Aisha Jarvis graduated from Sheridan College’s Bachelor of Music Theatre Program in 2015 and was a member of the Theatre 20 Conservatory Program from 2015 to 2016. She performed in Theatre Sheridan productions including Prom Queen (CMTP), Hello Dolly, Godspell, In The Heights, and Brantwood. Since graduating, other theatre credits have included Sally Styles in Hogtown, Wilhelmina in The Postman (Appledore Productions) and Snow White in Snow White (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). She has been training since the age of 4 and has performed in corporate events for The United Way, TD Bank (Shaw Festival Theatre), and The Premier’s Awards Gala 2012. Some of her television credits include Breakfast Television, and a performance on ET Canada that she choreographed! Currently she is performing in the Charlottetown Festival playing Lisa in Mamma Mia and playing Prissy Andrews and understudying Miss Stacy/Mrs. Gillis in Anne of Green Gables.

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Bryan Boohoo is a playwright and director from Hamilton. Previously, his plays A Thousand Natural Shocks, Life Through Fire, and Perpetual Sunshine Machine have been seen at the Hamilton Fringe Festival.

https://www.facebook.com/BeeRightBackProductions

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Brian Morton of Theatre Erebus’ Mary, I have his Pants, Dave Brennan (@brennandavidn) of The Tragedy of Othella Moore (@othellamoore), Olivia Fasullo of Referendum Productions’ The Devil in the Details (@referendumpc), and Ryan M. Sero meet to talk about the previous 10 days of Hamilton Fringe, how their shows have been going, what challenges they have encountered and what shows they have seen.

The Devil in the Details
https://www.facebook.com/referendumPC/

The Tragedy of Othello Moore
https://www.facebook.com/othellamooreplay/

Anybody Else
http://makearttheatre.weebly.com/

Mary, I Have his Pants
http://www.theatre-erebus.ca

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Ryan M. Sero is a professional actor and writer. Past roles include Herbert Milk (A Modicum of Freedom), The Raccoon (Inbetween Places), Sancho Panza (Don Quixote), Mephistophiles (Doctor Faustus), Romeo (Romeo & Juliet: An Escapist Comedy), and Don John/ Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing).

Plays he has written include A Modicum of Freedom, Romeo & Juliet: An Escapist Comedy, The Cheese, Miracles Don’t Come Cheap, and the upcomingFor ‘Daws to Peck At – which will be part of the Pearl Company’s StaycationFestival in August.

He frequently works with Decoder Ring Theatre (an online audio drama group), Artword Theatre, and The Mysterious Players (improv murder mysteries).

He is the artistic director of Make Art Theatre.

Synopsis:

Anybody Else follows Thaddeus Blume, a would-be writer with the psychological inability to experience pleasure, as he searches for happiness and tries to figure out what’s really wrong with him. He’s having a hard time at work and in his love life, so when he meets Sigmund Freud himself at an art gallery, Thaddeus tries to get to the bottom of all his problems.

A comedy about love, life, happiness, and cough drops.

http://makearttheatre.weebly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/make.art.theatre

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Brian Morton of Theatre Erebus’ Mary, I have his Pants, Esther Huh (@esthuh) and Dave Brennan (@brennandavidn) of The Tragedy of Othella Moore (@othellamoore), Olivia Fasullo of Referendum Productions’ The Devil in the Details (@referendumpc) meet to talk about the first two days of Hamilton Fringe, promoting at the Fringe, what they’ve seen and looking a head for the rest of Fringe.

The Devil in the Details
https://www.facebook.com/referendumPC/

The Tragedy of Othello Moore
https://www.facebook.com/othellamooreplay/

Mary, I Have his Pants
http://www.theatre-erebus.ca

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Jessica Anderson is an arts administrator, playwright and all-around theatre enthusiast. She has several years of administrative experience having previously worked for the Living Arts Centre, the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation, the Ottawa Little Theatre and Pat the Dog Theatre Creation. Jessica studied drama and English literature at Queen’s University and Scriptwriting at Algonquin College. Jessica’s first full-length play, My Purple Wig, has been short-listed for several awards and premiered Off-Broadway at the Lion Theatre in November of 2013. She was the recipient of the 2012 RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Award for her play The Gods and Calvin Brewer. Her most recent play, A Different Kind of Job, premiered as part of the TA2 Studio Series at Theatre Aquarius.

http://hamiltonfringe.ca
Twitter: @HamOntFringe

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The week 1 Toronto Fringe Roundup with producer of Damn Tank (@damntankTO), Laura McCallum (@lauramcsee), Nisha Coleman (@NishaColeman) of Self-Exile, David Kingsmill (@dragonliterate) of Romeo and Juliet Chainsaw Massacre (@RJMassacre), and Gillian English (@gillian_english)joined host, Phil Rickaby on a slightly windy morning on the second last day of Toronto Fringe, to continue the conversation about Toronto Fringe, how their shows have been going, what they’ve seen and their favourite Fringe moment of Toronto Fringe 2016. Recorded Saturday, July 9 2016 @ 10AM

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Following their 2015 Fringe hit SwordPlay (Winner, Just For Laughs Best Comedy Award), Sex T-Rex is raising the bar with their most ambitious show yet. Masters of genre parody, this year their sights are set on Post Apocalyptic mayhem in Wasteland. This action-packed thrill-ride makes its Toronto premiere at the Randolph Theatre from July 1 to July 9, 2016.

Also joining in: Kyle Allatt of The House of Style’s The No Bull$#!% History of Invention also playing at the Toronto Fringe.

Sex T-Rex
https://sextrexcomedy.com/
@sextrex

Kyle Allatt
http://the-house-of-style.tumblr.com/
@houseostyle
@KyleAllatt

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The week 1 Toronto Fringe Roundup with producer of Damn Tank (@damntankTO), Laura McCallum (@lauramcsee), Nisha Coleman (@NishaColeman) of Self-Exile, and Scott Garland and David Kingsmill (@dragonliterate) of Romeo and Juliet Chainsaw Massacre (@RJMassacre) joined me bright and early on Saturday morning (by Fringe standards) to talk about Toronto Fringe, what they’ve seen, what they are looking forward to seeing and much more. Recorded Saturday, July 2 2016 @ 10AM

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Shira Taylor is a performer, director, producer, and doctoral candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T. For her dissertation, she created SExT: Sex Education by Theatre to explore the use of theatre for sexual health education among youth in Toronto’s Thorncliffe/Flemingdon Park. Shira obtained her BSc. (Psychology) and MSc. (Epidemiology) from Queen’s University, where she performed with Queen’s Players, Queen’s Musical Theatre, and Existere, and co-founded and directed the social action theatre program, Excetera. Shira and her puppet doppelganger Lucy perform with the multiple award-winning theatre company, Shakey-Shake and Friends, which uses puppets and popular culture references to make Shakespeare accessible to young audiences. She also works with Indigenous girls in the Northwest Territories as Evaluation Consultant and Drama Facilitator with FOXY and is a Research Coordinator at SickKids on the cross-Canada, Art for Social Change (ASC!) project, working closely with artists and change-makers to further the use of the arts in social justice agendas.

SExT: Sex Education by Theatre empowers youth from a community where sexuality is a cultural taboo to take centre stage. SExT is a collaboration between Toronto theatre artists and a diverse group of youth from Flemingdon and Thorncliffe Park – two immigration destinations in Toronto and the recent hub of protests opposing sex education reform in the wake of the first curriculum update since 1998. Check us out at the Toronto Fringe and SummerWorks 2016 to hear what these youth have to say about growing up in the age of cyberbullying, sexting and rape culture. It’s time to let TEENS give THE TALK!

www.sexeducationbytheatre.com
SExT Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP6RQkx0yA
SExT @ Toronto Fringe: http://fringetoronto.com/fringe-festival/shows/sext/
SExT @ SummerWorks: http://summerworks.ca/2016/artists/sext/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sextedshow
Twitter: @SExTEdShow #SExTEd
Instagram: @SExTEdShow #SExTEd

Twitter: @ShiraTaylor
Instagram: @theshirataylor

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