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Michael Kras
Michael Kras (he/him) is a Hamilton-based playwright, director, performer, magician, and teaching artist focused on writing new-generation stories including the Voaden Prize-winning play The Team (Essential Collective Theatre/Theatre Aquarius), No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre), The Start Up (Theatre Aquarius/Brave New Works), finsta (Boca del Lupo), and The Year and Two of Us Back Here (Broken Soil Theatre). Michael is also an in-demand magic director and designer, currently serving as the Magic & Illusion Lead for the North American Tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Other magic direction credits include The Extinction Therapist (Theatre Aquarius), Franklin’s Key (Pig Iron Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (Maltz Jupiter Theatre).
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iPhoto caption: Steven Gallagher for Intermission. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
A love of theatre runs so deeply through Gallagher’s bones that you’d think it was a path he began to follow as soon as he could walk and talk. But for a boy who came of age on a rustic farm in Quebec and favoured sports venues over stages in high school, an eventual career in theatre was hardly a given.
In many ways, theatre artists and magicians have the same job. We push the bounds of a live experience to startle audiences into confronting their realities. We aim to tell stories that linger. For a magician, there’s no such thing as “it can’t be done.” It can always be done, one way or another.
iPhoto caption: Photos by @brettmiller1989 (left) and @_sarahg15, via Instagram
The Rise of Hamilton (the City, not the Musical)
“Hey Toronto friend! Wanna come see my show in Hamilton?”
“I mean, maybe, I dunno.”
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