The Media Arts Community Centre is a partner on this community-based educational project and, thus, charitable tax receipts for general support can be offered through this site.  The Windsor Centre for Film, Digital Media & the Creative Arts is also a partner and can accept non-profit grants. 

For Corporate Sponsorship Benefits, including a business receipt and logo recognition, please request a Sponsor Package through upstaged@postproductionswindsor.ca - or call Michael or Fay at 226-975-7678.

Website: www.upstagedseries.com

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/upstagedseries 

What is (up)Staged?

(up)Staged is an eight-episode mockumentary-style comedy series about the trials and tribulations of a beleaguered independent regional theatre company located in the small and often forgotten Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. The company, Post Productions, which operates an equally beleaguered black box venue called The Shadowbox Theatre, has agreed in a desperate bid to boost awareness and, Gods willing, ticket sales in the shaky post-COVID economy, to allow a film crew to document what goes on behind the scenes in the world of independent regional theatre.

The Production Team

(up)Staged is created and written by Fay Lynn (Post Productions), Michael K. Potter (Post Productions), and Joey Ouellette (Purple Theatre Company). Michael K. Potter serves as executive producer and show runner. Fay Lynn serves as co-executive producer and co-director. Rebecca S. Mickle (Windsor Feminist Theatre) serves as Social Media and Fundraising Coordinator. The production team (co-directors, cinematographers, editors, etc.) includes Mitchell Branget (New Way Media Productions), Dan Savoie and April Savoie (South Detroit Films), Shane Trowbridge (Shane’s Shorts), and Walter Riggi (Riggi Media International Inc.).

Michael K. Potter (Creator, Executive Producer, Showrunner, Writer & Director) BIO

Michael K. Potter is a disabled multi-disciplinary artist, Managing Director of Post Productions, and co-owner/operator of The Shadowbox Theatre. After spending the first part of his artistic career working primarily as an author, critic, and actor he began producing and directing theatre when he co-founded Post Productions in 2016. Since then Michael has produced 37 plays, directed 21, co-wrote a play and a musical (both produced), coordinated and produced two albums (including a Christmas album sold as a fundraiser for Abode Respite Services), co-created and coordinated the Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest (since 2018) for which he also serves as a judge, co-created and coordinated the Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition (since 2022) for which he also serves as MC and acting coach, and co-created and coordinated the Theatre Skills Education Program (since 2018) for which he also serves as a teacher. In 2022 he received an Arts Leadership Award (Theatre) from Windsor Endowment for the Arts. When not working in the arts, Michael is a philosopher and faculty member in the University of Windsor’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, where he focuses on educational development as a Teaching and Learning Specialist. He is presently writing an adaptation of three one-act Grand Guignol plays to be produced in October 2024 called Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God.

Fay Lynn (Creator, Co-executive Producer, Writer & Director) Bio

Fay Lynn is Artistic Director of Post Productions and co-owner/operator of The Shadowbox Theatre. She has sold her labour in many fashions across the 40 years of her existence (though not within the first 12 or so), ranging from line cook to factory worker to insurance broker to bookkeeper to litigation clerk. Theatre has been the most consistent career she’s held (a shame it has yet to pay the bills). Fay made her directorial debut in 2012, co-directing Aladdin: The Holiday Panto (Korda Artistic Productions), for which she also designed and built the set. For anyone who saw, worked on, or remembers that set: she’s come a long way since then in terms of set and prop design and construction. She first donned the proverbial Producer hat in 2014, producing Hard Hearts by Elliot Hayes (Korda Artistic Productions). Since the premiere of Post Productions’ first play in 2016, and joining the company as a full partner in 2017, Fay has produced 34 plays, directed/co-directed 14, co-wrote two plays and a musical (all produced), produced two albums (including a Christmas album sold as a fundraiser for Abode Respite Services), co-created the Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest (since 2022) for which she also serves as a judge, and co-created and coordinated the Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition (since 2022) for which she also serves as a judge. When not at the theatre, Fay now sells her labour as an Individual Direct Support Specialist at the University of Windsor. In 2024 she was nominated for a Windsor-Essex Critics Choice Theatre Award for Best Director for Hangmen (which was also nominated for Best Play).