Jobina Sitoh 司徒加恩 is an emerging Chinese-Malaysian 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 as an actor, performer, and educator. Since 2021, Jobina has established herself as a performer in Toronto, working with companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Open Heart Surgery Theatre, fu-GEN Theatre, Mixed Company Theatre, Riot King, and more. Select credits include The Disappeared in Erased by Coleen Shirin Macpherson at Theatre Passe Muraille, 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. As Philip Akin’s mentee, she served as his assistant director for Canadian Stage’s 2026 production of Clyde’s. Jobina will be revamping her role in Open Heart Surgery Theatre’s Erased on tour this spring, as part of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt festival. Jobina is also an emerging playwright and founder of Mother Tongue Theatre, a theatre-focused arts collective.
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 audition-based intensive for gifted young singers, founded by arrangers Ben Bram, Rob Dietz, and former Pentatonix member Avi Kaplan. 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. Jobina’s mission in this industry is to do work that matters, that connects people, and that brings you home.
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