Scott is a Winnipeg-based lighting designer and consultant who has worked at theatres across Canada. Since 1995, he has designed over 150 shows for various companies from Shakespeare in the Ruins to The Stratford Festival.  Scott is a member of ADC-IATSE Local 659 and a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School, and has many stories of his times behind the scenes of some great shows.

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Recorded on May 18, 2023

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)
Interviewees - Scott Henderson
Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger

Theatre has many facets. You have writers. You have composers. You have directors and actors.

What really helps in a large production? A talented stage manager/production manager and a technical/musical director.

Monique Gauthier and Jacob Herd make up the other 2/4 of JHG Creative, who you heard from in Season 2, Episode 2.

Moe studied theatre at the University of Manitoba and has been stage managing, acting, designing, and directing for several years. Jacob graduated from the Brandon University School of Music and has performed, recorded, and toured with a number of bands on a multitude of instruments including saxophone, keyboards, guitar, and bass.

This team of promising young theatre creators have a spectacular show premiering on our stage May 25 - June 8. Breaking Up With Me will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between. Make sure to check it out!

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Recorded on May 6, 2023

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)
Interviewees - Monique Gauthier & Jacob Herd (JHG Creative)
Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger

Teachers by day, independant theatre creators by night, Connor and Cuinn Joseph make up half of JHG Creative – an independent theatre company based in Winnipeg, MB. Without having much personal experience with musical theatre, the soundtrack of The Book of Mormon skyrocketed Connor and Cuinn's interest in the multidisciplinary artform. Since then, they have created a number of theatrical works including Understudies, The Standoff, and The Cause, which received the Harry S. Rintoul Award for Best New Manitoba Play at the 2019 Winnipeg Fringe Festival and was the runner-up for the Digital Adams Prize for Musical Theatre at Toronto Fringe Festival.

Now they are the writer (Connor), composer (Cuinn), and co-directors of Breaking Up With Me. A brand new pop-punk musical having it's world premiere on the very stage we recorded this podcast on. These ambitious and creative brothers sure know how to make a good show.

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Recorded on April 22, 2023

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)
Interviewee - Connor Joseph and Cuinn Joseph (JHG Creative)
Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger

On March 31, 2022, The Gargoyle Theatre took to social media to announce its horrible news–that after a wonderful inaugural show, the doors had to close. The winter of 2021-2022 was brutal, leaving physical scars to the theatre and mental–even emotional–scars on the team running it. To open up the second season of Live At The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson speaks one-on-one with you, the listener, to say why we left and that we are back!

We have a lot in store for you this season, and you won't want to miss it.

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Recorded on April 16, 2023

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Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)
Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Lara Rae has made her mark in the Canadian comedy industry. A television and radio writer, she has been nominated 3 times for a Canadian Comedy award and once nominated for a Gemini Award for her work on Little Mosque on the Prairie. She moved from Toronto to Winnipeg and helped to found the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2002.

Her creatives works span farther than just television and radio, so Andrew dives deep into Lara's past and her accomplishments. She has done so much in her lifetime that it was hard to contain this interview into just one episode. 

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Recorded on March 4, 2022

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)

Brian Drader has had an amazing creative journey as a writer, dramaturg, actor, teacher, and artistic administrator – and he is the current Executive Director of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights. Andrew asks Brian about a number of his creative works including The Fruit Machine and his engagement as dramaturg for Cirque du Soleil’s MJ ONE at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Brian worked for 13 years as the Director of Playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, and now helps to teach and support Manitoba playwrights. He also offered dramaturgical support to writer and artistic director of PTE, Thomas Morgan Jones, for his show 'A DANCE TO THE END OF THE WORLD' presented by Prairie Theatre Exchange.

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Recorded on March 1, 2022

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)

He participated in over 80 professional productions in Canada and across the U.K; He holds a master’s degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has studied in Edmonton, Toronto, and The Stratford Festival; He has been teaching voice and theatre for over a decade and has participated in the development and creation of dozens of new works; Over the past fifteen years, his work has been featured across  Canada and the UK; He has had the pleasure of working alongside such companies as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, MacEwan University, CTP Toronto, Royal MTC, PTE, MTYP, Rainbow Stage, MCMA, and Le Cercle Molière; Is there anything Simon Miron CAN'T do? Simon discusses his educational history, his theatrical history, and talks about current projects on the go, including Inhibition Exhibition: Embracing Shadows, which will have a live screening at the historic Crescent Fort Rouge sanctuary on March 30, 2022. Tickets can be purchased from their website.

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Recorded on March 1, 2022

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)

Noah Boonov, Gennevieve Bourdeau, Zanifa Rasool, Sarah Struthers are 4/5 members of the fourth-year honours Devised Theatre class at the University of Winnipeg. All with different theatrical backgrounds, this group of students come together to perform a show created within the class and directed by Claire Borody. In this episode, we get a bit of background from each of the students, and information about the Devised program and the upcoming show, Truth Reconfigured, running from March 23-26 at 7:30 pm CST, live-streamed. Make sure to reserve your tickets on the University of Winnipeg's website!

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Recorded on March 3, 2022

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)

Interviewees - Noah Boonov, Gennevieve Bourdeau, Zanifa Rasool, Sarah Struthers

Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger

This episode includes a combination of our first round of talkbacks, which took place after the evening performances of our inaugural show – Sonja and Richard. The show was written and performed by Steven Ratzlaff, performed by Marina Stephenson Kerr, and directed by Bill Kerr. 

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A comedy, of sorts, set in an Amsterdam hotel room and a Winnipeg private girl’s school. Two teachers clash over relationships, identity, and freedom.

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Recorded on February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 2022

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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)

Interviewees - Steven Ratzlaff, Bill Kerr, and Marina Stephenson Kerr

Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger

Director, playwright, and educator, Cairn Moore has been heavily invested in Winnipeg's theatre community. She teaches at the University of Manitoba, she runs the Actor's Studio at Prairie Theatre Exchange, and has worked with groups like Sarasvati Productions(and Sarasvati's FemFest), Scirocco, and Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. Currently in the midst of writing "Born Ready – An Actor's Guidebook".                                                                     

Recorded on January 13, 2022                                                                                                

Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)