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Rock On! (Schitt's Creek)
''Schitt's Creek'' is a Canadian television sitcom that premiered on CBC Television on January 13, 2015. The series was created by Eugene Levy and Dan Levy and produced by Not a Real Company Productions. On January 12, 2015, CBC renewed the show for a second season, which premiered January 12, 2016, and consisted of 13 episodes. On February 17, 2016, the CBC announced that they renewed the show for a third season, and began broadcasting the third season on January 10, 2017. The fourth season began on January 9, 2018, in Canada and January 24 on Pop TV in the United States. The series stars Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as Johnny and Moira Rose, a wealthy couple who are forced, after losing all their money, to rebuild their lives in their only remaining asset: the small town of Schitt's Creek, which they once purchased as a joke, where they are living with their two adult children in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Hampshire
Emily Hampshire is a Canadian-American actress. Her best known roles include Angelina in the 1998 romantic comedy ''Boy Meets Girl (1998 film), Boy Meets Girl'', Vivienne in the 2006 film ''Snow Cake'', Jennifer Goines in the Syfy drama series ''12 Monkeys (TV series), 12 Monkeys'' (2015–2018), and Stevie Budd in the CBC Television, CBC comedy series ''Schitt's Creek'' (2015–2020), as well as the voice role of Misery in the YTV (Canadian TV channel), YTV animated series ''Ruby Gloom'' (2006–2008). Hampshire has held leading roles in the series ''Chapelwaite'' (2021) and ''The Rig (TV series), The Rig'' (2023–present). Early life Hampshire was born in Montreal. She became interested in acting at age 11 after attending a performance of ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Miserables'' with her mother. Her interests were solidified by the vice principal of her all-girls Catholic school, who praised her performance during a school theatre production. At age 16, she moved to Toron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabaret (musical)
''Cabaret'' is an American musical theater, musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff. It is based on the 1951 play ''I Am a Camera'' by John Van Druten, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel ''Goodbye to Berlin'' by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1929–1930 Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age as the Nazi Party, Nazis rise to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around American writer Clifford Bradshaw's relations with English cabaret performer Sally Bowles. A subplot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany, Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub, and the club itself serves as a metaphor for ominous political developments in late Weimar Germany. The original Broadway theatre, Broadway produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Canning
Jordan Canning is a Canadian director for film and television. She is known for her independent feature films '' We Were Wolves'' (2014) and '' Suck It Up'' (2017), as well as her work directing on television series '' Baroness Von Sketch Show,'' ''Burden of Truth'' and ''Schitt's Creek''. Early life She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She attended Concordia University in Montreal. Career Canning's films have won a number of awards, including two Golden Sheaf Awards, three awards at the NSI Online Short Film Festival, and top prize at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival RBC Emerging Filmmaker Competition. She directed all twenty-three episodes of the IPF-supported web series ''Space Riders: Division Earth'' for CTV. The show won the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Digital Series and four Canadian Comedy Awards, including Best Director. Canning's 2014 feature film '' We Were Wolves'' made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Lynd
Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film ''Breakfast with Scot''. In his early career, Lynd made the short films ''Together and Apart'' (1986) and ''RSVP (1991 film), RSVP'' (1991), the latter of which was cited by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on the emergence of New Queer Cinema.B. Ruby Rich, "New Queer Cinema" in Michele Aaron, ''New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader''. Rutgers University Press, 2004. . pp. 14-22. He then attended the Canadian Film Centre,Laurie Lynd at Thomas Waugh, mediaqueer.ca. making the short film ''The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore'' (1992)"Contrary fairy tale is class work". ''Toronto Star'', July 2, 1993. and the feature film ''Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cividino
Andrew Cividino (born 1983) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter."Big buzz at Cannes for Canadian auteur's coming-of-age yarn". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 22, 2015. He is best known for his feature film directorial debut '' Sleeping Giant'', which premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and for his frequent work as a director on the Emmy winning comedy ''Schitt's Creek'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. He is a partner with Karen Harnisch in the production company Film Forge. Early life Originally from Dundas, Ontario, Cividino frequently spent childhood summers in the Sibley Peninsula region near Thunder Bay. Career After studying film at Ryerson University, Cividino made several short films, including ''Norbert'' (2007), '' We Ate the Children Last'' (2011) and ''Yellow Fish'' (2012). In 2006, he won the Ontario Film Review Board's student film competition. In 2011, Telefilm included him on its annual Talent to Watch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Kohler
Rebecca Kohler is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose comedy album ''In Living Kohler'' received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. Kohler was a competitor in SiriusXM Canada's Top Comics competition in 2015. '''', July 19, 2015. In addition to her performing career, she has been a television writer for shows such as '' Workin' Moms'', '' |
Rupinder Gill
Rupinder Gill is a Canadian writer. She is a former television publicist for Alliance Atlantis and BBC Canada. Her first book, ''On the Outside Looking Indian'' is a humorous memoir about her childhood as the child of Indian immigrants in a small Canadian town. The book was shortlisted for the 2012 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Her book garnered attention before its release because the popular website Reddit featured the book's spoof back cover featuring Oprah Winfrey's quote for A Tale of Two Cities. Gill has written for Canadian comedy shows '' This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' and ''Schitt's Creek'', the ''National Post'' and websites such as ''McSweeney's McSweeney's Publishing is an American nonprofit publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco. The executive director is Amanda Uhle. McSweeney's first publication was the literary journal'' Timothy McSw ...''. Gill is a writer for '' The Sex Lives of College Girls'' and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Heisey
Monica Heisey is a Canadian writer, screenwriter and comedian based in London. She has written for ''Schitt's Creek'', the Baroness von Sketch Show and Workin' Moms, and created the Sky Comedy series '' Smothered''. Her first novel Really Good, Actually was released in 2023. Early life and education Heisey was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She has a twin sister and a younger sister; her father was a lawyer and her mother was a public servant. Heisey completed undergraduate studies at Queen's University in 2010. Following graduation she moved to London, England where she obtained an MA in early modern literature from King's College. Career Heisey has written for numerous television shows including ''Schitt's Creek'' and '' Workin' Moms''. Her first job screenwriting position was on the '' Baroness von Sketch Show'', for which she is a four-time Canadian Screen Award winner. Heisey's writing has appeared in '' Vogue'', ''Elle'', '' Glamour'', and ''The New Yorker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David West Read
David West Read is a Canadian television writer, playwright, actor and producer. He is known for his work as a writer and executive producer on the television series ''Schitt's Creek'', for which he won an Emmy Award. He is also known for writing the multiple award-winning musical '' & Juliet''. Early life and education Read was born in 1983 in Scarborough, Ontario, and grew up in Markham. His mother and father, an educational book publisher, both hold Master’s degrees in English. Read also has a sister, who studied drama at the University of Guelph. Read attended Markham District High School. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 2006, where he studied English literature and semiotics. After graduation, he briefly explored becoming an actor and appeared in a Rogers phone commercial and small roles in television movies. Read received a full scholarship to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 2010 with a Master of Fine Arts in dramat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturla Gunnarsson
Sturla Gunnarsson (born August 30, 1951) is an Icelandic-Canadian film and television director and producer. Gunnarsson was born in Reykjavík in 1951. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old. As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed undergraduate studies in English literature and graduate work in film studies. Part of the graduate program requires the production of a film. His, '' A Day Much Like the Others'', went on to win top honours at the Canadian Student Film Festival and the European Student Film Festival. It was also screened at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. With his formal education behind him, Gunnarsson moved to Toronto and worked initially at the National Film Board (NFB). His first NFB project, '' After the Axe'', received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. He has since won a number of awards including Emmy Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce Ian McCulloch (born May 12, 1961) is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, musician and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, including starring in the TV series of the same name. He was also a writer for ''Saturday Night Live'' for one season, 1985-1986. McCulloch has appeared on other series including '' Twitch City'' and '' Gilmore Girls''. He directed the films ''Dog Park'', '' Stealing Harvard'' and '' Superstar''. He also wrote and directed the romantic comedy ''Comeback Season,'' which toured film festivals before its release on DVD in 2007. He was the creator and head writer of the 2007-2008 ABC sitcom '' Carpoolers''. Early life McCulloch was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on May 12, 1961. He attended Strathcona Composite High School in Edmonton and competed in both track-and-field and swimming, winning two individual provincial titles. He moved to Calgary and attended Dr. E.P. Scarlett High Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
