Meet Your Team!
Mr. Kohut - Director
Mr. Kohut is thrilled to be back for a fourth year at Glenlawn! He is so grateful to get to work with all the wonderful staff and amazing students once again. This year Mr. Kohut is working at Rainbow Stage as Production Administrator and Education Developer. He is also the Production Manager for the All Dentist Musical's charitable production of The Addams Family. Favourite performances: Scarecrow in Wizard Of Oz, Rueben in Joe's Dreamcoat, and Ensemble in Chicago, Crazy For You and Beauty and the Beast '04, '11 (Rainbow); Ensemble in White Christmas (MTC); Ensemble in Guys & Dolls (MTC, Citadel, Theatre Calgary); World Tap Championship Bronze Medal in Senior Formations, and performing for a year on a cruise ship. Favourite directing: Grease, Shrek the Musical, and The Wedding Singer (GCI); Lucrezia Borgia, Music Theatre Idol series, The Late Show, Studio 54 (WRP); Krummhorn Castle (KTG); Guys & Dolls (ADM), The Wizard Of Oz, The Music Man (RJCC) and assistant director/choreographer on Ring Of Fire (Rainbow). Other favourite choreo: Little Shop Of Horrors (ADM), Burnin' Love (PTE) and Bloodsuckers the Musical (KTG). Mr. Kohut looks forward to the challenges Hairspray brings and hopes to navigate the team with as much love, joy and respect as possible. He is honoured to be part of such a special program. Mr. Kohut dedicates this show to his beautiful wife Annette, and his three cats Kimmy, Bug and Chopper.
Ms. Bamford - Music Director
Ms. Hunter
"Brittany Hunter is a musical theatre performer, teacher and choreographer . She is a graduate of Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton AB, where she received her Theatre Arts diploma. Brittany began her career as a professional musical theatre performer in Winnipeg with Rainbow Stage, and routinely appears in musical theatre productions across North America. She has a strong foundation in a variety of dance disciplines including, tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, lyrical and musical theatre. Some of her most recent credits include: Beauty and the Beast, Shrek (Rainbow Stage); Flavius in Timon of Athens (Shakespeare in the Ruins); St Jimmy in American Idiot, Heather Chandler in Heathers (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Billy Elliot (RMTC). She will be next appearing in Winnipeg Studio Theatre's production of Reefer Madness as Sally in December 2018.
Brittany has been teaching Musical Theatre for over 11 years, where she has had the opportunity to work with a wide array of students. During that time her choreography has won many awards which include; the Manitoba Dance Festival and Canadian Nationals Dance Competition in the Musical Theatre category. For the past three years, she has taught at Rainbow Stage for events such as Camp Rainbow and the Teen Musical Theatre conference. She is currently teaching Tap and Musical Theatre at LA Dance Academy in Winnipeg. Brittany is continually evolving as a performer and a teacher by attending professional development workshops and is continuously excited to share her gift and love of dance with the next generation of dancers."
Mr. Crowe - Producer, Teacher
I'm happy to be working on my 9th musical at Glenlawn! Before coming to GCI, I was Musical Director at Nelson McIntrye Collegiate from 2001-2009. In that time, the students of NMC and I put on productions of Annie, The Sound of Music, Kiss Me Kate, Little Shop of Horrors, Leader of the Pack, LondonTown, The Music Man and The Cradle Will Rock. In 2010 I was the director of the pit band for NMC's production of The Wizard of Oz.
Mr. Sobering - Carpenter / Set Construction
We are pleased to be welcoming Mr. Sobering into our musical family for his very first season!
Mr. Demeku-Ousman - Technical Adviser
Amar is mostly a freelance lighting and audio technician with a passion for musicals. His love started at John Taylor Collegiate with his first production of 'Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' in grade 11, and has not stopped since. If he cant find a role on stage, he's behind the scenes dealing with the technical side of theater, or in the pit band playing guitar.
Mr. Brett Davies - Theatre Consultant
Mr. Davies is happy to be back again to assist in advising on all elements of theatre maintenance and up-keep. We couldn't do the show without him!