Toronto based Actor-Musician Donna Garner was raised on a dairy farm near Stratford, Ontario in a home filled with music. Her classical voice studies took her to Western University, The University of Toronto and to the AIMS Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
Donna works onstage as an actor, singer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist. She recently founded GTP - Garner Theatre Productions - Canada's first theatre company with a mandate to cast and celebrate Actor-Musicians in thought-provoking works.
Her performing has taken her across Canada, the U.S., Austria and Japan. Select theatre credits include Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Canadian Premiere-Crow's Theatre & Musical Stage Company); Dr. Silver (World Premiere- Musical Stage Company & Outside The March); The Sound of Music (U.S. First National Tour); Once (U.S. First National Tour, Mirvish, Neptune); Two Pianos, Four Hands (across Canada and the U.S.); four seasons at The Charlottetown festival, and roles in many other regional and summer theatres throughout Canada.
Select TV/Film credits include Mr. Monk's Last Case (Peacock/ UCP); Y;The Last Man (FX/ COLOR FORCE TV); Dare Me (USA Network); Spinning out (SVOD Series); Private Eyes (Global); Handmaid's Tale (MGM/Hulu); Anne with an E (Netflix/CBC); Designated Surviver (ABC).
When not performing, Donna works as a voice specialist for masterclasses and lectures, an adjudicator, a private voice teacher, repertoire coach, accompanist, and Music Director. She is on the faculty of the prestigious Sheridan College Music Theatre program, and is a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music.
She shares her life with her talented Actor-Muso husband Rick Hughes and their stoic mini-schnauzer Gustav Mahler (Gus).
Trinity United Church
1250 McCraney St.E.
Oakville, Ontario L6H 3K3
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Arielle Dhamija | Titles: Heart of Stone, Six The Musical by Moss & Marlow I'm Not Afraid Of Anything, Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Amelia Avdoulos | Titles: I'm Not Afraid of Anything , Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown On the Steps of the Palace , Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Colette Horsburgh | Titles: Pretty Funny, Dog Fight by Pasek & Paul Everlasting, Tuck Everlasting by Chris Miller | Home Festival:Peterborough |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Sophie Mulvey | Titles: Right Hand Man, Something Rotten by O'Farrell/Kirkpatrick Who Will Love Me As I Am, Side Show by Russell/Krieger | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Aniela Stanek | Titles: Goodnight My Someone, The Music Man by Meredith Wilson I'd Rather Be Me, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Audrey Cheng | Titles: Unusual Way, Nine by Maury Yeston Times are Hard for Dreamers, Amélie by Daniel Messé | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Jamie Collin | Titles: Sunday, Tick Tick Boom by Jonathan Larson Try Me, She Loves Me by Jerry Bock | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Olivia Packer | Titles: A Trip to The Library, She Loves Me by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick I'd Rather Be Me, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond and Neil Benjamin | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Madison Hamilton-Greener | Titles: Dead Mom, Beetlejuice by Eddie Perfect Send in the Clowns, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim | Home Festival:South Simcoe |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Camila Rodriguez | Titles: Think Of Me, The Phantom Of The Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber The Wizard and I, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz | Home Festival:London |
Time:1:00 PM | Name:Rose Stratford | Titles: In My Dreams, Anastasia by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty Calm, Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Sabrina Gallant | Titles: My Grand Plan, The Lightning Thief by Rob Rokicki Pretty Funny, Dog Fight by Pasek & Paul | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Karissa Kern | Titles: I Couldn't Know Someone Less, Daddy Long Legs by Paul Gordon Gimme Gimme, Thoroughly Modern Millie by Jeanine Tesori, Dick Scanlan | Home Festival:Lambton County |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Arianna Larson | Titles: On My Own, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schonberg No Way, Six by Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Brooklyn Chenard | Titles: Stupid with Love , Mean Girls by Nell Benjamin Till There Was You, The Music Man by Meredith Wilson | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Liam Marriott | Titles: Me, Beauty and the Beast by Alan Menken Try To Remember, The Fantastiks by Harvey Schmidt | Home Festival:Niagara |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:30 pm until 4:00 pm.
Announcement of the winners and top two competitors chosen to go to the Playoffs will happen at the end of the workshop.
The Senior Musical Theatre Playoffs will be held at Chartwell Baptist Church - 228 Chartwell Rd. - from 4:30 pm to approximately 6:00 pm.
Playoff competitors will have to travel to Chartwell Baptist Church.