Milk Milk Lemonade
Mallowmarsh Productions
June 4, 2026 – June 13, 2026
Elementary school can be tough: your recorder has a mind of its own, your cootie-catcher has gone all cryptic, and it turns out the victim of your egg-drop experiment had a wife and family and they want answers. 80% clown, 40% sketch comedy, 10% macaroni art, and 22% we haven’t learned to do percentages yet, “Milk Milk Lemonade” follows the (class) clowns of Mallowmarsh Elementary as they navigate the snack-time stock exchange, the horrors of health class, and the rough-and-tumble world of indoor recess to answer the age-old question: I know you are but what am I? Two actors play nine kids, five teachers, and a plethora of parents in this fast-paced whirlwind comedy!
Winner of the Second City Award for Best Comedy, and the What the Festival!
Strange Maker Award at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Performances
- June 4, 2026 – June 13, 2026 19:00
Venue
Five Points Theatre1 Dunlop Street West, Barrie
Ontario L4N 1A1
Production Team
Jack Davidson (née Rennie) is an actor, dancer, and Dora award-winning theatre creator from Toronto, Canada. He has worked as a performer and fight director across Asia, Europe, Australia, and the U.S., including performances at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, the Glimmerglass Festival in New York, and the Château de Versailles in France. Most recently, he has been working at the Shaw Festival as fight/movement director for the upcoming production of The 'Wind in the Willows'. He performs frequently with the Canadian Opera Company, including the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s opera, 'Hadrian'. He also performed five consecutive seasons at Opera Atelier and was a company member of Corpus Dance Projects. Additionally, his work as a fight/flight director can be seen throughout Bad Hats’ production of 'Peter Pan' (Dora Award), which was remounted at Soulpepper for three years. His play 'Fatale Charade', which he also directed, was a hit of the 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival and nominated by MyEntertainmentWorld as one of the best new plays of the year. He is co-artistic director of The Lakeside Players, which has toured their irreverent outdoor shows from coast to coast in Canada. Jack trained at the National Ballet School of Canada and is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School, where he now teaches.
Sarah Brawn is a queer stage manager. She has a BAH in Theatre from Queen’s University and has completed a number of S.M.Arts courses (so she nose what she is doing!). Select stage management credits include “MEAT” (Theatre Sheridan), “Pride and Prejudice” (Wren Theatre), ―Every Feeling" (Vancouver Fringe), "Joan and Olivia: A Hollywood Ghost Story" (Edmonton Fringe), "Dead Elephants" (Good Old Neon). They are currently working on a couple Toronto Fringe shows, and on their baking skills. Sarah is excited to be bringing this wacky clown show to new audiences and hopes you have a honking good time!
Catherine Teichman (she/her) is a performer and writer based in Toronto. Since graduating from George Brown Theatre School in 2018, she’s performed in several independent theatre productions in Toronto, as well as touring Tomson Highway’s cabaret for kids, The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito (Carousel Players) across Southern Ontario, to Saskatoon (Persephone Theatre), and to Vancouver (Carousel Theatre, Presentation House). As a musician, Catherine has an eclectic background in musical performance and composition and has created music for a number of projects, including several stage productions. Recent sound design credits include Like it or Not (Carousel Players) and Desperate Measures, the sold-out 2024 Toronto Fringe show, which Catherine also co-create
Artists
Emma is a Toronto-based actor and director. Equally at home with Shakespeare,
contemporary classics, and brand new works, Emma has performed in independent
productions and staged readings throughout the city. A graduate of George Brown Theatre
School—where she now returns to direct—Emma has also trained with Karen Kohlhaas and
the Atlantic Acting School in NYC, and with Canada’s National Voice Institute, Shakespeare
BASH’d, Ghostlight, and the Soulpepper City Youth Academy. With a strong background in
dance, Emma has performed and competed internationally as an Irish dancer at
world-championship level. Last year, Emma’s show Milk Milk Lemonade, which she
co-created and performed, took home both the What the Festival! Strange Maker Award,
and the Second City Award for Best Comedy at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Selected acting credits include: Theatre: Sister James (Doubt: A Parable, BNE Theatre),
Cassia (Fatal Charade, Elkabong Theatre Projects; Toronto Fringe Festival), Emilia (The
Man of Mode, Shakespeare BASH’d), Olivia de Havilland (Joan & Olivia: A Hollywood Ghost
Story, Ebb and Flow Theatre), Northumberland (Richard II, Theatre Foolscap), Cunégonde
(Candide, GBTS). Film and TV: Matlock (CBS), A Higher Loyalty (CBS), and Search for My
Daughter (CME).
Jonas is an actor and theatre-maker based in Toronto, and a graduate of George Brown
Theatre School. His love for clown was sparked when he first took a workshop with the
incomparable Adam Paolozza of Bad New Days way back in 2009. He’s since trained with
the likes of Ben Clost, Adam Lazarus, Chase Jeffels, and Jan Henderson. Milk Milk
Lemonade is his professional debut as a clown, and the realization of a dream decades in
the making.
Other selected theatre credits included: Actor in Wozzeck (Canadian Opera Company),
Frederick in Tales of The Grotesque (White Mills Theatre), "Everyone Else" in Stiff and Sons
(Bare Theatre Collective), Jean in The December Man (Theatre at Eastminster),The
Bartender in The Bartender (Malcontent Theatre), Victor in Dry Land (Cue6 Theatre).
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