I Belong Here: Reclaiming My Voice at Toronto Fringe

Lily Librach is a singer, actor, dancer, creator, producer, and voice teacher who completed her MM in Vocal Performance: Musical Theatre, and Adv. Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. She is also a proud graduate of Sheridan’s Musical Theatre program. Select Credits: Fairy Dariyah in Rosamund: A New Musical (Toronto’s Fringe Festival - nominated for Broadway World/Toronto Theatre Awards), ‘TIL Then (Eclipse Theatre), Madame Aubert/Lead Dancer in Titanic (Iris Cantor) and Lillian Holiday in Weill and Brecht’s Happy End (Theatre Sheridan). Lily was named a top 10 finalist of Mirvish’s worldwide Show Tune Idol Competition, and has been featured in City Life Magazine. She performed in the Lunigiana International Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy, and with the Broadway Orchestra, conducted by Ted Sperling. Lily frequently performs at 54 Below in Scott Siegel’s productions and serves as the co-founder/co-producer of 24k Theatre Co.

Founded by Lily Librach, Jordan Flippo, & Erin Brochu in 2023, 24k is a production company based in New York City with a mission focused on creating theatrical experiences and compelling shows that prioritize storytelling. Their shows have been featured all over New York City, including venues such as 54 Below, The Triad Theater, The Cutting Room, The Green Room 42, and more. 24k is a female founded and led company that creates space for artists to bring their concepts to the stage. We are dedicated to breathing life into the shows that we want to see in the world. We have a very strong reverence for legacy and strive to be the tie between the industry’s past and present. We were planting seeds in starting this theater company, and we are already overwhelmed at how our garden has grown.

Lily Librach is a singer, actor, dancer, creator, producer, and voice teacher who completed her MM in Vocal Performance: Musical Theatre, and Adv. Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. She is also a proud graduate of Sheridan’s Musical Theatre program. Select Credits: Fairy Dariyah in Rosamund: A New Musical (Toronto’s Fringe Festival - nominated for Broadway World/Toronto Theatre Awards), ‘TIL Then (Eclipse Theatre), Madame Aubert/Lead Dancer in Titanic (Iris Cantor) and Lillian Holiday in Weill and Brecht’s Happy End (Theatre Sheridan). Lily was named a top 10 finalist of Mirvish’s worldwide Show Tune Idol Competition, and has been featured in City Life Magazine. She performed in the Lunigiana International Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy, and with the Broadway Orchestra, conducted by Ted Sperling. Lily frequently performs at 54 Below in Scott Siegel’s productions and serves as the co-founder/co-producer of 24k Theatre Co. @lilylibrach

Sarah O’Brecht is an artist and educator from Saint John, NB. As an actor, Sarah has appeared in plays and musicals at theatres across Canada. Direction: Fertility (Light Echo Theatre), Legally Blonde (Randolph College), One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company); Movement Direction & Choreography: Into the Woods (Sheridan College), Grease (Nightwood - Lawyer Show). With Stephanie Graham, she co-founded Theatre Making Movement, a company that supports dance and movement in new musical theatre development. On screen, she wrote and produced short films Good With Her, directed by Sheila McCarthy, and she her him, which premiered at the Reelworld Festival. Sarah was the 2022-2024 Apprentice Artistic Director of The Musical Stage Company and most recently, she was the Associate Director of It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, a new musical featuring the songs of the Tragically Hip at Theatre Aquarius. @sarahobrecht

Michael Mulrooney has pursued an eclectic musical career centred on the theatre, with occasional forays into the opera and symphony worlds. He has served as musical director, conductor, pianist, arranger, and/or composer on over 200 theatrical productions of every conceivable shape and size. During the mega-musical boom in the 90s, he participated in the development of Livent’s award-winning productions of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Show Boat, and Ragtime. Conducting credits include Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany), Les Misérables (Toronto and Canadian Bilingual Tour), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sunset Boulevard, (Toronto), and Show Boat (Toronto and New York). More recently he has been teaching in the musical theatre program at Sheridan College, while keeping one foot in the theatre business with smaller productions like Musical of Musicals (the Musical) for Mirvish, Extraordinary and A Christmas Carol for the Smile Theatre Company, and Billy Bishop Goes to War in various theatres around Ontario.