Citadel Theatre playbill - Venus in Fur

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Board of Directors Catrin Owen President Aroon Sequeira Past President Dave Mowat Vice President Jane Halford Treasurer Jane Batty Lesley Cormack Neil Gower Becky Hole Richard Kirby Stuart Lee Dave Majeski Lisa Miller Margot Ross-Graham Peter Silverstone Micah Slavens Larry Staples Sheila Witwicky

HonoUrary Directors

Jack N. Agrios, Ken Bautista, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Christine Bishop, Dan Block, Guy Bridgeman, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Len Dolgoy, Allison Edwards, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, James Gillespie, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Beverlee Loat, Al Maurer, Ashif Mawji, Maureen McCaw, Eva McGregor, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Rob Reynolds, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, Gaurav Singhmar, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, Chief Justice A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa

KIM’S CONVENIENCE

By Ins Choi September 20 – October 11, 2014

THE DAISY THEATRE

By Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes October 15 – November 2, 2014

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

By Richard Bean October 25 – November 16, 2014

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens November 29 – December 23, 2014 Presented by

VENUS IN FUR

By David Ives January 17 – February 8, 2015 Presented by

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THE THEO FLEURY STORY

By Kirstie McLellan Day January 28 – February 15, 2015

LIFE, DEATH AND THE BLUES

By Raoul Bhaneja February 11 – March 1, 2015

VIGILANTE Book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Christenson March 7 – 29, 2015 Presented by

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PREMIER | SUPPORTERS We are proud to recognize our Premier Supporters, our partners in the creation of theatre at the Citadel Theatre/Robbins Academy.

The Hole Family • The John and Barbara Poole Family Fund the Eldon & Anne Foote Fund • The Robbins Foundation Canada The Joseph H. Shoctor fund

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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HENRY HOLE, 1884 – 1954 On the Citadel’s 30th Anniversary, a gift was made by the Company of Harry Hole, James F. Hole, Ralph K. Hole and Robert W. Hole on behalf of the Hole family — in honour of their late father, Henry Hole.

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STUDENTS CLUB We are thrilled to welcome back our 1000 Students Club Members as they prepare to enjoy Venus in Fur, the first Citadel Theatre main stage show of the New Year.

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On the first three Tuesdays and Wednesdays of our season’s productions, Students Club members gather to enjoy a small reception before the show and participate in a highly engaging, interactive presentation/demonstration involving one of the Citadel’s talented theatre artists. Following the performance students are invited to stay for a talkback session with members of the production’s cast and crew.

Prior to tonight’s performance, the Students Club was joined by graduates from the University of Alberta’s 2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting Program. Recently Oscar and Andrea were seen onstage in A Christmas Carol, Merran performed in The Shakespeare Company’s Othello, and Neil appeared in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Rosebud, Alberta. Our special guests Merran Carr-Wiggin Neil Kuefler shared their experiences as young professionals, and led a short workshop on the fundamentals of acting.

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STARRING JAMIE CAVANAGH............................................ Thomas Novachek ALANA HAWLEY................................................ Vanda Jordan Director & Sound Designer............................... JAMES MacDONALD Assistant Director............................................... Liz Hobbs Set & Costume Designer.. ................................. CORY SINCENNES Lighting Designer............................................... NARDA McCARROLL Stage Manager................................................... MICHELLE CHAN Apprentice Stage Manager. . ............................. AL GADOWSKY

Originally produced by Classic Stage Company (Brian Kulick, Artistic Director; Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director) Originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) by special arrangement with Jon B. Platt, Scott Landis and Classic Stage Company, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on October 13, 2011.

VENUS IN FUR is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York.

This performance is 90 minutes long with no intermission.

The Citadel engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Production personnel for the Citadel Theatre are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Employees (I.A.T.S.E.)

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David Ives David Ives is perhaps best known for his evening of one-act plays, All in the Timing (he has been included in the “Best Short Plays” series seven times), and for his drama Venus in Fur, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His plays include New Jerusalam: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza; The School for Lies (adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope); The Liar (adapted from Corneille); Time Flies; and Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain). He has also translated Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear and Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play. A former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting and a graduate of The Yale School of Drama, he lives in New York City.

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Venus in Fur was inspired by the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the inspiration for the term Masochism. In the novel, an anonymous narrator discloses his feelings to a friend, who suggests that reading Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man will end the narrator’s torment. The fictional Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man conveys the story of a man who, after becoming obsessed with a woman, offers to act as her slave. Venus in Furs is an early example of sadomasochism in writing and highlights the figure of the dominant female.

David Ives’ Venus in Fur is an exciting exploration of gender roles and sexuality, in which desire twists and turns in on itself, divulging a disconcerting look at the art of acting — onstage and off. This sexual hither and thither about power and powerlessness, imagination versus reality, is played out by two contemporary characters. Thomas is a playwright who has been painstakingly unsuccessful at unearthing the right actress during auditions for his adaptation of Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs. Low and behold, in walks Vanda, a disheveled yet brazen siren with her own agenda. Interested in watching herself perform; she breaks character purely for the pleasure of going back to it. After convincing Thomas to read through his play with her, slowly, she becomes the dominatrix that Thomas didn’t even know he needed.

Venus in Fur was the winner of the 2014 Dora Award (35th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Toronto): Audience Choice Award for favourite production (Canadian Stage).

It was the most produced play in the United States in the 2013-14 seasons, with a total of 22 productions. It received two Tony award nominations, one for Best Play, after opening on Broadway in November, 2011. In 2013, Roman Polanski directed a French drama film version of Venus in Fur. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and in January of 2014 the film received five nominations at the 39th César Awards, winning for Best Director. venus in fur 27

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The Broadway producers of VENUS IN FUR are Jon B. Platt, Scott Landis, MTC Productions Inc. Lynne Meadow, Berry Grove, Jessica R. Jenen, Scott M. Delman, and Classic Stage Company. Lead producer Jon B. Platt’s producing credits include some of the most honored dramatic work in Broadway history: Angels in America: Millenium Approaches (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Perestroika, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, Copenhagen, God of Carnage, Death of a Salesman and Clybourne Park (Pulitzer Prize Winner).

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Venus in Fur puts a dark, deceptive, and funny twist on a well-known genre – the “play within a play.” While many plays in this genre are mired in obscure jokes about “theatre folk,” with Venus in Fur David Ives creates two brilliantly original characters with whom we can all identify…whether or not we like to admit it.

It is my great pleasure to work with two actors who as mid-career artists participated in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. I am also thrilled to work with one of our two intern directors for this year’s Program, Elizabeth Hobbs. That they are all Edmontonians and graduates of the University of Alberta is another tribute to the depth of creative talent fostered in our city, and of whom we can all be proud.

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There is a heart-breaking image in Theo Fleury’s best-selling autobiography, Playing With Fire. It is a picture of innocence corrupted that began in Russell, Saskatchewan where a five year old kid finds escape from an unhappy home on evenings when he would throw his rusty skates over his shoulder, pick up his broken hockey stick and walk down the road to the outdoor rink. Three hours later they had to force him to go home. Ahead lies a harsh life of sexual abuse, an against-all-odds rise in the toughest of games and a precipitous fall from grace fired by drugs and booze leading to that suicidal moment when, standing alone amidst the ruins of his life – he puts a gun in his mouth...

Theoren Fleury’s story is a familiar tale to anyone who has heard the interviews, read his best-selling book or seen the television documentary. A feisty, tough little guy, the kid forges through the juniors and the minor leagues. The Flames pick him up and he is subsequently traded to New York, Colorado and Chicago. At only five feet six inches, he plays hard and is a driving force in winning the World Junior Championships, Stanley Cup, Canada Cup and Olympic gold. He scored 450 career goals. Before he flamed out, he played in the NHL for 16 years.

As a teenager, Fleury had little in the way of adult role models. His dad was an alcoholic and his mother bed-ridden and hooked on prescription drugs. That was when he was found by a true monster – Graham James. He was only 13 when James, recognizing a potential

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Hockey wants to be known as the school’s good looking, clean-cut jock.” victim, recruited Fleury from his minor hockey team in Russell. What followed was years of sexual abuse. Fleury writes in Playing With Fire, “The direct result of my being abused was that I became a raging, alcoholic lunatic. At a time when he was the most influential adult in my life he destroyed my belief system.”

Even when he was at the top of his game, something was obviously wrong with Theo Fleury. He was prone to sudden acts of violence. There were rumours of cocaine, gambling, alcohol and wild nights of carousing. He observes that he was treated as “meat” in the NHL. He gave many “dirty” drug tests, substituting his kid’s urine or even Gatorade in the cup.

The results, he charges, were ignored by the league. Even the substance abuse programs they put him on were designed to get him back into the line-up and not for any long-lasting solution. And then, when he just couldn’t take it any longer, he walked away from it all.

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“It was remarkable - a two year roller-coaster ride,” she said.

“We spent hours and hours talking. And there was a tremendous amount of research. He had only been sober a couple of years and so his memory wasn’t what it is today. And it was really tough for him to relive many of those moments.”

It was fellow player (and victim) Sheldon Kennedy who came out first, accusing James of abuse. There were rumours of another victim. It was, of course, Fleury. The player kept his silence thinking that the revelations would end what was left of his career. And then, one day, he was playing golf with Calgary broadcaster Larry Day and told him that he was thinking of writing a book but needed a co-writer. Said Day, “Well, my wife’s a writer. You should meet.” Kirstie McLellan Day, a one-time private investigator, was indeed a writer, having penned and produced many documentaries while spending years on the junket circuit interviewing movie stars. She has co-written books about hockey greats including bestsellers with Bob Probert and Ron MacLean. In a feature interview in Maclean’s Magazine, she was dubbed “Canada’s Ice Queen.” Kirstie and Theo met and immediately established a trusting relationship. She told the player that he would have to be straight up with her and hold nothing back. He agreed. “It was remarkable – a two year roller-coaster ride,” she said. “We spent hours and hours talking. And there was a tremendous amount

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The book became a best-seller and Fleury, instead of finding the career-ending ridicule he feared, found sympathy and support. He overcame his addictions to become a businessman – marketing his own brand of clothing. Today, he is a renowned public speaker and fearless champion of, and spokesman for, abused kids all over the country.

James was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. The lenient sentence brought on public outrage and in 2012, he was sentenced to an additional 3 years.

One night in New York, Kirstie and Larry attended Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, when it suddenly struck her that if any individual had a story to tell, it was Theo Fleury. With her subject’s full cooperation, she set about writing a play. “I was very cocky,” she admits today. “I thought all I had to do was turn the book into a play. Like Samantha, I’d just twitch my nose and there it would be. Boy, was I wrong! I had all these ideas about monologues in hotel and locker rooms and things like that. So I took it to (Calgary’s) Alberta Theatre Projects and quickly learned there is a huge structural difference between a book and a play. They sat me down and spent many hours helping me develop something that would work on a stage.”

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“I tried to nail his fire, fearlessness and frequently insulting demeanour to bruisers who towered over him and often outweighed him by more than 90 pounds.”

Another big influence was director Ron Jenkins. Ron is Edmonton-based and one of Canada’s busiest freelance directors (and winner of an astonishing ten Sterling Awards over the years). Ron took one look at the proposed play and threw out any thought of hotel rooms. He put it on ice. Apparently there is a synthetic ice surface out there that would allow actor Shaun Smyth to skate for most of the show. Under Jenkins’ concept even the ice takes on a personality, morphing from small town prairie rink to NHL arena, complete with Jumbotron.

Remembers Smyth, “(ATP Producer) Dianne (Goodman) phoned me up and asked me if I skated and how was my hockey? I said, ‘Well I’ve never really played much but I’m willing to work my ass off. I have a year and I’ll skate like a professional hockey player on opening night.’” He got the job and spent the summer on roller blades skating around concrete playgrounds with kids following him – laughing. “They’d ask, ‘How come you’re not working mister?’ and I’d growl at them, ‘I am working. Don’t bother me.’” Fleury would drop in from time to time to talk about what superstitions drove him – such as always having the same meal before a game. He outlined his skating style-even down to how he taped his socks and laced his skates. Smyth observes, “Fleury learned from a very young age that if he acted a little crazy people gave him space. I tried to nail his fire, fearlessness and frequently insulting demeanour to bruisers who towered over him and often outweighed him by more than 90 pounds.” The resulting show, in a tribute to Smyth’s own determination, has him on stage, solo, often skating furiously while holding audiences rapt with an intensely dramatic story.

Whether you’re a hockey fan or not, Playing With Fire is a powerful, often funny – even poignant evening of theatre. Fleury is a natural storyteller. He lived the life and his anecdotes of the players, coaches and contracts, the high-jinks and locker room horseplay are hilarious. McLellan Day admits to tears in her eyes on opening night of the Calgary ATP production two years ago. “I wrote the book and the documentary but the play brought a whole new dimension to the story. I found so many things that were new to me. The play really goes deep. It was an emotional experience I’ll never forget.”

A reaction repeated by the critics and sold-out audience who were lucky enough to be there that night.

Playing With Fire: The Theo Fleury Story previews January 28 and plays through February 15 in the Maclab Theatre.

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Jamie Cavanagh

Thomas

Previously at the Citadel, Jamie has appeared in Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol and Death of a Salesman. Selected acting credits include Flight of the Viscount (Shadow Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Comedy of Errors, and Taming of the Shrew (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); East of Berlin (Punctuate Theatre/East West Collective); Zastrozzi: Master of Discipline, The Survival of Pigeons As Studied by Human Lovers (Surreal SoReal Theatre); Genius Code (Catalyst Theatre/Surreal SoReal Theatre); Sexual Perversity in Chicago and 3...2...1 (Quiet Things Creative); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Savage in Limbo (Studio Theatre); and Hamlet (University of Alberta). Later this season Jamie will be performing in Armstrong’s War (Theatre Network) as well as in Romeo and Juliet and Comedy of Errors (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival). Jamie is a graduate of the Citadel/Banff Centre Profesional Theatre Program.

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Alana Hawley

Vanda

Previous Citadel credits include The Three Musketeers and Little Women: The Broadway Musical. She has appeared in Closer (Ground Zero); Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh (Shadow Theatre); Sequence (Downstage); Drama: A Pilot Episode (Alberta Theatre Projects); Bartholomew Fair, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Stratford Festival); Joyful Noise (Theatre North West); The Clink, The Double Inconstancy (Studio Theatre); as well as the film The Valley Below (North Country Cinemas). Alana is a recipient of the Royal Conservatory of Music 2014 National Gold Medal for Speech Arts and Drama Performance. She is a graduate of the Citadel/ Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, the Birmingham Conservatory and University of Alberta BFA Acting. She works as a theatre educator and vocal coach throughout North and Central America, collaborating with the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Program, Artstrek, The Stratford Festival, CUSO International and Edmonton’s The Speech Studio. Sincere gratitude to her husband, her family and James.

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James’ Citadel directing credits include Clybourne Park, A Few Good Men (co-production with Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), God of Carnage, Billy Bishop Goes to War, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Fire, Shining City, Vimy (Sterling Award), Equus, and Stones in his Pockets. Elsewhere James’ directing credits include Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily (RMTC); Julius Caesar (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); The Old Ladies (Shaw Festival); Much Ado About Nothing, Fire (Dora Award), and As You Like It (Canadian Stage). As an actor, James’ Citadel credits include playing both Scrooge and Marley in A Christmas Carol, The Three Musketeers, Blackbird, Pride and Prejudice, Measure for Measure, Amadeus, Einstein’s Gift (Sterling Award), Wit, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men (Sterling Award).

James was the founding Artistic Director of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, for whom he has directed or performed in over 15 productions. He is an Artistic Associate at the Citadel, and the Program Director of the Citadel Theatre/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. He would like to dedicate his work in this production to the memory of his brother Dave, who would have loved this play.

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Liz is thrilled to be a part of the 2014/15 Citadel Theatre season.

Liz is the Artistic Director of Punctuate! Theatre, the Program Director of Theatre Prospero’s school residency program, as well as the Festival Programming Coordinator for the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. Favourite directing credits include Dirt, Vice Re-Versa, Judith and The End of Civilization (Punctuate! Theatre); Tristan and Isolde, and The Secrets of Immortality (Serca Festival of Irish Theatre); Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Prospero); and 13 Encounters, and Fish at the Bottom of the Sea (NextFest). Liz is one of two Intern Directors in this year’s Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. Coming up later this year Liz is delighted to be directing Featuring Loretta and Criminal Genius for Punctuate! Theatre’s repertory production of all six of George F. Walker’s Suburban Motel plays.

Cory Sincennes Set & Costume Designer

Earlier this season, Cory designed the set and costumes for One Man, Two Guvnors. Last season, Cory designed the set for Disney’s Mary Poppins, set and costumes for Romeo and Juliet, as well as costumes for Make Mine Love. Cory’s Citadel credits include Monty Python’s Spamalot (Sterling Award), Next to Normal (Sterling Award), and The Rocky Horror Show.

Other theatre credits include Where the Blood Mixes for Theatre Aquarius/WCT; Peter and the Starcatcher for WCT; Chicago and Boeing Boeing for Mayfield Dinner Theatre; Mump and Smoot for ATP; Julius Caesar and The Tempest for Freewill Shakespeare Festival; Bigshot for Surreal Soreal/Ghost River and Communion and Woman in Black for Theatre Network. Cory holds a degree in Architectural Studies from Carleton University and a MFA in Theatre Design from U of A. He is a member of Associated Designers of Canada.

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Narda McCarroll

Lighting Designer

Last season, Narda was the Lighting Designer for Clybourne Park.

Other Citadel credits include lights for A Few Good Men, As You Like It, The Drowning Girls (cross Canada tour), The Forbidden Phoenix; production design for Extinction Song, Shining City, Vimy (co-design); set and lights for True Love Lies; costumes for The Penelopiad, God of Carnage, Julius Caesar, The Pillowman, Einstein’s Gift. Favourite design credits elsewhere include set and lights for Othello (The Shakespeare Company); Sweeney Todd (Vertigo Theatre); production design for Red, Mary’s Wedding; set design for Around the World in 80 Days (Alberta Theatre Projects); as well as set and costumes for The Trespassers (Belfry Theatre/Vancouver Playhouse).

Narda designed the costumes for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival for sixteen seasons.

She also designed costumes for the feature film Cut Bank. She is the recipient of three Sterling Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards.

Michelle Chan

Stage Manager

Earlier this season, Michelle worked on One Man, Two Guvnors and A Christmas Carol. Other Citadel stage manager credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Clybourne Park, Make Mine Love, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Private Lives, A Few Good Men, The Sound of Music, God of Carnage, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women: the Musical, August: Osage County, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Blackbird, The Wizard of Oz, The Pillowman, Bird Brain, Fully Committed, Vanya, Shakespeare’s Will, Homeward Bound and The Sword in the Stone.

Assistant stage manager credits at the Citadel include Oliver!, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sound of Music, Grease, Servant of Two Masters, Hamlet, and Cabaret. Other favourite stage manager credits include Mothership Down (Paper Tiger Productions); Afterplay (Blarney Productions); Evelyn Strange and Cocktails at Pam’s (Teatro la Quindicina); and The 7th Circle (Fringe Theatre Adventures).

Al Gadowsky

Apprentice Stage Manager

Previously at the Citadel, Al has been an Apprentice Stage Manager for Monty Python’s Spamalot and Make Mine Love. Later this season he will work as Apprentice Stage Manager on Avenue Q. Other stage management credits include Working It Out (Alberta Workers Health Centre); Midsummer [A Play With Songs] (Broken Toys Productions); Murielle (Blarney/Promise Productions); A Bronte Burlesque and Hollywoodland: A Burlesque (Send in the Girls Burlesque); as well as The Unseen and A Picasso (Chorus Productions). He is a graduate of the BFA Stage Management program at the University of Alberta. Al would like to thank his family and friends for their continuing love and support. Thank you Michelle. venus in fur 47

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