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.

Morgan Norwich

Managing Director

Born and raised in Tkaronto, Morgan Norwich (she/her) is an arts producer, creator and leader, who brings 15 years of experience in non-profit theatre to SummerWorks, 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 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 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.

Morgan is a member of EPIC Leadership’s non-profit executive coaching program. She currently sits on the TAPA Board of Directors as a members of the Finance Committee.

Brian Postalian

Festival Producer

Brian Postalian (any pronouns) is a Toronto-based theatre creator, producer, and facilitator working across performance, festivals, and community-engaged practice. They are the Artistic Producer at Theatre Direct and previously served as Industry Producer at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Brian is the founding Artistic Director of Re:Current Theatre, an award-winning immersive company, and a certified facilitator of Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Their work centres on creating dynamic, accessible spaces for artists and audiences, with a focus on collaboration, experimentation, and care. They have produced and presented work across Canada and internationally.

Mandy E. MacLean

Accesibility Producer

Mandy E. MacLean (she/her) is an artist, theatremaker, and access and disability arts practitioner based in Tkarón:to, with her Cocker Spaniel, Mulder. A proud Maritimer, she is a member of the Mad Community and lives with a non-visible disability. She is currently the Artistic & Access Producer at Crossroads Theatre. Mandy’s practice spans multiple disciplines and centres on a Cripped approach to access-driven collaboration. She is passionate about challenging broad and traditional approaches to creative meaning-making, and has worked with organizations including PACT, TAPA, Arthouse Australia, FOLDA Festival, Sick & Twisted, Generator, Toronto Fringe, Young People’s Theatre, Roseneath, Tarragon, Factory, and Harbourfront in a variety of access-focused roles. She was recently the Dramaturgy & Accessibility Associate (Metcalf Intern) at Theatre Passe Muraille. Her current work includes participating in a research initiative on Sensory Sensitivity and Relaxed Performance with the Central School in London, and is developing a Sensory Theatre work, The Concussion Play; or How I Learned to Wait, with support from the OAC. As she collaborates and intersects with structures and practices, Mandy believes that considering access can lead to creatively rich and innovative experiences for everyone!

Nathan Gregory

Production Manager

As a grad of Performance: Production at TMU’s School of Performance, Nathan works in the realms of upper management, in Technical Direction, and Production & Stage Management. Nathan works freelance in the theatre industry as a technician, stagehand, and driver of large trucks. Past credits include Technical Director for THE DIVISION (Project Humanity/Crows Theatre), PM/TD for the Ontario Tour of ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Bad Hats Theatre), Production Manager for JOB (Coal Mine Theatre), Producer for Toronto Metropolitan Theatre Company (2020-2024), Technical Director for THE FLIN FLON COWBOY (FFC Collective/Theatre Passe Muraille), and Apprentice Production Manager for THE CANADIAN FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS (Musical Stage/Canadian Stage). Nathan recently worked as the Assistant Technical Director for The Creative School Chrysalis (formerly the Ryerson Theatre) at TMU.

Claire Whitaker

Marketing Manager

Claire Whitaker (she/her) is a Toronto-based freelance contemporary dance artist, marketing manager, and photographer who loves moving between creative worlds. She’s performed both her own solo work and pieces by Kylie Thompson, Colleen Snell, Compagnie de la Citadel, and, most recently, with Rock Bottom Movement in Sex Dalmatian’s Hot Holiday Spectacular. Touring with Compagnie de la Citadel has brought her to Kitchener and Montreal, with Regina and international stops in Bogotá and Medellín on the horizon.

In 2022, Claire co-created Mallo Nights – An Evening of Poetry and Dance with wind in the leaves collective artistic director charles c. smith and collaborator Ana Groppler. A cozy, collaborative series that connects poets and dancers through improvisation and shared performance.

Claire is thrilled to be on the SummerWorks team again this year!

Rachana Joshi

Marketing Manager

Rachana Joshi is a Tkaronto-based independent dance artist, choreographer, and arts administrator. Since completing her Bharatanatyam arangetram under Lata Pada in 2017, her practice has focused on the intersection of classical structures and contemporary approaches. Through her work, she examines the geometry and rhythmic complexity of Bharatanatyam, using Indian mythology and ritual as grounding tools in her work.

Rachana serves as the Artistic Director of Kala Dance Collective, an organization dedicated to amplifying diasporic voices through community programming and artistic work. She also supports the local dance community through her administrative work with Citadel + Compagnie. Rachana is committed to fostering sustainable, inclusive spaces for performance and training.”

Will Parry

Social Media Manager

Will Parry (they/he) is an Actor, Singer, Award-Winning Content Creator. Selected Performance Credits: Milky White & Others in Into the Woods (Koerner Hall), Hare in Hare & Tortoise (Carousel Players), Seán in The Wild Rovers (Smile Theatre), Toto in Wizard of Oz: The Panto and Tootles in Peter Pan: The Panto (Drayton Entertainment). They have performed in cabarets with Theatre Gargantua, Icarus Theatre, and self-produced their own cabaret, Here I Am: A Cabaret! On socials, Will has collaborated with brands including Fabricland, White Claw Canada, and Freshii. Will has also collaborated with theatre companies including Grand Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto Fringe, and more. Past account management clients include Ukulele U, Koerner Hall, Drayton Entertainment Youth Academy, and more! Instagram: @willxparry

jonnie lombard

Patron Services Manger – Ticketing

jonnie is a trans theatre thing from the woods stumbling through side quests of sentience. they perform, poeticize, and party in pop-art melodrama playgrounds, from bars to basements to the Summerworks Box Office and back again, always with the primary intention of wearing hot new outfits. jonnie has recently been a pigeon, a snail-mountain lovechild, a monster made of markers, a cyber-canine demon, a gender-questioning mouse, and tiny tim. they have learned and grown at the Paprika Festival, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, and most of all from their friends. if you ask jonnie to go dancing they will always say yes! they are so happy to be back at Summeworks for more fun in the sun!

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.