Natasha Cecily Bacchus is an athlete and artist, passionate about mental health, deaf advocacy, fitness and physical expression. Throughout my life, Courage has nurtured a passion for fitness by competing as a professional athlete and securing medal positions & in both the Deaf Olympics and Pan Am Olympics as well as many other competitive sporting events. While running was Courage’s first passion and a means of emotional release, Courage also used acting as a mode of physical expression and found theatre and film to be the preferred spaces for me to thrive as an actress. Courage participated in a number of theatre and film productions and has a strong desire to continue to grow and develop as an artist in these industries, expanding representation to include differently-abled persons and empowering Black Deaf women in Canada to shine on and off the stage.