Citadel Theatre playbill - Alice Through the Looking-Glass

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Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Chair Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Tom Redl, Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Marc de La Bruyère Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole Ralph B. MacMillan Sandy Mactaggart (Honourary) Jack McBain Arliss Miller Catrin Owen Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Sheila Witwicky Ex Officio Ralph Young

Bob Baker | Artistic Director penny ritco | executive Director

Board of Directors

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Sheila Witwicky President Catrin Owen Past President Dave Mowat Vice President Jane Halford Treasurer Julie Afanasiff Jane Batty Jeff Boadway Lesley Cormack Wendy Dupree Robert Fernandez Neil Gower Dave Hancock Sandra Haskins Richard Kirby Margot Ross-Graham Micki Ruth Peter Silverstone Micah Slavens Larry Staples

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, Becky Hole, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Stuart Lee, Beverlee Loat, Al Maurer, Ashif Mawji, Maureen McCaw, Lisa Miller, 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

BOOM Written, Directed & Performed by Rick Miller Sep 19 – Oct 11, 2015 Presented by

EVANGELINE Book, lyrics & music by Ted Dykstra Oct 31 – Nov 22, 2015 Presented by

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens Nov 28 – Dec 23, 2015 Presented by

The Songs Of Leonard Cohen Conceived & Directed by Tracey Power Jan 13 – 24, 2016

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

By Edward Albee Jan 23 – Feb 13, 2016

THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT Created & Performed by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn & Andrew Kushnir Feb 10 – 27, 2016

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

By Lewis Carroll Adapted for the stage by James Reaney Feb 27 – Mar 20, 2016 Presented by

OTHER DESERT CITIES

By Jon Robin Baitz Apr 9 – May 1, 2016

WEST SIDE STORY Conception & Choreography by Jerome Robbins Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Apr 23 – May 22, 2016 Presented by

ENCORE | Campaign Support

Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999

Lesley Cormack L. Neil Gower Q.C. Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Lewis & Lindsay Nakatsui Catrin Owen & John Sumner Aleda Patterson & Family Sir Francis Price & The Honourable Marguerite Trussler Tom & Corrie Redl The Sequeira Family Micah & Kristi Slavens Moira & Larry Staples The Summit Foundation Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp Ralph & Gay Young

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FOUNDER

Gifts of $500,000 - $999,999 The Eldon & Anne Foote Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation

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Gifts of $250,000 - $499,999 Darren & Laurel Durstling

LEADER

Gifts of $100,000 - $249,999 David & Jan Bentley Dentons Ashif, Zainul, Kinza & Aariz Mawji Arliss Miller Al & Fran Olson The Shoctor Family

Gifts of $50,000 - $99,999

INITIATOR

Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Keith & Valerie Alessi Lorraine Bray & Jim Carter Susan & James Burns Butler Family Foundation

| Annual Support Lois Field C. R. French The Honourable John Frank Gibson & Ruth Agrios Shirley Gifford Anne Anfindsen Isidor & Grace Gliener Pamela Baadsgaard Lilian Green Diana Bacon J.G. Greenough Tommy & Ida Banks Tatsuyuki & Doris Luis & Alexis Baptista Hayashi Maurice & Annette Elizabeth, Rosalina, & Bastide Cynthia Hicks Walter & Stella Baydala Ada Hole David & Jan Bentley Muriel Hole Barbara Blackley Chris Jager & Dr. Doug & Mary Bosko Jean Coutts Joyce Buchwald Doris Kent Ronald Cavell Ken & Jennifer Kouri Z. & M. Chrzanowski Don & Lorna Kramer Ruth Collins-Nakai Leo J. Krysa Family Marilyn Darwish Foundation Marc de La Bruyère & Patricia Langan Stacy Schiff Valda Levin Allison & Glyn Edwards Peter & Dorothea Heinz Feldberg Macdonnell Fund

25 years +

Linda & Kim Mackenzie Associates Sandy & Cecile Mactaggart Gordon & Norma McIntosh Dr. Bubbles & Evelyn Meer Arliss Miller Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Q.C Maggie & John Mitchell Lewis & Lindsay Nakatsui Al & Fran Olson Esther Ondrack Fred & Mary Paranchych Aleda Patterson Donna Pawliw Tom & Judith Peacocke Gordon Peterson Gerald Piro E. Fay Plomp

The Poole Family Sir Francis Price & The Hounourable Marguerite Trussler Helen Primrose Diana Purdy Rob & Beth Reynolds Ron & Carol Ritch Sol & Marilyn Rolingher Arnold & Grace Rumbold Marshall & Debby Shoctor Kayla Shoctor Brian & Marnie Sproule Campbell & Rosalind Sydie Neil & Merle Taylor Allison Theman Susan Watson Paddy Webb Weir Family Fund Ralph & Gay Young

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15 years + The Honourable Darlene Acton Dagny & Graeme Alston James Archibald & Heidi Christoph Bob Baker & Tom Wood Fiona & Stephen Bamforth Bruce & Carol Bentley Beverley Boren E. Ross Bradley Norma Brekke David & Marlene Burnett Brent Christopherson John & Judith Cosco Delbert & Jane Dahl J. Susan Davis L.A. Dushenski Rod Eidem Rose Fowler Jean Fukushima Ghislaine Hebert Patsy Ho Cecil & Anne Hoffman Donna Holwaychuk In Memory of Dr. Kris Kristjanson Gail & Andrew Jarema Evelyn Jensen James & Maggie Laing Jack & Diane Latham Don & Gwen Lawrence Edward & Nikki Lazar Robert & Dawn Lemke Shirley MacArthur Jack & Lorraine McBain Douglas & Claire McConnell Hugh McPhail & Yolanda Van Wachem Maureen & Jim Moran Norbert & Patricia Morgenstern David Mundy Jennifer Oakes Fred & Helen Otto Richard Remund Henry & Helen Resta Charles & Marilyn Schroder Richard Sherbaniuk Sheila Sirdar Dale Somerville Eira Spaner Gerard Tertzakin Kathleen Tomyn David Verbicky Buddy Victor Doug & Dorothy Warren

Dave Wilson & Wendy Kotow John Wodak

Vital & Colleen Ouellette Catrin Owen Kathy Packford 5 years + Marian Palahniuk 10 years + Greg Alcorn PCL Constructors Inc. Gail Andrew Carol & Rae Allen Leslie & Rick Penny Jim & Helen Banks Diana & Laurence Susan Priestner Andriashek Ingrid Barlow Curtis & Sandra Prosko William & Carole Barton Becker Sheila Ringrose Guy Bridgeman Madhu & Sundri Alan Rose & Bhambhani Jack Brown Judy Schroder Norman & Anne Burgess Terri & Gary Biasini Orla Ryan Lucille Birkett & Frank Calder Kay Savey Randy Busby Robert Crosbie Aroon Sequeira Angie Bogner Dr.Elizabeth Dixon & Doug & Devika Short Robert & Maureen Braun Ellie Shuster Dr. Ben Macedo James & Joan Carlson Sol & Shirley Sigurdson Grant Dunlop & Erika Norheim Lesley Cormack Barbara & Gerry Sinn Francis & Muriel Marilyn Cree Keith & Beverley Dunnigan Patrick & Luxie Crowe Spencer Noella Fagnan Alison Dinwoodie Larry & Moira Staples Paul Greenwood Roland Duquette Jean & Gerry Staring Dan & Jill Hodges Douglas Duval Fund Robert & Laurel Hudson Gail Faulkner Tony Thai & Elesavata Hymonyk Alvin Schrader Robert Fleming Wolfgang & Elizabeth Betty & Mike Gibbins Maggie Thompson Kaminski Mary-Ann Trachimowich Gaie Goin Norman & Valerie Larry Trekofski Sheila Gynane Kneteman Lois & Chan Hawkins Darcy & Marion Turner Sylvia A. Kother Peter Vana Robert Henderson Christine Kyriakides Chris Vilcsak Bill & Jana Holden Ruth & George Lauf Sarah Wylie Ray & Elaine Hook Chris & Cecilie Lord Leon & Vonnie Zupan Brenda & John Inglis Douglas MacDougall Erik & Franziska Teresa Mardon 2 years + Jacobsen - Royal Lepage Paula Jamison Martin & Anna Andrea Ian & Linda McConnan Liz Kohle Bonnie Andriachuk & Gordon & Agneta Linda & Siegfried Darrel Ewaschuk McKenzie Kowand Patricia Anholt Ove & Susan Minsos Anita Kozyrskyj & Brad & Lori Armstrong Doug & Kathy Murray Kevin Hall Bonnie Austen Edna & Cal Nichols Allen Lee Jane Batty James & Beverley Stuart & Sherry Lee Andrew & Barbara Belch Orieux Mary Lister Anne Brereton Jean & Edward Posyniak Myron & Maureen Emma Brinson Aline Pratch Liviniuk Angela Brown Penny Ritco Mary Machum Linda Brownlee Allan & Marianne Scott Estelle Marshall Jeremiah Burak Glenn & Margaret Neil & Pamela Martin Brian & Barbara Burrows Sharples Betty McMillan John Bylhouwer Elaine Solez Linda Medland Davis Martin Carroll Elout Starreveld Gordon & Cathy Harold Chyczij & Delores Stefaniszyn Moorhouse Cathy Flood Marianne & Kent Stewart Al Morrow Gordon & Janet John & Alana Tucker Kevin Mott Clanachan Henriette van Hees Kevin & Robyn Mott Douglas & Derrick Robert & Ann Weir Marie Muszynski Claybrook Susan Wright Craig Neuman & Karen Cox Dr. Randall & Nancy Leita Siever Kim & Rick Craig Yatscoff G. Douglas Oakley & Jillian Dal Bello Elizabeth McAfee

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We are proud to recognize our Premier Supporters; our partners in the creation of theatre at the Citadel.

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

Government & Foundation Supporters

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.

Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor, 1922 – 2001

executive producer and founder, the citadel theatre

Joe’s vision brought professional theatre to Edmonton Joe’s dream built the Citadel Theatre Joe’s spirit continues to inspire the theatre we create today Joe’s legacy lives on through a generous gift to the Citadel from his estate

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.

The Citadel Theatre is proud to honour Henry Hole’s integrity, compassion and leadership in the dedication of this complex to his memory.

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THE CITADEL WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE ON

• Dr. Ghalib Ahmed • Save-On Foods, Mayfield • The generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association • The estate of James Crerar Reaney • The National Arts Centre, The Charlottetown Festival

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H E A R I N G A D VA N C E M E N T H E A D S E T S We offer headsets to patrons with hearing difficulties. Ask the usher at the door of the theatre. These are provided free of charge. You will be asked to leave your driver’s license as a deposit until the headset is returned at the end of the performance.

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EMERGENCY EXITS We ask that you please take a moment to identify the exit nearest you, so you can safely exit in the event of an emergency.

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Prior to the performance, members of the Students Club had the opportunity to explore the role of sound in theatre with Matthew Skopyk, one of Edmonton’s most talented sound designers and composers. Matthew is the Sound Supervisor and Head of Audio & Sound for the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. Here at the Citadel, Matthew has created sound for Playing with Fire: The Theo Fleury Story, and for Catalyst Theatre’s Vigilante. Through the collaborative discussion and workshop, the students were able to gain an appreciation and understanding of the process behind creating original sound designs.

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MATT ALDEN.................................................... Lion NADIEN CHU.................................................... Fawn NATHAN CUCKOW.......................................... Hatta SHELDON ELTER............................................. White Knight JESSE GERVAIS............................................... Tweedledum BETH GRAHAM................................................ White Queen KRISTI HANSEN............................................... Sheep in a Shop ELLIE HEATH.................................................... Alice RICHARD LEE HSI. . .......................................... Unicorn ANDREW MacDONALD-SMITH...................... White King JAN ALEXANDRA SMITH................................ Red Queen FARREN TIMOTEO........................................... Haigha JOHN ULLYATT................................................ Humpty SCOTT WALTERS............................................ Tweedledee/Red Knight PATRICIA ZENTILLI.......................................... Gnat Original Director................................................ JILLIAN KEILEY Revival Director................................................. CHRISTINE BRUBAKER Set & Costume Designer.................................. BRETTA GERECKE Lighting Designer.............................................. KIMBERLY PURTELL Sound Designer................................................ JOHN GZOWSKI Composer & Original Music Director.............. JONATHAN MONRO Music Director/Assistant to the Composer...... Kathleen Allan Choreographer.................................................. DAYNA TEKATCH Stage Manager. . ................................................ MATTHEW MacINNIS Assistant Stage Manager................................. AL GADOWSKY Apprentice Stage Manager.............................. ERIN VALENTINE This production was originally produced at the Stratford Festival in association with Canada’s National Arts Centre in 2014.

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About the

PLAYWRIGHT

James Reaney,

Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor was born on a farm near Stratford, Ontario, on September 1, 1926. He grew up to become one of Canada’s best-known poets and dramatists, enjoying literary success over a period of seven decades. Reaney studied English at University College, University of Toronto, receiving his M.A. in 1949. The same year, he received the Governor General’s Award at the age of 23, for his first book of poetry, Red Heart.

His contributions spanned literary genres, ranging from short stories, poetry, libretti, and drama, to plays and novels for children, along with insightful critical essays on literary practice. For Reaney, the 1960’s coincided with a shift of emphasis from poetry to the public and communal form of drama, starting with The Killdeer which launched his drama career and won a prize in the Dominion Drama Festival.

In 1962 he won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry or Drama a third time, this time for both his newest book of poetry, Twelve Letters to a Small Town, and his first book of plays, The Killdeer and Other Plays. Reaney followed up The Killdeer with Colours in the Dark (1969), Listen to the Wind (1972), Masks of Childhood (1972) as well as plays for children.

His play Colours in the Dark was produced at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1967.

From 1973 to 1975 Reaney wrote the trilogy The Donnellys. The three plays debuted at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, directed by Keith Turnbull. The St. Nicholas Hotel, Part II of the trilogy, won the Chalmers Award. The Donnellys toured nationally in 1975, from Halifax to Vancouver with the NDWT Theatre Company. Other notable Reaney plays include Names and Nicknames, which premiered at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1963 (directed by John Hirsch and Robert Sherrin); and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, which played at the Stratford Festival in 1994 and in 2015.

As well, Reaney coauthored several operas with musician John Beckwith, including NightBlooming Cereus (1960), The Shivaree (1982), and Crazy to Kill (1988). Reaney also enjoyed painting and drawing and his art works from the 1940s to 1990s were put on exhibit at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario in 2008. He also taught in the English Department at Western University for 30 years.

Highly regarded at home and abroad throughout his career, James Reaney’s work was recognized with three Governor General’s awards, the Chalmers Award for drama, four honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada. He died on June 11, 2008, in London, Ontario.

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Jillian Keiley

Christine Brubaker

Alice Through the Looking-Glass was written by a genius who wrapped a giant philosophical intellect around his own child heart. The same could be said of play adapter James Reaney, who once said, “We are all children of an older growth.” When our team of artists approached this production, our chief goal was to awaken the seven-and-a-halfyear-old in our audience and our actors.

We have planned a world as imagined by the child Alice – full of bicycles and stuffed toys, bouncing balls, and chessboards. BUT, since this world is seen through the looking-glass, everything appears in a form that defies logic; bicycles have giant trees growing out of the handlebars, and the kings and queens of chessboards join all the characters from Alice’s books. Our goal is to tap into the magical world of seven-year-olds, where anything is not only possible but likely, and the only thing you can expect is the unexpected.

Alice is someone who was born to become, not someone who is already a person in her own right; her child-ness is something from which she will emerge. And yet, as Alice crosses the board we discover that she has great value as a child, and at end of the game, all the adults whom she has met in the looking-glass world are revealed to her as older seven-and-a-half-year-olds; their souls are just the same.

The production you see here tonight shares the set, costumes, props and sound design with the productions that have played in Stratford, Ottawa and Winnipeg, but it features an entirely Edmonton cast. With each new company, a new story emerges; one that reflects the experience and interpretation of these artists and your unique response as an audience here in Edmonton. This Alice will be unlike any other. We are all – performers and audiences alike – part of the story of this magical production. All of us calling out together to see if our seven-and-half-yearold selves will come out to play.

Jillian Keiley & Christine Brubaker

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A Theatre forAll Seasons part 4

19952005 written by Colin MacLean

In 1995, Duncan McIntosh,

who was the first Canadian-born and trained artistic director, came to the Citadel. After the wild, creative (and expensive) joy-ride of the Robin Phillips years, it was a time for retrenchment – which meant that McIntosh’s first challenge was to tame the unruly budget.

McIntosh squeezed his budgets and managed some opulent, but mostly inert, musicals. He kept up a steady flow of classics. In 1995, he offered a very young Stewart Lemoine a stage for The River Princess and the Frozen Town. Local playwright Raymond Storey saw the world premiere of his South of China in 1997.

(It was the first premiere of a Canadian play at the Citadel in 17 years.) Director Jim Guedo electrified audiences with his brilliant production of Angels in America: Part II. But they were islands in a Sargasso sea of mediocrity.

There was a sense of waiting for something to happen. Audiences were drifting away. Subscriptions were down to 6,500.

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During those years, in faraway Toronto, a theatrical comet was flashing through the sky.

Director and ex-Stratford actor, Edmontonian Bob Baker had taken over Toronto’s biggest theatre – the faltering Canadian Stage Company. It was carrying a $2.7 million debt and audiences were fleeing. With fiscal restraint and artistic integrity, Baker slowly turned the behemoth around. Audiences returned with attendance numbers leap-frogging. The debt was retired. Baker piloted the theatre for eight exhausting years. He then retired to his home in St. Mary’s, Ontario to put himself back together.

One day, the phone rang. It was Joe Shoctor on the other end. In his usual brusque manner, Joe asked, “I hear you’re looking for work...”

Before all that, back in 1983, we found ourselves (along with a CBC television crew) doing a “Michael Jackson” on the roof of the Kelly Ramsey building in downtown Edmonton. We were, literally, howling at the moon. It was a werewolf , 2000 party – a fundraiser for the new Phoenix Downtown. Under Bob Baker, the Cabaret Phoenix Theatre with its season of out-there, edgy, zany plays made for great television (unlike the Citadel fundraiser that was going on that same night up the street).

Baker, with his seeming ability not to need sleep and driving creative force, had taken over the moribund Theatre Three and was pursuing a mandate of producing controversial, social-issue plays aimed at young, urban audiences. The productions were strikingly theatrical and hugely entertaining. Tom Wood was Sister Mary Ignatius. There was a production, at once focused and anarchic, of Torch Song Trilogy. B-Movie: The Play remains to this day one of the funniest evenings I have ever spent in a theatre.

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And then after five years, Baker looked at his options running a small theatre in Edmonton and decided it was time to look for a bigger canvas. After a period of freelancing and developing an impressive career as a director-for-hire – came the subsequent success of Canadian Stage leading to the fateful phone call from Joe. The expectations Baker faced when he arrived at the Citadel were huge. The staff had to get used to his intense style of leadership. It took a bit of patience to accommodate a boss who would phone at all hours of the night.

Baker’s faithful followers in his Phoenix days didn’t really continue their interest in theatre after Bob decamped so there was that group to be reactivated. Baker wanted to bring the intimacy, the funk and the hands-on feel of a small company to a huge world-class production machine.

Baker rang that bell when he reopened the Rice Theatre with Ben Elton’s stark, bloody Popcorn on October 23, 1999. “Bob’s Back!” sang his long-time supporters. Upstairs on the main stage, he opened with Steve Martin’s gentle, funny Picasso at the Lapin Agile. That production featured mostly local actors establishing that Baker’s Citadel was serious about supporting local talent. That year Tom Wood directed a superb A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the Rice, Baker’s production of The Little Shop of Horrors looked like it would run forever. In 2000, the Baker/Wood team launched their perennial Christmas card to Edmonton, A Christmas Carol. Baker gave us Art and John Ullyatt plumbed decadent depths as the M.C. in Cabaret.

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Director Wood demonstrated that The Sound of Music was more than just Austrian treacle and Baker renewed his alternative theatre credentials with an abrasive, The Shape of Things. In the 2004/2005 season, Baker began a series of classic American plays with his pungent, southern fried Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and then hit us with a strikingly original production of West Side Story. Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will began a life that has taken it to many stages since Geoffrey Brumlik’s 2005 Rice theatre production.

Not everything worked. Steven Sondheim’s Into the Woods proved too dark for a Christmas Show and Measure for Measure and Sister Ignatius failed to find an audience. But there ry, 2005 West Side Sto was no doubt that artistic excellence and audience numbers were substantially up. And a new decade was approaching when new audiences would continue to turn up, new artistic horizons would be searched, and a financial problem proved to be the catalyst for a whole new direction for the Citadel.

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And so, as playwrights are wont to do, he wrote a play. Referring to the words on the sign, he called it Other Desert Cities. It proved to be a major hit both On and Off Broadway. It was in line for a Pulitzer Prize only to lose it to that other choice human comedy/drama Clybourne Park (Citadel production: January 2014). Other Desert Cities will begin at the Citadel on April 9th, directed by Canadian theatre legend Brenda Bazinet.

The Hollywood Reporter (echoing all sorts of similar reviews) called the play “smart and entertaining” and “the balance between comedy and intense family drama has been fine tuned in richly satisfying ways.” Baitz’s dramatic palette includes shades of guilt, blame, family dysfunction, hilarious comedy (and a satisfying twist at the end).

The play is also a milestone in the life of Baitz, demonstrating how it is possible to rise from a devastating creative experience and, using the pain as a source of inspiration, find a kind of redemption. The year is 2004. It is Christmas in Palm Springs and the Wyeths are planning a homecoming. The family has long been split apart. The wealthy, aging mother and father are long-time rock-ribbed Republican socialites who are given to dropping the name of their friends “Ronnie and Nancy” and are fervent supporters of the policies of Dick Chaney and George W. Bush. Dad is an ex-actor – their controlling, waspish mother has never quite come to grips with her Jewish background. Their young son, Trip, is the producer of a tawdry reality television program. Their 40’ish daughter, Brooke, is a liberal,

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And then there’s Aunt Silda. She’s a recovering alcoholic leftie who runs a deadpan bangon commentary on what she sees around her.

So I tried to write a family drama about a divided “ American family and what being American means. ” You can certainly see the seeds of spirited discussion in that motley group. Said Baitz, “As someone in the play says ‘I think of other cities thousands of miles away in the desert.’ About that time there was a division politically in which the neo-cons very quickly supplanted the older voices in the GOP and a lot of people I knew were taken in by the ‘more’ conservatives. The party had become something quite different. We had reached a point where a dialogue was no longer possible in terms of left and right in the country. So I tried to write a family drama about a divided American family and what being American means. At the time I was trying to make sense of myself as a writer and any potential

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I had all these notions about politics, and children “ who have divergent views from their parents, and it came out as a template for the play. ” In Other Desert Cities, all the characters have very clear ideas of what they are – and they are all wrong. Brooke presents her book to the family and comes to realize that there are layers to the disparate clan that she knows nothing about. Other Desert Cities, says the author, “speaks to the absolute unknowableness of things. When I was younger I wasn’t very interested in what older people had to say but now I’m in my ‘50’s, I’ve become so much like my father. So Brooke got a lot of things wrong in her book and she has to deal

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with that. They are living a lie – just not the one they thought they were living. It’s a play, in some ways, about humility.”

Baitz and his personal odyssey are so woven into his play that it is impossible to separate the two. The son of a world-travelling businessman father, as a boy he lived in Brazil and South Africa – both military dictatorships. He was also gay. It gave him a life-long feeling of being “other” – someone outside society who gazed into it from afar. “I think what had happened was that I felt so foreign so often that I become very adept at observing. I learned a kind of shorthand. Because you’re a foreigner, an alien really, you have to decode all the customs and manners – not just the language. You start a little dialogue with yourself about what things mean and then suddenly you’re 20-something-years-old and you’re continuing that dialogue on paper.” Baitz’s plays are set in the emotional, and often the physical landscape, of the expatriate.

He has also spent a lifetime coming to an understanding of his Jewish background. “I learned early on that being Jewish was always to have a real burden. Growing up you always felt that you were one of the luckiest of the lucky. To be an American Jew carried with it the responsibility to make yourself, and the world, a lot better. If you feel that you are not morally obligated to provide anything for yourself other than the best life you can – that makes life much easier. But if you’re gummed up with this sense of responsibility – then

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...you’re (in trouble).” Yet, the writer maintains a sense of his country. He told the Huffington Post, “I think I am slightly sentimental about what is great in this country and that brings ultimately a real need to connect.” It also carries with it an accompanying mordant humour, fatalism – even outrage.”

Another pillar of the edifice that grew into Other Desert Cities was Baitz’s experience with commercial television. In 2006 he created a series called, Brothers and Sisters. It starred Tom Skeritt, Calista Flockheart and Balthazar Getty. Like his current play, it was the story of a strong mother and her children – a dark-hued tale driven by the political dialogue his country was undergoing at the time. The network wanted something more playful – with less angst. He walked away from his own show and the network went on to produce four more years of their shinier series. Baitz retired to the East Coast to lick his wounds. Slowly, he came back and started to write the play that became Other Desert Cities. “The experience with television... while incredibly painful and incredibly expensive, in both the literal and emotional sense, saved me. It was the right thing to do. The first part of my life was spent in great confusion. By the time I reached the age of 40 that confusion had turned into misery.

And since then I have tried very, very hard to find reason, connectivity in art, in literature, in love, in nature – and so connect.”

And it’s all there in Jon Robin Baitz’s funny, lyrical and evocative Other Desert Cities. The play tells us that at times it may seem we are at an impasse with our political deadlocks, broken families and even things we know for sure – but often things are not always what we think they are.

Other Desert Cities begins in the Shoctor Theatre of the Citadel on April 9 and runs through May 1.

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Matt Alden

Lion

Matt Alden is an Edmonton-based actor, writer and improvisor.

He has written and starred in the hit Canadian television shows Caution: May Contain Nuts, Delmer and Marta and Tiny Plastic Men (nominated for numerous Canadian Screen Awards). Matt is also a member of Die Nasty and Rapid Fire Theatre and has performed improv around the world, including in London, L.A. and even Edson! Watch for his Sterling nominated play Real Time which will be doing an Alberta tour in April, as well as Off Book: The Improvised Musical at this year’s Fringe Festival.

Nadien Chu

Fawn

Originally from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Nadien is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta. She is thrilled to be performing with this wonderful ensemble of artists! Select credits include The Penelopiad, August Osage County (Citadel); Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (ATP); Space// Space, Cleopatra’s Sister, Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide, and Cherish (NLT); Ladies Who Lynch (Workshop West); Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Othello, Titus Andronicus (Sterling Award), Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); The Ugly One, The Crackwalker, Mourning Dove, Kill Your Television, Pig Girl (Sterling nomination), and Palace of the End (Sterling nomination, Theatre Network); as well as Cuckoos (Edmonton Fringe Festival, Sterling nomination). Special thanks to Jillian Keiley and Christine Brubaker.

Nathan Cuckow

Hatta

Nathan is an Edmonton-based actor, producer, and writer. He is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and worked for Tony Randall’s Broadway National Actors Theatre as an administrative assistant on the productions The Gin Game and The Sunshine Boys. As a performer, he was last seen in the Freewill Shakespeare Festival’s productions of Coriolanus and As You Like It. Nathan is the proud recipient of a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theatre, and a Sterling Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. He is thrilled to be making his debut at the Citadel Theatre, working on such a fun project with an exceptionally talented artistic team. Special thanks to Jillian and Christine for this exhilarating opportunity!

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Sheldon Elter

White Knight

Sheldon’s previous Citadel credits include performances in Evangeline, One Man, Two Guvnors, A Prairie Boy’s Winter and Vimy. Other selected theatre credits include Bears (Pyretic Productions); Tartuffe, Sound of Music, Enron (National Arts Centre); Nevermore (Catalyst Theatre); and Metis Mutt (One Little Indian Productions, two Sterling Awards). Television credits include Delmer and Marta, Caution: May Contain Nuts, Hank Williams First Nation (APTN); and Hell on Wheels (AMC). Sheldon was a Top 14 finalist on Canadian Idol in 2006. He is also a core member of the ukulele rock band sensation The Be Arthurs.

Jesse Gervais

Tweedledum

Jesse Gervais is an award-winning Edmonton based actor, dancer, street performer and voiceover artist. Previous Citadel credits include One Man, Two Guvnors, Measure for Measure and A Christmas Carol. Some favourite credits include 6.0 How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won (NLT); Pig (Cowgirl Productions); Buddy (Theatre Network); and Nami Namersson: The Viking Who Liked to Name Things (Concrete Theatre). He appears as Jesse in Tiny Plastic Men on Super Channel and is a regular cast member of the weekly improvised soap opera Die Nasty. Jesse has been a multiple nominee and the recipient of three Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Independent Production. Jesse has a BFA from the University of Alberta.

Beth Graham

White Queen

Beth’s Citadel credits include A Christmas Carol, The Penelopiad, Death of a Salesman, The Drowning Girls, Penelope Vs. The Aliens and The Paper Bag Princess. Other selected theatre credits include Gidion’s Knot (Edmonton Fringe); Nevermore, Hunchback and The Blue Orphan (Catalyst Theatre); Cause and Effect (Teatro La Quindicina); and The Wizard of Oz (Globe Theatre). Beth is also a playwright. Her play, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble, was a finalist for the 2015 Governor General’s Award and will be produced again at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon. She has co-written several other plays including The Drowning Girls and Mules, Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA acting program and the 2013 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

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Kristi Hansen

Sheep in a Shop

Kristi Hansen is a theatre artist working in the mediums of acting, producing, directing, writing, and creation. Some of Kristi’s credits as an actor include Christina/Philippe (Northern Light Theatre); Passion Play (Wild Side Productions); The Jazz Mother, Pith, The Scent of Compulsion, and The Ambassador’s Wives (Teatro la Quindicina); The Sound of Music (National Arts Centre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet (Freewill Players); Little Elephants (Shadow Theatre); Apocalypse Prairie (Azimuth Theatre); Grace et Gloria (l’Unithéâtre); Dying City (Sterling Award, Trunk Theatre); Monstrosities, Age of Arousal, HROSES: An Affront to Reason, Folie à Deux, and Hunger Striking (The Maggie Tree). Kristi is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Maggie Tree, the Co-Artistic Producer of Azimuth Theatre, and an Ensemble Member of Teatro la Quindicina.

Ellie Heath

Alice

Ellie is an actress and playwright very proudly based out of Edmonton. As a child, she was known to create elaborate dramas involving her Barbie dolls and practice her Oscar speech in the bathroom mirror. Since then, she has sought training in the storytelling profession. After graduation from MacEwan’s Theatre Arts Program, she began working in productions across Canada.

Favourite credits include The Frog Prince (Alberta Opera); Strike!

The Musical (Workshop West); Queen Lear (Shadow Theatre); and a workshop production of Vigilante (Catalyst). Ellie last appeared at the Citadel in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a part of the 2012 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. She is thrilled to be back in this great theatre with so many local artists that she admires! Most of all, Ellie is excited to be a kid again!

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Richard Lee Hsi

Unicorn

Richard is an Alberta-based performer/creator. In addition to a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta, he has trained in contemporary dance across North America and Europe. Recent acting credits include Games (Alberta Theatre Projects); The Contract (Azimuth/Nancy McAlear); Cowboy versus Samurai (Chromatic Theatre); Proud (Theatre No. 6); and Murderers Confess at Christmastime (Roxy Performance Series). He has also danced in works for Mayday Danse, The Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance, and the Brian Webb Dance Company, among others. Choreography and creations include presentations by Mile Zero Dance, The Good Women Dance Collective, and Concrete Theatre. His most recent work, The Antyssey, a musical for young audiences co-written with Joel Crichton, received Sterling Awards for both Outstanding TYA Production and Achievement in TYA–Playwriting.

Andrew MacDonald-Smith White King

Andrew’s previous Citadel credits include Avenue Q, A Christmas Carol, One Man, Two Guvnors (Sterling Award), Mary Poppins (Sterling Award & Betty Mitchell Award) and The Pillowman.

Selected roles include Avenue Q on Broadway (The Golden Theatre); Hey Countess!, Whiplash Weekend, Pith!, The Infinite Shiver (co-writer), Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s (co-writer) and Witness to a Conga (Teatro la Quindicina); The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S. Pinafore (Edmonton Opera); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Wizard of Oz (Mayfield); The Liars and The Best Brothers (Shadow Theatre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Calgary); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Vertigo Theatre); and Avenue Q (Jessie Award, The Arts Club). Later this year Andrew will be appearing in Cocktails at Pam’s by Stewart Lemoine at the brand new Varscona Theatre.

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Jan Alexandra Smith

Red Queen

Jan’s last performance at the Citadel was as Johannah Donnelley in Catalyst Theatre’s rock opera, Vigilante. She is very pleased to be reprising the role of the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking-Glass, having played her manic majesty last summer at the Charlottetown Festival on Prince Edward Island. She shall return there this summer to join the ladies of Avonlea in Anne of Green Gables - The Musical™ and to play Tanya in Mamma Mia! Her career includes award-nominated performance and direction in theatres across Canada. She is very happy to be spending time in Edmonton once again, where she trained at the University of Alberta BFA Acting program and began her career thirty years ago.

Farren Timoteo

Haigha

Farren’s Citadel credits include performing in Make Mine Love and Monty Python’s Spamalot, the latter for which he won a Sterling Award. Other acting credits include As you Like it and Coriolanus (Freewill Shakespeare); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Western Canada Theatre); Waiting for Godot (Wishbone Theatre); Marvelous Pilgrims, The Scent of Compulsion, and A Momentary Lapse (Teatro la Quindicina); and Little Shop of Horrors (Mayfield Theatre). Farren is also the Artistic Director of Alberta Opera and was included in Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2015. Farren resides here in Edmonton with his wife, Patricia Zentilli, and their incredible five year-old son, Leonardo.

You can catch him next in Theatre Calgary’s production of The Light in the Piazza, and performing his one-man show, Made in Italy, at Western Canada Theatre.

John Ullyatt

Humpty

Last season, John appeared in One Man, Two Guvnors. He has appeared in memorable Citadel productions such as Monty Python’s Spamalot, Private Lives, Death of a Salesman, The Rocky Horror Show, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Cabaret, I Am My Own Wife, and The Mystery of Irma Vep. Earlier this year he was in Funny Girl at the Segal Centre and Burning Bluebeard with Edmonton Actor’s Theatre. Later this year, John will be at the Belfry Theatre in Puttin’ on the Ritz. John is a founding member of Firefly Theatre – Edmonton’s circus theatre, with whom he created and performed in Craniatrium, Duck Duck Bang and Primordial Blues. He is also a notable street artist whose works include The Human Fountain which has been all across Canada, Ireland and Japan.

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Scott Walters

Tweedledee & Red Knight Originally from Edmonton, Scott has been performing across Canada and the USA for fifteen years as a performer, musician and comedian. Happy to call Canada his home wherever he resides, his recent credits include Tommy Donnelly in Vigilante (Catalyst/Citadel); Bert in Mary Poppins (Arts Club Theatre); Ash in Evil Dead: The Musical (DSRP); and Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde: The Musical (Theatre Under The Stars). Other favourites include Corny Collins at the Mayfield Theatre’s production of Hairspray; Khashoggi & Pop in Mirvish’s We Will Rock You in Toronto; and Kenickie in Grease here at the Citadel Theatre. So grateful for all the continued love and support of his family, friends and his Candy Kitty, Sara!

Patricia Zentilli

Gnat

Recent Theatre credits include Cathy in The Last Five Years and Sarah in The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Sterling Nomination, Theatre Network). Other theatre credits include Closer Than Ever (WCT/TIP); Mabel in Mack and Mabel (Plain Jane Theatre); Izzy in Rabbit Hole (Neptune Theatre); Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Dora nomination, Canadian Stage); Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sterling nomination, WCT/Mayfield); and Cathy in The Last Five Years (MTC). Film and television credits include two seasons of The Jane Show (Global); Rick Mercer Report, Dan for Mayor, This is Wonderland (CBC); and many more. This year you can see Patricia as Lisa on APTN’s new comedy Delmer and Marta. Patricia is married to Farren Timoteo and can’t wait to share this show with their five-year-old son, Leo.

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Jillian Keiley

Original Director

Jillian Keiley is Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre and founder of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland.

Ms. Keiley has directed and taught across Canada as well as internationally. She received her BFA in Theatre from York University and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Memorial University. She was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize for Directing in 2004, as well as a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts’ John Hirsch Prize. Ms. Keiley assumed her role as NAC English Theatre Artistic Director in August, 2012. Her recent productions include The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Artistic Fraud); The Diary of Anne Frank (Stratford Festival); and Twelfth Night as imagined by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (NAC). Upcoming: As You Like It for the Stratford Festival.

Christine Brubaker Revival Director

The Citadel’s production of Alice marks Christine’s third as Revival Director on this beautiful show. She recently directed the world premiere of Elle at Theatre Passe Muraille and this spring will be the Associate Director on As You Like It at Stratford.

Based in Toronto, Christine is a co-creator/performer on 7th Cousins, a play based on a 700km walk through Pennsylvania.

She is the Resident Director for the puppet company Eldritch Theatre. As an actor, she’s worked across the country, performing last at the Citadel with The Danish Play. She is a grad of the National Theatre School, holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, is the winner of two Dora Awards for Performance, and the 2014 Gina Wilkinson Prize. She is a regular acting instructor at Sheridan College.

Bretta GereCke Set & Costume Designer

Bretta loves working at the Citadel and is very happy to be bringing Alice to Edmonton! She is the resident designer at Catalyst Theatre and a Set, Lighting and Costume Designer for theatre, musicals, circus and opera. She is the recipient of over twenty-five awards including The Enbridge Award for Best Emerging Artist, The Global Women of Vision Award, Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40, and has been short-listed three times for the Siminovitch Prize. She represented Canada in Prague at the Scenography Quadrennial and her costume designs will be exhibited in Moscow and Beijing this year. She lives with her husband Nick, in London, and has a beautiful step-son and god-daughter.

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Kimberly Purtell Lighting Designer

Most recently, Kimberly designed set and lights for The Gay Heritage Project (Citadel/Buddies in Bad Times). Other select credits include Proud (GCTC); Waiting for Godot (Stratford Festival); Race (Canadian Stage); Entertaining Mr. Sloane and La Ronde (Soulpepper); Falsettos (Acting Up Stage); The Normal Heart (Studio 180); Svadba (Philadelphia Opera); Loveloss (Dancemakers); and the set and lighting for Crash (Theatre Passe Muraille). She is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award and three Dora Awards for lighting design.

John Gzowski

Sound Designer

Composer, sound designer, musician, occasional foley artist and instrument-maker John Gzowski has played banjo for opera in Banff, studied Carnatic classical music in India and played oud and guitar in jazz and folk festivals across Canada and Europe.

His theatre work in approximately 200 productions has won him six Dora Mavor Moore Awards for companies like Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Luminato Festival, Mirvish Productions, National Arts Centre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Arts Club Theatre Company, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Dancemakers, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre and Young People’s Theatre.

Gzowski has played on numerous albums, with recent releases with Patricia O’Callghan, Tasa, and Autorickshaw as well as a Juno Award nomination with Maza Meze.

Jonathan Monro

Composer & Original Music Director A Newfoundland born performer, music director, and writer, Jonathan Monro has been featured in over seventy productions for TV, film, and stage. As a composer, Jonathan was the recipient of BMI New York’s Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in songwriting. He has written over twenty incidental scores for plays since Equus at the Citadel in 2006.

Most recently, Anne Frank (Stratford) and Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford/NAC - both directed by Jillian Keiley); as well as six original musicals, including No Matter What (for Lady Cove Women’s Chorus), and A History of Summer (with book and lyrics by Adam Mathias). He is currently working with eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken as Musical Director and cast album producer on his new musical, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

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Kathleen Allan

Music Director/Assistant to the Composer Conductor, composer and soprano Kathleen Allan is rapidly becoming internationally respected for her performances and compositions. She has recently been appointed as the Director of Choral Studies and Associate Conductor of Orchestras at the Vancouver Academy of Music and in 2015, she made her Asian debut conducting Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Japan. She is the founding Co-Artistic Director of Arkora, a new chamber music collective dedicated to interdisciplinary performance. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by ensembles throughout the Americas and Europe. She is the recipient of the Ernest MacMillan Prize in Choral Conducting and is the 2016 Conducting Apprentice of the National Youth Choir of Canada.

She holds a master’s degree in conducting from Yale University and a degree in composition from UBC.

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Dayna Tekatch

Choreographer

Dayna’s previous Citadel credits include Avenue Q (Director), Evangeline, The Penelopiad and The Drowsy Chaperone (Sterling Award for Outstanding Choreography). Choreographic credits include Funny Girl and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Segal Centre); Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford/ NAC/Charlottetown, MTC); Wizard of Oz (Globe); Buddy and The Rocky Horror Show (Aquarius); and The Drowsy Chaperone (Vancouver Playhouse/NAC/1000 Islands). Directorial credits include Oliver! (NAC); The 39 Steps (Neptune/Stage West/1000 Islands); Driving Miss Daisy and Tuesdays with Morrie (Starbright); as well as Same Time Next Year and Midlife (Orillia Opera House).

Dayna spent nine seasons at the Stratford Festival as an actor and choreographer, as well as six seasons at the NAC as an actor, director, and choreographer. She lives in Toronto with her inspirations, son Liam and husband Sean C. Robertson.

Matthew MacInnis

Stage Manager

Matthew is thrilled to be back at the Citadel, having last worked here on Evangeline. He has been the Production Stage Manager at the Charlottetown Festival in Prince Edward Island for the past 3 years. His Charlottetown Festival credits include Anne of Green Gables - The Musical™ (5 seasons); The Full Monty, Ring of Fire, Canada Rocks!, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, and Evangeline.

Originally from Nova Scotia, Matthew attended Sheridan College for Technical Theatre. He has worked at theatres across Canada, including The Stratford Festival (2 seasons), Neptune Theatre (6 seasons), Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Aquarius, The Grand Theatre and Festival Antigonish. Enjoy the show!

Al Gadowsky

Assistant Stage Manager

Previously at the Citadel, Al was the Apprentice Stage Manager for Avenue Q, Venus in Fur, Monty Python’s Spamalot and Make Mine Love. Other stage and assistant stage management credits include The Merry Widow (Edmonton Opera); Working It Out (Alberta Workers Health Centre); The Falstaff Project (Thou Art Here Theatre); Midsummer: A Play with Songs (Broken Toys Productions); Murielle (Blarney/Promise Productions); A Bronte Burlesque and The Hollywoodland Burlesques (Send in the Girls Burlesque); as well as Gidion’s Knot, 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.

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Erin Valentine

Apprentice Stage Manager

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Erin Valentine holds her BFA in Stage Management from the University of Alberta. Earlier this season, she joined the Citadel as Apprentice Stage Manager for BOOM. Additional credits include Production Assistant for The Last Five Years (Theatre Network); stage management for Afterimage (Citadel Young Company); Category E (Maggie Tree); The Contract (MadFandango Theatre Collective); Proud (theatre no. 6); Three Sisters (Broken Toys Theatre); and apprentice stage manager for Eugene Onegin (Edmonton Opera). Thanks to Al, Matt, and the whole Alice and Citadel team for a fantastic experience.

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STAFF FOR THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR....................................... ANTONI CIMOLINO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR................................... ANITA GAFFNEY Producer............................................................ David Auster Director of Production...................................... John Tiggeloven, Douglas Lemcke,

Simon Marsden Director of New Plays. . ..................................... Bob White Director of Music.............................................. Franklin Brasz Director of Advancement................................. Rachel Smith-Spencer Director of Communications............................ David Prosser Publicity Director.. ............................................. Ann Swerdfager Director of Education.. ...................................... Andrea Gammon Director of Finance........................................... Darryl Huras Director of Human Resources......................... Shelley Stevenson Creative Planning Director............................... Jason Miller Casting Director................................................ Beth Russell Associate Producer.......................................... Bonnie Green Company Manager .......................................... Rosie Driscoll Assistant to the Producer................................ Susan Lemenchick Production Administrator................................. Cheryl Bender Music Administrator ........................................ Marilyn Dallman The scenery, props, special effects, costumes and wigs for this production were fabricated by the artisans of the Stratford Festival, including:

Technical Director............................................. Elissa Horscroft Associate Designer........................................... Jennifer Goodman Technical Director, Scenic Construction........ Andrew Mestern Wardrobe Manager........................................... Anne Moore Design Coordinator.. ......................................... Alix Dolgoy Scene Shop Manager....................................... Robbin Cheesman Head of Properties .......................................... Dona Hrabluk Lead Builder...................................................... Ken Dubblestyne Head Scenic Artist............................................ Christopher Klein Assistant Head Scenic Artist........................... Daniel McManus Head Carpenter.. ............................................... Neil R. Cheney, Ryan Flanagan Head of Automation......................................... Ian Phillips Head of Wardrobe............................................ Bradley Dalcourt Assistant Head of Wardrobe. . .......................... Elizabeth Copeman Head of Wigs and Makeup.............................. Gerald Altenburg Stratford Festival scenic carpenters and wigs and make-up attendants are members of Local 357 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and scenic artists are members of IATSE Local 828.

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staff Conni Massing Director, Citadel/Banff Matt Schuurman Centre Professional Liana Shannon Theatre Program Jennifer Spencer Brian Dooley Eileen Sproule Director, Play Development Mark Vetsch Doug Mertz FTS Teaching Assistants Director, Education & Outreach Sophie Gareau-Brennan Don Horsburgh Neil Kuefler Resident Music Director Josh Languedoc Wayne Paquette Jackson Longworth Academy Associate Eric Smith Diana Stevenson James MacDonald

Manager, Foote Theatre School

Patrick Lundeen

Education Outreach Associate

Young Company Instructors Arielle Ballance Amber Borotsik Shannon Boyle Dave Horak Don Horsburgh Heather Inglis Doug Mertz Erik Mortimer Wayne Paquette John Raymond Leigh Rivenbark Kate Ryan Kim Mattice-Wanat FTS Instructors April Banigan Mhairi Berg Adam Blocka Ashley Butler Tracy Carroll Ellen Chorley Quinn Contini Matt Graham Julia Grochowski Crystal Hanson Todd Houseman Brady Hughes Sally Hunt Binaifer Kapadia Annette Loiselle Joey Lucius Patrick Lundeen Barb Mah

Theresa Hovdestad House Manager

John Markey

Rentals Manager

Laurel Carter

Asst. Rentals Manager

Shirley Tran

School Booking Coordinator

Guest Services Supervisors Cody Carver Victoria deJong Jessica Glover Jennifer Graham ADMINISTRATION Mark Harding Marianne Bouthillier Jacob Liska Associate Executive Director Jim Maher Peni Christopher Brittany Molner Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Virginia Potkins Company Manager Guest Services FACILITY Representatives Louis Barron Rebekah Andrews Director Sam Banigan Melissa Budinski Maintenance Colleen Bunyan Joe Bailey Michaela Chiste Bill Daniels Carol Dreger Janitorial Caitlin Hart Bee Clean Services Josephine Hendrick Security Carly Neis Jules Pepin Alberta Crowd Management Chris Powell Mark Sinongco Building Porter Valerie Smart William Cardle Dustyn Tennessen Tara Gale Michael Vetsch FINANCE Kali Weber Pat Bradley Director of Finance

Bettyanna Huggins

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Accounting Assistant

Ken Davis

Payroll Accountant

Brent Felzien

Crystal Johnston

GUEST SERVICES

Director, Marketing & Communications Video Editor/Designer

Kimberlee Stadelmann Kristen Finlay Director/ Sales and Guest Services

Josh Wickard

Sarah Farnsworth

Neil LeGrandeur

Assistant Patron Services Manager

Administrator, Marketing & Fund Development

Debbie Theuss

Manager, Corporate Relations

Fund DEVELOPMENT Neil Luipasco

Graphic Designer

Angie Sotiropoulos Props

Marc Anderson

Head of Stage Carpentry

Gryphen Colling

Assistant Head of Stage Carpentry

Dan Beggs

Stage Carpenter

Director, Fund Development

Perry Harris

Manager, Fund Development

Richard ‘Buck’ Stevens

Sydney Stuart

PRODUCTION

Cheryl L. Hoover

Stage Carpenter Stage Carpenter

Patsy Thomas

Head of Wardrobe

Director of Production

Kayla Fulton

Technical Director

Judith Darough

Resident Stage Manager

Claude Tanguay

Assistant Technical Director

Genevieve Savard

Assistant Technical Director

Ava Siemens

Bill Heron

Michelle Chan Patrick Fraser

Stephanie Ripley

Assistant Head of Wardrobe Cutter Tailor

Stitcher Stitcher

Kyla Maki

Barb Becker

Owen Hutchinson

Lorraine Price

Administrative Assistant Head of Audio

Nick Rose

Assistant Head of Audio

Fabricator

Head of Wardrobe Running

Anna Davidson

Dresser Head of Scenic Carpentry Sang-Sang Lee Dresser

Peter Locock Chris Hayes

Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry

Kathryn Neuman Dresser

Greg Cardinal

Amy Sanders

Serge Menard

Michelle Warren

Sheila Cleasby

Barb Becker

Meaghan Skerik

Ava Siemens

Denis Pellerin

Samantha J. Rumball

Nicole Deibert

Katie Patton

Amy Sanders

Annie Parkinson

Jim Meers

Tammy Preston

Scenic Carpenter Scenic Carpenter Head of Electrics

Dresser Dresser

Wardrobe Maintenance

Assistant Head of Electrics Wardrobe Maintenance Electrics

Manager, Communications Head of Scenic Paint – Academy/Social Media

Kristen Hiemstra

Patron Services Manager

Mel MacDonald

Scenic Paint

Head of Props Manager, Media Relations Charlotte Hunt & Beyond the Stage Assistant Head of Props

Head of Wigs

Assistant Head of Wigs Wigs Wigs

The Citadel is grateful for the kind generosity of its volunteers listed below. If you want to volunteer with the Citadel, please call Theresa Hovdestad at 780-428-2118 or e-mail volunteers@citadeltheatre.com.

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