TORONTO — Soulpepper Theater Company isn’t moving everything to New York for the month of July. Its theater in Toronto’s Distillery District will still be open, with six productions on two of its three main stages. But a dozen other Soulpepper shows are headed for Manhattan, and 65 artists are making the trip. Add support staff, and it’s quite a hefty operation.

“I look forward to seeing nothing in New York because I’ll be busy,” Gregory Prest, an ensemble member who is cast in four of the New York shows, said amiably one May afternoon at the Young Center for the Performing Arts, Soulpepper’s home.

He’d been writing a play in an empty classroom when the company’s founding artistic director, Albert Schultz, popped in to say hello, then brought up a field trip planned for Yankee Stadium. More than 60 members of the Soulpepper crowd have signed on to watch their beloved Toronto Blue Jays play there on July 3, a day off from performing.