Staff & Board of Directors

Meet the HFTco team!

HFTco Staff

Christopher Stanton

Executive Director
Christopher Stanton oversees the Hamilton Festival Theatre Company. He is an award-winning performer, director, sound designer, composer, and educator. His stage work has taken him across Canada to Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal – and internationally to New York, Bogotà, Munich, Brisbane, Dublin, and Vienna. Past roles in artistic leadership include UnSpun Theatre, The Room, and ARC. Chris joined the HFTco team as the Hamilton Fringe Festival Director in February 2020.
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Franny McCabe-Bennett

Managing Director
Franny McCabe-Bennett (she/her) is an award-winning actor, playwright, educator, and producer. She has held administrative and artistic roles at Factory Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto Fringe, The Next Stage Festival, Young People’s Theatre, SOULOTheatre, Soulpepper, George Brown College, and Sheridan College. Franny creates original work from a queer, neurodiverse, sober perspective and has toured her autobiographical solo shows across Canada and internationally.
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Aleena Faisal

Communications Manager
Aleena Faisal is a Hamilton-based communications professional working in the performing arts sector. She has over 7 years of experience as a magazine editor, specializing in Korean entertainment. A lifelong learner of media communications, Aleena's interests lie in creative storytelling through writing, photography, video, illustration, and design.
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Grace Lamarche

Development Coordinator
Grace Lamarche is a Cree/Metis theatre artist and arts administrator based in the GTHA. As a theatre artist, she is constantly striving to create original work that is blunt, cerebrally provocative and (above all else) FUN! She's worked at varying theatre companies/festivals throughout Ontario, including the Paprika Festival, Toronto Fringe Festival, Theatre Gargantua, Alumnae Theatre, The Theatre Centre and Theatre of the Beat.
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Taija Shonée Chung

ALERT Coordinator
TAIJA SHONÉE CHUNG is a Jamaican-Chinese multi-disciplinary artist, based in Toronto. A passionate actor, mover and creator, she's enthusiastic about work that explores our perception of others and ourselves in this ever-changing world. This is their third year working with Hamilton Fringe. She still enjoys singing loudly in her apartment.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

David Rundle
President
Fundraising, Governance, Finance Committees

Cairine Wilson
Vice President
Finance, Governance Committees

Traci-Ann Benjamin
Treasurer
Finance Committee (Chair)

Elizabeth Buchanan
Secretary
Governance Committee

Ruth Hatch
Director
Finance Committee

Ruth Flynn
Director
Fundraising, Governance (Chair) Committees

MacNeal Lashley
Director
Fundraising Committee

Abrar Mechmechia
Director
Fundraising Committee

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