User:Michael Cormier

Salt & Pepper Theatre Company

The Salt & Pepper Theatre Company was founded in Ottawa in the summer of 1984 by a small group of University of Ottawa Theatre students who had been given the opportunity to perform short, commedia del arte- style sketches in Ottawa's Byward Market. Among the founding members were: Will Zaichkowski and Sandra Rowlatt. The play they performed that summer was called, The King Who Sneezed and original script from Michael Cormier.

In 1985, buoyed by early success and local arts funding, Salt & Pepper launched another Cormier script called Circuistry, a play about homelessness and robots. The play was directed by Joan Sullivan Eady with original music by Tom Lips. Included in the cast were Mary Pat Cormier, and Jon Alexander.

In 1986, with the departure of Sandra Rowlatt, Michael Cormier assumed the Artic Director's chair and asked actor Rob Eastland to join him in the comany in the role of producer. That year, they produced Video City, gettng it workshopped at theNational Arts Centre's L'Atelier Theatre, then touring schools and finally producing it as a radio play on audio cassette under the same name.

Salt & Pepper Theatre Company plays and noteable cast members: