Current Artistic Team

Tara Goldstein
​Founder, Artistic Director, Playwright, Producer

 Tara Goldstein is the Founding and Artistic Director of Gailey Road Productions, a theatre company that produces research-informed theatre on social and political issues that affect us all (www.gaileyroad.com).  Tara is also a professor, ethnographer and playwright in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  She has been writing and producing research-informed for seventeen years and has written about her work in Staging Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre (Peter Lang 2012). Three of her research-informed plays appear in the anthology Zero Tolerance and Other Plays:  Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia at School (Sense Publishers 2013).  Tara also curates Women Writing Letters, a literary performance series produced by Gailey Road.  Women Writing Letters completed its fourth season in April 2015. Tara’s play Castor and Sylvie, a play about French feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and her companion philosophy teacher Sylvie Le Bon was performed at Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival in 2015.  Tara's latest project, with the LGBTQ Families Speak Out research team, is a verbatim play called Out at School​, which is based on interviews with LGBTQ families about their experiences in Ontario schools: 
www.lgbtqfamiliesspeakout.ca

Pam Baer
Director, Artist Researcher

Pam Baer works with Gailey Road Productions as a Director and Artist Researcher, and is a theatre and media artist who focuses on community engaged work. Drawn from a young age to storytelling as a way of connecting people and building community, her work revolves around personal narratives, oral histories, and life stories. Pamela has facilitated applied theatre and community arts projects with diverse groups, and wide reaching themes, in England, Ghana, and Canada.

Margot Huycke
Producer Women Writing Letters

Margot Huycke works with Gailey Road Productions as the Producer of our Women Writing Letters literary performance series.  The series ran for four seasons and in the fall of 2016 hosted a fundraiser for The CASA Award.  Margot teaches geography at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute in Toronto and is an avid recreational hockey player.  

Jenny Salisbury
Director, Artist Researcher

Jenny is a Toronto-based theatre artist and educator who also works with Gailey Road as a Director and Artist Researcher.  She holds an MA in Text and Performance from RADA and King’s College, London, and is a graduate of the joint acting program at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto (U of T). She is pursuing a Ph.D. in devised theatre and community-engaged performance at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.  

Founding Artistic Team

Gillian Lewis
Founding Member, Production Manager

Gillian is a graduate of Ryerson University’s Theatre – Technical Production program. Gillian has stage managed for Gailey Road Productions, since its creation in 2007, for their Fringe productions of Pound Predators (2007) and Lost Daughter (2008).  She was the Production Manager for Harriet’s House (2010). Gillian is currently working at Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto as their Education and Production Coordinator.  

Jocelyn Wickett
Founding Member, Director

Jocelyn Wickett is graduate of the Theatre Performance program at Concordia University in Montreal, Jocelyn has been working as a performer, choreographer, director, activist and educator.  Jocelyn works with Gailey Road Productions as a Director, and is currently teaching English and Drama at the Toronto District School Board.  Jocelyn directed Pound Predators (2007), Lost Daughter (2008) and Harriet’s House (2010).  . Most recently she directed Joanne Latimer (who played Harriet in Harriet's House) in Washed Up at the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Gailey Road Advisory Board

Tara Goldstein, Artistic Director

Pam Baer, Director, Artist Researcher
Bessie Giannikos, Financial Advisor
Margot Huycke, Producer, Women Writing Letters
Jenny Salisbury, Director, Artist Researcher