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MELISSA JAMES GIBSON (Playwright)  Melissa James Gibson’s plays include [sic] (OBIE for playwriting, Kesselring Prize, The Best Plays of 2001-02, Steppenwolf Theatre Company commission); SUITCASE, or THOSE THAT RESEMBLE FLIES FROM A DISTANCE (NEA/ TCG Theatre Residency Program, 2004 production at Soho Rep); BROOKLYN BRIDGE, with music by Barbara Brousal (The Children's Theater Company/New Dramatists Playground program commission); GIVEN FISH (Steppenwolf Theatre Company commission, grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Greenwall Foundation). A recent Whiting Award recipient, Melissa is working on commissions for the La Jolla Playhouse and The Adirondack Theatre Festival. She has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.


DAVID MATHESON (Director)  David has been working in the theatre for 20 years.  He began his training with a BA from Acadia University and later attended the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in England.  David spent the early part of his career as an actor in the Maritimes, where his stage work included roles with The Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, The Atlantic Theatre Festival, and The Chester Playhouse as well as with numerous independent theatre companies. David relocated to Toronto in 2002 and received a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) from York University.  Since that time he has acted and directed in Toronto and has become one of Toronto’s most popular up and coming acting coaches.  Film/ TV work includes roles in "Black Harbour", "Lexx: The dark Zone", "Terra X", "The Prince and the Grail", and "Cold Blood".   Recent theatre work includes the role of Paul in Robert Fothergill's Disciples (Summerworks), and Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire (Upper Canada Rep.) as well as directing Pericles Snowdon’s Bluebeard (Toronto Fringe – Patron’s Pick.)  Please check out David’s website at www.dmatheson.ca


ANDREA MITTLER (Scenic Designer/Costume Designer)  Andrea is a graduate of York University's Theatre production program and works as a theatre designer and scenic artist.  Selected set design credits include, Assistant Set Designer for Kiss Me, Kate  (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (Humber River Shakespeare Company); The Menaechmus Twins (Theatreworks);Fat Pig (Geek Girl);  Julius Caesar and The Seagull (Wordsmyth Theatre);  Twelfth Night and Macbeth (Classical Theatre Project).  Andrea has also been the Set Designer and guest instructor at the Etobicoke School of the Arts for the past six years where she has designed such musicals as Seussical, CATS, Anne of Green Gables, and Urinetown.


SIOBHAN SLEATH (Lighting Designer)


TOM KERR (Sound Designer)


MEAGHAN WATERMAN (Stage Manager)  Meaghan holds a BFA Hons. in Theatre from York University, with specializations in Devised Theatre and Theatre Production. Past Fringe stage management credits include: Quarter Life Calamity (Toronto Centre for the Arts 2010, Fringe 2009), A Streetcar Named Gerrard (Fringe 2008), Love Songs from Unlikely Places (Fringe 2007), Thank You (ASM, Fringe 2006).