Our Cast
Diego Stredel - Xisk
Diego Stredel is a Venezuelan-born, Vancouver-based actor and avid Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast. He first learned to play D&D through 5th edition six years ago and has since played in at least eight different ongoing games, and DM'd three different campaigns. He's currently running an abridged version of Curse of Strahd for a group of four. As a self-proclaimed nerd, Diego loves everything D&D (duh), Spider-Man, and Star Wars, and is working towards a career in voice-over for video games and animation. He currently spends his days doing Performance Capture as a lead in a sequel to one of video games' most popular franchises.
Emma Brager - Templar’s Verge
Emma Brager is a Calgary-based stage manager, actor, and long-time nerd. Starting way back with childhood readings of Mercedes Lackey, Tolkien, Garth Nix, and others; Emma has long enjoyed fantasy, science-fiction, and playing pretend. Discovering D&D has allowed her to bring all these passions together in one place, and she now happily fills her imagination as a player in several ongoing campaigns. When the real world does draw her away from the RPG table, Emma is most often found in her kitchen, in her garden, or out in nature enjoying the best that Southern Alberta has to offer.
Madeline Hunter Smith - Maeve Maldorava
Madeline Hunter Smith is a performer, clown, and award-winning playwright based in Mohkínstsis/Calgary, Alberta. She is also a two-time recipient of the Play Right Prize for her plays Carnaticum (2018) and Silica (2019), and has worked with Alberta Playwright’s Network through their Emerging Playwright Mentorship Program. She has recently plunged headfirst into digital theatre during the pandemic with companies including Verb Theatre and Theatre BSMT, writing, workshopping, and producing original works such as i, gatekeeper and HELLO KATE (as part of the Bonnidale series). Madeline currently uses her personal artistic practice to explore the fundamental experiences of female-identifying people through writing and devising high-fantasy horror for the stage and other media (and, of course, playing D&D).
Griffin Cork - Gideon Sweets
Griffin Cork is a Canadian actor and producer who has been working in the film and television industry for over a decade, with his first film role in Grade 5 acting alongside Matthew Perry (Friends, The Whole Nine Yards) in the feature film The Ron Clark Story. Since then, he has worked with Stephen Amell (Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Maggie Grace (Lost, Taken) in the TV Movie When Calls The Heart and Colm Feore (Thor, Chicago) in the feature film Everfall. You might recognize his voice as General Octonus in Tobot: Galaxy Detectives on Netflix. Griffin can be seen on CBC’s Heartland, or his series Abracadavers on Amazon Prime and The Fantasy Network
Kevin Cork - Dungeon Master
Kevin Cork has been a DM for over 20 years. Trained as an actor in the previous century, he has 11 years experience as an improvisor and been involved with various (old and new) school media as it has advanced. He has published books, acted Shakespeare professionally, helped Superman dance, helped GenXers invest for retirement, been interviewed on national TV and in international magazines, ran AOL forums, taught 700 Boomers how to take Instagram selfies and terrorized children as the Green Goblin