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| 19 Jul 2016 | #32 – Ryan M. Sero | 00:50:28 | |
Ryan M. Sero is a professional actor and writer. Past roles include Herbert Milk (A Modicum of Freedom), The Raccoon (Inbetween Places), Sancho Panza (Don Quixote), Mephistophiles (Doctor Faustus), Romeo (Romeo & Juliet: An Escapist Comedy), and Don John/ Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing). Plays he has written include A Modicum of Freedom, Romeo & Juliet: An Escapist Comedy, The Cheese, Miracles Don't Come Cheap, and the upcomingFor 'Daws to Peck At - which will be part of the Pearl Company's StaycationFestival in August. He frequently works with Decoder Ring Theatre (an online audio drama group), Artword Theatre, and The Mysterious Players (improv murder mysteries). He is the artistic director of Make Art Theatre. Synopsis: Anybody Else follows Thaddeus Blume, a would-be writer with the psychological inability to experience pleasure, as he searches for happiness and tries to figure out what's really wrong with him. He's having a hard time at work and in his love life, so when he meets Sigmund Freud himself at an art gallery, Thaddeus tries to get to the bottom of all his problems. A comedy about love, life, happiness, and cough drops. http://makearttheatre.weebly.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 23 Aug 2016 | #38 – Carlyn Rhamey | 00:45:56 | |
Carlyn Rhamey is an actor, writer and co-founder of Squirrel Suit Productions, a theatre collective passionate about creating new work and making a positive impact on their community. Through Squirrel Suit, Carlyn wrote and performed her very first one-woman show "SAOR (Free)" on the 2016 CAFF Fringe Tour. Web: http://squirrelsuitproductions.emyspot.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 16 Feb 2016 | #7 – Sarah Winstanley | 00:52:16 | |
Sarah Winstanley graduated with honours and as Valedictorian from the Academy of Acting College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Selected credits include Mabel in An Ideal Husband, Ilse in Spring Awakening: The Play and Caliban in The Tempest. You can find her around town doing character simulations at Ryerson University, dancing with the Army of Sass, or on stage every week as Princess Catalina at Medieval Times. If you can't find her it's because she's binge watching Brooklyn Nine Nine in her leopard print onesie. Twitter: @sarah_c_w | |||
| 17 Apr 2018 | #122 – #ShakesbeersShowdown | 01:04:12 | |
#ShakesbeersShowdown is where Toronto’s hottest indie Shakespeare companies face-off in a battle of winner-takes-all, loser-drinks-most, as contestants cold read scenes from Shakespeare’s notoriously-hard-to-read First Folio. The rules are simple: if you screw up, you drink! The winner is crowned the revered Shakesbeers Showdown Heavyweight Champion (complete with championship belt), and the losers…get a lot of beer. All funds raised go towards the 2018 Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Program, set to launch this fall. INTRODUCING YOUR 2018 COMPETITORS: **************************<wbr />********** Spur-Of-The-Moment Shakespeare Collective is proud to present the seventh annual Shakesbeers Showdown: Jurassic Bard April 27th, 2018 at918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education Doors: 6:00pm TICKETS NOW ON SALE: http://www.nowtickets.ca/<wbr />events/52109998/<wbr />shakesbeersshowdown-jurassi<wbr />c-bard | |||
| 09 Aug 2016 | #36 – Evan Buliung | 00:55:42 | |
Evan Buliung has acted on almost every major stage in Canada, including Canadian Stage (most recently in Chimerica), the Stratford Festival (Pericles, Carousel), the Shaw Festival (Star Chamber, Devil’s Disciple), Western Canada Theatre (Peter and the Star Catcher), Mirvish Productions (Cloud 9, We Will Rock You), and Soulpepper (Long Day’s Journey into Night). Twitter: @EvanBuliung Stageworthy: | |||
| 07 Jul 2018 | #134 – Toronto Fringe Roundup #1 | 00:52:24 | |
A roundtable conversation about Toronto Fringe on the first Saturday, as Tom McGee (Featherweight), Janelle Hanna (Robert.), Belinda Corpuz (Lighters in the Air), Danny Pagett (Prank), and Rebecca Perry (Bikeface) join host Phil Rickaby to talk about Toronto Fringe so far, what they’ve seen, what they are looking forward to seeing and much more. Tom McGee Janelle Hanna Belinda Corpuz Danny Pagett Rebecca Perry | |||
| 23 Feb 2016 | #8 – Laura Piccinin | 00:53:19 | |
Laura was born to tell stories. Her lifetime of performing began when she was enrolled in dance class at the Canadian Dance Company at the age of 11. She studied psychology at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, and after completing her degree, she returned to performance. Laura believes that the purpose of art is to be in love with everything that you do. Twitter @LaPiccinin Stageworthy: | |||
| 11 Apr 2017 | #71 – Rosamund Small | 00:57:11 | |
Rosamund is a playwright best known for her works Vitals (Dora Awards Outstanding New Play/Outstanding Production) and this season’s TomorrowLove™, both produced by Outside the March. She has written traditional fiction, immersive/site-specific, verbatim, and many forms in between. She also collaborates regularly with choreographer Robert Binet on multidisciplinary and dance works (Orpheus Becomes Eurydice with the Banf Centre and The National Ballet, and Terra Incognita with Wild Space Ballet). This January, Rosedale Heights School of the Arts premiered Rosmund’s large-scale, one hundred character immersive experience Maven Academy, a piece created for a cast of 100 teenage performers. Rosamund is a member of the Soulpepper Academy. @smallrosamund Stageworthy: | |||
| 17 Jul 2018 | #137 – Carolyn Bennett & Jennifer McKinley | 01:04:05 | |
Carolyn Bennett is an award-winning writer (2013 TIFF Screenwriting Intensive Jury Prize) and comedian living in Toronto. She was part of the 2017 Thousand Islands Playwrights' Unit and developed the full-length play The Monarchists. Produced plays include Mixed Media, Pure Convenience (CBC Radio), Runtkiller, The Short List,Hitler's Ass, Canis Familiaris and Sick Kids Wanna Talk To You. Her debut novel Please Stand By from Vancouver's NON Publishing will be released Fall 2019. Etc, etc...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Bennett_(comedian) Jennifer McKinley was a co-artistic director of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (2014-2017) in Toronto. She is a lead coordinator with the Feminist Art Collective, and wrote, produced and performed her solo show, Operation SUNshine at the 2017 Toronto Fringe. Operation SUNshine also had a run at the 2018 Feminist Fuck It Festival in Toronto Double Down Helix A dark comedy that examines the implications of retail genotyping, DoubleDownHelix (DDH) asks the audience "to whom do you belong?" | |||
| 24 Apr 2018 | #123 – Stephen Near | 01:02:15 | |
Stephen Near is a playwright and performer from Ottawa, ON and a graduate of York University. His plays have been performed across Canada in such festivals as the Ottawa Fringe, the Toronto Fringe, the Hamilton Fringe, New Ideas, and Summerworks. He is an alumnus of the Sage Hill Writing Experience and the Banff Centre and has studied playwriting with Linda Griffiths, David Copelin, Daniel MacIvor, Brian Quirt, and Beverley Cooper. In 2015, Stephen established the First Stage Series of new play development at the Players Guild of Hamilton. Stephen is a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada and the Theatre Aquarius Playwrights Unit. Recent writing credits include Monstrous Invisible (Theatre Aquarius), Interface (2011 Hamilton Fringe – New Play Contest 1st Prize), Plain Speak (2012 HamilTEN Festival), Test (2013 Hamilton Fringe – New Play Contest 2nd Runner-Up), The Conspiracy of Michael (2014 Hamilton Fringe), and Finding Mr. Right (2015 Hamilton Fringe). He lives in Hamilton with his wife Leanne, daughter Rebecca, and son Brenden. Twitter: @snear23 Same Boat Theatre: Your Own Sons: Written by Stephen Near Featuring: Terri Brunsting, Adam Lemieux, Stephen Near, Jennifer Walton, Amber Wood, and Ramzey Zourob VENUE: The Pearl Company Arts Centre, 16 Steven Street, Hamilton, ON | |||
| 26 Apr 2016 | #17 – Alison MacDonald | 00:47:45 | |
Alison MacDonald is a Jessie Award winning performer who has worked across Canada as a singer, actor, teacher, and producer. Recently, she made an album of 1950s/60s tunes and coming up, she will be reprising one of her favourite roles ever - "Patsy Cline" in A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline at Thousand Islands Playhouse. @thisisalimac Stageworthy: | |||
| 26 Jun 2018 | #132 – Madeleine Brown | 00:45:12 | |
Madeleine Brown is a Toronto-based actor. Select acting credits: Imp (Filament Incubator/Epigraph Collective), Seasons (Toronto Fringe), Madeleine Says Sorry (Toronto Fringe), She Kills Monsters (Orphaned Egret) and Rowing (Chrysalis Workshop/Then They Fight/Filament Incubator). A Loran Scholar and 2016/2017 Nightwood Theatre Young Innovator, she is a graduate of Sheridan College/UTM and has trained with Theatre Gargantua, Mermaid Theatre, Second City and Pro Actors Lab. She serves as a volunteer with L'Arche Toronto's Sol Express, a performance troupe for adults with developmental disabilities and has assisted under such directors as Diana Leblanc and Tamara Bernier Evans. Her debut play, Madeleine Says Sorry, premiered at the 2017 Toronto Fringe. When Beatrice Little sinks her potato-based start-up, she must ascend the ranks of an imposing pyramid scheme in order to rebuild her career. Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/everyone-wants-t-shirt | |||
| 19 Jun 2018 | #131 – Caleb Yong & Vince Deiulis of Theatre Nidana's Life Assignment | 00:52:01 | |
A place for everyone and everyone in their place! In order to keep the economy moving, individuals are frequently assigned different jobs, names, religions, and relationships. When a Life Commissioning Agent unexpectedly shows up one evening to re-assign a loving married couple, the couple refuses to separate regardless of punishment. The situation spins further out of control when another newly assigned couple arrives the same evening to take possession of the house and begin their lives together. Secrets, passions, and ideologies collide against a bureaucratic authority. By the end, everyone must deal with either a comfortable yet inhuman status quo or the struggle of dreaming up an alternative world from scratch. CALEB YONG (Director)
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| 12 Feb 2019 | #170 – Daniela Vlaskalic | 00:49:29 | |
Daniela Vlaskalic is an award-winning Canadian actor, writer and producer who has worked extensively across Canada including appearing in Theatrefront’s critically-acclaimed production of The Orange Dot by Sean Dixon, last year. Daniela hosts a comedic travel podcast called Every Place is the Same, produced by Drumcast Productions and available on iTunes. Mules MULES is a scathing exploration of the desperation that emerges when people find themselves trapped and powerless with no clear way out. Best friends in high school, Cindy and Crystal haven’t see each other in ten years. They reunite through social media, only to find they are both miserable and desperate to move up in the world. Holed up in the airport arrivals washroom, Crystal with a belly full of cocaine from Colombia and Cindy fearful of her violent boyfriend, the action unfolds in one single night, but changes their lives forever. A dark comedy about poverty, friendship … and drug smuggling, MULES is a tragic journey for the two women, as well as the airport janitor, who discovers them mid-plan only to escalate the crisis. Theatrefront: | |||
| 27 Mar 2018 | #119 – Asitha Tennekoon | 00:46:58 | |
Since moving to Toronto in the fall of 2014, Sri Lankan tenor Asitha Tennekoon has firmly established himself as a versatile singer, performing in a wide range of repertoire. He won the Dora Award for Best Male Performance as Paul in Tapestry Opera’s Rocking Horse Winner and earned glowing reviews as Gernando in Haydn’s L’Isola disabitata with Voicebox: Opera in Concert. Asitha recently starred in Edith Smyth’s The Boatswain’s Mate with Opera 5, and in 2018 debuts as Polidoro in Scarlatti’s Erminia with Opera Lafayette in Washington and New York. Asitha shared the stage with soprano Erin Wall in Songmasters Recital Series and has appeared as a soloist with Toronto Bach Festival, Theatre of Early Music, Ottawa Bach Choir and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Twitter: @asithatennekoon Stageworthy: | |||
| 25 Oct 2016 | #47 – Sandi Becker | 00:52:51 | |
Sandi Becker strikes fear into the hearts of the weak and foolish. She has retractable fangs. And, due to a recurring battle with Early Onslaught Lycanthropy, has become a passionate advocate for promoting tolerance to Werewolfism in school age children. She can kill you with a look, and if you are not in bed by 9 o’clock, she’ll come to you in the darkness, slip you into a bag made from cat skin, and take you to her moldy, mildewed layer. What will happen there? No one has lived to tell the tale. Sandi Becker is a Toronto based stage manager. She is currently working on Eldritch Theatre’s The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy, at the Red Sandcastle, Oct. 27 - Nov. 13, 2016. http://www.eldritchtheatre.ca/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 01 May 2018 | #124 – Belinda Corpuz and Isabel Kanaan from Factory Theatre's Prairie Nurse | 00:55:24 | |
Belinda Corpuz Belinda has also worked with Toronto-based theatre company, Carlos Bulosan Theatre, as former Artistic Associate and member of their Collective Creation Ensemble, as a theatre creator and performer. Most recently, she debuted Carlos Bulosan Theatre's original play, ANAK, as co-playwright, actor, and sound designer/music composer. www.belindacorpuz.com Isabel Kanaan Isabel is a Filipino-Canadian film and theatre actor fluent in Tagalog and English. Aside from her successes in comedy, she is also known for her lead role in the series Haunted or Hoax, which won the NYC Web Fest’s Audience Choice Award. She regularly performs with the Asian Canadian theatre company fu-GEN Theatre and the Filipino Canadian theatre company Carlos Bulosan Theatre. She even co-wrote and performed in CBT’s production Anak. www.isabelkanaan.com Prairie Nurse It’s winter in the prairies, late 1960s. Two young nurses, just off the plane from the Philippines, arrive at a rural hospital in Arborfield, Saskatchewan – population 300. No one can tell the two nurses apart; including the dim-witted lab technician at the hospital who falls in love with one of them but accidentally courts both. Homesickness, unfamiliar customs, and amorous advances complicate the women’s lives. A culture-clashing comedy of errors with heart, PRAIRIE NURSE was inspired by the playwright’s mother and the legacy she and others with similar experiences have contributed to the fabric of Canada. PRAIRIENURSE For More Info and to Connect with Factory: | |||
| 25 Apr 2017 | #73 – Miles Cohen & Stephen Lafrenie of Mad Power | 00:49:50 | |
Mad Power is an arts organization dedicated to the encouragement of artistic achievement and the protection of the rights of psychiatric survivors. Miles G. Cohen (Producer & Project Director) Mr. Cohen is a survivor with 40 years theatre experience. A graduate Of Bishop’s University, Canadian Mime School, Playhouse Acting School, and an alumnus of The Second City Touring Company he has performed and taught in theatres and institutions across Canada. He currently teaches at “Learn” a CAMH day program as well as “Encore” a CAMH pilot program for patients on the ward. He is a member and past board member for Workman Arts; a CAMH based arts organization. He is a founding director for Friendly Spike Theatre and a founding member of Kytes youth theatre for street youth. He has been a facilitator for an adult encounter group at Bridgepoint Health Centre and taught meditation at the Ralph Thornton Centre. Stephen LaFrenie (Producer and Actor) Stephen has performed and taught physical theatre for over 38 years. His training includes Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Mime School Unlimited, Dean Gilmour, and Tony Montanaro. He has toured extensively across Canada, to Spain, Australia, France, Hungary, Jamaica, Haiti and the U.S. Recent collaborations have been with Toronto’s Keystone Theatre, co-creating their two latest productions of “The Last Man on Earth” & "Gold Fever", both which premiered at the Toronto Clown Festival and enjoyed great success on the Canadian Fringe circuit. Other collaborations include Gabrielle Houle performing with Toronto Consort. Over the last 16 years he has toured with both Faustwork Mask Theatre and with Metaphysical Theatre’s production of "Fool’s Gold", which he co-created. He has received multiple Arts in Education grants from the Ontario Arts Council and taught in schools, colleges/universities across Canada and in Australia. Stageworthy: | |||
| 24 Jan 2017 | #60 – Eric Woolfe | 00:52:23 | |
Eric Woolfe is an actor, playwright, puppeteer and magician, and the Artistic Director of Eldritch Theatre, a Toronto theatre company specializing in horror plays using puppetry, live actors, and parlour magic. His work for Eldritch Theatre includes The Haunted Medicine Show, Madhouse Variations, The Babysitter, The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom, Dear, Grendelmaus, and Sideshow of the Damned. Some of his other credits include The Comedy of Errors (Humber River Shakespeare), The Last Christmas Turkey (Touchmark Theatre), Rocket & the Queen of Dreams (Roseneath Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Canstage), Timon in Disney's The Lion King. Eric Woolfe has been nominated for over a dozen Dora Mavor Moore Awards as both an actor and playwright. He is a three time nominee for the prestigious KM Hunter Memorial Award. The World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry lists him as one of Canada’s exciting new wave of notable puppeteers. His non-creepy writing credits include Step Right Up!, and Twas, for Theatre Orangeville, Pomeranski Rex for The Toronto Fringe and the film scripts Momento Mori, Hungry Dead Things, and Blackwood Hotel. Twitter: @ericwoolfe http://www.eldritchtheatre.ca/ Stageworthy: http://www.stageworthypodcast.com | |||
| 28 Nov 2017 | #104 – Lucy Eveleigh | 00:44:37 | |
Lucy Eveleigh is the Executive Director of the Toronto Fringe Festival, and has been the Managing Director of the Toronto Fringe for the last five years, after two years as the General Manager for the SummerWorks Performance Festival and three years as the General Manager of the Pleasance Theatre in London, England. Her extensive knowledge of theatre administration and company management, and her passion for the mandate of the Fringe movement, make her the ideal candidate to lead this organization into its 30th year and beyond. Toronto Fringe Stageworthy: | |||
| 23 Oct 2018 | #154 – Cora Matheson, Kararina Hatzinakos, and Mark Kreder from The Spur-Of-The-Moment Shakespeare Collective's Shakespeare in Hospitals | 00:46:38 | |
The Spur-Of-The-Moment Shakespeare Collective (SOTMSC) was founded in 2010 by Victoria Urquhart and Sean Horbatiuk, to cultivate a community of emerging artists with a shared interest in Shakespeare and community engagement. Annually the SOTMSC performs "Shakespeare in Hospitals". A project that is exactly what it sounds like: we create new shows, using Shakespeare’s words, designed specifically to bring to patients in hospitals across the GTA, like Mount Sinai, Sunnybrook and CAMH and more, at no charge to the hospitals or the patients. The SOTMSC continues to grow and develop projects in 2018 under the mandate of: Establishing and cultivating community engagement in areas in and around Toronto experiencing isolation based on economic, social, and physical barriers. Our mission statement is to marry classical text, contemporary performance, and audience interaction to invite and encourage people to engage with their community. https://www.spurofthemomentshakespeare.com/ | |||
| 23 Jul 2019 | #195 – Brian Jansen | 00:32:09 | |
Brian Jansen is an actor from Etobicoke, Ontario. Uniquely talented and hard working, he has been acting since he was 14 years old. A recent graduate of the Acting for Film & Television program at Niagara College. You Want it What Way? | |||
| 21 May 2019 | #184 – Natalia Bushnik and Robin Luckwaldt | 00:52:49 | |
Natalia Bushnik and Robin Luckwaldt are KAIROS Theatre who present their award-winning, touring show, 'The Bathtub Girls' (Critics' Choice - Hamilton Fringe, 2016; Official Selection - Twin Cities Horror Festival, USA, 2018) in Toronto, in the Assembly Theatre's 2019 curated season, May 21st - June 1st! 'The Bathtub Girls' is a fiction inspired by the first documented case of sibling matricide in Canada. Two sisters, encouraged by their friends, drown their mother in the bathtub of their family home. We join the girls in their irreconcilable waking nightmare of survival and atonement, which began long before we arrived, and which we have no power to stop. When the water stills, the door’s broken down, the body carried away, who do we punish? Who do you judge?. “A dark but compelling piece of theatre” - CBC Directed, Written, and Performed by Natalia Bushnik and Robin Luckwaldt https://kairostheatrecollective.com/ | |||
| 03 Oct 2017 | #96 – Adam Paolozza | 00:46:25 | |
Adam Paolozza is a director, performer, producer, teacher and Artistic Director of Bad New Days. As a performer Adam has collaborated with Zou Theatre, Fixt Point, Why Not Theatre, Soulpepper, Vertical City, Litmus Theatre & Ahuri Theatre. His co-translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Pylade (a modern re-telling of theOresteia story) was recently debuted in NYC by legendary La Mama theatre and toured all over Europe. He regularly teaches privately, giving classes based on his interpretation of the Lecoq pedagogy, designed to open up students' minds and bodies to spontaneity. He's a sessional instructor at Soulpepper Academy and guest instructor at Ryerson (he directed 2016's The Holiday Trilogy) and at U of T. Adam is currently directing Bad New Days and Ahuri Theatre's production of Flashing Lights. Twitter: @adampaolozza Flashing Lights: Created by award winning Bad New Days (The Double) and Ahuri Theatre (This is the Point), FLASHING LIGHTS is an original play exploring how digital technology is radically shaping human evolution. Bad New Days: Ahuri Theatre: Stageworthy: | |||
| 10 May 2016 | #19 – Daniel Pagett & Jason Maghanoy: Hangman | 00:51:52 | |
Daniel Pagett and Jason Maghanoy talk about Jason's play Hangman, opening May 13, 2016 at the Storefront Theatre. An examination of how we are shaped by our circumstances, Hangman follows the story of Alistair, a murderer who survives hanging for his crimes and finds unexpected salvation in a mysterious drifter named Winston. Winston takes what he needs to survive and has the town searching for him, greatly endangering the paralyzed Alistair who has been left for the rats under the gallows. As Alistair begins to realize he can rise above his dire situation and past life, Winston sinks deeper into the violence that is consuming the town, leading to a tragic and explosive ending. Written by Jason Maghanoy and directed by Daniel Pagett. Starring Prince Amponsah, Alexander Thomas, Vanessa Trenton, Jon Blair, and Vince Carlin, with puppeteer Kaitlin Morrow. Danny Pagett Jason Maghanoy Storefront Theatre Stageworthy: | |||
| 09 Jul 2016 | #29 – Toronto Fringe Week 2 Roundup | 00:45:16 | |
The week 1 Toronto Fringe Roundup with producer of Damn Tank (@damntankTO), Laura McCallum (@lauramcsee), Nisha Coleman (@NishaColeman) of Self-Exile, David Kingsmill (@dragonliterate) of Romeo and Juliet Chainsaw Massacre (@RJMassacre), and Gillian English (@gillian_english)joined host, Phil Rickaby on a slightly windy morning on the second last day of Toronto Fringe, to continue the conversation about Toronto Fringe, how their shows have been going, what they've seen and their favourite Fringe moment of Toronto Fringe 2016. Recorded Saturday, July 9 2016 @ 10AM Stageworthy: | |||
| 26 Feb 2019 | #172 – Kristen Da Silva | 00:55:51 | |
Kristen Da Silva is a playwright and actor living near Toronto, Ontario. Her writing credits include Book Club (August Theatre Co, Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Gibson & Sons; Five Alarm (Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Lighthouse Festival Theatre); Sugar Road (Theatre Orangeville, Rubarb Productions, Globus Theatre); Hurry Hard(Commissioned by Lighthouse Festival Theatre) and Where You Are (Theatre Orangeville). In 2016, she was the recipient of the Stage West Pechet Family Comedy Award for Gibson & Sons, and was shortlisted for the same in 2017 for Sugar Road. She is a graduate of York University, where she was a founding member of the Vanier Improv Company and a company member of Vanier College Productions. As an alumna, she has continued to work with VCP as a director and collaborator. She is currently the playwright-in-residence at Theatre Orangeville. www.kristendasilva.com | |||
| 08 May 2018 | #125 – Ann & David Powell: Puppetmongers | 00:58:04 | |
Since Ann Powell and David Powell founded Puppetmongers in 1974, the company has become internationally recognized as a leader and innovator in the field of puppetry. So far we have created a dozen new plays for both young and general audiences, which have earned us and our collaborators a mass of awards. Puppetmongers continues to develop new work on their own and also in collaboration with others, and hosts an annual conference called Fresh Ideas in Puppetry for established and emerging artists to share their passion and expertise in puppetry. This year, the Fresh Ideas in Puppetry day is May 27th, at Aki Studios. In 1996, we started The Toronto School of Puppetry to share our creative approach and provide a collaborative learning space for the puppetry community, and for multi-disciplinary artists interested in expanding their theatrical palette. We also work with students from elementary school up to the post-graduate level. | |||
| 27 Nov 2018 | #159 – Mairi Babb | 00:59:06 | |
Mairi Babb is Toronto based actor, originally from Ireland, who came to Toronto via Winnipeg. She's been seen in everything from The Rocky Horror Show, to The Pirates of Penzance, to War Horse. You can see her now in Eldritch Theatre's Space Opera Zero, on now until December 2 at the Red Sandcastle Theatre. Twitter: @mairibabb1 Tickets to Space Opera Zero: eldritchtheatre.ca/tickets | |||
| 07 May 2019 | #182 – Judith Thompson | 00:39:10 | |
Judith is a playwright, director, actor and professor of theatre at the University of Guelph, and the Artistic Director of RARE Theatre Company. She is the author of 15 published plays, many of which are performed all over the world. They include The Crackwalker, Lion in the Streets, Perfect Pie, and Palace of the End. Her play Who Killed Snow White will premiere at the 4th Line Theatre in August, 2018. She has directed and co-created four plays with artists with exceptionalities including Body and Soul, Sick, RARE, and Borne Most recently, she wrote the play Wildfire specifically for 7 performers with Down syndrome, all of whom had appeared in Rare. She wrote two feature films, Perfect Pie and Lost and Delirious, several TV movies and many radio plays. She has twice won the Governor General's award for playwriting, as well as the Toronto Arts Award, a Dora Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the Amnesty International Award for Freedom of Expression. She is honoured to have the privilege of collaborating with performers with exceptionalities. Welcome to my Underworld In Soulpepper’s fifth partnership with RARE Theatre Company, Canadian theatre pioneer and two-time Governor General award-winner Judith Thompson directs and dramaturges the World Premiere of Welcome to my Underworld, taking the Tank House theatre stage by storm from May 9th to May 25th, 2019 with a preview performance at 8pm on May 8th. Welcome to my Underworld is a beautiful odyssey that erupts with heightened, illusory and playful language, as it follows Willow, a 10-year-old girl, as she gracefully weaves from one unique story to the next in search of her truest self. Nine blazing hot works written and performed by new Canadian dramatists have been woven into one spectacular play. Each playwright brings their own gate-crashing ideas and compelling characters who have never been seen on our stages until now. “What I love about RARE is that our plays cut through the artifice of so much common theatre, they aren’t ripped from the headlines but they do hold a mirror up to our society” says RARE Theatre’s Executive Director, Nick Hutcheson. Join the riveting performers Bilal Baig, Nikoletta Erdelyi, Radha S. Menon, Grace Thompson, Maddie Bautista, Samson Brown and Carolyn Hetherington as they dive fearlessly into their particular Underworld. What each piece has is the joyous discovery of a unique self, whether it be gender fluid, queer, proudly disabled and Roma, non-human, wounded, or an elder; in the face of social oppression they are unafraid to roar: This is Me. I am Here. Deal with It. Accompanying director Judith Thompson on this journey is Irish and Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation composer, Olivia Shortt, award-winning choreographer, Monica Dotter, and set designer, Brett Haynes. RARE Theatre is thrilled to welcome emerging lighting designer, Sharmylae Taffe-Fletcher to the RARE family. “I am beyond honoured to be collaborating with these nine superb emerging playwrights; as a playwright myself I was lucky enough to ride on the crest of the wave of Canadian nationalism in the early eighties, and to see that work valued not only in Canada but all over the world. Now it is my privilege to present to you the theatrical voices of Canada now; voices that will change the way we see this country and ourselves.” says RARE Theatre’s Artistic Director, Judith Thompson. With humour, honesty, rich writing and dynamic performances by an all-star cast of emerging and seasoned Canadian artists, Welcome to my Underworld is a theatrical experience that will thrill and entertain. RARE Theatre Company and Soulpepper Theatre Company present www.raretheatre.org | |||
| 09 Jul 2019 | #192 – Sarah Joy Bennett & Ginette Mohr | 00:40:44 | |
Sarah Joy Bennett Sarah Joy Bennett is an actor, writer and designer. She is a member of Keystone Theatre, which creates original works in the style of silent film, and with them has toured Canada with their shows The Last Man On Earth and Gold Fever. Other past projects as a co-creator include Theatre Sasa’s puppetry-based The Pressed Fairy Book, and Power Of Flight’s original musical The Ballad Of One-Eyed Jack. She has also performed with Classic Theatre Festival, Odyssey Theatre, Brookstone Theatre, and Metaphysical Theatre. As the burlesque performer Cherry Temple, she has been featured in international burlesque festivals, and at Le Tambour Royal Theatre, in Paris. Her writing work includes Postcards (CBC Radio, Out Front), and Trophy, a Summerworks Festival installation for which she was part of a team of writers and storytellers. Ginette Mohr Ginette is an award-winning performer, director and playwright. Her twenty-year career in the performing arts has galvanized her love for live experiences and direct contact with people. Driven by curiosity, she works to motivate a more conscious and compassionate community through the creation of imaginative, participatory theatre. She has created theatre with companies that include: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neptune Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Drayton Entertainment, Theatre Direct, Theatre Aquarius, The Quickening Theatre, Keystone Theatre, and The Second City. Ginette recently directed and co-created Snack Music and Table Top Tales with SNAFU Dance Theatre. Night Feed As an exhausted new mother nurses in the dark of yet another night, her apartment comes to life; possessions possessed with the demons of fear, self-doubt and anxiety, a chorus of objects and body parts. You know, standard parenting stuff. Fringe veterans-turned-mothers Sarah Joy Bennett and Ginette Mohr return to Toronto Fringe with CLUNK Puppet Lab, turning their brand of imaginative storytelling to tackle motherhood, injecting a healthy dose of the bizarre and surreal to make sense of “the most meaningful time of your life”. www.nightfeed.ca | |||
| 29 May 2018 | #128 – Eric Petersen | 00:47:30 | |
Eric Petersen is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Northwestern University. He has returned to Toronto after stints in New York, Chicago and Vancouver. While in Chicago, he was a board member of Halcyon Theatre and brought Ninaz Khodaiji's work to Chicago for its premiere performance. His shorter playlets are often performed at Sing-for-Your-Supper (at various locations around Toronto). In addition to writing plays, he occasionally turns his hand to poetry and has been published in White Wall Review, Gyst, xib, and A House Divided. Eric's play, Final Exam appears as part of the 2018 edition of the Toronto Fringe Festival. | |||
| 28 Jun 2016 | #26 – Shira Taylor | 00:44:26 | |
Shira Taylor is a performer, director, producer, and doctoral candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T. For her dissertation, she created SExT: Sex Education by Theatre to explore the use of theatre for sexual health education among youth in Toronto’s Thorncliffe/Flemingdon Park. Shira obtained her BSc. (Psychology) and MSc. (Epidemiology) from Queen’s University, where she performed with Queen’s Players, Queen’s Musical Theatre, and Existere, and co-founded and directed the social action theatre program, Excetera. Shira and her puppet doppelganger Lucy perform with the multiple award-winning theatre company, Shakey-Shake and Friends, which uses puppets and popular culture references to make Shakespeare accessible to young audiences. She also works with Indigenous girls in the Northwest Territories as Evaluation Consultant and Drama Facilitator with FOXY and is a Research Coordinator at SickKids on the cross-Canada, Art for Social Change (ASC!) project, working closely with artists and change-makers to further the use of the arts in social justice agendas. SExT: Sex Education by Theatre empowers youth from a community where sexuality is a cultural taboo to take centre stage. SExT is a collaboration between Toronto theatre artists and a diverse group of youth from Flemingdon and Thorncliffe Park - two immigration destinations in Toronto and the recent hub of protests opposing sex education reform in the wake of the first curriculum update since 1998. Check us out at the Toronto Fringe and SummerWorks 2016 to hear what these youth have to say about growing up in the age of cyberbullying, sexting and rape culture. It’s time to let TEENS give THE TALK! www.sexeducationbytheatre.com Twitter: @ShiraTaylor Stageworthy: | |||
| 22 May 2018 | #127 – Adam Seelig | 00:44:49 | |
AdamSeelig is the founder and Artistic Director of One Little Goat Theatre Company. He is the author of Every Day in the Morning (slow) (New Star Books, finalist for the 2011 ReLit Award in poetry) and his plays include Ubu Mayor (BookThug 2014), Talking Masks (BookThug 2009), Antigone:Insurgency (2007) and, for children, PLAY: A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids (Toronto 2016-18). Adam is the writer, director, and composer of MUSIC MUSIC LIFE DEATH MUSIC: An Absurdical, running May 25 - June 10 at Tarragon Extraspace. Tickets: http://onelittlegoat.org/music-music-life-death-music | |||
| 02 Aug 2016 | #35 – Aisha Jarvis | 00:53:05 | |
Aisha Jarvis graduated from Sheridan College’s Bachelor of Music Theatre Program in 2015 and was a member of the Theatre 20 Conservatory Program from 2015 to 2016. She performed in Theatre Sheridan productions including Prom Queen (CMTP), Hello Dolly, Godspell, In The Heights, and Brantwood. Since graduating, other theatre credits have included Sally Styles in Hogtown, Wilhelmina in The Postman (Appledore Productions) and Snow White in Snow White (Solar Stage Children's Theatre). She has been training since the age of 4 and has performed in corporate events for The United Way, TD Bank (Shaw Festival Theatre), and The Premier’s Awards Gala 2012. Some of her television credits include Breakfast Television, and a performance on ET Canada that she choreographed! Currently she is performing in the Charlottetown Festival playing Lisa in Mamma Mia and playing Prissy Andrews and understudying Miss Stacy/Mrs. Gillis in Anne of Green Gables. Twitter: @AishaJarvis Stageworthy: | |||
| 11 Oct 2016 | #45 – Lindsey Middleton & Ben Hayward of Theatre by Committee | 00:54:02 | |
Theatre by Committee is proud to present “FAITH”, a new play by company member Ben Hayward. After a successful run at the Hamilton Fringe, “FAITH” will be performed in the Chapel of St. Luke’s United Church. “FAITH” follows the coming of age a troubled teenager and her complicated relationships with God, her father and the minister at the church she no longer attends. Written by Ben Hayward, directed by Brandon Gillespie, and featuring Lindsey Middleton and Ben Hayward, “FAITH” explores issues of morality, authority, love and finding meaning. Lindsey Middleton: Lindsey is a very active member in the Toronto theatre community. Lindsey is a graduate of University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College Theatre and Drama Studies Program, a co-funder of Well Fought Theatre Company and Theatre By Committee. Upcoming in 2016 you can find Lindsey starring in Theatre By Committee’s remount of FAITH and in the new IPF winning web series Squadron 86. Lindsey has also co-created a brand new documentary web series HappyHer focused on sharing women’s stories about happiness from all over the world. Ben Hayward: http://lindseymiddleton.ca/ http://theatrebycommittee.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 12 Mar 2019 | #174 – Lianna Makuch | 00:50:13 | |
Lianna is a second generation Ukrainian Canadian theatre artist. Lianna has enjoyed a diverse career working as an actor, creator, instructor, and artistic producer. Her main artistic ventures have been as an Artistic Associate and Producer with Pyretic Productions. Lianna has managed audience outreach and communications for several Edmonton arts festivals. And she co-founded, manages, and teaches at a children’s summer theatre camp, Spark! Youth Camp, which provides affordable arts education to youth in Edmonton’s Alberta Avenue Community. She is the playwright and principle performer in Blood of Our Soil, which won the ACUA-URDC Award (2018), the inaugural Rena Hanchuk & Yaroslav Kitynskyy Artist Award (2018), and was nominated for four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards (Edmonton's premiere theatre awards), including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production. Lianna was recognized as a Top 30 Under 30 Artist by the Alberta Council for Ukrainian Arts. Lianna is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta. Twitter: @liannamakuch Blood of Our Soil Pyretic Productions | |||
| 15 May 2018 | #126 – Carlyn Rhamey | 00:58:54 | |
Carlyn Rhamey is an actor, writer and co-founder of Squirrel Suit Productions, a theatre collective passionate about creating new work and making a positive impact on their community. Through Squirrel Suit, Carlyn wrote and performed her very first one-woman show "SAOR (Free)" on the 2016 CAFF Fringe Tour. Carlyn's latest solo play, The ADHD project can be seen in the 2018 editions of the London, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver Fringe Festivals. Carlyn is a Fanshawe College Theatre Arts graduate. Her theatre credits include "Lavinia Andronicus” in Titus Andronicus (Funeral Pyre Theatre),"Ophelia" in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Passionfool Theatre), "Abigail Williams“ in The Crucible (Passionfool Theatre), performer/playwright of In Their Shoes (Squirrel Suit), "Bridget” in Moonshine (Toronto Irish Players), Shakespeare on a Subway (Spur of the Moment Shakespeare Collective). "Ophelia" in Hamlet (Fanshawe Theatre), "Sissy" in Unity (1918) (Fanshawe Theatre). Web: www.squirrelsuit.ca Stageworthy: | |||
| 04 Apr 2017 | #70 – Siobhan Richardson | 01:00:46 | |
Siobhan Richardson returns to Stageworthy to talk about intimacy for the stage and Intimacy Directors International. Siobhan is an actor/fighter/singer/dancer, currently based in Toronto, but originally from Kitchener-Waterloo, and trained at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria. Tours and travelling are one of the perks of the job! Acting credits include Lucy Debrie (And Then The Lights Went Out, Stage West Calgary), Mo (Mo and Jess Kill Susie, Harley Dog Productions), Lady Capulet (Romeo and (her) Juliet Headstrong Collective/Urban Bard), Solange (The Maids, Whirligig Productions), the twins Jessica and Julia (The Last Resort, Stirling Festival Theatre), and the world premiere productions of The Madness of the Square (Cahoots Theatre Projects) and The Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel Theatre and LKTYP). www.SiobhanRichardson.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 19 Mar 2019 | #175 – Scarred Leather | 01:00:29 | |
Scarred Leather is a supernatural Western by Adrianna Prosser that sends you back in time to Canada in 1842 when ghosts walked with you and your gun holster, "You can’t beat Death, and you sure as hell can’t cheat Death, but one day you might see plain what Death truly is…” starring Adrianna Prosser (Theatre by the Bay, Canada: Story of Us) and Caroline Concordia (Paro Caro, Web of Lies), with Jason Martorino (The Handmaid's Tale, Bad Blood), and Phil Rickaby (The Commandment), dramaturgy by Eric Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre). Adrianna Prosser Jason Martorino Caroline Concordia Scarred Leather Waltzing With Puppets Sweet Mama and the Salty Muffins www.whiskeygingercollective.org | |||
| 09 May 2017 | #75 – Annie Tuma | 00:42:59 | |
Annie is an actor/mover, shaker & theatre creator! Currently based in Toronto, but originally from Minnesota, she is a graduate of George Brown acting school and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Manitoba. Outside of Toronto she has created and performed in shows in Minneapolis, San Francisco & Winnipeg. She is a co-founder of Fourth Gorgon Theatre, as well as a founding member of Theatre Georgian Bay. Most recent productions: The Jungle Book (Magnus Theatre), Twelfth Night (Theatre Georgian Bay), We Must have More Men (Theatre by the Bay), Romeo & Juliet and Peter Pan at Old Flame Brewing Co., You Know I Know at the Toronto Fringe, Pirate Life (Pirate Life), Molly Bloom (Fourth Gorgon Theatre), Upcoming: The Dark Lady (Mystic Horde), Turtleneck (EmerGENce Theatre), and is currently creating a new musical adaptation of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren to set sail on Lake Ontario this summer! Instagram: tuma2ma Stageworthy: | |||
| 12 Jul 2016 | #30 – Jessica Anderson, Interim Director, Hamilton Fringe | 00:32:17 | |
Jessica Anderson is an arts administrator, playwright and all-around theatre enthusiast. She has several years of administrative experience having previously worked for the Living Arts Centre, the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation, the Ottawa Little Theatre and Pat the Dog Theatre Creation. Jessica studied drama and English literature at Queen’s University and Scriptwriting at Algonquin College. Jessica’s first full-length play, My Purple Wig, has been short-listed for several awards and premiered Off-Broadway at the Lion Theatre in November of 2013. She was the recipient of the 2012 RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Award for her play The Gods and Calvin Brewer. Her most recent play, A Different Kind of Job, premiered as part of the TA2 Studio Series at Theatre Aquarius. http://hamiltonfringe.ca Stageworthy: http://www.stageworthypodcast.com | |||
| 24 May 2016 | #21 – Christel Bartelse | 00:53:38 | |
Christel is an Actor, Comic, Writer, Teacher, and Solo Show creator living in Toronto. She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory Program, Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and has studied Clown extensively with John Turner & Michael Kennard (Mump and Smoot) as well as Sue Morrison, Philippe Gaulier and Francine Cote. She had the pleasure of performing with Mump and Smoot in “Something” at the Westbury Theatre in Edmonton. She is a member of Faustwork Mask Theatre/Prologue for the Performing Arts and performs the show The Mask Messenger in schools regularly. In 2008 she developed her first solo show “CHAOTICA” which went onto to win numerous awards and garnered rave reviews. She developed 2 other solo shows “ONEymoon” & “Significant Me” and all three solo shows have been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award “Best One Person Show”. Christel continues to tour her work, and has toured across Canada, to the US & the UK. She has been teaching for over 15 years. She has taught Improv at the Second City, teaches Mask, Clown, Dance, Movement, independently to schools all across the GTA and currently teaches Clown/Movement at the Toronto Film School and teaches and directs Clowns at Humber College in the Comedy & Writing Program. http://christelbartelse.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 06 Feb 2018 | #112 – Kat Sandler & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | 00:49:27 | |
Kat Sandler Twitter:@katsandler Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 54ology.wordpress.com Bang Bang Tickets:https://www.factorytheatre.ca/2017-18-season/bang-bang/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 13 Jul 2019 | #193 – Toronto Fringe Roundup II | 00:46:28 | |
The Second of Two Fringe 2019 Roundup episodes. On each of the Saturdays of the Fringe, we gather a group of performers together to talk about their shows, their Fringe experience so far, and what shows they've loved, and more. Monica Ogden Shane Adamzack Carlyn Rhamey Madeleine Brown Recorded 9:30AM, July 13, 2019 | |||
| 08 Sep 2018 | #148 – Halifax Fringe Roundup #2 | 00:40:12 | |
The second Halifax Fringe Roundup! In this episode we check in with Andrew Gaunce, Laura Thornton, and Mariel Kathryn Hunter to see how their Fringes have been going, talk about shows they have loved, and about surviving Fringe exhaustion! Andrew Gaunce Laura Thornton Mariel Kathryn Hunter | |||
| 30 Jan 2018 | #111 – Julia Nish-Lapidus & James Wallis of Shakespeare BASH'd | 00:57:47 | |
JULIA NISH-LAPIDUS Selected Additional Credits: Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen and This Property is Condemned (Director, The Playwright Project), Modern Love (Co-Creator, Next Stage), As You Like It (Text Coach, Theatre By the Bay), and as an actor OVER, See Bob Run (Theatre Caravel), reasons to the pretty (The Labute Cycle), The Forest (Red One Theatre Collective), Dublin Carol (Fly on the Wall). Julia is a member of the Advisory Board for the Canadian Stage GYM program and a graduate of the joint acting program at UofT and Sheridan College. JAMES WALLIS After graduating from Ryerson Theatre School, James jumped right into the big bad world of commercial work and film & television acting. He has been seen in a number of national commercials, including spots for Boston Pizza, Honda, and Expedia. Also, he has appeared on The Jon Dore Show, XIII: The Series and in a number of feature films including: And Now A Word From Our Sponsors and The Movie Out Here. In 2010, James co-founded Shakespeare BASH’d with his wife, Julia. For the company, James has directed staged readings of Romeo and Juliet (2010), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011), Edward II (2015), and Volpone (2017), as well as the full productions of Romeo & Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night. He played Petruchio in the company's Best of Fringe winning production of The Taming of the Shrew in 2012 and the remount in 2015, and played Benedick in their sold-out production of Much Ado About Nothing in the 2013 Toronto Fringe. In addition, here are some of James’ selected theatre credits: A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, Shakespeare’s Magic, and The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre by the Bay), Danny, King of the Basement (Roseneath Theatre, US Tour), Sleeping Beauty (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Paradise by the River (Shadowpath Theatre). James just completed his second season at the Stratford Festival as part of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directing. There he has assistant directed Macbeth, Bunny, and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare BASH'd presents February 6-11, 2018 Shakespeare's epic drama about a powerful villain manipulating his way to the crown is given a barroom staging by Shakespeare BASH'd. Tickets on sale now at www.shakespearebashd.com SHOWTIMES: Directed by Julia Nish-Lapidus Featuring: Cosette Derome, Jade Douris, Jennifer Dzialoszynski, Suzette McCanny, Shalyn McFaul, Drew O’Hara, Trevor Pease, Catherine Rainville, James Wallis, Kelly Wong, Joseph Zita Associate Director: Megan Miles Website: www.shakespearebashd.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 11 Dec 2018 | #161 – Thomas Gough | 00:55:39 | |
Thomas Gough was first on stage at the age of five, but clearly remembers acting before that. He works frequently in the Independent Theatre in Toronto, having appeared in the last few years with the Alumnæ Theatre, Safeword, Single Thread, the Storefront, Thought For Food, Theatre Lab, Plain Stage, and Unspoken Theatre, as well as Theatre By The Bay (Barrie) and the Kick And Push Festival (Kingston). Most recently he appeared in the Toronto Fringe Festival (2018) as Lionel Percy in Bakersfield Mist, and as The Reporter in Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre's production of The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Thomas appears in The Three Ships Collective and Soup Can Theatre's new and immersive adaptation of Dickens’ timeless holiday classic set in the historic Campbell House Museum! Soup Can Theatre: | |||
| 26 Jan 2016 | #4 – Burning Mountain | 01:04:06 | |
Siobhan Richardson and Matt Richardson are actors and fight directors. Siobhan’s theatre credits include Credits include Mo and Jess Kill Susie (Harley Dog Productions), Sofia’s Doll (Film Freak Productions), and Duel of Ages (True Edge Productions). Matt’s theatre credits include (True Edge Productions), Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in the Square), and A Complex Verdict (Do Your Thing Productions). Through Burning Mountain, Matt and Siobhan offer fight direction, consultation and instruction in the art of violence on the stage. Siobhan: demo reel: www.tinyurl.com/SRreel twitter: @fighteractress Instagram: @fighteractress Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiobhanRichardsonActress YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ActorSR Matt: www.MattRichardson.ca/MattRichardson Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724695/ Burning Mountain: twitter: @burningmtn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurningMountainSummit Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/theburningmountain YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BurningMountainCan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/burning-mountain www.patreon.com/BurningMountain blog: www.tinyurl.com/fightblog also: http://www.burningmountain.ca/connect/soapbox-blog Stageworthy: http://www.stageworthypodcast.com Twitter @stageworthyPod Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StageworthyPod | |||
| 16 Jul 2019 | #194 – Laura Kyswaty | 00:45:22 | |
Laura Kyswaty knew from the time she was six years old that she wanted to be a performer. As she grew up she explored her passion through theatre, dance and television.There's a confidence that comes with doing what you love, and loving what you do! The Promised Land | |||
| 23 Apr 2019 | #180 – Steve Fisher & Torey Urquhart on Spur of the Moment's Shakespeare Shakesbeers Showdown | 01:08:07 | |
#ShakesbeersShowdown is where Toronto’s hottest indie theatre companies face-off in a battle of winner-takes-all, loser-drinks-most, as contestants cold read scenes from Shakespeare’s notoriously-hard-to-read First Folio. The rules are simple: if you screw up, you drink! The winner is crowned the revered Shakesbeers Showdown Heavyweight Champion (complete with championship belt), and the losers…get a lot of beer. All funds raised go towards the 2019 Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Program, set to launch this fall. Victoria Urquhart Steve Fisher Originally from Ottawa, where he studied Drama at Canterbury High School For the Arts (and played on the national medal winning improv team), Steve holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Theatre (and a Diploma in Acting) from Ryerson University. When not seeing shows 5-6 times a week, Steve also works as a Training Coordinator at Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship YORK, home of Toronto’s Naval Reserve unit; as a boatswain in the Royal Canadian Navy, he has been commended and decorated. | |||
| 12 Jan 2016 | #2 – Sam Rosenthal | 00:35:06 | |
Welcome to episode 2 of the Stageworthy Podcast, with host Phil Rickaby. This episode’s guest is Sam Rosenthal,an actor, director and was the Artistic Director of Tribal Productions which was the resident theatre company of the Toronto Centre for the Arts (Studio Theatre). As a director, Sam’s work includes The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ( City Playhouse) , War of the Worlds ( City Playhouse), The Marketeer ( Theatre New Brunswick) , Misery ,The Wild Guys, The Possibilities, A Doll’s House , Death Defying Acts, Office Hours, Dangerous Liaisons, War of the Worlds ( Tribal Productions ). Acting credits include Mr. Cohen in The World Premiere of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( Segal Centre) ,Time Stands Still ( TSS Collective ) On The Other Side of The World ( Harley Dog Productions - Next Stage Festival), Too Many Cooks (Drayton Entertainment). Sam is directing Hogtown, a new and exciting immersive theatrical experience coming to Toronto's Historic Campbell House Museum this January, 2016. Incorporating drama, music and dance, HOGTOWN aims to create a completely immersive environment where the audience has the power to create their own adventure and discover the dark secrets of Toronto’s past. Check out Hogtown: http://www.hogtownexperience.com/ Twitter: @hogtownlive Instagram: hogtownlive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hogtownexperience Stageworthy: Twitter @stageworthyPod Facebook: facebook.com/stageworthyPod | |||
| 16 Apr 2019 | #179 – Ted Dykstra | 00:38:51 | |
Ted has acted, directed, written and/or composed for every major theatre in Canada and around the world, including such great cities as New York, London and Tokyo. He is a proud graduate of The National Theatre School Of Canada, and a founding member of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre. Arguably best known for co-creating one of the most successful plays in Canada's history, "2 Pianos, 4 Hands," Ted also wrote the hit musical Evangeline (Citadel Theatre, Charlottetown Festival). Recent film and TV appearances include Orphan Black, Reign, Carter and Farenheit 451 for HBO. Over the course of his career he has been the recipient of numerous awards including five Doras, a Gemini, a Sterling, a Merritt and a Chalmers. Hand to God HAND TO GOD, a blasphemous black comedy, with puppets, written by Robert Askins, was the most produced play in the 2016-17 American theatre season with 13 productions staged across the country. (Says a lot about the state of the States!) Mitchell Cushman (The Aliens) returns to the Coal Mine to revisit a play about a satanic sock puppet he directed at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in 2017. In a quiet Texas town, recently widowed Margery is tasked with running the church puppet club. Attended grudgingly by her teenage son Jason, he finds solace in Tyrone, his homemade puppet. That is until Tyrone turns fiendish causing doors to slam, lightbulbs to burst and his head to spin around Exorcist-style. Is it…the devil? HAND TO GOD tackles all the big themes: death, depression, alcoholism, sexual repression, emotional guilt, religious hypocrisy and crafting. Twitter: @coalminetheatre | |||
| 21 Jun 2016 | #25 – Scenes from Plays I Never Wrote | 01:01:48 | |
Record your album, make your film, open your restaurant, pursue your passion – what’s stopping you? Confronted with this question and unable to finish a script, playwright Katherine grapples with the voice in her head that’s controlling her life. In a race against the clock, Katherine works her way through the detritus of her half-finished plays in search of resolution. Scenes From Plays I Never Wrote is a comedy about what drives us forward, what holds us back, and how to achieve your dreams! Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves Greta Papageorgiu Brittney A. Filek-Gibson Full Circle Theatre Stageworthy: | |||
| 07 Feb 2017 | #62 – Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | 00:57:13 | |
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is an award-winning actor, best known for the lead role of Appa in the CBC series Kim’s Convenience, which is based on the stage play in which he also starred as Appa. Born in Korea, his family immigrated to Canada when he was still a baby. He grew up in London, Ontario then moved to Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto and later to Calgary. After he was accepted to the University of Toronto, his parents moved back to the Greater Toronto Area. He won the 2012 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Association Award for Best Actor for Kim’s Convenience and received Dora Nominations for Outstanding Performance for both Kim’s Convenience and Monster Under the Bed. While best known for the role of Appa in Kim’s Convenience, Paul has also been seen in such roles as Hong Kong Lee in Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings with Factory Theatre and Cahoots Theatre Company, Robert in La Ronde with Soulpepper, and Zhang Lin in Chimerica with Canadian Stage. Paul is appearing as Appa in Kim’s Convenience at the Young Centre in Toronto, until March 4 2017, and Montreal’s Segal Centre starting March 8 2017. Paul will also be performing as Appa when Kim’s Convenience travels to New York in July. @bitterasiandude Stageworthy: | |||
| 21 Mar 2017 | #68 – Alec Toller | 00:52:40 | |
Alec Toller is a playwright, actor, director, and Artistic Director of Circle Snake Productions. Circlesnake Productions uses collaborative creation to produce new work with a cinematic approach to storytelling. Circlesnake uses genres that are rarely put on stage to explore new approaches to theatre. Circlesnake grounds heightened theatricality through the understated realism of filmic performance. Circlesnake explores the intersection between theatre and film to find powerful new stories. Circlesnake presents Slip, March 23 - April 2, at the Tarragon Workspace. Slip follows Detective Lynne Barrett as she tries to piece together a mysterious death: a woman is found dead on the floor of an abandoned apartment with debris strewn everywhere, and a symbol carved into her arm. Her attempts to uncover the truth are disrupted by the overwhelming complexity of the case, and Lynne must untangle a mystery that escapes the simplicity of a single story. A play about crime, memory, and storytelling. Slip is nominated for 3 My Entertainment World awards: Outstanding Production, Outstanding New Work, and Outstanding Actress - Alex Paxton-Beesley. Alec Toller Circlesnake Productions Stageworthy: | |||
| 07 Mar 2017 | #66 – Victoria Velenosi | 00:58:02 | |
Victoria Velenosi is a storyteller and tells stories to anyone who will listen. She is half of the partnership that runs Brick and Mortar, home of The Attic, The Box and The Commons. At any given time, she can be found either on stage, behind a computer, or under a pile of cats. Most impressive credits include a list of shows you’ve probably never heard of. ☺ Vikki is a graduate of the University of Windsor Acting Program and Straeon Acting Studios. Vikki believes that every artist has an important voice and, with the right stage, they can change the world. #DREAMBIGGER ABOUT Brick and Mortar: Brick and Mortar started independently as The Box and The Attic by Vikki Velenosi and Kasey Dunn. They came together in 2016 to form Brick and Mortar and open a third space, The Commons. Each of their studios is unique and yet they share a common principle: The belief that artists deserve clean, beautiful space to work in. Each space is well-located, non-traditional, artist run, bright, open, and alive with history and charm. Each unit is private and ready for inspiration and creativity. Brick and Mortar specializes in the tenants of grassroots theatre: creative use of small spaces; the creative ability to problem-solve with limited resources; the intimate actor–audience dynamic; and the cross trained artist. http://www.brickandmortartoronto.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 10 Oct 2017 | #97 – Nigel Shawn Williams | 00:51:35 | |
Nigel Shawn Williams is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore Award-winner as both actor and director. His theatre credits include The Merchant of Venice for Bard on the Beach this past summer, five seasons at Stratford Festival, four seasons at Shaw Festival, as well as performances in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. Nigel is also heavily involved in new play development and mentoring young and emerging artists through the difficult transition from training schools to professional life. Nigel is the director of Cahoots Theatre and Obsidian Theatre's world premiere of Amanda Parris’ OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME. Set before the rise of Black Lives Matter, OTHER SIDE OF THEGAME is a time-spanning work that tells the story of silenced Black women who organize communities, protect loved ones, battle institutions, and live each day by a ride-or-die philosophy. This first-time partnership between Cahoots and Obsidian also marks the professional playwriting debut for Amanda Parris. Other Side of the Game Stageworthy: | |||
| 21 Feb 2017 | #64 – D.J. Sylvis | 00:59:07 | |
D.J. Sylvis has been involved in theatre for over 25 years as an actor, director, technician, playwright, and producer. He is a founding member and playwright-in-residence of Monkeyman Productions, Toronto’s geekiest theatre company. D.J. is inspired by monkeys, robots, cats, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, that theme song from The Greatest American Hero, Arthur Kopit, 80s-era Justice League comics, various dystopias from his childhood(including Bible School), Lego spacemen, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (just the hosting segments), potato chips, Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, yellowed sci-fi paperbacks, friends, enemies, strangers in the night… and all things strange and wonderful in this world. Stageworthy: | |||
| 22 Nov 2016 | #51 – Diana Tso | 00:50:09 | |
Diana Tso graduated from the University of Toronto with Honors BA in English Literature & from Ecole Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq, in Paris, France. She has worked with diverse theatres internationally for over 18 years. Her favorite theatre co-creations/ performances include: Dante’s Inferno and Chekhov Shorts, both with Theatre Smith-Gilmour, and by the way, Miss… with Urge/Theatre Direct, for which she shares the Dora Mavor Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. Her Monkey Queen, Journey to the East, a one-woman performance creation inspired by the Monkey King stories in Wu Cheng-En’s 16th century Chinese novel, Journey to the West premiered at the 2010 Toronto Festival of Storytelling & continues to tour it. http://redsnowcollective.ca Stageworthy: | |||
| 13 Feb 2018 | #113 – Laura Mullin & Chris Tolley of the PlayME podcast | 00:44:25 | |
Chris Tolley is a writer, director and producer, and the Co-Artistic Director of Expect Theatre. After graduating from York University he teamed up with Laura Mullin, and together they have created award-winning multi-disciplinary productions that have toured across Canada and the US. Chris’ work has been nominated for five Dora Awards in the General Theatre category, and has been shortlisted twice for the Toronto Arts Foundation Awards. In 2006 both Chis and Laura won Harbourfront Centre’s inaugural FreshGround commissioning award. His most notable works include Romeo/Juliet REMIXED (Toronto and Philadelphia), STATIC (World Stage Festival) and AWAKE (Next Stage Festival). Other work with Mullin include the CBC Radio drama, The Tunnel Runners, and the short film, AWAKE. Most recently, Chris and Laura launched PlayME, a national digital theatre dedicated to producing Canada’s most innovative theatre works distributed globally via podcasts. He sits on the Board of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and serves as the Contracts Chair. He is also on a number of other theatre boards. Outside of theatre, Chris is also very active in national politics. In 2015, Chris ran in the federal election as the Green Party’s candidate in Toronto-Danforth, advocating for the cultural issues he is passionate about. His campaign resulted in the best showing for the Green Party in the GTA and surrounding area, and was recognized as one of the strongest campaigns run nationally. Twitter: @christolley Laura Mullin is a playwright, director and producer, and the Co-Artistic Director of Expect Theatre and The Spark Collective. She graduated from York University with a bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre before forming Expect and Spark with Chris Tolley. She has created and produced several highly acclaimed productions with Tolley that have toured nationally and internationally. Selected writing and directing credits: Romeo/Juliet Remixed (5 Dora award nominations, winner of Outstanding Choreography), EXPECT/ Spark; Tunnel Runners, CBC Radio; STATIC, Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage Festival; AWAKE, Next Stage Festival; AWAKE The Short Film; Rapid Eye Movement & To The Kid That I was, Nuit Blanche; One Sleepless Night, International Festival of Authors; Allowance (in development); Burusera, Watermark Theatre (national 21 city tour & to be published in the Playwright’s Guild Short Play Anthology); History of Visual Sources (short story). Awards & Commissions: Toronto Arts Foundation Award (short listed 2009 & 2013); Harbourfront Centre’s inaugural Fresh Ground Commissioning Award; Dora Award nomination for Outstanding Production for Romeo / Juliet Remixed (General Theatre category), Ontario Arts Council’s Creator’s Reserve from Nightwood Theatre (2013) and Crow’s Theatre (2015) for Allowance, Watermark Theatre Commission of Burusera for Canada 300’s national tour (2015). Twitter: @expectlaura PlayME Expect Theatre has created an exciting new initiative that celebrates the best of Canadian Indie Theatre on a national and international scale. The project helps raise the profile of Canadian playwrights by highlighting new works through a series of podcasts, making it accessible to audiences worldwide. PlayME is transforming the way we experience Canadian theatre, by taking a bold and innovative approach to disseminating plays. The podcast features distinguished actors, and focuses on current and relevant scripts geared to the growing “on-demand” audience. Expect’s Artistic Directors, Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley are spearheading this project, in partnership with organizations such as The Toronto Fringe Festival and the Playwrights Guild of Canada. http://www.playmepodcast.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 18 Sep 2018 | #149 – Jennifer Walls | 01:01:32 | |
Jennifer Walls is a performer producer, and voice-over actor. As a musical theatre performer she has played leading roles in a wide variety of musicals including RENT, Beauty And The Beast, The Wizard of Oz and number of Canadian premiers as well as the Dora Award nominated original musical review Off-Broadway, On Stage. She was also a finalist in the CBC hit show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? As a voice actor she has voiced recurring characters on a number of animated series' including PBS' Peg+ Cat and Amazon's Creative Galaxy and I am currently the voice of Family Jr. Jennifer is also the director of Hart House Theatre’s production of Heathers: The Musical. www.jenniferwalls.com www.harthouse.ca | |||
| 31 May 2016 | #22 – Alexandra Simpson and the Terra Incognita Collective | 00:30:00 | |
Alexandra Simpson is an interdisciplinary theatre artist with a background in dance, music, documentary, play writing, installation and directing. She has created and produced a number of audience-immersive and site-specific shows that focus on the role of the individual within collective society. Alexandra is interested in how artistic practice and activism converge and how degrowth environmentalism can be applied to consumer cultures. She is on the board for Common Boots Theatre (formerly Theatre Columbus and a member of their Devised Theatre Lab. Terra Incognita = unknown or unexplored territory. We live in a world in which economic and personal growth is a prerequisite to being human. The alternative lies in what has yet to be explored. Confined by what we are told and know as the good life, we must choose, will we degrow on our own initiative or will we continue until the biosphere forces us to stop? This is a site specific performance documentary work that involves collective creation and theatre mask technique to explore our complicity within growth culture and the potential degrowth alternative. The work uses interviews from researchers at Research & Degrowth collected from prior research, the collective’s own experiences creating the piece, improvisation, documentation of pop-up performances around the city of Toronto (we have a performance coming up this Sunday at the Indie Exchange) and community partnerships with Greenpeace and Toronto350.org. www.terraincogco.org Stageworthy: | |||
| 16 May 2017 | #76 – Pantsuit Improv | 00:48:37 | |
Pantsuit Improv are graduates of Bad Dog Comedy Theatre's Narrative Studio program, with past direction by Etan Muskat (Interim Artistic Director of Bad Dog Theatre) and training with Jess Bryson (Bad Dog Academy Director), Colin Munch (Second City Toronto mainstage), and Sex T-Rex (2016 Second City Award for Best Comedy, Wasteland). Inspired by captivating storytelling, Pantsuit creates comedic performances that mirror current film and television. Since their acclaimed Narrative Studio graduate show Family Portrait in August 2016 as part of Bad Dog’s Homecoming Week, Pantsuit has performed at the Big City Improv Festival; received an Honourable Mention at the 2016 Blockbuster Week competition; and on Wednesday, May 17th at 9:30pm, Pantsuit headlines the final episode of Spring Binge at Bad Dog Theatre with The Magic-Er School Bus: improvised adventures with Ms. Frizzle's new class! Pantsuit Improv is: Hamed Dar, Brittney Drysdale, Tara Federko, Devon Henderson, Christina Nicolaou, Cecilia Serafina, Jackie Twomey, Terris Taylor and Ivan Yuen. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PantsuitImprov/ | |||
| 26 Sep 2017 | #95 – Ellie Moon & Brendan Healy: Asking For It | 00:39:50 | |
A documentary play that looks at gender roles and sexual consent in the wake of the Ghomeshi scandal, Asking For It considers the various ways in which sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally. Moon speaks with people of all ages and backgrounds about their assumptions and experiences around consent to sexual relations, and with crown prosecutors and legal experts about the current state of sexual assault law in Canada. The conversations are candid, funny, often uncomfortable, and describe experiences of shame, power, ambiguity, and misunderstanding in communication about sex. Ellie Moon: Brendan Healy: Website: http://crowstheatre.com/whats-on/view-all/asking-for-it Stageworthy: | |||
| 30 Apr 2019 | #181 – Miriam Goldstein & Blythe Haynes | 01:04:40 | |
Pregnancy Pact is a pop-rock musical which tells the story of a group of teens who make a pact to become single mothers together. The 15-year-old Maddie is devoted to her three best friends and they are to her. So, when Brynn gets pregnant, the friends all plan to have children, raising them together and living a dream. Inspired by the 2008 news story of the Gloucester pregnancy pact that took the world by storm, Pregnancy Pact provides a unique chance to examine the intense journey this kind of decision creates. Miriam Goldstein Blythe Haynes | |||
| 05 Jun 2018 | #129 – Michael Ross Albert | 00:50:56 | |
Michael Ross Albert is the author of several plays including Miss (FringeNYC; Unit 102 Actors Company); The Farmers Lit the Fields on Fire (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (FringeNYC, published by Applause in Best American Short Plays 2014-2015); and Karenin’s Anna (Toronto Fringe Festival, “Outstanding New Play,” — NOW Magazine). Along with the Storefront Theatre, Michael produced the sold-out world premiere production of his play Tough Jews in the heart of Toronto’s Kensington Market. The production was nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production. His play Starfishes opened Off-Broadway at the Theatre at Dance New Amsterdam and is included in Best American Short Plays 2010-2011. It has since been performed across the United States and Canada. Michael received an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Michael is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Michael is the playwright of two shows in the 2018 Toronto Fringe: Anywhere and The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome. | |||
| 02 Oct 2018 | #151 – Rosanna Saracino | 00:53:55 | |
Rosanna Saracino is an Italian-Canadian director, dramaturge, educator, acting coach and costume designer, who has worked in the professional theatre industry for more than twenty years, with forays into directing and acting coaching in film, TV, video and documentaries. She received her MFA from York University in Directing, was the Director in Residence at the Canadian Stage Theatre and at Shadowpath Theatre as part of the Femme5 Operative, is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of art & lies productions. She held the post of the Head of the Acting Division of the Randolph College for the Performing Arts for twenty years, and has been an instructor with the college for as long. Currently, she is teaching at George Brown, in the Theatre Department, as well as at TFS. Her freelance work has extended to companies such as the Classical Music Conservatory, the Canadian Opera Company, the PowerPlant. She is specialized in working with large casts, and stylized and physical theatre, and has worked extensively in classical and modern adaptations, new play work, and devised theatre. Directing credits include: Nasty by the Maelstrom Art Collective (winner of the 2017 Patron’s Pick/TOFringe and Storefront Theatre’s Feminist FuckIt Festival), Suitcases (Artscape Sandbox/Canadian Stage, art&lies), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Helen Gardiner), Killing Game by Eugene Ionesco (art & lies), No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (Passe Muraille/art&lies), Lord of the Flies by William Golding (all female adaptation), Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht (Young Centre for the Performing Arts/George Brown Theatre), and the world premiere live actor version of Provenance by Ronnie Burkett. | |||
| 14 May 2019 | #183 – Kiran Friesen | 00:49:33 | |
Kiran Friesen is an actress and writer, known for Bruiser (2000), The Unusual Suspects (2012) and First Round Down (2016). Theatrically, she has enjoyed a number of strong Shakespearean roles such as Gertrude (Hamlet), Lady M (Macbeth), Desdemona (Othello) and Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), not to mention a smattering of other theatrical wonders and oddities (see resume). She wrote, produced and performed her play "Peeler" for the Toronto Fringe Festival to rave reviews. Kiran is appearing in Cement Factory and NightShift Theatre's production of George F. Walker's Risk Everything at the Red Sandcastle Theatre from May 14 - 25, 2019. www.cementfactorytheatre.ca | |||
| 04 Dec 2018 | #160 – Sue Edworthy | 01:06:50 | |
Sue Edworthy has worked in theatre, dance and opera organizations in and around Toronto such as Luminato, Opera Atelier, and Theatre Passe Muraille. She is a 2010 Harold Award recipient and recipient of the CharPR Prize for best publicity 2012 and 2013, and the 2015 recipient of the Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award for Arts Leadership. Sue also runs Sue Edworthy Arts Planning, a freelance marketing/PR, producing and strategic planning company for the Toronto independent arts community. | |||
| 06 Aug 2019 | #197 – Dylan Trowbridge | 00:46:33 | |
Dylan is an award-winning actor, director, playwright and a founding member of Toronto's Theatrefront. He has performed with The Stratford And Shaw Festivals, Mirvish Productions and in London’s West End. Dylan considers Theatrefront his creative home, and is deeply committed to our roots in the independent theatre community. For Theatrefront Dylan has appeared in eight productions, including fforward, Mojo and Tribes. He also co-wrote and acted in Return, which received a Dora Nomination for Best New Play. Recently Dylan directed acclaimed productions of Space Opera Zero and The Harrowing OF Brimstone McReedy for Toronto’s Eldritch Theatre. He is also the director of Festival Player's of Prince Edward County's Every Brilliant Thing. Twitter:@dylantrowbridge Every Brilliant Thing is a one-of-a-kind, interactive theatrical event, starring renowned actor and comedian, Gavin Crawford, that engages its audience in thrilling and original ways. At once profoundly funny and deeply moving, Every Brilliant Thing chronicles a young person’s quest to unearth every magnificent thing about being alive. “Heart-wrenching, hilarious…one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop” -The Guardian. www.festivalplayers.ca | |||
| 03 Jan 2017 | #57 – Phil Rickaby | 01:05:47 | |
Phil is an actor and playwright, and a founding a member of Keystone Theatre, a Toronto company that creates plays inspired by silent film. You may have seen him as Gormless Joe in Keystone Theatre’s The Belle of Winnipeg, The Last Man on Earth, and Gold Fever, as well as in the films Abolition, The Dragon and the Unicorn and So You’ve Decided to be Attacked by Zombies. Phil is also the host of the Canadian theatre podcast, Stageworthy. www.philrickaby.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 14 Jun 2016 | #24 – Nisha Coleman | 00:49:46 | |
Nisha Coleman was born in a swamp near Huntsville, Ontario. She studied music and psychology at McGill and Wilfrid Laurier University. Once school was out of the way, she went to live in Paris as a street violinist. Her memoir about these years is called Busker: Stories from the Streets of Paris and was released with Hagios Press in November 2015 to critical acclaim (Montreal Gazette. 49th Shelf, Pickle Me This). Nisha is a regular storyteller as well as co-producer of the storytelling series Confabulation in Montreal. Her stories have been broadcast on the CBC (WireTap) and No More Radio. In 2015, she teamed up with Jeff Gandell to co-write and perform Things Drugs Taught Me, a show that combines storytelling, theatre, and comedy. Her solo show, Self-Exile, explores isolation, flatulence, selective mutism, music, human connection, and what it means to be yourself. Self-Exile will be featured at the 2016 Montreal and Toronto Fringe Festivals. TO Fringe Link: http://fringetoronto.com/fringe-festival/shows/self-exile/ Website: nishacoleman.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 13 Nov 2018 | #157 – Johnny Wideman - Theatre of the Beat | 00:52:41 | |
Johnny is the Artistic Director and a founding member of Theatre of the Beat. Studied Drama at the University of Waterloo & Theatre at the University of Sussex where he focused on politically oriented theatre & practitioners. He enjoys hypothetical jokes, riding his motorcycle and lives in Stouffville, ON. #CHURCHTOO Artfully depicted through a variety of scenes and relationships, #ChurchToo explores the struggle of wading into the realities of sexual assault and examines the difficulties of speaking out in a community where the topic of sex is often considered taboo. Follow an array of characters through seven vignettes, each bringing to life stories about hidden trends within our church communities. From the secret relationship of a young woman and her pastor, to discriminatory church policies, all the way to bringing forth allegations against persons in power, #ChurchToo illuminates the messy dynamics that accompany the complicated truths of power and sexual abuse. theatreofthebeat.ca | |||
| 16 Jan 2018 | #109 – Bil Antoniou | 00:55:08 | |
Bil Antoniou has been performing for a number of years, amassing a number of interesting experiences that resulted from his decision to say yes to everything. Among them are appearing in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Hart House (his favourite), singing Thenardier in Les Miserables at Honest Ed's on their closing weekend, a few stints as Jesus and a Pharisee on a wagon and making love to pots and pans in the middle of Michigan. Along the way he decided to take his love of writing and seriously and began writing plays, which thus far have resulted in four productions that, despite having forced him to say yes to fewer other projects, have gone well, including The Best Men at Bread and Circus in 2011, Operation Impervious at the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival, and two productions in 2015 at Red Sandcastle Theatre, We Say Such Terrible Things and Heart of the Storm. Between theatre gigs, he spends his free time writing film reviews for his blog, MyOldAddiction.com, or editing one of his two podcasts, BGM: Bad Gay Movies Bitchy Gay Men and My Criterions, a journey through his film collection.
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| 06 Jul 2019 | #191 – 2019 Toronto Fringe Roundup I | 00:51:20 | |
The First of Two Fringe 2019 Roundup episodes. On each of the Saturdays of the Fringe, we gather a group of performers together to talk about their shows, their Fringe experience so far, and what shows they've loved, and more. Kaho Koda Monica Ogden Sarah Joy Bennett Shane Adamzack Carlyn Rhamey Recorded 9:30am, July 6, 2019 | |||
| 22 Aug 2017 | #90 – Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster | 00:53:56 | |
Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster is presently a resident artist and the Shen Fellow at Soulpepper Theatre Company. She is a Founding Member of The Howland Company and a graduate of UBC, the Citadel/Banff Theatre Program and the Soulpepper Academy. Selected theatre credits include Spoon River, Blood Wedding, Incident at Vichy, The Dining Room, Eurydice, Of Human Bondage, Marat/Sade, Alligator Pie, Idiot’s Delight, The Barber of Seville, The Royal Comedians, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Assistant Director on The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine (Soulpepper); The Flood Thereafter (Canadian Stage); As You Like It (Blue Bridge); Pride and Prejudice (Citadel); 52 Pick-Up (Co-Director, Howland Company). Screen credits include The Drawer Boy feature film, Murdoch Mysteries, Fringe, Supernatural and Shattered. http://www.courtneylancaster.com/ http://www.theatreinamorata.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 02 Jul 2016 | #27 – Toronto Fringe Week 1 Roundup | 00:41:41 | |
The week 1 Toronto Fringe Roundup with producer of Damn Tank (@damntankTO), Laura McCallum (@lauramcsee), Nisha Coleman (@NishaColeman) of Self-Exile, and Scott Garland and David Kingsmill (@dragonliterate) of Romeo and Juliet Chainsaw Massacre (@RJMassacre) joined me bright and early on Saturday morning (by Fringe standards) to talk about Toronto Fringe, what they’ve seen, what they are looking forward to seeing and much more. Recorded Saturday, July 2 2016 @ 10AM Stageworthy: | |||
| 28 Mar 2017 | #69 – Benjamin Blais and the cast of Tough Jews | 00:41:06 | |
The Storefront Theatre and the Spadina Avenue Gang, present the world premiere production of Tough Jews, by internationally celebrated writer Michael Ross Albert and directed by Storefront founder and Co-Artistic Director Benjamin Blais draws frightening historical parallels between a forgotten chapter of Toronto’s history and the city’s current emerging climate of intolerance. Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and one of the largest riots in Canadian history, Tough Jews is the story of an immigrant family of would-be criminals, and their struggle to rise above their station in a violent, intolerant city http://thestorefronttheatre.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 20 Jun 2017 | #81 – Chantal Forde | 00:51:43 | |
Chantal is an artist and educator with a diploma in musical theatre from the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. She has been behind the annual Oakville Holiday Pantomime for the past four years as co-writer, director, and choreographer. As a writer, director and producer, her work has been seen in several festivals including the Toronto and Vancouver Fringe Festivals as well as The Short Short Play Festival. The 2017 Toronto Fringe will be her third as writer/producer for “GREY”, previous years were her plays “Perceptions of Love in the Pursuit of Happiness” and “Quarterlife”. Selected acting credits include TV’s “About A Girl”, “Blood Ties”, and “Psych” as well as performing on stage in cabarets, musicals, and plays both in Toronto and Vancouver. Chantal works with drama students aged 12-95 through Sheridan College, Centre Stage Theatre School, and Shadowpath Theatre Productions, who honoured her with their Artist of the Year Award in 2015. Grey: Twleve years ago Richard Buttle killed Jayden Alexander. Today is the day of his parole hearing where he must not only face his own history, but also the father of the boy he killed. Jumping through time, the circumstances that lead to the crime begin to unravel. Who was really to blame? In this new drama it becomes very clear that not everything in life is as black and white as one would like to perceive. Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto, ON Friday, July 7 – 8:00pm Saturday, July 8 – 4:00pm Monday, July 10 – 3:15pm Wednesday, July 12 – 5:45pm Thursday, July 13 - 12:00pm Saturday, July 15 – 11:00pm Sunday, July 16 – 2:45pm | |||
| 11 Jul 2017 | #84 – Triple Bypass Productions | 00:59:19 | |
Melanie Pyne Well versed in theatre, she has tackled such playwrights as, Timothy Findlay, Michelle Trembley andmost recently Mohammad Yaghoubi's 'A Moment of Silence' - w/Nowadays Theatre Company/Summerworks 2016 Theatre Festival Toronto. Recent film and TV credits: 'Conduit' directed by Anastasia Cronkite,'Lakes' directed by Tim O'Brien. 'Shadow Animal' -Paranormal Investigator.For The 48 Hour Film Project, producing,writing and acting in- 2014 "Lemonade" ,2015 “Strapped”, 2016 "Fumbled"Studied at Humber College's Theatre Program, Seneca College, Fanshawe Theatre Program graduate and StraeonActing Studios alumni. www.melaniepyne.com Chris Whitby https://vimeo.com/113521648 Adult Entertainment George F. Walker's ‘Adult Entertainment’ opens to a seedy room in a suburban motel. Max, a weary detective, finds himself back in this room with Jayne, a defence attorney, six months after they decided never see each other again. Why are they again, secretly meeting? For sex? To exchange information? To make a backhanded deal? Jayne used to care about her job, Max too, but now they’re just putting in time. Maybe they've just given up. Jayne mentions a young client of hers, whom she feels sorry for. A glimmer that perhaps Jayne still cares, but needs Max's help to sway the case in her client’s favour. Max’s gives his volatile partner Donny some instructions, not Donny’s strong suit. Donny is fighting his own demons, having an infinity for booze and hookers, yet still has a deep love for his estranged wife Pam. During an attempted reconciliation with Pam, Donny’s sloppy police work comes back to haunt them. One action starts a chain of chaotic events that leads to Max, Donny, Jayne and Pam finding themselves in a situation far worse than any of them could have anticipated. Cops, lawyers, husbands, wives, truth and lies. Sex, liquor, secret deals, fist fights and perhaps even love. You never know what your going to find behind the door of a motel... www.triplebypassproductions.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 13 Mar 2018 | #117 – Bryce Hodgson & Charlie Kerr of Blood Pact Theatre | 00:45:48 | |
Bryce Hodgson (Director, Co-Writer, Co-Set Designer) In 2015 he was nominated for a drama desk award for his work in Deliverance Instagram: @bryce_hodgson Charlie Kerr (Co-writer, Hogan) Twitter:@mattandsamsbro After Wrestling Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/BloodPactTheatre/ AFTER WRESTLING Written by Bryce Hodgson and Charlie Kerr World Premiere Factory Studio Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street Single tickets start at just $20 for previews and range from $30-$50 for regular performances Student, Arts Worker and Senior prices also available Purchase in person at Factory, 125 Bathurst Street, visit factorytheatre.ca or call 416.504.9971 | |||
| 13 Jun 2017 | #80 – Steven Elliott Jackson and Tanisha Taitt | 00:47:55 | |
The Seat Next to the King The Seat Next to the King was the winner of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival New Play Contest Tanisha Taitt - Director Tanisha is a director/actor/playwright/arts educator/activist and accidental essayist. She has worked with Obsidian, NAC, The Musical Stage Company, Nightwood, BIBT and Soulpepper, and spent two seasons as a Resident Artist-Educator with YPT. Tanisha is a Drama mentor for tdsbCreates, a TDSB/TAC initiative that brings professional artists into classrooms to nurture artistic expression in students and teachers. She is an Anti-Oppression facilitator and Director of the Peace Camp program for Children's Peace Theatre, an organization that teaches young people about conflict transformation through theatre. Also a singer and songsmith, she is a recipient of the Canadian Music Publishers Association Songwriters Award for excellence in songwriting. Tanisha spent 7 years as the Toronto and then the National producer for V-Day/One Billion Rising -- the global movement to end violence against women and girls. In 2014, she founded Teenage Graceland, a youth theatre collective that challenges societal attitudes leading to gender-based violence. Tanisha was 'Harolded' in 2013 and in 2015, critic Lynn Slotkin bestowed upon her an inaugural “Tootsie” Award in the “They Can Do Anything” category. She is currently writing two musical theatrical works: FORCE, a musical about rape; and ERACED, which began when she heard the voices of unarmed dead black men singing to her in her sleep. Tanisha is the new co-host of The HUM Human Rights & the Arts podcast and will make her hosting debut this June. She is a two-time YWCA Woman of Distinction nominee for her commitment to artistic excellence and social justice. Steven Elliott Jackson – Playwright Steven Elliott Jackson was the recipient of the 2017 Best New Play at the Toronto Fringe for “The Seat Next To The King” and previously placed second in the contest in 2007 for “The State Of Tennessee”. He is the Artistic Director for Minmar Gaslight Productions as well as its family theatre company, 3 Little Bears Productions with his partner Todd Davies. Previous credits: Brothers And Arms (2010, Toronto Fringe Festival), The Dark Part Of The Snow (2011, Mount Marty College, Yankton, ND), Real Life Superhero (2012, Toronto Dance Theatre), The State Of Tennessee (2013, Theatre Passe Muraille), Rapunzel (adaptation, 2014, Toronto Kids Fringe/Stage Centre Productions), Threesome (2016, Red Sandcastle Theatre). Upcoming Productions: The Prince’s Big Adventure (Nov. 2017, Stage Centre Productions), A Question Of Character (Jan. 2017/ Stage Centre Productions), Real Life Superhero (Spring 2018, Brandon, MB) and currently he is developing Kick Start: Featuring the music of Lisa Loeb for a future reading. | |||
| 12 Jun 2018 | #130 – Kris Hagen | 00:53:17 | |
Kris Hagen is an actor and writer, known for Imposters (2017), Kim's Convenience (2016) and Tugg N Chugger (2015). Kris is also the creator of Lighters in the Air, premiering at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Lighters in the Air A play about artistic integrity, unfulfilled expectations, nostalgia, romance, and an uncertain future, the show features live performances of original songs. An open mic scene includes different guest musicians and standup comics every night, making each show a unique experience. Written & Directed by Kris Hagen Twitter: @divebartheatre | |||
| 30 Oct 2018 | #155 – Zazu Oke & Vince Deiulis Theatre Nidana’s Gods like Us | 00:43:00 | |
To commemorate the 100<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Armistice of the First World War, this worldwide premiere takes a look at the conflict through a lesser-known perspective. In November 1917, on a yam field in Nigeria, a farmer is approached by a Canadian war recruiter to join the Allied troops to push back the German advance in East Africa. The Nigerian farmer’s morality is challenged in ways he never expected. An allegory interwoven with traditional Nigerian music and stories, this new play by Zazu Oke and Vince Deiulis challenges audiences to question what they truly know about the World’s First War. DATES & TIMES: VENUE: TICKETS: | |||
| 06 Mar 2018 | #116 – Massimo Pagliaroli | 00:50:20 | |
Massimo Pagliaroli is a graduate of York University’s Directing program and has been working as an actor, writer and director for over fifteen years. Playwriting credits include Cheapskate (a winner in the 2005 Toronto Fringe New Play competition) Happy Together and Young Couple in Love. His current project, Inch of Your Life, was workshoped in Toronto and received it's U.S premiere at Edgemar Theatre in Santa Monica, California. He is a co-founder of The Theatre Circuit and currently serves as it's Artistic Director. Instagram: massimillions Massimo Pagliaroli's INCH OF YOUR LIFE: EPISODE 1 was the comedy hit of 2016's Toronto Fringe Festival, receiving the coveted “Patron's Pick”. INCH OF YOUR LIFE: THE TRILOGY stars eight of Toronto's rising stage stars: Luis Fernandes; Antonino Pruiti; Alex Clay; Ceridwen Kingstone; Giovanna Pandullo; Brandon Knox; Jonathan Sconza; and Jack Everett. The performance dates for INCH OF YOUR LIFE: THE TRILOGY are:
Tickets for INCH OF YOUR LIFE: Episode 1/The Pilot are on sale TODAY at www.artsboxoffice.ca The Theatre Circuit was created with the intention of producing work that celebrates and highlights the artistic diversity of Toronto; cultivating an artistic hub in which to nurture, support, and promote Toronto-based theatre artists; fostering a community in which emerging, established, and returning theatre artists can connect and develop fruitful creative partnerships; and, engaging and entertaining the people of Toronto while attracting broader audiences to support local theatre productions. Also as part of its first season is THE LAST PERFORMANCE by Hole in the Wall Productions starring Jonathan Sconza & Steven Vlahos and directed by Ceridwen Kingstone. The Theatre Circuit is comprised of founding members Massimo Pagliaroli (Artistic Director) and Carlo Vitelli (Managing Director), and Susan Lock, Alex Clay, Ceridwen Kingstone, Jonathan Sconza, Steven Vlahos & Andrea Healey (Resident Artists & Associate Producers). www.thetheatrecircuit.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 03 Jul 2018 | #133 – Hayley Pace & Daniel Walsh | 01:02:26 | |
Hayley Pace – Artistic Director, Playwright, Performer, Designer Daniel Walsh – Musical Director, Composer, Arranger, Sousaphone, Bass Guitar High School Symphony Twitter: @teenytinymusic | |||
| 07 Jun 2016 | #23 – Amy Blackmore | 00:46:44 | |
Amy Blackmore is the Executive & Artistic Director of MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festival and the Artistic Director of the Bouge d’ici. An award-winning creator, she has produced, choreographed, performed and assisted the work of many companies, including The Montreal Highlights Festival, Kidd Pivot, Just For Laughs and RUBBERBANDance. Her work has been seen in MainLine Theatre's The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus, MTL Shakespeare Theatre Company's Macbeth, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Unseamly by Infinitheatre. Amy sits on the board of Quebec's English Language Arts Network. twitter: @_amyblackmore Mainline Theatre Montreal Fringe Stageworthy: | |||
| 05 Jul 2016 | #28 – Sex T-Rex II | 00:52:54 | |
Following their 2015 Fringe hit SwordPlay (Winner, Just For Laughs Best Comedy Award), Sex T-Rex is raising the bar with their most ambitious show yet. Masters of genre parody, this year their sights are set on Post Apocalyptic mayhem in Wasteland. This action-packed thrill-ride makes its Toronto premiere at the Randolph Theatre from July 1 to July 9, 2016. Also joining in: Kyle Allatt of The House of Style’s The No Bull$#!% History of Invention also playing at the Toronto Fringe. Sex T-Rex Kyle Allatt Stageworthy: | |||
| 25 Jul 2017 | #86 – Nick May & Jessica Bryson of Theatre Topikos | 00:58:17 | |
Theatre Topikos is proud to be bringing Wordplay to the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August! Wordplay is a dark comedy about a fag and his hag. No words are off limits between friends. Cut between their work environment and their debate, Jess and Nick, using dark humour (and a lot of naughty words) push the boundaries of their friendship as they question appropriate and appropriated word use within the dynamics of society and each other. Premiered at Toronto's Gay Play Day 2014, remounted at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in 2016. ‘Funny and thought-provoking, with mercurial dialogue and a sharp pop culture sensibility’ (Cate McKim, GayPlayDay). Nominated for Best New Writing (IDGTF). **** (TheOutMost.com). http://theatretopikos.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 25 Sep 2018 | #150 – Thea Fitz-James & Wes Babcock of Dark Day Monday | 00:43:17 | |
Dark Day Monday is a curated monthly performance series featuring artists who defy expectations and break boundaries. We seek out acts that explore, play, and fuck with performance forms or genres. www.darkdaymonday.com
Thea Fitz-James is part academic, part journalist, and part theatre practitioner. She is a theatre maker and performance artist, having created work with FADO in Toronto, Secret Theatre in Halifax and the School of Making/Thinking in New York. Her shows NAKED LADIES and Drunk Girl have been nominated for awards, and have toured the fringe circuit internationally. Thea is also a theatre producer, festival curator, and arts residency facilitator with the Cucalorus Festival in Wilmington, NC. Her most recent work explores contemporary depictions of women and feminism, integrating performance art and theatre to ask difficult questions around cultural norms. Thea is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at York University, looking at knitting and Wes Babcock Wes Babcock is a Toronto-based writer, performer, and theatre designer. Recent design credits include I Cannot Lose My Mind (2018, Watah Theatre - Lights), Bone Cage (2017, Matchstick, Halifax - Set). He was selected as lighting design apprentice to Kimberly Purtell as part of Crows Theatre's Artist Cross Training Program in 2017. His most recent written work, Your Princess is in Another Castle, a play for two actors co-created with Nancy Kenny, is currently in its second stage of development following a successful Fringe tour in 2017. You can find him on Instagram @wildrnesswes, or online at www.wesbabcock.com. | |||
| 26 Mar 2019 | #176 – Bri Proke & Bryce Hodgson: Grand Canyon | 00:42:10 | |
Poised to join the ranks of Toronto’s favourite indie theatre spots, Blood Pact Theatre, in association with The Storefront Arts Initiative, announces the Grand Opening of a brand-new venue: GRAND CANYON. Located in the lively Junction neighbourhood, GRAND CANYON will serve as a new vibrant hub for multidisciplinary artists to play, explore and share. GRAND CANYON is owned and operated by Blood Pact Theatre’sBri Proke and Bryce Hodgson, who have been praised as “excellent storytellers bringing unique, fresh voices to the Canadian theatre scene” (NOW Magazine). The Storefront Arts Initiative continues as a collaborating company to several indie productions after being suddenly forced to shutter the doors of its flagship space in 2017. The partnership between Blood Pact and Storefront Arts is a tried-and-tested recipe for success, with the two companies having partnered on such hits as Kill Your Parents in Viking, Alberta(Storefront Theatre, 2016), and After Wrestling (Factory Theatre, 2017). The partnership gained praise from critics and audiences alike, with NOW Magazine stating, “Toronto is the lucky site of the world premiere of this collaboration between these young, vibrant indie companies”. Blood Pact Theatre most recently won over our cold dead hearts with graveyard comedy No Clowns Allowed (Assembly Theatre, 2018), and also shot their first feature film, Shark Week (written and directed by Proke, starring Hodgson) which is due to hit the festival circuit later this year. Blood Pact Theatre is committed to providing accessible, inventive, and original work to the community. By opening GRAND CANYON, Blood Pact is extending this effort to provide a safe space for artists to create and collaborate. This versatile ex-mechanic spot boasts high ceilings and ample space to fit artists of all kinds. GRAND CANYON can be rented as a theatre performance venue, movie theatre, concert hall, rehearsal space, workshop venue, pop-up shop, bathtub; you name it, we’re ready to accommodate it. GRAND CANYON will open its doors to the public on Saturday, April 06, 2019 with a Grand Opening Fête! This is a FREE EVENT and open invitation to the entire community to meet, mingle, and pitch their ideas while enjoying live music and libations. GRAND CANYON is proud to present special performances by indie rock cuties Sundae, and a late-night dance party with DJ Valeroo! Join us for this special milestone in the Toronto indie theatre community! GRAND CANYON www.bloodpact.ca | |||
| 05 Sep 2017 | #92 – Nina Okens | 00:59:13 | |
Nina Okens is a Toronto based Designer. Her work has been seen in such productions as Pea Green Theatre Group’s Clique Claque and Three Men in a Boat, Cahoots Theatre Company and Theatre Passe Muraille’s Ultrasound, Théâtre Français de Toronto’s Albertine En Cinq Temps. She has also designed subtitles for recent productions at Théâtre Français de Toronto. Stageworthy: | |||
| 16 Jul 2016 | #31 – Hamilton Fringe Roundup Week I | 00:56:26 | |
Brian Morton of Theatre Erebus' Mary, I have his Pants, Esther Huh (@esthuh) and Dave Brennan (@brennandavidn) of The Tragedy of Othella Moore (@othellamoore), Olivia Fasullo of Referendum Productions' The Devil in the Details (@referendumpc) meet to talk about the first two days of Hamilton Fringe, promoting at the Fringe, what they’ve seen and looking a head for the rest of Fringe. The Devil in the Details The Tragedy of Othello Moore Mary, I Have his Pants Stageworthy: | |||
| 26 Aug 2018 | #145 – Kendall Savage | 00:39:39 | |
A graduate of The Randolph Academy of Performing Arts as well as The Players Academy Toronto, Kendall completed her Undergraduate BFA in Performing Arts at Concordia University Alumna 2013. Focusing her gifts in the direction of clown and comedy, Kendall set out to fulfill her calling as a professional clown. She has trained with the likes of Francine Coté, Aron DeCasemaker, Joe DePaul, Aitor Basauri, Philippe Gaulier and her Clown mentors Mike Kennard and John Turner of Mump and Smoot. Currently she finds herself at the helm of a Clown Festival. MTLClownFest.com She will be attending The Second City Conservatory in Toronto, Ontario this fall. Twitter: @kendallsavage Twitter: @mtlclownfest Wild Bill’s Facebook Livefeed Feeding-Time Youtube Yeeeehaw!! Wild Bill, a youtube star pet goldfish. Edward, his childlike, fame-drunk owner/producer. Alone in his basement apartment, he dreams of a bigger fishtank, and his chosen mission: to teach kids everywhere about recycling, through the power of the internet. When their youtube puppet show goes viral, an army of fawning, trolling, giggling internet commenters arrives— and so does an unexpected threat to Bill's life. Then, Ted must go face to face with the biggest danger yet to Wild Bill’s life— himself. A wacky new comedy by a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier, and a live goldfish. The Old Pool Hall Theatre, 6050-6070 Almon Street Friday August 31st 10:30pm Saturday September 1st 8pm Sunday September 2nd 9:30pm Tuesday September 4th 9pm Thursday September 6th 5:30pm Friday September 7th 6:30pm Saturday September 8th 7pm | |||
| 15 Aug 2017 | #89 – A Rant | 00:13:10 | |
In light of recent events, there's no interview this week. Instead, host Phil Rickaby has some things on his mind. Stageworthy: | |||
| 14 Feb 2017 | #63 – Dana Fradkin | 00:56:54 | |
Dana Fradkin is an actor, comedian, writer, teacher and stunt performer based in Toronto. Selected theatre credits include; The Things We Do For Love and Smeraldina in The Servant of Two Masters (Odyssey Theatre), Dancock's Dance and Hogtown (the Campbell House/Hogtown Experience), Acrobat/Clown in La Boheme and Atom Egoyan’s Die Walkure (Canadian Opera Company), Arlecchino in Fool’s Gold (Metaphysical Theatre), AutoShow (Convergence Theatre), Macbeth and Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare in the Square), Vanishing Currents (Caravan Tallship Company), Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding (Second City Toronto) and collaborations with Theatre Gargantua, Mysteriously Yours, Against the Grain Theatre, Cirque Sublime and Circus Orange. Dana is co-founder of Keystone Theatre and co-created and performed in their three successful productions; Gold Fever, The Last Man on Earth and The Belle of Winnipeg (Dora Award musical composition). World-wide festivals include; Glastonbury Music Festival, Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Calgary Stampede, Antwerp Theatre Festival, Edmonton Folk Festival, Edmonton Street Performing Festival, Nuit Blanche, Luminato, and Toronto BuskerFest. TV and film include; First Light, Reign, Fatal Vows, HapHead, Cold Blood, Crimes of Passion, Little Phoenix and the Reign of Fists and her short film Satisfaction which she wrote, produced and starred in which premiered at the Puerto Rico Horror Film Festival this past October. Currently Dana is assistant directing the Opera, Brundibar, with the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus. Upcoming she will be playing the title role in Candida at the Classic Theatre Festival and will be starring in the short film she co-wrote, The Case of the Massey Bodice Ripping. L'chaim. http://danafradkin.workbooklive.com/ Stageworthy: | |||
| 23 May 2017 | #77 – Scott Dermody | 00:48:22 | |
Scott Dermody a Markham, Ontario native, he is now a Toronto-based theatre professional. He is the co-founder and creative core member of Soup Can Theatre and is the Youth Outreach Coordinator for the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). Scott’s career in the performing arts thus far encompasses on and off stage roles. He has been a Producer for most Soup Can Theatre shows, as well as having a crack at Directing (for Soup Can Theatre and V-Day Toronto) and Production Managing (Soup Can Theatre, Single Thread Theatre, and V-Day Toronto). Through Theatre Ontario's Professional Theatre Training Program, Scott worked with and was mentored by Aislinn Rose, independent producer and Artistic Producer of Praxis Theatre. As an actor, Scott has played in classics, avant-garde multidisciplinary work, clown turns, children’s theatre, murder mysteries and a few short films. He has taught introductory theatre courses in GTA-area schools, and ran a theatre camp in Vaughan for two years. Scott holds a BA in theatre from Queen’s University. http://soupcantheatre.com Stageworthy: | |||
| 09 Oct 2018 | #152 – Philip Akin | 00:51:05 | |
Philip Akin has been acting and directing for over 40 years. In 2000, he was a founding member of Obsidian Theatre, Canada’s leading black theatre company, and has served as its Artistic Director since 2006. In this role, he has worked tirelessly to provide opportunities and guidance for emerging artists. In 2002, he was part of the team that launched the Obsidian Mentor/Apprentice Program, a one-of-a-kind program that has so far helped 61 black artists embark on exciting careers as directors, dramaturges, producers, production managers, lighting, set and costume designers with some of the most established performing arts companies nationwide. The Men in White A heartwarming tale of life, love, and cricket. When Abdul’s cricket team want to end their losing streak, they decide to recruit his brother, Hasan, who is an expert all-rounder. But bringing Hasan from India to Canada will take more than just a plane ticket, and not all of the team agree with the cost. Alternating between Mumbai and Vancouver, this touching story follows these unforgettable characters as they discover that home can be found in a sport and unite family across nations. Tickets: https://www.factorytheatre.ca/2018-19-season/the-men-in-white/ | |||
| 27 Feb 2018 | #115 – Melody Johnson | 00:48:00 | |
Having performed from her hometown of Brantford, Ontario to Singapore, Melody has enjoyed moving from dramatic to comedic roles for over the last twenty years. Soon after graduating with a BFA from York University’s Theatre Performance program she began work with now Artistic Director of the Tarragon Theatre, Richard Rose on the Manitoba Theatre Centres’ The Glass Menagerie. Melody then became one of a core group of actors with Necessary Angel Theatre Company. The group dedicated themselves to bringing new Canadian plays to life, (It’s All True, Swollen Tongues, and The Piper). Having worked with many of Canada’s most respected theatre companies, Melody has originated many memorable theatre roles such as Sugar in Claudia Dey’s Trout Stanley for Factory Theatre, Olive/Eva in Jason Sherman’s It’s All True for Tarragon Theatre and a Dora win for the titular role of Mercy in Little Mercy’s First Murder/Tarragon-Shaw Festival. Other favourites include: Assassins for Talk is Free/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, 7 Stories/ Theatre Calgary/CanStage (Betty Mitchell award nomination), In the Next Room Tarragon/MTC, Florence Gibson's I Think I Can YPT/National Arts Centre, Our Town/Two Planks and a Passion (Merrit Award nomination), Blithe Spirit/Soulpepper. Logging 8 Dora nominations for acting over the years Melody also co created the musical Mimi with Rick Roberts and Allen Cole for the Tarragon Theatre in 2009. www.melodyjohnson.ca Stageworthy: | |||