Creative Team

Music Director; Marley, Doc

Cruickshank, Ernie, Huron County Christmas Bureau Other Theatre (Selected): Lear, Measure For Measure, The Winter’s Tale (Groundling), Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare In Love, The Taming Of The Shrew, Pirates Of Penzance, The Grapes Of Wrath, As You Like It, Jacques Brel… (Stratford Festival), Once (Neptune Theatre). Recordings: Another Street, Late, The Easy Straight, Recent Songs. Previously: Quartetto Gelato (1996 NPR Performance Today Debut Artist of the Year). More information at meanwell.ca. George is delighted to be returning to Blyth!

Playwright & Director

Actor, director, playwright, Gil has been with the Blyth Festival in some capacity or other since 1999. Outstanding shows over the years have included: Death of the Hired Man, The Drawer Boy, The Outdoor Donnellys, World Without Shadows, Pearl Gidley, The Nutalls, A Killing Snow, the Last Donnelly Standing, The Pigeon King, In the Wake of Wettlaufer, The Donnellys: A Trilogy, Saving Graceland, Radiotown: the Doc Cruickshank Story, The Wind Coming Over the Sea. Gil has been Artistic Director since 2014, and lives on a little lavender farm in Central Huron with his wife and four beautiful children. Headshot photo credit: Alex Franklin

Original Songs & Music

John Powers is a singer/songwriter living in Goderich. As a busy local performer he can often be found strumming chords and warbling at a nearby watering hole, trailer park or dive bar. As a prolific songwriter you can find his original songs on all the usual streaming platforms. As a father of six he can often be found getting someone a snack, being a chauffeur or reading a bedtime story.

Set & Lighting Designer

For Blyth: Set, lights and projections for: Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott, The New Canadian Curling Club, Test Drive and Billy Bishop Goes to War; Set and light design for: The Drawer Boy, The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, Queen Milli of Galt, The Pigeon King, If Truth Be Told, and A Huron County Christmas Carol. Lighting design for: Pearl Gidley, Stag and Doe, The Wilberforce Hotel, Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad; Set design for: Seeds. Since 1987 Steve has designed award winning sets and lighting for more than 500 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen in 27 countries around the world. Steve has received several awards including five Dora Awards for his designs. He has also been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre and thirty-six Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.

Costume Designer

What a pleasure to return to these loveable characters, Jennifer is thrilled to be part of this Blyth holiday tradition. Jennifer has been fascinated with the language of clothes since she was a teenager and the study of clothing is her passion. She is a designer, educator, creator and purveyor of costume and fashion. Find her shop, Pick a Posie Vintage, just down the street at the corner of Wellington and Queen. Drop by for a visit!

Original Sound Design

Blyth Festival Credits: The Pigeon King, The Berlin Blues, The Birds and the Bees, The New Canadian Curling Club. Other Theatre: 12th Night, Othello, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar (Stratford); Fully Committed, The Mountaintop, Art, Honour Beat (The Grand); Birds of a Feather, Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girls (Roseneath); The Normal Heart (Studio 180); The Other Side of the Game (Cahoots); 39 Steps [Dora Nomination] (Soulpepper); The Virgin Trial (GCTC); Was Spring, Communion (Tarragon); Bingo, Bang Bang (Factory); Up The Garden Path (Obsidian).

2025 Sound Designer

Adam Campbell is a Dora-nominated composer, sound designer and musician. Originally from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Adam has worked as sound designer/composer with Stratford Festival, Blyth Festival, Human Body Expression, Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Stage, Here For Now Theatre, Edmonton Opera, Capitol Theatre and more. Adam has toured and performed throughout North America as a percussionist with TorQ Percussion Quartet and Ladom Ensemble, and regularly plays in the pit for musical theatre productions with companies such as Mirvish Productions and Stratford Festival. In 2019, Adam released his debut solo singer-songwriter album, Guess I’m A People Too, featuring a mix of folk, rock and 90’s-tinged original music. Adam currently lives in Stratford, Ontario, with his wife Alice and their cats Ninja and Nazca.

Stage Manager

Jennifer is thrilled to be making her Blyth Festival debut! Selected stage management credits include: Into the Woods, Little Women, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Cendrillon, Tales of Hoffman, Giiwedin (Opera Laurier); Fully Committed, Alice in Pantoland, Cinderella (Neptune Theatre); Anne and Gilbert (The Guild Theatre); Country Legends, Dance Legends, Guys and Dolls (Drayton Entertainment); Hughie, Krapp’s Last Tape, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Stratford Festival) Education: Sheridan College (Theatre Production) University of Toronto (HBA English, Drama and Celtic Studies) Queen’s University (B Ed English and Drama), University of Guelph (MA Theatre Studies). Other Roles: Head of Props (Stratford Festival-Studio) Film/TV: Art Department: Diggstown Season 3, Moonshine Season 2.

Assistant Stage Manager

Caitlin is delighted to return to the world of A Huron County Christmas Carol! Previous selected credits include: Ransacking Troy, The Winter’s Tale, London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Rent, Chicago (Stratford); The Breathing Hole (National Arts Centre); Bluebeard’s Castle (Against the Grain Theatre); Homes: A Refugee Story, Home for the Holidays (The Grand Theatre); Cinderella: The Panto (Capitol Theatre); August: Osage County (Soulpepper). Caitlin would like to thank her friends, family, and mentors for their support!