biography

YOSHIE BANCROFT is an award winning actor and theatre creator based in Vancouver, Canada. Currently: Forgiveness & Anne of Green Gables at the Stratford Festival. Select Film/TV: Superman & Lois, Emily Owens M.D. (CW); Bones of Crows (CBC); Alaska, A Million Little Things (ABC); Color My World, Christmas Under the Stars (Hallmark). Recent theatre: MIZUSHŌBAI (Tableau D'Hôte Theatre, Montreal), God Said This (Pacific Theatre), Forgiveness (Arts Club & Theatre Calgary), Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Globe Theatre), The Orchard (Arts Club), Griffin & Sabine (Belfry); JAPANESE PROBLEM (Universal Limited/Soulpepper); Home Is A Beautiful Word (Belfry/Persephone); SHIT (Firehall), Lizzie in Pride & Prejudice (Chemainus Theatre Festival). Bancroft is an Artistic Producer & Collaborator for Universal Limited Theatre and co-creator of JAPANESE PROBLEM (Universal Limited), a site-responsive play shedding light on the Japanese Canadian Incarceration during WWII. Universal Limited is an award winning theatre company that creates and produces original work, prioritizing collaboration, rigorous research, and the use of their platform to share hidden histories and stories that would otherwise be missed, while reflecting and representing the diversity of communities in our world through art.