About
Born of a downtown back alley, Catch the Keys Productions is an independent Edmonton-based organization dedicated to promoting and creating art and entertainment through the innovative execution of live productions.
Backed by a growing network of talented arts and promotions professionals, Catch the Keys is proud to bring evolutionary art to Edmonton audiences. Each Catch the Keys production is a unique blend of experiential art and strives to include multi-disciplines to demonstrate the undeniable cutting-edge connection among all forms of artistic expression.
Theatre, music, visual art, dance, film, technology – Catch the Keys specializes in the new collaboration of art and expression.
Beth Dart
Beth Dart
Beth Dart is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA in Stage Management program. She was the curator for the Nextfest ‘08 Nite Clubs – three evenings of multidisciplinary performance parties – for which she also instigated and directed the art experiment Art on Art. In 2007, she created and produced an experimental multi-disciplinary, multi-layered arts event, The Revolution, in partial completion of her degree. Selected freelance credits include touring assistant stage manager for Catalyst Theatre’s Frankenstein, and stage manager for Su-Kat (Azimuth Theatre), Thrubwell’s Pies (Teatro La Quindicina), Big Winner (Hope in Elle Productions), Nik & Stu: Counting Leaves (Yak Productions), Angels in America, What the Butler Saw (Keyano Theatre), ONE (Red To Blue Productions), and Are We Safe Yet? (Teens @ the Turn ‘07, Citadel Theatre). Beth is Artistic Producer of Catch the Keys Productions.
To contact Beth, please email bdart@catchthekeys.ca
Megan Dart
Megan Dart
Megan holds her Bachelor of Communications in Professional Writing from Grant MacEwan University and has experience in corporate and not for profit communication, public affairs, event management and local and national media relations. Megan has coordinated national lobbying campaigns involving over 2 million Canadians, changed provincial legislation, unveiled city landmarks, coordinated media for the largest minor hockey tournament in North America and planned and executed events as far away from home as Toronto, Las Vegas, San Francisco and San Diego. Currently, Megan Works for the Department of Music at the University of Alberta handling Media & Communications.
A creative writer at heart, Megan pursues personal artistic dreams, and has written and co-produced a number of local theatrical productions in and around Edmonton through Catch the Keys Productions including The Clatter of Cutlery (2009), Art on Art (2008 & 2009), Dead Centre of Town (annually) and Anatomy of the Heart (2007). Megan is Artistic Producer of Catch the Keys Productions.
To contact Megan, please email mdart@catchthekeys.ca.
What’s with the Name?
Once upon a time and in humble beginnings, Catch the Keys would hold production meetings in the living room of the downtown highrise apartment Beth and Megan shared at the time. Because the buzzer didn’t work and the building resembled the urban equivalent of a modern day Fort Knox (there were no less than four locks between the Darts’ apartment and the outside world after all), production members used to wait in the back alley for one of the Darts to toss down keys so members could get up to the meeting. When keys were tossed over the lip of the balcony, you could hear the phrase “Catch the Keys!” echo down the back alley.
