2026 Live Adjudicators

Donna Fletcher is an accomplished actor, singer, and concert performer with a wide range of national experience. Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received her early training in Winnipeg and earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Manitoba, a diploma in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Toronto. Donna is a celebrated teacher & professor whose mission is to mentor and lift up her students!

As an actor, Donna has been acclaimed in principle roles from east to west with the Charlottetown Festival, Drayton Festival, Rainbow Stage, Theatre Calgary, Stage West Calgary, the National Arts Centre, Manitoba Opera, MTC, PTE, MTYP, WJT, the Belfry Theatre and Persephone Theatre.

In her role as director Donna has helmed the Rainbow Stage/WSO concert presentation of South Pacific; Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods & The Sound of Music with Opera on the Avalon; Kiss Me Kate, Carousel and City Workers In Love for NUOVA; Merrily We Roll Along, The Bridges of Madison County, The Addams Family, A Man of No Importance and Sweeney Todd for Dry Cold Productions; Love, Loss and What I Wore for WJT; as well as Brundibar for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Donna conceived the WSO presentation of Send in the Clowns: The Music of Stephen Sondheim where she took the stage with TONY Award winner Len Cariou. She is thrilled to be directing Siminovitch Prize nominated playwright Bernardine Stapleton’s reimagined No Change in the Weather for Terra Bruce Productions.

Donna has recently returned to the world of film & television with roles in The Spencer Sisters, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and most recently, Hallmark’s A Magical New York Christmas.

Donna served as First Vice President & Manitoba/Nunavut Councillor for Canadian Actor’s Equity for 15 years and was inducted into the Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame in 2012.

Always seeking new challenges, she co-created Winnipeg Musical Theatre Company Dry Cold Productions which presented the Canadian Premiere of the smash musical THE PROM and is celebrating its 25th season with the Manitoba Premiere of Dogfight. Donna is a nationally respected clinician, Voice, Diction and Musical Theatre Performance & History Instructor at the University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music.

Most importantly, she is mum to Amalia.