 Three members of the Group of Seven painters (Harris, Lismer and MacDonald) have been set designers at the theatre, and composer Healey Willan was director of music for fourteen productions.The theatre also hosts annual variety shows run by several student theatrical companies at the colleges and academic faculties, the most prominent of which are "U.C.Follies" of University College, "Skule Nite" of the Faculty of Engineering, and "Daffydil" of the Faculty of Medicine, the latter in its hundredth year of production in 2010–2011.