Announcing Expert Theatre Critic

Ron Singer joins Tempo Toronto as Theatre Reviewer

Want to know which Toronto shows to see and which ones to, well, give a wide berth to? We are delighted and honoured to announce that expert theatre critic  Ron Singer is helping Tempo Toronto to weed out the good from the bad. He’ll be reporting on Toronto theatre productions for us regularly.

To whet your appetite, and to understand why you should listen to what he has to say, here’s an excerpt from his amazing bio.

Ron Singer trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama (London, England),  Neighborhood Playhouse and HB Studios (NY) and at the Michael Shurtleff  Studios (Los Angeles). As a professional actor, Singer has performed in feature films, TV series and commercials.

Singer has directed more than thirty professional  theatre productions, serving as Director of Actors Workshops (Stratford), Artistic Director of Young Companies (National Arts Centre, Ottawa), the first Artistic Director of Young People’s Theatre (Toronto) and Associate Director (Toronto Arts Productions, St. Lawrence Centre).

In television, Singer assisted the director of the award-winning ABC series, Barney Miller, and was the director of a documentary special for Cable Group W TV (Los Angeles). At Expo ’67 in Montreal, Singer was Assistant Head of  Theatre.

He has also served as Assistant Head of Productions (National Arts Centre), Executive Director of Group W Cable TV (Channel 10, Los Angeles), Producer of CityPulse News (CITY-TV, Toronto), producer for TV production development (Solnicki Productions, Toronto), Production Coordinator on Double Your Money quiz show (Rediffusion TV,  London, England) and Vice-President of the Entertainment Division (Seabaco Group, Toronto and Moscow). For Seabaco/SAV Entertainment, Singer recently completed a thirty month consultancy in Canada, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe where he was engaged in the development of major entertainment projects.
Five of Singer’s plays for young people have been produced across the country.

He has also worked as entertainment critic (CFRB Radio and Standard Broadcast News), arts and entertainment reporter (CBC Variety Tonight), Director of Research for the Sadat mini-series (Columbia Pictures Television, Los Angeles) and Casting Director for Funny Farm (CTV).
Ron Singer is now Artistic Director Emeritus of The Randolph Academy of the Performing Arts , having retired in September ’09, after serving at RAPA for 17 years as Artistic Director) Professor Emeritus, Department of Theatre at York University.  He was an Associate Professor who has held positions as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Director of the Graduate Program in Theatre (two terms) and Chair of the Department of Theatre (two terms).

Clearly, Ron knows what he’s talking about! Can’t wait to see the first review. Coming sooner than you think …

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