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Welcome to Kid-Safe Productions

Creating a Dramatic Difference

Providing quality, responsible musical plays and drama workshops to children and families on topics of social skills development for over 20 years.

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Most Recent Production (Performances took place in October 2022)

Emotion Commotion

Musical Play for all ages on post pandemic recovery.

Children 4-12

Scripts Available for Rent

Wouldn't it be fun to put on your own performance of a Kid-Safe Productions play?

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Scripts Available to Rent

Now your drama or youth group can have access to our highly acclaimed musical plays to put on in your very own  community.

As part of our desire to reach as many children and families as possible with the important messages on character building, empathy, abuse and bullying prevention, we are making our plays available to your community group for you to put on.

Each package will come with limited access to our downloadable script of your choosing, along with either the music scores or audio recordings of the music (without vocals), and templates of all follow-up activities for your community.

Contact Us today to get yours and for more information on costs and what's involved.

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Please consider donating to Kid-Safe Productions to support our outreach to children and families. Gifts more than $25 will receive a charitable tax receipt.
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Emotion Commotion

Emotion Commotion

Our newest musical play, Emotion Commotion is designed to help children and families recover from pandemic life. The lockdowns that were necessary to deal with the pandemic had social side effects due to increased isolation. Now things are opening back up but getting back to normal can be hard to manage without some helpful tools. Providing some tools to help is what this play is all about.

Jordan is confused and in a tizzy. DJ is feeling all kinds of mad and now has a sore foot to boot. What an EMOTION COMMOTION! A local garbage rummaging raccoon does their best not to “catch the mad” while a sleepy Owl lends a helpful wing to ease all the commotion. Through the use of songs, stories and games, everyone who experiences this delightful play will discover something great to add to their own emotion commotion toolbox!

Admission is free when you register here using Eventbrite.

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Cast

JeN Hashimoto

JeN is really excited to be a part of Emotion Commotion with Kid-Safe Productions! 2022 stage credits: Eva in Gloria’s Guy (Village Players) and Pearl in Pink String and Sealing Wax (Stage Centre Productions). Favourite roles include: Chava in Fiddler on the Roof, Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Mademoiselle Zeze in Anything to Declare, Audrey in Leading Ladies, and Sonia in Godspell. When not performing, you can find JeN either teaching English on her YouTube channel, JeN’s Jyugyou, or playing Pokémon while drinking bubble tea. Thanks always to Tomo for all his support.


Bonnie Duff

Bonnie is a Finnish-Canadian theatre artist, who is thrilled to be a part of Emotion Commotion! She has worked as an actor, educator, writer, and even juggler in Vancouver, Toronto, and London. Bonnie holds a BFA in Acting (University of British Columbia), and also attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England. Select Credits: Bard on the Beach, A Shakespearience (Co-Creator/Performer); Carousel Theatre for Young People, The Tempest (Assistant Director); Awkward Stage Productions, Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet (Juliet); Geekenders, Neverland Night Circus (Tootles). Remember, “Name your Feelings”… especially if that feeling is wanting to see this show!


Coral Benzie

Coral is a proud graduate of the Musical Theatre Performance program at St Clair College. She is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful show with its incredible cast and creative team.

Previous credits include Mary Bennet - Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Scarborough Players), Sister Bear - The Berenstain Bears Live! (TBD Theatre co.), Puss - Puss in Boots (Cabbage Town Festival), June - Chicago (August Productions), Gertie – Oklahoma (SMT).

She would like to thank her family and friends for the love, support and constant encouragement to follow her dreams



Behind The Scenes


Lauren Fahey, Stage Manager

Lauren is delighted to be working with Kid-Safe Productions for the first time! Recently she has stage managed The Language of Birds for the Canadian Children’s Opera Company and Gloria’s Guy for Village Players. After completing a BA at York University for film studies, Lauren studied theatre production at Humber College with a focus on stage management and production management. Other theatre credits include Assistant Stage Manager for The 39 Steps (Village Players); Production Assistant for The Adventures of Pinocchio (Young People’s Theatre); Assistant Production Manager for U-R-U (Humber College); Stage Manager for The Sycorax Brood (Humber College).


Tricia Myles, Executive Producer

Tricia is the founder of Kid-Safe Productions. This non profit charity first emerged in 2000 as a culmination of Tricia’s different skills as composer, playwright, office administrator and mom. She has a BA in theatre and music composition, with a diploma in Music Industry Arts, certificates in business and work experience as an Arts educator for the Royal Conservatory. As performer and tour manager she took Kid-Safe’s original productions on the road to hundreds of schools, engaging hundreds of  thousands of kids. Kid-Safe’s “A Quest of Character" had a successful run in the Toronto Fringe Festival and she is proud to be a part of this year’s “Emotion Commotion” production.



Our Sponsors

We are incredibly grateful to all our existing sponsors including:

Anglican Foundation of Canada for their generous financial support;

The Scarborough Theatre Guild for generously allowing us use of their rehearsal space;

The Ottawa Little Theatre for for generously supporting our fundraising initiative with show tickets!

St. Michael and All Angels Church in Toronto for generously allowing us in, to use their rehearsal space;

The Great Canadian Theatre Company for generously supporting our fundraising initiative with show tickets!

WE WELCOME ALL NEW SPONSORS


Show Follow-Up for Kids and families

Have you just been to one of our shows? Click the button below to get access to our show’s colouring pages, and follow up information for parents so they can help at home.

There’s also a quick Feedback Form that can be filled out in less than 5 minutes. We value your feedback!


Drama Workshops

Ages 12-16


Drama workshops are designed to reflect the important messages of our plays so that kids of the older age groups can support the younger ones at home, at church or their community group or school. These are booked together or separately from the plays. Contact Us for more information.


Become A Volunteer

Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes. Think you have a skill you can share? We want to hear from you! Current needs are in our Social Media and Fundraising Departments. But if you want to take part in a different way, get in touch! We'd love to hear your ideas.