Company Mandate

Founded in 2008, Monkeyman Productions is a non-profit corporation whose goal is to create a postmodern theatre with real relevancy to a culture informed by comic books, monster movies, and video games; to speak in the language of an audience that has most truly found its voice in the meme-ridden Youtube-obsessed depths of the Internet. We draw from popular culture in the way that Shakespeare drew from the common culture of his day – these are our mythologies, our tales of comedy and tragedy. Through the development and performance of work which examines our obsessions and preoccupations in the 21st Century, we hope to discover the ways in which we truly have changed, for better or worse, and the ways in which we remain the same – with a definite eye toward the absurd, but also a corresponding empathy for a subject matter that, in the end, encompasses all of us.

Contact Info

For all general requests:

Monkeyman Productions
222 – 800 Lansdowne Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6H 4K3
t: 416-737-1267
headchimp@monkeymanproductions.com

To contact a specific company member, see below.

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Company Members

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D.J. Sylvis, Artistic Director
D.J. has been active in theatre for over 20 years as an actor, technician, director and playwright in both the United States and Canada. He was most recently seen on stage in the Alchemy Theatre’s production of The Tempest. His short play The Last Few Minutes in the Life of King Kong was performed in January as a part of the Grand Theatre’s (London, Ontario) Playwright’s Cabaret, and his play Godzilla on Sundays appeared in March as a part of the New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto. Both works will see further development and stagings through Monkeyman Productions.

D.J. lives in Toronto with his cat, Anapurna, a stack of books bigger than a family van and too many distractions (as if the cat and books weren’t enough).

Martin Chodorek, Director
Martin is an actor who continually flirts with, but can’t commit to, directing. He had the pleasure of directing the original incarnation of Godzilla on Sundays in March 2008 as part of the New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre and thus proved himself sufficiently simian to get his paw in the Monkeyman Productions door. Born and raised in Toronto, Martin enjoys including unnecessarily lengthy sentences in his biographical blurbs to both fill them out and also so that readers are forced to re-read them several times and thus gain a sense of accomplishment when comprehension is finally, mercifully, achieved. Feels good, doesn’t it?

Martin enjoys two slices of lime in his club soda and has an exceedingly high pun tolerance.

Brad Rowe, Actor
Brad’s main function at Monkeyman Productions is the be the tallest member of the company. He achieves this by constantly belittling his contemporaries and feigning indifference whenever something seems beyond his intellectual ability. This keeps the other company members depressed and thus slouching with self-doubt. Besides that, Brad keeps himself busy working on getting famous through the hard work of others and reading comic books. For more information on Brad, Brad’s history, Brad’s Resume, Brad’s personal hygiene, Brad’s driving record and Brad’s overall glorious contributions to the Earth, Check back here often!

Timothy Nussey, Actor
Tim was in Godzilla on Sundays, and enjoyed it thoroughly. He was pleased as punch to join the Monkeyman Production Company, and would like to say thanks very much to D.J. Tim was recently voted most likely to be Darth Vader, most likely to be eaten if cannibalism was resorted to in a survival situation, and, on the plus side, most likely to develop super-powers at some point in his life. Tim was very popular that day. To that end, Tim is avoiding desert islands and life-or-death situations, the dark side of the Force™, and actively searching out gamma-rays, radioactive spiders, alien technology, and a good bacon cheeseburger.

Tim enjoys music, plays the bass, and reads Agatha Christie novels. So there.