Board Members:

Peter McKinnon
(President),Mark
Melymick, Merlene
Samuel-Cephas,
Steve Fishman,
MaryClaire Odorico
Janet Shacter

Bios

Alex Karolyi - Artistic Producer and Founder

Recently Alex produced the Canadian debut of David Wiltse's The Good German.

This 2009 production coincided with Holocaust education week and played to over 900 high school students in the area. In 2008, Vittorio Rossi’s Ontario debut of Paradise By The River was produced at The City Playhouse Theatre in Vaughan.

Alex is also the creator and producer of an ongoing series called
Plays In Cafés, which features new scripts read by professional actors in cafés across York Region.

In 2007, Alex was the Festival Producer of Playwrights Of Spring and later that year became the Interim General Manager of Resurgence Theatre Company’s York Shakespeare Festival.

Playwrighting credits include:

  • Zigga, (Scripts In Progress, Theatre Etobicoke, Spotlight Theatre, Toronto Fringe Festival 2003 and The Poor Alex Theatre)
  • Angelic Li(v)es, (The Arts and Letters Club, The Poor Alex Theatre)
  • Astray, (The Arts and Letters Club)
  • Deadman, (Alumnae Theatre's New Idea's Festival, Brampton's New Works Festival, The Centre for the Arts)
  • and Broken Record (The Toronto Fringe Festival 2006).
In April 2006, Alex received Second Place for her play, Ruffians in Theatre In The Raw’s 4th Biennial Play Writing Contest which was produced in Vancouver by the same company in 2006.

In 2008 she won 3rd place for Dystopia in the same contest.