OUR TEAM

Our Board and Staff

Trevor Lundy

Past President, Board of Directors

Trevor has over 40 years of involvement in the arts across a wide range of disciplines. Trevor has been an actor, director, producer, set designer, lighting designer, writer and so much more. From 2013-2015, he was the General Manager of Oshawa Little Theatre before returning to Kimberley BC where he has been the Production Manager of the Cranbrook Community Theatre for the last 5 years. Trevor’s creativity and operational acumen now take on the new challenge and adventure of a cross-country leadership role with Theatre on the Ridge.

Marion Meyers

Marketing, Board of Directors

Marion Meyers is an encaustic painter and quilt artist showing her work at Scugog Arts Space and on studio tours in Scugog, Uxbridge and Prince Edward County. She has 40 years of experience in the fields of advertising, marketing, brand development and strategic planning for a wide range of companies including long stints at Shoppers Drug Mart, Coca Cola and her own brand development company. Marion is the president of Scugog Council for the Arts and has served on the Theatre on the Ridge board since its inception.

Susan Robinson

Outreach, Board of Directors

Susan is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design with over 25 years experience as a multi-disciplinary visual artist, working in acrylic painting, sculpture, illustration, photography, video creation and puppet-making. As Co-founder of Chasing Shadows Productions (an award-winning, independent theatre company/artistic collective) Susan has “worn many hats and wrangled many cats.” Working as a Producer, Stage Manager, Backdrop Painter and Puppet/costume/prop Maker has provided many opportunities for her to utilize her various artistic skills and imagination.

Returning to her hometown of Oshawa after several years of living and working in Toronto and Hamilton, Susan is excited to connect Durham Region audiences with awe and wonder by experiencing the productions of Theatre on the Ridge.

Martha Casson

Vice President, Board of Directors

Martha joins us from over a 30 year career in senior administration at both Humber and Niagara Colleges. Through her international work she had the opportunity to work in over 30 countries and to connect students from all over the world. Through both tangible and support involvement, she was also responsible for the admission of hundreds of students to college music and theatre programs.

Martha’s local commitment has involved significant volunteer work as a board member or leader for the Building Youth Capacity (BYC) organization, the Seniors Advisory Committee and over two terms for the Housing Advisory Committee to Scugog Council. She has also recently been appointed as a Community Director for the North Durham Family Health Team.
Dubbed by the Toronto Star, Martha is probably best known as one of the original four “Golden Girls of Port Perry” for their creative shared-ownership home on Perry Street.

Angela McMullen

Treasurer, Board of Directors

Angela is a designated CPA and has worked in the accounting and finance industry for 10 years. She is currently the manager at Elevation CPA Professional Corporation, where she has a background in working with various non-profit organizations, charities and small businesses to meet their financial needs and goals. Angela hopes to use her attention to detail and expertise in the accounting industry to facilitate the steady financial growth of Theater on the Ridge.

Uju Umenyi

Play Development, Board of Directors

Uju Umenyi is an emerging writer for stage and screen. In 2022, she was a Creative in Residence with Ontario Culture Days and Theatre on the Ridge in Port Perry, developing a first draft of a play about Samuel Stout, the town’s first Black resident. Uju’s writing interests include stories about community, home, and belonging. For screen, Uju is one of the writers of ‘ESL’, a digital series in development.

Carey Nicholson

Artistic Director/General Manager, Staff

Carey has been engaged in performing arts for over 40 years. Originally from St. Catharines, Carey moved to Toronto to pursue professional dance studies with Lois Smith, O.C. at George Brown College, and the School of the Toronto Dance Theatre, graduating from both professional programs and becoming a faculty member at STDT for 15 years before moving to Durham region. She has been involved with community and professional theatre companies in Durham, York region and elsewhere as a board member, producer, director, choreographer, performer, instructor, set and costume designer. She has received several awards for her work in the performing arts, including a Durham Art of Transition Creative Award for her contribution to theatre in Durham. Her past, and ongoing, theatre studies include programs and courses at George Brown College, Toronto Dance Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, the Stratford Festival and Off The Wall Theatre Alliance, and was an auditing director with Obsidian Theatre (production: hang, directors: Philip Akin, Kimberley Rampersad).

Carey’s arts administration experience includes past Administrative Manager for the Toronto Centre for the Promotion of Fashion Design, past co-owner of META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery and past Executive Director of the Scugog Council for the Arts. Carey is also an independent theatre adjudicator and arts educator​. She also serves as the Chair of the Scugog Tourism Advisory Committee, a standing committee of the Township of Scugog.

Andy Williamson

Venue Manager and Technical Manager, Staff

Andy has managed theatre and corporate facilities in Toronto and Durham region since the late 1980’s. He has been with Theatre on the Ridge from the company’s start in 2013, maintaining order in the limited storage and backstage spaces of Theatre on the Ridge and taking the lead on carpentry for the company’s set builds. When time permits, Andy has also been seen onstage as Reuben Crandell for Pine Grove Plots with Theatre on the Ridge and in many productions in the Durham area – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill A Mockingbird (Oshawa Little Theatre) among others.

Janette Ramirez

Patron Services and Box Office Manager

Janette has been in the “business” for way too many years. Starting out at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, then moving around and finishing a BFA at York U. Always the eternal student, having a few Undergrad and Grad degrees in the fields of both Drama and Politics and using them to their fullest. As an actor-worked extensively in NYC, Florida, Seattle,Toronto and New Haven. As a Producer worked the tours of; The Clinton’s, Laura Bush, Mrs. Obama, Anderson Cooper and numerous tours with Dr. Maya Angelou (2005 to 2014) and most recently (2018 to 2023) exclusive to comedian John Cleese. Always grateful to make a living in an unforgiving industry.

Radar Digital/Melissa Rada

Social Media Coordinator, Staff

Radar Digital, founded by Melissa Rada in 2021, is a digital marketing studio specializing in social media management, content creation for social platforms, website development, and comprehensive digital media management.

With a background in Advertising – Digital Media Management and Music Business, Melissa brings a thoughtful, collaborative approach to every project. Radar Digital supports brands with customized strategies, hands-on management, and content creation that makes heads turn—for all the right reasons—helping brands build meaningful, engaging digital presences that resonate.

Nancy Towns

Tourism Development Coordinator, Staff

Nancy has close to two decades of professional experience in travel and tourism, having worked with two of North America’s leading travel companies in cultural, experiential, rural, remote and active travel. She also has a lifelong background of entrepreneurialism, growing up in her family’s multi-generational general store in her home region of Peterborough County. As both participant and patron in theatrical arts, Nancy is an active member of the Peterborough Theatre Guild.

At the heart of her professional ambitions is collaborating with organizations to realize the long-term potential that tourism can have as a tool for communities; to steward destinations first and foremost as meaningful and attainable places to live, work and call home. This has led her to this next chapter in her career with Theatre on the Ridge.