This blog is maintained and updated by an international group of Theatre Artists.

They include:

CANADA:

Simon Ogden

Simon is a founding member and writer-in-residence of Lyric Stage Project. He has been producing, directing, and acting in independent stage productions for a while now, and is hell-bent-for-leather to keep the ball rolling.

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Twitter: @thenextstagemag

Rebecca Coleman

Rebecca is an actor, writer,  and blogger. She does Theatre Publicity for a living, under her company, Rebecca Coleman, Marketing and Media Relations.  She is passionate about helping artists to become better business people. Rebecca lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, with her five year old son and two cats.

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Twitter: @rebeccacoleman

Lois Dawson

Lois is a Vancouver based stage manager & blogger. When she’s not sitting in a tech booth or behind a computer, you can find her with a cup of tea and a good book.

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Twitter: @SMLois

USA:

Nick Keenan

Nick is a  production manager, sound designer, and webmaster, who currently calls New Leaf Theatre home. His over 100 sound design credits in Chicago include work with Dog & Pony, the side project, Greasy Joan & Co., the Neo-Futurists, Metropolis, Raven, Apple Tree, Rivendell, A Red Orchid, and assistant designs at the Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare. Nick is a long-time faculty member at “Cherubs,” and is a sound operator at the Goodman Theatre. Nick’s online innovation projects for theater include the national job search page Backstagejobs.com, the Chicago Theater Database, and his blog, Theater for the Future. Nick earned a B.A. in Theater from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Twitter: @NickKeenan

Travis Bedard

Travis Bedard is a proud theatre poly-hyphenate plying his trade in Austin, Texas. He arrived in Austin from New Hampshire by way of San Francisco in 2004 following his now-wife as she pursued her Masters Degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Now the Artistic Director of Cambiare Productions, an independent theatre company focused on collaborative, derived, and new media works (especially if we can do it to classics) he produced Transformations, a design-as-performance piece based on the poetry of Anne Sexton conceived and directed by Megan Reilly. Cambiare Productions will next be on stage with Orestes in July 2009, with several smaller programs also coming this year.

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Twitter: @travisbedard

Jessica Hutchinson

Jessica is the Artistic Director of New Leaf Theatre in Chicago. Jessica holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. After working in the Education Department at the Goodman Theatre, she served as Learning Programs Manager at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and joined the faculty at the National High School Institute (“Cherubs”) at Northwestern University last summer.

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Twitter: @JessHutchinson

UK:

Andrew Eglinton

Currently based in London, Andrew is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching documentary drama; he also works at Rose Bruford College.

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Twitter: @londontheatre

Australia:

Kate Foy

Kate Foy has been working in the professional theatre since graduating in 1971 from the Toynbee School of Drama in London. Her professional career in the theatre has been spent mostly as actor and director in Australia. She has worked with some of the country’s leading performance organisations including the Queensland Theatre Company, New England Theatre Company and the ABC. She has also worked in the US with the Kennedy Theatre in Honolulu.  She holds a Masters degree in English Literature from University of New England, and a PhD from University of Hawaii.  Her doctoral dissertation researched developments in contemporary Australian theatre.

From 1987-2008 Kate taught in the conservatory actor-training program at the University of Southern Queensland. There Kate was head of the voice and speech program and served as Director of the USQ Performance Centre, Head Department of Theatre, and Associate Professor (voice). She also directed productions for the Performance Centre and as inaugural Producer co-founded the Shakespeare in the Park Festival now in its 6th year of operation.  Kate maintains a busy schedule as an actor, coach, and voice over artist. Since 2003 she has served as the Chairman of the Board Queensland Theatre Company and as a Director of Empire Theatres in Toowoomba.

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Twitter: @dramagirl