For TIFT: Something Bubbled, Something Blue, The Curious Voyage, I, Claudia, The Last of Romeo & Juliet, Possible Worlds

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Elsewhere: Mitchell is a director, creator, and founding Artistic Director of Outside the March, one of Canada’s leading immersive theatre companies. His work has been seen on stages as large as the The Stratford Festival and The Royal Alexandra Theatre, in spaces as intimate as kindergarten classrooms and living rooms, and in locales as far flung as London, New York, Whitehorse, Edinburgh, Munich, Finland and Japan. Since the onset of the pandemic, he has been exploring new possibilities for live performance, co-creating the internationally-acclaimed telephonic adventure The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (OtM) and directing a feature film adaptation of the award-winning Lessons in Temperament. In 2015 he co-created the award-winning Brantwood – Canada’s largest exploration of immersive musical theatre. Other favourite directing credits include: The Tape Escape, The Flick, Dr. Silver, Jerusalem, Lessons in Temperament; The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale; TomorrowLove^TM, Mr. Burns, Vitals, Terminus, Passion Play, Mr. Marmalade (Outside the March); Treasure Island, Breath of Kings, Possible Worlds (Stratford); Hand to God; The Aliens (Coal Mine); Merrily We Roll Along (YES Theatre); Hand to God (RMTC).

Other: Mitchell has been the recipient of the Siminovitch protégé award, a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction, three Dora Awards for Outstanding Production, and his productions have received 14 Toronto Theatre Critics Awards. He holds an MFA degree in Directing from the University of Alberta.

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For TIFT:  Pal Joey, Napoleon

Elsewhere:  The Shop Girl (COSA Canada); On the Town and Newsies! (Theatre Sheridan); Be More Chill - Canadian Premiere (Bravo Academy); Candide (U of T Opera School); Mimi (Tarragon Theatre); Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna (Luminato Festival); West Side Story, Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins, Anything Goes, Anne of Green Gables (Lower Ossington Theatre).

Other: Dan is a gifted choral conductor with associations with Canadian Men’s Chorus and The Scarborough Dukes of Harmony, and was a participant in the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s Emerging Conductor Symposium and Goodspeed Musicals’ Music Director Intensive.

Dan is a committed educator, having taught music theatre at Sheridan University and Randolph Academy. He directed the concert band at Wexford Collegiate and spent five seasons with Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts. This fall, he is joining the faculty at East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance in Greenville, North Carolina.

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For TIFT: Something Bubbled, Something Blue, Sweeney Todd (UK)

Elsewhere: As Director/Choreographer: No Place Like Home (Les Enfants Terribles Award 2022), Little Mermaid (Theatre Royal Bath--UK Theatre Award 2018), The Addams Family, The Wizard of Oz, Sweet Charity (St. Lawrence College). As Choreographer/Movement Director: Alice in Wonderland (Soulpepper/MTYP), Cabaret (Grand Theatre), Spring Awakening (Redgrave Theatre), La Strada (UK Tour), Manhattan Parisienne (The Other Palace with Alain Boublil).

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Sweeney Todd marks Kathleen’s debut in set design.

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For TIFT (costume design): Mahagonny, Sin and Sorrow are Common to All

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Selected Costume Design Credits: 

For film: Cell Block Tango: Reimagined (EveryBODY on Stage) #datingfail (REM Productions), Billy Boy (RDS Media Productions), Sinkers (Eagleheart entertainment). For Theatre: Legally Blonde, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hair,The 26th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Boeing Boeing, We the Family, The Tempest (Harthouse Theatre). Evita, Hair, Spamalot, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Sound of Music, Rent, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, The Woman in Black, Dora’s Pirate Adventure, Next to Normal, The Mousetrap, Buddy Holly and Stinky Kids (Lower Ossington Theatre). Head of Wardrobe for Grease (Grease Toronto) and for Classical Theatre Project (Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night). 

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Acting credits include: 

For Film/TV: Less Than Kosher (Film Coop), A Handmaids Tale (HBO), Hug (FilmCoop), Billy Boy(RDS Media Productions), Lottery of Life (Jam Apart Productions) and various commercials. For Theatre: Handle with Care (Tangled Web), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Rose Theatre), Some Girls (Empty Suitcase), Closer (Mnemonic Productions), Cinderella (GTA Pantomime), Lysistrata (Canopy Theatre) and performances of Tails at SickKids and Holland Bloorview Rehabilitation Hospital. 

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Other: Kathleen is the recipient of the Television Bureau of Canada’s Bessie award for best performance in a commercial and is a four time recipient of Harthouse Theatre’s audience choice award for costume design.  Updates at www.kathleenblack.org

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For TIFT: The Sneeze, Last of Romeo and Juliet, I Claudia, The Prince of Homburg

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Elsewhere:  Lessons in Temperament, The Flick, Tape Escape, Dr. Silver, Jerusalem, TomorrowLove™, Mr. Burns, Terminus (Outside the March);  Antipodes, Marjorie Prime, Hand to God, Aliens (Coal Mine); Magic Immersive, Four Chords and a Gun (Starvox); Oil, Human Animals, Dissidents, Pomona, Moment (ARC); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Eclipse); Glass Menagerie (Grand Theatre); Bang Bang (Factory); Vespers (Royal Winnipeg Ballet); Fiddler on the Roof, Don Giovanni, L’Elisir D’Amore, Alcina, Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera Nuova); Magic Flute, Madama Butterfly (Saskatoon Opera); West Side Story (Citadel); Merrily We Roll Along, and Brantwood (Sheridan).  

Nick Blais designs across Canada in all manner of discipline and venue: from theatres, parks, abandoned buildings, schools, storefronts, living rooms and concert halls. As Head of Design for Toronto’s leading immersive theatre company, Outside the March, Nick specializes in assembling gifted teams, creating and facilitating thematic, impactful designs, and transforming unconventional spaces into immersive, dramatic environments.

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Nick has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards in Toronto for both set and lighting design, nominated for the Virginia Myrtle Cooper award in costume design, and various other awards and nominations across the country.  His design work was featured in 2011 at the Prague Quadrennial for Theatre Design, and was showcased in Professional Lighting Magazine for his innovation in off-the-grid lighting design and site-specific scenography.  Nblaisdesign.com

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For TIFT: The Judas Kiss, For Both Resting and Breeding, The Yalta Game, Herringbone, Into the Woods (2019, 2021).

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‍Recently: Is God Is (Canadian Stage – Head of wardrobe), Orphans for the Czar (Crows Theatre – Head of Wardrobe).

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‍Elsewhere: Costume Design: Poison (Coal Mine Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Lost & Gone), Little Thing, Big Thing, Don’t Misunderstand Me (Festival Antigonish). Chicago, The Crucible, Coriolanus, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tartuffe (Stratford Festival).

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‍Upcoming: The Great Shadow (4^th Line Theatre), Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival).

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‍Other: Laura doesn’t have social media so don’t look for her there, but you can check out her work at lauradelchiarodesign.com.

For TIFT: Debut

Elsewhere: Production Manager, The House of Bernarda Alba (Aluna Theatre & Modern Times Stage Company, 2022); Stage Manager, A GrimmNight (Transcen|Dance, 2022); Producer, A Room Without a View (short film) (Purple Pen Productions, 2022); Production Manager, Old Man and the River (WeeFestival, 2021); Producer, Perspectives, VirtuallyAccessible (2021).

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For TIFT: Debut

Elsewhere: Theatre Production Manager, Theatre and Drama Studies U of T Mississauga (current)

Other: Excited to join a mix and new and familiar faces in this sandbox, rising to the challenge of presenting in a unique space… Enjoy the show!

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For TIFT: Debut

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Elsewhere: Julia Howman is a multidisciplinary designer, production manager, and technician.  She is the co-creator and production designer of Broadleaf Theatre’s The Chemical Valley Project, which has been touring nationally, internationally, and digitally since 2017. Julia is a settler on Turtle Island, was raised in Doha, Qatar, and currently resides in Tkaronto. Other recent credits include: Projection Design, Distant Early Warning (Pearle Harbour/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Production Management, An IMM-Permanent Resident (Nautanki Bazaar/Why Not Theatre); Associate Lighting Design, She Spreads (Dead Roads Collective); House Technician, The Pop-Up Experience (Outside the March/SummerWorks Festival 2021)  

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For TIFT: Debut

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Elsewhere: Mamma Mia!, James & The Giant Peach (YES Theatre), Chicago (Globe Theatre), Black Out, Take The Moment (Musical Stage Company), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian/CBC)

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Other: whatXwhen.ca

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For TIFT: Pal Joey, She Visits

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Recently: Le club des éphémères, Les liaisons dangereuses: Correspondances inédites, Les Zinspiré.e.s 9 (Théâtre français de Toronto).

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Elsewhere: très loin (BoucharDanse); La Bulle (Corpus), Heroine (Theatre New Brunswick), The Gypsy Baron (Toronto Operetta Theatre), Songs For A New World (We Are Here Productions).

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Other: Thank you to Meghan for setting me up for success; to Arkady and Dustyn for always having my back; to my friends and family for their unconditional love.

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For TIFT: Vigil

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Elsewhere: Heather has worked in stage management on 80+ shows throughout Canada and internationally, ranging from small-scale Fringe productions, to pieces in festivals such as World Pride and Panamania, to large scale shows at the Stratford Festival and for Mirvish. She has even stage managed a private performance for royalty.

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Other: See credits at heatherbellingham.wordpress.com

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For TIFT: Debut

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Elsewhere: Back Home for the Holidays, Elf: the Musical, Jack and the Beanstalk: the Panto (Drayton Entertainment); A Belly Full (Theatre Aquarius); The Golden Fleece (TheatreActiv Festival); Possible Worlds, Robin Hood's Latest Adventure (Bishop's University).

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Other: Thanks to Emma, Justin, and Paige for adopting a stray artist in need. You will not be baked into pies (this time)!

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For TIFT: Something Bubbled, Something Blue; Stupidhead!

Elsewhere: Ministry of Grace (Belfry); Cottagers and Indians (Tarragon); Hand to God (Coal Mine); The Election (Common Boots); Making Spirits Bright (Globe); Lunenburg (Upper Canada Playhouse); Outside (Roseneath); Athabasca (Convergence).  Currently on either Sugar Road (Lighthouse) or Trojan Girls and the Outhouse of Atreus (Outside the March).

Other: Rehearsal was quite the ride - wishing the whole team a wonderful run!

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For TIFT: Debut

Elsewhere: Nate is a visually impaired, award-winning Fight Director, stage combat instructor, performer, director and occasional stuntman. He is a certified Fight Director and Instructor with Fight Directors Canada. Nate’s work explores and engages storytelling through movement and staged violence guided by a commitment to creating safe and supportive environments in which performers can flourish. Some favourite credits include: Laertes in Hamlet, Romeo/Iago in Goodnight Desdemona…, Jamie in Bone Cage (HartHouse Theatre); Antonio in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Bash’d). As Fight Director: Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Bash’d); The Philanderess (Truth ‘n’ Lies); Rocky Horror Show, Heathers, Hamlet, Jesus Christ Superstar, Goodnight Desdemona… (HartHouse Theatre).

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