Josie Vint is a graduate of Sheridan College’s Musical Theatre Program (High Honours -1988), where she performed in various plays and musicals, most notably as Carla in the Canadian premiere of “Nine” by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston (Theatre Sheridan), and as Edna Louise in Ed Graczyk’s “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Sheridan Studio). 

Josie had a short-lived theatre and music career before stopping to raise her 2 beautiful daughters: She spent 4 months as a singer/dancer at Canada’s Wonderland, performing 5 shows per day. She went on to play The Almost Princess Frangipani in Greg Kramer’s “The Queens in the Great Outdoors” (Queer Culture Festival), Cunegonde in an adaptation of Voltaire’s “Candide”, and Castiza in Thomas Middleton’s “The Revenger’s Tragedy” (Grub Street Repertory). She was a guest artist in York University’s graduate program, playing Isabella in “Women Beware Women”, also by Thomas Middleton, and performed in 3 University of Toronto productions: as Countess in Pierre de Marivaux’ “The False Servant”, Emilia in George Etherage’s “The Man of Mode”, and as Phebe in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”. She later performed a few solo music shows at the Free Times Café and the Tranzac Club before calling it quits in 2002.

For 16 years, Josie taught family music and movement classes as a specialist in Early Childhood Development in Music for Music Together LLC. In 2013, the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton NJ awarded Josie the Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy and parent education. 

From 2011-2016, Josie was an occasional soloist with New Choir (‘Toronto’s Original Rock Choir’), and, for the last 10 years, she has sung with another wonderful rock choir, Alt Vox (“Toronto’s Fun Choir”). 

She was thrilled when Richard Bales asked her to join his most recent music project and is having the time of her life working with him and Chris Guzzo!