On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer Judy Librach is joined by the Producers and Creative Team of the upcoming KidsFest musical "Playground," featuring the music of 4-time Juno-Award-winning children’s entertainer Jack Grunsky. Opening at this year’s Toronto Fringe Fest, Playground is a true passion project for Mother and Daughter producing team, Elly and Olivia Daniels. Elly Barlin-Daniels is the Founder and President of Barlin-Daniels Productions Inc., Elly is a theatre producer; publicist, mentor; writer and sought after advisor to the arts’ community. She is co-producer, with her daughter Olivia, of the Toronto Fringe KidsFest musical Playground, and the author of a forthcoming children’s book from Cormorant Press. A children’s music and media expert, Elly ran the multi-year national media campaign for the children’s publishing initiative I Read Canadian on behalf of the Ontario Library Association; CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers), and the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC). Elly is the sole sponsor of CANSCAIP’s yearly Packaging Your Imagination Conference; and on behalf of the CCBC, where she served on the board of six years, endows the annual Arlene Barlin Award in Science Fiction and Fantasy in honour of her late sister. For decades, Elly has guided the careers of Juno-award winning children’s recording artists Jack Grunsky and Martha Johnson (Martha and the Muffins). She is a judge of the annual B’nai Brith Diverse Minds writing competition for children, and a former judge of the Children’s International Emmy Awards. An investor in the Broadway production of Matthew Lopez’s Tony, Olivier and Drama Desk award-Winnipeg play "The Inheritance," in addition to several Canadian theatre productions, Elly has worked with many of Toronto’s non-profit theatres, including Theatre 20 where she was associate producer of Stephen Sondheim’s Company starring Brent Carver; Louise Pitre; and childhood friend Nia Vardalos. She currently serves on the board of Crow’s Theatre, where she recently co-chaired the company’s 40th anniversary celebration; and on the advisory boards of Chilina Kennedy’s Eclipse Theatre, and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, where she created and endows the Barlin-Daniels Emerging Artist Initiative. Elly is the sponsor of the Art of Time Ensemble’s upcoming tribute to Joni Mitchell, and is a season sponsor of Toronto’s Factory Theatre; Coal Mine Theatre; Crow’s Theatre; The Musical Stage Company; and the Verbatim Theatre company, Project Humanity. Elly’s largest endeavour is the musical she is working on in New York City. Elly is an advisor to, and a founding supporter of the Canadian Human Rights Museum; sponsor of the Hyeman Barlin Scholarship, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba in memory of her father; and primary sponsor of the Hyeman and Zelda Barlin Digital Beit Midrash at Toronto’s Temple Sinai congregation (named in honour of her parents). Together with her husband Peter, Elly is a founding sponsor of the University of Toronto New Jewish Press; the publishing sponsor of Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations, March of the Living (Polish Edition) from Second Story Press; a construction sponsor of The Bishop Strachan School’s Theatre; sponsor of the Koffler Centre for the Arts Vine Book Awards; fundraiser and major contributor to Mt. Sinai Hospital’s Panov Program for Precision Chemotherapy research; Toronto General Hospital; and Toronto Western Hospital. A past board member of Canada’s Walk of Fame, World Literacy Canada and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Elly has served as Chair for the Royal Conservatory of Music’s gala featuring Audra McDonald; Chair of the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s luncheon honouring Ryan Reynolds; Chair of the Children’s Broadcast Institute gala; and for several years, Elly was a member of the National Ballet of Canada’s Mad Hot Ballet committee. With over ...