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LONNY PRICE – Director

Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, 110 in the Shade, ‘Master Harold’... and the Boys, Sally Marr and Her Escorts, Urban Cowboy, A Class Act. West End: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. English National Opera: Man of La Mancha, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd. Off-Broadway: Scotland, PA (Roundabout). Film/TV: the New York Philharmonic’s Sweeney Todd, Company, Camelot, Candide, Passion (Emmy Award), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert! (Emmy Award). Additional television: Sweeney Todd (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Emmy Award), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (HBO). Documentaries: Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Netflix), Hal Prince: The Director’s Life (PBS).

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Mary Young Leckie – Producer

Mary is renowned for producing Canadian stories for big and small screens and live theatre. Mary’s film Maudie (CSA Best Feature Film), starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, was chosen for the Opening Night Gala at the Calgary Film Festival in 2018. Television dramas include Where The Spirit Lives (shot on location in southern Alberta), The Arrow, and Everest (shot on location in Alberta and Nepal). Mary produced Calgary native Stephen Massicotte’s Mary’s Wedding (Toronto Premiere) at Crows Theatre in February 2019. Mary serves on the Board of the Coal Mine Theatre, is the recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal & the WIFT-T Crystal Award for Creative Excellence. She is married to writer Keith Ross Leckie (Coppermine; Cursed: Blood of the Donnellys). Mary dedicates this production of The Louder We Get to Toban, Katie and Sean, her bright and blazing stars.

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kent staines – Book writer

Kent has been working in the Canadian entertainment industry for 30 years as an actor, director and writer. His acting credits include leading roles in theatres across the country as well as work in film and television. Seasoned Calgary audiences might remember him as Prior Walter in ATP’s production of Angels in America.Screenwriting credits include Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (Tapestry Pictures/CTV), Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (Screen Door/CTV), MVP (CBC series co-created with Mary Young Leckie), and the award-winning web series Chateau Laurier (Geneva Film Co/BravoFact). Upcoming projects include a musical adaptation of the award-winning film Maudie with music and lyrics by Sarah Slean. 

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Colleen Dauncey & Akiva Romer-Segal 
Composer & Lyricist 

Colleen & Akiva are contemporary musical theatre songwriting partners and best friends that first met at their Calgary high school. They have penned the scores to Going Under (Bravo Academy), Toronto Fringe hit Bremen Rock City (with librettist Sara Farb), and The Louder We Get (formerly Prom Queen: The Musical), which premiered at the Segal Centre in Montreal, received the 2016 Stage West Pechet Family Musical Award from the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and was showcased at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals (NYC), The Other Palace (London, UK), and the Grand Theatre (London, ON). Their musical Grow (with librettist Matt Murray) debuts at the Grand Theatre in April 2020, after workshop presentations at Sheridan College’s Canadian Musical Theatre Project, the 2018 Next Stage Theatre Festival (Toronto, ON), and the 2020 Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals (East Haddam, CT).

Colleen & Akiva’s songs have been performed internationally by cabaret performers, recording artists, and Broadway stars. They are alumni of the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project in Chicago, Cutting-Edge Composers in NYC, Theatre 20’s Composium, and Musical Stage Company’s Launch Pad, Noteworthy, Make Me a Song and One Song Glory programs. They are grateful for support from the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Records, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council For the Arts.