ARTISTS ET CETERA In addition to his many theatre credits,
Elizabeth Baird Music Director
John directed and choreographed the Olympic medals ceremonies at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is thrilled to be working on Grumpy Old Men: The Musical.
Douglas Paraschuk MTC First engagement.
Set Designer
OTHER THEATRE Music Director: Jersey Boys (Dodger
Theatricals/Dancap Productions); Hairspray (Drayton); The Drowsy Chaperone (TC); The Full Monty (Rainbow); Mamma Mia! (Little Star/Mirvish); Little Shop of Horrors (CS); Seussical – A Musical (YPT); Fireweeds (Red Barn Theatre); Step Right Up! (Theatre Orangeville); Women Fully Clothed (Edinburgh Festival); God Almighty’s Second-Class Saloon: A Brecht/Weill Cabaret (Factory Theatre); The Second City National Touring Company. TV Music Consultant: So You Think You Can Dance
Canada. Music Director/Composer: Improv Heaven & Hell (TCN), Not to Be Repeated (CTV), It’s Alive, PJ Katie’s Farm (YTV), Killerwhale & Crocodile (BRAVO!), The Bittles, System Crash (YTV), HBO Family 411, Who Knew? (HBO). ET CETERA Elizabeth is a two-time Dora Mavor
Moore nominee for Musical Direction (Seussical – A Musical and God Almighty’s Second-Class Saloon: A Brecht/Weill Cabaret) and a Betty Mitchell nominee for Musical Direction (The Drowsy Chaperone).
John MacInnis Choreographer
MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Credits include: Associate Choreogra-
pher for Broadway’s newest hit The Book of Mormon; Choreographer for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which performed in six European countries over the past five years. From 1999 to 2001, he directed and choreographed The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, including its first international production in Mexico City. Other credits include: High Society (Shaw); Big River (Goodspeed Opera House); Damn Yankees (Theater Under the Stars); Once Upon a Mattress (Music Theatre of Wichita); Annie Get Your Gun (Sacramento Music Circus); A Christmas Carol (North Shore Music Theatre).
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MTC Fiddler on the Roof, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, Evita (with TC), The School for Wives (with VP), Camelot (with TC/Citadel), Transit of Venus, Burn This. OTHER THEATRE Twenty-two seasons as Design
Coordinator of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he has been involved in more than 60 productions. Doug has designed hundreds of productions for theatres across Canada, the UK and the US over the last 30-plus years. ET CETERA Doug was Art Director for Loreena
McKennitt’s “The Mummers’ Dance” music video and Production Designer for both The Book of Secrets and Ancient Muse world tours. He was Director of Design for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and headed up the design team for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, where he is currently working on another project.
Judith Bowden Costume Designer
MTC Costume Designer: The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice. Set & Costume Designer: Strong Poison, Proof (with Citadel). OTHER THEATRE Eleven seasons with the Shaw
Festival, including recently: My Fair Lady (Costumes); An Ideal Husband, Sunday in the Park with George, Belle Moral (Set & Costumes). Recently, as Set & Costume Designer: Nativity (NAC); La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) (Pacific Opera Victoria); Top Girls (Soulpepper); Cloud 9 (Mirvish). Costume Designer: Faith Healer, What the Butler Saw (Soulpepper). Judith’s designs have also been seen at Canadian Stage, PTE, Alberta Theatre Projects, Tarragon, Theatre Calgary and the Grand Theatre.