Laura Delchiaro
Laura is a Toronto-based costume designer, seamstress and all-around wardrobe person. Recent design credits include Gem of the Ocean (Shaw Festival), Into The Woods (YES Theatre Sudbury), Prodigal (Howland Company), La Bete, Sweeney Todd, The Judas Kiss, Into the Woods (Talk is Free Theatre). Laura spent four seasons as an assistant costume designer at the Stratford Festival, and has coordinated costumes and stitched for theatre companies, dance, and operas all across Canada. She doesn’t use social media so don’t look for her there, but you can check out Laura’s work at lauradelchiarodesign.com.
Laura Delchiaro
Costumes
Laura is a Toronto-based costume designer, seamstress and all-around wardrobe...
Sean Downing
Sean Downing is a NB based sound designer and graduate from Sheridan College. Sean is ecstatic to be a part of The Chronicles of Sarnia and The Blyth Festival’s 2023 season. Selected credits include: Ride the Cyclone, Mamma Mia!, Haunting of Hungerford House (Tweed and Co), Sense and Sensibility, Annie (Saint John Theatre Company), 99 to 1 (Badlands passion play).
Sean Downing
Sound
Sean Downing is a NB based sound designer and graduate...
Steve Lucas
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 Kin, If Truth Be Told, and A Huron County Christmas Carol. Lighting design for: Pearl Gidley, Stag and Doe, The Wilberforce Hote,; 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 four 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 three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.
Steve Lucas
Set & Lighting Design
For Blyth: Set, lights and projections for: Innocence Lost: A...
Amanda McDonnell
Amanda is a Multi-Passionate Theatre Creator, Performer and Stage Manager but overall, she is a Storyteller. Amanda tells, facilitates, and shares stories through creative approaches to bring people joy and to provide an escape from reality. She is a graduate of Brock University’s Dramatic Arts Program which is where she found her passion for both on and off stage. She also is a Co-Founder of Lumen and Jupiter Multi-Arts Company. She is thrilled to be working at the Blyth Festival.
Her Selected Stage Management Credits include: Lumen and Jupiter’s Mommy Shark (2022) and Mrs. Jaws at the Edge of the World (Workshop) (2023), Upper Canada Playhouse’s Wally’s Café (2022), Essential Theatre Collective’s John School (2022), various production’s with Yellow Door Theatre Projects’ since 2017 and Shaw Festival’s Child Supervisor for White Christmas (2022).
Selected Acting Credits include: Both Sides of the Curtain: Pilot (Web series) (Performer and Writer) produced by Suitcase in Point.
Amanda McDonnell
Assistant Stage Manager
Amanda is a Multi-Passionate Theatre Creator, Performer and Stage Manager...
Matt Murray
Matt is a Toronto-based playwright, musical theatre book writer and lyricist.
Plays include: Myth Of The Ostrich (RMTC), Remember, Maggy? (collaboration with Carol Anne Murray), Chronicles of Sarnia (Blyth Festival).
Musicals include: Maggie – Co-creator (collaboration with acclaimed recording artist Johnny Reid), Grow – Book writer (collaboration
with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal).Going Under – Book writer (collaboration with Colleen & Akiva). Matt wrote six Ross Petty Pantos: Peter’s Final Flight!,
Lil’ Red Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Carol, all at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as two digital productions: There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays and Alice in Winterland. A Christmas Carol was recorded for broadcast by CBC/Family Channel.
Instagram: @mattymurray123
Matt Murray
Playwright
Matt is a Toronto-based playwright, musical theatre book writer and...
Sandy Plunkett
Blyth Credits: The Drawer Boy (Assistant Stage Manager) The Berlin Blues and Ipperwash (Stage Manager)
Selected Credits: Orphan Song, Bunny, (Tarragon Theatre), The Fish Eyes Trilogy, Boys with Cars (Nightswimming), This, Flood Thereafter, (Canadian Stage Company), Dividing Lines, Madre, (Aluna Theatre), Public Servant, Weather the Weather, (Theatre Columbus / Common Boots), Gladstone Variations, Yichud (seclusion) (Convergence), The Silicone Diaries (Buddies in Bad Times), and 7 summers with Dream in High Park. Sandy is the great-grandson of Morley Plunkett of the almost forgotten WW1 Canadian Vaudeville Troupe, The Dumbells.
Sandy Plunkett
Production Stage Manager
Blyth Credits: The Drawer Boy (Assistant Stage Manager) The Berlin...
Miles Potter
Miles has been connected to the Blyth festival since its inception. He has acted on its stage and directed such shows as Innocence Lost, Stag and Doe, and The New Canadian Curling Club among many others. He has worked at virtually every Canadian theatre including numerous shows on all of the Stratford Festivals stages. He is pleased to be back at Blyth with a few old friends and some new ones.
Miles Potter
Director
Miles has been connected to the Blyth festival since its inception....
Jennifer Stobart
A veteran of live theatre, having stage managed over 170 professional productions, in theatres both grand and modest, Jennifer has toured coast to coast in Canada and the United States several times, as well, travelled to Dublin, Ireland, London, England, Sydney, and Perth Australia, and Edinburgh, Scotland. Most recently, she stage managed The Christie Pits Riots with The Hogtown Collective, The Land Acknowledgement with Mirvish Productions, As You Like It, a Radical Re-telling by Cliff Cardinal in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Peterborough, and, Ottawa, our place with Cahoots Theatre & Theatre Passe Muraille, huff with Neptune/Prismatic Theatre in Halifax, Dreaming Roots with The Yukon First Nations Arctic Arts Summit, in Whitehorse. As always she sends her love to her Mom, her adventuring travelling companion.
Jennifer Stobart
Stage Manager
A veteran of live theatre, having stage managed over 170...