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MATEO CHAVEZ LEWIS (He/They) is a professional musical theatre writer/composer, based in NYC and Toronto. He is best known for his critically acclaimed performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet at the Arts Club Theatre Company on Granville Island, and for the epic anthem he wrote as a tribute to Greta Thunberg, “Dear Greta” (you can listen to the fully orchestrated version here ).Ot...

We spoke with Nicholas Rita (music director), Giulia Lentini (actor), Lisa Malcolm (stage manager) and Nicole Toogood (director) of the upcoming TCDSB Staff Arts production of 'Legally Blonde'

Cornell Christianson is the Writer-Producer of the upcoming Off-Broadway musical "Marilyn Exposed" that he wrote with original songs by Beth Lawrence and Norman Thalheimer. Show exposes the truth about Marilyn Monroe with six big musical song and dance numbers. Is set to open in fall 2024. Christianson is the Writer-Producer of the award-winning 1940s film noir musical "Wicked City...

Mark Janicello is a multiple Award-Winning, American Renaissance Man. A native New Yorker, there are very few corners of the entertainment universe that Mark has not worked in. He is trilingual (English/ German/Dutch) and has had a stage career spanning more than 30 years, including over 100 productions. Mark is a classically-trained operatic tenor, who sang over 40 leading roles in operas and ope...

Noel Katz  is a composer and lyricist. He is best known for  Such Good Friends , an original musical comedy presented at the fourth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2007, here it won five awards, including Talkin’ Broadway’s Citation as the season’s best musical. It tells the story of three old friends working together in the early years of live television who are forced to name names b...

Ashley Jana is a singer/songwriter, producer, and engineer whose music has independently garnered over 60 million streams. Her original music has been featured on HBO, NBC, Showtime, Lifetime, Bravo, Vice, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, CNN, TLC, TNT, Oxygen, and more.  20 of her original songs have been featured on the hit show “Dance Moms”, with her song “Feels So Good”, co-produced with Grammy winne...

Jack Viertel  is an American theatrical producer and writer. During his 34 years at Jujamcyn Theaters from 1987 to 2021, he occupied positions including Creative Director and Senior Vice President. He was "conceiver of the longest running musical revue in Broadway history, Smokey Joe's Cafe, conceived the critically acclaimed After Midnight ,  and served as the dramaturg for Hairspray. Th...

Ministry of Video is a specialist in video production for the performing arts. As a performing arts video production company, we have over 30 years’ experience working alongside top choreographers and industry professionals across the UK. We specialise in filming promotional videos, live stage events and theatrical productions including dance and musical theatre.   That’s only possible from modern...

For top-notch musical theatre, look no further thank Spotlight Musical Productions. From our beginnings as the IBM Choir over fifty years ago, Spotlight Musical Productions showcases Toronto’s most passionate local talent, from our cast to our creative team. At Spotlight, we’re proud not only to deliver outstanding productions for our loyal audiences, but also to foster community through our share...

Jack is a musical theatre composer, lyricist and writer. His current projects include  42 Balloons  (Book, Music and Lyrics, Staged Concert at the Vaudeville Theatre in November 2022, Produced by Global Musicals and Alchemation),  This Is A Love Story  (Music and Lyrics, Commissioned by Vicky Graham Productions, Selected for BEAM2021, Workshop at Birmingham Hippodrome in January 2024), and  Babies...

Gus is an award-winning writer and composer from London and based in York, UK. His first full-length musical  Pieces of String   premiered in 2018 at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. It was The Stage ’s Best Regional Musical of the year and was nominated for the UK Theatre Best Musical Production award. For Pieces of String , Gus won The Stage Debut Award for Best Composer/Lyricist, and was nomina...

George Livings, originally from London, England, holds a degree in Acting and Musical Theater from Mountview Theatre School. He has a rich background in West End productions such as Kiss of the Spider Woman, Blitz and Forever Plaid, as well as the lead roles in the UK National tour of Godspell and the German production of Starlight Express. Upon relocating to Orlando, Florida, George served as the...

Ian Kowalski Ian (he/him) is a graduate of the Performing Arts program at O'Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute and the Media Production Program at Toronto Met University (fka Ryerson). As a lifelong performer and lover of the arts, he is passionate about creating a platform for artists to express themselves as authentically as possible in telling impactful stories that change our percep...

Steven Pasquale is an American actor of stage and screen. His stage credits include: A Man of No Importance[Off-Broadway], Little Fish[Off-Broadway], The Bridges of Madison County[Broadway], The Wild Party[Off-Broadway], The Robber Bridegroom[Off-Broadway], Assassins[Off-Broadway], Teeth[Off-Broadway] Steven has a couple of albums including 'Somethin' Like Love' and his latest release...

Jeff Whiting is an award-winning director and choreographer, acclaimed as a 'director with a joyous touch' by the New York Times, Jeff Whiting specializes in work for theater, television, special events and concerts around the world, including James Taylor, Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Tony Bennett, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Sting. On Broadway, Jeff was the Associate/Resident Director for t...

James Beeny  and  Gina Georgio With a background in the music industry, guitarist James and pianist Gina made their theatre debut with new British musical  The Dreamers . In 2018, the production underwent a two-week workshop at the  Victoria Palace Theatre  with a West End cast and creative team, which was followed by four fully-staged workshop performances of the musical at the world-famous  Abbe...

Greg & Shaun Borowsky are songwriters and music producers from South Africa, signed to Sony Music Publishing New York. Together, the brothers have been the creative producers and writers behind some of South Africa's biggest SAMA-winning artists, having earned a Grammy Award Nomination, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, a Naledi Award, a Loerie Award Nominations, Metro FM Best R&B Award...

Stephen Cole is an award-winning musical theatre writer whose shows have been recorded, published, and produced from New York City to London to the Middle East and Australia and Edinburgh, Scotland. His shows include: After the Fair, Night of the Hunter, Saturday Night at Grossinger's, Aspire, Time After Time, Merman's Apprentice and The Road To Qatar! to name just a few. As a producer, St...

Van Dean is a Tony® Award and Grammy® Award winning producer.  He co-founded Broadway Records which released nearly 300 albums during his leadership. Van earned his Grammy Award for helping to produce the Broadway Records’ release of the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple .  His Grammy nominations were earned for his work on Matilda the Musical , My Fair Lady and Caroline, or Change .  Van...

Joshua Castille is a Deaf performance artist based out of Los Angeles, California. Josh strives to form meaningful collaborations that explore the boundaries of art. He has worked on various projects in different roles including ASL master, director, actor, set designer, and more. His charming ability to communicate and deliver performance art to both hearing and Deaf audiences allows him to conne...

Doctor Bird Productions ⁠ is looking to bring something fresh and new to Toronto's performance world.   We want to put on productions that stretch the imagination, that bring smiles to peoples faces and help to make people walk away with new thoughts and new ideas.  We hope to put on new productions in Canada and hope to reimagine shows that have been so important to the makeup of Torontos per...

Julie Nemitz With over a decade of experience in senior sales and marketing leadership roles, Julie has a proven track record of driving growth through strategic vision and innovative content marketing. She has partnered with Fortune 500 companies and led teams at award-winning agencies and publishers. In the past six years alone, Julie has developed over 200 successful theatre marketing campaigns...

Michael was born in the wagon of a traveling show... At least that's what it says on his website. He is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and has been directing and producing in any and all mediums.  Some recent projects are Broadway's Caroline, or Change revival (co-producer), off-Broadway's long running A Musical About Star Wars (director), and the decadent new soap opera, Mé...

Sydney Gauvin was once described (by her best friends ex boyfriend) as "Effortlessly Quirky", Canadian native, Sydney Gauvin, grew up in Brampton Ontario. the same birthplace of Michael Cera! Her passion and love for singing, dancing, acting and all things theatrical ignited when she was 7 years old. When one magical day of kindergarten, her teacher told her mother to put her in theatre....

WILL REYNOLDS (Music) and ERIC PRICE (Lyrics and Book) are musical theatre writers based in NYC. Shows currently in development include The Violet Hour and Radioactive , which charts the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie. Will and Eric are songwriters on the AppleTV+ animated series “Central Park,” starring Leslie Odom Jr., Josh Gad, and Stanley Tucci. They also wrote the song “When I...