Sean MacMahon (co-creator/performer)

Originally from British Columbia, Sean moved to Toronto in 1995 with a fine art scholarship in visual arts. He studied at Ryerson Theatre School (1995-1998) and has received theatre training from Kelly McEvenue (Alexander Technique), Don MacQuarrie (Guerrilla and clown), Cirque du Soleil (Commedia del’ Arte and movement - BC. Festival of the Arts 1993), and Nicholas Harrison, csfd (combat fighting hand to hand/ fencing/ rapier/ dagger/ broadsword). Selected theatre credits include The Field (Blue Moon), The Suicide (Victoria Theatre Guild), Drinking in America (Intrepid Theatre), Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (Victoria Shakespeare Festival 1995-1997), The Duchess of Malfi (Poor Alex), Of Mice and Men (Ford Centre for the Performing Arts Studio), Crux (Toronto Fringe ’01), Crave (Dancemakers), Fusion (DNA Theatre 03), and Wheelwright (Canadia dell’ Arte 03). OOmph! Group works include me@sure 3.1 (Toronto Fringe ’99/Rivoli Nightclub/NACL festival Catskills N.Y. ‘00) , the first instalment of inertia (Canadia dell’ Arte Studio 00), inertia [phase two] (Theatre Centre 02), Exhibit (Summerworks 02, Theatre Centre 03) which he conceived and wrote, and Timeshare for the 2004 Free Fall Festival at Katherine Mulherin Art Projects. With OOmph!! Sean has been a core member and collaborator since 1999, performing as well as providing the film and video components to production. In 2002, Sean MacMahon and Kevin Rees formed emergency exit, a performance based company that would operate under a strict manifesto that would form as a guideline for the work. Under emergency exit they have produced i like you (rhubarb 02), where you are now (rhubarb 03), Telescope (short film with live music) (moving pictures festival NFB toronto 04/ Cinematheque Quebecoise PQ 05), not for all this (a little anthem before the lights go out) (HATCH harbourfront centre Toronto 03), 8 o’clock (rhubarb 04), ULTRASOUND, Calgary:Air Show, 1975 (Lab Cab Toronto 05), in-flight movie (a 72 hour performance installation) (the theatre centre 05), trilogie (freefall festival and lennox contemporary Toronto 06/ Vasistas, Theatre la Chapelle PQ 06), DISPATCH (rhubarb mini stage 06) and most recently the evening news (small craft warnings) (audience relocation/ turn left here, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto 07). Of special note: In January of 2005, emergency.exit took their piece, where you are now to the Fadjr International theatre festival in Tehran, Iran. In 2006, trilogie was nominated for two dora mavor moore awards for outstanding new independant production and outstanding sound design. www.emergencyexit.ca for more info. Very select film and Television credits include The Caveman’s Valentine (Universal Pictures), Earth: Final Conflict, Queer as Folk, Toronto- Reflections of a Nation (CBC) and Say Nothing (HBO). Coming soon: Talk To Me (Universal Pictures). Currently he is performing at luminato in toronto. .

Kevin Rees (co-creator/performer)

Kevin was born in Georgetown ON 4 years to the day before Elvis Presley’s unfortunate demise, raised in the 905 area code when there was still a 2 lane country highway between Square One and Shopper’s World.

Kevin has worked as a dishwasher, bus-boy, cinema usher, goblin, children’s ride operator, theatre technician, waiter, barrista, food-runner, bar-back, proof-reader, contruction worker,  security guard, landscaper, oil-change technician, warehouse truck-loader, prep cook, drama teacher language teacher, substitute teacher, journalist, theatre critic, .door mural painter, puppeteer (giant, hand and rod), ticket seller, set decorator, shipper, furniture mover, janitor (for the cops!), illustrator, dancer, actor and playwright. He likes the last four best.

As a theatre artist:Clay & Paper Theatre: Mael Duin, Green Man’s Return, Fornax DNA Theatre: Phalanx, 3 Prong Attack, Pas de 2 a 6, the Oomph Group: Aureola, Me@sure 3.1, Die in Debt/Platform 9: Metropolis, Megatropolis, Modern Times Stage Co.:Bloom. in thy Spite, Cauchemar Deli/ Theatre Centre: Severe Blow to the Head. Also: Aminta, Crux, Crave, Bunnyfucker, Night's Swift Dragons, Flag & Pile, Harlequin (Then & Now), Woo: Cases of Bloodletting and Natural Selection, and some more.
As a dancer he has worked for several choreographers including: DA Hoskins, Julia Sasso, Justine Chambers, Eryn Dace Trudell.
HammerHeadBrand is the company with theatre artist/ academic Sam Stedman which produced his five plays to date: Fast, Spite, Rabid (winner 2001 Summerworks Jury Award), Madder, and the yet to be finished Oubliette
With fellow writer/actor Sean MacMahon he founded emergency exit whose ever growing number of projects include: i like you, where you are now, Telescope (short film with live music), ULTRASOUND, not for all this (a little anthem before the lights go out), 8:00, Calgary Air-Show: 1975, in-flight movie, trilogie, DISPATCH, and The Evening News/small craft warnings. Trilogie was nominated for 2 Dora’s in 2006. They have performed in Toronto, but also in Tehran, and Montreal.

Kevin has also performed with multi-disciplinary group bluemouth inc. Their 5 hour epic Something About a River in 2003 won the Outstanding Independent Production Dora in 2004. Also with bluemouth inc.: the brother in What the Thunder Said, the Mule in Memory of Bombs, and a scrabble obsessed barber American Standard.
Film and teevee includes "Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire" and "Season of the Witch" and "Pillars of the Earth"
Recent theatre projects include "Tul a Folyon (Beyond the River)", and soon his "Hidden Agenda"

He lives abroad.