Maggie Cast & Creative Team Bios

JOHNNY REID (Book, Music & Lyrics) Over an illustrious career spanning three decades, celebrated entertainer, producer and playwright Johnny Reid has captured the hearts of fans and audiences around the world. The critically acclaimed Scottish-born singer-songwriter is widely known for his lyrical honesty and musical ability, as demonstrated by an extensive catalogue of hit songs, album sales totaling over 2 million units worldwide, multiple sold out national arena tours, and countless awards including a GRAMMY nominated album and a SOCAN National Achievement Award. Maggie is Reid’s first professional theatre production.

MATT MURRAY (Book, Music & Lyrics) Matt is a Toronto-based musical theatre book writer, playwright and lyricist.  Musical credits include: Grow – book writer (collaboration with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal). Maggie -  co-book, co-music and co-lyric (collaboration with acclaimed recording artist Johnny Reid).   Going Under - book writer (collaboration with Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal). Matt has written six Ross Petty Pantos –  Peter’s Final Flight! Lil’ Red Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz and A Christmas Carol, all at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, as well as two digital productions, There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays and Alice in Winterland. A Christmas Carol was recorded for broadcast by CBC/Family Channel. Plays include: Myth Of The Ostrich, Remember, Maggy? (collaboration with Carol Anne Murray) and Chronicles of Sarnia.

BOB FOSTER (Music, Music Supervision, Orchestrations & Arrangements) Bob Foster is a Toronto-based Music Director, Composer and Orchestrator/Arranger. His theatre credits include: Come From Away, Rock Of Ages, Hairspray, Dirty Dancing, Wizard Of Oz, Billy Elliot, The Boys In The Photograph (Mirvish Original Canadian Casts).He is Head Of Music at the Charlottetown Festival, and Music Supervisor for Tell Tale Harbour , Evangeline, Maggie and Bittergirl, the Musical. Bob has been Music Director of the Ross Petty Christmas Panto in Toronto since 2005. He wrote the hit songs Good Mother and Looking For It, among others, with Jann Arden, and has played guitar and keyboards with her both live and in the studio. He is recipient of two SOCAN Airplay Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards.

MARY FRANCIS MOORE (Direction & Dramaturgy) Artistic Director of Theatre Aquarius, Mary Francis is an award-winning director, playwright and dramaturg. Recognized for championing new works, Mary Francis has dramaturged and directed numerous plays that have toured across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. She has also developed several new musicals with established recording artists Johnny Reid, Amy Sky, Twin Flames and the Estate of Rita MacNeil. Her directing credits at Theatre Aquarius include: The Hours That Remain, Hairspray: The Broadway Musical and Home for The Holidays. She co-wrote the smash-hit play Bittergirl with fellow collaborators, Annabel Fitzsimmons and Alison Lawrence. This acclaimed show was produced across Canada (including Theatre Aquarius), London UK, and showcased in NYC.

MICHAEL RUBINOFF (Producer) Michael Rubinoff is a Toronto based Olivier Award winning and Tony nominated producer who conceived the longest running Canadian musical in Broadway history, Come From Away. In 2019 he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada for his role in creating the show. In 2011 he established the Canadian Music Theatre Project, an international incubator for the development of new musicals, where over a decade he produced and developed the first workshops of Come From Away, MAGGIE and 28 other musicals.  He is currently represented as producer and creative consultant on Come From Away on tour across Australia and North America. Upcoming: An all new production of Come From Away in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador this summer and the American premiere of Matt Murray, Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal’s new musical Grow. A proud graduate of Western Law. @mrubinoff