NOW PLAYING
Red Machine: Under the Knife
Saturday, April 24 and Sunday April 25, 2010.
It’s the latest phase of our continuing work-in-progress.
It’s a theatrical journey into the meat of the human mind.
Four abstractions of a single event as interpreted
by four distinct physical areas of the brain.
Be prepared for a virtual dissection, revealing how movement,
sight, sound and ecstasy can each have their own story to tell.
At HATCH emerging performance projects
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
More info and tickets here.
Red Machine: Under the Knife bios
James Cade is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Selected theatre credits include A Quiet Place (Single Threat), Salt Baby (Native Earth), Red Machine: Part One (The Room). Various film and TV credits include Dreamhouse (2011), Warehouse 13, The Listener and Spike TV’s Blue Mountain State.
Lauren Gillis is currently completing a double major in Drama and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. For the past three years, she has been working in a neurobiology lab studying narcoleptic mice. Some acting credits include Ida Methusalem in Methusalem or The Eternal Bourgeois, and Lord Chamberlain in Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (the red light district). She will be working with the red light district again this summer playing Marie in a new translation of Georg Buchner?s Woyzeck for which she is learning aerial hoop
Kristy Kennedy. A member of Toronto Dance Theatre for 10 seasons under the artistic direction of Christopher House, Kristy has performed live works by choreographers such as Sylvain Emard, Susie Burpee, James Kudelka, Heidi Strauss, Laurence Lemieux, David Pressault, Valerie Calam, Sasha Ivanochko, Michael Trent, Kathleen Rea, Jessica Runge, Dominique Dumais, Peter Chin and Roberto Campanella. She has also performed in several dance films with choreography by the likes of Robert Desrosiers, D.A. Hoskins, William Yong, Ginette Lauren and Matjash Mrozewski. As a founding member of the Full Scale Revolution, Kristy choreographed, designed and performed Home as part of their inaugural showcase. She recently curated a performance of 10 solos by emerging dancer/choreographers for the 10th anniversary of Claudia Moore’s Older & Reckless. Kristy is also a freelance photographer. And a Taurus.
Shira Leuchter is an actor and artist who has enjoyed working and collaborating with companies including Convergence Theatre, Fu-Gen, Native Earth, 6am Tango and the Young Centre/Luminato. She is an Associate Artist with UnSpun Theatre, where she has been co-adapting The Tin Drum for the stage. Her pictures and paintings have been shown across Toronto, and she has participated in annual events like Nuit Blanche and the Queen West Arts Crawl. She was most recently featured in the BravoFACT Family First. Shira is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Daniel McIlmoyl – Lighting Designer
Daniel’s design credits include The Changeling (National Arts Centre), Metamorphoses (Sheridan College), Clerambard / Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (George Brown College), Harvest (New Stages, Peterborough), and Bella Donna (Burning Passions Theatre). He has been the associate designer for My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish), Stuff Happens (Theatre180/Mirvish), and Another Home Invasion (Tarragon Theatre). He has also assisted on numerous shows over three seasons at Stratford and most recently at Theatre Aquarius on The Rocky Horror Show. Daniel has also been a tour electrician for the Atlantic Ballet Theatre Company and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks.
Leora Morris has been assistant director for the Red Machine since Part 1. In the past year, she has worked with Red Barn, 4th Line, Dancemakers, Small Wooden Shoe, Volcano, fu-GEN, and Fly By Night Theatre. This summer, she’ll be at 4th Line Theatre, choreographing and performing in both shows. She likes cookies made with millet, the Leslie Spit, waking up early, the British monarchy, ninjas, Adam Phillips, etc. When Leora grows up she wants to be a dramaturg. And a movie star. Among other things. She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and McGill University.
Thomas Ryder Payne – Sound Design
Thomas Ryder Payne is a composer, producer and sound designer. Starting as a song writer with a 4-track recorder, Thomas has followed a varied musical career including studying with composer James Tenney, recording and touring for six years with the Juno nominated band Joydrop and producing numerous records. Selected designs include: If We Were Birds (Tarragon), blood.claat (GCTC), Rice Boy (Stratford), The Tempest (CanStage), Pobby and Dingan (LKTYP), Happy Days (NAC), Madre (Aluna Theatre. Dora award for Best Sound Design/Composition), The Sheep and The Whale (Cahoots/Modern Times) bloom (Modern Times. Dora nomination), Leo (Tarragon. Dora nomination).
PJ Prudat is an actor of French, Scandinavian and Métis roots. Selected theatrical credits include The Red Machine Part I-IV (The Room), Bannock Republic (Persephone Theatre), Salt Baby (Native Earth), Quilchena (Cross Currents), A Very Polite Genocide (Native Earth), Savage (Native Earth), Emerge in Repose (Full Circle’s Talking Stick Festival), Stretching Hide (Theatre Projects Manitoba), Copper Thunderbird (NAC/English Theatre/ Magnetic North), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Edmonton Fringe), The Rez Sisters (Old Earth Productions), and How I Learned to Drive (Edmonton Fringe). ). Paula-Jean is a recipient of the National Arts Centre of Canada’s David Leighton Arts Fellowship Award.
Rick Robert’s recent credits include; Zastrozzi (Stratford Festival); Tuesdays with Morrie (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); Brutus in Julius Caesar (Citadel Theatre); Molière, John and Beatrice and Rune Arlidge (Tarragon Theatre); Fire (CanStage/Citadel); Adam Baum and the Jew Movie (CanStage); and The Anger in Ernest & Ernestine, Hotel Loopy (Theatre Columbus); The Piper, Inexpressible Island, King Lear and Hysterica Passio (Necessay Angel). Rick’s work as a playwright includes (nod), Fish/Wife, and Kite. He has also written short pieces for AutoShow and The Gladstone Variations; both for Convergence Theatre. Film and television credits include: the mini-series Z.O.S. (Whizbang Films); An American in Canada, This Is Wonderland (CBC); Traders (Global); L.A. Doctors (CBS); Jonestown: Paradise Lost (Next Films); Passage (BBC, History Channel); Bruce MacDonald’s Pontypool. He also appears in the television series, Crash and Burn (Showcase). MIMI: A Poisoner’s Comedy, a musical comedy he co-wrote with Allen Cole and Melody Johnson, premiered last fall at the Tarragon Theatre. Rick lives in Toronto and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Anna Treusch is a Toronto-based Set Designer and Scenic Painter. Her recent Credits include The City, Actors Repetory Company (Associate Designer) Night, Human Cargo (Props), Yichud, Theatre Passe Muraille ( Paints), And So It Goes, Factory Theatre ( Head of Paint and Props), Red Machine parts 1 and 2, The Room (co-Designer), Romeo Et Juliette, Opera Dublin (Studio Assistant), The Children’s Crusade, Soundstreams Canada and Luminato (Assistant Designer). Other credits are A Very Polite Genocide, Native Earth ( Costume Design), Cinderella, Randolph Academy (Set Design, Paints), Gameshow: The Musical, Theatre Engine (Set Design). Anna has worked as a Studio Assistant to Camellia Koo, Michael Levine, Leslie Travers and Gillian Gallow. Upcoming Credits: 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, Fallen Rock Productions (Set Designer).
Jenny Young is currently at the Shaw Festival in The Women and The Age of Arousal. Selected acting credits: And So It Goes and The Madonna Painter (Factory Theatre), Moon For The Misbegotten and Ways of the Heart (Shaw Festival), The Eco Show (Necessary Angel), The Penelopiad (National Arts Centre, Royal Shakespeare Co. UK), Jenny has recieved 3 Jessie nominations, 2 Dora nominations and a Betty Mitchell award for her acting. Her writing includes The Demimonde and Chasing Krinko’s (tiny bird theatre) and Off Ice (Office Play Tarragon Spring Arts Fair).
more bios to come . . .
