Created by Snack Music Collective
Directed by Ginette Mohr
For Kindergarten Classes (Ages 3 – 6)
Duration: 40 minutes + 10 minutes post-show program
Option for classroom workshops before or after the show.
Directed by Ginette Mohr
Performed by Annie Luján, Michelle Urbano, and Hilary Wheeler
Puppetry Coach Kira Hall
Snack Music is: Ginette Mohr, Ingrid Hansen & Andrew Young, with contributions from Elliot Loran)
A WeeFestival Commission
Three artists spin stories inspired by items they discover in the lost and found box. A children’s mitten becomes a fish, a cozy woolly wrap becomes the mouth of a whale, a winter hat becomes a hungry beaver, and a flowing scarf becomes a mischievous grandmother who loves stories and urges the performers on!
Lost & Found is a participatory performance created especially for young children that uses live music, found object puppetry and inventive storytelling to inspire and delight students and their educators. Following the performance, the artists of the show visit the classrooms to facilitate workshops where students are invited to create and puppeteer their own stories using found objects. View the Trailer
Meet the Artists
Ginette Mohr | Director | Lost & Found
Ginette is an award-winning director, performer, playwright and arts educator. She seeks to fire up imaginations and cultivate new work through playful explorations of performance and design. For over 20 years, she has created theatre with companies that include The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neptune Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, SNAFU, The Quickening Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Drayton Entertainment, Theatre Aquarius, Keystone Theatre, and The Second City. With Catch Me in the Kitchen, she has written and published books for young people and performed at events such as Word on the Street, Tarragon Theatre’s Sally Stavro Family Series, and The Toronto International Storytelling Festival. She has taught theatre, dance and improvisation at schools that include York University, The Second City, Theatre Direct, Young People’s Theatre and The Living Arts Centre. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Simon Fraser University and an M.F.A. in Theatre from York University.
Annie Luján | Performer | Lost & Found and Quest for the Moon
Annie is a Latinx actor, clown and theatre creator from Toronto, ON. Annie is a recent graduate of the Soulpepper Academy, where she trained with some of Canada’s most celebrated theatre makers, performed in mainstage and co-created productions and created her first WIP solo show Gasoline. Annie has studied various forms of clown extensively in Toronto, Montreal and in Italy where she trained with Commedia Del Arte master, Antonio Fava. Recent credits include: King Lear (Soulpepper), Storybook Search (Bad Hats), Small Gods (workshop, Factory Theatre), Comedy of Errors (The Grove)
Michelle Urbano Performer | Lost & Found and Quest for the Moon
Michelle is a Toronto puppeteer, theatre creator, and producer. This is her second project with WeeFestival after a Quebec tour of Old Man and the River/Vieil homme et la rivière in 2021. She was the co-Artistic Director and Producer for the found-object puppetry company, Artichoke Heart. She recently received funding from the Ontario Arts Council to develop a new puppetry piece inspired by the children’s book Strega Nona, and was an artist-in-residence at Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, where she also completed three tours with the company. She has performed and worked in a variety of capacities with the CBC, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre by the Bay, Pandemic Theatre, Eldritch Theatre, the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and was a part of award winning puppetry productions in the Toronto Fringe and Summerworks. She recently Produced the 43rd and 44th edition of the Toronto International Storytelling Festival, the oldest and largest of its kind in North America.
Hilary Wheeler | Performer | Lost & Found and Quest for the Moon
Hilary is a queer Chinese-Canadian actor, musician, and playwright. She is a recent graduate from the Acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada, select show credits including My Family and Other Endangered Species, Everybody, Bonus Points if You Have Air Conditioning,To Those Who Wait in Fear. Other show credits include Retrograde (Dead Racoon Theatre) Selfie, The Paperbag Princess (2play Tour, Geordie Theatre), Macbeth, Love Labour’s Lost, Pericles, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar (The Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival). Recent nominations include ‘Outstanding Ensemble’ for The Paper Bag Princess at the 2021-2022 METAs. Her solo show The List is currently in development.
Lost & Found Acknowledgments
Lost & Found was written and designed by Ginette Mohr, Andrew G. Young, and Ingrid Hansen, with additional contributions by Elliott Loran. Lost and Found was created through the support of Theatre Direct and Lynda Hill in 2017. Backdrop designed and built by Andy Miller