Join us for a Holiday Concert to Celebrate Community and the Arts!
Please join us as we celebrate community, creativity, and the spirit of the season in support of The Grove Theatre.
Enjoy special performances by local and professional artists, featuring live music, carols, and seasonal classics that capture the magic of the holidays. Set in the beautiful St. James Anglican Church, this festive gathering brings together friends and supporters who share a love of the performing arts and the joy of coming together.
Featuring Performances By: Sarah Lynn Strange, Barbara Dunn-Prosser, David Prosser, Justine Grimes, and Sean Cox
Sarah Lynn Strange
Sarah Lynn Strange is just tickled to have been asked to perform at this marvellous event for The Grove!
Previous credits include Anne of Green Gables (Tweed & Co.) Sound of Music (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Nunsense (Bruce County Playhouse), Sister Act, Shrek (Rainbow Stage), A Belly Full (Theatre Aquarius) Mary Poppins (Young People's Theatre), Menopause the Musical Canadian National Tour (Shaggypup productions), My Fair Lady, Beauty & The Beast (Capitol Theatre Port Hope, Out of Order, Singin' In The Rain, Snow White the Panto (Drayton Entertainment).
Thank you always to Bruce and the TH Gang. All my love to Dana and Noodle. This one, and every one, is for Deb and Skye.
Barbara Dunn-Prosser
Barbara’s performing career has been a versatile one. Opera credits include Ophélie in Hamlet, Fanny in La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Mme Goldentrill in The Impresario and Rosalinda and Adele in Die Fledermaus. Musical theatre highlights include Eliza in My Fair Lady, Margot in The Desert Song, The Mistress in Evita and the title role in Gigi. She has also played such non-musical roles as Jan in I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mollie in The Mousetrap, Jennifer Dubedat in The Doctor’s Dilemma and both Amanda and Sybil in Private Lives.
In addition to performing Carlotta in both the touring and Toronto productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Barbara starred opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Donna Elvira in Rhombus Media’s award-winning film of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She spent several seasons with the Canadian Opera Company and the Stratford Festival and has been a featured soloist with symphony orchestras across North America. For the Stratford Symphony, she sang Josephine in a concert version of HMS Pinafore and Peep Bo in The Mikado. In 2002, she released her CD Till We Meet Again.
Barbara toured southern Ontario with her one-woman show Come to the Woods, about pioneer artist and writer Anne Langton. She also created and performed a second one-woman show, Lest We Forget, based on letters from the front by Canadian soldiers from rural Ontario. Most recently, she wrote and performed a historical revue, You Must Remember This, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the village of Fenelon Falls.
Barbara is a professor emeritus of voice at Western University in London and now teaches privately in Stratford. She is a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music, Academic Liaison for the Ontario Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and a music festival adjudicator.
David Prosser
In a long-ago previous life in Kingston, Ontario, David Prosser combined a multi-award-winning journalistic career with extensive participation in community theatre, winning Eastern Ontario Drama League Awards for acting and directing, and performing with such professional companies as Theatre Five, Kingston Summer Festival and the Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque.
In the early 1990s, he appeared in a production of Macbeth directed by Robert Lepage at Hart House in Toronto, and later joined the staff of the Stratford Festival, where, in addition to his regular duties as Literary and Editorial Director, he participated as actor or director in a number of dramatic readings, including three scripts of his own devising.
Though now retired after 25 years at the Festival, David still appears there occasionally, moderating panel discussions and giving talks before selected performances. He is currently a member of The Grove Theatre’s Board of Directors.
Justine Grimes
Justine is a Toronto-based triple-threat performer, musician, voice-over actor, and choreographer. She attended Toronto Metropolitan University's Performance Dance Program after growing up in the dance studio. She then graduated at the top of her class from Randolph College for the Performing Arts, where she truly fell in love with musical theatre.
Justine has appeared on stages across Ontario, as well as Newfoundland and Dubai. Her favourite theatre credits include: Miss Stacy in Anne of Green Gables, Kate/Lucy in Avenue Q, Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde, Waitress #1 in Rock Of Ages, Rita La Porta in Lucky Stiff, and Kelly in Fame.
She is thrilled to be performing with The Grove Theatre and looks forward to joining the summer 2026 season!
Sean Cox
An award-winning director and actor, Sean directed The Grove Theatre's The 39 Steps, The Comedy of Errors, Into The Woods and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Sean has worked with a number of theatres, including Idaho, Texas and Nevada Shakespeare Festivals, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, Los Angeles Repertory, PCPA Theatrefest, San Diego Repertory, and is an Associate Artist with North Coast Repertory, Cygnet Theatre, and Lambs Players Theatre. Selected directing credits: The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, King John, An Enemy of The People, The Glass Menagerie, and Twelfth Night. Acting credits include title roles in Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard II, and The Elephant Man. Sean is also a Co-Founder of the award-winning Intrepid Theatre Company, along with his wife Christy Yael.
