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Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects, established in 2002, is a fully incorporated, not-for-profit, registered charitable organization.
MISSION AND MANDATE
Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects is a catalyst to connecting community, and theatre, through its various manifestations can make this happen.
Audiences, program participants, students, and artists - both emerging and professional - share experiences that explore and celebrate universality, as well as the diversity of what it means to be human.
The best theatre is made of stories about fascinating individuals, told by exceptional artists who offer us the courage to take action to heal the past, the desire to be conscious in the present and the hope to look forward to the future.
This is what Lyndesfarne offers its audience.
Create
Connecting community through creativity
Educate
An invitation to learn
Inspire
Whatever you can imagine
Background
Kelly Daniels and Ric Reid met while acting in Tennessee Williams classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, produced at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Ric Reid is one of Canadas most highly respected and acclaimed actors whose thirty year career has taken him from coast to coast across Canada and the United States. As a Shaw Festival ensemble member in his sixth year, he is acting in Shaws In Good Kind Charles Golden Days, and The Entertainer, by John Osborne. Kelly Daniels' career spans twenty years as a professional director, actor, educator, and presently, she serves as the Artistic Director of Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects. Shortly after completing her internship with the Shaw Festivals prestigious Directors Project, Kelly approached Ric with a vision to make theatre a community experience that engages professionals, students, and the community at large, and thus Lyndesfarne was born.
Now a fully incorporated, not-for-profit, registered charity, Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects is setting the stage for its fifth season. We begin with our third annual four-day festival Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups (aka Downtown Reading Festival), an entertaining mix of readings and performances by some of Canadas finest professional actors.
Our main stage season 2009 2010 opens with Martin McDonaghs The Beauty Queen of Leenane, featuring Jenny Phipps, Graeme Somerville, Craig Pike and Kelly Daniels, and directed by Donna Belleville. This will be followed by Stephen Mallatratts The Woman in Black, a classic and disturbing ghost story featuring Ric Reid and Jon Osbaldeston, directed by Kelly Daniels. Last years successful season began with Michel Tremblays Albertine in Five Times, and closed with an American classic from one of their finest writers, David Mamet, and his edgy and gritty American Buffalo. Over the past few years, we have produced highly acclaimed productions of Eugene ONeills Hughie, Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A.R. Gurneys Love Letters, and Canadian master playwright, George F. Walkers Problem Child.
What makes this company different is its inclusion of community and the passionate belief that theatre can do much more than entertain, and so was created a triumvirate approach to building a theatre company whose community outreach and educational programming is as equally important as its live theatre. Programs such as the nationally acclaimed seniors program, Grey Matters, and our Downtown Drama Drop In, after school workshops for children and youth-at-risk, are leading the way in community building.
On the educational front, Lyndesfarne engages university students in professional theatrical training and learning experiences for university course credit, one of the only professional learning opportunities for undergraduates in this country. Lyndesfarne also provides professional experience and training that assists emerging artists to enter the professional arena via Equity apprenticeships. We lead the professional theatre community in fostering artistic and creative professional development for youth and adults through our registered classes, workshops, teaching opportunities, and our Summer Intensive with internationally acclaimed guest instructors.
We look forward to seeing you at the theatre, in your school, and in our workshops!
Administration
Kelly Daniels
Co-Founder and Artistic Director
Ric Reid
Co-Founder and Artistic Associate
Kasey Dunn
Young Company Artistic Producer
Shannon Lahaie
Administrative Assistant
Victoria Williams
Publicist
Susan Dyer
Volunteer Coordinator
Danielle Wilson
Voice Coach
Matt Flawn
Lighting
Freddy Gabrsek
Sound
Christine Dief, Monica Dufault, Fede Holten-Anderson, Shannon Lahaie, Jon Osbaldeston, Jesse Reimer-Watts, Tiffany Stull, Amy Teetzel, Barbara Worthy
Instructors and Workshop Facilitators
Board of Directors
Brian Hurley
President
Vicki Little
Vice-President
Alan Dyer
Treasurer
Denis Greenall
Secretary
Chrisse Allan
Past President
Karen Wood
Advisory Group
Arthur Dalfen
Tom Richardson
THEATRE PROJECTS
Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects is an affiliate member of PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres).
LTP engages under the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional theatre artists who are members of Canadian Actors Equity Association.
Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects is an enthusiastic supporter of a new Niagara Centre for the Arts in downtown St. Catharines!
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