Michele Shuster
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Michele couldn’t be more excited to be back with Mainstage working on Urinetown after an awesome experience choreographing Sweet Charity, The Music Man 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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Danik McAfee is an Algonquin Métis, French Canadian and Two Spirited Performer and emerging Director from Aylmer Québec. He is a graduate of the Musical Theatre Program at College Lionel-Groulx and the Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Since his graduation, Danik has travelled across the country to perform in many theatres. Selected Theatre credits include: The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow) and Rocky Horror (Frank N’Furter/ Capitol Theatre of Moncton), Timothy Findley’s The Wars by Dennis Garnhum (The Grand Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Carter-Ryan Production) The Dream Catchers (ChFestival 2017), Lumière/ Beauty and The Beast, King Herod/ Jesus Christ Superstar (LOT) Ohio and Tadeu (Rhubarb Festival 2015), GIG (Panasonic Theatre/ CAL), Électro Bing Bang (Théâtre Novo), Weesageechak Festival 2017/2018 (Native Earth) and the Emcee in “Cabaret” with First Act Productions for which he has won the 2016 My Theatre Award for “Best Performance in a Musical”. Furthermore, Danik is also an emerging Director and he has work on many productions such as: Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens (Director, Small But Mighty), The Charlottetown Festival 2018 Young Company (AD to Matt Murray), OLTA (YPT, AD to Mary Francis Moore), Moll World Premiere (AD to Tamara Bernier), A Glass Hive (AD to Bruce Dow), Skriker (AD to Darlene Spencer), The Life (Director, Call It A Day Productions) His last project has been to be the Associate Director for First Drafts with Sheridan College. Danik is very excited to work with Mainstage and share is passion with the team and the performers.
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Danik McAfee
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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 part of the Mainstage team again 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). |
