Walk past any Sephora in Toronto these days and you are bound to come across the face of Toronto model of Haitian descent, Abigail Whitney who is at the centre of the beauty company's national campaign.

The University of Toronto Theatre and Performing Arts student is not just having a moment with Sephora, but is also having one on stage in her directorial debut of Les Frères (The Brothers), a production (performed in English) written by New York based artist Sandra A. Daley-Sharif that puts Whitney's Haitian culture and the experience of many descendants of the African diaspora on stage.