Creative Partners on Stage Festival 2024

A Theatre Orangeville Academy Production

Join us for the first time ever for the Creative Partners on Stage Festival! In partnership with Community Living Dufferin, we are proud to celebrate 20 years of collaboration and theatrical programming by commemorating this occasion with an entire weekend of CPOS shows!, featuring 2 brand new works of theatre.

Since fall of 2003, Theatre Orangeville has stood proudly beside our partners at Community Living Dufferin to provide unique theatrical programming that celebrates the ability of participants. Creative Partners on Stage (C.P.O.S.) actors work with our directors and choreographers to develop two original scripts each year, fully supported by our professional production team and the accredited support workers of Community Living Dufferin. There is nothing quite like C.P.O.S. anywhere in Canada and it happens here at your theatre!

This festival will feature two shows, Break Free and That's The Ticket. Join us for a day of theatre and art, begin by seeing your first show. After the final applause head out to the lobby and down to the atrium to enjoy an extended intermission with full concession and a promenade of artisan booths. While experiencing the wide talents of CPOS actors and other neurodiverse folks in our community you'll head back into the quickly transformed Opera House to view the 2nd show.

Break Free
What happens when a group of misfits learn the power of positivity and love? What doesn't! Join us for the powerful show, Break Free, and watch these characters sing, dance, and discover their way to loving themselves!

Director and Playwright: Chandra Pepper
Movement Director and Choreographer: Jenee Gowing
Stage Manager: Alyssa Campbell

That's The Ticket
A troupe of actors is all ready for the big show, but things don't go according to plan. It all comes down to a battle of talents, and who can get the audience on their side. That's the Ticket is the witty and wonderful story of the secret potion that makes magic happen on stage and off. The show, after all, must go on!

 Director and Co-Playwright: Elizabeth Glenday
Choreographer and Co-Playwright: Kristen Gamache
Stage Manager: Kaylea Angus