The Company
We are a Montreal, Quebec based independent theatre company. Our mandate is to produce, promote, create and educate about Musical Theatre with a contemporary voice. We value the process of theatre over the product. Our focus is on exploration and discovery, the journey to the final product and collaboration of the whole artistic team. We launched in March of 2010, and our inaugural production of Reefer Madness: The Musical played to over 1,000 people in September of 2010. Our next season was followed by EDGES: A Song Cycle and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Artistic Director
Nichole George
Nichole George (formerly Carlone) is a graduate of both Dawson College and The Canadian College of Performing Arts. As an actor she toured for 3 seasons with the MSTC, bringing Shakespeare to kids across Quebec. Favorite roles include Hermia/Puck Midsummer Nights Dream, Nurse Romeo and Juliet, Adrianna Comedy of Errors, Katherine Taming of the Shrew. She has also had the opportunity to perform at The Segal Center (Pirates of Penzance, in Yiddish), The Centaur Children's Series (Three Musketeers), Mainline (The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus). She has also worked as a stage manager, dramaturg, director and choreographer. Favorite projects include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Director/Choreographer), EDGES: A Song Cycle (Director), Reefer Madness: The Musical (Director/Choreographer), Pathos, Punchlines and Painkillers (Director/Dramaturg), COBRA:The Musical (Co-Choreographer), Midsummer Nights Dream FACE 25th Anniversary (Choreographer).
General Manager
Christopher Pineda
Christopher Pineda is a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene
University in sunny San Diego, California, where he received degrees in both Theatre
and Business Administration. Notable musical theatre roles include Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown, Lumiére in Beauty and the Beast, and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. With over eight years of performing, directing,
and producing theatre back home, his Montreal debut was as a sexy chorus boy in
Processed Theatre’s Reefer Madness. He is proud to be helping this talented young company grow into the authority on innovative quality musical theatre in Montreal.
Musical Director
Shayne Gryn
Shayne Gryn got his start in musical theatre playing bass in the Dariusz Entertainment production of The Rocky Horror Show. He has since played several instruments in numerous shows including Fame: The Musical and the Expression Theatre productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Footloose: The Musical and Westside Story. In 2008 Shayne went on to become the musical director of the highly acclaimed Village Scene Productions production of Bathhouse: The Musical. He was musical director of and recorded the soundtrack for the prize-winning Lovecraftwerk Fringe play There Will Be Lasers. He acted as musical director on Processed Theatre's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, EDGES: A Song Cycle and Reefer Madness: The Musical. Shayne also composes music for film and television, some of which can be heard on his website shaynegryn.com
