Administrative
Staff
Jeremy Hutton Artistic
Director
A. J. Laflamme Program
Co-ordinator
Michael Wheeler Director
of Education
Board
of Directors
Maurice Galpern - Chair
Wojtek Baraniak
Andrew Fleming
David Galpern
Jason Hanson
Alex Sandahl
Glynn Williams
Artistic
Staff
Kieren
MacMillan - Composer/Music Director
Ashleigh Powell - Choreographer/Dance Teacher
Charles Roy - Acting Teacher
Ame Henderson - Movement Teacher
Jeffery Simlet - Dialect Coach
Scott Penner - Set, Costume, Props Designer
Josh Hind - Lighting Designer
Michael Laird - Sound Designer
Jeremy Hutton
Artistic Director
Director for Lucky Stiff
Director and Writer for A
Musical Called Robin Hood
Jeremy Hutton is a Toronto based
actor, director and composer and has been the Co-Artistic
Director of the Toronto Youth Theatre since its inception.
With the Toronto Youth Theatre Jeremy has directed Richard
O'brian's The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar,
Urinetown, The Musical, A Midsummer Night's Dream, City
of Angels and the new musical A Musical Called
Robin Hood.
Other Directing Credits: Romeo
and Juliet, and Othello (Hart House Theatre),
Robin Hood (Shakespeare by the Sea) Anthony
and Cleopatra (Canopy Theatre Co.) and The Merchant
of Venice (Trinity College).
Jeremy's original compositions have
recently been heard in Hamlet, Othello and Romeo
and Juliet(Hart House Theatre), Robin Hood and
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare by the Sea), Twelfth
Night (Classical Theatre Project) and A Night
Out With Ives (Talking Camel). Jeremy has a Bachelor
of Music Performance from the University of Toronto.
Michael Wheeler
Director of Education
Director for Gangster
Mike is the manager of the Queen West Arts centre and
our head of Education for the Summer Program. Michael
is a founding member and Co –Artistic Director of
Praxis Theatre. With Praxis he has directed original adaptations
of Eugene Onegin and The Master and Margarita, and two
new works: Steel and Checkpoint both by playwright Andrew
Zadel. As an actor Michael has performed in Toronto (Luminata),
Montreal (Moyse Theatre), Boston (American Repertory Theatre),
New York (Ontological Theatre), Italy (Forli Theatre),
and Moscow (Moscow Art Theatre). Michael continues to
work with Dora nominated Classical Theatre Project as
an Educational Facilitator Michael holds a B.A. (distinction)
from McGill University, a certificate from Harvard University,
and a M.F.A. from The Moscow Art Theatre.
Kieren
MacMillan
Music Director Lucky
Stiff
Composer for A Musical Called Robin
Hood
Kieren has been Music Director
for many productions throughout Ontario, including "Singin'
in the Rain" and "My Fair Lady" for Etobicoke
Musical Productions, and "Nunsense" at Gypsy
Theatre. Kieren garnered critical praise for the world
premiere of his chamber opera, "Drunken Moon"
(Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, June/July 2006). Kieren
was the Music Director for the Toronto Youth Theatre Productions
of Cabaret and City of Angels.
Ashleigh Powell
Choreographer - Lucky
Stiff and A Musical Called Robin Hood
Dance Teacher
Ashleigh is the Choreographer and
Dance instructor for our summer program. Ashleigh is an
accomplished dancer, teacher and choreographer. She began
her training in Ottawa, working with the Kanata Ballet
School and in the Canterbury High School Dance Program.
Ashleigh is currently a student in the Teacher's Training
program at Canada’s National Ballet School, where
she works as an assistant and substitute teacher for the
Full-Time and Junior Associates programs. A member of
the Royal Academy of Dancing and the Imperial Society
of Teachers of Dancing, Ashleigh has trained in the R.A.D.,
Cecchetti and Vaganova syllabus. This summer she will
be choreographing the Hart House Theatre production of
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Autumn Smith
Director - Oh What A
Lovely War
Instructor - 2 Week summer
acting intensive
Autumn Smith has extensive experience
working with youth in the theatre and has taught masterclasses
for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada’s
Shakespeare School, Equity Showcase Theatre (where she
introduced a summer program for youth in the community),
Tarragon's youth outreach program, the Toronto District
School Board/Performing Arts Division, and the Durham
District School Board as a visiting artist. She has also
spent four seasons directing and teaching at Stagedoor
Manor, an international training centre for the young
and gifted (NY State). In addition to her work with youth,
Autumn is the Artistic Director of MacKenzieRo: a Toronto
based company committed to producing new and established
works from Ireland. She also coordinates and directs Theatre
for Young People at StageWest Mississauga. Autumn is a
graduate of the Oxford School of Drama Conservatory Program.
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