Acting Up Stage Theatre is a company dedicated to producing intimate musical theatre productions in Toronto.
 

2b Theatre Company is a company that creates dynamic new work based in Halifax.
 

Buddies In Bad Times Theatre a theatre company dedicated to the promotion of Queer Canadian culture in Toronto.
 

Café DaPopo is a unique theatrical event in Halifax where you can order up your favourite dramatic treats!
 

The Canadian Stage Company is one of Toronto’s leading theatres producing a mixture of contemporary and Canadian works.
 

The Citadel Theatre is Edmonton’s regional theatre. 

Corporate Jesters is a company comprised of trained actors and business professionals that specializes in custom-designed entertainment and development workshops for the corporate sector.

DanCap Productions is dedicated to producing Broadway-caliber musical theatre productions in Toronto.
 

Die-Nasty is a live improvised Soap Opera that runs weekly in Edmonton!
 

The Edmonton International Fringe Festival is the largest Fringe Festival in North America!
 

Factory Theatre is the “home of the Canadian playwright” in Toronto.
 

Ghost Jail Theatre is a weekly Improv show in Toronto that will blow your mind.
 

The Harbourfront Centre is a vibrant home for the culture of our time in Toronto.
 

The Harold Green Jewish Theatre seeks to illuminate humanity through a Jewish perspective. It’s based in Toronto. 
 
Improv Monologue Project is a website that features spontaneous monologues performed by improvisers without any preparation.

Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People is the largest theatre for young audiences in Canada (based in Toronto).
 

The Mayfield Dinner Theatre is Canada’s #1 rated Dinner Theatre (based in Edmonton).
 

Mirvish Productions 
 

The National Theatre of Canada is a Toronto-based company that seeks to create new, great, dramatic works through improvisation.
 

Necessary Angel Theatre Company is a Toronto-based theatre company that aims to create theatre that is immediate, surprising and essential entertainment for a world on the brink.
 

Neptune Theatre is Halifax’s regional theatre.
 

Nightwood Theatre is a Toronto-based theatre company that forges creative alliances among women artists from diverse backgrounds in order to develop new Canadian works.
 

Nightswimming Theatre company is a Toronto-based theatre dedicated to developing new plays, performance pieces and dance.
 

Obsidian Theatre is the “black voice” of Toronto.
 

Oh Susanna! is Edmonton’s monthly Euro-style variety show hosted by Susanna Patchouli (Mark Meer).
 

Picnicface is a great sketch comedy troupe based in Halifax.
 

Project Project- are purveyors of fine improvised comedy and other monstrosities in Toronto.
 

ScriptLab develops Canadian musical theatre based in Toronto.
 

The Second City in Toronto is an Internationally renowned comedy institution.
 

The Shaw Festival is a crucible of progressive and provocative ideas inspired by George Bernard Shaw located in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario.
 

Soulpepper Theatre Company nurtures the arts and peppers the soul in Toronto.
 

The Stratford Festival is a world-renown Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
 

Talk is Free Theatre is theatre that encourages and supports the artistic community of Ontario located in Barrie.
 

Tarragon Theatre creates, develops and produces new plays and provides the space for new work to thrive.
 

Teatro la Quindicina is an ensemble theatre company in Edmonton that primarily produces the work of playwright in residence Stewart Lemoine.
 

Theatre Passe Muraille is Canada’s oldest alternative theatre, based in Toronto.
 

Theatreworks seeks to produce new Canadian works and premieres of works by International Artists.
 

Toronto Fringe Festival 
 

The Varscona Theatre is a unique, cooperatively run performance venue in Old Strathcona, Edmonton.

Zuppa Circus is an amazing ensemble theatre company based in Halifax.

A.. My Name is Amanda

       Amanda Campbell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and began her writing career at a year and a half when she started to “read” the Sears catalogue and the telephone book aloud to her stuffed animals. She always wanted to tell the longest stories. Once she figured out how to use a pencil, she used drawings and words to craft her first two novels, which were bound in Fivestar notebooks. At the age of seven she had her first public reading of her short story Matthew and the Unicorn at an Open House at Sacred Heart School. She would continue to write stories and novels compulsively throughout elementary and junior high.

          At the age of eight Amanda joined her school choir, participated in her first musical, and watched the first piece of theatre that she can remember, a High School production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. By the time she was eleven she had developed a fervent admiration for actors, could recite Anne of Green Gables- the Musical in its entirety, and began to take classes at Neptune Theatre School in attempt to overcome her shyness.

          In Junior High, Amanda had small roles in two musicals, performed in a collective creation in the Atlantic Fringe Festival, and played Winnie in No, No Nanette. She also appeared in Elsinore Theatre’s production of The Wizard of Oz at Neptune’s Studio Theatre. At the same time, she wrote stories for her friends voraciously, and grew into a zealous Renthead. At fourteen, she began The Quest, the Key and Faith, a novel for the young and young at heart that she completed in 2008.

          In Grade 11 Amanda got the opportunity to perform in the Nova Scotia Youth Arts Showcase and toured to elementary schools around the province in I Believe in Make Believe with Neptune’s Youth Performance Company.

It was at this time that Amanda became interested in promoting (and basically launching the careers of) her talented friends. She adopted the attitude that despite the fact that she was a little girl from Halifax, she could do anything and so she set about trying to get her friend a guest spot on The Rosie O’Donnell Show. Having learned how to shoot and professionally edit a videotape (with a voiceover!), speaking with O’Donnell’s secretary and emailing with Morris Greenberg, who played the saxophone on O’Donnell’s show, Amanda shifted her attention toward getting said friend an audition for Gypsy on Broadway starring Bernadette Peters. After getting advice from Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, seventeen year old Amanda received an extremely generous letter from director Sam Mendes telling her where to send her friend’s headshot and resume.

In 2003 Amanda went to Dalhousie University with the intention of auditioning for the Acting Program at the end of her first year, and becoming a professional musical theatre actor. Despite being inspired by the great Nigel Bennett, one of her acting professors, Amanda became enchanted and captivated with the academic theatrical world. She shocked her classmates by not auditioning for the Acting Program and traipsed merrily into Academia.

As a student of David Overton’s Directing Class in 2005, Amanda directed two short projects in the style of New York’s avant-garde Wooster Group. She then directed an outdoor production of her own abridged version of Peter Pan. She returned to the stage in Raquel Duffy’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar at St. Matthew’s Church, and then wrote her own musical Waiting for Bernadette which premiered at the David Mack Murray Theatre in 2006. She also was thrilled at the opportunity to Assistant Direct David Overton's production of Urinetown at DalTheatre. 

After graduating with an Honours BA in Theatre Studies from Dalhousie University, Amanda went on toward her MA at the University of Toronto. She has firmly rooted herself in the study of Canadian theatre and musical theatre, and seeks to use everything she learns to foster and champion the arts, and to forge her own practical path in the theatre community. She began writing theatre reviews and developed her blog on a whim in September 2007, returning once again to her impulse to promote those whose talents she believes in. The Way I See It marries her love of writing with her love of theatre and it is one of her proudest achievements to date. She has also recently completed her first full-length play Fantastical Painted Souls which she hopes will premiere in the 2009 Atlantic Fringe Festival.

Amanda continues to meander between Halifax and Toronto. Each summer she returns to Neptune Theatre School where she has been teaching theatre games and “techniques” to four to nine year olds for the past three years. In all, she guesstimates that she has written (or improvised) over fifty short playlets for her students to perform.