Kevin Smith
I recently found out that our Ticketing Operations Manager, Rhondda Smiley, has a film credit listed on IMDB. In fact, about half a dozen other colleagues of mine have similar film credits simply for working here at Roy Thomson Hall. These credits are, of course, the result of An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, a DVD release of his appearance at Roy Thomson Hall a few years back. In fact, Kevin Smith has made a number of sold out appearances at RTH over the past 10 years or so that serve, in his words as “an ongoing conversation I’ve been engaged in with the locals for years now”.
His highly entertaining Q&A-style speaking engagements provide a funny and insightful, albeit raw, look into both the world of filmmaking and the cohesive world that exists within his body of film work. If you weren’t aware, he has a following that is more akin to comic book culture; his fans obsess over the minute details of dialogue, characters and subplots that inhabit this view askewniverse. And Toronto fans are among his most loyal and rabid followers.
In turn, he rewards his local following with repeat visits to continue the “conversation”. It seems to me like this mutual appreciation goes beyond those that fill the seats and extends to the staff here that help to make his return appearances here at the Hall memorable for all involved.
We certainly appreciate him for coming back time and again to Roy Thomson Hall and, well, for providing some of us with film credits.
Wes Doerksen is Assistant Ticketing Services Manager at Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.
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