Faculty

DANIELLE DEVEREAUX

Artistic Director - Assistant Curriculum Leader

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Danielle is an educator and artist who has taught Music Theatre, Dance, Drama, and Science in Australia and Canada. Danielle loves teaching in the Arts and has been involved in the development of Arts curriculum with the TDSB and in Australia for over 25 years. Prior to moving to Toronto she taught in both the public and private education sectors in Australia including working at the university level at University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and Queensland University of Technology for 15 years. She was also the Dance Director and Choreographer of The Drama Studio in Queensland. Danielle has been with the Toronto District School Board for 12 years teaching in a number of schools. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance and a Graduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching from the Queensland University of Technology (Australia). She achieved the Advanced level in ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance.

Her dance training includes Ballet,, Modern/Contemporary, Folk, Jazz, creative movement/composition. Selected Choreographic credits are True North Mix Tape and The Fence (Toronto Fringe Festival), WPA productions, Rosedale Dance show, USQ Drama productions (Australia), Rock Eisteddfod (Australia), World Youth Day Liturgy (Australia). Selected performances are The Fence (Toronto Fringe Festival), Sherwoodstock, Phantoad of the Opera (Toadshow productions, Australia).

Having spent the majority of her career teaching young people, Danielle knows that a quality Arts education gives people an edge, and helps them to lead happy and successful lives, no matter what field they pursue.

SHELLY MEICHENBAUM

Curriculum - Assistant Curriculum Leader

Shelly is a passionate and dedicated drama, dance and music theatre teacher. She has spent over 17 years with the Toronto District School Board, sharing her love of the arts with young people. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree from York University as well as being a graduate of Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance program. Over the years, Shelly has directed and choreographed numerous plays and musicals some of which include: Legally Blonde, Footloose, Urinetown, The Laramie Project, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Eurydice, Anything Goes, Bye Bye Birdie, Seussical, Bittergirl, and Metamorphoses. Shelly’s students have received multiple honors for their participation in the Sears Ontario Drama Festival as well as winning top prize at the Stratford Festival’s Shakespearean Challenge. Outside of school projects include directing and assistant directing for Koogle Theatre Company at both the Burlington Performing Arts Centre as well as at North York Centre for the Arts. Shelly continues to perform and work as a stage manager with the Curtain Club Theatre in Richmond Hill. Various productions she has worked on include: Best Brothers, Butcher, The Last Resort, Drowning Girls (Thea Award for Outstanding Acting Ensemble), Don’t Dress for Dinner, and The Good Doctor. Shelly has been on the steering committee for the Directors Lab North since its inception in 2011. She values this annual opportunity to meet and work with directors from around the globe, which helps her continuously expand her skills as a director and teacher. Shelly is also on the educational advisory committee for Studio 180 and has been a district co-ordinator for the National Theatre School Festival (formerly known as Sears Ontario Drama Festival).

CHARLIE AGATHOCLEOUS

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Charlie Agathocleous is an alumni of the Music Theatre program at Wexford and has worked as the Production Manager for the Performing Arts programs for twenty years. His credits include Blood Ties at the Edinborough Fringe, Summerland, The Fence and Daughters of Feminists at the Toronto Fringe Festival and a new production of Blood Ties at the Next Stage Festival this January. He has an extensive performance career in Toronto and throughout North America.

SHANNON LEW

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B.Ed (Drama/Vocal Music) – University of Western Ontario

BFA (Musical Theatre) – University of Windsor

Dip. Vocal Jazz Performance – Humber College

Drama Specialist (University of Toronto)

Special Education (AQ – University of Toronto)

Shannon is a passionate educator and artist dedicated to the continued training and nurturing of young artists. She has taught Drama, Music, Dance, Music Theatre and Special Education in her over 20 year career with the Toronto District School Board. She has provided her vocal expertise to both Static, Wexford’s Chamber Choir and the Wexford Gleeks.

Along with her love of arts education Shannon also has an ardent love for performing. She continues to perform on stage and has sung on promotional recordings for in-progress musical projects. Selected credits include: She Loves Me, Into The Woods, Sylvia, Nine, Carousel, City of Angels, Sweeney Todd, Falsettos, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

MEG LOGUE MALONE

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Margaret (Meg) Logue Malone is a Toronto-based, award-winning educator, vocalist, and musical dramaturg. She has worked as a performer and director in both Canada and Australia, and past credits have included work with the West Australian Opera Company, Barking Gecko Theatre, Effie Crump Theatre, Shakespearience, Class Act Theatre, the Blue Room, St. Lawrence Stage Company, and Young People’s Theatre. Notably, she was vocal director and musical co-arranger for the original professional production of the award-winning 'Evil Dead: the Musical,' and is an Associate Dramaturg with subTEXT Dramaturgy Solutions. Meg has twelve years teaching experience with the Toronto District School Board, as well as extensive background as a vocal, instrumental, and drama instructor. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Queen’s University at Kingston (where she co-founded the Queen’s Student Opera Company), a Bachelor of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and an Honours Specialist in both Vocal Music and Drama.

ANDY DICK

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Andrew received his training at University of King’s College and Dalhousie University earning an Advanced Double Major in Theatre and History. After graduating, Andrew was a founding member of the Irondale Ensemble, a Halifax based theatre company. He was Company Manager and a full ensemble member and performed in eighteen of the Irondale’s mainstage productions during his six years with the company. Notable productions include Bouffe, Enemy of the People, St. Joan of the Stockyards. Andrew also performed with Irondale NYC (Company Store and Our Country’s Good). He also toured Russia with the Nova Scotia Young Company and has taught theatre internationally in such locations as Dublin (UCD) and Fiji.