Hearts Made Great

Gerry Egan

Gerry Egan has been very active both on and off stage across the country. To highlight a few of Mr. Egan’s backstage credits he has been Lighting Designer for Cosi Fan Tutte, Albert Herring (UWOpera), Cabaret, Gypsy (Theatre Western and the Don Wright Faculty of Music) and looks forward to lighting The Merry Widow for UWOpera in February. Last December he spent 10 weeks in Alberta as Production Stage Manager for Opera NUOVA’s school touring season. He has stage managed shows and events for Opera NUOVA, UWOpera, London Musical Theatre, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Original Kids Theatre, the London Health Sciences Centre, the Catholic Diocese of London and Middlesex, and various dance recitals in the London community. On a performance level, after spending one year in Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance program Mr. Egan, Tenor, returned to London to study Voice Performance at the University of Western Ontario. He has spent two summers in Edmonton, Alberta at Opera NUOVA, an intensive summer training program for young up-and-coming Canadian singers, and this year worked in New Brunswick with Wendy Neilson at the St. Andrew’s by the Sea Summer Opera Workshop. Recent on stage credits included Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera NUOVA), the title roles in Albert Herring and Candide (UWOpera), and Laurie in the Canadian premier of Mark Adamo’s opera Little Women (Opera NUOVA). On a community level, Gerry has been seen in the wild overnight success Personals produced by Diva Productions, Purple Patches production of Damn Yankees and Collective Arts production of the premiere of Simon Johnston’s wartime musical A Nightingale Sang.

This past year he made his directorial debut with Gypsy, a co-production with Theatre Western and the Don Wright Faculty of Music, and he will be directing a very touching one act opera Once Upon A Christmas for the Metropolitan United Church to play in December.