The Performance Lab

Our final performance is tomorrow night and boy do we have something special planned for you! We will also find out what that is...at 8:00pm...right along with you. Tell your friends!

"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, forget the audience" - Tom Hiddleston

That’s what these two Lab Rats will be doing next Tuesday June 4th 8pm The Commons Theatre and Studio 587a College St., l’il Italy, Toronto. (Ps. It is also Catherine Fergusson’s bday!🥳🥳🥳)

Meet Flavie Peynot!

Flavie Peynot is very excited to join fellow lab rats for the Performance Lab shows. She previously worked with Michael Gellman at Second City and has been involved with Process theatre for 2 years. Favorite credits include Drunk Shakespeare and off Broadway productions in NY, she is a proud member of The NY Plinth Company and recently contributed and starred in a production of A.R Gurney's Love Letters in Toronto. She holds a degree in Acting from David Mamet's Atlantic school in NY and studied Improv at Second City, Toronto.
She is also a Burlesque performer, doing shows in Europe and hopefully soon Toronto!

Meet Cleo Vaillancourt!

Cleo is a Toronto based young professional clawing her way into the film industry. Upon graduating from Guelph University’s Theatre program, Cleo and her friends created The Muddy Mary Project, a collaborative theatre company where she helped to produce, write and performed in the play Finding Temperance. When she’s not hauling leaky garbage bags on set Cleo is actively creating and improvising with her friend

Our next performance is Tuesday May 28th at 8pm The Commons Space 587a College St. L’il Italy, Toronto.

Here are two of the peeps you will see onstage!

Catherine Fergusson

Catherine hails from Vancouver BC. She is delighted to be making her Process Theatre debut. She has backgrounds in improvisation, musical theatre, and classical acting. When not performing she can be spotted zipping down the streets of downtown on her bike, singing showtunes.

“Improvised Acting is the only medium in which I am utterly myself, whether I’m playing a space alien or a 25 year-old Torontonian. There is no writer, no agenda - I speak only from my heart.”

Jordan Van Dyck

Jordan is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, as well as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s Shakespeare Program in London, England. Having also studied the Meisner Technique in Toronto and Montreal under the tutelage of both John Riven and the late Jacqueline McClintock. Proud to make his Process Theatre and Improvised Acting debut with Michael J Gellman. Which has synchronistically proven to be an amalgamation of all of the aforementioned techniques.

Selected film and television credits include: The Last Sect (opposite David Carradine), Garm Wars: The Last Druid (Dir. Mamoru Oshii/Ghost In The Shell), Incorporated (CBS) and The Expanse (CBS).

“I have never felt so free to bring myself into any character that comes my way thanks to Michael’s techniques.”