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Kristi Boulton an improv artist and is one of the members of the Improv Troupe, The Understudies, presenting Waaaay Off Broadway at the 2018 Hamilton Fringe.

Waaaay Off Broadway: A Musical Improv Show!

Waaaay Off Broadway is the musical improv show that you’ve always dreamed of seeing, especially because you create the show! Watch as the Understudies improvise dynamic scenes peppered with songs, topped off with a mini-musical inspired entirely by audience suggestions! Musical accompaniment provided by Steve McRae and Aaron Bruinsma. Grab your opera glasses and hold on to your playbills, people! It’s gonna be a HIT!

The Staircase Theatre
Friday, 20 July @ 9:50pm
Saturday, 21 July @ 7pm
Sunday, 22 July @ 3pm
Monday, 23 July @ 6pm
Tuesday, 24 July @ 8:35pm
Wednesday, 25 July @ 7:25pm
Thursday, 26 July @ 8:55pm
Friday, 27 July @ 9:55pm
Saturday, 28 July @ 8:25pm
Sunday, 29 July @ 4:40pm

Carolyn Bennett is an award-winning writer (2013 TIFF Screenwriting Intensive Jury Prize) and comedian living in Toronto. She was part of the 2017 Thousand Islands Playwrights' Unit and developed the full-length play The Monarchists. Produced plays include Mixed Media, Pure Convenience (CBC Radio), Runtkiller, The Short List,Hitler's Ass, Canis Familiaris and Sick Kids Wanna Talk To You. Her debut novel Please Stand By from Vancouver's NON Publishing will be released Fall 2019. Etc, etc...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Bennett_(comedian)

Jennifer McKinley was a co-artistic director of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (2014-2017) in Toronto. She is a lead coordinator with the Feminist Art Collective, and wrote, produced and performed her solo show, Operation SUNshine at the 2017 Toronto Fringe. Operation SUNshine also had a run at the 2018 Feminist Fuck It Festival in Toronto

Double Down Helix

A dark comedy that examines the implications of retail genotyping, DoubleDownHelix (DDH) asks the audience "to whom do you belong?"

DoubleDownHelix is directed by Jennifer McKinley, a co-artistic director of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (2014-2017) in Toronto. She is a lead coordinator with the Feminist Art Conference, and wrote, produced and performed her solo show, Operation SUNshine at the 2017 Toronto Fringe. DDH is stage managed by Natasha Rotondaro, an emerging theatre artist and soprano.

Open To The Public Theatre presents: DoubleDownHelix
Kingston Storefront Fringe Festival
Venue 3
• Saturday July 21 @ 2PM
• Sunday July 22 @ 6PM
• Tuesday July 24 @ 10:30PM
• Wednesday July 25 @ 4PM
• Friday July 27 @ 8:30PM
• Saturday July 28 @ 6PM

A roundtable conversation about Toronto Fringe on the last Saturday, as Tom McGee (Featherweight), Janelle Hanna (Robert.), Al Lafrance (I think I'm Dead), Danny Pagett (Prank), and Rebecca Perry (Bikeface) join host Phil Rickaby to talk about Toronto Fringe so far, what they’ve seen, what they are looking forward to seeing and much more.
Recorded 10:00, July 14, 2018.

Tom McGee
Twitter: @mcgeetd
Website: www.tdmcgee.com
Theatre Brouhaha: www.theatrebrouhaha.com/
Featherweight: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/featherweight

Janelle Hanna
Twitter: @janellemhanna
Robert: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/robert

Al Lafrance
Twitter: @notsoweirdal
Instagram: @notsoweirdal
www.al-lafrance.com/
I Think I'm Dead: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/al-lafrance-i-think-im-dead

Danny Pagett
Twitter: @spoonydan
Instagram: @danquo
Prank: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/prank

Rebecca Perry
Twitter: @rebeccaperry21
www.rebeccaperry.ca
Bikeface: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/bikeface

​Eliza was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts with a Drama Specialist before attending the Theatre and Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College.Eliza workshopped her one-woman show O, an exploration of Hamlet’s Ophelia as an early version in 2014 before creating and developing O in partnership with Ali Joy Richardson in the 15th annual Paprika Festival in 2016. The show has since been performed at the Artscape Wychwood Barns in November 2017 and is headed to the United Solo Festival in NYC in November of 2018. Her second solo show Harvey & The Extraordinary was workshopped in July 2017 under the direction and dramaturgical support of Neil Silcox, and is currently playing at the 2018 edition of the Toronto Fringe Festival

Twitter:@lizeydolittle
Instagram: lizey_dolittle
www.elizamartin.ca
Tickets to Harvey and the Extraordinary: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/harvey-extraordinary

A roundtable conversation about Toronto Fringe on the first Saturday, as Tom McGee (Featherweight), Janelle Hanna (Robert.), Belinda Corpuz (Lighters in the Air), Danny Pagett (Prank), and Rebecca Perry (Bikeface) join host Phil Rickaby to talk about Toronto Fringe so far, what they’ve seen, what they are looking forward to seeing and much more.
Recorded 10:00, July 7, 2018.

Tom McGee
Twitter: @mcgeetd
Website: www.tdmcgee.com
Theatre Brouhaha: www.theatrebrouhaha.com/
Featherweight: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/featherweight

Janelle Hanna
Twitter: @janellemhanna
Robert: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/robert

Belinda Corpuz
Twitter:@belindarona
Instagram: belindacorpuz
www.belindacorpuz.com
Lighters in the Air: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/lighters-air

Danny Pagett
Twitter: @spoonydan
Instagram: @danquo
Prank: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/prank

Rebecca Perry
Twitter: @rebeccaperry21
www.rebeccaperry.ca
Bikeface: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/bikeface

Hayley Pace – Artistic Director, Playwright, Performer, Designer
Hayley Pace is an award-winning performer from Kitchener, Ontario. She is a graduate of the Devised Theatre & Design programs at York University and since has worked internationally in Antwerp, Prague, Edinburgh Minneapolis and New York. Her storytelling shows include the The Teeny Tiny Music Show and High School Symphony which have played in various venues and festivals throughout Ontario. Other devised work includes A Language for Dogs and Paperweight at the Hamilton Fringe Festival. Other performances include RENT, The Beggar’s Opera and Curtains. Set design credits include set for Peep! (Nuit Blanche/Theatre Panik), and Hamletmachine (Theatre@York). Costume design credits include The Village Green (Applebox Film Company/Rockzeline) and Plato’s Atlantis (Canada’s National Ballet School). Hayley graphic designs all promotional material for her shows, and for various artists such as Socratic Theatre, emerging singer-songwriter T. Thomason, and Broadway and television star, Tovah Feldshuh.

Daniel Walsh – Musical Director, Composer, Arranger, Sousaphone, Bass Guitar
Daniel Walsh is a York University trained multi-instrumentalist based out of Toronto, Canada. He built the beginnings of his career as a street performer and the founder of Turbo Street Funk in 2010 where he served as the manager, arranger, front man and composer for the group for 3 years. Since that time he has moved on to work as a sideman and featured artist for a number of acts around Toronto such as DLO, Busty and the Bass, Saul Torres, The Shuffle Demons, Red Pepper Spectacle Arts, Zakary Miller, Riotron, Ted Peters and Gumbo YaYa and many others and has had his original compositions featured on Jazz FM as well as on Indie FM. Daniel is renowned as a high energy performer who’s completely unafraid of making a crowd dance and, having played on stages such as Roy Thompson Hall and the Air Canada Center to the Smiling Buddha, Rebel Nightclub and The Opera House, Daniel is a seasoned performer, improviser and entertainer.

High School Symphony
An eight-piece, Big Band "Mean Girls". A remarkable friendship between two grade school girls is tested when they face suspension for sexual harassment toward their teacher. The drama unfolds with a cast that consists of an immersive marching band who double as hot teachers, note-passing BFFs, and of course, the enemy popular group. Ignoring the guy who always plays "Wonderwall", the soundtrack is decked with video game references, anime theme songs, and slicked-up sounds from the early 00's that got every millennial through their pimply prepubescence!

Twitter: @teenytinymusic
Instagram: teenytinymusicshow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teenytinymusicshow
Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/high-school-symphony

Madeleine Brown is a Toronto-based actor. Select acting credits: Imp (Filament Incubator/Epigraph Collective), Seasons (Toronto Fringe), Madeleine Says Sorry (Toronto Fringe), She Kills Monsters (Orphaned Egret) and Rowing (Chrysalis Workshop/Then They Fight/Filament Incubator). A Loran Scholar and 2016/2017 Nightwood Theatre Young Innovator, she is a graduate of Sheridan College/UTM and has trained with Theatre Gargantua, Mermaid Theatre, Second City and Pro Actors Lab. She serves as a volunteer with L'Arche Toronto's Sol Express, a performance troupe for adults with developmental disabilities and has assisted under such directors as Diana Leblanc and Tamara Bernier Evans. Her debut play, Madeleine Says Sorry, premiered at the 2017 Toronto Fringe.

@prairiefireplz

When Beatrice Little sinks her potato-based start-up, she must ascend the ranks of an imposing pyramid scheme in order to rebuild her career.

From the "whip smart" losers behind 2017 Toronto Fringe sellout, Madeleine Says Sorry, comes a twisted comedy about entrepreneurial failure, commercialized feminism and how to sell a shit-ton of t-shirts.

Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/everyone-wants-t-shirt

A place for everyone and everyone in their place! In order to keep the economy moving, individuals are frequently assigned different jobs, names, religions, and relationships. When a Life Commissioning Agent unexpectedly shows up one evening to re-assign a loving married couple, the couple refuses to separate regardless of punishment. The situation spins further out of control when another newly assigned couple arrives the same evening to take possession of the house and begin their lives together. Secrets, passions, and ideologies collide against a bureaucratic authority. By the end, everyone must deal with either a comfortable yet inhuman status quo or the struggle of dreaming up an alternative world from scratch.

CALEB YONG (Director)
After a long hiatus, Caleb Yong is pleased to be making theatre again. Caleb most recently co-created and performed in Suck and Blow, which later becameThe Book of Judith (Selfconscious Theatre), and assisted director Jennifer Tarver for That Time — Five Beckett Shorts (Theatre Extasis.) Caleb sits on the Board of Directors for SelfConscious Productions, and is a Professor of the Humanities at Humber College.

VINCE DEIULIS (MUHAMMAD/Producer/Media Relations)
Vince has trained with some of Canada’s brightest theatre talents including: Gil Garratt, Hume Baugh, Maja Ardal and Anna Chatterton. Recent credits include: Echoes of the War (EotW Collective), Nerve (Shining Star Theatrical Co.), Blue Remembered Hills (Good Old Neon), It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (The LOT), Out in the Open, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (To Be Determined Theatre Co.). Vince is also a volunteer puppeteer with The Concerned Kids Charity of Toronto.

Kris Hagen is an actor and writer, known for Imposters (2017), Kim's Convenience (2016) and Tugg N Chugger (2015). Kris is also the creator of Lighters in the Air, premiering at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

krishagen.com

Lighters in the Air
A musician named Leo returns to his former hangout, The Empty, a dive bar where the mic is always open. With the help of old friends, a lost love, and The Empty's newest off-beat barflies, Leo rediscovers his passion for the music he left behind.

A play about artistic integrity, unfulfilled expectations, nostalgia, romance, and an uncertain future, the show features live performances of original songs. An open mic scene includes different guest musicians and standup comics every night, making each show a unique experience.

Written & Directed by Kris Hagen
Starring Natalia Bushnik, Belinda Corpuz, Cody Crain, Anna Douglas, Raechel Fisher, Kris Hagen, Olaf Sham, Amanda Silcoff and Taylor Whittaker

Monarch Tavern | 12 Clinton St.

Showtimes:
Wednesday, July 4 - 8pm
Thursday, July 5 - 8pm
Friday, July 6 - 6pm
Saturday, July 7 - 7pm
Sunday, July 8 - 7pm
Tuesday, July 10 - 8pm
Wednesday, July 11 - 6pm
Thursday, July 12 - 6pm
Friday, July 13 - 7pm
Saturday, July 14 - 3pm

Twitter: @divebartheatre
Instagram: divebartheatre
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/divebartheatre

Michael Ross Albert is the author of several plays including Miss (FringeNYC; Unit 102 Actors Company); The Farmers Lit the Fields on Fire (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (FringeNYC, published by Applause in Best American Short Plays 2014-2015); and Karenin’s Anna (Toronto Fringe Festival, “Outstanding New Play,” — NOW Magazine).

Along with the Storefront Theatre, Michael produced the sold-out world premiere production of his play Tough Jews in the heart of Toronto’s Kensington Market. The production was nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production.

His play Starfishes opened Off-Broadway at the Theatre at Dance New Amsterdam and is included in Best American Short Plays 2010-2011. It has since been performed across the United States and Canada.

Michael received an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Michael is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Michael is the playwright of two shows in the 2018 Toronto Fringe: Anywhere and The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome.