Kole Durnford is a Metis actor, playwright and creator originally from Stony Plain, Alberta. Kole is a 2022 graduate of the acting program at Toronto Metropolitan University. Since then, his first play, ECHO, premiered at the Theatre Centre, and was remounted at the 2022 Edmonton Fringe. Kole aims to tell stories that capture the unique experience of being young in today’s world, and maxmize the potential for audience-performer interaction that theatre as a storytelling form provides.