| MAY, 2006 |
| Catching up with MATT OUIMET MATT is drummer in the Ana Miura Trio, voted best singer /songwriter in the Ottawa Xpress, Debut EP Tenacious Heart. The CD release is slotted for Friday June 24th at Zaphod's in Ottawa!!! The band plays at the Black Sheep Inn, July 28.. MATT plays with Ana Miura and
The Matt Ouimet Band at Café Dekcuf May
27. Also May 26, MATT is the special guest singer/ songwriter With Ana Miura in Perth at The Factory Grind. MATT played with The Golden Seals in March at Babylon in Ottawa. |
| Catching up with TYLER WESTERLUND: TYLER is in a new commercial for Dasani water. TYLER has written a song, and you can hear him sing on the new Cowbell CD, Casa Diablo! Out soon! TYLER is touring Canada and then Europe( in July)
with White Cowbell Oklahoma: |
| Raoul Bhaneja hosts The Harold Awards and plays with Raoul and the Big Time, at the Lula Lounge, Toronto, Mon., May 29, 8 pm, $10. ($12 @ the door.) |
| Thanks to STEVE FISHER and his Toronto updates for the following Toronto comedy news: |
| REBECCA KOHLER hosts The Good Show, Wed., May 31, The Concorde Cafe, Toronto, 8:30 pm, $5. |
| JEN GOODHUE improvises with Monkey Toast, special guest Jake Gold, Sun., May 28, The Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen St. W. TO), 8 pm, $PWYC. |
| Catch 23 Improv: This week, the line-up is mysterious, but I suspect Kurt Smeaton and Rebecca Kohler will be returning to defend their newly minted trophy... With the keyboard accompaniment of Chris Tindal, and incidental tunes from yours truly, Mon. May 29, the Renaissance Room (Clinton's Tavern, 693 Bloor St. W.), 9 pm, $5 www.catch23improv.com |
| Catching up with JAMIE FRANKLIN in Eastern Europe:
JAMIE is on her three-month Erasmus exchange at the National Theatre School of Slovakia in Bratislava (an hour from Vienna and three from Prague.) JAMIE is studying with Peader Kirk who has worked and trained with Robert Lepage, and Eugenio Barba, and is second-generation trained by the students/teachers of Meyerhold and Michael Chekhov. JAMIE has just finished a show, The
Innocent, in Bratislava, with Aktivna Gruppa.
http://www.aktivnagruppa.com/ |
| NEIL SMITH is writing and performing sketch comedy every month at The Brunswick House in Toronto, with The Troope. |
Hey everyone – there is a new working bulletin board on
the Contacts page (and a link to it on
the right of this News Page - see "Message Board"). |
| KURT SMEATON and Graham Wagner play against Atlanta and Winnipeg, at the Tournament of Wonders in the first night of improv competition, Wed., May 1, The Distillery's Cannery Studio, Toronto, 8pm, $6. |
| MATTHEW EDISON is playing at the National Arts Centre in The Real Thing, May 10 - 27, and in Toronto at Soulpepper’s Young Centre, June 10 – July 29. Directed by Diana Leblanc, featuring Matthew Edison, Megan Follows, C. David Johnson, Jeff Lillico, Kristina Nicoll, Albert Schultz |
JESSE BUCK : Theatrophy presents The
Epoch of Coming and Going, “a dark physical
comedy,” at the University of Ottawa, May
9-13, 2006, 8:00pm, Academic Hall, 135 Séraphin-Marion Tickets
$15.00, 2 for 1 on opening night. |
ROBERT ROSS PARKER has a new show, Living
Dead in Denmark, with the Vampire Cowboys,
MAY 4-21, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 8 pm., $18.00.
Center Stage, New York |
RAOUL BHANEJA and Birgitte Solem are working
at the Banff School of Arts in Banff in May. ( Banff playRites Colony
2006) |
| STEPHANIE MOORE heads back to LA for June. |
MAUREEN WELCH and DEREK CARKNER read in the Sprocketts Film Festival in Toronto. |
Congratulations to MATTHEW GODFREY who is starring in Blocked, a feature film that premiered in March as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival at the Arclight Theatre on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Watch the trailer at www.blockedthemovie.com |
| TYLEY ROSS announces a show May 4 - East Village Opera Company, Irving Plaza, New York, N.Y., 8:00pm |
| DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants
have recently been included on a compilation disk called Shite
'n' Onions Volume 2- What the Shite?! http://www.thetownpants.com/ |
| BRIAN FROMMER is teaching workshops in playwriting, and working as a scenic artist full time in Kingston. |
DEREK CARKNER invites you to listen to his new
podcast about Reality TV, Idol Chatter,
available through itunes, or www.idolchatter.org
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| TRISHA ALLISON has a dance show in May in Montreal. |
JESSICA HOLMES plays Kim Vegas in Citizen Duane, a Telefilm movie directed by Michael Mabbot, due this spring |
| Design U is hosted by Maureen
Welch, now MAUREEN ROSS NEILSON on HGTV.
To see when the episodes air, http://www.hgtv.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=84027 to read about Maureen, http://www.hgtv.ca/ontv/hostdetails.aspx?hostid=39594 |
STILL HAPPENING: |
| STEPHANIE MOORE in G-Spot, TMN. |
| MAUREEN WELCH (MAUREEN ROSS NEILSON ) hosts Design U, HGTV, Mondays,Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. |
| VIK SAHAY,This is Wonderland, CTV. |
| JESSICA HOLMES on CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce. |
JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV |
KURT SMEATON improvises at Clinton's, Toronto,
Monday nights. |
| MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver, producing and writing Stargate: Atlantis, and writing for Stargate SG-1. TMN. |
| STEVE FISHER emails his list and recommendations
for what's on in Toronto, Gracing The Stage,
to anyone who asks for it. Steve, who follows current music with a
passion, also provides incidental music for Clinton’s improv
on Mondays. steve@gracingthestage.com. |
| ADAM DENAULT hosts his own show on CKCU radio, Tuesday Overnighter , airing alternate Wednesdays, from 2AM to 7AM. |
CD's to buy: Jessica Holmes, 25 Laughs To The Gallon. http://www.airfarce.com/info/25laughs.html Duane Keogh:
The Town Pants, Weight of Words Tyler Westerlund:
White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro
Blanco
Tyley Ross:
East Village Opera Company, East Village Opera Company |
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