GBTS Company
50 Tankhouse Lane M5A 3C4 Toronto, ON, Canada

Congrats to our first years for finishing their first term of theatre school! Throughout term one, our first years had to take their music classes online with our incredible music teacher Stephan Ermel. The final product is an amazing performance of Mr. Blue Sky with the entire ensemble. With a music video to match presented to the school, it was a fantastic end to term one!

Check out this exciting event for IBPOC theatre graduates/graduating this year. A stellar line-up of Artists includes: Nina Lee Aquino, Lisa Karen Cox, Miriam Fernandes, Jeff Ho, Jordan Laffrenier, Shaista Latif, Owais Lightwala, Omari Newton, Matthew MacKenzie, Erin Macklem, Davinder Mahli, Sanskruti Marathe, Aidan Morishita-Miki, Marilo Nuñez, Tarndeep Pannu, Jiv Parasaram, Malina Patel, Luke Reece, Jamie Robinson, Quelemia Sparrow, Tanisha Taitt, and Syrus Marcus Ware. Her...e is the link to the event page. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ibpoc-grad-fair-tickets-1489422 See more

Congratulations to our second year students for completing their period study Beyond Borders: The black voice and the language of European theatre in the 18th century. For the past several weeks they have been studying the plays The Way of the World by William Congreve, An Octaroon by Brandon Jacob-Jenkins, The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais, and An African Cargo by Margaret Busby under the direction of Kwaku Okyere and Jeannette Lambermont-Morey. Additio...nally an Oloudah Equiano creation piece and Phyllis Wheatley creation piece. Second year period study is an integral part of the George Brown Theatre School curriculum. Each year, a new period is chosen based on the class. It teaches the students many skills, especially how to work in rep as you would with companies like the Stratford Festival or the Shaw Festival. This year, the students worked in small groups in person, wearing PPE, and socially distanced in the large Bailie Theatre while live-streaming to the school in order to follow proper COVID-19 restrictions. Congratulations to everyone involved and to all of the students, enjoy a well-deserved break before term two!

Introducing the class of 2021: Davin Babulal, Cooper Bilton, Olivia Cameron, Alea Carrington, Kaitlin Condie, Samer Dagher, Maisie Fleur, Karly Friesen, Elyssia Giancola, Colton Gobbo, Mia Hay, Aidan Holden-Jones, Tom Keat, Max Kobetich, Chanelle Larabie, Aaron Macpherson, Adrian Marchesano, Molly Mück, Henry Oswald Peirson, Adriano Reis, Maggie Roman, Casey Spector, Isaiah Wagner-Chazalon, Katie Wise, and Kay Wong

The 2021 Season Announcement is here. More information on Three Sisters & Co. coming soon! #seasonannouncement #2021 #canadiantheatre #canadianartist #gbts

Congratulations to the second years for completing their Shaw Scene Study today! For the past few weeks they have been studying the world of George Bernard Shaw and today performed excerpts from his shows Saint Joan, Widowers’ House, The Doctors’ Dilemma, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, and You Never Can Tell. Directed by Jimmy Simon, they performed their amazing scene study over zoom. Great job to all and enjoy your well deserved reading week! #shaw #scenestudy #canadianactors #theatreschool

Congratulations to the cast and creative team of Three Sisters & Co. on a fantastic closing night and an incredible run! Despite the difficulties and restrictions that the live performance world has been facing, through the direction of Rob Kempson they created a show completely unique and for the online platform. Once again, congratulations to all, and stay tuned for the rest of our season! #threesistersGBTS Directed by Rob Kempson... Costume Design by Brandon Kleiman Set Design by Jackie Chau Lighting Design by Siobhan Sleath Video Design by Nick Andison See more

Congratulations to our third years for performing their series of phone plays to the school this evening! The past two weeks they have developed 15 original plays, each performed 8-10 times in a row, performed simultaneously by all 25 of them, with a total of 123 performances in two and a half hours. Directed by the incredible Julie Tepperman from @to_convergence and program created by Casey Spector. Congrats everyone! Stay tuned for public performances coming this April, we can’t wait to see you (virtually)! #canadiantheatre #convergencetheatre #canadianactors

Happy Holidays! Special thanks to Simon Fon, the stage combat teacher at George Brown, and Zoe Bell’s amazing virtual fight video that inspired this holiday treat! Performers:... Davin Babulal, Cooper Bilton, Olivia Cameron, Isaiah Wagner-Chazalon, Simon Fon, Elyssia Giancola, Colton Gobbo, Aidan Holden-Jones, Tom Keat, Chanelle Larabie, Aaron Macpherson, Adrian Marchesano, Molly Mück, Henry Oswald Peirson, Aleah Rodrigues, and Maggie Roman. Enjoy the holidays! We can’t wait until we can all begin live theatre once again. Until then, we hope you enjoy this video from some of our third years and look forward to performing in the future. Take care and happy holidays! Sincerely, Class of 2021

The final teaser is here! Stay tuned for the video to finally be released tomorrow afternoon! #happyholidays #evilsanta #stagecombat

It’s not a regular holiday, it’s a 2020 holiday. 2 more days... #happyholidays #evilsanta #stagecombat

3 more days until the third year holiday video drops! #happyholidays #evilsanta

We are saddened by the news of the passing of Brent Carver. Brent was on our Program Advisory Committee for ten years helping to shape the Theatre program and keep it current with theatre trends. He was a great actor, a lovely man, and a kind soul. He will be missed. https://www.cbc.ca//b-c-s-brent-carver-star-of-broadway-we

Jane Neumier Where I’m from: Langenburg, SK! Favourite Role at GBTS: The joyously deluded Aunt Belise in The Learned Ladies. ... What I am up to: Slowly working through my ginormous pile of books to read, playing a lot of Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing, having impromptu solo dance parties, and supervising late-night crazy kitty antics.

Nastasia Pappas-Kemps Where I’m from: Toronto! Favourite role at GBTS: There have been many roles that I have enjoyed at George Brown, and I’m sure that if our school year had ended as planned, Jean in Ionesco’s Rhinoceros would’ve taken the cake. I have had the privilege of delving into Hecuba from Trojan Women (a massive, life changing role), The Skriker in Churchill’s Skriker (another huge undertaking) and numerous other cherished parts. One role, however, keeps swirling a...round in my head: If you’ve ever read Top Girls, the opening dinner party scene has many moving, ridiculous, parts and given absolute freedom, very few lines, and a massive cake, Gret was born. During the dress rehearsal I managed to get my hands on every glass on the table. Opening show? I devoured the entirety of a loaf of bread. A mess of a woman, surrounded by other women, clowning around, making people laugh? That’s my happy place. What I am up to: So many things, for being stuck at home! Cait MacMullin and I just launched just theatre with our inaugural project Click Bait. It’s a multi-media web series about YouTube culture and murder. It’s also funny, I think. I have also been writing a ton. With all this down time, I finally get to revisit the projects I’ve put on the back burner. My cottage comedy Bare was just read by Dandelion Theatre through zoom with a group of fantastic actors, and I have been working on a new play for masque titled David and Beth Discuss Death (and other thunderstorm safety measures) that will hopefully be workshopped on its feet once everything opens up again! Aside from that I’ve picked up embroidery which is my favourite new pastime, though I do think I’m quite awful at it.

After a very strange last few weeks of training, our Class of 2020 finished off their George Brown journeys last month. With no final productions to show them off, we thought we'd do it here instead! Join us over the next few weeks here and on our Instagram page (@gbtscompany) as we feature the incredible George Brown Theatre School Class of 2020 in all their glory.

We close Metamorphoses today! You’ve got TWO more chances at 1:30 and 7:30pm to see these moving tales of transformation (and we all know you wanna see the pool for yourselves ) . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Cylla von Tiedemann See more

Happy Valentines Day! What a perfect night to bring your love (romantic, platonic, or otherwise) for a night of fun at the theatre . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Cylla von Tiedemann See more

Due to technical difficulties, today’s MATINEE performance of Metamorphoses has been **cancelled**, BUT tonight’s EVENING performance will go on as scheduled! Hope to see you there! . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Cylla von Tiedemann See more

WAKE UP! We’re back tonight with another SOLD OUT show! Make sure you scoop up those tickets for the rest of the run . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Cylla von Tiedemann See more

We’ve got one show left tonight before we say goodbye until Tuesday! Come join us! . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Cylla von Tiedemann See more

Audiences have been loving our first few shows of Metamorphoses. We’ve got three shows left this week, beware the splash zone! . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Cylla von Tiedemann See more

We are so excited to begin sharing these stories of change and transformation with you all tonight. We’re opening this story to a SOLD OUT house, make sure to grab your tickets for the rest of the run! . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Barry McCluskey See more

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might get a little splashed - we open this beast of a show TOMORROW . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Barry McCluskey See more

We open in TWO DAYS! Do you have your tickets yet? . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Nastasia Pappas-Kemps See more

Lighting levels today got us feeling some kind of way . . https://tickets.youngcentre.ca/overview/12290 .... GBTS Company’s Metamorphoses runs February 5-15 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts . Directed by Jordan Pettle Set Design by Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design by Jareth Li Costume Design by Ina Kerklaan : Barry McCluskey See more