JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM CAST (2006)

MARSHA LEDERMAN
Narrator
CANTOR TIBOR KOVARI
Abraham/High Priest/Ashkenazi Cantor
MICHELE TREDGER
Sarah/Yocheved/Sephardi Woman
YEHEZKEL LIPINSKY
Isaac/Ashkenazi Boy
JASON ALLEN
Moses/Ezekiel/Sephardi Man
EYAL BITTON
Conductor, Composer, Librettist

MARSHA LEDERMAN is the national arts reporter for CBC Radio. She has been with the CBC since 2000 after spending more than a decade in private radio, where she worked as a talk show host, reporter and newscaster. Since joining CBC Radio, Marsha has hosted Ontario Morning, read news on Metro Morning and Ontario Morning, and worked as the Coordinating News Producer for CBC Radio in British Columbia. As a freelance writer, she has contributed to a number of publications, including Elle Canada, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. In addition, Marsha has published some of her own poetry and short stories. Marsha has two degrees. She is a graduate of Ryerson University's Radio and Television Arts Program, and also has her B.A. in English Literature from York University. She has also taught at the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. If Marsha had any spare time, she would hike, take up piano lessons again and write the great Canadian novel. [TOP]

CANTOR TIBOR KOVARI , a native of Cluj, Romania, has warmed our hearts since becoming the Hazzan at Beth Tikvah in June, 2003. He joined us from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he served as Cantor, mentor, teacher, and youth leader in the Beth Israel Synagogue. In Bucharest, Tibor served as an acting Rabbi and Cantor. Currently, Tibor is working on developing musical talent within Beth Tikvah. He is studying music with Helen Greenberg and voice with David Dunbar. Tibor has initiated several new youth and young adult choirs as well as a shul band. He continues to sing regularly with the Beth Tikvah Choir. [TOP]

MICHELE TREDGER, a graduate of Randolph Academy and McGill University, reprised the role of Bathsheba in King David at the Winter Garden Theatre, has appeared in Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding, Les Mers Rouges, The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor, and HMS Pinafore (Drayton Festival Theatre). TV & film credits include CTV's The Eleventh Hour, Mayday, award-winning Holocaust docudrama Undying Love, Abandon, and guest host of Bravo's The Actors and The Producers. [TOP]

YEHEZKEL LIPINSKY, born in June 1992, loves to sing. He has sung with the Renanim Youth Singers for 4 years and in concerts with Cantor Yaakov Motzen at Shaarei Shomayim in 2002, 2003 and 2004. For Yom HaShoah 2005 he sang in a duet "Eli Eli" at the Earl Bales commemoration and has been invited back this year. He has also sung in the Associated Hebrew Schools Choir and played various roles in The BJCC's Centre Camp/Centre Stage Division. His family belongs to Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue where he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah. [TOP]

JASON ALLEN is very happy to be performing under the ambitious eye of Eyal Bitton again. Favourite roles include the title characters in Eyal Bitton's musicals King David, The Musical and Moses, The Musical Saga, as well as Wedding Singer, Donny Dolce in Tony and Tina's Wedding and a recent stint in the Toronto cast of The Decide Show. Look for him this spring in the National Geographic Network's documentary, The Great Quake. Jason would like to thank his partner in crime, Phil for endless love and support. [TOP]