfront Theatre which opens in 2022, Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea… by A Yagnya part of Esplanade’s Kalaa Utsavam Festival 2022; Alice’s Topsy Turvy Tea Party by Melissa Quek and The Kueh Tutus presented at Esplanade’s inaugural March On Festival in 2021; 《六根不宁》 I Came At Last to the Seas, conceived & directed by Kuo Jian Hong, an Esplanade Huayi Festival commission(2018); Returning《回归》conceived by Mdm Goh Lay Kuan commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Arts 2015; Dream Country, A Lost Monologue conceived by Marion D’Cruz, commissioned by the Singapore Arts Festival 2012.
Michele is a founder member of the Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA), Centre 42 Ltd, SCAB Ltd and STYAR, the Singapore Theatre for Young Audience Research (Collective).
Caaryn Sadoway
Production Stage Manager
Caaryn Sadoway is Stage Manager, born and raised in Canmore, Alberta. She loves art, video games, and spreadsheets.
Select credits include: Off The Beaten Path and Stories of Arlyrus (2020-present, The Musicals of Tory Doctor), The Canmore Summer Theatre Festival (2022, 2020, 2019, and 2018, Pinetree Players) Mary Jane (June 2022, Fire Exit Theatre) Bard on Bower Festival (2021, Prime Stock Theatre Co), Seeking Freedom (2021) and Soul Stories (2019) (Ariole K. Alei & Arts Place Canmore).
Eugene Yip
With over 15 years of experience in the vocal music industry, Eugene began in the American A Cappella circles with the CARA, RARB, and ICCA award winning group Gentlemen (GMen) which led to his involvement in the Blues circuit in New York City. Upon returning to Singapore, he has continued to light up stages with MICappella, clinching awards for their bilingual vocal band performances, with songs charting from both their debut (Here We Go), subsequent albums (Reloaded) and (Love, MICappella), as well as signing a record deal with Universal Music.
As a Music Producer/Coach, Eugene has worked with acts such as The Sam Willows, The Glad Stones, Celina Kimble, Bear Culture, Jawn Chan, as well as Music Directorial/Supervisory roles in the theatre space with productions such as “Big Brown Girl”, “Kidstart Undersea Adventures”, and the cross-continent “Mail Ordered”—using his signature production and coaching styles in and out of the recording studio to bring out the best the talents have to offer. Additionally Eugene has songwriting and production credits with various companies and artistes including Reuby (Warner Music), his own band MICappella, and UMPG—charting on iTunes, Spotify, Long Hu Ban, CARA, reviewed with the highest honours on RARB, and winning accolades from the Hong Kong Asian Pop Music Festivals.”
Music Director
Yu Ting has worked on projects with international brands such as Marvel, Disney, Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel. He also works on may projects with major brands here in Singapore.
Prior to GRYD, he worked at the Full Sail Dubbing Stage on several short and feature films after graduating with a BSc Degree in Recording Arts (Salutatorian Honours) from Full Sail University in Florida, USA. After this he moved to New York City to work as a Sound Editor on many reality documentaries.
Yu Ting discovered his passion for Film Sound while studying Digital Media and 3D Animation at Singapore Polytechnic. He observed and understood the importance of good sound to bring out the best in any form of visual media.
Yu Ting hopes to bring film sound in Singapore to the next level by raising awareness of the importance of good sound in visual media.
Yen Yu Ting
Sound Designer
Yuan Jie is the Production Assistant and Graphic Designer for Mail Ordered. He designed many of the shows graphics, and hopes that you, the audience, have enjoyed reading it!
Ng Yuan Jie
Production Assistant
A Royal Central School of Speech and Drama acting graduate , Dennis dabbles in rap and plays the violin.
Dennis' Singapore stage credits include: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Singapore Repertory Theatre), An Inspector Calls (W!LD RICE), The Change (Gangguan Theatre), Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap (How Drama), McBeat and the Lil Shake Crew (Esplanade FYI, co-writer) Tartuffe (W!LD RICE) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (Singapore Repertory Theatre), Skin (Toy Factory), The Hawker (The Second Breakfast Company)
His international stage credits include: Mail Ordered (Vancouver Fringe Festival, Winner of Pick of the Fringe), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Engineer Theatre, London)
IG: @densofian
Dennis Sofian
Cast
Andrea Greening
Cast
Andrea Greening is a Calgary-based performer and 25+ year Veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. She is a graduate of the Master Class Program at Company of Rogues Actors' Studio in Calgary. She has studied Improv at Dad's Garage, Atlanta and Clown with Jon Davison, Christopher Bayes and The Completely Ridiculous Conservatory. She is a founding member of Night Ducks, the Calgary based artists' collective working to showcase dynamic female characters "past the slippery season of youth." Her recent credits include Tunnel at the End of the Light by Jonathan Guy Lewis (Alumnae Theatre, Toronto), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe, UK), Phaedra by Euripides (Hydrama, Greece), Seagulls by Caryl Churchill (Night Ducks, Outstanding Production at the Calgary One-Act Festival), Bluebirds by Vern Thiessen (Night Ducks), and The Last of Us (HBO). Andrea is represented by RJ Talent, Calgary.
Nathan Crockett
Cast
Nathan Crockett is an emerging artist from Calgary who has had the great honor and pleasure to work on "Mail Ordered" He has a knack for comedy and has a fiery passion for acting whether it be film, theatre or voice over. He graduated from the Masterclass Program at Company of Rogues Actors Studio in Calgary and had kept busy in the arts since. He was part of the inaugural Theatrical Engagement Team at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo in the summer of 2022 and has been nominated for a Calgary Armature Theater (CAT) award for his role in the farce No Sex Please, We're British. Nathan loves to collaborate with his peers and create shows from the ground up. Recently he worked with the Night Ducks, Andrea Greening's theatre company, to play the role of Cliff in Seagulls by Caryll Churchill which won a regional one act festival. He also was a part of a one minute film festival where he collaborated with a team of Company of Rogue peers to make a one minute film for the "Got a Minute" Film Festival in Calgary and Edmonton, Nathan, being the writer of the original script. Recently, this year, Nathan did his first touring show as a puppeteer called A Dinosaur Tale where he played a multitude of dinosaur puppets in a show that went as far east as Winnipeg and as far West as Vancouver island! On Nathan's downtime you can see him playing his favorite games, tabletop and video games alike. Nathan is excited to be working in the arts and enjoys meeting new people with every project he does and hopes to keep the ball rolling and to keep working on amazing projects like "Mail Ordered"