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Cirque du Soleil Makeup – An afternoon with Julie Begin
So this past weekend I was fortunate to get a spot in a makeup masterclass with makeup artist and designer Jule Begin. She did the makeup design for Cirque du Soleil’s show Ovo, which is currently touring the world. Julie told us about her experience doing that project and some of the Cirque production practises, showed [...]
Dubai Shopping Festival 2013
This January & February I was part of a squad of stilters who flew to Dubai for a 2 1/2 week gig stilting for the masses. We were hired by an international entertainment agency that opened an office in Toronto about a year ago; one of Toronto’s senior stilters recommended me to the agency rep [...]
Stilting through 2012
This year I have done more stilting performance than ever before! In February I set up a weekly training session with Ezra Houser of Stiltdancer.ca, and then I led a stilt-building workshop with a group of people that resulted in 8 more pairs of stilts coming into the world and a bunch of happy [...]
Adventures in Slumberland: Showtime
Adventures in Slumberland was a huge project to take on, in the roles of Director, Producer, Designer, Stage Manager, Accountant, etc, for Frolick Theatre, the company I run with my partner Matthew Krist. Frolick had over a dozen people we were collaborating and profit-sharing with over the summer, plus a flock of fabulous and wonderful [...]
Adventures in Slumberland: Process
I spent most of the winter, spring and summer creating a series of short plays based on a series of comic strips from 1905 – 1914: Little Nemo in Slumberland. I had been introduced to the comic a couple years ago by Taliya Cohen, a performer who was part of Circus Alchemy, my circus entertainment troupe. [...]
Window Display: Lunacy Cabaret
Commissioned by Zero Gravity Circus, I was very pleased to redecorate the window-box at the Centre of Gravity (1300 Gerrard St. East, Toronto) in the style of the theatre within the building itself. My client wanted the window to promote Lunacy Cabaret, a regular circus & variety show put on by Circus Without Borders that [...]
Announcing: Frolick
Plans for this summer are coming together fast & furiously now… I have officially become the Co-Director of Frolick, a theatre and multimedia company founded by my partner Matthew Krist last year in the inaugural production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Carrot Commons Green Roof. We have joined forces and we are revitalizing [...]
Amiraworks, Now With Content!
Hello, anyone reading this! Tonight I am pleased to announce that I’ve gotten my portfolio pretty much all here… finally, my online portfolio can live and I can keep building on other projects! Because I have big things up my sleeve that will come into being this year – I hope. I’m excited to do [...]
Promise Garden Party!
Garden Party? In March, when it’s usually still winter, and wintery, in Toronto?! Yes indeed this party was well-attended March 3, 2012, with musical DJ performances by local DJs and a fantastic headliner from Minneapolis. My good friends David & Irving are the producers behind one of Toronto’s electronic music scene’s best events. “Promise” is [...]
Night of Dread 2011
Part of my job at Clay & Paper Theatre was producing their yearly festival of facing fears: an invitation to the community to name and mock our private and collective fears. As it was the 12th year this event has been done, it is well known and loved in Toronto’s west side, attended by about [...]
The Pedaler’s Wager
In 2011 I was the Artistic Producer at Clay & Paper Theatre, an internship funded by the Metcalf Foundation. The Pedaler’s Wager was our big summer show, the culmination of 3 years work developing the “Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad.” I co-wrote, designed & directed this musical show in several versions. We did it mostly in [...]
Heads Up for Fall 2011
With the summer’s hectic schedule behind us, and as I’m on a most unusual 2 week vacation right now, it’s time to consider the future. Here’s a quick update on my upcoming projects. On October 29th Clay & Paper Theatre presents the 12th annual Night of Dread in Dufferin Grove Park, which I am producing [...]
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