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Spotlight Presents
Spotlight Presents Interviews with arts industry professionals from all over the world. In this podcast, Host Reasha Walsh, executive director of Spotlight School of Arts Inc. explores the large world of careers in the arts and the awesome people who make
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Spotlight Presents Becca Griffin
This week on Spotlight Presents we speak to Becca Griffin. Griffin is originally from Saint John, New Brunswick but moved to Prince Edward Island to study preforming arts at Holland College. Now as a professional actor she's preformed in dinner theaters, community theaters, and has done a few commercials. Last year she starred as Diana Barry in the production of Anne and Gilbert. In 2014 Griffin opened her own theater company, The Cat's Pajamas Theatre Co.
May 21, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Spotlight Presents Steven Gallant Part 2
If you haven't listened to last weeks episode, this week won't make sense. Welcome to Part 2 of Steven Gallant's interview.
May 07, 2019
Spotlight Presents Steven Gallant
Part 1 of 2 part series: This week on Spotlight Presents host Reasha Walsh interviews her brother, Steven Gallant. Gallant is a musician and a graduate of Humber College.
Apr 30, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Spotlight Presents: Ryan Gallant
This week on Spotlight Presents, host Reasha Walsh is interviewed by Spotlight School of Arts student Ryan Gallant.
Apr 23, 2019•19 min
Spotlight Presents Margaret Magner
Margaret Magner is a governor of the National Theatre School of Canada, a professor at the University of PEI and works with the PEI Business women’s association. She earned a doctoral degree in English from York University and a Masters from University of Southern California in professional writing, specializing in play writing and fiction. On top of all that she’s an award winning play writer, actor and the founder and CEO of Magner Ink.
Apr 16, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Spotlight Presents Andrea Surich
Andrea Surich has been the General Manager of Watermark Theatre in North Rustico since 2015. She has come to PEI for family reasons, after 11 years as the Production Manager at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. Previous to coming to London, Andrea is proud to have been the first female Technical Director at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival for five seasons. She has been working in professional theatre for over 30 years and is particularly passionate about mentoring young theatre artists ...
Apr 09, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Spotlight Presents David Grimes Part 2
This week we’re finishing our interview with David Grimes. If you haven’t heard last weeks episode go check out part 1 of the interview first; where Grimes talks about his first job in the industry and film school. This week he’ll be speaking about the progress he’s made over the last 10 years and what’s next for him.
Apr 02, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Spotlight Presents David Grimes: Part 1
This week on Spotlight Presents we have a special two part episode. We talk to David Grimes who has been free lance video producing since 2008. He got his start in the industry working as a production assistant on the set of the film, The Sentinel. He worked at CBC until 2012 as a production assistant and in the art department on a show called, 'Steven and Chris'. Following that he worked for Shaw TV as a promo producer. He's acted, produced and starred in his own productions, which have won awa...
Mar 26, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Spotlight Presents Jennifer Stobart
Over the span of her 32 year professional career, Jennifer has had the privilege of having stage managed over 147 live theatrical productions. Based out of Toronto, she has toured extensively, coast to coast in Canada, across the United States, to Dublin, Ireland, London, England, Sydney, and Perth Australia, and Edinburgh, Scotland. Jennifer originally studied performance, then turned to technical theatre, at York University. At that time there were only four students who comprised the fourth a...
Mar 19, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Episode 5: Amanda Campbell
Amanda Campbell, an independent theater critic based out of Halifax, has reviewed hundreds of shows from Broadway to performances in Prince Edward Island. This week on Spotlight Presents, Campbell describes her journey in the arts industry, transitioning from a play writing and acting career into her current position as a theater critic.
Mar 12, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Spotlight Presents Shira Taylor
Doctoral candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. For her dissertation, she created SExT: Sex Education by Theatre in 2014 to explore the use of theatre for sex education among newcomer youth in Toronto’s Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Park neighbourhoods.
Mar 05, 2019•Season 1Ep. 4
Spotlight Presents Steve Bellamy
Steve Bellamy just stepped into the roll of CEO of the Confederation Centre of the Arts coming from his position of Dean of Creative and Performing Arts at Humber College. Steve's career started in music and recording, and his albums have won 6 Juno Awards and many nominations. Hear Steve's thoughts on the importance of arts education and the roll of arts in your community.
Feb 26, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Spotlight Presents Aaron Hastelow
Young Canadian Actor Aaron Hastelow has been portraying some pretty big rolls in Canadian Theatre including Jesus in the 2018 Charlottetown Festival production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Listen to Aaron's journey to this prestigious roll and other projects he has been working on.
Feb 26, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Introducing Spotlight Presents
Learn about who we are at Spotlight and about Executive Director Reasha Walsh who is also the founder and creator of Spotlight School of Arts Inc in PEI Canada. Spotlight Presents will bring conversations with arts professionals from all over the world to hear their stories and their journey and explore the wide world of the Arts.
Feb 26, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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