ARTISTS A Little Night Music (Dry Cold); The King and I, Big: The Musical, Footloose (Rainbow); Russell’s World (MTYP/YTP). FILM/TV Includes: Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure;
The Plague; The Many Trials of One Jane Doe; Fred Penner’s Place (CBC); Tipi Tales (YTV/APTN). TRAINING U of W Dept. of Theatre and Film
(Gold Medal).
Liam Tobin Gabe
MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE Tony in West Side Story (Neptune);
Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Stage West); Link Larkin in Hairspray (Charlottetown Festival); The Sound of Music (Mirvish); Blood Brothers, High School Musical (Drayton). TV Triple Sensation ii (CBC).
Tom Kitt Composer Tom received 2009 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal, which had successful productions at both Second Stage (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Score; Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Drama League nominations) and Arena Stage (nominated for five 2009 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical). He composed the music for High Fidelity (Broadway) and From Up Here (Manhattan Theatre Club), and his original songs have been featured in film and TV. He recently created new orchestrations for the CTG/DeafWest production of Pippin. As a musical director, conductor and arranger (Broadway and Off-Broadway), shows include 13, Hair, Laugh Whore, Urban Cowboy and Debbie Does Dallas. Tom was the musical supervisor/ arranger/orchestrator for Everyday Rapture at Second Stage, and his string arrangements appeared on the Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown. He is the proud leader of The Tom Kitt Band (www.tomkittband.com). Love to Rita and Michael.
ET CETERA Love to family and friends and thanks to
everyone at The Talent House!
Shawn Wright Dan
MTC Not Wanted on the Voyage (with Necessary Angel/CS). OTHER THEATRE Jersey Boys (original Canadian cast);
Mamma Mia! (original US cast); The Lord of the Rings (world premiere); Stratford Shakespeare Festival (six seasons/Guthrie Award); National Arts Centre 2011 Acting Ensemble; Shaw Festival (five productions, including the lead in Good News). Upcoming: Shawn and Dan Chameroy will play the title roles in The Arsonists, directed by Morris Panych at Canadian Stage this fall in Toronto. TV Andrew Trevor in Murdoch Mysteries, The Ron
James Show, Due South. TRAINING Shakespeare & Company (Massachusetts). ET CETERA Shawn would like to dedicate this perfor-
Brian Yorkey Playwright & Lyricist Brian received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score for his work on Next to Normal and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played Off-Broadway and regionally; the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet; and the new country musical Play It By Heart. Film and TV include the features Time After Time, in development at Universal with Marc Platt; Sluts for Lionsgate and Furst Films; Love Undercover for Pandemonium Films and Overture and Chase for Anonymous Content and Rosenzweig Films. He also co-created Bears, a new series for the Logo network. He has directed Off-Broadway and regionally, and for seven years was associate artistic director at Village Theatre in Washington state, one of the nation’s leading producers of new musicals. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he was artistic director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WG.
mance to the precious memories of the great Goldie Semple and Roland Hewgill, with whom he shared this very stage in 1992. apr/may 2012
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