Talent Bank Stage Management

Theatre Ontario's Talent Bank matches educational and community organizations with professional theatre teachers and trainers for workshops, adjudications, and short-term consulting contracts.

The Stage Managers listed in our Talent Bank are professionals interested in travelling to your community.  Contact Theatre Ontario at 416-408-4556, info@theatreontario.org to get in contact with a particular Stage Manager.

Kate Greenway
Kate is an Equity Stage Manager who has worked for major theatre companies across Canada for over ten years, including Tarragon Theatre, CanStage, Theatre New Brunswick, Huron Country Playhouse, Lighthouse Theatre, Muskoka Festival, Young People's Theatre, and the Manitoba Theatre Centre, as well as spending several seasons with the Stratford Festival.  She has experience in regional and school touring, as well as stage managing both small and large productions across the spectrum, from musicals to the classics.  As an experienced freelance stage manager who also has also worked as a designer, director and scenic artist, Kate has given workshops for Association of Community Theatres - Central Ontario, Theatre Aurora, and has led seminars in both stage management and design for the University of Western Ontario, OISE, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Ryerson.  She also developed and taught the intensive Stage Management course for Theatre Ontario's Adult Summer Institute at Brock University.  Kate graduated cum laude with an Honours Fine Arts Degree in Theatre Production from York University and has a B.Ed. from the University of Western Ontario.  Since 1992 Kate has been Head of Drama at Holy Trinity School, where she has directed and produced over twenty-five major productions.

Marilyn Lawrie
Marilyn is a skilled entrepreneur with over thirty years experience as an arts marketer, administrator, consultant and trainer, having worked for Quinte Symphony, the Quinte Arts Council, Sheridan College's Faculty of the Arts, Loyalist College and the Living Arts Centre.  As an Equity stage manager, she has worked for Drayton Entertainment, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Manitoba Opera, Theatre Collingwood, Stirling Festival Theatre and Opera Saskatchewan.  Marilyn, a former President of Theatre Ontario, has been a proud member of the Talent Bank for 16 years.  Her workshops in production, stage management, marketing and board development have taken her across the province where she has had the pleasure of working with many community theatre groups including: Woodstock Little Theatre, Take Two Theatre, Kanata Theatre, South Simcoe Players, The Curtain Club and the Belleville Theatre Guild.  Volunteer commitments currently include chairing the program advisory committee for Sheridan College's Technical Theatre program as well as sitting on the Theatre and Drama Studies advisory committee for U of T/Sheridan College.  Marilyn holds a B.A. in Fine Arts Studies (Theatre major) from York University and a Media Arts/Theatre diploma from Sheridan College.  In July 2008, she starts a new job as Opera Lyra Ottawa's Director of Production.

Thomas Schweitzer
Tom is a graduate of University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music and a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.  He has worked as a director for Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Childrens Opera Chorus and Opera Piccola, Victoria, Woodstock Little Theatre, The Yorkminstrels, and Scarborough Music Theatre; and as a Stage Manager for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, National Arts Centre, Muskoka Summer Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and Dalhousie Arts Centre.  Since 1990, he has worked as Director of Production for Opera Ontario (Opera Hamilton).

Cindy Smith
Cindy is a graduate of Ryerson’s Theatre/Program Program.  She has worked as a Production Stage Manager for Stage West Dinner Theatre for productions of They’re Playing Our Song; California Suite, Romance, Romance; and as the Production Manager at Bathurst St. Theatre for Six Women With Brain death or Expiring Minds Want To Know; and The Rocky Horror Show .  Cindy has worked as a Stage Manager with Centaur Theatre and Kawartha Summer Theatre.

David L. Smith
David is currently on the production staff of Kingston's Grand Theatre. He also serves as Production Manager for the Kingston Symphony and Lighting Designer/Stage Manager for the Quinte Ballet, a residential professional school in Belleville. He has worked professionally in the performing arts for over 35 years as a lighting designer, set designer, stage technician, technical director, administrator and consultant. Organizations worked for include the Douglas Burns Clarke Theatre of Concordia University, Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre London, The Inner Stage, Talbot Theatre of the University of Western Ontario, The Sunshine Festival of Orillia, The Thousand Islands Playhouse, Theatre St. Lawrence, Spindrift Dance Theatre, the Kingston Summer Festival, Hope Theatre, Theatre Five and Bottletree Productions. He has designed lighting for over 120 productions of theatre, opera, variety and dance in professional and community theatre situations, and has been particularly successful at achieving results in theatres with limited resources. From the start of the process in 2004, David enjoyed a close collaboration with the architects, theatre and acoustic consultants on all phases of the 17 million dollar restoration of Kingston's historic Grand Theatre, from 2006 to 2008 acting as supervisor of theatre services for the City of Kingston.

John Snowdon
Operating his theatrical activities under the banner of The Theatre Downstairs, John is a producer, director, actor and designer of numerous stage productions. John was the founding Artistic Director and Manager of Theatre on the Grand, Fergus, working there for five years before moving on. He continues to operate a dinner theatre, Theatre In The Trees in the Arboretum at the University of Guelph, which he founded 18 years ago. As producer and director, he also stage manages productions for touring in Ontario. When time permits, he will adjudicate, production consult, and give theatrical workshops.

Dr. Ross Stuart
Former Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Atkinson College; Chair, Department of Theatre, and Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Ross is an experienced theatre director and academic.  He has taught everything from acting and directing to stage and lighting design and playwriting, from Shakespeare to musicals.  Currently his concentration is on improvisation and playmaking, helping groups create theatre from a variety of sources.  Ross has also adapted and directed works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Louisa May Alcott, Shel Silverstein and Stephen Leacock for educational theatre.  His publications include a book on prairie theatre and studies of the Stratford Festival, summer theatres, Canadian musicals and post-secondary theatre for various reference books.  Ross has adjudicated frequently for Theatre Ontario and recently directed The Miracle Worker (Thistle Theatre, Embro), developed a new high school play (title to come) and delivered a lighting workshop in Brampton.