TORONTO 2019 CANDID CAREER CONVOSTABLE 1: MUSICAL THEATRE AND CRUISE SHIPS Allison McCaughey & David Reid

Collette “Miss Coco” Murray is a dancer, arts programmer and educator. This 2013 recipient of Canadian Dance Assembly’s I love dance Community award researches

culturally-responsive education, using her academic background in sociology, equity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity and education to create arts-based experiences. Her work calls for the inclusion of African and Caribbean diasporic knowledge and arts within communities. She taught dance abroad in South Africa and Trinidad. She performed in Senegal with Pape N’Diaye’s Les Enfants du Soleil. Previously as dance faculty for youth performance groups and community arts organizations, she owns a mobile, dance education business (www.misscocomurray.com) offering classes/

workshops, consultation and performances. As Artistic Director of Coco Collective, an intergenerational, multidisciplinary arts collective, she designs socially-engaged projects

that make cultural arts accessible to diverse sectors. She supports Cultural Pluralism of the Arts Movement Ontario as a Research Assistant and is a contributing writer of The Dance

Current magazine.

Allison McCaughey received her professional training at Sheridan College (Musical Theatre Performance) and York University (MFA - Choreography). Some professional

performance credits include the World Premiere of Sousatzka (Theatro Procinium) A Chorus Line, The Hypochondriac (The Stratford Festival), North American tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Crazy For You, Spamalot, Moon Over Buffalo (Drayton Entertainment), Elf, Mary Poppins, Cabaret (Theatre Aquarius) Chicago (Stage West Calgary) The Producers (Neptune Theatre), Les Feux Follets (Charlottetown Festival), Singin’ in the Rain (Capitol Theatre) and Featured Dancer/Singer (Norwegian Cruise

Lines). As one of the founding members of C Theatre Works, she co-produced and choreographed the inaugural production The Marathon of Hope -The Terry Fox Story

at Sheridan College’s Studio Theatre and later choreographed the first professional production. Other choreography credits include: Little Mermaid Jr, The Wizard of Oz (Capitol Theatre) The Little Prince (Creativiva) School of Rock (Bravo Academy).

TABLE 2: BUILDING A PORTFOLIO CAREER Coco Murray

David Andrew Reid is a professional musical theatre performer. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, he grew up singing his entire life and discovered theatre at the age

of 16 at the Jamaica Junior Theatre Company. Only then did he realize his love for dance and started training at 18 years old with, The Company Dance Theatre, an acclaimed modern dance company in Kingston. In 2013, David then took his dance training to Hollywood, California having been awarded a scholarship to Millennium Dance Complex. While training there, he received his acceptance letter to study at Sheridan College in Oakville, ON and graduated in 2017 with an Honours Bachelor of

Music Theatre Performance. Since being in Canada, David has performed in theatres in Toronto, Vancouver and most recently debuted at the 2018 season of Shaw Festival in

Niagara-on-the-Lake. An aspiring choreographer, David journeys next to Halifax, NS as the Dance Captain in the Canadian premiere of The Color Purple at Neptune Theatre.

Ming-Bo Lam graduated with an Honours BFA in Theatre Performance Dance, from Ryerson University, as Valedictorian. Since graduating, she has crossed the line

between classical dance genres and the commercial industry, choreographing for theatre productions and independent dance projects and commissions. Select performance credits include the Much Music Video Awards, the Toronto Raptors’ Dance Pak, and the NBA All Star Weekend 2016. Lam has extensive experience working with dance film. Her work has been featured by The Dance Current and her film If You Leave was accepted to both the Toronto International Short Film Festival

and the Utah Dance Film Festival. In addition to teaching drop-in contemporary classes at the Underground Dance Centre and Millennium Dance Complex Toronto,

Lam teaches for Dancing with Parkinson’s Canada and is certified by Dance for PD. Currently, Lam works as a freelance dancer, choreographer, adjudicator, and educator. You

can learn more about her at www.mingbolam.com

TABLE 4: COMMERCIAL DANCE FOR STAGE AND SCREEN Ming-Bo Lam

Cara Spooner is an artist working in dance, performance and theatre. Her work has been presented at Canada’s National Arts Centre, PuSH, Canadian Stage, The Goethe

Institut, Art Spin, dance:made in canada, Summerworks and Stromereien 11. She is also the Education Manager at Workman Arts.

TABLE 5: COMMUNITY ARTS PRACTICES Cara Spooner

TABLE 3: BUSINESS OF TEACHING Meaghan Giusti

Meaghan Giusti is a arts educator, choreographer, performer and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the performing arts industry. She is a graduate of York University with a Masters degree and Honours BFA in dance, and studied dance abroad at University of Chichester in England. As a performer and choreographer, she has presented work at York University, FiDA International Dance Festival, the Toronto Fringe Festival, Dance Ontario Weekend and International Dance Day at Dundas Square. As a performing arts educator and entrepreneur Meaghan’s passion lies in elevating arts education for students, artists and teachers. Starting her first performing

arts business at the age of 18, she is currently the of owner and director of the performing arts studio Broadway Arts Centre, M2 Talent Agency and Dance Educators

International. By combining her business background and formal dance education, Meaghan is thrilled to share her expertise and experience with On the Move.

TABLE 7: GETTING THE GIG IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE Nicole Rose BondNicole Rose Bond is a Toronto-based dance artist who began her formal training at York

University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Dance in 2005. Since that time, Nicole has been privileged to perform works by many esteemed choreographers including Peggy Baker, Patricia Beatty, Tom Brouillette, Susan Cash, Bill Coleman, David Earle, Danny Grossman, Ryan Graham Hinds, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Learie McNicholl, Andrea Nann, Yvonne Ng, John Oswald, Peter Randazzo and Andrea Spaziani. Nicole has taught dance classes and workshops at York University, the Toronto District School Board, and Toronto Dance Theatre. She has also served on

the Toronto Arts Council Advisory Panel and is a member of the Dance Collection Dance ‘Encore: Hall of Fame’ Committee. Nicole is beyond grateful that her vocation

encompasses doing what she loves and is humbled by the unique and beautiful Toronto arts community that she calls home.

Hanna Kiel is from Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Vancouver in 1996. She has presented her work at 12 Minutes Max, PlanB Singles and solos Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival and Pulse at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in Vancouver. In 2007, she collaborated with Yoko Ono as a dancer and choreographer at the Centre A. Moving to Toronto in 2008, Hanna has continued choreographing for: Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, Conteur Dance Academy, George Brown Dance, Ryerson Dances, School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Kenny

Pearl’s Emerging Artist Intensive, IGNITE, ProArteDanza, Ballet Jörgen, Alias Dance Project, The National Ballet of Canada, Canadian Contemporary Dance

Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in Calgary. In 2012 she won Northwest Dance Project’s ‘Pretty Creatives’ international choreographic

competition. She was an E-choreographer in 2015 for Springboard Danse Montreal and one of the choreographer at Osez 2018 in Quebec city . Hanna is the artistic director of Human Body Expression and one of the founders of “The Garage” dance development and exchange collective group.

TABLE 6: CREATING AND PRODUCING Hanna Kiel

TABLE 8: INTER-DISCIPLINARY ARTS Shannon litzenbergerShannon Litzenberger: A choreographer, dancer, producer, director and facilitator,

Shannon Litzenberger is known for creating live performance experiences at the intersection of forms. Rooted in dance, Litzenberger’s innovative collaborations come to life in conversation with theatre, literary and visual arts. Her perspective is decidedly feminist, philosophical, socially conscious and emphatically Canadian. Her roots in Canada’s rural prairies inspire recurring themes of connection to land, environment, belonging, identity and place. Her work has been presented across Canada and the US, in collaboration with some of Canada’s leading artists

including Marie-Josée Chartier, Lorna Crozier, David Earle, Noah Richler, Susie Burpee and Michael Greyeyes. She has been an invited resident artist at Banff

Centre, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre and The National Ballet of Canada. She was the first ever Arts Innovation Fellow at the

Metcalf Foundation. She is the recipient of the Jack McAllister award for accomplishment in dance, the recipient of a 2019 Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a twice-shortlisted finalist for the prestigious KM Hunter Award. Her newest production, World After Dark, will premiere at Harbourfront Centre Theatre March 6-9, 2019.

TABLE 9: WORKING ACROSS CULTURES AND ABILITIES Spirit Synott & Rachael Da Silva Gorman

Spirit Synott is an actor, dancer, and visual artists whose innovative, cross-cultural work engages our differences and our individuality as well as our commonalities. As an actor,

Spirit’s work has been featured in Degrassi, and in Jani Lauzon’s short Just One Word, which premiered at the 2017 ImagineNative Film Festival. Spirit’s dance work has been highlighted in films such as Hearts of Tango, and In Search of Joy. 2017 dance performances include the Invictus Games and the Toronto Latin American Film Fes-tival. In 2014, Spirit was artist in residence at Ryerson’s Dance Program, facilitating the choreography and performance of a work with 2nd year dance students for So-cial Justice Week. In 2009, Spirit performed in the Olympic Torch Toronto celebration.

As a dancer, Spirit has worked with Debajehmujig Theatre Group (Indigenous dance theatre); Lisandro Gomez (Argentinian Tango); Rachel Gorman (contemporary dance

theatre); Anthony Guerra (African/Caribbean folk); MUUVE (wheelchair dance); OMO Dance Company (modern ballet); (modern); Almond Small (modern); and Ronald Taylor

(African/Caribbean modern). Spirit has created and performed numerous solo works and duets with Perry Augustine and Aaron Water. Spirit’s extensive multidisciplinary arts training includes a Master of Inclusive Design and an AOCA from OCAD University. Spirit trained as an actor with Actors Equity Showcase, Toronto Theatre Alliance, Actors’ Co-op, and Sears & Switzer; and in dance with Debbie Wilson. Spirit has served on the Diversity Committee and has been elected to the Board of ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists). In 2014, Spirit was awarded the Cana-dian Labour Congress Carol McGregor Award for her disability rights activism.

Rachel da Silva Gorman is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Critical Disability Studies at York University, and an artist working in dance theatre,

performance, and curating. Da Silva Gorman’s research/creation engages theory and method from fine arts, cultural studies, and social sciences; and focuses on trans-national social movements, anticolonial aesthetics, anti-racist disability theory, and critiques of ideology. Her writing has appeared in Auto|Biography Studies, American Quarterly, Somatechnics, thirdspace, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Dis-ability Studies. Da Silva Gorman has created and choreographed 14 dance-theatre

and site-specific productions, ten of which have been remounted or screened at festivals. The Globe and Mail’s Paula Citron called Gorman’s dance theatre production

Waking the Living “compelling…a disturbing and riveting reality check” and described her site-specific production Passing Dark as a “melancholy journey… of intense sadness.”

She has been a movement director for several solo theatre artists and collectives, and she teach-es choreographic process in disability, BIPOC, and queer arts communities. Since 2009, she has been on the curatorial committee at A Space Gallery in Toronto, where she has curated four exhibi-tions, and has participated in programming six exhibitions a year. In 2017, she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for a performance-based research-creation project Year Five of the Revolution.

TABLE 10: LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA Sue Edworthy

Safiya Ricketts: As a professional singer, dancer and actor, Safiya has performed on world-renowned stages, touring to such places as Asia, Africa and Australia and South

America. She danced and sang for the prestigious Canadian productions “Generation Motown”, “TheBest of Broadway”, “Esquire Show Bar”, “The Big Bazar”, Night at the Pyramids (with Chantal Chamandy) live in front of the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Safiya per-formed as a dancer for the Commodores opening act at the Places Des Arts Theatreand was in “Guys and Dolls”, directed by Diana Leblanc in Montreal. Safiya continues

to train with top choreographers in Toronto, an Los Angeles, and has recently filmed a dance video with the LA based Author/Dancer Marjorie Goodson, choreographed by

the esteemed Frank Williams. Safiya was featured in the online publication 360 Magazine as a model and dancer for Moviemento Apparel. Safiya had the pleasure of performing at the

Los Angeles Staples Center as one of the featured dancers for the WNBA LA Sparks 2018-2019 sea-son. Safiya is currently in Toronto, working as ACTRA Toronto’s Co-Diversity Advocate. Other credits include several featured roles in television commercials and broadcasts in Canada and the US.

TABLE 12: WORKING WITH AN AGENT Sarah Matton

TABLE 11: AUDITIONING FOR COMMERCIAL GIGS Safiya Ricketts

Sue Edworthy has worked in the non-profit performing arts for nearly twenty years. Her passion for the performing arts has led her to stints as a director, event coordi-nator and arts administrator and she is now respected and sought after in Toronto as a marketing and communications specialist. Sue is a former Board Member for TAPA, worked on Artsvote 2010/14/18, and spent 2 years of a seven-year stint as Vice President of The Toronto Fringe Festival. She is a Harold Award recipient, received the 2012 and 2013 Char-PR Prize for PR, and is the 2015 recipient of the Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award for Excellence in Arts Administra-

tion. She runs Sue Edworthy Arts Planning, a marketing, producing and strategic planning company for the Toronto arts community.

Sarah Matton is the Director and Founder of 10 Talent Management. For the past nine years, she has also been successfully co-running the only agency for dance educa-

tors and adjudicators in Canada, Quick Ball Change Inc. Sarah earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ryerson University’s prestigious Theatre Dance program. She is a certified Tap and Jazz teacher under A.D.A.P.T. syllabus, and is an Associ-ate of the Royal Academy of Dance in classical ballet. After 10 years on stage as a proud Equity & Actra member performing in over twenty professional productions, Sarah decided to use her skills as an entrepreneur to transition into representation for

performing artists. Sarah is now using her experience in theatre with her keen sense of business to help actors, singers and dancers achieve their professional goals as their

agent. Her experience equipped her with the knowledge and insight has led her to open 10 Talent Management, a talent agency with a performer first approach. @10talentmanagement /

http://www.10talentmanagement.com / http://www.quickballchange.com