FOUNDER/ PERFORMER/ WRITER

Based in Hamilton, ON, Sherry Garner is an actor-singer who grew up in small-town Ontario dreaming of a life on the stage. After graduating from The University of Western Ontario and Sheridan College, Sherry has had the great privilege of fulfilling that dream building a performing career that has taken her across Canada and beyond.

Some favourite roles include Maria in the Sound of Music (Neptune Theatre, Stage West Calgary and Stage West Mississauga), Marian in the Music Man (Capital Theatre, Port Hope), Jenny Anydots in Cats (Neptune Theatre) and her Dora nominated role of The Narrator in the Happy Prince, (YPT).

Sherry’s favourite role to date is that of Mom to two extraordinary young women, Quinn and Maggie.

A proud advocate for families with Children with Down Syndrome and those living with Mental Health challenges, she is raising a child with Down Syndrome as well as living with her own Bipolar disorder. Sherry dedicates her life to being a story of triumph, telling that story through theatre and song.

DIRECTOR/ DRAMATURG/ WRITER

Trained as an actor at The Drama Centre, London, Marcia began her career at the Royal Court Theatre before appearing on Broadway, the Stratford Festival and in many regional theatres. As a director over the past twenty-five years her credits number over 100 productions. Favourites include the US/Canadian Tour of Saturday Night Fever, Les Miserables, (Rainbow Stage), Annie, White Christmas, The last Five Years (Neptune), See How They Run, Blackbird (Theatre Aquarius), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Syringa Tree, The Price (RMTC) Too Many Cooks, Run For Your Wife, The Ladies Foursome (Drayton Entertainment) She was chosen to direct the “reimagined” Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival in 2011 and was the original director/dramaturg for the premiere production of the new Canadian musical Prom Queen (now entitled The Louder We Get) at The Segal Centre, Montreal.

Marcia is also an award-winning, internationally produced playwright with 12 plays to her credit. Her work has been translated into numerous languages with several productions running currently in Poland, China, Quebec, the US and the UK. Her most recent play, the comedy-thriller Deadline (co-written with Douglas E. Hughes) premiered in the US in October 2022.

MUSIC SUPERVISOR

Elizabeth has served as Musical Director and Conductor for many Canadian premieres.

Theatre credits include Musical Director for the Mirvish productions of &Juliet, Dear Evan Hansen, Kinky Boots and Mamma Mia!, the Dancap/Dodgers production of Jersey Boys and the world premiere of Nick Lloyd Webber’s The Little Prince for Theatre Calgary.

Elizabeth is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore nominee for Outstanding Musical Direction for Seussical A Musical (Young People’s Theatre), God Almighty’s Second Class Saloon – A Brecht/Weill Cabaret (Factory Theatre), Kinky Boots and Dear Evan Hansen (Mirvish Productions). She also received nominations for the Betty Mitchell Outstanding Musical Direction Award for the Theatre Calgary productions of The Drowsy Chaperone, Anne of Green Gables and The Little Prince.

Conductor for Jann Arden’s “The Magic of Christmas” concerts (National Arts Centre/Massey Hall).

Television credits include Music Consultant So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Over The Rainbow Canada and Musical Director/Composer for multiple television series and specials (HBO, CTV, YTV, The Comedy Network, W Network, BRAVO!). She was also part of the Music Supervision team for Jason Robert Brown’s “13 The Musical” for Netflix.

Elizabeth is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Humber College Music Program.