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Ray Hogg is an award winning Black theatre artist who creates virtuosic, visually stunning, viscerally moving theatre and live performance. He has 30 years of artistic, educational and leadership experience in the most celebrated opera, dance, and theatre companies around the world. His work as a theatre artist, director, and choreographer has taken him across Europe, The United States, and Canada. He has created for stages as diverse as Neptune Theatre in the east, The Arts Club Theatre Company in the west and many others in between. From 2012-2017 Ray served as Artistic Director of Rainbow Stage and from 2021-2025 as the Artistic Director of The Musical Stage Company. He is an Associate Artist at Neptune Theatre, and the founding Artistic Director of Prime Mover Theatre Company.

Directing credits include: A Strange Loop (Soulpepper/Crow’s/Musical Stage Company), Controlled Damage (The Grand Theatre London), Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Theatre Calgary), Dixon Road, Starwalker ( Musical Stage Company), Da Kink In My Hair (Arts Club Theatre); Cats, The Producers, Sister Act, Shrek, Little Shop of Horrors (Rainbow Stage); Five Guys Named Moe, Dreamgirls (Neptune Theatre), Love and Information, An Enemy of the People, Damn Yankees, Mary Poppins, and Chicago (Theatre Sheridan). His award-winning choreography has been seen at Crow’s Theatre (Natasha Pierre…Great Comet of 1812), the Shaw Festival (Come Back Little Sheba), the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (South Pacific), Neptune Theatre (Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot), the Segal Centre (Indecent), and more.

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For the Grand Theatre: Pride and Prejudice.

Selected Theatre Credits: In Studio: The Words and Music of Britta Johnson (Choreographer, Theatre Sheridan), Snow White: The Panto (Choreographer, The Capitol Theatre), La Cage Aux Folles (Associate Choreographer, The Stratford Festival), Man of La Mancha (Assistant Choreographer, The Stratford Festival), West Side Story (Assistant Choreographer, The Stratford Festival), In The Heights (Associate Director and Choreographer, Theatre Sheridan), Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway), 10 seasons as a performer with The Stratford Festival.

Film and TV Credits: Roxana (Bravo), The Music Man (Disney), Romeo and Juliet (Stratfest at Home)

Other: Krista is also the proud owner of The Movement Centre Pilates and Rehabilitation Studio in Stratford ON.

For The Grand Theatre: Waitress, The Sound of Music, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Controlled Damage, Grow, Re:Opening Festival, Chariots of Fire, Once.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Maggie, The Play that Goes Wrong, Anne of Green Gables, Munschables (Charlottetown); Maggie (Aquarius); Sweeney Todd, The Gamblers, The Prince of Homburg, I Claudia, The Last of Romeo & Juliet, Offline (Talk is Free); Miracle on 34th Street (Chemainus); The Last Five Years, She Loves Me, The 39 Steps (Rose); Legally Blonde (Theatre Sheridan); Gin Game, Cottagers & Indians, Crimes of the Heart, Boeing Boeing, Dial M for Murder, Barefoot in the Park (Watermark Theatre).