Policies

Cast and Crew COVID POLICY and guidelines

The Kemptville Youth Musical Theatre Company (KYMTC) considers the health and safety of our cast and crew as the highest priority. In addition, we also want to ensure that we can properly prepare and stage a great Main Show that continues the KYMTC tradition of presenting high quality, community-based youth musical theatre to all our supporters in North Grenville and Eastern Ontario.

KYMTC will continue to follow the COVID guidelines and direction provided by the Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark District Health Unit and any direction from the Urbandale Arts Centre (for Tech Runs and performances). Although masking is no longer a requirement as of June 2022, KYMTC will continue to take precautions.

The following guidelines apply to all KYMTC cast, crew, volunteers, members of the production team, or anyone else attending a KYMTC audition, rehearsal, tech run, or performance:

General COVID Guidelines
• You are required to stay home if you are sick, even if your symptoms are mild, and to inform the KYMTC Producer;
• If you have symptoms, please take a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) if possible, or a PCR test if eligible;
• If you test positive:

• • • Please inform the KYMTC Producer;
    • Do not attend any KYMTC activities for the first 5 days after testing positive;
    • After the first 5 days, you may attend KYMTC activities while wearing a mask for the 5 days that follow;

• Practice proper etiquette (e.g. coughing into your elbow), wash your hands and/or use hand sanitizer frequently;
• When possible (see additional guidelines, below) you may choose to wear a mask for KYMTC activities. KYMTC respects the choices of people who continue to wear a mask; and,
• Where and when possible, please allow for physical distancing.

Auditions
• In order to properly assess young people auditioning for roles, KYMTC requires that, once the audition starts, the young person does not wear a mask. The mask can be worn as soon as the monologue and singing components of the audition are complete.

Call Backs and Rehearsals
• When delivering dialogue or singing, cast members may need to remove their masks periodically (at the discretion of the Director and/or Musical Director).

Tech Runs and Performances
• When waiting in the wings and when on stage, cast members cannot wear a mask.

Production Team and Crew Member Guidelines
• Members of the production team and crew members (e.g. Back Stage, Lighting Crew, etc.) may wear a mask at all times during all KYMTC activities.

Reviewing and Revising COVID Guidelines
KYMTC will monitor communications from the Health Unit and may revise these guidelines, as required.

VOLUNTEER POLICY

KYMTC wants everyone to have a great experience during this production. To help provide guidance on what is expected of everyone involved in the show, all cast members and volunteers are expected to read, understand, and respect the KYMTC Volunteer Code of Conduct.

CAST POLICY

Dress Code
Each cast member is required to bring their own “blacks” (i.e. clothing to be worn underneath a costume). Cast members playing a female character require a thin-strapped black tank top (those participating in the Summer Camp may wear a plain black t-shirt), black legging/yoga pants, and black shoes (preferably dance shoes). Cast members playing a male character require a thin-weight black t-shirt, black dress pants, and black shoes (preferably dance shoes).

Costumes, Properties and Scripts
Usually KYMTC provides all costumes, but cast members may need to supply some basic items such as t-shirts, socks, or dark coloured shoes. Please be aware that some of KYMTC’s costumes and props are borrowed or rented from individuals or other organizations and they need to be treated respectfully and be returned undamaged. Cast members are responsible for the care of their costumes and props.

Cast members will be required to make a $25 cash deposit for costumes, props, and scripts. The deposit is returned at the end of the production when all items are returned in good order, and only once cast members have attended the Move Out.

Privacy Policy

 We respect your right to privacy and your requirements to control personal information.

“Personal information” includes, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. KYMTC does not sell, rent, swap or otherwise disclose any personal information. The intent of this Privacy Statement is to inform users of how our internet site collects, stores and uses personal information submitted via the site.

Mailing Lists
If you provide your e-mail address to KYMTC, we may contact you periodically with news about auditions/shows and camps.

Links
Our website includes links to other websites whose privacy policies we don’t control. Once you leave our website (you can check where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the website you are visiting. Their policy may differ from ours. If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. KYMTC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Disclaimer
Under no circumstances shall KYMTC or its volunteers be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages that may result in any way from your use or inability to use the information provided on this or any other website supported or maintained by KYMTC, or from your reliance on or use of information, services provided on or through the website or that result from mistakes, errors, omissions, interruptions, defects, deletion of files, delays in operation or transmission or any failure of performance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided on this website, or with any of the practices of KYMTC in the operation of this website, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the website.