New Faces to Our Stage

Each season, Hart House Theatre is honoured to provide a stage for emergent talent - talents that are sure to find a home on professional Canadian stages. Here are a few of the actors who are working to rock the house in or upcoming production of Hair:

Andrew Perry as George Berger

Andrew is a new performer to art House Theatre, but certainly no stranger to the stage. Since graduating from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with his MA in Musical Theatre, Andrew has been working across Canada and abroad in such productions as We Will Rock You and Urinetown for the Stephenville Theatre Festival as well as Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz and Sister Act for regional theatres.

Christian Hodge as Claude Hooper Bukowski

Christian is a recent graduate of the Randolph College for the Performing Arts. He joins the ranks of new performers to our stage who have completed training programs and are now launching themselves into professional careers.

Marisa Dashney as Sheila Franklin

Marisa is a graduate from Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance Program who recently appeared on stage at the Charlottetown Theatre Festival. As well as her passion for performing, Marisa has a passion for social justice through her work with Diva Day - an initiative to help make education more accessible for women and girls around the world.

Will Mackenzie as Woof

Born and raised in Toronto, William grew up on the ice as a competitive goalie. His debut performance was as Prince Harry in Once Upon a Mattress, later transitioning to productions with Toronto Youth Theatre, and then following his passion to the University of Guelph, completing his B.A. in Theatre Studies.

David Andrew Reid as Hud

David is a triple threat performer and aspiring choreographer. Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, David moved to Canada to study Music Theatre at Sheridan College. David joins us after appearing at the Shaw Festival and before joining the team at Neptune Theatre to create the Canadian premiere performance of The Colour Purple.

Read more about the full cast here >>

New and Returning - Call for Participants

Hart House Theatre proudly hosts Canada’s largest university dance festival – the U of T Festival of Dance (FoD). Created 24 years ago as an avenue to provide dance groups on campus the opportunity to perform on stage for an audience, the Festival of Dance has now grown into a celebration of the diversity and prosperity of the U of T dance community. Past events have included over 60 different dance pieces, well over 200 performers and an impressive variety of dance forms including jazz, ballet, ballroom, modern, contact improv, hip-hop, musical theatre, Irish, Latin, and Egyptian belly dancing, just to name a few. With such an abundance of dance groups associated with U of T, participation in the festival is a great opportunity for dance groups to interact, collaborate and promote their own work and ventures.

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS TO PARTICIPATE!

Click here to fill out a form to submit your group for Festival consideration. The form must be completed and submitted by February 1, 2019, but early submissions are encouraged.