Reflections + Refractions Company Members
David Archibald
David Archibald has written for and performed on CBC’s Mr. Dressup and Sesame Street in New York. His song ‘Me & My Chair’ (a Sesame Street video about a young boy in wheelchair) has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube.  He’s been a featured performer at such venues as Toronto’s Yonge/Dundas Square, Queen’s Park and Harbourfront. As a singer/songwriter, he has recorded with RCA and performed at many festivals and clubs such as Hugh’s Room, the Black Sheep Inn and the Riverboat. David also produced the first recording of pop star Avril Lavigne.  He received the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Musical Direction for Theatre Calgary’s Dear Johnny Deere. The Kingston Symphony performed David’s Symphonia Galactia, which was commissioned by astronomer Terence Dickinson. His award-winning song writing workshops are popular across Canada. David is well known in Canada’s National and Provincial Parks for his original songs celebrating our natural and cultural history. As a founding member of PeerLess Productions, he has helped bring mixed-ability productions such as Judith Thompson’s Rare, Jacob Ballantyne’s Down Syndrome by the Dozen and PeerLess’ We’re All in Jeopardy to the stage. David has led workshops at the H’art Centre for more than fifteen years.
​Jacob Ballantyne
For PeerLess Productions: Performer - Rare; Playwright/Performer - Down Syndrome by the Dozen, Creator/Performer - We’re All in Jeopardy. Jacob’s love for movies earned him the ability of borrowed language. As a toddler, Jacob borrowed language from his movies to appropriately and quickly respond to questions or requests, at a time when his own language skills were not yet polished enough to formulate a sentence. Most often these "one liners" would carry the intonation and body language of the character from which it was borrowed. This very early talent has gone on to assist him to memorize large blocks of information.  Jacob also enjoys, swimming, camping, hiking, skating, reading, writing songs and story lines, drawing characters, and being a responsible and loving Uncle. 
Erin Bennett
For PeerLess Productions: Performer - Rare, Down Syndrome by the Dozen, Performer/Creator - We’re All in Jeopardy. Erin Is a 26 year old actor who has been involved in a number of productions with the Limestone Travelling Theatre Troupe.  In 2010 she debuted as a stepsister in a production of Cinderella.  Since then she has played the role of the mother in Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel.  She played the page in Rumplestiltskin and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet. Erin is a busy young lady and takes great pride volunteering at the hospitals in Kingston when she is not on the ice training as a competitive Figure Skater.  In her spare time Erin enjoys listening to music, watching movies and travelling the world with her family.
Natasha Daw
​For PeerLess Productions: Performer - Rare, Co-composer/Performer - Down Syndrome by the Dozen. Performer/Composer - We’re All in Jeopardy. Natasha Daw is an energetic young woman who engages everyone that she meets with her charismatic personality. Natasha travels and performs weekends with her family's gospel music group www.theproverbs.com and was most recently featured in the podcast Voices from the Past: A Retrospective from Prince Edward Heights. Off stage, Natasha enjoys her computer, interacting with family and friends (in person and via social media) and is also an avid amateur photographer.
Ashaya Garrett
For PeerLess Productions: Performer - Rare, Down Syndrome by the Dozen, Performer/Creator We’re All in Jeopardy. Ashaya began taking drama in high school and loved it! She has loved movies since she was a little girl, in fact learning and modelling lines from the shows she watched. Doing so, she learned to memorize things as she could recite scenes from the movies. Ashaya loves music, movies, dancing, basketball and swimming. She is a lovable kind young lady. With a heart of gold.
John Gwynne-Timothy
John Gwynne-Timothy, age 22, moved to Kingston from Prince Edward County with his family in 2013. Prior to 2009 he lived in the Niagara region. ​ John is an aspiring dummer and Special Olympics athlete  (basketball and baseball) who works at Starbucks Future’s Gate. He also enjoys cycling, guitar playing, singing, working out at the Y and travelling. In recent years John has loved watching theatre productions and partaking in smaller roles at H’Art and with Peerless Productions. He is currently performing with H’Art in their pop-opera Happy.  John looks forward to having more opportunities to express himself and to move audiences through theatre productions.
Kathryn MacKay
For PeerLess Productions: Director - We’re All in Jeopardy, Rare, Down Syndrome by the Dozen. Kathryn is a founding member and former Associate Artistic Director of the Thousand Islands Playhouse and the former Artistic Director/General Manager of Theatre Kingston. She has directed for theatres across Canada including acting as dramaturge/director for 25 Canadian theatre premieres. She currently lives in Kingston.
Jesse MacMillan
Jesse MacMillan is the Technical Director of the Festival of Live Digital Arts (FOLDA) and the Arts Stage Technician at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston, ON.  He also teaches and coaches students at the National Theatre School of Canada in Live Stream Production.  Through his work in live performances in Kingston, Jesse has designed and operated lighting for hundreds of musical performances and events. In the past, Jesse has designed sound and composed music for shows with Theatre Kingston, County Stage, Domino Theatre and Salon Theatre.  He has also (sometimes) appears on stage with credits including Million Dollar Quartet (Thousand Islands Playhouse), What a Young Wife Ought to Know (Theatre Kingston) and Down Syndrome by the Dozen (Peerless Productions) and appeared alongside his partner, Anna Sudac, in the 2017 feature Live in Kingston.  Jesse loves the challenges each production brings and finds his work with Kathryn, David, and the whole Peerless crew develops his artistic abilities and deepens his friendships with his colleagues. 
Nathan Sikkema
For PeerLess Productions: Performer - Rare, Down Syndrome by the Dozen, Performer/Creator We’re All in Jeopardy. Nathan began his acting career at the age of 4 during a school play when he adlibbed a walk on role into a one liner.  Nathan has had parts in, ‘It’s About Time’, Talking Myself, Stone Soup Revisited, Newton and Alice and other H’Art  musicals. Nathan is also involved in ‘Limestone Players Travelling Theatre Troupe’. Nathan is also an avid Special Olympic Athlete, winning the ‘Athlete’ of the year award in 2012. His favourite sports are swimming, skating, basketball, and cheerleading. When he isn’t acting or playing sports, Nathan sends out e-mails to friend and family, writes stories, and watches ‘The Next Step’, to learn new dance moves. 
Anna Sudac
Anna is a Kingston based performing artist, musician, playwright and director. She performs with several local bands, and has appeared in and co-created musicals, stage plays, radio plays and staged readings with Thousand Islands Playhouse, Theatre Kingston, PeerLess Productions, Calliope Collective, Single Thread, and The Makers and Shakers Society.  Anna has toured original musicals to schools from coast to coast with SALON Theatre, and in 2021, was composer/musical director of How to Build a Sandcastle at Thousand Islands Playhouse. She has presented original pieces in the Toronto Fringe, Storefront Fringe and Kick & Push festivals, starred in Jay Middaugh's 2017 film LIVE in Kingston, and is a principal narrator of Tourism Kingston’s “Creative Kingston Walking Tours” (in both English and French!)