'Scary' Times For Penny & Pound Theatre

"Penny and Pound Theatre Productions is more than just a "youth theater company".

They are a leader and innovator for youth theater in the Waterloo Region, as they provide a phenomenal theater experience to all!

As a cast or crew member with Penny and Pound you can expect high quality, engaging, challenging, and meaningful theater experience, and as an audience member with Penny and Pound you can expect to witness professional-quality productions, extraordinary visuals, and captivating performances.

Penny and Pound Theatre Productions is youth theater at it's finest." 

- Heather Firlotte. 

For five years, Penny & Pound Theatre Productions has been touching the lives of young actors from Cambridge and beyond. With a commitment to offering participants the opportunity to take part in high-caliber, challenging theatrical productions, Penny & Pound strives to enhance the abilities of their performers and volunteers through a supportive and engaging environment. 

The current global pandemic has affected theatres all across the world, and all of us at P&P have felt the effects firsthand. In March, Penny & Pound had just begun rehearsals for our summer musical, Sweeney Todd, starring a cast of thirty young performers, from ages 13-24. Unfortunately, the closures of the province due to COVID-19 forced the show to be rescheduled to a later date, abruptly ending the 2019/2020 season. Penny & Pound was left with no onstage offerings, as well as no income for future productions. Halloween this year is especially scary for the theatre community. 

We find ourselves in a precarious position as we enter our 2021 season, which is set to begin in late Spring. The youth in our community have come to rely on Penny & Pound as a safe haven, as well as a creative outlet. We pride ourselves on supporting all young people, no matter their level of experience, race, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity, and more! All are welcome at P&P. 

Donations given to this campaign will help fund our first show of the 2021 season, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. As both Sweeney Todd (the last show of the 2019/2020 season) and The Addams Family Young@Part (the first show of the 2020/2021 season, and our first 'junior' production) have been canceled, Little Women currently has no financial backing. 

As you sit down to watch our fun, online talent show, BOO-TUBE, please remember the youth who have no outlet and no way to express themselves due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Any little bit helps. We'll see you after the intermission! 

- Lori Distel and Corina Dunn, Co-Founders and Artistic Directors. 

For more information regarding Penny & Pound Theatre Productions, feel free to visit www.pennyandpoundtheatre.com