About
An indie storefront theatre, where Anything is Possible!
Eldritch Theatre’s Red Sandcastle, at 922 Queen Street East, is an artistic hub where actors, indie theatre companies, magicians, puppeteers, sketch comics, and artists of all kinds can mount shows, rehearse projects, and workshop new creations!
Toronto’s longest operating storefront theatre is also the artistic home of Eldritch Theatre, a company specializing in works of the ghoulish, creepy and uncanny. Eldritch’s administrative team, Adrianna Prosser and Eric Woolfe, act as Caretakers of the Castle, facilitating rentals for artists seeking to use the space for their own creative endeavours.
Read the PRESS RELEASE here.
Listen to the Indie Theatre Roundtable with The Red Sandcastle on Stageworthy Podcast here.
Adrianna Prosser
General Manager
Adrianna is a Theatre Erindale + Sheridan College alumnus and award winning storyteller. She joined Eldritch Theatre as their Marketing Monster and Artistic Producer in 2016, marketing and producing Dora award winning shows such as The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy and Space Opera Zero! as well as adding new programming such as children and adult Dungeons and Dragons camps Sword and Sorcery School, and online digital theatrical experiences during the COVID-19 theatre blackout.
Adding a new layer of support for artists at Red Sandcastle Theatre, with her digital marketing expertise; Adrianna has been teaching digital marketing storytelling at Centennial College from 2017-2022 to both their Arts Management and the Museum Management program, and has been a guest lecturer for Humber College. As well as leading Eldritch Theatre’s marketing, Prosser has led digital marketing for the City of Toronto’s museums, Festival Players, Groundling Theatre, Theatrefront, GhostLight, and many more.
Eric Woolfe
Managing Director
Eric Woolfe is an actor, playwright, puppeteer and magician, and the Artistic Director and founder of Eldritch Theatre which has been horrifying audiences since 1999 using puppetry, live actors, and parlour magic. His work for Eldritch Theatre includes Dora award winning and nominated works such as Space Opera Zero!, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy, Frankenstein’s Boy, Madhouse Variations, and The Babysitter. He is resident Dark Arts Professor at Eldritch Theatre’s Sword and Sorcery School, where he is head Dungeon Master and writer of Dungeon and Dragon adventures for the young and young at heart.
Some of his other theatre credits include Old Man and the River (Theatre Direct), The Comedy of Errors (Humber River Shakespeare), The Glass Menagerie, Ghosts (Touchmark Theatre) Rocket & the Queen of Dreams, (Roseneath Theatre). Little Shop of Horrors (Canstage), and Timon in Disney’s The Lion King.
Email: eric[at]eldritchtheatre.ca
Eldritch Theatre
Resident Theatre Company
The only theatre company in the world to bring you horror, puppets, and magic in one astounding theatrical performance, we make plays that go bump in the night. Eldritch Theatre has won 4 Dora Mavor Awards, and been nominated 25 times. Eldritch also offers youth programming such as puppetry workshops and Dungeons And Dragon storytelling camps for young and older weirdos.
Eldritch Theatre has been creating plays that go bump in the night for over 20 years, and has staged several productions and programs at the Red Sandcastle. It has been the home to Dora Mavor award winner and nominated shows such as Space Opera Zero (Dora Winner 2018), The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (twice Dora nominated 2017), Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show (three times Dora nominated), House at Poe Corner (2016) and Frankenstein’s Boy (2015).
Website: eldritchtheatre.ca
Rosemary Doyle
Founder (2011 - 2021)
Rosemary Doyle founded the Red Sandcastle Theatre in 2011, after being in theatre for 80% of her life and counting. Currently she is the Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston in Kingston, Ontario her home-town. Notable roles created by Rosemary include, Jane in My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, (Fringe, Mirvish), and A.L.P. for Finnegans Wake (Grand Theatre, Tarragon). Doyle has won seven 24 hour playwriting contests. This love of instant creation inspired her to create the Thousand Monkeys Playwriting Festival and her Play in a Week Camp that creates a play from nothing to full production in 5 days. Because of her love and talent for creation, she has been referred to as the “patron saint of indie theatre” a nickname she works hard to live up to, even in the government funded theatre world she is navigating now. Rosemary actively acts, directs, builds and designs sets and costumes and, of course, writes plays. We call her our Red Queen Emeritus.