Creators

Michael K. Potter

Creator, Executive Producer, Showrunner, Writer & Director

Michael K. Potter is a disabled multi-disciplinary artist, Managing Director of Post Productions, and co-owner/operator of The Shadowbox Theatre. After spending the first part of his artistic career working primarily as an author, critic, and actor he began producing and directing theatre when he co-founded Post Productions in 2016. Since then Michael has produced 37 plays, directed 21, co-wrote a play and a musical (both produced), coordinated and produced two albums (including a Christmas album sold as a fundraiser for Abode Respite Services), co-created and coordinated the Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest (since 2018) for which he also serves as a judge, co-created and coordinated the Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition (since 2022) for which he also serves as MC and acting coach, and co-created and coordinated the Theatre Skills Education Program (since 2018) for which he also serves as a teacher. In 2022 he received an Arts Leadership Award (Theatre) from Windsor Endowment for the Arts. When not working in the arts, Michael is a philosopher and faculty member in the University of Windsor’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, where he focuses on educational development as a Teaching and Learning Specialist. He is presently writing an adaptation of three one-act Grand Guignol plays to be produced in October 2024 called Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God.

Fay Lynn

Creator, Co-executive Producer, Writer & Director

Fay Lynn is Artistic Director of Post Productions and co-owner/operator of The Shadowbox Theatre. She has sold her labour in many fashions across the 40 years of her existence (though not within the first 12 or so), ranging from line cook to factory worker to insurance broker to bookkeeper to litigation clerk. Theatre has been the most consistent career she’s held (a shame it has yet to pay the bills). Fay made her directorial debut in 2012, co-directing Aladdin: The Holiday Panto (Korda Artistic Productions), for which she also designed and built the set. For anyone who saw, worked on, or remembers that set: she’s come a long way since then in terms of set and prop design and construction. She first donned the proverbial Producer hat in 2014, producing Hard Hearts by Elliot Hayes (Korda Artistic Productions). Since the premiere of Post Productions’ first play in 2016, and joining the company as a full partner in 2017, Fay has produced 34 plays, directed/co-directed 14, co-wrote two plays and a musical (all produced), produced two albums (including a Christmas album sold as a fundraiser for Abode Respite Services), co-created the Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest (since 2022) for which she also serves as a judge, and co-created and coordinated the Edele Winnie Women’s Monologue Competition (since 2022) for which she also serves as a judge. When not at the theatre, Fay now sells her labour as an Individual Direct Support Specialist at the University of Windsor. In 2024 she was nominated for a Windsor-Essex Critics Choice Theatre Award for Best Director for Hangmen (which was also nominated for Best Play).

Joey Ouellette

Creator & Writer

Joey Ouellette has directed over 200 productions for many different companies. Favourites include: Incredible Hospital (The Purple Theatre Company); Walking Upside Down Underwater (Windsor Feminist Theatre); and The Wishful Christmas Rabbit (Blue Kangaroo). He has directed Macbeth five times and suffered no ill effects. As a playwright his work has been produced all over North America. Clips from different stagings of his play The Marriage Counsellor abound on YouTube. He’s been Artistic Director and Producer for the Purple Theatre Company for more than twenty years. He has also directed and produced more than thirty short films. Joey has won the Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest three times – for A Haunting in E-Flat (2018), Pirate Attack on the 1C Bus Going Downtown (2021), and Mirabella (2022), all produced by Post Productions. In 2024 Joey was nominated for two Windsor-Essex Critics Choice Theatre Award for Best Original Script by a Windsor-Essex Playwright for both The Case of the Odd Shaped Gas Tanks and Mirabella.