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Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg

Joel Greenberg

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Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 74

Hosted by Joel Greenberg, Life in Stages is a series of weekly conversations with established performing arts professionals – actors, directors, writers, etc. – who discuss their lives, careers, challenges, triumphs, and not-so-triumphs. Please consider supporting the show by becoming a Patron or sending an e-transfer to jericalifeinstages (at) rogers (dot) com.

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Kelli Fox

Season 5 · Episode 6

Thursday, November 5, 2026 • Duration 55:43

Kelli is an actor/director with 40 years on stages across Canada, and in the US, including 15 seasons with the Shaw Festival, and 3 seasons with the Stratford Festival. Most recently she helmed an acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot at Coal Mine Theatre in Toronto. Other directing credits include the premiere of Nick Green’s play, Dinner with the Duchess for Here For Now Theatre, The Fox (HFN Theatre), The Drowning Girls, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Christmas Carol, I and You (Globe Theatre), Hamlet (Shakespeare on the Sask), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SotB - Theatre Calgary), Kitchen Radio, (Blyth Festival) Gaslight (Shaw Festival), and Between Riverside and Crazy (Coal Mine Theatre) for which she received a Dora nomination. As an actor, Kelli has been recognized with a Jessie award (Keely & Du, Arts Club/CanStage), a Dora nomination (Top Girls, Soulpepper), a Capitol Critics Circle award (A Room of One's Own, Shaw tour), a Toronto Critics’ Circle award (Penelopiad,Nightwood Theatre), as well as sharing a Dora with the Penelopiad ensemble. She was the 2016 recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Prize recognizing emerging directors transitioning mid-career. Currently she is Artistic Director at Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops.

The generosity of our sponsors for Season 5 is deeply appreciated: Tim Zeigler of Tim Zeigler Wealth Management (zeiglerwealth.com), returning for his third season sponsorship, and Marc Bondy of Outlook Promotions (outlookpromo.com) signing on for his first season. They, and many individual donors, have helped to make Life in Stages possible.

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Stephen Woodjetts

Season 5 · Episode 5

Thursday, October 29, 2026 • Duration 42:29

Stephen is the guy who was Musical Director everywhere and for everything, or so I recall, in the 70’s and 80’s – and beyond – as I was making my way in the Toronto scene. He dates the start of his career as 1974, which places us in the same timeframe.

Fifteen seasons at the Stratford Festival expanded his horizon, to be sure. And the experiences gained then/there became part of his toolkit when, years later, he directed and taught at the University of Windsor’s theatre training programme. Vocal coaching and directing at Sheridan College began in 2008.

Stephen won a Dora Award for Musical Direction of Urinetown (a favourite show of mine that seems sadly forgotten today), 4 Betty Mitchell Awards (the Calgary equivalent of Toronto’s Doras) and 4 Tyrone Guthrie Awards (Stratford Festival).

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Matt Baram

Season 5 · Episode 4

Thursday, October 22, 2026 • Duration 01:12:18

Matt is an award-winning Canadian actor, writer, improviser, and producer. A graduate of the University of Alberta's BFA Acting program, he spent over a decade as a resident performer and writer with The Second City Toronto, where he created and performed in numerous mainstage revues.

Matt is the co-founder of The National Theatre of the World, the internationally acclaimed improv company behind Impromptu Splendor, (The Live Improvised Play) The Carnegie Hall Show (An Improvised Retrospective), and The Script Tease Project (An Improvised Play based on two original pages written by a famous playwright), which have been presented across North America and Europe.

As an actor, Matt has appeared extensively on stage and screen. His theatre credits include productions with Crow's Theatre, Coal Mine Theatre, Studio 180 Theatre, The Second City Toronto, and Theatre Aquarius. Film and television credits include appearances in numerous Canadian and international productions, showcasing his versatility in both comedy and drama. Recent film and television credits include Supergirl, Painkiller, Cross, The Umbrella Academy, Matlock, The Apprentice, Carter, and Baroness von Sketch Show.

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Tony Nappo

Season 5 · Episode 3

Thursday, October 15, 2026 • Duration 01:12:08

Tony’s professional life (lives?) on film, television and stage is (are?) wildly eclectic. Recurring roles on Boston Blue, Star Trek: Discovery, Frankie Drake and Baroness von Sketch and guest roles on Brilliant Minds, Law & Order: Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries and Kim’s Convenience, among many more, help to define his range and versatility.

On stage, Tony has performed in The Neighbours, Butcher (Dora nomination), Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, by Brad Fraser (Episode 39) and God of Carnage (Broadway World nomination), which is the production that brought me and Tony together in the same project.

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Kate Hennig

Season 5 · Episode 2

Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 01:05:11

Kate has 45 years of professional experience as an actor, from her humble beginnings as Kalfang the Destroyer in The Incredible Magical Delfodil (Huron Country Playhouse, 1981) to Rose in Gypsy (Shaw Festival, 2023), and Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Grand Theatre, 2025).

The intervening years include seasons on Broadway (2009-10), with the Royal Shakespeare Company (2007), and multiple seasons with both the Shaw and Stratford festivals. She has played leading roles in regional theatres across Canada and has been at the heart of the creation of new work with many independent theatre companies. She has received multiple acting awards including two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, three Betty Mitchell Awards, and a Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award. In 2015 she received the Christopher Plummer Foundation Award for Excellence, sponsored by the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada.

Kate’s playwriting includes The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, and Mother’s Daughter all of which premiered at the Stratford Festival and went on to subsequent productions at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto. The Virgin Trial won the Carol Bolt Award for Best New Play 2017 and was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in the same year.

Kate’s plays have had over 60 productions: across Canada, in the U.S. and as far away as Sydney and Glasgow.

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Daniel MacIvor

Season 5 · Episode 1

Thursday, October 1, 2026 • Duration 01:02:39

Daniel MacIvor is a playwright, performer, and producer who divides his time between Toronto and Nova Scoti, a. He has been the recipient of a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre a New York Obie Award and a GLAAD Award. Currently Daniel runs Toronto-based reWork Productions developing new theatre and media.

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Summer Surprise – Bonus Episode

Thursday, August 6, 2026 • Duration 01:22:59

Yes, Life in Stages, Season 4 played its final episode with the return visit of Mark McGrinder. However, as we sail through a Toronto summer, it struck me that a bonus episode would not be amiss. So, here we are with a shift in focus and topic: I am the guest on Mike’s own podcast, Toronto Mike’d. Yes, we’ve exchanged roles before, but that was on Life in Stages. This time, I have joined Mike on his turf and I was only too happy to address issues that my own podcast has not broadcast.

NOTE: The new season, Season 5, is recording mid-August through mid-September – you know that I’ll advise you all when the new season is scheduled to begin dropping.

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Ep. 63 - Mark McGrinder Returns

Thursday, July 23, 2026 • Duration 59:32

Mark was the first guest to join Life in Stages. That was two years ago, so it’s time to check in now that theatre has returned to its normal challenge of daily survival. When we spoke the first time, Mark had just become the Artistic Director of Studio 180 Theatre.

In our conversation we didn’t discuss our family connection: Mark is married to Jessica, my older daughter. We weren’t being coy by omitting that detail, since I’d met Mark more than ten years before he and Jess found each other. And as two of the five founding members of Studio 180, Mark and I already had a steady working relationship.

Back to this episode, the final one in Season 4.

This is a much more give-and-take conversation than most preceding episodes. And it’s a welcome opportunity to share the studio with Mark and Mike as we bring Season 4 to a close.

NOTE: Season 5 is already scheduled to record, so standby for another series of conversations beginning early Fall.

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Ep. 62 - Paul Essiembre

Thursday, July 16, 2026 • Duration 01:02:35

Paul and I first met when we were working on “The Overwhelming” JT Rogers’ play about the Rwandan genocide. Subsequently, we worked together again on “Stuff Happens” and “The Normal Heart” – all Studio 180 Theatre productions. In addition, Paul’s work as actor, director, fight director and fight captain has taken him across the country.

Among his acting credits, Paul includes “As You Like It”, “A Doll’s House, Part 2”, “Sense and Sensibility”, Shakespeare in Love”, “The Audience” and “A Few Good Men” for the Manitoba Theatre Centre. At the Stratford Festival, Paul performed in “Macbeth”, “Amadeus”, “The Country Wife” and “Twelfth Night”.

Paul directed “Witness for the Prosecution” for MTC and “La Chanson de l’Elephant” for Cercle Moliere.

Paul lives and works in Winnipeg.

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Ep. 61 - Bruce Dow

Thursday, July 9, 2026 • Duration 01:06:26

Award-winning actor, singer, director, theatre creator, and educator, Bruce Dow (AACE, ACTRA, AEA, CAEA, SAG-AFTRA) (http://www.brucedow.com) is best known for five featured roles on Broadway, twelve seasons in leading roles at the Stratford Festival, and award-winning performances in Toronto and Washington, D.C. During the pandemic, Bruce returned to university to study Intercultural Psychotherapy and Multi-Faith Psychospiritual Therapy, earning a Master’s Degree in Psychospiritual Studies. Now in private clinical practice as a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Registered Counselling Therapist (NSCCT), and Certified Psychospiritual Therapist (CASC-ACSS), he works through Consonance Psychotherapy Services (https://consonancepsych.com) and is verified by Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca).

Bruce’s current research explores not what we do, but how we engage with ourselves in the doing. His recent workshops in safe and effective use of Self have been presented at Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of the Arts, Fanshawe College, STAPLES Canada, Community Counselling of London, and The Presbytery of East Toronto. Bruce is represented by Christopher Oldfield, Oldfield Management (https://www.oldfieldmanagement.com) @brucedowrp.

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