ACTING FOR FILM & TV

Hart Massey is an award winning actor, television and film producer. He is also a partner of the film company Massey Bros. Films (www.masseybrosfilms.com) for which he produced and starred in the cult Toronto television series Hart of the Annex (Rogers TV), bringing him acclaim in several Canadian newspapers and earning him the nomination for Best Television Series at the Rogers Impression Awards.  He wrote/produced/hosted the Gemini-nominated series The Film Student for 5 seasons on Rogers, which included his alter-ego Phil M., whose videos on youtube recently hit 5 million views.  Hart is an alumni of the University College Drama Program and The Berlinale Talent Campus and his work as a film actor, writer and director has played at festivals including The Berlin Film Festival, The Montreal World Film Festival, The Reelworld Film Festival, the Seattle Independent Film Festival, and The Sprockets Film Festival.  He has also acted, produced and directed commercial videos for some of the world’s largest corporate brands and organizations.  Hart is careful not to forget his roots on the stage where he has performed professionally as an actor and singer since he was a child. His work has ranged from musicals such as The Music Man, Cabaret, A Chorus Line, Anything Goes,Echoes, and Tomson Highway’s Rose to classics such as Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, ChaimPotok’s The Chosen, and the Dora Award winning production of A Doll’s House.  Hart is extremely passionate about acting and is honoured to be training the next generation of actors and filmmakers.

NOTABLE WORK

• Hart of the Annex (actor/writer/producer, tv series)
• The Film Student (writer/producer/host, tv series)
• G-Way (writer/producer/director, Feature Documentary)
• Phil M. (actor/writer/director)

Ontario-based actor/playwright/director Andrew Moodie exploded onto the scene in 1995 with his first play, Riot.

As an actor he has performed in countless productions all across the country. Some selected credit include; Our Country’s Good, Better Living, The Second Sheppard’s Play (Great Canadian Theatre Company), Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Amadeus(Stratford), Whale, Alice, Pinocchio, In the Field of Dreams, the Nelson Mandela Story (Young People’s Theatre), Health Class (Dora Award), The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh (Roseneath Theatre), Nathan the Wise, and Hamlet (Soulpepper) Master Harold and the Boys (Prarie Theatre Exchange), Othello (Dora Nomination), Shakespeare in the Rough.

On television, he was the host of TVO’s Big Ideas from 2006 to 2011. And as an actor, he has appeared in many films, including How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, and the Oscar nominated Away from Her, as well as Total Recall starring Colin Farrell and the recent film Race, a story about the life of Jesse Owens. His many television appearances include; CBC’s Being Erica, Lifetime Network’s Reviving Ophelia, Global Television’s Da Kink in My Hair, and he has a reoccurring role on USA network’s Covert Affairs.

Versed in both Classical text and new work, Sue Miner is a freelance director and co­ artistic director of Pea Green Theatre Group with her husband Mark Brownell. Her work with Pea Green includes the musical The Barbeque King, Conservatives in Love, Medici Slot Machine (Dora Nomination), Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman (Dora Nomination), Playballs, The Blue Wall (Dora Nomination) and Orchidelerium (Dora Nomination). Recent credits include The Fantasticks (Red Bam) The Tempest (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park) the opera Orphea and the Golden Harp (Jeunesses Musicales/ Theatre Cotton Robes) I Love You Forever and More Munsch (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Dora Winner) Celine Speaks (Fringe of Toronto), and Sexy Laundry (Theatre Aquarius).

Other notable productions include Bella Donna (Burning Passions/ Some Strange Reason), Women Beware Women (Theatre Erindale), Sunday in the Park with George (George Brown/Equity Showcase), Le Chevalier St Georges (Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra), Titus Andronicus (Dora Nomination) and Measure for Measure (both for Shakespeare in the Rough). As well as garnering several Dora nominations, Sue has been thrice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for body of work in directing and has been twice touted as one of Toronto’s Top-10 theatre artists by NOW Magazine, and was on the Long List for the Siminovitch Prize for Directors”

She has participated in the Tapestry New Opera Works Director’s Lab and the Director’s Masterclass at the World Stage festival studying with Yoshi Oida, Phillida Lloyd and Peter Brook among others” Sue also teaches at Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Dept and George Brown. Theatre School Sue has also taught for Theatre Ontario and the Toronto District School Board as a guest artist.