Wednesday, June 11th

Musical Theatre - Adults

Adjudicator: Ian Simpson

Musical Theatre - Adults

Ian has been a professional musical theatre performer for over 35 years and is currently the Canadian regional rep for Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance. He is a graduate of Queen's University (Bachelor of Music in voice) and Sheridan College (Diploma in Music-Theatre Performance). He has been on faculty in the Music Theatre - Performance department at St Lawrence College since 2014 and has been a voice teacher at Sheridan College in the Music Theatre Performance program.

Over the years, Ian has performed vocal styles from Operetta to Pop/Rock. His vocal pedagogy studies include NATS Conference (Chicago), Penn State Vocal Pedagogy (Mary Saunders-Barton, Bel Canto, Can Belto), Somatic Voicework TM (Levels I, II, III with Jeanie LoVetri), Soul Ingredients TM (Dr. Triniece Robinson- Martin, Princeton University), Boston Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy (Kevin Wilson, Jared Trudeau), and Rock the Audition Teacher Training (Sheri Sanders). He continues his studies of contemporary commercial voice with such courses on Belting, Training Transgender Voices, What is Mix?, Voice Acoustics, and Vocal Health and Pathologies.

As an actor/singer Ian has worked at such theatres as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, Charlottetown Festival, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and played Harry Bright in US National Tour of Mamma Mia! where he toured to over 144 cities across Canada, the US, and Mexico. He has worked with Tony nominated directors Frank Galati, Susan H. Schulman, Gary Griffin, Brian Macdonald, and Brian Bedford; Olivier nominated director Phyllida Lloyd; and esteemed Canadian directors Donna Feore, Robert McQueen, Jackie Maxwell, Christopher Newton, and Richard Monette. He has sung internationally with The Orchestra Japan across Japan and Taiwan. You can also see him in guest starring roles on CBC's Diggstown and Murdoch Mysteries.

Location

St. James-Rosemount United Church
171 Sherwood Ave.
Kitchener, ON N2B 1K2

Musical Theatre - Adults - Ages 29 and Above - Afternoon

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:1:00 PMName:Tania GauderTitles:
I'll Follow My Secret Heart, Conversation Piece by Noel Coward
Funny, My Favourite Year by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis
Time:1:15 PMName:Amanda SmartTitles:
My New Philosophy, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown by Andrew Lippa
On My Own, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis
Time:1:30 PMName:Debbie SousaTitles:
She Used to be mine, Waitress by Sarah Bareilles
Morning Person, Shrek by Jeanine Tesori
Home Festival:Oakville
Time:1:45 PMName:Suzette BeaugrandTitles:
Send In The Clowns, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
Memory, Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Home Festival:Hamilton
Time:2:00 PMName:Stephen BestTitles:
C'est moi, Camelot by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Bring Him Home, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Home Festival:Guelph
Time:2:15 PMName:Luke LopezTitles:
You'll Be Back, Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
You Will Be Found, Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Home Festival:Toronto
Time:2:30 PMName:Kristina BergeronTitles:
Gimme Gimme, Thoroughly Modern Millie by Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan
Defying Gravity, Wicked by Stephen Schwartz
Home Festival:Newmarket
Time:2:45 PMName:Cameron GilroyTitles:
Any Dream Will Do, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber
If I Can't Love Her, Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical by Alan Menken
Home Festival:Toronto
Time:3:00 PMName:Celine KhouriTitles:
Dyin' Ain't So Bad, Bonnie & Clyde by Frank Wildhorn
My Days, The Notebook by Ingrid Michaelson
Home Festival:Niagara

3:30 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners - MANDATORY

Workshop will be held from approximately 3:30 to 4:45 pm.

Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.