NS2023 Guildwood Program

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Garner Theatre Productions & Guildwood Collective

Photo by Roya DelSol

WELCOME TO THE 2023 NEXT STAGE FESTIVAL.

Thank you for being here at Buddies in Bad Times for Next Stage 2023. If this is your first show of the festival, I hope it won’t be your last. We have six companies joining us this year, all offering something unique and wonderful, and we would love for you to see as much as possible. We have not had an in-person Next Stage Theatre Festival since January 2020, so it is glorious to be back. This festival is very important to the ecosystem of theatre and performance in this city and beyond, offering a showcase for artists and an opportunity for audiences to see what’s new and exciting in our sector.

As always, I will use this opportunity to ask you to donate to the Toronto Fringe. If you can, please support us as we continue to navigate these choppy waters. Despite having a wildly successful Toronto Fringe Festival this past July where we returned $500,000 to artists, we are still struggling financially. With decreased funding and increased costs, it is harder and harder to plan for the future of this organization. Your help will go a long way in providing sustainability for us and for the artists we support.

Thank you and Happy Next Stage!

Lucy Eveleigh Executive Director

Land Acknowledgement

Toronto Fringe acknowledges that our festival occupies spaces in the city known as Toronto, on lands and waterways that have known human activity for thousands of years. It has been the territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Six Nations, and more recently is also the territory of Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit, who are part of the Anishinaabe Nation. We acknowledge our privilege to stand on this land, our responsibility to uphold truth, and our shared stewardship of our home and each other. To all the people of Turtle Island, chi miigwetch.

FUNDERS PARTNERS

The McLean Smits Family Foundation

NEW YOUNG REVIEWERS

The New Young Reviewers Program, supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide. The cohort of writers for this festival consists of Melissa Avalos, Columbia Roy, and Zoe Marin, facilitated by Signy Lynch and Stephanie Fung. Their reviews of Next Stage shows can be found online at Intermission Magazine at www.intermissionmagazine.ca.

ABOUT THE JON KAPLAN LEGACY FUND

For over three decades, beloved theatre reviewer Jon Kaplan wrote about and celebrated Toronto theatre. He was a strong supporter of young artists and diverse voices. Following his death in 2017, the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund was created to provide recognition and financial support for theatre makers at all stages of their careers.

ACTIVE LISTENERS

Active Listeners will be available for audience members at Next Stage each day of the festival. Active listeners are there to provide compassionate, empathetic, and confidential support during or following a performance. Additional mental health resources can be provided if requested. Learn more at fringetoronto.com/accessibility/access-measures

This program is funded by the Community Services Recovery Fund, through the Canadian Red Cross. Now more than ever, community service organizations like the Toronto Fringe play a key role in addressing complex social problems faced by many communities across Canada. We are grateful for the support.

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GUILDWOOD

Presented By: Braeden Soltys and Garner Theatre Productions

Writer And Director: Braeden Soltys*

Orchestrator And Music Director: Jake Schindler

Choreographers: Meghan Caine*, Sierra Holder*, & Tyler Pearse*

Actor-Musician Advisor: Donna Garner*

Dramaturgical Advisor: Steven Gallagher

Lighting Designers: Sean Stone & Emerson Kafarowski

Stage Manager: Keleshaye Christmas-Simpson

Costume Designer: Randy Pryce

Sound Designer: Bex Tralli

FEATURING

Kryslyne-Mai Ancheta*: Violet

Meghan Caine: Ensemble

Camilo Diaz-Varela: Faye

Rita Dottor*: Ensemble

Donna Garner: Rosa

Rick Hughes*: Spencer

Taran Kim: Foster

W. Joseph Matheson*: Georg

Tyler Pearse: Ensemble

Jake Schindler: Ensemble

Yunike Soedarmasto: Ensemble

*Appearing courtesy of CAEA

This is a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association production under the Festival Policy.

Kryslyne-Mai Ancheta is a Filipina-Canadian interdisciplinary artist who is excited to make her debut at Buddies as Violet in Guildwood. She studied Classical Voice Performance graduating with honors under Norma Burrowes. She extends gratitude to family & friends for their support and love, and to Braeden for this beautiful story.

Meghan Caine is a multi-disciplinary artist originally hailing from Vancouver Island, BC. She is ecstatic to be a part of Guildwood, celebrating the gift that community art provides. Most recently she has been working with Smile Theatre, bringing theatre to seniors living in care. A lover of nature, movement and music.

Keleshaye Christmas-Simpson: I thank you for your support. Enjoy the show! Selected Credits: Intimate Apparel, The Music Man (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Artist Mentorship Program 2023 (Black Theatre Workshop); Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (Volcano/Luminato); Prodigal (The Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre); RENT (BurlOak Theatre Group).

Camilo Diaz-Varela (they/them) is a live performing artist, composer and arts facilitator, specializing in music and theatre, with Mexican roots. They were born in Kjipuktuk on unceded Mi’kmaq territory, also known as Halifax, Nova Scotia. With their artwork they are committed to uplifting polycultural collaboration and musical folk traditions.

Rita Dottor, composer, actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter. Broadway Tours/Regional/Opera: Oliver! (NETworks 1st National US Tour), Man of La Mancha (Magnus Theatre) Bright Star (GTP), The Secret Garden (Capital Repertory NY), The Other (4th Line Theatre), Magic Flute, Werther (Sarasota Opera), Un Ballo in Maschera (Greensboro Opera) TV/Film: Vinyl, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie. M.Mus.(UNCG), B.Mus.(SLU), Atlantic Theatre Company Acting School NYC, HB Studios NYC. Albums: Nothing But Beautiful (2014), Flora and Fauna (2022).

Steven Gallagher: Directing credits include Murder at Ackerton Manor (Tweed and Company), Living With Shakespeare (Driftwood), Birthday Balloon (RCA), Fully Committed (The Grand). Writing credits include Murder at Ackerton Manor, Blackout (Musical Stage Co, Canadian Stage), and Stealing Sam (ATP, Calgary). His musical Pollyanna will premiere at Theatre Aquarius in Dec 2023.

Actor-Musician Donna Garner has performed in theatres across Canada, the U.S., Austria and Japan. Select credits: The Sound of Music (U.S. First National Tour); Once (U.S. First National Tour, Mirvish, Neptune); Two Pianos, Four Hands (Canada, U.S.). TV/Film: Mr. Monk’s Last Case, Private Eyes, Handmaid’s Tale, Anne with an E, Designated Survivor. Most importantly, she shares her life with talented ActorMuso Rick Hughes and their stoic mini-schnauzer Gus.

Sierra Holder (she/her) is a Toronto-based performer who is deeply grateful to be able to share art and be in community on Treaty

13. Theatre credits: Little Shop of Horrors (Capitol Theatre) Peter’s Final Flight, The Wizard of Oz (Ross Petty Prod.) Ride The Cyclonechoreographer (Tweed & Co.) The Adventures of Pinocchio (YPT) A Belly Full, Freaky Friday (Theatre Aquarius); Film&TV: The Madness, Accused, Bring It On: Cheer or Die (Jackie), Locke & Key, The J Team,

Rick Hughes: Man of La Mancha (Magnus); Fiddler On the Roof (Persephone); Hamlet (MTC); Christmas Carol, Real Estate, How It Works, Tuesdays With Morrie (STC); Full Monty, Buddy Holly Story, Anne (Charlottetown); Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Fire (Globe); the Foursome (Foster Festival). Film/Television: Murdoch, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (Shaftesbury); Hemlock Grove (Netflix).

Emerson Kafarowski (she/they) is a Lighting Designer and Technical Director based in Tkaronto, Canada. A graduate from TMU’s Performance Production + Design program, and a proud past student of co-designer Sean Stone, they work primarily in dance, theatre, opera, and live music. Emerson has had the pleasure of working with companies including Bouchardanse, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, Citadel + Compagnie, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, and Soulpepper Theatre Company.

Taran Kim (he/him) is a multidisciplinary performer from Mississauga who has been lucky enough in the past year to share the stage with some of Canada’s finest performers and creatives since graduating from theatre school. He is incredibly excited for what’s to come and to showcase the incredible talent behind Guildwood.

W Joseph Matheson is thrilled to be part of Guildwood and the Guildwood family. In the ‘before times’ he performed at theatres across Canada and the US, most recently at Montreal’s Segal Centre in ‘The Times They Are A’Changin’ which he created with his wife, actress Louise Pitre. Je t’aime darlin’.

Tyler Pearse is a Toronto-based artist and choreographer with an extensive career as a vocalist and performer. His focus is to create innovative, healing, and impactful work from the guts. Selected Credits: 2022/23 RBC Apprentice, RETOLD (Musical Stage Co.), Ride the Cyclone (Tweed & Co. / Sierra Holder), Cabaret (Ovation Productions).

Jake Schindler is a composer, music director, and orchestrator. Wearing many musical hats, he has worked on two Dora-nominated shows (Mirvish, Mixtape Productions), three Toronto Fringe Patron’s Pick musicals, was the Associate Keyboard Programmer at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and is a music director at The Second City (Toronto). jakeschindler.com

Yunike (you•NEE•ka) Soedarmasto is an NYC-born, Canadian-raised actor, dancer, and musician. She is proud to be in the La Compagnie De Danse ensemble for their 2023/2024 season. Yunike loves iced coffee year-round and anything cozy. Hugs and squishes to all. xo. Selected Credits: Prairie Nurse (Capitol Theatre), Bright Star (GTP).

Hello! I’m Braeden Soltys – a writer, actor, producer, (first-time) director, amateur agitator, and lover of teas and trees. I’ve been lucky to perform for audiences ranging from 7 to 700 across Ontario in over a dozen productions. As a writer/creator, I’ve been one quarter of Songs of Hope: A Travelling Clown Show, and the author of an affordable housing policy adopted by a federal political party (that has since been ignored by said party … *sigh*).

Sean Stone: Sean first trained at the University of Western Ontario, then was awarded a full scholarship to pursue his MFA in lighting design at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. As a Theatre Arts teacher for 30 years, Sean was able to light and direct many shows. Now retired, he gets to create designs with former students like Emerson!

WRITER/DIRECTOR’S NOTES: The Guild of All Arts was founded in the 1930s – when the failures of liberalism allowed fascism to rise, the costs of living were crushing, and war was on the horizon. Sound familiar? This was the backdrop to the story I wanted to tell, but not the story itself.

Over time, I became less interested in history and more interested in grief, uncontrollable change, and the different ways they affect

people. I started work on Guildwood in March 2020, one week before the world as I knew it fell apart. Friends left, loved ones died, I lost my home twice, and my world view was defeated. This musical is simply one person’s attempt to capture that feeling of total loss, but more importantly the hope that accompanies it.

ABOUT GARNER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS:

Artistic Director Donna Garner founded GTP to give Actor-Musicians a home for their stories, so their voices could be heard not just through the characters they play, but through their instruments and their movements; a fully immersive experience, for them and for the audience. With the GTP team alongside her, Garner is advancing Actor-Musicianship in Canada, and like Rosa and Spencer Clark, GTP continues to pave the way for future artists to be recognized for their extraordinary skill and dedication to their art.

CONNECT WITH US:

www.garnertheatreproductions.com

IG: @garnerprod

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F: Garner Theatre Productions

IG: @guildwoodmusical

#nstf #guildwoodmusical #gtp #actormusician

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS:

We could not bring Guildwood to life without the support of so many of you. Support that came in many forms - financial, creative, in-kind, hugs! Eternal thanks to: Amanda Alvaro & Mark Pavan, Noah Beemer, Casey Belzberg, Emma Burke-Kleinman, Jeff Carter, Mary Clements, Kevin and Leanne Cougler, Kate Daniels, Allan Detsky & Rena Mendelson, Linette Doherty, Quinn Dooley, Flatiron Wealth Management, Jody Geddes, Steve Geddes, Brian and Rosemary George, The Grand Theatre, Guild Alive With Culture, Guild Festival Theatre, Jahnelle Jones, Christina Kakaletris, Anna R. Kaltenbach, Rachel Lambe, Eudes La Roche-Francoeur, Desirée Leverenz, Andrea Levinson, Christopher Lucas, Kate Madden, Mary, John McMahon, The Musical Stage Company, Erika Santillana, Greg Nelson and Patti Shedden, Ben Page, Bob Patterson-Watt, Pomp & Circumstance

PR, David Robertson, Alicia Rosario, Tricia Soltys, Russel Von Niessen, Sydney Williams, Daniel Williston.

HISTORY BEHIND GUILDWOOD

In 1932, a community of artists was founded along the bluffs of what is now known as Scarborough, Ontario. This refuge for craftspeople and artists of all stripes was called the Guild of All Arts. Its history is long and storied, so let’s start at the beginning.

The first recorded habitation was by the Seneca in a settlement called Ganatsekwyagon. After the Seneca left the region in the late 1600s, the area was then inhabited by the Mississaugas. As colonization began, treaties were written to facilitate immigration and land surrenders to the settler states.

The first large-scale treaty that governed the land the Guild was built on was the “Johnson-Butler Purchase of 1787-88” made during a meeting with the Mississaugas. Crucial parts of the treaty were left blank including details on compensation. White settlement had already long been underway, making the colonial governments increasingly anxious to extinguish the Mississauga’s and neighbouring Chippewa’s land claims. This was achieved through the 1923 “Williams Treaties’’ with the Crown dictating terms to the Indigenous nations. By 1923, however, the land the Guild would be built on had already been settled first by Col. Harold Bickford who built the historic manor in 1914, and then by the Catholic Church before exchanging hands a few times more. In 1932, Rosa Breithaupt Hewetson would purchase the property.

Rosa was a woman of many talents. Born in 1888 to a wealthy, politically connected family in Kitchener, Rosa was a talented pianist and painter. She and her family were involved in a congregation focused on “matters of social concern”. Rosa would marry A. Russell Hewetson, owner of the Brampton-based Hewetson Shoe Company. Rosa and Russell started to convert the company into a worker’s cooperative – a type of workplace where profit-sharing and decisionmaking are driven by workers, not just company shareholders. When Russell suddenly died in 1928, his family the Hewetsons wrestled control of the company away from Rosa.

Rosa would go on to meet H. Spencer Clark through work in the Robert Owen Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting social democracy in Canada. Spencer had recently returned from a trip to the Soviet Union where he undertook a largely sanitized tour of housing communes, worker cooperatives, and other progressive policies with which he was quite taken.

Rosa and Spencer fell in love and married in 1932 on the grounds of what would become the Guild of All Arts.

The Guild was founded under the principles of the Arts & Crafts movement and Guild Socialism. The Clarks gave artists free room and board in exchange for the occasional demonstration to visiting guests. The residents could sell their creations at the Guild or at a store on Bloor Street in Toronto.

When World War II broke out, the Canadian government was stuck on how to contribute to the war effort. Conscription during World War I led to riots in Quebec that threatened the stability of the country. Fearing a similar situation, parliament instead passed the “National Resources Mobilization Act” of 1940 which gave the federal government power to “expropriate” (take over) any property not being used for war-time purposes.

The Guild created materials for soldiers at the front as a means of avoiding expropriation, but ultimately failed. The property was taken over by the navy to train a division of the WRENS – one of Canada’s first women’s-only units – as radar operators. As the war came to a close, the base would be converted again into a hospital that treated psychological trauma in returning soldiers.

By 1947, the Clarks regained possession over the property and restarted the Guild’s activities. As the years went on, skyrocketing property taxes made it impossible to run the Guild like normal. The Clarks decided to end the subsidization of artists and built a large hotel as a tourist draw.

To further balance their budget, the Clarks sold swathes of land to develop a new neighbourhood called “Guildwood Village”. Spencer insisted the neighbourhood follow the Garden City design – a city planning concept focused on walkability, a plethora of green space, and affordable housing. Unfortunately, Guildwood Village followed the trend of Garden Cities where land values soared leading to the area becoming increasingly unaffordable.

As Toronto began to modernize its downtown, Spencer became increasingly distressed at the amount of beautiful architecture being torn down. Seizing an opportunity, he purchased many old facades and had them transported to the Guild to create a massive sculpture garden on the grounds of the inn.

The aging Clarks couldn’t maintain the Guild by the 1970s and eventually sold the property to the city. Rosa and Spencer both passed away in the 1980s and the Guild Inn would close its doors in 1993, after which it would sit neglected for over two decades. In 2017, Dynamic Hospitality would partner with the city to renovate and re-open the Guild Inn Estates as a private events venue.

Today, the sculpture garden is free to visitors; however, an ongoing dispute exists between the community and Dynamic Hospitality over limiting access to what were supposed to be public amenities in the park. As is the case with its origins, the Guild represents a clash between private and public control all the while providing refuge and introspection for those with a weary heart.

AFTER STAGE WITH TENT

This show has created special programming with the support of the 2023 TENT (Theatre Entrepreneurs’ Network & Training) Program participants, in order to enhance your experience of the production. Check out fringetoronto.com/next-stage/community-programming for full details.

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ACTING FOR MEDIA

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VISUAL EFFECTS

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THEATRE ARTS – PERFORMANCE

THEATRE ARTS – PREPARATION

George Brown College School of Media and Performing Arts

TORONTO FRINGE

MISSION

The Toronto Fringe is a platform for everyone to access, discover, and experiment with the arts. By valuing creative experiences, we contribute to a healthy arts economy and, ultimately, a thriving society.

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FESTIVAL PEOPLE

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Communications Manager Tessa Cernik

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NEXT STAGE 2023 SELECTION COMMITTEE

Lucy Eveleigh, Laura Paduch, Daniel Carter, Derrick Chua, Amanda Lin

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SPECIAL THANKS McWood Studios, Luminato Festival Toronto, Dancemakers, the staff of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS

We are so grateful to the following listed and to EVERYONE who has donated to the Toronto Fringe. We continue to rely on your generosity and we want you to know that when you donate to the Fringe and to Next Stage your money goes far. Since we return 100% of box office revenue to artists in the Toronto Fringe Festival and 70% to artists in the Next Stage Theatre Festival, your donation helps us to support them. If you want to join this list of incredible people, please reach out to Executive Director Lucy Eveleigh at lucy@fringetoronto.com.

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