Michele Shuster
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Michele couldn’t be more excited to be back with Mainstage working on Newsies after an awesome experience choreographing Sweet Charity and Anything Goes. 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.) Now really is the time to Seize The Day. Xo
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For Mainstage: Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Footloose, Rent, Anything Goes, The Addams Family and Sweet Charity. 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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Murphy Diggon
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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 Stage 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) |
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Rebecca Walsh, a 2017 Performance Production graduate from Ryerson, is a Toronto-based Stage Manager and currently works as an Arts Education Assistant for Tiger Princess Dance Projects. She has worked for the Toronto International Film Festival and has assistant stage managed Dusk Dances: Withrow Park, Signal Theatre’s Bearing at the 2017 Luminato Festival, as well as assisted acclaimed productions with Citadel + Compagnie, Toronto Dance Theatre, and Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre. Other recent work includes apprentice stage managing This One at Port Stanley Festival Theatre and Days of Wine and Roses at Toronto’s Hart House Theatre.
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Rebecca Walsh
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Linas Kairys
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Linas is an emerging lighting designer from Mississauga always looking for ways to brighten the world around him. Finishing his final year of studies at Ryerson University in the Performance Production Program, Linas has developed numerous skills in design. His designs are all molded and shaped by everyday conversation, both verbal and nonverbal. Already done numerous amounts of works as a Designer, Linas sees the world with the different colors and with shadows projecting an image, setting the scene or instilling a feeling or sentiment. With his fellow artists, he makes the world a brighter place.
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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 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 Sweet Charity, The Addams Family, Anything Goes, Pippin,
Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and designed fourteen Mainstage productions. Other Toronto Credits include: Lighting Design: Le malade imaginaire (TFT), Espoir Espwa (TFT), One Good Marriage (FLINT theatre); Set Design: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (ATIC), Delicacy (Theatre Brouhaha), Le Placard (TFT). He has also worked as Production Manager and Scenic Artist. |
Alain Richer
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