Creator Profile: 
Anthony Audain

Available for in-person visits: Ontario (locations situated within a drive of 60 minutes or less from Toronto)

Craft: Storyteller

Target Audience: Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 4

Cost for School and Public Presentation: $250.00, plus applicable taxes

Biography

Recognized by his peers as a master of his craft, Anthony Audain is a skilled storyteller and a dynamic teacher and performer. He has acted in Television Commercials, TV Series, and Films. He has a Degree in English and Theatre Production from Mount Allison University, an Honours Diploma from Ryerson University’s School of Performing Arts, and an Honours Diploma in Entrepreneurial Business Applications from The Academy of Learning. He is a writer of plays, storytelling narratives, digital scripts, and scripts for short documentary films. He has conducted workshops on Diversity, Confidence Building, Personal Story Presentation, and Fine-Tuning Interview & Communication Skills. He has worked as an Arts Facilitator with the Winnipeg School Division, and as a singer and performer was awarded a bursary from the prestigious ‘Manitoba Sings’ - Provincial Honour Choir Association.

Anthony has performed in Summer Stock Theatre with actors from both the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, and independently at the Annual Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival and the Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Anthony was nominated, along with fellow members of the Golden Horseshoe Players, a Toronto-based Theatre Company, for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in the Theatre for Young Audiences Category, Best New Play, for the play, Peacemaker. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Jazz Haz Productions (recently awarded a Highly Recommended Business Badge on Alignable), an Independent Theatre Production Company specializing in Storytelling, Musical Cabarets, and Concerts.

Mr. Audain is a proud member of ACTRA, Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, and the Storytellers of Canada—Conteurs du Canada.

Presentation Information:

Pre-Schoolers (age 3-5) / Interactive & Participation Stories (Choose 2)

Simple sing along songs with or without the guitar /simple movement and dance                                                               

· "How The Rainbow Got Its Colours" (a story about discovering our purpose and working together peacefully using simple percussion instruments and colourful props)

· "The Lion and the Bird" (a beautiful story about friendship and companionship)

· "The Kangaroo and the Penguin" (a story about humiliation and respect)

· "The Adventures of Brother Bear and Friends" (fun stories about ancestry, friendship, community, the environment, co-operation, and respect) 

School Age Students (age 6-10) / Interactive & Participation - Cultural - Survival - Word Game - Random Grab Bag Object / Improv - Craft Your Own – Stories (Choose 4)

· "Leila and the Tamarind Tree" (a cultural story about turning a negative experience into a positive one)

· "Orangeville" (a survival story about two different cultures working together to find solutions to their problems)

· Stories “on the spot” (word game stories - creating your own characters and stories using nouns, verbs, vowels, and consonants (hand picked from a bag) to come up with topics, locations, actions etc.)  

· "Random Stories" (grab bag “object and association”, random topic, improv game) 

· "Craft Your Own Story" (using 2-3 random topics from a master list to create a story using (connected) emotions, feelings, actions, and gestures)

*Please Note other options can be negotiated for older students, including Literacy and Diversity Storytelling Workshops, Craft Your Own Story, Random Stories, and Stories “on the spot.”