Our Team
Stephanie Graham
Stephanie is a Dora award winning choreographer, director, and arts leader. Directing and/or Choreography credits include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Stratford Festival), Matilda (Theatre Under the Stars), Mamma Mia, Miss Caledonia (Tweed & Co.), Chicago, Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia, Shrek, The Little Mermaid, All Shook Up, Mary Poppins, The Drowsy Chaperone (Globe Theatre), The Music Man, Anne of Green Gables (Thousand Islands Playhouse), The Last Five Years (YRG Productions), Fun Home, Grey Gardens, The Wild Party (Musical Stage Company), Chariots of Fire (Grand Theatre), Peter Pan, Cinderella, The Addams Family (Neptune Theatre), Crazy for You (Capitol Theatre Port Hope), and Next to Normal (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). She is a three-time Merritt Award nominee for choreography. Previously she was the Intern Artistic Director at the Musical Stage Company and the Associate Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre. She is an Honours Bachelor of Musical Theatre graduate from Sheridan College and an Artistic Associate at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.
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Sarah O’Brecht
Sarah O’Brecht is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from Saint John, New Brunswick. As an actor, Sarah has appeared in plays and musicals at theatres across Canada. Most recently, Sarah directed the World Premiere of Fertility for Light Echo Theatre and Legally Blonde the Musical for Randolph College and was the movement director of Into the Woods at Sheridan College. She has assistant directed Beauty and the Beast (Globe Theatre) and Lucy Maud & Anne (Smile Theatre), assistant choreographed A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Drayton), and was the dramaturge for the 2023 Banks Cabaret and 2024 Creators Project with The Musical Stage Company. On screen, Sarah has worked on The Boys, I, Object, Mother of Invention, Lady Darb, Adulting, Good Witch, Warehouse 13, as well as her short films Good With Her, directed by Sheila McCarthy, and she her him, which premiered at the Reelworld Festival. Sarah produced Race Cards (in Two Acts) for Prime Mover Theatre and was the 2022-2024 Apprentice Artistic Director of The Musical Stage Company. Upcoming: Associate Director of It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken - a new musical featuring the songs of the Tragically Hip at Theatre Aquarius in the spring of 2026.
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Ray Hogg
Ray Hogg is an award winning Black theatre artist known for creating and presenting virtuosic, visually stunning, viscerally moving theatre and live performance. He has over 20 years of artistic, educational and leadership experience in the most celebrated opera, dance, and theatre companies around the world. His work as a dancer, actor, master teacher, producer, director, and choreographer has taken him across Europe, The United States, and Canada. He has created for and performed on stages as diverse as Neptune Theatre in the east, The Arts Club Theatre Company in the west and many others in between. From 2012-2017 Ray served as Artistic Director of Rainbow Stage. He is currently an Associate Artistic Director at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, Artistic DIrector for The Musical Stage Company, and the founding Artistic Director of Prime Mover Theatre Company.
His work as Director includes: Controlled Damage (The Grand Theatre London), Da Kink In My Hair (Arts Club Theatre Co); The Tempest (Company of Fools); Cats, The Producers, Sister Act, Shrek, Little Shop of Horrors (Rainbow Stage); Five Guys Named Moe, Dreamgirls (Neptune Theatre), Love and Information, An Enemy of the People, Damn Yankees and Chicago (Sheridan College). He has choreographed for the Shaw Festival, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Neptune Theatre, the Segal Centre Montreal, and more.
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