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SPONSOR

Studio 180 Theatre is the grateful recipient of a three-year Strategic Initiative Grant from the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation. With their generous support, we are expanding our audience reach and working to deepen our community impact, researching and implementing new electronic/digital media approaches, and piloting an innovative interdisciplinary workshop program for high school students. Thank you Metcalf for contributing to our future!

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TEAM BIOS

Jessica Greenberg

Core Artistic Team Member – Education and Outreach/Artist Educator

Jessica is a Toronto-based actor, independent theatre producer and artist educator who has worked on and off stage with Studio 180 since 2004. As an actor, she has appeared in our productions of Our Class, Parade, Blackbird, Offensive Shadows and The Passion of the Chris. As a member of the Core Artistic Team, she coordinates the company’s education and community outreach activities, creates production study guides and contributes to fundraising and board development initiatives. As part of Studio 180’s Audience Development Strategic Initiative (funded by the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation), Jessica also coordinates and helps design and pilot our Education Initiative – an innovative in-class workshop program. Her experience in education and childhood development ranges from work at the Upper West Side Jewish Community Centre Nursery School in Manhattan to running gymnastics, drama and music programs for children of all ages in Toronto and New York City. In 2004, she served as Education Coordinator for ARCfest: Toronto’s Human Rights Arts Festival. As an actor, Jessica has performed throughout Canada and the United States, most recently in Hana’s Suitcase and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, and The Middle Place for Project Humanity/Theatre Passe Muraille/Canadian Stage. She holds an Honours BA in political science and women’s studies from McGill University and completed her classical acting training at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York.

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Marsha Legault

Partnering Teacher

Marsha has been teaching Drama in the Peel District School Board (PDSB) for 18 years and is the Curriculum Head of the Arts at Streetsville Secondary School. She is a founding member of the PDSB’s symposium for students “Critical Thinking through the Arts,” founder of “Silenced Voices: Inspiring Social Change through Theatre,” adjudicator for numerous theatre groups, and a member of the educator advisory committee for Studio 180. She has been bringing students to our plays ever since The Laramie Project in 2004. In the spring of 2009, she directed her students in their own production of Offensive Shadows – a new Canadian play premiered by Studio 180 in 2008.

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Mark McGrinder

Core Artistic Team Member – New Play Development/Artist Educator

A co-founder of Studio 180, Mark is a Toronto-based actor, writer, independent theatre producer and artist educator. As a member of Studio 180’s Core Artistic Team, Mark coordinates the company’s new play development initiatives and helps design and pilot our in-school Education Initiative. For Studio 180, he has appeared as an actor in almost all of our productions and assistant directed Blackbird thanks to a Metcalf Foundation Internship Grant. He performed with The Second City and was a member of the acting company at the Shaw Festival for five seasons. His past experience as a producer and theatre creator involves several independent ventures, including a national tour of the Fringe hit Alexander Bell I Want to Have Your Love Child and the Australian premieres of The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine and George F. Walker’s Tough. His directing credits include the issue-based comedy Power Play and a workshop production of the musical Parade at the Shaw Festival. He has been head- or co-writer on several collective creations (Single and Sexy, That Artz Show and The Berlin Show) and his play MacHamlet was presented as part of the Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival. Mark holds an Honours BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Waterloo.

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Kimwun Perehinec

Core Artistic Team Member – Communications/Artist Educator

A co-founder of Studio 180, Kimwun is a Toronto-based actor, independent theatre producer and artist educator. As a member of Studio 180’s Core Artistic Team, she coordinates the company’s communications, contributes to fundraising and board development initiatives, and helps design and pilot our in-school Education Initiative. Her other in-school experience includes teaching audition and on camera classes in secondary schools and for the Randolph Academy of Performing Arts, and touring Theatre for Young Audiences across Ontario and the US. Kimwun has performed in several Studio 180 productions (Our Class, Offensive Shadows, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project and The Passion of the Chris) and with such companies as Seventh Stage, Roseneath Theatre, the Stratford Festival, Theatre Direct, Eldritch Theatre, Absit Omen and Collective Architecture. She also frequently participates in new play development workshops. Kimwun is co-editor of WORKS., the SummerWorks Theatre Festival’s journal, and created and twice produced the SummerWorks series of walking tours (SummerWalks). She has also freelanced as a proofreader for graphic design firms, done communication coaching with E-Roleplay.com, won awards for technical writing and been a copy editor for Prentice-Hall Canada. She holds a Joint Honours Co-op BA in English and Theatre Arts from the University of Waterloo and is a graduate of the actor-training program at George Brown College.

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