October 22 – 31 2015

Production Staff (continued)
Fight Director
Jennifer Parr
For Opera Atelier: Opera Atelier’s Fight Director since 1989: The Loves of Mars & Venus,
Venus & Adonis, Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, Medée, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,
Iphigénie en Tauride, and Persée (also on film). With OA’s artistic directors, she has
also taught at Le Centre de la Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Elsewhere: MA in Renaissance Theatre (Warwick), resident director & production stage manager for
the Chicago Symphony’s Beyond The Score productions in Canada since 2011 with the Toronto, Winnipeg,
Quebec, and Montreal Symphony Orchestras. Also as a stage director: acclaimed all-female production of
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, Canadian premiere (in concert) Brian Current’s
opera Airline Icarus. World premieres: Dean Burry’s Pandora’s Locker, Dunleavy & Alexander’s The Last
Wife. Other directing credits include: Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (Royal Conservatory); Richard 3, Queens 4
(Richard III Project); and many more.
Et cetera: Film and television fight credits include Fight Director for Le Mozart Noir, and appearing on the
Discovery Channel as the famous female pirate captain Anne Bonny.
Assistant Fight Director
Jeremy Nasmith
For Opera Atelier: Dancer/Singer in every production since Opera Atelier’s inception
in 1986, including Cupid in La Dafne, Persée Double, Dragon (The Magic Flute, Persée),
and all but two of OA’s tours to Asia, Europe and the U.S.
Elsewhere: National Ballet of Canada, Amadeus Choir, Salzburg Festival, Mozartwoche,
Glimmerglass, ProArteDanza, Architanz (Tokyo), Hit & Run, various film & TV credits including
The Listener and Reign.
Upcoming: Armide in the Château de Versailles with Opera Atelier.
Et cetera: Mr. Nasmith continues to be in demand as a ballet teacher for Ballet Jörgen Canada, Dance Teq,
and The Next Step TV Series. In 2014, he partnered with Dance Teq to open Dance Teq Centre, downtown
Toronto’s newest multi-studio class and rehearsal venue.
Assistant Stage Manager
Jessica Severin
For Opera Atelier: As Stage Manager: Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of
Figaro. As Assistant Stage Manager: Persée (Toronto, Versailles), Armide (Toronto,
Versailles and Glimmerglass), Don Giovanni, Abduction from the Seraglio, The Return
of Ulysses.
Elsewhere: Once, Billy Elliot, A Couple of Blaguards, Hairspray, The Lion King (Mirvish Productions); Do
You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata (Acting Up Stage/NAC/ATP/Citadel); This Wide Night
(Summerworks); Parfumerie, La Ronde, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Window on Toronto,
Loot, Awake and Sing!, Ring Round the Moon, Mary Stuart, The Caretaker, The Government Inspector, Our Town
(Soulpepper); Miss Caledonia, The Patient Hour (Tarragon); The Importance of Being Earnest, Educating Rita,
Suds!, Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Thousand Islands Playhouse); and productions with Theatre Smith
Gilmour, Nightwood, George Brown Theatre School, Obsidian, Tapestry New Opera, Nuit Blanche, and
Drayton Entertainment.
Et cetera: Jessica is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.
Assistant Stage Manager
Monik a Seiler
For Opera Atelier: Alcina, Persée, The Marriage of Figaro, Idomeneo.
Elsewhere: Niágara – A Pan-American Story (Pan-Am Games 2015); Love for Love, The
Country Wife, A Fond Husband (GBTS); Race (Canadian Stage); Intermezzi, Songbook
8: Brent Carver, Electro/Acoustic, The War of the Worlds (Art of Time Ensemble); She’s
A Daisy! (Totem Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel); Beckett: Feck It! (Queen of Puddings/
Canadian Stage); Topdog/Underdog (Obsidian/Shaw Festival); Jake and the Kid (Globe); A Christmas Carol,
What the Butler Saw (Soulpepper); Eugene Onegin (Opera Lyra); Strong Poison, Pride & Prejudice, Rope’s End
(Manitoba Theatre Centre).
Et cetera: Monika is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Monika would like to thank her
parents… ”Von Anfang bis Ende.”
Production Stage Manager
Arwen MacDonell
For Opera Atelier: Armide marks Arwen’s 30th production with Opera Atelier.
Others include: Alcina, Persée (Toronto and Versailles), Armide (Toronto, Versailles,
Glimmerglass Festival), Idomeneo, The Magic Flute, Orfeo, Don Giovanni, L’incoronazione
di Poppea, The Marriage of Figaro; tours to Europe, Singapore, Korea and Japan.
Elsewhere: Eurydice, Angels in America Parts I & II, Parfumerie, Ghosts, The Glass Menagerie, Awake and
Sing!, Mary Stuart, Salt-Water Moon (Soulpepper); Proud (Proud Productions); I, Claudia (Crow’s Theatre/
Edinburgh Fringe); The Africa Trilogy (Volcano/Luminato); The Dishwashers, Rune Arlidge, The Domino
Heart, Side Man, The Good Life, Midnight Sun (Tarragon Theatre); Vida!, The Drowsy Chaperone (Mirvish
Productions); The Triumph of Love, Cymbeline, The Fellini Radio Plays (Stratford Festival).
Et cetera: Arwen is very proud to be a part of Opera Atelier’s 30th Season, and is dedicating her work to
her wonderful grandparents, Drs. Ása and Jack MacDonell.
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Opera Atelier’s landmark production of Mozart’s
The Magic Flute (2013). Photo by Bruce Zinger.