ANNE-MARIE KRYTIUK

Anne-Marie is a Toronto-based Dora nominated actor, singer, dancer, writer and laugher. She has also emceed four weddings.
 

As the Ukrainian voice of Elections Canada, Anne-Marie has voiced multiple ad campaigns. She has performed in plays, musicals, readings, and improv sets, locally in Toronto. Anne-Marie coaches dialect and has toured internationally as a Ukrainian dancer. The first published play listing her as an original cast member was Linda McCready's The Living Library.

 

She premiered an excerpt of her one-woman show, plus None at Comedy Bar during the Firecracker Department March 2024 Comedy Cafe. In 2023, Anne-Marie worked as Assistant Dramaturge for The Stratford Festival's Encountering Ukraine: Readings in Solidarity. In 2021, she performed in Guild Festival Theatre's Dora nominated Alice in Wonderland, which won the 2022 Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award.

Anne-Marie has written and starred in three short films: No Breakfast, The Perfect Cup, and How She Eats Her Cookies. No Breakfast earned her BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT at the Paris International Short Festival. Perfect Cup won BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY at the Hawaii International Film Awards and BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY at the Melbourne Independent Film Festival. Her short story, The Anchor, placed 8th in its category, in the 2022 NYC Midnight 250-word Microfiction Challenge. Another short story, Happy Birthday, Pearl! received an honourable mention in the Firecracker Writing Department's 2022 Short Story Challenge. 

As a child, she was quiet and polite...apart from occasional standing on restaurant booths and singing at the top of her lungs. Anne-Marie was recently told that fellow restaurant patrons applauded at the end of those “performances”. Maybe that’s when it all began.