A PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION

Jonathan Wilson

Playwright & Performer

For Studio 180: My Night With Reg; The Normal Heart; Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish. Past theatre work includes the Canadian premiere of The Lion King (Dora Award – The Princess of Wales Theatre) and performances in his own play My Own Private Oshawa (Governor General’s Award nominee, Dora/Chalmers Nomination – Tarragon Theatre, New Yorker Theatre). Jonathan was also a writer and performer with The Second City for six shows (Dora Nomination). Other theatre credits include The Drowsy Chaperone, Moonlight and Magnolias (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Clockmaker (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Possible Worlds, The Duchess (Theatre Passe Muraille); Not To Be Repeated, Medici Slot Machine (Tarragon Extra Space); Cinderella (The Elgin Theatre); This Could Be Love (The Poor Alex); and Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall). Jonathan was also writer in residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto where he wrote the play Kilt (Dora/New York Drama Desk nominations), which has had over 20 productions around the world. TV and film credits include Not To Be Repeated (CTV/The Comedy Network), My Own Private Oshawa (Gemini Nomination – CTV), Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (Pax Network/CTV), Murdoch Mysteries (CityTV), This Is Wonderland (CBC), Life With Derek (Family) and Monk (USA Network), as well as hundreds of voices for animated series including Skatoony, Iggy Arbuckle (Gemini Nomination), Pearlie and Little Bear.

Mark McGrinder

Director

For Studio 180: (as director) Four Minutes Twelve Seconds; (as an actor) The Laramie Project, Stuff Happens, Our Class, Parade, Clybourne Park, You Will Remember Me, The Nether & Oslo. Mark is the Artistic Director of Studio 180 Theatre. His Studio 180 performing credits include Oslo, The Nether, You Will Remember Me, Clybourne Park and Stuff Happens. He has been a director and/or dramaturg(e) for many of Studio 180’s IN DEVELOPMENT projects and, as the program’s coordinator, has worked to connect creators with the appropriate collaborators required to bring their visions to the stage. He adapted and directed Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish for PANAMANIA, directed Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays and worked as Associate Director for Blackbird, God of Carnage and Studio 180’s 10th Anniversary reading of The Laramie Project. Mark was a member of the acting ensemble at the Shaw Festival for five seasons and he performed in several reviews with The Second City’s National touring company. 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. As an artist educator he has worked with high school, college and university students in and beyond the GTA and is continually inspired by the passion and vision of the young artists he has had the good fortune to connect with.

Denyse Karn

Set and Projection Designer

For Studio 180: King Charles III;You Will Remember Me; Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish; NSFW. Other theatre credits include: Othello, To Kill a Mockingbird (Stratford Festival); Intimate Apparel (The Belfry Theatre), Art, The Mountaintop (The Grand Theatre – London); Onegin (The Musical Stage Company); Das Ding (Theatre Smash/Canadian Stage); The Watershed (Crow’s Theatre/Porte Parole); Her2, The Carousel, The Penelopiad, Happy Woman, The List (Nightwood Theatre); Twisted, Stop Heart (Factory Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Canadian Stage) and Top Girls (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Other: Denyse is a graduate of the TMU and NSCAD University. She has received many Dora Mavor Moore nominations and awards, a Chalmers Award and four Merritt Awards (Nova Scotia Theatre Award) for Outstanding Set, Projection and Costume designs. Denyse is a full member of ADC and IATSE Local ADC659. www.denysekarn.com

Andre du Toit

Lighting Designer

For Studio 180: as Assistant Lighting Designer: God of Carnage, Clybourne Park, The Normal Heart. Past theatre work includes: Qalb, Lady M (Margaret) (1s1 Teatre); Three Sisters (Soulpepper); Universal Child Care (Quote Unquote Collective, Canadian Stage); What You Won’t Do for Love, Prince Hamlet (Why Not Theatre); Here Lies Henry (Factory Theatre); Tres Loin (Bouchardanse); The Queen in Me (COC, Gargantua, Nightwood); Maanomaa, My Borther (Canadian Stage); Italian Mime Suicide (Bad New Days); R+J (Stratford Festival).

Lyon Smith

Sound Designer

For Studio 180 Theatre: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds and Clybourne Park. Selected Theatre: The Donnelly Trilogy (Blyth), Pipeline (Soulpepper), In 7 Days (The Grand) and Witness for the Prosecution (Shaw Festival).

Sandi Becker

Stage Manager

For Studio 180: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds. Select Theatre Credits: A Poem for Rabia, Our Fathers, Sons. Lovers and Little Brothers (Tarragon Theatre), The Waltz (Factory Theatre), Maggie (Charlottetown Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Twelfth Night (Canadian Stage), 10 seasons with Eldritch Theatre, 7 seasons with Driftwood Theatre Upcoming: Hurry Hard (Port Stanley Festival Theatre).

Aaheli Mukherjee

Production Manager

For Studio 180: Debut Aaheli (she/her) is a Toronto-based arts enthusiast masquerading as a Production Manager, Producer and Arts Administrator. Recent professional highlights include: PM for the Paprika Theatre Festival since 2022, PM/TD for Crossroads Theatre (formerly known as Shakespeare in Action) since 2023 and PM for the world premiere of Earworm by Nowadays Theatre in association with Crow’s Theatre (2024) & The Caged Bird Sings by Modern Times Stage Company at the Aga Khan Museum (2024). Her passion and work focus on championing emerging artists, collaborating with diverse theatre companies, and cultivating spaces where innovative and accessible art thrives through decolonial and inclusive practices. She is excited to be joining Studio180 in their presentation of A Public Display of Affection at Crow’s Theatre!