Associate Artists

Maev Beaty is an actor, writer and voice artist. Maev co-produced, co-wrote and co-starred in Groundwater Productions' Goblin Market and Montparnasse. She is also co-Artistic Director of Belltower Theatre and co-produced and co-starred in their projects ma jolie and The Unforgetting, both directed and written by Alan Dilworth. She was named Best Emerging Female Actor of 2007 in NOW Magazine.

Other favourite theatre credits include: Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon), Ritter, Dene,Voss (One Little Goat/La Mama, Toronto, Chicago, New York City), Taming of the Shrew (Theatre By the Bay), The Africa Trilogy (Volcano/Luminato), Birnam Wood (Theatre Rusticle), Parfumerie (Soulpepper), The Mill, Parts 1, 2 and 4 (TheatreFront), Having Hope at Home (Theatre Aquarius), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage Company, Regina's Globe Theatre, Resurgence), Palace of the End (Canadian Stage Company - Canadian Premiere), Dance of the Red Skirts (Theatre Columbus, Dora Nomination for Outstanding Performance), and Garden by Andrea Donaldson (Rhubarb, SummerWorks). www.maevbeaty.com

Alan Dilworth is an award winning theatre creator and director. He is a co-founder of Belltower Theatre, and an associate artist with acclaimed indie companies: Groundwater Productions, Convergence Theatre and Project:Humanity. He is currently a resident artist at The Theatre Centre. Alan has an MFA in directing from York University and was the 2005 Urjo Kareda Emerging Artist in Residence at Tarragon Theatre.

Selected directing credits include: After Akhmatova (Tarragon Theatre), The Great Mountain (Red Sky Performance, national tour, Smithsonian Institute), Iphigenia at Aulis (SummerWorks), If We Were Birds (Tarragon/Groundwater, SummerWorks- Jury Prize for Outstanding Production, 5 Dora nominations including Outstanding Direction), The Middle Place (Theatre Passe Muraille, Canadian Stage Company, Belfry, GCTC, Project:Humanity/SummerWorks- Crow's Theatre Directing Award), The Gladstone Variations (Convergence Theatre/Fringe, 5 Dora nominations including Outstanding Direction), Measure For Measure, The Bundle, Phedre, and Cymbeline (Theatre@York), The Unforgetting (Belltower Theatre/SummerWorks- Jury Prize for Outstanding Production), Da (Acting Irish International Theatre Festival, five jury prizes including Outstanding Production), and ma jolie (Belltower Theatre/SummerWorks).

Alan was named Toronto's best emerging male director of 2008 by Toronto's NOW Magazine.

Andrea Donaldson is a director, theatre creator and performer. Directing highlights include the SummerWorks production of Montparnasse (SummerWorks Spotlight Award – Directing), Dora nominated Offensive Fouls for Theatre Direct, Dora nominated The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski in Winnipeg, Victoria and twice in Toronto, The Blyth Festival’s Young Company, Howard Barker’s The Possibilities in Toronto and Vancouver, and Rob Baker’s Crack in Toronto and Vancouver, as well as her own play Garden at Rhubarb.

Performance highlights have included Small Wooden Shoes’ LIFE OF GALILEO, Theatre Direct’s And By the Way, Miss at Harbourfront, performing in Shhh… across Canada and in New Zealand, in The Eyes of Heaven at The Blyth Festival and performing in Living Room, the inaugural production of seventeenth floor performance company. Andrea has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in NYC, has been a guest director at Video Cabaret’s Black Box Sessions, attended Peter Hinton’s Directors Masterclass at Magnetic North, and has a BFA in Theatre from the School for Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University.

Andrea is presently developing The Dark, a new work that she initiated as Theatre Direct Canada’s Playwright in Residence, developing and directing a new work with Meagan O’Shea, performing and creating Switched with Anna Chatterton, dramaturging and directing Mourning Amsterdam with Michelle Polak and Thomas Morgan Jones and will direct Montparnasse as part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s season this spring.

Anthony Swaneveld: Creator of all identity and promotional artwork for Groundwater Productions. www.sandwichcreative.com