Polly Jean Vernon (she/her) has been working in the film and television industry since 1998. As a props master she has made films with directors Atom Egoyan, Sarah Polley, and Brian DePalma; as a scenic carpenter she has built offices and caves and spaceships and apartments on all sizes of shows. She has worked as a construction coordinator and head carpenter building scenery for television, films, and commercials. She has traveled to Eastern Europe, Central America and South Africa as a production designer, and to northern Ontario as an art director. Most recently she worked as a carpenter on CTV’s Shelved, with a core construction department consisting of more women than men for the first time in her career. She is an advocate for transgender folks and women in the trades, by necessity; in 2021 she founded the Alliance of Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Tradespeople, to connect and support transgender people in the trades. She is also a musician and will be releasing her third full-length album next month on her own label, No Dogma Records. 

Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves is a Canadian actor, born and raised in Toronto. She currently recurs as Sarita Stark in CTV’s The Spencer Sisters and has played recurring roles in HBO Max/CBC Gem’s award-winning comedy, Sort Of, FX’s Y: The Last Man, and National Geographic's The Hot Zone. Guest star roles include Star Trek Discovery, Kim’s Convenience, Private Eyes, and Designated Survivor, among others. Select film credits include Tammy’s Always Dying starring Felicity Huffman, Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor, and Don’t Hang Up starring Wendell Pierce and Lauren Holly. She is currently writing her first comedic series titled, Disagreeable.