Cayle Chernin Awards (2020-Present)

The Cayle Awards are presented to emerging or discipline evolving female, female-presenting or gender non-conforming artists, of any age, to assist in the creation of new work. Created in 2012, The Cayle Awards is one of the largest awards in Ontario to empower artists in Media and Theatre Arts.

Since being hired by Founder, Dwight McFee, the Cayle Awards has seen a huge growth (400% in 2020) in both the number of applicants each year and diversity. I help collect and organize applications and due to the pandemic, managed to transfer the awards to an online space where speeches and announcements were entirely made online through the Cayle Facebook page and website. Winners and finalists were even decided through Zoom for the first time ever. The problems created by the pandemic became manageable with the online solutions I was able to foster during my time with the Awards. In 2022, I will be the Director of Events for the Cayle Awards as it celebrates all winners and finalists from 2020-2022 in a single night.

View fullsize All of us at Equity Showcase Cayle Awards are deeply grateful to Baines Partners LLP for being a Cayle Champion Donor, and helping us to empower women in the arts. Baines was our first major Donor when we launched the Cayle Awards. We are deeply gr
View fullsize Deeply grateful to Sandra Gillis/ @premierartistsmgmt for being a Champion Donor for our Equity Showcase Cayle Awards. Thank you for helping us to empower women in theatre and media arts. Your support means so much to us. #CayleAwards #CayleAwards2
View fullsize It's been a fantastic summer in Toronto this year and we are grateful to all the Artists for making it happen! Here are just a few going on this weekend. Feel free to list more in the comments. Toronto International BuskerFest 2022 @buskerfestto
View fullsize 🍵 CRIMSON TEA REOPENS 🍵 Congratulations to Owner and friend, Phillip Chan! In April 2020, Equity Showcase was set to open our Art Club and Artists Hub at Crimson Teas with Mandy (@postmoderndisco). Sadly Covid 19 brought that to a halt. Several a
View fullsize Rupinder Nagra (@rupindernagra) Via Artists in Depth (@artistsindepth) Rupinder was born in Punjab, India and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He’s known for his critically acclaimed and award-winning portrayal of Amal Kumar in the film
View fullsize Deeply grateful to the Briggs Pascoe Family for being an ongoing Champion Donor for the Equity Showcase Cayle Chernin Awards. 2022 mark's their 6th year of support. The success of the awards would not have been possible without such generous and ong

I also created a new website for Founder and Actor, Dwight McFee which has led to new acting opportunities for him.

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