Our Dora-award winning Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) show, now booking for spring 2026!
A Theatre Direct production created by Animacy Theatre Collective
Nominated for 5 Dora Mavor Moore Awards
Winner: Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play – Theatre for Young Audiences
A hilarious and heartfelt play exploring friendship, growing up, and the annual salmon run, featuring puppetry, clown, and live music. Finding Home has been performed in parks, schools, theatres, and festivals across the GTA since 2021!
Inseparable since they were spawned, Beagle and Sojo are best (salmon) friends from Lake Ontario and the self-proclaimed rockstars of the fish world. They do everything together until one day, Beagle doesn’t feel like a little fish in a little pond anymore. She’s ready to make the big trip for the big “change” upstream on the Humber River. Will Sojo join her?
From one of Canada’s leading theatres for young audiences and nominated for five Dora Mavor Moore awards and winner of Best New Play for Young Audiences, Finding Home: A Salmon Journey Upstream, is a heartfelt story full of child-friendly humour about the formidable bonds between best friends since birth. This inspiring piece of children’s theatre, accompanied by a live band, is a beautiful story suitable for the whole family.
Please be advised: this show contains themes of death/dying.
Finding Home will be on tour across Ontario Spring 2026. Some tour spots are still available – reach out to [email protected] for booking info.
Click here to find our updated tour stops and to view the trailer!
Cast and Creative Team
Creators and Performers: Alexandra Simpson and Morgan Brie Johnson
Director and Dramaturge: Rebecca Northan
Remount Director: Adam Paolozza
Musicians: Stefan Hegerat and Sabine Ndalamba
Production Stage Manager: Caitlin Farley, Conner Bustamante (2023), Rebecca Ballarin (2022)
Lighting Director: Andre du Toit
Deaf Shadow Interpreter (Beagle): Cassie-Hope Aubin
Deaf Shadow Interpreter (Sojo): Juan Jaramillo
Puppet and Set Designers and Builders: Alexandra Simpson, Morgan Johnson and Nina Keogh
Promotional Photographer: Kathryn Hanson (ShutteredEye.ca)
Special Thanks to Martha Ross
Composers: Anders Azzopardi, Stefan Hegerat, Sabine Ndalamba
Thank you for the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC)