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We are so excited to welcome Matt Armet to JMTC to give us a fun Zoom Combo!!!

Matt is a triple threat performer, choreographer, director, instructor and adjudicator originally from Battleford, SK. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts with a specialty in choreography. His career has taken him all across Canada, most notably to six season at the Stratford Festival, where show highlights include Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Crazy For You, Fiddler on the Roof, Tommy and 42nd Street. He has performed along side Kurt Browning in Peter Pan (Elgin Theatre), and George Wendt in Hairspray (Charlottetown Festival). Manitoba credits include: Cabaret, White Christmas (RMTC), Cinderella (Rainbow), Frog in A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP). Select film credits include: Feist’s music videos “1234” and “My Moon, My Man”, and Johnny J, a member of the band SOUNDCHECK, in Odd Squad (PBS/TVO). He was choreographer for Mamma Mia: Lawyers Show (RoyalMTC); Guys and Dolls: in Con-cert with the (WSO/Rainbow Stage). He is a regular teacher at Drop In Dance Winnipeg and the RWB and is currently the Drama Outreach Coordinator at Manitoba Theatre for Young People.

We are so excited to welcome Broadway’s Andrea Macasaet to JMTC for a Singing workshop!!!

Andrea Macasaet: Leading with light and love, Andrea is a Filipino-Canadian performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba who has been critically acclaimed by The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Boston Globe and featured in The New York Times. Originating and making her Broadway Debut in the production of SIX THE MUSICAL at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Andrea has been playing the role of Anne Boleyn since the North American premiere of the show in Chicago where it then travelled to The American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge), Citadel Theatre (Edmonton) and to the Ordway Theatre (Minnesota) before making its final stop in New York City.  
Her Canadian credits include productions of Heather’s The Musical, Avenue Q, Prairie Nurse, Miss Saigon.
With goals to break the mold, Andrea is a driven, passionate artist – in and out of the work environment. Giving space to laugh and to feel.

Looking forward to working on our new Medley of Showtunes!! Contemporary hits and solos for everyone to ensure we continue to grow and build those skills!

All of the JMTC participants took to Zoom to celebrate all of the hard work that we put into Matilda. There was singing, dancing, acting and a lot of laughs. A beautiful way to close JMTC’s bizarre season. Looking forward to getting started on our new pieces as of January 2021!!!

We have had to move onto Zoom in order to continue to keep everyone safe. We will continue our choreography, blocking and singing rehearsals and plug on with Matilda 2.0.

In order to stay safe and continue working on our show, JMTC has moved to an outdoor rehearsal location. Masked, temperature checked and distanced as well as half hour sanitizing breaks. It’s not how we would choose to do things but in order to keep everyone safe, this is what we must do! Looking forward to seeing everyones bright eyes over those masks!!

Counting down the minutes till we get to see everyone again at a safe distance.

Getting ready for the 2020 JMTC Tony’s, first ever online edition! Looking forward to celebrating all of the hard work these JMTC’ers have put in this year in-person and online!

While we await the plans for the release of the next phase in the restoration of services in Manitoba, we have made the decision to postpone what was supposed to be our June year-end show to dates in December 2020. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring you this beautiful piece of theatre in the near future. Should our plans have to change, we will continue to make public announcements and keep everyone in the loop. Our main concern is the health and safety of all of our students, our families and our supporters and we will continue to make decisions based on that. Thank you for your patience. Wishing you love and health in these bizarre times.

JMTC was asked to be featured in the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s online theatre magazine, Backstage In The Peg.

Check them out at about 9:50.