Job Posting: Audience & Partnership Liaison, One Little Goat Theatre Company

One Little Goat Theatre Company is looking for an Audience & Partnership Liaison to:

  • Build audiences with us
  • Manage cross-promotional partnerships with sponsors and associate companies
  • Engage the public via web and social media announcements
  • Contribute to production meetings

This is a paid, part-time, contract position for our upcoming premiere at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace. Given the sensitive nature of the production’s content (not yet publicly announced), social awareness, sensitivity and nuanced communication is of great importance for prospective candidates. Work begins ASAP, leading up to and carrying through the production run (March 2-12, 2017).

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat” (New York Times) is North America’s only theatre company devoted to contemporary poetic theatre. Founded in New York in 2002, and based in Toronto since 2005, the company is acclaimed for its highly interpretive, provocative approach to international plays.

Please submit résumé, including two references, plus a *brief* cover note by email to Adam Seelig, Artistic Director, onelittleg@gmail.com. Only applicants being considered will be contacted. For more about One Little Goat, please visit: www.OneLittleGoat.org.

PLAY this Saturday + Trillium Grant to perform for 10,000 school kids

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat” (New York Times) has been awarded an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant to perform the company’s first play for young audiences in 40 Model Schools for Inner Cities. As a result, the production will reach 10,000 elementary students in the Toronto District School Board this fall, free of charge.

With over a decade of acclaimed productions for adult audiences, One Little Goat makes its theatre- for-young-audiences debut with PLAY: A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids, a new work written and directed by Artistic Director Adam Seelig.

 

PLAY will also have its public premiere at this year’s Book Bash Canadian Children’s Literature Festival, hosted by the Toronto Public Library at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA). The performance takes place at Harbourfront Studio Theatre, Saturday, October 22, 2016, 12-4pm. Admission is free. More information is available via IFOA.

Beginning with such classic children’s games as tag, PLAY: A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids is a dynamic introduction to some of the world’s most enduring and innovative games called “plays.” Actors Richard Harte and “Mavis- the-Sometimes-Cat” (Jessica Salgueiro, alternating with Rochelle Bulmer) guide elementary school audiences through four distinct periods of drama:

  1. Early Beginnings: games around the fire
  2. Ancient Greek Tragedy: Antigone by Sophocles
  3. Japanese Noh Theatre: Zeami and 14th-Century Noh
  4. Modern Theatre: Alfred Jarry, Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett

For complete details, visit PLAY's website Many thanks to all of our supporters!

Announcing One Little Goat's 1st Play for Kids

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat” (New York Times)
is delighted to announce our first play for young audiences

PLAY:
A (MINI) HISTORY OF THEATRE FOR KIDS

Jessica Salgueiro & Richard Harte (photo: One Little Goat)

Jessica Salgueiro & Richard Harte (photo: One Little Goat)

Written & Directed by ADAM SEELIG. Featuring RICHARD HARTE (Ubu Mayor, Antigone:Insurgency) & JESSICA SALGUEIRO (The Charge of the Expormidable Moose, Like the First Time). Stage Managed by SAM HALE. Set & Costume design by JACKIE CHAU.

Visit PLAY's page.

Job Posting: Stage Manager, One Little Goat Theatre Company

One Little Goat Theatre Company is seeking a Stage Manager for rehearsals of a new play in development. Rehearsals will begin July 13, 2015 with exact schedule to be determined.

This is a paying, non-Equity position. Non-Equity SMs and Equity apprentice SMs may apply. Applicants must have strong stage managing skills with demonstrated prior experience/training.

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat” (New York Times) is North America’s only theatre company devoted to contemporary poetic theatre. Acclaimed for its highly interpretive, provocative approach to international plays, One Little Goat consistently features leading Canadian theatre artists.

Please submit résumé, including at least two references, plus a *brief* cover note by email to Adam Seelig, Artistic Director, chadgadya@gmail.com. Only applicants being considered will be contacted.

Submission deadline: Monday, June 15, 2015.
For more about One Little Goat, please visit: www.OneLittleGoat.org.

ANNOUNCING THE CAST for UBU MAYOR!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto, June 23, 2014

Media contact: Linda Litwack Publicity, 416-782-7837, lalitwack AT rogers.com

**Announcing the Cast**

UBU MAYOR: A Harmful Bit of Fun

September 12-21, 2014 in Toronto

Radical spirit of merde-filled classic meets

renowned antics of Toronto's mayor in new play with live music

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat Theatre Company” (New York Times) has announced its cast for the world premiere of Ubu Mayor: A Harmful Bit of Fun, written, directed and composed by Artistic Director Adam Seelig.

Just in time for Toronto's highly anticipated municipal election, Ubu Mayor combines the radical spirit of Ubu Roi, French writer Alfred Jarry's outrageous masterpiece of 1896, with the internationally broadcast antics and obscenities of Toronto's mayor and brother, Rob and Doug Ford. This marks One Little Goat's first production featuring live music.

The Equity production opens Friday, September 12, 2014 and runs to Sunday, September 21, Tuesdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood Avenue, located in Artscape's Wychwood Barns. Tickets are $25; $20 for students, seniors and artists. Information and tickets may be obtained by calling One Little Goat Theatre Company at 416-915-0201 or visiting www.OneLittleGoat.org.

THE CAST:  Ubu Mayor features 2012 Dora Award winner Astrid Van Wieren (This Wide Night, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding) as Huhu; Michael Dufays (2013 Dora Award nominee for Arigato Tokyo) as Dudu; and Richard Harte (Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Boys in the Photograph, One Little Goat's Antigone:Insurgency) as Ubu, the play's mayor.

Director of the highly acclaimed The Charge of the Expormidable Moose ("a tour de force" –Globe and Mail) and writer of plays including Antigone:Insurgency (NNNN –Now) and Talking Masks (**** –Eye), Adam Seelig has now written his first "play with music." Seelig's original songs for the play include B-b-b-b-b-bacon, Etobicokaine, Plenty to Eat at Home and others.

Directing the music and live band for the production is virtuoso bassist Tyler Emond. Emond regularly works with leading musicians in various genres, including multi-gold album artist Matt Dusk, Jessica Stuart, Mr. Something Something and Randy Brecker. He is the 2007 recipient of Humber College's highest distinction in music, the Oscar Peterson Prize.

The design team for Ubu Mayor boasts numerous Dora nominations, with sets and costumes by Jackie Chau and lighting by Laird MacDonald.

Ubu Mayor combines the outrageousness of Alfred Jarry's dadaist classic with the widely reported sexist, racist, homophobic and alleged criminal scandals of Toronto’s current mayor and his city councillor brother. Still, the play does not directly represent actual political figures.

"This is not journalistic theatre," says Seelig, "nor is it agitprop or verbatim theatre. People familiar with the recent mayoral scandals will appreciate how they're woven into the play. Those who aren't will simply enjoy Ubu Mayor for what it truly is: an all-out romp of asinine absurdity. With music."

SYNOPSIS: Ubu Mayor involves a mayor (Ubu) whose wife (Huhu) is having an affair with his older brother (Dudu). Ubu wants Huhu to love him again and he wants what's best for the city, but both his love and political ideals are foiled by brother Dudu's machinations.

Adam Seelig is a poet, playwright, stage director, and founder of Toronto’s One Little Goat Theatre Company. Born and raised in Vancouver, Seelig has also lived in northern California, New York, England and Israel. He is the author of the novella Every Day in the Morning (slow) (New Star Books, shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award). Some of his previous plays include Antigone:Insurgency (Toronto 2007) Talking Masks (Toronto 2009; published by BookThug) and Like the First Time (Toronto 2011; published by BookThug). Seelig is the recipient of a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Stanford Golden Grant for his work on Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts. He is a 2013/2014 RBC Director at Canadian Stage.

One Little Goat, North America’s only company devoted to contemporary poetic theatre, “has done audiences a huge service” (Toronto Star) through its highly interpretive, provocative approach to new and international plays. The company's Canadian and world premieres have garnered praise from the New York Times, Globe and Mail, Economist, Now and others. More information on the company is available at www.OneLittleGoat.org.

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The Media is Invited: Fri & Sat, Sept. 12 & 13, 8 p.m.; Sun Sept. 14, 2 p.m.

For media reservations, interviews, photos and further info, contact:

Linda Litwack

416-782-7837

e-mail: lalitwack AT rogers.com         

www.OneLittleGoat.org

Main Pronunciations: 

Seelig – SEE-lig;  Chau – Chow;  Emond — eh-MON

Ubu (Mayor) – OO-boo;  Huhu – HOO-hoo;  Dudu – DOO-doo

Ubu Roi (French pronunciation of Jarry’s play): - Ü-bü  rwah