ERIC WOOLFE

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.

COLIN DOYLE (Producer)

Colin Doyle is an actor, producer, and currently in the midst of attempting to write with a collective and his own play respectively. He co-produced with the incredible Renna Reddie the multi Dora nominated show Madhouse Variations, and Doc Wutherglooms Haunted Medicine Show for Eldritch Theatre. As a producer he has also found success with On the Money (Patrons Pick, Toronto Fringe, also acted), Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair (SummerWorks, also acted), Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair/Snore (ZooFest, Montreal, also acted), The Making of St. Jerome (Next Stage Festival, also with Renna Reddie) and most recently with his new company Hustle N' Bustle Theatre, the multi Dora nominated production of Offensive Fouls (Toronto, Saskatoon, St. Catharines tour and soon Winnipeg for MTYP '11-'12 season, also acted). www.hustlenbustletheatre.com

He has worked as an actor all over Ontario, the United States, and Europe, in theatre, film, television, and radio. Colin received a Metcalfe grant this year and is currently the Associate Producer at Carousel Players in St. Catharines.

RENNA REDDIE (General Manager)

Recent credits: Peter and the Wolf (Theatre Rusticle), Shotgun Wedding (Quixotic Theatre & Carlos Bulosan Theatre), Brown Balls (fu-GEN Theatre Company), Morro and Jasp GONE WILD (U.N.I.T. Productions), Eating with Lola (Sulong Theatre) and Madhouse Variations (Eldritch Theatre). She is the inaugural TD Bank Young Producer for The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival and the Artistic Producer for The Carlos Bulosan Theatre

CHRISTINE BRUBAKER (Resident Director)

Award-winning actor, director, teacher and musician, Christine has performed nationally and internationally with show such as Fear of Flight with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and The Danish Play with Nightwood Theatre. Other favorite credits include The Vaudevilles of Chekov (National Arts Centre), A Comedy of Errors (Canstage), The Trials of John Demjanjuk (Theatre Asylum), and The Babysitter by Eric Woolfe for which she received a Dora Award for Best Performance. As a composer and arranger, she’s worked for LKTYP, Theatre Asylum, The Shaw Festival and BANG!Productions. Christine is a 1994 Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She is a regular teacher in the Acting for Film & Television Program at Humber College.

MELANIE MCNEILL

Melanie is a set and costume designer who also does a lot of costume building, scenic painting and puppet making. Select design credits include: set & costumes for Bullet for Adolf (written and directed by Woody Harrelson), set & costumes for Madhouse Variations (Eldritch Theatre, Dora Award – Outstanding Costume Design), costumes for Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (Native Earth Performing Arts), assistant set & costume for Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter (Canadian Stage), costumes for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre), set & costumes for Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct), costume assistant for Necessary Angel’s Andromache and Hamlet, and seven seasons with Videocabaret . Film/tv: assistant costume designer for Todd & the Book of Pure Evil (season 2).

GILLIAN LEWIS (Production Manager)

Gillian makes her living as a Production Manager and Stage Manager in theatre and dance. Previous Eldritch Theatre credits includes: Madhouse Variations, The Babysitter, The Strange and Eerie Memories of Billy Wuthergloom and Dear Boss. Gillian has production managed for many Toronto based companies, including: Cart/Horse Theatre, Cheshire Unicorn, Common Descent, Fallen Rock Productions, Gailey Road Productions and Shrimp Magnet Theatre Company. Gillian has stage managed for many companies, including: Dancemakers, The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto Dance Theatre, ProArteDanza, Public Recordings and Small Wooden Shoe.