Creative Team

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.

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. 

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.

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.