2021
The Long Story Short Festival
Festival Directors - Catherine Spear and Kristopher Tharris
Video Editor - Catherine Spear
Producers - Jennifer Gabriel and Leslie Hammil
Creative Coach - Rachel Rumstein
Youth Director - Natalie Ried
Music Coach - Stephanie Turpin
Sound Editor - Eric Ducasse
Suzart Productions is proud to present a bold new festival that has never been done in Ottawa before!
The Long Story Festival encouraged directors and performers to create theatre in a way that is safe for our community, experiment with new skills in producing theatre for a virtual world, and connect and learn together while creating something new. These fantastic 10-minute musicals streamed from February 25th to 27th, 2022.
Ant and the Grasshopper
On Your Mark
Run This Town
Bittersweet Lullaby
Book Lovers
The Answering Machine
Welcome to Ridgington
Text Me
Online Experience
Alaina Viau, Director, Director of Photography and Editor
Samuel Bisson, Instruments, Composer
Charlotte Siegel, Librettist
Text Me follows a day in the life of 10 diverse women and non-binary female presenting people, depicting their fears, challenges, and barriers they face living in a world made for and catered to men. Although they don’t all know each other, their stories all tie together in an unspoken pact to keep each other safe “Text me when you get home/Text me when you’re on your way/We look out for each other”. Loose Tea Music Theatre in partnership with Suzart Productions developed Text Me from the conversations in our round table discussions with the cast about living in a patriarchal society and violence carried out by men against women. Their stories and passion inspired creative team Alaina Viau (Creator), Samuel Bisson (Composer) and Charlotte Siegel (Librettist).
Produced by Loose Tea Music Theatre in partnership with Suzart Productions
Funded by The Ottawa Community Foundation
https://www.alainaviau.com/text-me
Hairspray
Director - Lisa Dunn
Choreographer - Alianne Rozon
Music Director - Christopher Natuik
Stage Manager - David Ing
Producers - Ariana Barker and Shona Woodland-Srinivasan
HAIRSPRAY
The Broadway Musical
Book by MARK O'DONNELL & THOMAS MEEHAN
Music by MARC SHAIMAN
Lyrics by SCOTT WITTMAN & MARC SHAIMAN
Based on the New Line Cinema film, written and directed by John Waters
The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.
2 hours with a 15 minute intermission
