Luba Goy, an original member of Canada's popular comedy troupe, Royal Canadian Air Farce, is one of this country's most beloved comedic actors. In Luba, Simply Luba, we are invited into her colourful and astonishing life. From her Ukrainian childhood to high honours at Rideau Hall, Luba Goy's journey has been filled with both comedy and tragedy. This one-woman show features glimpses of Luba at various ages along with forty-plus other characters--including her family and friends, Canadian prime ministers and other famous personalities, and even a few animals.

Diane Flacks is a writer/performer. She recently completed her first book: Bear With Me... What They Don’t Tell You about Pregnancy and New Motherhood, published by McClelland and Stewart; and available nationwide. In the fall of 2006, she adapted it for a live solo performance, which toured to London’s Grand Theatre. It has also been invited to Montreal’s Just For Laugh’s Festival. In April/May 2006, her play, Care, written and performed with Richard Greenblatt, ran at the Tarragon Theatre. Diane is writing a new screenplay, The Progressive Dinner, with director Laurie Lynd, and a new play, The Five Stages, with Bev Cooper for Nightwood Theatre.

She is currently developing a new comedy television series called Here It Is, with the Heroic Film Company. She has created and toured three hit solo shows: Myth Me, (which toured nationally and to HBO studios in Los Angeles), By A Thread produced at the Tarragon (which twice toured to La Mama Theatre in New York City, was adapted for CBC television, and was nominated for a Dora Award), and Random Acts, produced by Nightwood Theatre, directed by Alisa Palmer. Random Acts was published in an anthology by Playwrights Canada Press in 2006.
Written and performed with Richard Greenblatt was the critically acclaimed play Sibs, produced twice by the Tarragon to sell-out crowds. It was nominated for the Chalmers Playwrighting award, and published in spring 2002 by Playwright’s Canada Press. Diane and Richard adapted Sibs for a CBC television movie that first aired in the fall of 2003. As an actor she has appeared in films and Canadian episodic TV series, and in numerous roles in Canadian theatres including The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine for Theatre Columbus, The Theory of Relatives (which she co-created) at the Tarragon, and The Serpent Woman for Theatre Smith Gilmour.

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Luba Goy is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and is immensely proud of her Ukrainian heritage. Goy has won many awards and received countless honours with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, including the Gemini Humanitarian Award, the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, 15 ACTRA Awards, a JUNO, a Gemini and a Star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Her play Luba, Simply Luba won the 2014 Kobzar Literary Award.

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Andrey Tarasiuk is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and the National Theatre School of Canada. He was the founding producer of The Dream in High Park, the Toronto Free Theatre/Canadian Stage outdoor Shakespeare production; he served as the artistic producer of Theatre Direct Canada, and was associate artistic director and head of new play development at the Stratford Festival for eight years. Andrey has received a number of awards and distinctions, including both the Derek. F. Mitchell Artistic Director’s Award and the Tyrone Guthrie Award from the Stratford Festival. He is the co-recipient of the Kobzar Literary Award for the play Luba, Simply Luba.

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