FACULTY
Jade Douris-O'Hara | Studio Director
Jade Douris (she/her) is a Toronto born-and-raised, Halifax-based actor, Shakespeare coach, choreographer, singer, dancer, and instructor. She is the Studio Director and Resident Artist at Shakespeare by the Sea, where she has spent seven seasons. SBTS: Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Anna Mae (Cinderelly), Helena/Francis Flute/Cobweb (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz), Biron (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Bianca (Othello), and Tinkerbell (Peter Pan). Other Theatre: DANCE NATION (Keep Good Theatre/Heist), Celia in As You Like It and Viola in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare BASH’d), Amy in A Different Kind of Job (Theatre Aquarius). Film/TV: CBC’s According to Kids, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Trailer Park Boys: Jail. Teaching: Halifax Regional Arts All-City Shakespeare, Groove School of Dance, Star Potential Studios, Toronto StageCoach Schools, Upper Canada Repertory Company, and Sean Boutilier Academy of Dance. Choreography: eight seasons at Shakespeare by the Sea, several works for Shakespeare BASH’d, Dauntless City Theatre, and Shakespeare at Play. Awards/Affiliations: Resident Artist of Shakespeare BASH’d, winner of NOW Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for Best Site-Specific Theatre Company in 2018 and 2019. Five Merritt Award nominations, four nominations for Best Theatre Actor in The Coast's Best of Halifax.
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Any questions for Jade can be sent to jade@shakespearebythesea.ca
Drew Douris-O'Hara | Associate Artistic Director of SBTS & Studio Instructor
Drew (he/him) was Shakespeare by the Sea's youngest ever company member at the age of twelve and has been making theatre ever since. Credits include Theatre Aquarius, Neptune Theatre, Driftwood Theatre, Humber River Shakespeare, LiveBait Theatre, OneLight Theatre, Carousel Players, Lost and Found, Upper Canada Repertory Company, and over 30 productions for Shakespeare by the Sea. Drew is a Resident Artist of Toronto’s critically acclaimed Shakespeare BASH’d, for whom he has been an actor, director, producer, script editor and text coach. Drew served as Artistic Director of Toronto’s Everybody to the Theatre Company and co-created the original musical And Now, the End for Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival. Drew was the acting instructor at StageCoach (Toronto East) and the resident Shakespeare teacher for Toronto’s Upper Canada Repertory Company. Drew holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ryerson School of Performance, where he graduated in 2014 and was the inaugural recipient of the Des McAnuff Award for Excellence in Classical Theatre.
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Any questions for Drew can be sent to drew@shakespearebythesea.ca
Shanoa Phillips | Musical Director
Shanoa Phillips (she/her) is a musical theatre actor from Nova Scotia who started out at a very young age at the local Unicorn Theatre. Having discovered a passion for musical theatre in her youth, she attended the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts after high school where she studied voice, dance and acting. She then completed her degree in Music at Acadia University where she studied vocal performance, and completed her Level 8 RCM certification in piano.
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You may have seen Shanoa onstage as a member of Shakespeare by the Sea's professional acting company is such roles as Wendy in Peter Pan, the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, Moth in Love's Labour's Lost, or in one of the Unrehearsed Dream events.
Shanoa has always enjoyed teaching music to children and has over 10 years experience teaching in the arts! Having both performing and teaching experience in many musical styles (classical, musical theatre, pop, folk, etc.), Shanoa is excited to embark on each individual student's musical journey.
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