The Performance Lab

Last night marked the official end of our first season! Thank you to all who came out and shared the experience with us. Having you in our audience helped push us farther, and stranger, than we have ever gone before. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for allowing us to express our inner weirdos in front of you. Until next time.

Exeunt.

Our final performance is tomorrow night and boy do we have something special planned for you! We will also find out what that is...at 8:00pm...right along with you. Tell your friends!

Episode 6 of our limited run series “The Performance Lab” is on tonight at 8pm!!! Come on out and see how this guy’s milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. Wait...yup, no, that sounds right.

Doors at 7:30p.Show at 8:00p. 587a College St. (Above Dish cooking studio), l’il Italy, Toronto, ON
Tkts at the door/$7+a roll of the dice

Round 5 coming at ya tonight! 8pm The Commons Theatre and Studio 587a College St., l’il Italy, Toronto.
Tkts: $7 + a roll of the dice

Join us this Tuesday June 11 !

Episode 4 of The Performance Lab plays tomorrow night at 8:00pm! Performing in front of a live audience every week this group of talented actors improvise their way into your hearts and minds. Join us for an evening of discovery and get to know these three handsome fellers!

The Commons Theatre and Studio 587a College St., L’il Italy, Toronto 8:00pm (tkts at the door/$7 + a roll of the dice)

If you can relate to this we meet every Tuesday at 8pm, 587a College St., L’il Italy, Toronto The Commons Theatre and Studio (tkts at the door/cash only)

"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, forget the audience" - Tom Hiddleston

That’s what these two Lab Rats will be doing next Tuesday June 4th 8pm The Commons Theatre and Studio 587a College St., l’il Italy, Toronto. (Ps. It is also Catherine Fergusson’s bday!🥳🥳🥳)

Meet Flavie Peynot!

Flavie Peynot is very excited to join fellow lab rats for the Performance Lab shows. She previously worked with Michael Gellman at Second City and has been involved with Process theatre for 2 years. Favorite credits include Drunk Shakespeare and off Broadway productions in NY, she is a proud member of The NY Plinth Company and recently contributed and starred in a production of A.R Gurney's Love Letters in Toronto. She holds a degree in Acting from David Mamet's Atlantic school in NY and studied Improv at Second City, Toronto.
She is also a Burlesque performer, doing shows in Europe and hopefully soon Toronto!

Meet Cleo Vaillancourt!

Cleo is a Toronto based young professional clawing her way into the film industry. Upon graduating from Guelph University’s Theatre program, Cleo and her friends created The Muddy Mary Project, a collaborative theatre company where she helped to produce, write and performed in the play Finding Temperance. When she’s not hauling leaky garbage bags on set Cleo is actively creating and improvising with her friend

Tuesday May 28th is gonna be a night to remember!

Our next performance is Tuesday May 28th at 8pm The Commons Space 587a College St. L’il Italy, Toronto.

Here are two of the peeps you will see onstage!

Catherine Fergusson

Catherine hails from Vancouver BC. She is delighted to be making her Process Theatre debut. She has backgrounds in improvisation, musical theatre, and classical acting. When not performing she can be spotted zipping down the streets of downtown on her bike, singing showtunes.

“Improvised Acting is the only medium in which I am utterly myself, whether I’m playing a space alien or a 25 year-old Torontonian. There is no writer, no agenda - I speak only from my heart.”

Jordan Van Dyck

Jordan is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, as well as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s Shakespeare Program in London, England. Having also studied the Meisner Technique in Toronto and Montreal under the tutelage of both John Riven and the late Jacqueline McClintock. Proud to make his Process Theatre and Improvised Acting debut with Michael J Gellman. Which has synchronistically proven to be an amalgamation of all of the aforementioned techniques.

Selected film and television credits include: The Last Sect (opposite David Carradine), Garm Wars: The Last Druid (Dir. Mamoru Oshii/Ghost In The Shell), Incorporated (CBS) and The Expanse (CBS).

“I have never felt so free to bring myself into any character that comes my way thanks to Michael’s techniques.”

"I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of the aesthetic of improvisation is service. We don't lead, we only follow. You never say no. Serve the servant, follow the follower. And that's very valuable in your life, as well as very valuable in your work." ~ Stephen Colbert (alum and colleague of our proctor Michael J Gellman)

Congratulations to all who took the stage yesterday evening! Stephanie Herrera, Catherine Fergusson, Cleo Vaill, Kelsey Flower, Jim Canale, Mihaly Szabados, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Flavie Peynot, Anne-Marie Krytiuk and Bob Calwell!!!