Patricia Louise Fagan is a producer and director specializing in creative development of artists, productions and arts organizations. She is the founder of Louise Fagan Productions, located in Canada and the United States.

Personal life

Born in

London, Ontario London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River (Ontario), Thames River and N ...

, raised in Listowel Ontario, Fagan is the daughter of choral conductor

Gerald Fagan Gerald Richard Fagan (born 1939) is considered one of Canada's premier choral conductors. He is the former conductor and artistic director of Fanshawe Chorus London, The Gerald Fagan Singers, and the Concert Players Orchestra. He has been marrie ...

and pianist/arts manager Marlene Fagan. She obtained a degree in English and Dramatic Literature from the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

. After graduation, she became an independent theatre producer and director, working on musical story-telling, theatre, television and film. Fagan has two grown children. In 2013 married Michael Hew and now lives in the United States.

Career

Fagan has worked on a number of high-profile projects, including producing and directing the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2001

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. In the summer of 2002, she was the show co-ordinator for '' The Way of the Cross'', which celebrated the

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's visit to Toronto. She studio produced the orchestral recording ''River'', commissioned by Wellspring Cancer Support Centre, to mirror the emotional journey of a cancer patient and was executive producer for the soundtrack to ''Jazzabel'', produced by legendary Canadian producer Jack Richardson. Other most recent CD releases include ''Noted!'', ''In Good Company'' and "Northern Daughter (Donna Creighton). Fagan's early theater directing credits include the ''

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'', ''Hearts Made Great'' and ''The World Awaits''. She owns her own film production company, Phat Puppy Productions, and co-founded Femme Fatale, a London-based theatre company. Femme Fatale's production of one-woman shows, titled ''Portraits'' (featured in the February 2006 issue of

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), opened in 2006 with shows at

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. Additional performances took place at Urban Stages,

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, and

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. Shows in the production directed by Fagan included ''Jazzabel'', ''The Shimmering Verge'' (with

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) and ''Nona''. Fagan also directed the short film ''Father's Touch'', an adaptation of the first chapter of a book of the same name by Donald D'Haene. The film won a top 50 placement in the

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conceived, worldwide Online film festival, Triggerstreet. Fagan is the Creative Director of "Under an African Sky", held each December, featuring UN Envoy to Africa

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, a fundraiser in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation to combat

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. She is also the Artistic Producer for the "In Good Company" festival, a month long, multi-arts festival in London. In 2008, Fagan was named President of Goodnight Angel Productions, a not-for-profit corporation based in New York, dedicated to outfitting pediatric hospital beds worldwide with digital music capabilities, in order to provide hospitalized children with recorded stories and lullabies. She also composed the score for the full-length feature, ''The Likes of Us''. In 2009, she was the Creative Director for the Olympic Torch Relay Celebration in Victoria Park in London.In 2011 Fagan became the Executive Producer of the Bach Music Festival of Canada, a biennial international festival in southern Ontario honouring

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In 2012 Louise collaborated with Canadian author

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on the development of Heroines of the Sexual Gothic. This production included the musical talents of The Billie Hollies, the all girl opera noir quartet. The show was performed in Toronto and London. Currently, Louise is the Creative Producer of Ada: A Contemporary Opera. "Ada" is an opera about

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and

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.She is often cited as ‘the world's first computer programmer.’ In 2017 Louise was named the

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Career Woman of the Year by the BPWSC.

References

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