Artistic Director: Joan Chandler
Associate Artist: David Sereda
Shadowland Theatre

Artistic Director: Joan Chandler
General Manager: Anne Frost

Associate Artists: David Sereda, Talia Azzano, Shadowland

Board of Directors:
Kathryn Companion (President)
Pauli Schell
Phyllis Britton
Bonnie Kirkland-Landry
Ann Bloodworth

Our office is located in rural Ontario, near Wiarton.

Sheatre employs professional Canadian artists. Our projects have attracted such artists as David Sereda, Peter Jarvis, David Diamond, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias, Shadowland, Anne Anglin, Simon Malbogat, Emerita Emerencia, Dave Deleary, Larry Jensen, Doug Stronach and Herbie Barnes. The "Womenfolk" festival drew top female musicians including Lucy Blue Tremblay, Heather Bishop, Lillian Allen and Mary Anderson, and lured the cream of Canada's female technicians.

We Make House Calls! -- Have Skills - Will Travel!

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JOAN CHANDLER - Artistic Director

Theatre animateur and director, Joan Chandler is a leader in nurturing and developing cultural programming in community. She has been involved with the production of over 100 original collectively created plays and hundreds of workshops for communities and companies in Canada, England and the United States. Noted as a director in Theatre of the Oppressed, her work in recent years has focused on the creation of plays that celebrate community and the creative spirit, including "Pterodactyl Delight" (a one act play with dance and puppetry for young audiences created in Ojibwe and English with Native and non-native young people in Grey & Bruce Counties that toured Ontario in 1999), "The Ballad of Kennedy's" (a two hour original music theatre piece with dance and puppetry developed from the oral histories of Owen Sound residents), and "Brush" (a music theatre piece inspired by Tom Thomson co-directed with David Sereda). For Lakeshore Arts in Toronto, she recently led a story gathering project "Food For Thought", that included leading writing workshops and gathering oral accounts; the 70 stories (including one of her own) have been published, performed and rendered into visual art for exhibition. She has collaborated with a variety of noted artists including Shadowland Productions, Anne Anglin, Emerita Emerencia, Gloria May Eshkibok, and Simon Malbogat in the production of community collectives. As a producer she has coordinated the Womenfolk Festival (Sauble Beach), Bread and Butter / Du Pain Sur La Planche! International Popular Theatre Festival (Guelph), and Billy Bishop Heritage Days Aviation and Military Heritage Festival (Owen Sound). As a writer, her work has been developed through the playwright workshop programs of Factory Theatre, Mixed Company, The Theatre Centre (Toronto) and Playwright's Workshop (Montreal). She was one of the founding members of ASTRO (Association of Summer Theatres Round Ontario), several arts councils, and Mixed Company's Community Arts program. She is a four time recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Artists in Education award. Joan has represented the Province of Ontario as a cultural ambassador to the UK in the community arts field, and served as a local representative on the Office of the Premier's Conference on Volunteerism. Joan is the founding Artistic Director of Sheatre.

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DAVID SEREDA - Associate Artist

David Sereda is known as one of Canada¹s finest singer/songwriters. For more than twenty years, his singing and writing has won him loyal fans, the respect of his peers and critical raves. He has recorded three albums, most recently the critically acclaimed The Blue Guide, and is finishing his fourth CD. He has performed in concert across North America including major festivals (Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg Folk Festivals), concert halls and theatres and his music has been heard coast to coast on CBC Radio and TV and Vision TV. He has been guest artist with choirs and choruses (The Montreal Jubilation Choir, Vancouver Men¹s Chorus, Denver Women¹s Chorus and the Nova Scotia Mass Choir) and wrote anthems for the kickstART! Festival of Disability Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC), the Canadian GALA Choruses Festival (Edmonton) and the International GALA Festival (San Jose, CA). His theatre work as a music director, composer and actor includes scores of songs for a dozen theatre productions (Tarragon, Buddies in Bad Times, The Theatre Centre, Toronto; Centaur, Montreal; The Belfry, Victoria): a Dora nominated musical (Love Jive) cowritten with playwright/author Don Hannah (Tarragon); a thirteen-minute opera; two cabarets; and collaborations with noted directors as Paul Thompson, (the late) Larry Lillo and (the late) Svetlana Zylin. As an educator in voice and musical composition, he has worked for the National Ballet of Canada (four Creating Dances in the Schools projects), Opera Hamilton (a half-hour original music theatre piece developed and performed over two years by students based on their community¹s past) and most recently on Brush, a music theatre piece inspired by the life and work of celebrated artist Tom Thomson (produced by Sheatre; Joan Chandler, director) in Owen Sound, Ontario and Leith, Ontario. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he now makes his home in Annan, north of Owen Sound, Ontario. "David Sereda's range as a singer-songwriter is breathtaking. It's not his voice so much as it is the dimension of the emotional scale which drives it." (The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, NS)

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SHADOWLAND

Professional theatre and visual artists, Anne Barber and Brad Harley are the artistic directors of the Dora award-winning Toronto Island based Shadowland Theatre, specializing in the highly visual theatre of mask, puppetry and outdoor spectacle. Founded in 1983, Shadowland uses the vibrant immediacy of live theatre to draw our audiences into worlds where stories unfold and dreams are unravelled.