DONNA FLETCHER
DONNA FLETCHER
Donna Fletcher is an accomplished actor, singer, and concert performer with a wide range of national experience. Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received her early training in Winnipeg and earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Manitoba, a diploma in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Toronto.
As an actor, Donna has been acclaimed in principle roles from east to west with the Charlottetown Festival, Drayton Festival, Rainbow Stage, Theatre Calgary, Stage West Calgary, the National Arts Centre, Manitoba Opera, MTC, PTE, MTYP, WJT, the Belfry Theatre and Persephone Theatre. As a director Donna has helmed the Rainbow Stage/WSO concert presentation of South Pacific; for Opera on the Avalon Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods & The Sound of Music; for NUOVA Kiss Me Kate, Carousel and City Workers In Love; for Dry Cold Productions The Bridges of Madison County, The Addams Family, A Man of No Importance and Sweeney Todd; as well as Brundibar for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Donna conceived the WSO presentation of Send in the Clowns: The Music of Stephen Sondheim where she took the stage with TONY Award winner Len Cariou.
Donna serves as First Vice President & Manitoba/Nunavut Councillor for Canadian Actor’s Equity and was inducted into the Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame in 2012. Always seeking new challenges, she co-created Winnipeg Musical Theatre Company Dry Cold Productions which is celebrating its 23rd season with the National Premiere of THE PROM. Donna is a nationally respected clinician, Voice and Musical Theatre Instructor at the University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music as well as the University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre. Most importantly, she is mum to Amalia.
