Alain Richer
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Alain is a graduate of both the Queen’s University Drama Department and English Department. He is a television production designer for the Télévision Francophone en Ontario (TFO). Before arriving in Toronto, Alain spent six years studying and practicing theatre in Kingston where he co-founded and produced Collective Productions, for which he was most active in the roles of Director and Designer. For Mainstage Theatre Company, he has directed The Music Man, Sweet Charity, The Addams Family, Anything Goes, Pippin, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and designed Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof and Singing in the Rain. Other Toronto Credits include: Lighting Design: Espoir/Espwa, Le malade imaginaire (TFT), Death Clowns in Guantanamo Bay (Drama Centre); One Good Marriage (FLINT theatre); Set Design: Le Placard (TFT), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (ATIC), Delicacy (Theatre Brouhaha). He has also worked as Production Manager, Technical Director and Scenic Artist.
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Michele couldn’t be more excited to be back with Mainstage working on The Music Man after an awesome experience choreographing Sweet Charity and Anything Goes and directing/ choreographing Newsies! Past credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Director/ The LOT), Little Shop of Horrors, Junie B Jones, Anything Goes, Avenue Q, Fancy Nancy, Spamalot, Rent, and The Sound of Music (Choreographer/ The LOT), Marvelous Wonderettes (Director/ Stephenville Theatre Festival), Urinetown, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Blue Champagne, and Tales of Ti-Jean (Choreographer/ Stephenville Theatre Festival), and Back In ’59 (Asst. Choreo/ Showboat Theatre.) Xo
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Michele Shuster
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Mike Ross
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Mike Ross is a producer, music director, conductor, and educator who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music and Education with a focus in choral conducting and vocal pedagogy from the University of Prince Edward Island. Mike spent several years as a public school music teacher in New Brunswick, running band, choral and musical theatre programs in his school and serving on the committee for the New Brunswick Drama Festival, one of Canada’s top largest scholastic theatre festivals.
Past credits include Spring Awakening (Music Director / St. Lawrence College), Mary Poppins, Anne of Green Gables, Newsies, On the Town (Music Director / Bravo Academy for the Arts), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Show, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Jesus Christ Superstar (Music Director / The LOT), Fame, Aladdin (Music Director, Tour Manager / Creativiva Inc Dubai Tour), Jungle Book, Treasure Island (Music Director / Creativiva Inc. Turks and Caicos Tour). Currently Mike is a producer with the Mini Pop Kids, managing the artists and creating their tour and live content that travels throughout Canada and the United States. Mike is thrilled to be a part of Mainstage Theatre Company and thankful to be working on a show in times like these with this talented cast! |
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Murphy Diggon is a freelance Stage Manager, Production Manager and film producer. She currently works for the Canadian Opera Company as the Assistant Production Manager and the venue manager for Brick and Mortar while freelancing in her spare time. She also founded her own children's puppetry theatre company with Graeme Black Robinson and Scott Garland titled Silent Protagonist.
Murphy is overly joyed to be working as a Rehearsal Manager for Mainstage Theatre. She loves working with talent of all ages and really enjoys seeing the growth from beginning to end. Select Credits: Producer / Stage Manager - Marina & The Crypto's (Silent Protagonist), ASM / APM - Shopkins Live! (Koba Entertainment), Producer - Hornets (Hornets Productions), Producer - Dysthymia (Two Cats Productions), Stage Manager - Salt Water Moon (Strive Theatre), Stage Manager - All Of Me (Theatre Insomnia), Production Stage Manager - Panamania (Pan Am Games) |
Murphy Diggon
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Hannah MacMillan
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Hannah MacMillan is very excited to be joining the Mainstage team this year. She is primarily a freelance stage manager for musicals, dance and theatre who loves working with kids and youth but also does production management and front of house. Hannah has had the pleasure of working as the Front of House Coordinator for the Toronto Fringe Festival for the past 4 summers. She graduated from the Ryerson School of Performance Production program.
Recent credits include: Stage Manager/Apprentice Stage Manager – Reprint (Musical Stage Company) Stage Manager – A Merry Munsch PJ Party (Solar Stage) Assistant Stage Manager – The Philosophers Wife (Paradigm Productions), Apprentice Stage Manager – The Wolves (Howland Company/Crows Theatre) Stage Manager – Dry Land (Cue 6) Stage Manager- PunkRock (Howland Company), Stage Manager - Hello Again (Artillery Collective). |
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For Mainstage: Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Footloose, Rent, and Anything Goes, The Addams Family, Sweet Charity, The Secret Garden, Newsies. Other credits include Crazy for You and A New Brain (Queen’s Musical Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Fallen Rock Productions), and The 25th Annual ... Spelling Bee (Lock and Keynote Productions), One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company). As orchestral arranger: The Wonderful Music of Disney, The Beatles Spectacular, and Star Taxi (Gros Morne Summer Music, Corner Brook, NL).
Shari is the musical director and a founding member of Open Corps, a collaborative theatre ensemble. Her original cabaret musical, “WAKE”, written and performed with Chris Jackman, premiered with Gros Morne Summer Music in summer ’14 and toured Northern Ontario with the LaSalle Theatre. She is the founder of Lock and Keynote Productions, a company dedicated to producing musical theatre camps in Northern Ontario and Western Newfoundland. She has been a teacher with Randolph Academy Kids Program, and currently teaches with Lock and Keynote Music Studio, her private studio in the Upper Beaches. |
Shari Porter
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