Sue Miner
Director
Director
Sue is delighted to be working with Jeunesses Musicales and Theatre Cotton Robes for this production of Orphea and the Golden Harp. A native Montrealer Sue graduated from the National Theatre School’s acting section in 1983. She is both a freelance director and co-artistic director of Pea Green Theatre Group with her husband Mark Brownell. Her work with Pea Green includes the musical The Barbeque King, Conservatives in Love, Medici Slot Machine, Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman, Playballs, The Blue Wall and Orchidelerium. Recent credits include I Love You Forever and More Munsch (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) Celine Speaks (Fringe of Toronto), and Sexy Laundry (Theatre Aquarius). Other notable productions include Bella Donna (Burning Passions/ Some Strange Reason), Women Beware Women (Theatre Erindale), Sunday in the Park with George (George Brown/Equity Showcase), Le Chevalier St. Georges (Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra), Titus Andronicus and Measure for Measure (both for Shakespeare in the Rough).
Sue has garnered several Dora nominations, been thrice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for body of work in directing and has been twice touted as one of Toronto’s Top-10 theatre artists by NOW Magazine. Her production of Love You Forever and More Munsch for Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, which she also co-adapted, garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Production. She has participated in the Tapestry New Opera Works Director's Lab and the Director’s Masterclass at the World Stage Festival studying with Yoshi Oida and Peter Brook among others. Sue also teaches at Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Dept. and the George Brown. Theatre School.
Sue has garnered several Dora nominations, been thrice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for body of work in directing and has been twice touted as one of Toronto’s Top-10 theatre artists by NOW Magazine. Her production of Love You Forever and More Munsch for Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, which she also co-adapted, garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Production. She has participated in the Tapestry New Opera Works Director's Lab and the Director’s Masterclass at the World Stage Festival studying with Yoshi Oida and Peter Brook among others. Sue also teaches at Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Dept. and the George Brown. Theatre School.
Upcoming stuff: directing The Tempest for Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park and directing and choreographing The Fanasticks for Red Barn Theatre, both Summer 2009.
Website: www.peagreentheatre.com
