Past Events

From mid-2025 until February 2026, Ghostlight Productions worked with the Anomie script by the brilliant Wren Brian to compete in their first ever Eastern Ontario Drama League One-Act Festival competition since their inception. The EODL One-Act Festival was hosted by Theatre Night In Merrickville (TNIM) in November and Anomie was put together by our smallest production team yet, comprised of Ghostlight's original founding members, and they managed to receive 5 nominations during the EODL award ceremony! Of those nominations, they walked away with the Peterborough Theatre Guild Adjudicator's Award for best performing pair. 

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This production team knew that they wanted to take Anomie beyond EODL and offer it to the community in a similar way to their past productions. In February 2026, they worked with the Smiths Falls + District Curling Club to offer two back-to-back viewings to the community and raised money for Lanark County Mental Health. 

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Cast + Crew:

Rayna Critchley (director), Richelle "RJ" Artish (stage manager), Lucas Tennant (Person 1), Andy West (Person 2)

For the 2024 edition of Eat, Play, Love Ghostlight partnered with Creative Ideas, The Falls Food Hub and Hanley Hall to put on Green Cheese by local playwright, Guy Newsham. Through this EPL collaboration we were able to sell 42 tickets and raised over $3000.00 for The Falls Food Hub in support of local food security initiatives. 

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We worked with The Falls Food Hub to provide a custom 4 course meal throughout the scenes, which they catered, bringing a twist to dinner theatre, and education to attendees about their culinary skills. We also created custom Trivial Pursuit cards featuring facts about local food security statistics and played trivia throughout the show!

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Cast + Crew:

Andy West (director), Rayna Critchley (stage manager), Lucas (Mike) Tennant, Grace Poltrack (Nora), Shannon Reilly (Olive) and Charles Henderson (Phil). 

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Additional Donors: 

Sip Bistro, Station Theatre, Heritage House, Boston Pizza, Union Street Bar & Grill, Smiths Falls Jr. A. Bears, C’EST Tout, Starbucks, DiluCa Fine Foods, Lockmaster Taphouse, Boston Pizza Smiths Falls, Matty O’Shea’s, Town & Country Chrysler, Tap Room, Pickled Pig & St. Francis Church

For the 2022 edition of Eat, Play, Love Ghostlight partnered with Creative Ideas, Cornerstone Landing and Ecotay to put on Reception by local playwright, Guy Newsham. Through this EPL collaboration we were able to sell 60 tickets and raised $3000.00 for Cornerstone Landing in support of local youth shelter initiatives. 

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We worked with Ecotay to provide a custom 6 course meal throughout the scenes which they catered with the utmost skill and professionalism. Guests were invited to attend Tilly + Bruno's wedding reception taking place in September at beautiful Ecotay. They were encouraged to dress for a wedding, engage with the characters, and mingle throughout a cocktail hour! 

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Cast + Crew:

Andy West (director), Rayna Critchley (stage manager), Lucas Tennant (tech), River Davies (Tilly), Justin Lackey (Bruno), Juli Heney (Claire), Adam Peltier (Father Francis), Keith Busher (Ron), Nicole Sandborn (Brittany), Peter Aubry (Jordie). 

One of the first events that Ghostlight began coordinating was the Lanark Highlands Youth Centre Inc. annual Haunted House fundraiser as a way to keep a local Halloween tradition alive, keep youth involved in positive and safe initiatives within their community, and to help raise awareness of and fundraiser for the LHYCI. 

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Each year in collaboration with the LHYCI, Ghostlight transforms a portion of the youth centre space into a series of haunting rooms that showcase youth and community talent in terms of acting, production and artistic ability. 

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To date, they have involved over 40 youth and community members in this event, created over 20 unique rooms and have raised about $3000.00 for the LHYCI. 

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Cast + Crew:

Andy West (set lead and stage manager), Rayna Critchley (prop and artistic lead), Lucas Tennant (tech lead).