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BEST SELLING
BOOK!
The Stage Light Flickers is a compilation of 32 different types of performing artists, and their experiences on their journey making it through Covid-19, adapting their art, how they fed their souls and how they survived!.
Find self-reflection questions, group discussion questions, and frequent brain breaks, in this book is perfect for any artist, teacher, or book club!
ABOUT
Emerson Arts is a small, yet powerful team of two. Best-friends turned family, turned business partners.
We aim to make an impactful change, raise meaningful awareness, and translate difficult subject matter into entertaining performance art!
Born in the fires of Covid-19, Emerson Arts adopted the slogan “Theatre Everywhere” as we began to create opportunities for artists in a time there were none! We have grown from one show to a four show season featuring completely original content.
Our logo represents the stage light we fought so hard to keep lit in theatres across the world over the last few years. To us Emerson Arts represents hope, community, and togetherness.
Shinning our light forward in the darkest of times!
Thank you all for your kindness and support!
Spirit of Emerson Arts
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Mission
Emerson Arts' mission is to provide a wide range of original content that represents the city of Hamilton, our community and yours, with a focus on interactive, unique and innovative performance art.
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Values
As a company and collective Emerson Arts puts value in diverse representation, pushing social boundaries, celebrating local talent and innovative story telling.
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Goals
We have two main goals at Emerson Arts; the first is to pay every person who has a hand in our shows, the second is to provide a four show season with something for age, demographic, and social group.
CO-FOUNDERS
Emily & Mason
Emily Bolyea is a theatre performer and singer with a passion for performance. Since her first time on the stage at five years-old as part of a travelling children’s choir,‘Tummon Troupers’ out of the Georgian Bay area, she knew she was meant to entertain.
In her early days she competed in various music festivals, church choirs and claimed the stage in numerous high school lead roles. As a member of Jazzamatazz and Park Players, Emily performed in resorts across Muskoka. She graduated from the University of Windsor’s School of Dramatic Art and Communications Studies programs.
After university, Emily travelled throughout Asia and Africa. She was resident entertainer for the Canadian Chambre of Commerce in Seoul, South Korea, singing O Canada at various ex-pat events such as the Terry Fox Run and Seoul’s Canada Day Celebrations.
While teaching English, Drama and Music, she still found time to be the voice of ‘My Happy Songs’ a 5 CD children’s album series through Park Syeong Music Works Studios. She was the featured English Teacher for “Today’s English” on Seocho Television, Seoul and lead singer of the ‘80’s funk band, “Seould-Out”.
Today, she performs in theatres and venues across the Golden Horseshoe and has played notable rolls like ‘Rosie’ (Mamma Mia), Miss Hannigan (Annie), Judas & Mary (Jesus Christ Superstar), Narrator (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat), Emiliza (Emiliza Scrooge), Dylan (Mom’s Moving) Joyce (I Can Do That For You) and Widow Corney (Oliver).
She is grateful to be building Emerson Arts with her best friend, Mason Micevski. Emily would like to thank her two incredible daughters, Page and Ava, as well as her mother, Kathryn Bolyea and aunt, Cheryl Pipher for their ongoing support!
Mason Micevski, a proud Hamiltonian from birth LOVES this city! From the Ti-Cats, to Tracey’s Place, to Grand Dad’s daunts, Mason is obsessed with what Hamilton has to offer, trying to now add Emerson Arts to that list of Hamilton staples.
Mason works tirelessly creating new content, writing plays, scripts, movies, shows, children’s books, comics and more!
As a professional performer, Mason as danced with the National Ballet of Canada, worked for Warner Bro’s Entertainment, Oh Canada Eh?! and he has worked with tons of indie theatres from Niagara to Oshawa. Most recently he has worked with The Stirling Festival Theatre, an equity house just outside of Belleville, ON.
From the Hamilton Mountain, to Randolph Collage of Preforming Arts, Mason has studied classical voice, pop, rock, musical theatre, and opera singing techniques from a wide range of teachers. He has created his own vocal technique that boasts ‘anyone can sing’, called ‘Active Voice’.
Most recently Mason has graduated from Laurier University with a Masters in Community Music, where he learned how to create, cultivate and support community development through arts and music.
His master’s thesis inquired ‘The ways which Community Musical Theatre groups support their LGBTQIA+ community members.’ Which resulted in arts based research, a musical called ‘Community Musical Theatre: The Queer Experience’, this is the telling of different perspectives and lived experiences in community theatre, in Ontario.
Mason is an advocator of the arts, connector, and community builder, therefor, so is Emerson Arts!