Kathy Avrich-Johnson

Kathy Avrich-Johnson is an versatile producer, principal and president of Canadian Accents. She is a well-established executive in the film and television industry. She produced all of the projects from Canadian Accents including of the comedy series Getting Along Famously (CBC), Is It Art? and the documentary Women Fully Clothed All Dressed Up and Places to Go. She is a veteran entertainment lawyer, having worked independently and within production and distribution companies since 1984. Kathy was the founding executive director of the Association of Canadian Film and Television Producers, a senior manager of the Ontario Film Development Corporation and Kathy has authored two well-received practical handbooks Canadian Production Finance: A Producer's Handbook and Development and Other Challenges.

Kathy co-executive produced the critically acclaimed UK Canada co-production BAFTA-winning feature Regeneration based on the Pat Barker novel. She executive produced the Canada-German co-production Desire, as well as Allan King's multi-award-winning documentary features Dying at Grace, Memory for Max, Clare, Ida and company and Empz 4 Life all of which debuted at Toronto International Film Festival's Masters Section. She is nominated for a Gemini for Empz.

Deborah Day

Deborah Day is a principal of Canadian Accents, a creative producer and award-winning director. She is the co-creator and executive producer of the comedy series Getting Along Famously (CBC) and a 2005 Gemini Award nominee for Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series and a 2005 Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Direction Special or Series both for the pilot of Getting Along Famously. She was nominated for the best directing for the Canadian Comedy Awards.

Day directed the comedic documentary Is It Art? created by Chas Lawther and Gail Kerbel for CBC's Opening Night and is the one hour documentary Women Fully Clothed: All Dressed Up and Places to Go.

She has directed several shorter films and television programs that have won awards and critical acclaim including Blind, Altarpiece, Birthday, and the CTV family pilot The Orange Seed Myth and Other Lies Mothers Tell.

Day also directed and co-wrote the comedy feature film Expecting, which has screened at festivals across Canada, the US and Europe. The film has garnered several awards including Best First Feature Awards at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Chum City TV award at the Victoria International Film and Television Festival, Best First Feature at Cinequest, the Canadian Comedy Awards, and the audience award at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Day moonlights as a trainer in the film and television industry. She has run pitching seminars for a multitude of organizations including The Canadian Comedy Awards, The NSI, The World Wide Short Film and Video Festival, the OMDC, ACTRA, WIFT-T.

Debra McGrath

Deb McGrath is a creative tour-de-force. She is a partner in Canadian Accents and is a writer, performer, producer. She is one of the five principals (writer, performer) of the female sketch comedy troupe Women Fully Clothed, and recently returned from a 4 star run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival launching their international appearances. She was the co-creator, executive producer, a writer and one of the stars of the comedy series Getting Along Famously. Debra is a regular in the recent break out hit Little Mosque on the Prairie and is writing the screenplay Hormony in between performances.

McGrath co-created a series with Linda Kash, which she wrote and starred in called My Talk Show for which Ron Howard's company, Imagine Television, produced 65 episodes. She also wrote four shows for the Second City Mainstage in Toronto: I've Got a Sequel, Part 11, No Man is a Centre Island, Bob Has Seen The Wind, and Andy Warhol Your 15 Minutes Are Up.

McGrath's television writing credits additionally include a pilot for HBO called The Cameleon with Pat Proft (Police Squad, Hot Shots, Naked Gun) for which she co-wrote, and she was a staff writer on the series Go Girl for S&S Productions.

Colin Mochrie

Colin Mochrie is an award-winning, multitalented performer and writer. He is best known for his 12 years on the series Whose Line is It Anyway? He also performs more than 100 live improv shows per year with Brad Sherwood. This year he and Brad performed at the National Press Correspondents Dinner for the US President and the executive branch and had Karl Rove doing a rap.

Colin was the co-creator, executive producer, a writer and one of the stars of the comedy series Getting Along Famously. He's appeared in most Canadian comedy series, is a sought after featured performer in several feature films including an upcoming film for HBO and will host the Canadian version of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?.

As a successful writer, Mochrie's credits include: Nightmare on Sussex Drive, When Bush Comes to Shove and Just Say Non for the famed Second City in Toronto. He has also written articles for the magazines Razor and Nuvo, the latter garnering him an honourable mention in the Humour Category by the National Magazine Awards and was one of the writers on the SandS Productions series Supertown Challenge.

In 2005, Mochrie received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series for the pilot Getting Along Famously as well as a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Writing Special or Episode both for the pilot Getting Along Famously.

Mochrie's previous accolades include Canadian Comedy Awards for 'Pretty Funny Male Improviser', 'Pretty Funny Male Performance' and 'Pretty Funny Writing' for This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He also received a Writer's Guild of Canada award for the same show.