Joe DiPietro Margaret Martin, Ian Harmon, Norma Dirom David Cooper Photography
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October 3 to November 8 2014
Mark DuMez
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VANCOUVER ISLAND’S THEATRE GETAWAY
C H E M A I N U S T H E AT R E ’ S O N L I N E A U C T I O N
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Featuring Serigraphs by Arthur Vickers and Fabulous Getaway Packages. Our online auction offers selected limited edition serigraphs by internationally acclaimed Vancouver Island artist Arthur Vickers.The collection is currently on display at the Chemainus Theatre Dining Room. Our online auction will also include getaway packages, day trips, tickets and lots more. All proceeds from this auction benefit the Chemainus Theatre Festival Society and will help fuel our passion for presenting engaging and enriching live theatre for Vancouver Island residents and visitors. Please visit us at
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Joe DiPietro By
Directed by Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager Aida Gianelli Frank Gianelli Emma Cristano Nick Cristano Caitlin O’Hare Nunzio Cristano
Pamela Halstead Craig Alfredson Laurin Kelsey Darren Boquist Paul Tedeschini Lisa Russell Linzi Voth Linda Goranson Bill McFadden Margaret Martin Giovanni Mocibob Stephanie Moroz Wes Tritter
Setting: The Gianelli home in Hoboken, New Jersey. Intermission: There will be one 20-minute intermission Presented with the generous assistance of:
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. The Chemainus Theatre Festival engages, under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The Chemainus Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and its members.
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message from THe Managing Director
The Professional Association of Canadian Theatre recently released a study that found 80% of Canadians believe live theatre is important to making communities both vibrant places to live and helping attract visitors.
Looking at Chemainus and the Cowichan region, this certainly holds true as the Chemainus Theatre has become a cultural and economic cornerstone drawing close to 70,000 theatre goers per year to our artsy seaside corner of the Island.
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Even on the broad national scene, Chemainus plays an integral role. Last year, roughly 8 million tickets were sold for live theatre across our country. This means 1 out of every 114 people who attended a theatre performance in Canada did so by visiting the Chemainus Theatre. Theatre plays a key role creating vibrancy and drawing us together to help create and support that elusive sense of community. Even if it’s just for a few hours as an audience sharing a collective experience, theatre is a living breathing thing that flourishes and grows with greater participation. Thank you for attending today’s show.
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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MARK DUMEZ I grew up in a small great lakes town with a population just about to crack 2000 souls when I left. I knew all my aunts and uncles – even the ones who moved “all the way” to the other side of town. Every second Sunday of the month, without fail, my father’s six siblings would gather in one of their houses for a meal and a visit – until the later years when the “cousin count” was so high that only the aunts and uncles were allowed. To this day, the living relatives still gather – to solve the problems MARK DUMEZ of the world over a pot luck lunch, some coffee and Snickers bar salad. I am grateful for many blessings of my family and especially that even with their differences, they all love and respect one another when they gather together. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
In this play, Joe DiPietro gives us the perfect, imperfect family. Through his hilarity, we can consider our own sense of place, our loyalties to location, commitment to culture and hopes for our legacy and lineage. In the mobility of North American culture, Tengo famiglia invites us to examine our roots, whether we love em’ or lump em’. The patriarchs and matriarchs of Nick’s world allow us to laugh at ourselves in another skin and call us to savour the tastes and conversations that shape who we are. Enjoy the feast!
ISLAND SAVINGS & CHEMAINUS THEATRE proudly present
DISCOVER THEATRE WORKSHOPS These workshops, complementary for schools courtesy of Island Savings’ “Growing Island Families Together” – GIFT program, explore acting skills through improvisational play and written scenes. They will be led by education coordinator for the Chemainus Theatre Festival, Andrea Cross. If you know of a school that would like to receive a free Island Savings Discover Theatre Workshop, please contact: Education Coordinator, Chemainus Theatre Festival education@chemainustheatre.ca or 250-246-9800 ext 728
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THE PLAY Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey whose parents have retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of grandparents for dinner every Sunday. But then he gets offered his dream job. The job he’s been waiting for – marketing executive – would take him away from his beloved, but overwhelming grandparents. When he tells them they begin a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio & Emma have a plan but we won’t give the ending away here.
THE PLAYWRIGHT Joe DiPietro
Joe DiPietro won two Tony Awards for co-writing Memphis, which also received the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. His other plays and musicals include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (the longest running musical revue in off-Broadway history); The Toxic Avenger and The Thing About Men (both winners of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical,); the much-produced comedy Over the River and Through the Woods; The Art of Murder (Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play) and the Broadway musical All Shook Up. His drama Creating Claire debuted at George Street Playhouse in 2010. His work has received thousands of productions across the United States and around the world.
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PAMELA HALSTEAD
Pamela recently completed her tenure as the Artistic Director of Lunchbox Theatre (Calgary, AB) and is the former Artistic Producer of Ship’s Company Theatre (Parrsboro, NS). In her 10 years between these two companies she directed and/or produced over 60 productions, the majority of them premieres of new works. Pamela is Artistic Adviser to Valley Summer Theatre (Wolfville, NS), Artistic Producer of DMV Theatre (Halifax, NS) and the PERFORM! Coordinator for Theatre Nova Scotia. Recent credits include: directing Mass Appeal for Valley Summer Theatre and The Net for Theatre New Brunswick, directing and dramaturging the world premieres of Never A Syllable for Onelight Theatre and Bingo Ladies for Lunchbox Theatre, and producing White Rabbit, Red Rabbit for DMV Theatre. She also returned recently to Lunchbox to curate and coordinate the 27th Suncor Energy Stage One Festival. In 2013, Pamela was awarded the inaugural Evans Award at the Calgary Critics’ Awards for her contribution to the vibrancy of the Calgary theatre community. She recently returned to Nova Scotia and is thrilled to be back living by the sea.
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CRAIG ALFREDSON Set Designer Craig has been working for over 15 years as a Technical Director and Designer for various Vancouver theatre and dance companies. He holds his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2009) and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia. Notable design credits include Hansel & Gretel (UBC Opera); Unity 1918 (Theatre @ UBC); Stuff Happens, Vimy (Firehall Theatre); 7 Stories (Capilano University); Mary Poppins (Arts Club Theatre).
DARREN BOQUIST Lighting Designer Besides lighting, Darren Boquist has written, produced, and performed plays across Canada. Recently he won the “North Shore Zone Festival Best Male Actor Award” for his performance of Michael Novak in God of Carnage. He has received two Jessie Nominations for lighting design – Carousel Theatre’s Busytown and Aesop’s Fables. And has designed lights for Pi Theatre, Upintheair Theatre, Theatre North West and Studio 58 among others.
LINDA GORANSON Aida Gianelli Linda is thrilled to return to Chemainus after Jeeves in Bloom. Recent theatre credits include The Cemetery Club, Perfect Wedding, The Little Years, Tough Case (nominated for a Dora for best production), Calendar Girls, On Golden Pond and Vigil. Film and TV credits include Gridlocked, Remedy, Hemlock Grove, Owning Mahowny and The Rowdyman. She starred in The Painted Door which was nominated for an Oscar for best Live Action Short. She trained at LAMDA .
LAURIN KELSEY Costume Designer Laurin Kelsey obtained her BFA in Set & Costume Design from the University of Victoria and also attended the National Theatre School of Canada. After her studies, Laurin spent 3 years living and working in Berlin, Germany, where she designed for both theatre and film. Recent credits include Munschercise (Chemainus Theatre), My Romantic History and Summer & Smoke (English Theatre Berlin). www.laurinkelsey.ca.
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MARGARET MARTIN Emma Cristano A resident of Victoria, Margaret is pleased to return to Chemainus Theatre Festival for the eighth time. Other plays at CTF include Anne of Green Gables, The Mousetrap, Queen Milli of Galt, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Hay Fever. In her forty year career she is probably best known for her portrayal of Emily Carr both onstage and on television.
BILL McFADDEN Frank Gianelli Bill McFadden is excited to be making his debut at the Chemainus Theatre Festival reprising the role of Frank in Over the River and Through the Woods. In his storied career some favourite roles have included; Norman (On Golden Pond), Justice Biddle (Trying) and Oscar (Oscar and Felix). A clown, a town-crier, and a teller of tales, Bill is known for spontaneous magic tricks and his signature calling card – balloon animals.
GIOVANNI MOCIBOB Nick Cristano Giovanni Mocibob is excited to be back on the Chemainus stage. Previous Chemainus Theatre credits include Chickens, and Amadeus. In the spring you can catch him in The Whipping Man at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver. Other theatre credits include: Mary’s Wedding, Doubt, My Name Is Asher Lev, Fiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha. Recently he co-starred as the urban legend serial killer “Thinman” in an episode of Supernatural and is currently developing a comedy series with his wife Holly Pillsbury.
STEPHANIE MOROZ Caitlin O’Hare Stephanie is excited to be making her debut at the Chemainus Theatre Festival. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now calls Vancouver home. Recent credits include Meg in Leading Ladies (Persephone Theatre), Theresa in Between the Sheets (pi Theatre), and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Persephone Theatre/Western Canada Theatre). Stephanie is a graduate of Studio 58. She thanks you for coming, and hopes you enjoy the show!
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LISA RUSSELL Stage Manager Lisa has stage managed in professional dance, theatre, musical theatre and opera across Canada and is delighted to be making her Chemainus Theatre Festival debut. Most recently Lisa was the Interim Production Manager for Calgary Opera’s Opera in the Village Summer Festival and the Banff Centre Midsummer Ball’s Operations and Script Supervisor. Originally from Calgary, Lisa now makes her home in Regina. She is the recipient of two Tyrone Guthrie Awards from the Stratford Festival.
PAUL TEDESCHINI Sound Designer Paul is a sound designer, as well as a full time mixing and mastering audio engineer. Live mix credits include: Liona Boyd, Sheri Ulrich, Barney Bentall and Tom Taylor, John Gogo. Recent sound design credits include: Home Is A Beautiful Word (The Belfry Theatre); It’s a Wonderful Life, Chickens, The 39 Steps (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Noises Off (Western Canada Theatre); Fresco (Shadbolt Centre / TheCultch); and Circle Mirror Transformation (Arts Club Theatre).
WES TRITTER Nunzio Cristano Mr. Tritter last appeared in Chemainus in Having Hope at Home, where he played Gramps, spat carrots into a pot and had fun. Since then, The Fantasticks, It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and My Fair Lady for Blue Bridge in Victoria. This November, King Pellinore in a Concert performance of Camelot with Victoria Symphony and Pacific Opera. Lives in a wee Cottage Garden in Victoria with “a white picket fence” and is happy with life. “Tengo famiglia!”
Linzi VOTH Apprentice Stage Manager Linzi delightfully makes her debut as a SM Apprentice at Chemainus Theatre! With a Bachelor of Performing Arts & MT Diploma (CapU) Linzi is a multifaceted performing arts addict. Recently: A Hellfighter’s Story (Rooted); Spring Awakening (FC); Cabaret (Pipedream); Magic to Do (ITP/WRS); Mrs. Claus’ Kitchen (Famous Artists). Linzi has performed with Gateway, Royal City, TUTS, Metro, sings Alto with VanDeca Choir, and works with children who have autism.
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2015 Season
Project Johnny Cash February 20 to April 11
The Mousetrap April 24 to May 30
Twist & Shout THE BRITISH INVASION June 12 to August 29
Jeeves Intervenes September 11 to October 3
Grace and Glorie October 16 to November 7
Elf THE MUSICAL November 20 to December 24
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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH July 18 to August 15
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