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A platform where composers and writers share their work, and producers discover the next great show.
Recent Shows
The Pirate Queen of the Stars
In space, no one can hear you sing
People Suck
A musical airing of grievances
Queer Enough
A NSFW, non-binary coming-out story. When you don't quite fit in with the other misfits, where do you belong?
Dead Moose
Job has miraculously survived a car crash with a moos on the road and must reassess his life and relationship with religion.
DanceLand
A dreamworld under attack from a robotic army must be stopped by a Chosen One and the power of dance.
Seasons: A New Musical Song-Cycle
Six friends within six years go through the milestone seasons of young life asking why seasons must change?
Recent Composers
Peter Cavell
Peter Cavell (pronounced kuh-VELL) is a composer/lyricist, pianist, writer, and occasional thereminist. He is best known for the original musicals People Suck: a musical airing of grievances (with Megan Phillips) and The Pirate Queen of the Stars (with Andrew Templeton). He holds degrees in classical composition from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Victoria, where his music was described as "sarcastic", "very sarcastic", and “Peter, this wasn’t the assignment”. Since then, his works have been performed throughout Canada, the US, the UK, Holland, Bosnia, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. For ten years, Peter worked as a Musical Director at the Second City Training Centre of Toronto, where he taught musical improv and composed or improvised music for hundreds of performances. Peter delights in tackling unexpected stories and genres, experimenting with form, and turning tropes upside-down. His work sometimes touches on topics like mythology, ritual, religious baggage, and geek culture. Most of all, Peter loves to create living, breathing, character-driven musicals that blur the boundaries between comedy and drama, making you laugh and then sucker-punching you right in the feels. An incorrigible Canadian, Peter lives in Toronto with his wife and their two young sons.
Jacob Sanford
Andrew "Ash" Lake
A 30-something, he/they kinda playwright and composer. Classically trained actor, mostly self-taught musician, two-time EdFringe playwright, budding show composer. Stories in my blood.
Peter J Casey
James Walker Reid
Montreal-based. Background in bands, cabaret, film & video.