Chelsea Woolley is a playwright, director, and arts educator. Select playwriting work includes: Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs (Nightwood Theatre), Paint Me This House of Love (Tarragon Theatre), and The Mountain (Geordie Theatre). She has been featured at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., and at the “Shakespeare is Dead” Festival in Belgium. She is also the founder of the Mixed-Arts Performance Partnership Program connecting young artists living in precarity to professional mentorship. Chelsea is the Head of Drama here at the Canadian Children’s Opera Company where she has directed programming for five seasons. Last season she directed the Young Artist Studio’s production of Dido and Aeneas, and assistant directed The Monkiest King. Chelsea is the 2025 Tarragon Theatre Bulmash-Siegel New Creation Development Residency Award recipient, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwriting Program.

Pianist and composer Stéphane Mayer has established himself as one of Canada’s premier collaborative piano artists. A graduate of the COC ensemble, Stéphane has served as a rehearsal pianist and member of music staff for Carmen, The Magic Flute, Norma and Arabella among many other productions at the Canadian Opera Company. He has also served as an opera répétiteur for productions of Les dialogues des Carmélites and Flight (Glenn Gould School), La Bohème (Edmonton Opera), Louis Riel (Opéra de Québec), Missing (Pacific Opera Victoria) and The Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera). An accomplished art-song recitalist, having studied German Lied extensively at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Stéphane has appeared on stages across the country with many of Canada’s leading vocal artists. For the past 4 years, Stéphane has been a member of music staff for Highlands Opera Studio. There he served as head coach and répétiteur for their productions of Don Giovanni, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Eugene Onegin and L’elisir d’amore. A graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, Stéphane also worked as a vocal coach and accompanist at Western University.

Teri Dunn is a celebrated soprano, conductor, and music educator, widely recognized for her artistry and leadership in performance, pedagogy, and choral direction. A native of Ottawa, she was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, where she has served as Music Director since 2015. Under her direction, the CCOC has presented critically acclaimed productions, including the world premieres of The Monkiest King by Alice Ho (recorded for the CMC, Dora nominated), The Nightingale of a Thousand Songs by Serouj Kradjian, and a European tour of Hans Krása’s Brundibár. She has also prepared the children’s chorus and soloists for numerous Canadian Opera Company productions, including La Bohème, Carmen, The Magic Flute, and Hansel and Gretel.

From 2008 to 2025, Teri served as Dean of Choral Studies at St. Michael’s Choir School, overseeing the school’s renowned choral program and directing three of its internationally recognized ensembles. A dedicated educator, she currently leads the Soprano-Alto Chorus at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music.

Earlier in her career, she was Assistant Artistic Director of the Toronto Children’s Chorus (2002-2012), and held conducting posts at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Hart House Chorus. Her choirs have been invited guests at Carnegie Hall, the Vatican, the Toronto International Choral Festival, and performed with leading Canadian ensembles such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Amici. Her ensembles have earned numerous accolades, including first prize at the National Competition of Canadian Amateur Choirs.

An acclaimed soprano, Teri has been praised as “outstanding” by BBC Music Magazine.  She has premiered works by Canadian composers James Rolfe, John Hawkins, Micheline Roi, Abigail Richardson, and Jeff Ryan and has sung operatic roles including Galatea (Acis and Galatea), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Alice in John Beckwith’s Night Blooming Cereus and Eurydice in the world premiere of James Rolfe’s Orpheus and Eurydice. She has appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Ottawa Bach Choir, New Music Concerts, Soundstreams, Toronto Masque Theatre, and others. Her discography features works by George Crumb, Osvaldo Golijov, Gloria Coates, John Beckwith and Harry Somers. 

Teri holds a Master of Music from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Mary Morrison. She was a prizewinner in the 1999 Eckhardt-Grammatté Competition and recipient of the 2002 Leslie Bell Prize in Choral Conducting, awarded by Choirs Ontario.

Kate Chubbs is an emerging stage manager and arts worker, and she is excited to be part of her first CCOC production. Select credits include & Juliet (Mirvish), The Welkin (Soulpepper), Untitled Flamingo Play; Light Rapid Transit (rEvolver Festival). In addition to stage management, she has worked as an administrator, technician, and liaison at organizations like Musical Stage Co., Pride Toronto, Canada’s Music Incubator, and Granville Island Theatre District. Kate is a graduate of the Performance Production program at TMU.

Perseus Rebelo is a costume-maker and wardrobe specialist based in Toronto. A York U alum, he has done costume work for over ten years on a variety of theatrical/operatic productions with companies including Tapestry Opera, George Brown College, Innovative Arts, and Shifting Ground Collective; on short films; and on the television shows Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and Interview With the Vampire. The Black Spider is his fifth production as Costume Coordinator with the CCOC—he is thrilled to be a part of it!

Michele Morgan has contributed to the CCOC as a Prop builder/designer and coordinator since 2006, with fourteen production credits from Dickens to Alice, Snow Queen to Monkiest King. She comes from a background of artistic endeavour in film, television and theatre, the National Ballet of Canada and the U of T Opera school. Michele holds a degree in Fine Art from the University of Toronto and her artistic practice is as wide and varied as her inspirations. From her Toronto studio and Gallery, The Annex Art Centre, she also channels her passions into fine art classes for children, creative summer camps and coordinates art and gallery events throughout the year.

Lighting Designer; Rubaboo, (Persephone/RMTC), Legally Blonde (Theatre Sheridan),Big Stuff (Baram & Snieckus/Crows), Queer Youth Cabaret, Sympathy for the Devil (Soulpepper), Antigonick, Bright Lights, Overruled (Shaw Festival Directors Project) Associate Lighting Designer; Romeo & Juliet (Dream in High Park – Canstage), Big Fish: The Musical (Theatre Sheridan), What the Constitution Means to Me (Soulpepper), Rubaboo (The Grand/ Arts Club) Assistant Lighting Designer; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Crows/MSC/Mirvish), Alligator Pie (Soulpepper), Nabucco/Faust + Romeo& Juliet/ Orfeo ed Eurydice (COC), multiple seasons at the Shaw Festival Studio Theatre (2022/2023) and Stratford Festival Avon Theatre (2024/2025). Online: @emilietrimbeedesigns + emilietrimbee.com

Claire Harris is a Toronto-based collaborative pianist, specialising in opera and contemporary repertoire.

Claire is Associate Director with Opera by Request, Toronto, and acts as Music Director for productions during their season. She is also pianist with Crossing Borders, a company performing works by living composers in Canada and internationally. Claire is the co-producer and pianist for Opera Revue, a Toronto-based company bringing opera to casual venues. She also works regularly as a répétiteur and coach with companies such as No Strings Theatre, Windsor Symphony, Mississauga Symphony as well as continuing vocal coaching work at the University of Toronto.

Prior to moving to Toronto in 2018, Claire was a staff accompanist at the Royal College of Music, London, as well as working with companies including English Touring Opera, the Rossini Young Artists’ Festival, Opera Alumnus, and the Academie de La Roche D’Hys annual opera workshop in France.

Originally from New Zealand, Claire holds a Bachelor of Music from the New Zealand School of Music and a Masters from the Royal College of Music, London, England.

For the past year, she has been the pianist for Amarras, a Toronto-based contemporary Argentinian Tango ensemble.