Schoolhouse

Director: Aaron Jan
Poster Design: Hayden DiMarco

Schoolhouse

by Leanna Brodie

Directed by: Aaron Jan
Stage Manager: Kelsey Howatt
Acting Coach: Erynn Brook
Lighting Design: Brandon Gonçalves
Costume & Scenic Design: Helen Androlia
Props Design: Kelsey Howatt
Technical Director: Paul Stafford
Fight Director: M. John Kennedy
Scenic Painter: Will Bonham
Songs by Annika Tupper
Production Photography: Dahlia Katz
Poster Design: Hayden DiMarco

Original Music Composed by: Cole Cliche-Mason, Moira Dann, Izzy Shannon

Original Choreography by Evelyn Little, Jenna Neverson, Callum Thompson, and the Schoolhouse Ensemble

Sound Design: Spence Jackson, Alastor Turner
Lead ASM: Dani Padron
ASM Team: Veronica Erwin, Summer Hartlin, Jayden Somer, Jakob Zancanaro
Music Director: Moira Dann
Dance Captain: Jayden Somer
Fight Captain: Callum Thompson
Prop Builders: Cole Cliche-Mason, Moira Dann, Veronica Erwin, Summer Hartlin, Samantha Hoben, Dani Padron, Izzy Shannon, Samuel Wiles, Gigi Zganjer
SFX Makeup: Audrey Gilman

Run

March 17th - March 21st, 2026

Synopsis

The time: 1938. The place: S.S. #1 Jericho School, a one-room schoolhouse in a farming area just outside the fictional village of Baker’s Creek. There, a delightful but unmanageable group of children finally meets its match—Melita Linton, an 18-year-old teacher fresh out of Normal School. But Miss Linton soon faces her own challenge in the form of Ewart, a menacing and mysterious juvenile delinquent sent to “straighten out” on a farm after doing time in Battenville Training School. The play chronicles Miss Linton’s struggle to connect with a boy cut off from everyone, including himself—and to persuade a cautious and close-knit community to open its arms to this stranger in their midst.

Full of warmth and poignant humour, Schoolhouse evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural North Americans, while exploring timeless themes of exclusion, of compassion, of damage, of hope.

Cast

Alastor Turner
Audrey Gilman
Blake Carey
Callum Thompson
Cole Cliche-Mason
Dani Padron
Evelyn Little
Gigi Zganjer
Henry Storey
Izzy Shannon
Jakob Zancanaro
Jayda Freeman
Jayden Somer
Jenna Neverson
Keona Bruton
Moira Dann
Sam Hoben
Samuel Wiles
Spence Jackson
Summer Hartlin
Veronica Erwin