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Shadowland Theatre was founded in 1983 on Toronto Island by a collective of visual and theatre artists. Shadowland is now based in a studio in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto working in collaboration with local organizations and community members travels throughout the GTA and across Ontario.

Shadowland has won three Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Costume Design and was voted Best Grassroots Theatre by Toronto’s NOW magazine.

Shadowland is a proud member of Raucus Caucus, a collective of visual theatre practitioners that includes Puppetmongers, Jumblies, and Clay & Paper Theatres.
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​Shadowland’s Artistic directors are Anne Barber and Brad Harley. 

Anne Barber trained in Theatre at the innovative Dartington College of Arts, then worked for ten years with Horse and Bamboo, the UK’s only horse-drawn theatre. Anne came to Canada, via Bread and Puppet Theater, to join Shadowland Theatre in 1992. She directs most of the company’s productions. Anne founded a weekly youth theatre program, now in its 21st year, for young people of the Toronto Island community and with them creates an annual Mummers play, video works, stilt performances and small puppet shows. She has extensive teaching experience with learners of all ages in Ontario schools, colleges and universities and in hands-on workshops in mask and puppetry, stilt-walking and outdoor performance. 
Contact Anne at shadow@shadowlandtheatre.ca or 416 898 0946
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Brad Harley trained as a visual artist and graphic designer and was a founding member of Shadowland in 1983. His theatre work is influenced by Welfare State International (UK), Callalloo Productions (Trinidad) and Bread and Puppet Theater (US). Brad’s expressive design sensibility defines Shadowland’s highly visual aesthetic. No puppet is too big or too small! Brad creates short videos of Shadowland’s productions as well as his own video works. He is in demand as a theatre designer, props maker and creator of complicated animated sculptures and has designed the props for VideoCabaret’s History of the Village of the Small Huts productions since 1983.
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Contact Brad at brd.harley@gmail.com or 416 203 0946


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