Flush Ink
Productions
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Flush Ink Productions embraces the mission to provide innovative
and affordable theatre to the community.
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It engages in promoting the playwright’s voice through workshops,
education and readings, with the intention of fine-tuning them for future
productions, with a specific commitment to celebrating women’s voices in
theatre through an annual staged reading to raise funds for both local and
international women’s causes.
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Flush Ink Productions is committed to creating positive working
relationships with both the community and various artists, both local and
international – through which exciting and imaginative productions ensue
that heighten the profile of individual artists as well as the Region of
Waterloo in the world of theatre.
FLUSH INK PERFORMING
ARTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
ET AL
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PRESIDENT
Bruce Wolff |
BRUCE WOLFF was more surprised than anyone to be
among this group of actors in the first Asphalt Jungle Shorts. But that was ages ago. Since then, he’s participated as an
actor in She Speaks, Asphalt Jungle II and Asphalt Jungle III. Now that he’s feeling quite at home
on the stage, wherever the stage might be, we’re going to put him back
stage for this show. Bruce is
beginning to realize his secret dream of
returning to the glory years of writing, producing and acting in high
school productions. |
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SECRETARY
Lindsay Stewart |
Lindsay Stewart has
been a fixture in the region's arts and entertainment scene for more than two
decades. As a singer and well regarded songwriter, he made the college radio
charts and continues to record original material. He co-wrote a song that
reached the finals of the 1994 CFNY New Music Search and has received airplay
around the world. As a writer, he has published articles, features and
interviews regionally and internationally covering theatre, music, politics
and culture. His performance
resume includes appearances in numerous television and film productions, most
notably portraying Jimi Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer in an |
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TREASURER Judy Sangster |
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Paddy Gillard-Bentley |
Paddy has
been involved in one aspect of theatre or another since her Mother, Tessa, was
four months pregnant with her performing in Time Out For Ginger. Her full-length play, Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, had its debut in Aside from
being the Artistic Director of Flush Ink Performing Arts, Paddy is the Past-President of ICWP
(International Centre for Women Playwrights), was in Writer's Bloc, a
playwright's group affiliated with Theatre & Company for four years and was
a member of The Alumnae Theatre in |
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BOARD MEMBERS |
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Randall Howard |
Randall
Howard, General Partner, Verdexus, is a serial
entrepreneur focused investing and building world-leading technology organizations.
Over the years, Randall has run technologies companies like MKS Inc.,
which he founded, and more recently Software Innovation Inc. and Iotum Inc.
Passionate about the social sector, particularly in arts, environment and
entreprenurism, Randall is Treasurer of Roseneath Theatre and founder &
Chairman of Elora Centre for Environmental Excellence Past roles include
Director of Elora Festival and Singers, founder/Board member of Communitech
Technology Association and CFO of Uniforum Technology Association. Mr. Howard
holds an Honours B.Math from |
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Nicholas Cumming |
Nicholas Cumming is a theatre creator who immigrated
to |
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Majdi Bou-Matar |
Majdi Bou-Matar is a theatre director and performer
from The media have considered
Bou-Matar's productions to be new and innovative. He is known for his
physically-oriented and experimental work and for his challenging theatre
undertakings. Majdi represented his country of origin in the Afro-Arab Centre
for Theatre in Majdi immigrated to An active member of the |
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Director of Marketing
Brian Kelly |
Ex-officio Member of the Board Brian Kelly now has the time and
inclination...so very soon he will be writing things from plays to lyrics, doing
more acting, maybe he’ll even try his hand at directing, he should
finish his short film, resume his photographic passion, play his guitar on
every decent beach in the world and maybe have a really cool puppet tv show. Brian excels at flying a stunt kite perched on top of a huge
hay bale, while connecting deliveries across the country on his
blackberry. More than all these
things, he loves to hang out with his son, Liam. Brian is our Director of Marketing, has been our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008, read
in 2009 and will surprise us in 2010. |
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ADVISORS TO THE BOARD |
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Gary Kirkham |
Besides
work-shopping his newest play, The Lockerbie Boy, with Lost
& Found Theatre, Gary is also working on a co-production with
Mike and MT Space, The Lost City of Gadorsk. He's enjoying a stint as
a resident artist at The Button Factory, which entails (among other things)
filming a short documentary and directing the film series Bard on the
Street, a series of Shakespeare monologues done on locations throughout
the region. He's also performing with MT Space in their touring version of The
Season of Immigration. |
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Theron Kramer |
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Darlene Spencer |
Darlene Spencer received her Master of Fine Arts in
Performance from Directorial
projects include "Three Cities in the Life of Norman Bethune" a one
man opera by Tim Brady, "The Children's Hour" by Lillian Hellman,
"Our Country's Good" by Timberlake Wertenbaker, "A Spring
Awakening" by Frank Wedekind, "Les Belles Soeurs" by Michel
Tremblay, and "Romeo and
Juliet" by William Shakespeare. Selected roles include
“Sarah” in the film 976,
for which, she was awarded the 'best actor in a supporting role' with the
Planet Indie Film Festival, “Titania/Hippolyta” in A Midsummer Night's Dream" by
William Shakespeare with the York Shakespeare Festival, her one woman show Life Out Loud written by LCCARSON,
“Aeire” in Run by Victoria Goring at the Toronto Fringe Festival,
and “Helga Ten Dorp” in Deathtrap by Ira Levin with the Waterloo
Stage Company. Darlene is
also a director and has held teaching appointments at the |
Return to Flush Ink Productions
Flush Ink Productions gratefully acknowledges
the financial support of the Region of Waterloo ARTS FUND for
Asphalt Jungle Shorts III.

And the continuing support from The City of Kitchener
