Tom McGee

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About Tom McGee

Tom is a dramaturge, playwright, producer, puppeteer, and performer based in Toronto, Ontario. The co-founder and associate artistic director of Theatre Brouhaha, Tom has been instrumental in developing the company's mandate and capturing Generation Y as an audience. He has dramaturged and produced all of Theatre Brouhaha's scripts working closely with his writing partner prolific Toronto playwright Kat Sandler. The award winning Theatre Brouhaha has played to sold out houses and has toured to Montreal, Ottawa, and Kitchener-Waterloo. He has been involved in over one hundred productions on all levels from producing to directing to marketing. A self-taught puppeteer and puppet builder, in 2011 Tom founded Shakey-Shake and Friends Puppet Theatre company with the goal of presenting accessible, fun, and engaging adaptations of classic shows for young audiences. Playing to sold out audiences and critical acclaim, Shakey-Shake and Friends has quickly become a much-beloved fixture of the Fringe Festival with their shows Romeo and Juliet. A Puppet Epic, The Tempest.A Puppet Epic, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.A Puppet Epic, Hamlet.A Puppet Epic in the Toronto a Fringe, As You Like It.A Puppet Epic in Barrie's Theatre By The Bay, and most recently Best of FringeKids hit Twelfth Night.A Puppet Epic in 2016. With McGee+Associates, Tom works in media training, crisis consulting, and presentation training, helping clients unlock their story-telling potential in order to better communicate with their audience and clients.