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Lucas Penner is a professional actor and songwriter specializing in composition and musical direction for theatre. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Theatre Arts (2017) from the George Brown Theatre School. Within the last three years he has been in charge of musical direction for the Toronto Fringe Festival's "The Miserable Worm" and "Meant" as well as "Cavalcade", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "As You Like It" while at George Brown. He was also hired by Mike Ross for the Edna St.Vincent Millay workshop at Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre in January 2018, and sang in Tapestry Opera's production of "Oksana G in 2017. Being a multidisciplinary artist, Penner has recorded albums “Passerby” (2012) and “Soul Fire” (2009), performed as a solo acoustic artist and band leader, and has written music for and co-created two shows: "Dead and Lovely: a Cabaret" and "Circles", which was played to sold-out audiences at the Cameron House in October 2017. Lucas is creatively inspired by classical literature, contemporary art, an