Rachel Ganz
Producer, Playwright
Rachel is a Toronto-based playwright as well as the artistic director and co-founder of Newborn Theatre. Last year she co-created and produced The Odds and Ends Festival: A Festival of Shorts by Young Playwrights. Other production credits include The Long Run (2012) and this year's Odds and Ends. She will be attending the playwriting program at The National Theatre School of Canada in September.
Writing Credits include: The Long Run (Newborn Theatre), Plasterface (Newborn Theatre), Rhyme Reason or Otherwise (Hart House Players), Teach Me (Newborn Theatre), Manawi (Children’s Theatre Project), Benji Boy (Inspirato)
Writing Credits include: The Long Run (Newborn Theatre), Plasterface (Newborn Theatre), Rhyme Reason or Otherwise (Hart House Players), Teach Me (Newborn Theatre), Manawi (Children’s Theatre Project), Benji Boy (Inspirato)
Victoria Urquhart
Director
Emma Miziolek
Stage Manager
Selected Credits: Rhyme, Reason or Otherwise (Hart House Players), Bruised Porcelain (University of Toronto Drama Festival), Arcadia (UTM Drama Club), and Tartuffe (Sears Ontario Drama Festival), and The Teen Show Project (Bread and Circus Theatre). Emma is going into her second year at the University of Toronto Mississauga as a drama major. She has previously worked as an intern for The Oakville Academy of the Arts and John Robert Powers, both assisting lessons and administrative duties. This is her first time working with the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Steve Vargo
Lighting Designer
Steve is a recent graduate of the Theatre Production program at Humber College, and also studied theatre at George Brown College, with experience in acting, writing, and directing. His past Toronto Fringe credits as a stage manager include Bloom and War of the Clowns (2011), Transit Diaries (2012), and this year you may see Steve at the Campbell House for Elizabeth - Darcy, also part of this year's festival. Other credits include: stage manager for Should Be Theatre’s John and Beatrice at Theatre Passe Muraille, coordinating the Madeleine Collective and Musica Reflecta's Peter and the Dinosaurs, mentoring youth at the StArt Art Festival in Scarborough, and designing Something Unspoken during the Tennessee Playwright Project.
Janneke Tenbroeke
Wardrobe Designer
Kvesche
Sound Designer
Head of Audio The Crucible (2011), Performer - Marathon 33 (2012), Sound Designer - The Patient (Shadowland Theatre Summer Season Productions, Head of Props - Clown (2012), Sound Designer - Will To Live (New Voices 2012)