John and Helen are your typical parents. Not believing that their child's gender should be exploited and not believing their child really needs to be held. Nanny to the rescue! As all good nannies do... they infiltrate the family to bring structure and obedience.

Directed by Randie Parliament & Greg Bishop
Stage Managed by Jessica Hotvedt: Set Designer Gerald Franklin

Starring: Shaughnessy Redden, Tammy Pentecost, Michael Barry Anderson, Brenda Matthews, Taylor Bishop, Missy Cross and Melanie Bishop

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Going home is never easy. Especially when you've done everything you can to forget the past. When Peter returns to his prairie hometown, he must confront the racism, homophobia and alcoholism which caused him to run away. He quickly finds the banter that took place within the small house comes back quite easily and where the battle of two children fighting for the title of favourite child continues. In a house where mom reigns with an iron fist, sometimes rules just don't apply. WARNING: This play deals with difficult subject matter.

Featured: Greg Bishop, Lesli Brownlee, Morgan David Jones, Brenda Matthews, and
Matt Shaw.
Written & Directed by Randie Parliament

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Ghost Light Projects is pleased to bring a little American white trash north of the border. There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres – and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run comes between Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband Norbert – the storms begin to brew!

Featured Jessica Kelly, Arne Larsen, Aaron Lau, Claire Lindsay, Lee McKeown, Erin Palm, and Laura Wilson
Music & Lyrics by David Neils / Book by Betsy Kelso / Directed by Randie Parliament / Musical Direction by Steven Greenfield / Choreographed by Britt MacLeod

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It's Harold's birthday, and his closest friends are throwing him a party at Michael's apartment. Among Harold's presents is "Cowboy", an attractive male prostitute, since Harold may have trouble finding a cute young man on his own now that he's getting older. As the party progresses the self-deprecating humor of the group takes a nasty turn as the men become drunker. The play is climaxed by a cruel telephone "game" where each man must call someone and tell him (or her?) of his love for them.

Featured Matthew Romantini, Robert Duncan, Louis Dupuis, and many more
Written by Mart Crowley / Directed by Randie Parliament

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The Vagina Monologues featured a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women. Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.

Written by Eve Ensler

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It's Harold's birthday, and his closest friends are throwing him a party at Michael's apartment. Among Harold's presents is "Cowboy", an attractive male prostitute, since Harold may have trouble finding a cute young man on his own now that he's getting older. As the party progresses the self-deprecating humor of the group takes a nasty turn as the men become drunker. The play is climaxed by a cruel telephone "game" where each man must call someone and tell him (or her?) of his love for them.

Featured Andy Ingram, Antonio Olivito, Cole J. Alvis, Indrit Kasapi, John Bryans,
Jonathan Morton-Schuster, Jordan Mechano, Matthew Romantini, and Tawiah M'Carthy
Written by Mart Crowley, Directed by Randie Parliament

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The Book of Liz, by Amy & David Sedaris (The Talent Family), explores the journey of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock. From making cheeseballs in her religious community of Clusterhaven, to the big city, living with Ukrainian immigrants and working jobs as a peanut and a server in a restaurant for a recovering alcoholic.

Featured Joanthan Morton-Schuster, Jean-Paul Bevilacqua, Shannon Shura, Lori Williams, Laurie Hutchinson, Brian Mancini, Mike Delamont, Stephanie Draper
Written by Amy & David Sedaris, Directed by Randie Parliament

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Rule number one, a father may pay the bills, but it's Mom who owns the house. In a twisting tale of Mother May I, siblings Peter and Janie fight for their parents affection in this family drama.

Featured Sky Gilbert, Randie Parliament, Kris Skjellerup and Briana Templeton
Written by Randie Parliament, Directed by Wes Berger

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Funny, passionate, and full of insights into life, love, children and low-fat muffins, this light-hearted musical looks at the lives of five very different women discovering how good it is to be "larger than life". Ange the high-power businesswoman, Marnie the sweet quirky girl who’s looking for love, Pat the Supermom, Charly the funny but cynical lesbian and Violet the tree-hugger - each of them is "too-something", but discovers that "Larger than life is just the
right size."

Featured Louisa O'Keane, Allie Price, Sarah Haley Matte, Kris Skjellerup and Renée Strasfeld
Book and Lyrics by SG Lee, Music by Vanessa Lebourdais, Directed by Wes Berger

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Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical is a comedic, tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the 1978 adult film of the same name, follows young Debbie Benton in her struggle to get out of small town America and make it as a Texas Cowgirl Cheerleader in the big city of Dallas. Ghost Light Projects proudly presented the Toronto premiere.

Featured Jamie Robinson, Stephanie Bartlett, Sarite Harris, Kristin Pottle, Allie Price,
Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Andrew Fleming, and Randie Parliament
Written by Susan Swartz, Directed by Penelope Corrin, Choreographed by Jason Franco,
Musical Direction by Greg Gibson

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Hedwig and The Angry Inch is the story of ‘internationally ignored song stylist’ Hedwig Schmidt, victim of a botched sex change operation. Hedwig smashes the fourth wall as she tells of her journey from East Berlin to a trailer park in middle-America while pursuing her dreams, love and nemesis.

Featured Seth Drabinsky, L.A. Lopes, The Vicious Guns, Jeremey Knowles, and Greg Gibson
Written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Directed by Penelope Corrin,
Musical Direction by Greg Gibson

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