Event: Free Panel Discussion on using Multi-Media in Theatre hosted by Canadian Stage’s RBC BASH! Director Development Program Participants, Canadian Stage

Free Panel Discussion on using Multi-Media in Theatre hosted by Canadian Stage’s RBC BASH! Director Development Program participants

So you’re into multi-media and you have a passion for discipline-bending theatre.

You’re wondering:

•  How can I stand out as a theatre artist interested in multi-media? What steps must I take to create a dynamic career?

No need to wonder and imagine any longer.

On Monday June 4th from 7:00-8:30pm at Canadian Stage’s Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley St) our exceptionally talented 2012 RBC BASH! Director Development Program participants Jordan Tannahill and Gein Wong will lead a free panel discussion on integrating multimedia into performance (conceptually, technically, and best practices). Hopefully the questions you’ve been burning to ask will be answered!

Minds will be stirred. Hearts will be inspired. Exuberant chats will ensue – and all about an exciting form of theatre that is becoming more and more prominent on contemporary stages: theatre that involves multimedia.

Sounds like a multi-faceted talk.
Sounds like an opportunity that should not be missed!

Don’t hesitate. R.S.V.P to artisticintern@canadianstage.com by Monday, June 4 at 10am. (RSVPs are not required but encouraged).

Part of the 2012 GYM Season – Canadian Stage’s Emerging artist program. For more information or to become a GYM member please visit https://www.canadianstage.com/gym

About the facilitators:

Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, theatre director, and filmmaker. The projects Jordan creates through his performance company, Suburban Beast, frequently incorporate innovative multimedia design and documentary source material. His plays have been developed and presented on some of Canada’s preeminent stages including Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the Harbourfront Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Theatre Centre. He is a member of Factory Theatre’s Natural Resources Group, the Tarragon Theatre playwright’s unit, and is an emerging artist-in-residence at the Young Centre for Performing Arts. Jordan is the 2011 recipient of the Inside Out Film Festival’s Emerging Canadian Artist Award, the 2011 Ken McDougall Award for Emerging Directors, and his play Late Company, won the 2012 Enbridge playRites Award. His films have screened across Canada and internationally at venues including the British Film Institute, CFC’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, the Lucerne Int. Film Festival, the Vancouver Int. Film Festival, the National Art Gallery of Canada, and the Power Plant Art Gallery.

Gein Wong is an interdisciplinary director, playwright, composer, poet and video artist. Her work has been performed throughout Canada, the United States, England, the Caribbean and East Asia. Her interdisciplinary theatre piece Hiding Words (for you) will premiere in September 2012 at Enwave Theatre in Toronto. Excerpts from this piece are published in Refractions: Solo (Playwrights Canada Press). Gein is also developing work in Los Angeles and in New York City as part of the HERE Arts Center Residency program. Gein was shortlisted for the 2010 Ontario KM Hunter Award in Theatre and is featured in Diaspora Dialogues’ 2010 commemorative book. She has written and created sound and/or video design for: Salt Fish Girl, Phantom Rose (Little Pear Garden 2008), West Asia (Eventual Ashes 2009), How We for(Got) Here (The Movement Project 2010), Hiding Words (for you) (Eventual Ashes 2012); and is currently developing Ocean Carving, Drawn, Intent City, and I’m Telling You. Gein is classically trained in piano, French horn and studies with the erhu (Chinese violin) virtuoso, Shao Lin. Gein has released two CDs, Thousand Mile Voice (2008) and Burning Money for You (2010), that meld traditional Chinese instruments with pop, poetry, jazz and ambient electronic music. She is featured on the Dig Your Roots Canadian Spoken Word CD and is a New York Kundiman Poetry Fellow. In collaboration with Donna-Michelle St Bernard, Yvette Nolan, Diaspora Dialogues and Doors Open Toronto, Gein’s site specific video installation reopened the RC Harris Water Filtration Plant in Toronto – closed to the public post 9/11 – and drew over 10,000 people during its weekend showing.  Gein is Artistic Director of the interdisciplinary performance company Eventual Ashes, co-founded the community arts organisation Asian Arts Freedom School and is a co-owner of the Glad Day Bookstore.

Job Posting: Part Time Arts Administrator, STAF

Founded in 1991, Small Theatre Administrative Facility (STAF) is a not-for profit arts service organization that provides general management, financial administration, marketing & publicity, and grant writing services to a growing roster of emerging and established independent theatre artists and companies throughout Ontario, including Associated Designers of Canada (ADC).

STAF is seeking a creative and dynamic part time arts administrator with a commitment to a vital and healthy independent theatre community to join us in our fast-paced, open-concept Queen/Spadina office for 10 hours per week. The successful candidate will have the opportunity for flexible scheduling, working with a team of highly skilled arts managers.

Reporting to the Executive Directors of both STAF and ADC, the successful candidate is able to handle multiple client files with complete confidentiality, is detail-oriented, thrives in a deadline-driven environment, and will be available to start in June 2012.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Providing administrative support to the STAF team, including project-based tasks relating to marketing & publicity, grant writing, financial administration, and general management of STAF and clients.
• Assisting the team in maintaining files and databases.
• Dealing with telephone and email enquiries.
• Coordination and implementation of basic office procedures including filing, photocopying, office supply inventory, taking meeting minutes, organizing incoming mail, and making bank deposits.
• Completing CAEA contracts.
• Using Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel to produce correspondence and documents, maintaining records, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Using content management systems including WordPress and Sumac to maintain and update websites and internal databases.

Qualifications:

• 2 years or more of related experience
• Minimum High School diploma, post-secondary diploma preferred.
• Excellent English language oral and written communications skills, French will be considered an asset.
• Detail oriented and works with a high degree of accuracy.
• Outstanding interpersonal, problem-solving and organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task and meet challenging deadlines.
• Must be self-directed and able to complete projects with limited supervision.
• Ability to maintain staff and client confidentiality.
• Working knowledge of email, scheduling, and spreadsheets, word processing and typing.
• A commitment to positive team dynamics and growth.
• Knowledge of Photoshop will be considered an asset
• Knowledge of CAEA contracts will be considered an asset

Remuneration: $15/hr.

Please submit your letter of interest and resume via email by Monday, June 4 2012,  5pm to:  Kate McConnell – Executive Director, STAF – kate@theatreadmin.com .  We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.  STAF is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity and invites applications from all qualified individuals.

Event: Date and Host for 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards Announced, Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts

Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts Announces Date and Host for 33RD ANNUAL DORA MAVOR MOORE AWARDS Monday, June 25, 2012

Shaw Festival and Broadway star Thom Allison to host

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) proudly announces that the 33rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating extraordinary Toronto talent in the performing arts, will take place on Monday, June 25 at 8pm at the St.Lawrence Centre for the Arts in the Bluma Appel Theatre.

The awards will be hosted by Dora-nominated actor and current Shaw Festival star of Ragtime, Thom Allison who just finished a year-long run on Broadway with the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Playwright and actor Chris Earle returns for his second time to pen the show, while Sandra Lefrançois returns for a third time to direct. Acclaimed musical director Glenn Morley also returns for his third time. Lighting is by nine-time Dora winner Andrea Lundy who returns for her eleventh consecutive year.

The pre-show reception will be held at the well-appointed Lower Lobby of the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and features a Red Carpet outside the entrance where guests will be given star treatment as they arrive for this glamorous cocktail reception, greeted by the marvelous award-winning stage, screen and radio veteran Elley-Ray Hennessy, and Dora-nominated Colin Doyle (2008 & 2010 NOW Magazine “Artist to Watch”). The Red Carpet runs from 6:30pm-7:30pm. The always fabulous After-Partywill, for the third year in a row, take place under the stars and transform Front Street into a giant street party in front of the theatre.

Thom Allison is currently at the Shaw Festival, starring as Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime. Allison has just finished a year-long run of his Broadway debut in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.  He was in the original Canadian companies of Miss Saigon, The Who’s Tommy and Rent. He has been nominated for two Dora Awards (Toronto), two Betty Awards (Calgary), a Jessie Award (Vancouver), an Ovation Award (Vancouver) and a Sterling Award (Edmonton). At The Stratford Festival, Allison has appeared inRomeo and Juliet, Pericles, My Fair Lady, Threepenny Opera, The King and I, King Henry VIII and the much-heralded Stratford Festival production of Into the Woods as Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf. At the Shaw Festival, he has been seen in Wonderful Town, A Little Night Music and Follies: In Concert.

The Press Conference announcing the nominees for this past season takes place at 10am on June 5 at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre Rehearsal Studio A. It will be hosted by the very talented and hilarious Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus, Second City veterans and founding members of the National Theatre of the World, who undoubtedly will tickle funny bones as they name those in the running for the upcoming Dora Awards

The Doras are named for Dora Mavor Moore (1888 – 1979), a well-loved teacher and director who helped establish Canadian professional theatre in the 1930s and 1940s. Recognizing the outstanding achievements in Toronto’s performing arts industry, the Doras honour the creators of over 200 theatre, dance and opera productions annually in the following Divisions: General Theatre, Independent Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance, Opera and Theatre for Young Audiences.

The Dora Mavor Moore Awards are administered by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). In addition to the Doras, other programs and services provided by TAPA include: T.O. TIX – Toronto’s Official One Stop Ticket Shop at Yonge-Dundas Square and online at www.totix.ca; Toronto’s official Theatre Guide; hipTIX, offering $5 tickets to students between the ages of 15 and 29; citySPECIAL,; the Commercial Theatre Development Fund; and the Travel Retreat Initiatives Program – TRIP. For more information visit http://www.tapa.ca and http://www.totix.ca.

33rd ANNUAL DORA MAVOR MOORE AWARDS
Toronto’s Theatre, Dance and Opera Awards
Monday June 25, 2012
Hosted by Thom Allison
6:30pm-7:30pm Pre-Show VIP Reception – Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Lower Lobby
8pm Dora Mavor Moore Awards Show at the St.Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front St. E.
10:30pm After-Party Under the Stars outside the St. Lawrence Centre on Front St. East.
Written by Chris Earle; Directed by Sandra Lefrançois; Musical Direction by Glenn Morley;
Lighting Design by Andrea Lundy; Produced by Jacoba Knaapen.
Regular Tickets on sale as of June 21, 2012: $65. Call the Box Office at 416-366-7723
VIP Tickets: $165 (includes pre-show VIP Reception). Call 416-536-6468 ext 27
For information visit www.tapa.ca

Job Posting: Stage Manager, Ballet Jorgen Canada

BALLET JORGEN CANADA
IS LOOKING FOR A

Stage Manager

FOR ITS
2012/13 SEASON

THE POSITION INVOLVES EXTENSIVE TOURING OF
SWAN LAKE, NUTCRACKER AND
CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY BALLETS

This season we will be touring throughout Ontario, to western and eastern Canada and to the States.
Qualifications would include: solid Stage Management background
in theatre and dance.
Responsibilities include Stage Management and other duties as well driving production vehicles including a cube van.
Please email a resume to Cindy Smith, Production Manager productionmanager@balletjorgen.ca

Job Posting: Lighting Designer, Ballet Jorgen Cananda

BALLET JORGEN CANADA IS LOOKING FOR A

Lighting Director

FOR ITS
2012/13 SEASON

THE POSITION INVOLVES EXTENSIVE TOURING OF
SWAN LAKE, NUTCRACKER AND
CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY BALLETS

Qualifications would include: a solid technical background
in theatrical lighting including design.
A drivers license is essential.

Please email a resume to Cindy Smith, Production Manager productionmanager@balletjorgen.ca

Volunteer: Spring Social Fundraiser, Crow’s Theatre

Crow’s Theatre is looking for a few volunteers to lend a hand and a few short hours at our upcoming Spring Social fundraiser, on the evening of Monday June 11th. It will be a fabulous evening with magician/mentalist Banachek, a sneak-peek at Damien Atkins’ newest play UFO, and even oyster shucking!

All volunteers will receive 2 complimentary  tickets to Crow’s Theatre’s 2012/2013 production of Someone Else.

If you are interested in volunteering from 5pm-9pm at the fundraiser, please email kat@crowstheatre.com for more information.

Workshop: Audition Technique-A Masterclass with Kelly Thornton, Nightwood Theatre

DATES: Saturday, June 16^th and Saturday, June 23^rd, 10-4pm both days
COST: $150+HST
LOCATION: Nightwood/Tapestry Studio, 55 Mill St., The Cannery, Studio 315

Space is limited to 20 participants (first come. first serve)

“It’s important to approach an audition as a performance not a test. The joy one feels on stage needs to be brought into the audition room. To reframe a sense of powerlessness with a deeper understanding of your artistic worth is the essential ingredient to getting the job.”                                   

-Kelly Thornton

Over two intensive sessions Artistic Director Kelly Thornton will lead participants in a practical exploration of audition technique and preparation. The course will help the actor solidify a contemporary speech of their choice for theatre auditions as well as equip the actor with tools to approach the “cold read”, where pertinent decisions must be made with limited time to prepare. The class will explore audition technique: presentation, attitude and focus as well as character development: moment-to-moment intention, conflict and overall arc.

Kelly Thornton – An award-winning director and dramaturg, Kelly has been the Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre since 2001 where her work has received wide acclaim and toured nationally and internationally. Directing credits at Nightwood include The Penelopiad, The Happy Woman; The List, That Face, Wild Dogs (all produced in association with Canadian Stage); The Danish Play (Aveny-Teatret, Copenhagen; Magnetic North Theatre Festival; National Arts Centre), Bear With Me (Magnetic North), Mathilde, and China Doll. Other selected credits include The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage); and This Hotel (Theatre Passe Muraille/Planet 88, Dora nomination Outstanding Direction). Kelly has been honoured with a Pauline McGibbon Award for her exemplary work as a director, was nominated for the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2010, and was recognized for her commitment to the training and mentorship of young women in the performing arts by being named a 2008 YWCA Women of Distinction. She is the Associate Director of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing Program.  Upcoming for Nightwood Theatre she will be directing Jordi Mand’s Between the Sheets

For more information and to register please visit our Artist: Masterclass page at nightwoodtheatre.net.

Audition: Altar Boyz, The Lower Ossington Theatre

The Lower Ossington Theatre is casting all roles for “Altar Boyz”.

Auditions will be held at the Lower Ossington Theatre on May 31 and June 1, 2012.  Rehearsals will begin in June. “Altar Boyz” will run in July 2012.

Applicants are asked to submit their headshot and resume to altarboyz@lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Those selected for an audition will be asked to prepare two contrasting pop songs (no more than 32 bars) to be sung a capella.   It is not mandatory that audition material be from the Musical Theatre Genre.

An honorarium will be provided.