Joy and Cee.
Joy Mwandemange is a performer, playwright, and arts educator with credits at the NAC, GCTC, Black Theatre Workshop, Ottawa Fringe and more. Cee Zavi is a seasoned performer who has shared stages with T.I., Mobb Deep, and Azealia Banks, as well as a recording engineer who graduated from Algonquin’s Music Industry Arts program. Joy runs the room, Cee runs the board. Together, they’re Upstage.
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Joy Mwandemange
Performer · Educator
Cee Zavi
Recording Engineer · Producer
A performer.A producer.One company.
Upstage exists because the place they were looking for didn’t. A school that takes beginners seriously. A coaching practice that meets you where you are and builds toward where you’re going, and a studio where the record gets made right.
Everyone who passes through, from a teenager at their first lesson to an artist finishing a record years in the making, gets the attention they deserve. The level changes. The attention doesn’t.
For anyone who means it and wants people around them who care as much as they do.
Coaching.
Wherever you are with your voice, that’s where we start.
Lessons, prep, and stage time, built around what you’re singing next.
EXPLORE COACHINGFive ways to work - vocal technique, audition prep, performance coaching, recording prep, and songwriting - taught weekly or built around one date on your calendar.
Joy takes the lessons and Cee takes the recording side, so the person coaching you and the person recording you already know each other’s work.
Lessons, prep, and stage time, built around what you’re singing next.
EXPLORE COACHINGThe Cohort.
Applications are open, and we’re choosing the first group now.
Eight weeks of performance coaching, one-on-one voice lessons, songwriting, and studio skills for six to eight teens, ending in a live showcase where your kid performs the piece they built.
So what’s
the song?
Most people start with one lesson and go from there. Tell us a little about your voice and what you want to sing, and Joy will write back.