ARTISTS

Douglas Price

Associate Music Supervisor, Conductor, Piano, Accordion

Douglas Price is an award-winning composer, music director, and teacher from London, Ontario. Training: He is an alumni of the Shaw Theatre Festival’s music directing internship program (mentor: Dr. Paul Sportelli), a masters graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and he inaugurated the position of Head of Music at the National Theatre School of Canada (2014-2020). Other: He is the founder and creator of tunetorialz.com (an online catalogue of musical theatre lessons), and he recently launched his first book, Seventeen To Millionaire, a personal finance book for Canadian teenagers available at seventeentomillionaire.com.

Anita Nittoly Fight & Sexual Choreographer

Selected Fight Director Credits: 2019 Season (The Stratford Festival); The Last Wife, The 39 Steps, Successions (Centaur Theatre); Whole World (Carousel Players); Kitchen Radio, Stag & Doe, 2018 Season (Blyth Festival); Don Quichotte, Die Walkure, Carmen (Canadian Opera Company, Associate Fight Master). Stage Combat Instructor and Fight Director/Sexual Choreographer (National Theatre School).

Intimacy Choreographer: Trojan Girls and The Outhouse of Atreus (Outside The March/Factory Theatre/Factory Theatre); Our Place (Cahoots Theatre/Theatre Passe Murraille); TV/Film: Stunt Performer/Stunt Actor (selected credits: SEE, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, Teen Titans, The Boys, Rabbit Hole, What We Do in the Shadows, various Ubisoft motion capture productions).

Mel Hague Dramaturg

Mel Hague is a Toronto based Curator and dramaturge. Mel is the Artistic Director of Factory

Theatre in Toronto. Previously, Mel has worked with Canadian Stage Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Obsidian Theatre Company, IFT Theatre, Factory Theatre, Banff Centre Playwrights Colony, current performing arts, fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre, Eastern Front Theatre, Queer Acts Festival, The Paprika Festival, and Mulgrave Road Theatre. Mel was the Director of the Rhubarb Festival from 2014 - 2019 and was selected as a Leader in Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada (2018/19). Selected Dramaturgy Work: Venus’ Daughter by Meghan Swaby (Obsidian Theatre Company, 2016) Up the Garden Path by Lisa Codrington (Obsidian Theatre Company, 2016), Black Boys by Saga Collectif (with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 2018) lulu v.7 aspects of a femme fatale (red light district with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 2018) Always Still the Dawn by Susanna Fournier (Canadian Stage, 2020). Other: Mel is a member of the Board of Directors for the Summerworks Festival.

Jane Gooderham Dialect Coach

Theatre Credits: London Road, The Syringa Tree, Rock ’n’ Roll (Canadian Stage) 19 seasons with The Stratford Festival; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Cloud Nine, The Lord of the Rings, The Producers (Mirvish); Shaw Festival; War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Royal National Theatre/Mirvish); Matilda (Royal Shakespeare Company/Mirvish); Oroonoko, Chair (Theatre for a New Audience, New York). Television: Good Sam (CBS), Reacher (Amazon), Republic of Doyle (CBC). Teaching: Head of Voice, National Theatre School of Canada (2009-16); Centre for Indigenous Theatre; Birmingham Conservatory. Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Voice), Guildhall School of Music & Drama (BA Acting).