A View from the Box - The Podcast

Happy Holidays everyone! Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast. Inspired by my appearance on Stageworthy's year end roundup, I wanted to do a little year-end review for A View from the Box - The Podcast! My guest is very special, it's my fiance Kyle! Kyle has seen 57 out of the 146 shows I've seen this year, and we have a blast! We talk about some of our favourite shows from the year and what it's been like for Kyle to see so much theatre. We hope that you have a safe and happy holidays, and hopefully you can get out and see a show! See you at the theatre!

Well hello there! And welcome to episode 8 of season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast. Today, my guest is Clyde Wagner of TO Live! Clyde Wagner is the President and CEO of TO Live, one of Canada’s largest multi-arts organizations, which programs and operates three iconic civic institutions in Toronto: Meridian Hall, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and Meridian Arts Centre. Appointed in 2017, Clyde has overseen the merger of all aspects of the three venues—which include seven theatres and an art gallery—into one entity as TO Live. He established a purpose-driven mission for the organization focused on inclusion, diversity, equity, and access, and has spearheaded a new strategic plan centered on building creative community hubs through TO Live’s venues in downtown and uptown Toronto. Clyde oversaw a historic naming rights partnership with Meridian, Ontario's largest credit union, that included an investment of $30.75 million over 15 years to TO Live—one of the largest agreements of its kind in the arts and culture community in Canada. An internationally accomplished producer, Clyde's previous experience includes Senior Producer, Park Avenue Armory (New York). He was the first Producer and General Manager for Luminato Festival Toronto and served as Executive Producer in charge of all production until leaving the organization to join TO Live. Clyde also founded a mobile tech startup and was an Associate Creative Director for eLUXURY.com, an ecommerce platform owned and launched by LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) that was the largest luxury website at the time. Clyde received his MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and his BA from Queen's University. You can find TO Live on social media at: https://www.facebook.com/TOLivebook https://www.instagram.com/tolivegram/ https://www.tiktok.com/@tolivetok If you'd like to see Clyde's Before You Go! Episode, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hello everyone! Welcome to episode 7 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! I am thrilled to have been able to chat with one of my favourite performers, Virgilia Griffith. Virgilia Griffith is an actor based in Toronto. Winner of the Meta Emerging Artist Award for Gas Girls by Donna Michelle St. Bernard. Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Performance for Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears. She was also a Dora Mavor Moore nominee for Outstanding Female in an Independent Division for her performance of Honesty directed by Jordan Tannahill. Selected credits include: Shaw Festival 2025, Blues for an Alabama Sky and Murder-on-the-Lake, Rosmersholm (Crow's Theatre), Three Sisters (Obsidian theatre/Soulpepper Theatre, Our Place ( Cahoots/ Theatre Passé Muraille), Queen Goneril/ King Lear ( Soulpepper Theatre Company), Serving Elizabeth (Stratford Festival), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre Company/CBC Gem), Contractions (Studio 180), Guarded Girls ( Tarragon Theatre/ Greenlight Arts), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ( Soulpepper Theatre), The Wedding Party ( Crow's Theatre), Other Side of the Game (Cahoots/ Obsidian Theatre), Da Kink In My Hair ( Theatre Calgary/ Nac), Up The Garden Path ( Obsidian Theatre). If you'd like to hear Virgilia's Before You Go! Episode, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hello everyone! Welcome to episode 6 of season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Heather Marie Annis! Heather is a Toronto based actor, playwright, clown, therapeutic clown and Blue Jays fan. She is Morro of the award winning comedy dup Morro and Jasp and Co-Artistic Director of Up Your Nose and In Your Toes Productions. She will be appearing in Theatre Gargantua's upcoming production of Dissonant Species. You can find Heather on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/heathermarieannis/ If you'd like to hear Heather's Before You Go! Episode, become one of my Patrons on Patreon: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

It's spooky season! So it's only fitting that my guest this week runs the spookiest theatre in Toronto! Eric Woolfe was born the bastard child of an itinerant sideshow contortionist, and a door-to-door alienist. He began his career at the age of eight and three quarters, when a national famine forced him to follow his mother’s twisted feet into show business. Following failed careers as a learned pig tamer, flea circus promoter, and gaffed armless calligrapher, he formed Eldritch Theatre after losing a bar bet. He is now an actor, writer and puppeteer, as well as being a noted spiritualist huckster. He is often visited by the ghost of his beloved miniature schnauzer, Schubert, who offers Mister Woolfe valuable career advice, such as “You should chase more squirrels,” and “You better hide in the basement when there is thunder outside.” Mr Woolfe has my credits, projects and award nominations, but his favourite by far is George A Romero’s maritime western zombie masterpiece, Survival of the Dead. You can find him on socials at: https://www.instagram.com/ericwoolfe/ If you'd like to hear the hilarious Before You Go! episode with Eric, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hello there, dear listener, and welcome to Episode 4 of Season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast. Today's episode is just a quick chat about what I've seen this fall, what you can still see on stage right now, and what I'm looking forward to this fall. Also a Happy Thanksgiving to those of you here in Canada. I'm so thankful for all of you and for your support with everything I do. If you'd like to help support A View from the Box - The Podcast, you can become one of my Patron on Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Well hello there! Welcome to Episode 3 of Season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast. I am so happy to get to have Makram Ayache on the show today. He's chatting with me today about his new show "The Green Line" which is on right now at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, as well as his Dora Award Winning "A Witch in Algiers" and much more. Makram Ayache is a Governor General Literary Award Finalist and Dora award-winning playwright, performer, director, and producer based in Toronto. His playwriting explores representations of queer Arab voices and aims to bridge political struggles to the intimate experiences of the people impacted by them. Ayache was selected as one of six breakthrough artists in Toronto in the Toronto Star in 2023. His play, "The Hooves Belonged to the Deer" was selected as one of 10 best productions in Ontario in 2023 by the Globe and Mail and won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for “Outstanding Independent Production” in Edmonton in 2023. Previously, His Governor General nominated play "The Green Line" (Downstage and Chromatic Theatre) garnered four Betty Mitchell Award Nominations, winning two including "Outstanding New Play." Most recently, Ayache has written an adaption of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" titled "A Witch in Algiers" (Shakespeare in the Ruff)m which garnered the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2025. Alongside writing, Ayache directs, most recently directing the development showcase of "Small Gods the Musical” with Theatre Sheridan and Factory Theatre. Photo by Shane D'Costa. You can find Makram online at: https://www.makramayache.com/ And on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/m_makram90/ If you'd like to hear Markam's Before You Go! episode, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hi there everyone! It's time for Episode 2 of Season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! Today's guest is Andrea Donaldson, and we're chatting about "Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs" which opens this week! Andrea has been Nightwood Theatre’s Artistic Director since 2019. Her artistic practice has spanned over 20 years rooted in dramaturgy and directing feminist works. Directing highlights include: Mad Madge (Nightwood VideoCabaret), The Queen In Me (Nightwood, Amplified Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre Gargantua), Betrayal (Soulpepper), Every Day She Rose (Nightwood), Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre), The Taming of The Shrew (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival), Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood/Crows), Quiver (Nightwood/Buddies), Sequence (Tarragon), Romeo & Juliet (Ruff), Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon), Within the Glass - GG Nomination (Tarragon), Mistatim (Red Sky), The Atomic Weight of Happiness (Theatre Direct), and Montparnasse (TPM). Prior to her time as Artistic Director at Nightwood, Andrea ran the company’s Write from the Hip program for five years and was the Assistant/Associate Artistic Director at Tarragon Theatre. Awards: Stratford Festival’s Jean Gascon Award for Direction, nominations for the Pauline McGibbon & John Hirsch Directing Awards. Her projects have received over a dozen Dora nominations and have been awarded Outstanding Performance (Ensemble) & Outstanding Production for And By the Way, Miss (Theatre Direct). You can find Nightwood Theatre on social media at: https://www.facebook.com/nightwoodtheatre/ https://www.instagram.com/nightwoodtheat/?hl=en https://bsky.app/profile/nightwoodtheat.bsky.social If you'd like to hear Andrea's Before You Go! Episode, you can become one of my Patrons on Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hello there, and welcome to SEASON 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast. Thank you so much for coming along this journey with me and for getting us to a second season of this podcast, I'm over the moon. I'm so excited to have the legendary Brenda Kamino on the show today. BRENDA KAMINO DIRECTING: Harabogee & Me, (Shakespeare in Action); Restless Night, (Shadowpath) Eminent Domain, Half the Sky (Women at Play 5, 7); UPCOMING: Bachelor Man at Tarragon Theatre for Renaissance Theatre. ACTING – Theatre: Mizushobai (Tableau D’Hote); Carried by the River (Red Snow); Her2 (Nightwood Theatre); Rashomon and Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (Shaw Festival); Ching Chong Chinaman (fu-Gen); Nisei Blue (Alberta Theatre Projects); dreams of blonde and blue and Bachelor Man (Theatre Passe Muraille); Petra and A Secret Life (Theatre Direct); YPT’s Dora Nominated Naomi’s Road; M Butterfly (Theatre Aquarius); suicide notes (Summerworks - NOW Magazine’s Outstanding Performance); At the End of the Day, her Award winning one-woman Fringe show. Film/TV: Two seasons of CTV’s series Carter, The Glass Castle, (Lion’s Gate), Warigami, (CBC), Lost Girl, Degrassi TNG, Train 48, Forever Knight, Kung Fu, Loser, Zero Patience, Street Legal and Mr. Dressup. Winner CAEA’s LARRY MCCANCE AWARD for her work in diversity. 40 years of advocacy for non-mainstream theatre/film artists. If you'd like to hear Brenda's Before You Go! Episode, join my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

It's the final episode of Season 1 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! Thank you all SO much for your support of me and my podcast in this new journey for me! My guests today are Birgitte Solem and Robert Ross Parker of Here For Now Theatre and Hope and Hell Theatre's "Apples in Winter" Birgitte Solem has worked at theatres across the country, and has spent several seasons over the last twenty years at The Blyth Festival, including performing and co-creating The Pigeon King and as a playwright, debuting her first full-length mystery Resort to Murder, top seller of the 50th anniversary season. She is co-founder of Hope and Hell Theatre Co., starring in Disgraced (Mirvish Entertainment and The Citadel Theatre). With over 30 film and television credits, Birgitte was a series regular on Malory Towers for CBBC, appeared in the recent TIFF award winning short Motherland and for two years was the voice of Volvo Canada. You can find Birgitte on Instagram at: Instagram Robert Ross Parker Robert is a NYC based Canadian director, actor, and writer. He is the co-founder of the Obie winning Vampire Cowboys. He has directed all of their productions including Soul Samurai, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl/Battle World, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, and Revenge Song (Geffen Playhouse and Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Other directing credits include Anna Moench’s Mothers (Playwrights Realm) Vietgone (RMTC) Disgraced (Mirvish, Citadel) Fast Company (Ensemble Studio Theatre) the world premier of She Kills Monsters (The Flea) and the award winning Hamlet (solo) (Hope and Hell) which has toured for more than fifteen years playing in the US, Canada and the UK, most recently Soulpepper. You can find Robert on Instagram at: Instagram If you'd like to hear the Before You Go! Episode, become one of my Patrons and help keep this podcast going: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Well hi there! This is episode 24 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! Season 1 is winding down, but fear not! Season 2 is already in the works! This week, I'm chatting with musician and now playwright Cale Crowe. Cale Crowe is an Anishnaabe singer-songwriter from Alderville First Nation and has been performing to stages of all sizes for the last 12 years alongside acts like Ron Sexsmith, The Strumbellas, William Prince, Aysanabee, Digging Roots, and countless others. He has released three records of his own music to date: 2015’s Stars & Promises, 2017’s Til You Let Me Go, and 2024’s Burn Blue. Cale is making his playwriting debut in 2025 at The Capitol Theatre with Rez Gas, which was born out of the Theatre’s 2023 Creator’s Unit. You can often catch him performing at various bars, nightclubs, theatres, and festivals across the province. You can find Cale on social media at: https://www.instagram.com/calecrowe/ If you'd like to hear Cale's Before You Go! episode, subscribe to my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Welcome to episode 23 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! Today, I'm chatting with Praneet Akilla and Lili Beaudoin who are taking on Shakespeare's most famous lovers, Romeo & Juliet, at Dream in High Park! A mostly Vancouverite but sometimes Torontonian Lili Beaudoin is an actor, improvisor and filmmaker. Some of her notable theatre credits include Juliet in Juliet, a Revenge Comedy, Marie in The Nutcracker at Caravan Farm Theatre, Claudia in I, Claudia at The Arts Club, Mimi/scenographer in Blind Date, Brigid Blake in The Humans at Theatre Calgary, Gracie in Gracie at ATP & Belfry and Miranda in The Tempest at Bard on the Beach. Elsewhere Lili’s voice can be heard in several animated shows such as Beat Bugs, Littlest Pet Shop, Rainbow Ruby, Max Steel and My Little Pony. Lili is the Associate Artistic Director of Tightrope Impro Theatre where she spend most of her weekends strutting her stuff on stage and pretending she knows what she’s talking about. Lili is the honoured recipient of a Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Performance by a lead Actress in a Drama. Praneet Akilla is an award winning Indian-Canadian Actor & Producer best known for his leading roles on The CW’s Nancy Drew, Disney Freeform’s Motherland Fort Salem, and Netflix’s October Faction. He is currently the series lead of the Canadian Screen Award nominated medical drama Skymed on CBC Gem & Paramount Plus. Over the last 3 years Praneet has made the successful transition into producing a variety of critically acclaimed short films and digital series with his new production company Akilla Express, focusing on telling unique, genre-bending stories from a Third Culture Global Majority perspective. Most recently Praneet produced and starred in the critically- acclaimed short film “Mom vs Machine” which is currently on the film festival circuit with 6 Leo Nominations (B.C. Film & Television Awards) including Best Short Drama. With stops at Fantasia Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival, Reelworld Film Festival, and Brooklyn Horror Festival- the short film premiered on the Sci-Fi Streaming Platform- DUST in 2023. Praneet also produced a Telus Funded short film entitled Not For Us (Whistler Film Festival Premiere 2023, LA Comedy Film Festival 2023 Best Short film). He is currently in development on a TV adaptation of the celebrated Canadian novel Junie with 100 Dragons Media Inc. and a new comedy horror series called Raksha with funding from IPF & Canada Media Fund. Praneet is a recent graduate of the National Screen Institute of Canada’s Access BIPOC Producers program. Praneet is currently selected as a producer participant in the highly competitive Netflix Diversity of Voices Program as part of the 2025 cohort for emerging BIPOC creators to decision-makers at the Banff World Media Film Festival. You can find Praneet online here: Instagram If you'd like to hear their Before You Go! Episode, you can join my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

It's Episode 22 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and it's my final Fringe Feature! Today, I'm talking to Sanskruti Marathe who is performing in TWO shows at the Fringe: "At the End of Kaliyuga" and "Temple of Desire" Sanskruti Marathe is an Indian Canadian dancer, actor and writer with a BFA with Honors from York University's Acting Conservatory. Her journey in the arts began with dance, sparking a lifelong dedication to mastering both classical and contemporary forms. For over 17 years, Sanskruti has trained extensively in Indian Classical Dance, completing her Bharatnatyam Arangetram and currently pursuing her Kathak Vishaarad under the mentorship of esteemed gurus. Driven by a passion for connecting communities through culturally informed storytelling, Sanskruti’s work continues to inspire audiences of all ages, bridging the traditional and contemporary to create meaningful artistic experiences. Her notable works include At the End of Kaliyuga, a compelling solo children's theatre production that seamlessly integrates the elegance of Indian classical dance with the expressive artistry of clowning. This production was showcased at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is now scheduled for presentation at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Additionally, she co-wrote Shuth Chondi Hai (The Roof is Leaking), a thought-provoking play exploring the quiet endurance and unspoken sacrifices of Punjabi/South Asian women that hold their families together, which will be presented by Pleiades Theatre at Berkley Street Theatre. You can find Sanskruti online here: Sanskruti Marathe (@sanskrutis_adaa) • Instagram photos and videos Instagram If you'd like to hear Sanskruti's "Before You Go!" episode, you can join my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hello there! It's Episode 21 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and it's my second Toronto Fringe Festival podcast episodes! Today I'm speaking to Banafsheh Hassani and esi callender from "Regarding Antigone." Banafsheh بنفشه is an Iranian feminist artist who performs, writes, and wirghts theatre. She is a co-founder of The Sky is the Limit Theatre, a collective-creation based theatre collective aimed to tell sotries by, for and with people living in the margins. They recently completed a BFA in Performance Creation from Concordia University, where they will be starting their MA program soon to nurture their growing creative inquietude for diasporic and immigrant lives and experiences. Banafsheh is preoccupied with home, memory, dreams, identity, un/changing and relations (blood and otherwise), and all that would happen “if only home [was not] the mouth of a shark” (home, Warsan Shire). Besides theatre, Banafsheh also works as a facilitator with Quebec Writers' Federation's Writers in the Community program. esi callender is a Black feminist theatre artist and scholar based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where they co-founded the theatre collective Sort Of Productions. esi’s research deals with collaboration and solidarity where they live and in their family’s home country Ghana. You can find them online here: Instagram Sort Of Productions (@sortofproductions) • Instagram photos and videos If you'd like to hear the Before You Go! Episode with Banafsheh and esi, join my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hey there! Welcome to episode 20 of A View from the Box - The Podcast which is also my first episode featuring artists from the Toronto Fringe Festival! Today, I'm chatting with Ben Yoganathan! Ben Yoganathan is an actor, writer, composer, and director born in Sri Lanka and based in Toronto. Ben has performed in a range of acclaimed productions, including Henry Five with Driftwood Theatre, Three Sisters with The Howland Company, Behind the Moon at the Belfry Theatre, and the Dora-nominated musical Killing Time with Mixtape Project. As a composer, he’s created music for theatre and dance, including Kole Durnford’s ECHO at the Edmonton Fringe, and works featured at Fall for Dance North, Festival Quartiers Danses, and Kinetic Studio. He’s also written two full-length plays: Hunger, which premiered at the Terra Firma Festival, and ZEITGEIST, which he directed earlier this year and which is set to premiere at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. Ben recently completed a creation residency with Experi Theater in Zurich, Switzerland, where he developed and performed a one-person show. He was also selected for an international residency with Odin Teatret in Denmark. You can find Ben on Instagram at: OFF THE NOSE (@off.the.nose) • Instagram photos and videos Get all the information you need about Fringe here: Toronto Fringe | Toronto Fringe Festival If you'd like to hear Ben's "Before You Go!" segment, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Well hello there! Welcome to episode 19 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! Today's guest is the hilariously funny Mitch Wood. Mitch is an actor/comedian who has been making content the past two years but whose roots are in theatre. You've likely seen him on TikTok or Instagram with his wildly funny impressions. Those impressions range from folks in the theatre to your Starbucks barista, and all of them ring true. We talk about all this and more in this fun episode! You can find Mitch on social media at: mitch wood (@mitchwood_) | TikTok Instagram If you'd like to hear my Before You Go! Episode with Mitch, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Well hello there! It's episode 18 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! I have the immense pleasure of speaking to Devin Bell and Jesse McQueen of Wren Theatre's "Dangerous Liaisons" today! Devin Bell trained in NYC at The Tom Todoroff Acting Conservatory from 2019-2021, since then he’s acted in a variety of films, tv shows, commercials, and theatre. Devin is tremendously excited to be re-teaming with Wren Theatre for their third show together in Dangerous Liaisons. Jesse McQueen is an actor, writer, and sketch comedian. She is a conservatory graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC and has a dual degree in psychology and English language & literature from Western University. She loves being a part of stories like this one, which put it all to work! She was recently on stage with Wren Theatre in their production of Little Women. Other select past theatre credits include: Rosalind in As You Like It (Stella Adler NYC), June in JUNE (Theatre Passe Muraille at Toronto Fringe), Mackenzie in 36 Juniper (Teatro Circulo NYC), Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet (Daucus Carota NYC), and Andromache in Trojan Women (Stella Adler NYC). She is ⅓ of sketch comedy troupe Cheap Wine, most recently seen at the 20th annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival where they won the Audience Choice Award. Select film/TV: The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot (Crave), How Disney Built America (The History Channel), Haunted Museum (Discovery+), The Last Anniversary (The Butler Brothers), Unbecoming (Best Thriller TIWFF). As a screenwriter and playwright, her work has been screened and staged at venues and festivals throughout North America and the UK. She is a two-time Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist. This is Jesse’s second production with Wren Theatre, and she is honoured and excited to be a part of this incredible team telling this iconic story. You can find Devin on social media at: Instagram And you can find Jesse at: Instagram or http://www.jessemcqueen.com If you'd like to listen to Devin and Jesse's Before You Go! episode, you can join my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

It's episode 17 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and I am speaking to the sage and sensational d’bi.young anitafrika. d’bi.young is an internationally acclaimed visionary dub poet, playwright-performer, director-dramaturge, and activist-scholar, who creates, embodies, and teaches critical dub pedagogy. Culminating their PhD in Black womyn’s theatre at London South Bank University, their research centers on the epistemological, ontological, cosmological, ethical, aesthetic, and somatic emancipation of the oppressed self through theatre-making. d’bi.young developed the Anitafrika Method—a nurturant Black-queer-feminist pedagogy of transformation—offering arts practitioners globally, an intersectional framework of knowing, doing, and being. A widely anthologized Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist, three-time Dora award winner, and founding Artistic Director of Watah Theatre, Spolrusie Press, and Ubuntu Decolonial Arts Centre in Costa Rica, d’bi.young has authored twelve plays, seven albums, and four poetry collections. d’bi.young currently serves as lead faculty in the training programs of Soulpepper and Obsidian theatre companies. Having recently completed a sessional term at UVic’s Theatre Department, their current initiatives include leading the Black Womxn Theatre Digital Archive project, launching Watah Theatre’s new Black Theatre School, and preparing for the 20th-anniversary production of their multi-ward-winning Sankofa Trilogy. You can follow d'bi.young on Social Media at: Instagram Facebook If you'd like to hear by Before You Go! episode with d'bi.young you can join my Patreon here: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox

Hi everyone! It's episode 16 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and I am so grateful to have each and every one of you here along with me. Today I get to speak to the incomparable Vanessa Sears. Vanessa Sears is a Dora Award, Toronto Theatre Critics Award, BroadwayWorld Award and Critic’s Pick Award winning artist. She has starred on stages across Canada including Shaw, Stratford and Mirvish, and made her Broadway debut as an original cast member in ‘New York, New York’. Last year Vanessa starred in the Stratford Festival’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as Juliet, and made her panto debut as the Wicked Witch of the West End. Continuing to try new things that scare her, Vanessa is thrilled to be tackling her first ever solo performance in Nightwood Theatre’s production of ‘Shedding a Skin’ by Amanda Wilkin. You can follow Vanessa on social media at: Facebook Instagram If you'd like to hear Vanessa's Before You Go! episode, you can join my Patreon at: https://patreon.com/AViewfromtheBox