OAC Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators Recipients
Necessary Angel is proud to be a part of the OAC Recommender Grant program. At Necessary Angel, we're interested in new work from artists exploring the shifting nature of connection and identity through theatre, artists/art which asks the question: who are we now?, and artists exploring the human condition through their work.
We are pleased to announce our 2026 Grant Recipients!
Meagan Adam is a playwright, performer, and new-generation artist. Megan creates historically-inspired work told through a feminist lens. She has received playwright development with Expect Theatre, and has had two plays produced at Theatre by the Bay, as well as new work developed at Theatre on the Ridge. Beyond the Canadian theatre ecosystem, Megan works internationally as a performer and creator of didactic theatre with Educo Italia. Her plays experiment with form, blending past and future narratives, and include elements of magic realism.
Akosua Amo-Adem is an actor, writer, and teacher/coach based in Toronto. Throughout her career Akosua has appeared in a variety of productions around the city. Her selected credits include Soulpepper Theatre and Obsidian Theatre Companies' Table for Two (Dora nominated, which she wrote and starred in), Three Sisters (The Nigerian adaptation by Inua Ellams); Stratford Festival's Much Ado About Nothing, Death and the King's Horseman; Soulpepper Theatre's Billi, Sarah, and Ella... Pipeline, A Streetcar Named Desire, For Colored Girls... Father Comes Home From The Wars... The Crucible; Obsidian Theatre's School Girls: or the African Mean Girls Play, and Venus' Daughters. Her on screen credits include Frankie Drake Mysteries, In The Dark, Most Dangerous Game, American Gods, Children Ruin Everything, Kim's Convenience, Motor Heads, Overcompensating, Ginny & Georgia and Memory of a Killer.
Rainbow Kester is an actor, playwright and director from Lake Temagami, ON; home of her "deep water people." Rainbow has graduated from the University of Guelph in Theatre Studies and the Acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada (NTS). While at NTS, she had the joy of playing characters such as Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Yerma in Federico Lorca's Yerma. Rainbow is an artist of the truth, will, and resiliency inside all of us and everything.
Khadijah Salawu is a theatre actor, producer, and writer based in Toronto. With play at the center of her work, Khadijah creates using improv, movement and poetry in collaboration with others to weave myth and factual across space and time. Khadijah brings her love for imagination and storytelling to young people as an artist-educator at Soulpepper Theatre, tdsCREATES and St. James Town Community Arts. Select artistic credits include: Learn To Swim (2021 TIFF Selection), FreeUp! Emancipation Day Special *2020/2021 (CBC GEM, *2021 Canadian Screen Award Nominee for Best Performing Arts Program), and Ordinary Girl In A Tiara (CW/Crave).
bahia watson is an actor, writer and creator. Acting credits include Summer and Smoke (Crow's/Soulpepper/Birdland), The Comeuppance (Soulpepper) and The Welkin (Soulpepper/Crow's/Howland). Playwright credits include shaniqua in abstraction (Crow's/paul watson), MASHUP PON DI ROAD (Why Not/paul watson) and pomme is french for apple (paul watson). She was the creator of digital radio station for storytellers, PROGRAM SOUND FM (with Outside the March). She can be seen in The Handmaid's Tale, Star Trek: Discovery and The Expanse, and as an award-winning voice actor, credits include: My Little Pony, Loud House and Rugrats.
Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for the Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators program.
Necessary Angel Theatre Company is funded by the Ontario Arts Council
