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The Summerworks Team

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Michael Caldwell

Artistic Director

Michael Caldwell (he/him) is an artistic director, curator, producer, choreographer, dancer/actor, and arts advocate, based in Toronto (Tkaronto) Canada.

Currently, Michael serves as Artistic Director at SummerWorks in Tkaronto, and as a Co-Curator for Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal, in Nova Scotia. In addition, he is a Guest Curator in various national and international contexts, acts as a consultant with various arts organizations, and is a mentor to many emerging artists/curators in the Canadian arts community. Recently, as Creative Director: Programming at Generator, he led the re-imagination of the overall governance structure of the organization, moving towards a co-leadership framework. Previously, Michael played a pivotal role in the foundational growth and development of Fall for Dance North, serving as Executive Producer for eight years. He has also previously guided projects with CanAsian Dance, Dusk Dances, Older & Reckless, and Porch View Dances.

Garnering critical acclaim, his choreography has been commissioned and presented throughout Canada and abroad at major festivals, in traditional venues and in site-responsive and community-engaged contexts. He is currently working on two collaborative trans-disciplinary performance projects, in addition to a new international collaboration with Gerry Trentham. Michael is a two-time K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation Artist Award finalist. Michael has performed and collaborated with over 55 of Canada’s esteemed performance creators and companies, working internationally and performing across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His performances have earned him two (2) Dora Mavor Moore Awards for outstanding performance in dance.

With a bachelor’s degree in film/art history from Syracuse University in upstate New York, and professional dance training at Dance Arts Institute, Michael now serves as President of the Board of Directors at The CanDance Network and also, at Toffan Rhythm Productions Inc.

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Morgan Norwich

Managing Director

Born and raised in Tkaronto, Morgan Norwich (she/her) is an arts producer, creator and administrator, who brings to SummerWorks fifteen years of experience in non-profit theatre, with a specific focus on performing arts festivals and partnership building.

For four years, Norwich served as Operations & Partnerships Coordinator at Theatre Alberta, a provincial arts service organization based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) where she managed partner and member relations as well as general operations. During this time, Morgan participated in a multi-phase adaptive change and capacity-building program led by U.S.-based EmcArts to help address complex challenges and transform organizational practices. In addition to her most recent role as Development Manager at Toronto Fringe, Morgan has worked with The Rhubarb Festival and SummerWorks in a variety of producing and administrative roles over the years.

For ten years, she and playwright Johnnie McNamara Walker created and produced new works as Nobody’s Business Theatre. Their most notable project, Redheaded Stepchild, appeared at SummerWorks Festival in 2010. Written and performed by Johnnie and directed by Morgan, the show toured festivals across North America, and was published in 2016 by Playwrights Canada Press. Morgan is a founding member and the emcee of BoylesqueTO, Canada’s premiere “Boylesque” troupe, with whom she’s been performing since 2008.

Kass Prus

Community Engagement Manager, Metcalf Foundation Intern

Kass Prus (they/them) is a queer, trans non-binary, and multiply disabled performer, movement therapist, and facilitator. A 2nd generation Ukrainian-Canadian settler, Kass was born into a home immersed in ancestral traditions, dance, music, art, and resistance to imperialism. Early formative experiences include performing as a soloist on local stages and at international CIOFF Folk Dance Festivals as a member of Arkan Ukrainian Dance Company. Kass also holds a BFA in photography from TMU and has spent eight years studying Slavic polyphonic folk singing. They’ve had opportunities to present their experimental film and photography, as well as sing, at various venues across the Greater Toronto Area.

With over 2,000 hours of training as a yoga teacher & yoga therapist, Kass moves from the understanding that illness, pain & mental health challenges are intrinsically connected to the systemic oppression upon which colonial systems stand. They integrate these insights into their role as a changemaker and arts administrator, with recent experiences at Generator TO’s Artist Producer Training, Dancemakers, Nightwood Innovators, and with Shay Erlich Consulting.

As an artist committed to challenging the exclusion they’ve faced in the name of “tradition,” Kass’s current art-making explores using contemporary performance to queer and crip Slavic folk arts practices. This reclamation of joy and play is central to their broader personal praxis as a disabled trans person navigating unjust and traumatizing systems.

Mila Frumovitz

Programming Intern

Mila Frumovitz (she/her) is a Toronto-based theatre artist, researcher, and administrator. She is completing her final year of her HBA in English and Drama at the University of Toronto, where she has worked with the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Poculi Ludique Societas, and the BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI. As a director, dramaturg, and performer, Mila is interested in feminist theatre practices, maximalist absurdism, and community-centred art-making. She will be working with Shifting Ground Collective and Claw Marks Theatre in her next theatrical endeavours.

Casper Yang

Development Intern

Casper Yang (he/him) is a fourth year University of Toronto student specializing in Finance and Economics, with a major in Drama and a minor in Environmental Economics. He brings experience in investment banking where he drafted offering materials and reconciled financial models to produce clear documents for decision makers. In university motion capture and machine learning research setting, he prepared sessions, kept structured research logs, and contributed to seminars on movement and technology. In student association leadership, he oversaw the finance portfolio and established documentation standards. At SummerWorks, he supports foundation letters, statistics, project budgets, donor lists, and tax receipting with careful writing and steady coordination.