LINDSAY KYTE
12
Height: 5’1”
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
Acting Agent - Maggie Dunlop (Oldfield) 416 - 515 - 9904
Voice Agent - Elaine Hamat (OAZ) 416-860-1790
Unions: CAEA, Actra, British Equity
EDUCATION
2008-2009
MA- Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
- Masters of Acting program during which feature-length play Tompkinsville was developed
and workshopped by staff and students.
2006
Independent Television Producers’ Program
-trained in development writing (synopses, treatments), budgeting, industry research, funding
sources, grant writing, etc.
1999 - 2000
Bachelor of Journalism – King’s College
- Trained in broadcast, print, research, (incl. Internet) & public relations
1995 - 1999
BA/BFA - Nova Scotia College of Art and Design / UPEI
- Majored in Theatre and Literature; specialization in Figure Drawing
JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE
Hosting
You CAN Do It! (documentary)
Halifax This Week (cable news program)
Radio Room (CKDU)
Reporter (Intern)
CBC - TV Charlottetown (Compass)
- Several pieces airing on both Compass and The Maritimes Tonight.
Freelance Reporter
DNTO (CBC Radio program)
The Toronto Sun (Toronto newspaper)
The Globe and Mail (National newspaper)
The Toronto Star (Toronto newspaper)
Beingwell Magazine (bi-monthly magazine)
Eye (Toronto alternative weekly)
The North Toronto Post (Toronto newspaper)
The Telegraph Journal (New Brunswick newspaper)
The Daily News (Halifax newspaper)
Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine (bi-monthly magazine)
Esprit (quarterly magazine)
The Buzz (PEI arts and entertainment publication)
The Coast (Halifax alternative weekly)
Reverb (Halifax music publication)
Progressive Choices (Canadian business woman magazine)
Perth Courier (weekly publication)
The Cadre (PEI publication)
Boardwalk (Sydney arts and entertainment publication)
The Cape Bretoner (Cape Breton magazine)
Personal Column/Blog
The Cape Breton Post (Toronto Adventures)
The Buzz (About Town)
The Cadre (Kyte Spyte)
ACTING- THEATRE (Selected)
Blithe Spirit
Edith
Classic Theatre Festival
Laurel Smith
Nine Lives of LMM
Emperor’s New Clothes
The Tempest
Vinegar Tom
Hedda Gabler
Toronto Adventures
Toronto Adventures
Land of I Told You So
Love Boat
Sleeping Beauty
Hip To Be Square
Mirror Game
Danny, King of Basement
Something to Talk About Bea
Almost Improv
Titanic
Four-Cornered Couch
A Christmas Carol
Anne of Green Gables
Anne
Carrefour Theatre
A. M. James
Advisor
Troubadour Theatre Company
Lisa Carmody
Antonio
Sennheiser Studio
Keith Woodison
Margery
Sennheiser Studio
Dan Bird
Thea
LIPA Studios
Ian Davies
Lindsay
Victoria Playhouse
Erskine Smith
Lindsay
Festival Antigonish
Lionel Doucette
Pippa
Shrimp Magnet Theatre
Kate Keenan
Ginger
Mysteriously Yours Theatre
Jean Daigle
Briar Rose
Solar Stage Theatre Company
Bill Martyn
Rachel
Grafton St. Dinner Theatre Cyndi Locke
Sarah
Theatre New Brunswick
Donnie Bowes
Louise
Theatre New Brunswick
Donnie Bowes
Feast Dinner Theatre
Mike Ross
Improviser
Various Venues
Aaron Corbett
Rose
Eddie May Mysteries
Francois Weber
Darleen
Carrefour Theatre
Ed Rashed
Narrator
Confederation Centre
Ed Rashed
Anne
Various Venues
Lisa Carmody
ACTING - FILM/ RADIO/TELEVISION/ INTERNET (Selected)
Murdoch Mysteries
Principal
Shaftesbury
You CAN Do It!
Host
Seabright Productions
Toronto Adventures
Lead
www.untv.ca
Tracey the Musical
Actor
traceythemusical.50webs.com
DNTO
Freelance
CBC Toronto
Overture
Principal
vanishing pointe
Bobby’s Peace
Principal
FatCat Productions
Footsteps
Principal
CBC Shortworks
CBC News (Compass)
Reporter
CBC Charlottetown
*Commercial list for television and radio available upon request.
Leslie Hope
Peter Murphy
Tyler Schlombs
Trevor Campbell
Sook-Yin Lee
Kevin Uddenberg
Susan Rodgers
Pauline Kaill
Steve Andrusiak
ACTING- FURTHER TRAINING
Classical/Film Acting: Carter Thor Studios, Ron Leach, Bernadette Jones, Sears and Switzer, John Gordon (Equity Showcase), John
Dunsworth, Steve Behal (Equity), Kelsa Kinsly, Joe Wynne (NTS)
Workshops: Jerry Etienne (Breathing for Actors) Kim Kierans (Radio) Bob Allison (Television)
Voice (Soprano/Alto): Sung-Ha Shin-Bouey, John Karr, Rachelle Boudreau, Peggy Redmond, Abby Anderson, Nick Phillips
Improv: Doug Morency (Second City), Cyndi Locke, Mike Ross, Briane Nasimok, Iain Ormsby-Knox
PLAYS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED
Tompkinsville
Work in progress, the development of which has received funding and support from the Canada
Council for the Arts, the Canadian Stage Company and the Blythe Festival. Was workshopped
and developed by the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts.
Toronto Adventures
Produced by Festival Antigonish and Go Fly A Kyte Productions in summer 2007 in three
separate runs. Remounted in Summer 2008 by Victoria Playhouse.
Little Women
Stage adaptation produced and mounted by Linlea Theatre company summer 1999
The Dating Connection
Produced and mounted by Brennan Productions in 2001
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Documentary/TV
Writer for documentary and television production companies including Banger Films, Gorica
Productions, Kyoko Productions and Wind Chime Productions. Duties included research in
traditional and Internet forms, writing synopses and treatments, interviewing, script writing
and advising and pitching.
Funding Researcher/Writer
Have researched and written funding documents and grant applications for several companies,
including Acting Up Stage Theatre, Studio 180 and Black Box Theatre.
Website Content
Have written website text for various individuals and businesses, such as Him and Her
Photography.
Funding Officer
artsCape Breton
Duties included researching funding for all areas of the arts, researching grant application
procedures, personal consultations about grant writing, organizing grant writing workshops,
preparing hand-outs and general office duties.
Publicist
Have served as publicist for various bands, performers and productions, including The
Groove Gurus, Grant Tilly, Ian Sherwood, Funny Business, Toronto Adventures, Cloning:
The Musical, Little Women, The Dating Connection, etc.
Producing
Formed own production company in 2006, Go Fly A Kyte Productions, which produced
Internet series Toronto Adventures for Canada’s first Internet channel, www.untv.ca. Go Fly
A Kyte Productions also produced the run of stage play Toronto Adventures for a summer
2007 run at the Membertou Trade & Convention Centre and the Atlantic Fringe Festival in
Nova Scotia. This play was remounted in summer 2008 at the Victoria Playhouse. Lindsay
Kyte created, wrote and acted in both the Internet and stage productions of Toronto
Adventures.
EXPERIENCE / ACHIEVEMENTS
*Weekly e-mail series called Toronto Adventures that is read by over 1000 people across Canada, has been published in
compilation form by both The Toronto Star and The Telegraph Journal and has been a topic on CBC Radio and television
numerous times. Was as well a blog in the Cape Breton Post.
*Recipient of several grants, including a Canada Council grant.
*Founded Anne & Diana Skits in 2001 which produced 30 minute musical vignettes
*Poetry published in several anthologies
SPECIAL SKILLS
Professional: Stage combat certified (British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat), Artist (drawing, painting, photography), Valid
driver’s license
Accents: Neutral Canada, East Coast Canada, British (Cockney)
Hobby: African hand drumming, guitar, ukulele and keyboard (all beginner level), beginner dance, aerobics, jogging