Mitch Smolkin is a Toronto based actor, singer, playwright and cultural innovator. He has been seen on the stage and in concert in dozens of cities internationally. Highlights include performing at the legendary Town Hall on Broadway in a tribute to Carl Reiner, off-Broadway with the late Bruce Adler, at the Lincoln Center and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the Mayor’s ball in Toronto. He has shared the stage with such notable performers as Mandy Patinkin, Jerry Stiller, Theodore Bikel, Bibi Neuwirth and more than one puppet from Sesame Street. In 2008, Mitch Smolkin released his debut album A Song Is Born. It was called "the most exciting, inventive, beautiful, and just plain interesting Yiddish album in years" by Ari Dovidow at the Klezmershack He was the Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Ashkenaz Festival from 2001 – 2006 and is currently an artistic associate with Harbourfront Centre. Mitch Smolkin’s singing can be heard currently at the permanent sound installation in the Michael Lee Chin Crystal's Spirit House at the Royal Ontario Museum. He recently received a grant to complete his first full-length play entitled Polonium based on the life of Marie Curie.