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Don co-founded MCT in 1971 with Jim Caron and laid the groundwork for what the organization has become today. After a 32-year absence, Don Collins returned to the Missoula Children’s Theatre as the senior development officer and is building a long-term funding base for the organization.
Following the first three seasons of the Missoula Children's Theatre and some ten original shows co-written with Caron, Don moved to Seattle to begin a singing career in 1973. It was a move that benefited all parties, as Don quickly landed with Seattle Opera and MCT was able to streamline and refine the organizational structure under Caron's leadership.
Over the past 30 years Don has continued to perform professionally in opera houses and theaters across the U.S. and Canada with the likes of Anna Moffo, Joan Sutherland, Richard Tucker, Sherill Milnes, Jerome Hines, Georgio Tozzi, and Howard Keel. In December 2004, Don performing in a new Broadway-bound musical Robin Hood—The Legend Continues, written by the team of Martin Charnen (Annie) and Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers and Hairspray).
Don has led a balanced life as a professional performer, a businessman, and an entrepreneur in Seattle over the past 25 years where he worked as an award-winning, respected, and knowledgeable sales and manufacture’s representative in the office interiors industry. Most recently Don was a partner in a major manufacturer’s representatives firm in Seattle. He is also the author of a cookbook, "Cookbook of the Year."
Both Collins and Caron were honored in 2004 by the University of Montana School of Fine Arts in the annual Odyssey of the Stars event for their outstanding achievement in founding MCT, Inc.
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