Jobina Sitoh 司徒加恩 is an emerging Chinese-Malaysian actor, performer, and artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. A recent York University Acting Conservatory graduate, Jobina is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, and works in theatre, film, and television. She has performed with Theatre Passe Muraille, Open Heart Surgery Theatre, fu-GEN Theatre, Mixed Company Theatre, Riot King, and more. Select credits include Dionysus in Bakkhai, directed by David Jansen at York University, and Maggie Chun in Maggie Chun’s First Love and Last Wedding by Helen Ho, winner of the 2023 Toronto Fringe New Play Contest, and directed by Julia Edda Pape. Jobina is also an emerging playwright and is currently in the early stages of developing an untitled verbatim theatre piece that explores immigration, marriage, parenthood, culture, and gender. Through Tarragon Theatre’s Generating Pages workshop, Jobina developed her first work-in-progress, Almost, under the tutelage of Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho).
Outside of Jobina’s theatre career, Jobina is a founding member of Couch Jams, a BIPOC music collective based in Vancouver, BC. In 2020 and 2021, Jobina was selected to participate in A Cappella Academy, an internationally auditioned-based intensive for gifted young singers, founded by arrangers Ben Bram, Rob Dietz, and former Pentatonix member Avi Kaplan. Jobina is also an award-winning filmmaker, with her documentary Why Do We Love? winning BCSFF's 2019 award for Top Senior Documentary and Best Documentary title for the Reelstars Film Festival. Jobina is the grateful recipient of two British Columbia Arts Council Scholarships and the Mac Shoub Scholarship, given in recognition of exceptional talent and achievement in acting
With a love for performance and storytelling across various mediums, Jobina hopes to make strides as a young artist. Her mission in this industry is to do work that matters, that connects people, and that brings you home.
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