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JORDAN ANGEVINE
CAST
JOAN
SOPHIA BOISVENUE MATRON
CONOR POTTIE
JOEL CHIASSON
SOLOMON
THELONIOUS
VERA DUNLOP-VAILLANCOURT MARTHA
CALUM EDDY GODWIN
ATLAS FRANCIS MARY MILDRED
MAHRI JONES RODERICK
SUBIRA KARAKACH LOUISA
HOANG LAN TO ELIZA RAINE
TORIN THIBODEAU ISIS
NADIA TONEN* ESTHE
CALLIE TURNER HELEN
SCARLETT REYNOLDS ANNE LISTER
WILLIAM ROBERTSON
NATALIE WEBBER
BENEDICT
CUTHBERT
ALEXIS WOLFE CATHLEEN
*NADIA TONEN APPEARS WITH PERMISSION OF THE CANADIAN ACTORS ASSOCIATION
CREATIVE TEAM
SAMANTHA WILSON* DIRECTOR
RILEY MCGILL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
SARA COURTNEY MUSIC DIRECTOR / ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
LUCAS ARAB SCENIC DESIGNER
SCHUŸLER EDGAR HOLMES COSTUME DESIGNER
ORION GOKIERT LIGHTING / SOUND DESIGNER
EMMA LAMONT STAGE MANAGER
AL COLLETTE HEAD PAINTER
TOMAS HISELER ASSISTANT PAINTER
NICOLE FLYNN CARPENTER
SEAN BURKE BACK STAGE TECH
JORDAN PALMER HEAD STUDIO TECH
TESS KOTSIBIE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
KAT JONES ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
HANNA LAAKSONEN HEAD OF PROPS
HELENA MARRIOTT HEAD OF WARDROBE
KAT PENNER WARDROBE ASSISTANT
GARRETT BARKER PRODUCTION MANAGER
SHARISSE LEBRUN DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
MADDIE MAITZEN THEATRE SCHOOL MANAGER
SARA COURTNEY VOLUNTEER MANAGER
AMANDA BURNETT PARENT COMMITTEE LEADER
* THE PARTICIPATION OF THIS ARTIST IS ARRANGED BY PERMISSION OF CANADIAN ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DANCE.OPERA.THEATRE POLICY.
Welcome to Crypthand! Our Youth Performance Company has been hard at work on this beautiful, based-on-historical-fact, love story, and I’m so impressed with all of them.
The Neptune Theatre School has been running for almost 45 years, and the calibre of education and programming they offer to children across the province - from intro classes for the little ones, to pre-professional training for the teens - just continues to get better and better.
If you have a budding performer in the family, I’d encourage you to take a look at what classes, camps, and training opportunities we offer - and don’t forget that subscribers get a discount on Theatre School programming!
Kimberlee Stadelmann Executive Director
BOOK AND LYRICS BY HOWARD ASHMAN
MUSIC BY ALAN MENKEN
Thelonious
Karakach
CUTHBERT
Natalie Webber
CATHLEEN
ELIZA RAINE
Hoang Lan To
Torin
Thibodeau
Alexis Wolfe
HELEN
Callie
Turner ESTHER
Nadia
Tonen
SAMATHA WILSON
ROLE: Director NEPTUNE: Dear Rita, East Coast Kitchen Party (Neptune/The Grand), Shape of a Girl, Liars (Director); Misery, Cradle and All (Actor) OTHER THEATRE: Til Death Do Us Part, Downed Hearts, Dayboil, Tuesdays and Sundays (Ship’s Company Theatre); Cottagers and Indians (ARC); Steel Magnolias (Watermark Theatre); Honey Harbour (Gail Force Theatre), Where You Are, Sexy Laundry (Theatre Baddeck); The Roaring Girl, In the Next Room (Sheridan), Women of Troy, The Secret in the Wings (Dal Theatre); Strawberries in January (Live Bait). OTHER: Samantha would like to thank the fantastic, hard-working cast of Crypthand. The future of theatre is in good hands with these inspiring young actors.
RILEY MCGILL
ROLE: Assistant Director / Movement Director NEPTUNE: Disney’s frozen OTHER THEATRE - ACTOR: Horse Girls, Broken Kingdom (Halifax Fringe Festival); Dayboil (Ship’s Company Theatre); The Crucible, People, Places & Things, The Dog in the Manger (Fountain School of Performing Arts) FILM/TV: Parasomnia (Short), The Community Players (BellFibeTV1) TRAINING: Honours Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Certificate in Dance & Movement from Dalhousie University OTHER: Riley is thrilled to be working with YPCO for the first time and thanks the entire team! @rilemcgill
SARA COURTNEY
ROLE: Music Director / Assistant Stage Manager NEPTUNE: Heathers Teen Edition The Prom, Almost Maine, Les Misérables (SM) My Side of the Country, Runaways (YPCo.) OTHER THEATRE: The Firebird (Terra Novella), Into the Woods (Alive Theatre), Mind the Light (EFT Stages Festival), Grafton Street Dinner Theatre, and Project Arc. OTHER: Sara has been working with the Neptune Theatre School for many years, as a teacher, camp director, administrator and stage manager. Thank you to the Neptune Theatre School team for their love and support!
LUCAS ARAB
ROLE: Scenic Designer NEPTUNE: Scenic Designer: The New Canadian Curling Club, Dear Rita, Heathers the Musical YPCo, The SpongeBob Musical YPCo, Little Women YPCo. Assistant Set Designer: Disney’s Frozen, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead OTHER THEATRE: Euripidaristophanize (FSPA) TRAINING: Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts OTHER: Much love to my Neptune family, my LMOP family, and Megan. Come behind the scenes and follow me: @lucas_arab
SCHUŸLER EDGAR HOLMES
ROLE: Costume Designer NEPTUNE: A Missummer Night’s Dream OTHER THEATRE: Whatever Happened to Dr. Faustus (Stage Manager, Bishop’s University), Life’s a Dream (Bishop’s University), Clue (Bishop’s University), Talking Matters (Bishop’s University), Xanadu (Director, Carpenter Farm Players) AWARDS: David Rittenhouse Prize in Drama (2024), O.H. de Sévigné Scholarship in the Creative and Performing Arts (2023), Jane Quintin Mitchell Prize in Drama (2022) TRAINING: Bishop’s University BA Drama Honours
ORION GOKIERT
ROLE: Lighting Designe NEPTUNE: Little Shop of Horrors, Disney’s Frozen, New Canadian Curling Club, Dear Rita OTHER THEATRE: The Children’s Hour (Bishop’s University), Heathers: la comédie musicale (Broadway UdeS), She Kills Monsters (Bishop’s University), Anne & Gilbert: the musical (Island Theatre Festival), Life’s A Dream (Bishop’s University), La Belle et la Bête (Broadway UdeS), Whatever Happened to Doctor Faustus: A Tragical History (Bishop’s University) TRAINING: BA Drama Honours, Bishop’s University OTHER: Huge thanks to my support system and everyone who helped me get here, this is the dream.
EMMA LAMONT
ROLE: Stage Manager NEPTUNE: Cinderella, The Spongebob Musical OTHER THEATRE: Romeo and Juliet, Pinocchio, Hamlet, Cinderelly (Shakespeare by the Sea); The Mountain and the Valley, Chased by the Bear (Two Planks and a Passion Theatre); The Playhouse of Horrors (Villains Theatre); Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Nova Scotia); The Lifespan of a Mattress (Think of the Worst Theatre); Oh, What a Lovely War, Encounters at the Edge of the Woods (Hart House Theatre) TRAINING: Dalhousie University: Technical Theatre OTHER: Lots of love to Pluto and Olivier!
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