Sunday Feature: Producer Dahlia Katz on the FireWorks Series

Setting Off FireWorks
by Dahlia Katz, rehearsal photos by Dahlia Katz
@Dahlia Katz

From sparks to a sizzle to explosion – this, as a matter of fact, is the story of the FireWorks series at Alumnae Theatre in Toronto.

Alumnae is home to one of the oldest theatre companies in Canada.  Founded in 1919 by women graduates from the University of Toronto and still operating with all-female membership and administrative team (though men are welcome to act, direct, design and stage-manage), she occupies a beautiful former firehall on Berkeley Street, just paces north of Canadian Stage, and puts on four mainstage productions per year, and a festival entitled New Ideas.  

Sunday Feature: Photo Essay by Dahlia Katz for Wordsmyth's The Dumb Waiter

We asked photographer Dahlia Katz, to capture Wordsmyth's upcoming production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter (which she is also assistant-directing)

It runs May 15 - June 2

Sunday Feature: Dahlia Katz and a Theatre Photography Mini-Masterclass

(photo credit: Scarlet O'Neil)

Theatre Photography Mini-Masterclass

by Dahlia Katz 
@DahliaKatz

[Dahlia Katz is a Toronto photographer, theatre director/dramaturg, and winner of the Charpo-Toronto Photo of the Year 2012.]

Putting on a play?  If you want an audience, a buzz, a memory, a record of your work... then you need a photographer.  Here's a quick lesson on how to incorporate professional photography into your production.  Plan ahead and consider the following.

There are three times when you should ideally be hiring a photographer:

1. Immediately after casting (The Branding Image),
2. Halfway through the rehearsal process (Rehearsal hall shots)
3. The day of your tech-dress rehearsal (Production stills and archiving)