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2016/17 season Board of Governors 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

Board of Directors Sheila Witwicky President Catrin Owen Past President Dave Mowat Vice President Jane Halford Treasurer Julie Afanasiff Todd Babiak Jeff Boadway James Casey Lesley Cormack Wendy Dupree Robert Fernandez Neil Gower Dave Hancock Sandra Haskins Richard Kirby Tammy Patterson Micki Ruth Peter Silverstone Micah Slavens

HonoUrary Directors Jack N. Agrios, Jane Batty, 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, Margot Ross-Graham, Barbara Shumsky, Gaurav Singhmar, Larry Staples, 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

daryl cloran | Artistic Director penny ritco | executive Director

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME A play by Simon Stephens Based on the novel by Mark Haddon Sep 17 – Oct 9, 2016 Presented by

BITTERGIRL – THE MUSICAL

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens Nov 26 – Dec 23, 2016

FORTUNE FALLS Book by Jonathan Christenson & Beth Graham Music & Lyrics by Jonathan Christenson Jan 17 – Feb 5, 2017

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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Stage adaptation by Rick Elice Based on the novel by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson Music by Wayne Barker Apr 1 – 23, 2017

SENSE & SENSIBILITY Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the novel by Jane Austen Apr 22 – May 14, 2017

Welcome to A Christmas Carol!

This is the 17th year of our beloved holiday production. As the new guy in town, I have been so delighted to meet countless Edmontonians who consider our production of A Christmas Carol such an important part of their family holiday tradition. One audience member recently told me, “The Christmas season officially starts at our house the day we all go to see A Christmas Carol at the Citadel!” I am very much looking forward to bringing my own young family to see the production this year to start our own holiday tradition.

The past few weeks have been magical around this building. The halls are filled with happy children (and adults!) on their way to rehearsal or a costume fitting. To me, that’s what theatre is all about – the joy of bringing people together, young and old, to create something wondrous. This year’s production is all the more magical because we are welcoming Tom Wood back in the role of Scrooge – a role he originated here seventeen seasons ago!

The longevity of this production is due in great part to the vision of director Bob Baker, Tom Wood’s incredible script adaptation, and the beautifully envisioned designs of Leslie Frankish. It is also manifested through the incredible work of the hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of actors, craftspeople, technicians and stage managers who have lovingly brought this show together every year. I have been watching in awe as the enormous team rebuilds the production for this season. I am so proud to be a part of it all.

Thank you for being a part of the Citadel family and for sharing the holidays with us!

Merry Christmas!

Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director PS - Next up in our season is Fortune Falls, a brand new production by Edmonton’s own Catalyst Theatre, playing in the Maclab Theatre January 17 – February 5. I got a sneak peek at the production last month when it played in Calgary at Alberta Theatre Projects, and it is spectacular – filled with Catalyst’s trademark innovation, haunting music and choreography. This is one you don’t want to miss!

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Capital Power is proud to be the 2016/17 Season Sponsor of the Citadel Theatre. After each performance of A Christmas Carol, cast members will be accepting donations to Edmonton’s Food Bank. Capital Power will match these donations up to $20,000.

Strong communities are powered by strong partnerships.

Happy holidays.

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Thank You ENCORE | Campaign Support VISIONARY Gifts of $1,000,000 and above

MENTOR Gifts of $50,000 - $99,999

Maclab Enterprises

ATB Financial Bryan & Company LLP Capital Power Felesky Flynn LLP The Highbury Foundation Muriel Hole Richard & Erin Kirby Deanna & Peter Kiss Jack & Lorraine McBain Rob & Beth Reynolds Chris & Dale Sheard Susan Wylie & Bruce Hagstrom

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

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

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

INITIATOR 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

J.G. Greenough Lisa & Marshall Sadd

FRIENDS Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999

DREAMER Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999

Guy Bridgeman & Dianne Ross Don & Lorna Kramer Stuart & Sherry Lee Dave & Sandy Mowat Esther & Howard Starkman Joseph & Nancy Thompson

Keith & Valerie Alessi Lorraine Bray & Jim Carter Susan & James Burns Butler Family Foundation

| Annual Support STEWARD Gifts of $10,000+ Marc de La Bruyère & Stacy Schiff Ada Hole Muriel Hole Maggie & John Mitchell Rob & Beth Reynolds

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 The Honourable John & Ruth Agrios David & Jan Bentley L. Neil Gower Q.C. Don & Lorna Kramer Melcor Developments Ltd. Al & Fran Olson

Tom & Corrie Redl Robert Rosen Kayla Shoctor Marshall & Debby Shoctor Paddy Webb Weir Family Fund Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp 1 Anonymous

DIRECTOR Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 The Honourable Darlene Acton Bob Baker & Tom Wood Luis & Alexis Baptista Bruce & Carol Bentley Jim Casey & Gail Verity John & Judith Cosco Grant Dunlop

Allison & Glyn Edwards Wolfgang & Elizabeth Kaminski Leo J. Krysa Family Foundation Sandy & Cecile Mactaggart Jack & Lorraine McBain Arliss Miller Norbert & Patricia Morgenstern David Mundy Esther Ondrack Pekarsky & Co. The Poole Family Sir Francis Price & The Honourable Marguerite Trussler Aroon Sequeira & Ellen Sitler Eira Spaner Moira & Larry Staples Buddy Victor 1 Anonymous a christmas carol 7

Thank You TO OUR DONORS Leon & Vonnie Zupan STAR Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 1 Anonymous

Gordon & Janet Clanachan Douglas & Derrick Denise Assaly LEAD Claybrook Guy Bridgeman & Gifts of $500 - $999 SUPER Patricia Clements Dianne Ross SUBSCRIBER David & Linda Dagny & Graeme Norman & Anne Gifts of $100 - $499 Climenhaga Alston Burgess Ruth Collins-Nakai Bonnie Andriachuk Greg Alcorn David & Marlene Karen Cox Anne Anfindsen Shirley Allder Burnett Kim & Rick Craig Fiona Bamforth Carol & Rae Allen Brian & Barbara Robert Crosbie Tommy Banks Burrows Sandra Anderson & Patrick Crowe Jim & Helen Banks Dale Gibson Frank Calder Jane Batty Martin & Anna Andrea Delbert & Jane Dahl Canadian Western Jillian Dal Bello Bank Barbara Blackley Gail Andrew Chris Danchuk Lesley Cormack Beverley Boren Diana & Laurence Andriashek Jack Dawe Susan Davis Douglas & Mary Bosko Sheila Appavoo Patricia Dawson J. G. Greenough Ronald Cavell James Archibald & Brad & Elaine Doucette Jane Halford Z. & M. Chrzanowski Heidi Christoph Julie-Ann Dron Sandra Haskins Alison Dinwoodie Brad & Lori Armstrong Francis & Muriel Brent & Deborah Hesje Len Dolgoy Dunnigan J.D. Hole Andy & Marianne Elder Diana Bacon Dave Baker Roland Duquette Brenda & John Inglis Michael Gibbins Charlotte & Mark Edmonton Cultural Michele L. Jackson Christopher Head Ballermann Trust Foundation Gail & Andrew Jarema Elizabeth, Rosaline & Ingrid Barlow Liz Edmunds Cynthia Hicks Linda & Siegfried William & Carole Barton Erin & David Edwards Kowand Patsy Ho Maurice & Annette Jacqueline & Martin Marilyn Kristjanson Dan & Jill Hodges Bastide Elton James & Maggie Laing Bill & Jana Holden Cecilia Baxter Carol Engelking Robert & Dawn Lemke Ray & Elaine Hook Walter & Stella Baydala Joan & Jim Fargey Peter & Dorothea Norman & Valerie Earl Beech Gail Faulkner Macdonnell Fund Kneteman Keri Benjamin Heinz Feldberg Linda & Kim Mackenzie Ken & Jennifer Kouri Pierre & Lise Bernard Pat Ferguson Hugh McPhail & Christine Kyriakides Madhu & Sundri Lois Field Yolanda Van Wachem Mary Lister Bhambhani Kristen & Mark Finlay Lisa Miller & James MacDonald Lucille Birkett & Farrel Shadlyn Robert Fleming Sharon Marie & Randy Busby Susan & Ove Minsos Sylvia Flood Tim Mavko Jim & Celestine Ian & Linda McConnan Kathey & Mark Birtles Rose Fowler Sophie & Paul Bishop Jean Fukushima Montgomery Douglas & Claire Marc Bisson G. Douglas Oakley & McConnell Ken & Barbara Galm Elizabeth McAfee Julia Boberg Gordon & Norma Jeffery Gieg Catrin Owen Angie Bogner McIntosh Shirley Gifford The Press Gallery E. Ross Bradley Gordon & Agneta Gaie Goin Henry & Helen Resta McKenzie Anne Brereton Susan Green & Penny Ritco Marie Montgomery Emma Brinson Stewart Roth Sol & Marilyn Rolingher Dave & Sandy Mowat Angela Brown Lilian Green Alan Rose William Mustard Jack Brown Paul Greenwood Arnold & Grace Lewis & Lindsay Linda Brownlee Sheila Gynane Rumbold Nakatsui Kevin & Sarah Judy Hacon Tom & Micki Ruth Fred & Helen Otto Burghardt Lois & Chan Hawkins Naomi Shoctor C. Thomas & John Bylhouwer Tatsuyuki & Doris Judith Peacocke Marianne & Kent Scott Campbell Hayashi Stewart Leslie & Rick Penny James & Joan Carlson Linda Henderson Neil & Merle Taylor E. Fay Plomp Martin Carroll Lorraine Herlein Mike & Michele Aline Pratch Evelyn Carson Nancy Heule Thompson Curtis & Sandra Prosko Elizabeth Cherry Sandra Hobbs Darcy & Audrey Trufyn Richard Remund Sharleen Chevraux Georgette Holyk Lee Ann Tyrrell Michele Sawatzky Brent Christopherson Robert & Laurel David Verbicky Devika Short Teresa Churchill Hudson Dave Wilson & Darlene Sotnikow Harold Chyczij & Rob Hutchinson Wendy Kotow Cathy Flood Elesavata Hymonyk

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Thank You TO OUR DONORS Caroline Hyndman Richard & Laurel Innes Erik & Franziska Jacobsen Chris Jager Ken James Agrell-Smith Paula Jamison Louise Jensen Carolyn Johnson Scott Johnson Douglas Johnson Joan Johnston Venta Kabzems & Stan Houston Brian & Ida Kaliel Jatinder Kalra Jerry & Miriam Katz Dorothy Keeler Janice Kent Anita Kozyrskyj & Kevin Hall Patrick & Jeananne Kirwin Liz Kohle D Jill Konkin Sylvia Kother Allen & Patti Kramer Tim Kruger John & Sylvia Laarhuis Patricia Langan Ruth & George Lauf Kathryn G. & Steven Lavery Don & Gwen Lawrence Allen Lee Sigmund Lee Michele Eickholt & Lee Green Theresa Lema Valda Levin Chris & Cecilie Lord Douglas MacDonald Douglas MacDougall Sean Mac Eoin Mary Machum Dawn MacRitchie Don & Cristina Mah Jo Anne Mahood Linda Maki

Ron Marsh Estelle Marshall Neil & Pamela Martin Anne & Ed McClintock Cathleen McDermott Roxanne McLean Rod McLeod Averie & Carman McNary Linda Medland Davis Bubbles & Evelyn Meer Pamela & Dennis Melnyk Mark Mertens Cecily Mills Bonnie Moon Gordon & Cathy Moorhouse Al Morrow Craig Neuman & Leita Siever Edna & Cal Nichols Roy Nickerson Trudy Nickerson Linda & Thomas O’Leary Wade O’Neill Jennifer Oakes David & Paula Onderwater James & Beverley Orieux Clifford & Connie Otto Christine Outram Kathy Packford Stacey & Chris Padbury Marian Palahniuk Fred & Mary Paranchych Carol Pawlenchuk Donna Pawliw Jan Penn Richard & Catherine Perry Parnel Pierce Irene Ponso Susan & Darrell Portz Jean & Edward Posyniak

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Premier supporters 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 • Maclab Enterprises

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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(In order of appearance) TOM WOOD................................................................. Ebenezer Scrooge GLENN NELSON. . ........................................................ Ebenezer Scrooge JOHN KIRKPATRICK................................................... Jacob Marley ROBERT BENZ.. ........................................................... Reverend Fish DARLA BICCUM.......................................................... Mrs. Dilber JEREMY CRITTENDEN............................................... Mr. Swidger BETH GRAHAM........................................................... Mrs. Cratchit LILLA SOLYMOS......................................................... Tiny Tim JAMIE WILLIAMS. . ....................................................... Bob Cratchit NANCY McALEAR....................................................... Mrs. Blum ANNETTE LOISELLE.. .................................................. Mrs. Denham ROBERT BENZ.. ........................................................... Mr. Rank STEVE ROSS.. .............................................................. Mr. Toll ALEX KELLY................................................................. Caleb Wilmer AARON HURSH........................................................... Fred Nancy McAlear/LILJA Radstaak........................ Ghost of Christmas Past NOAH BAKER.............................................................. Youngest Scrooge KYDEN SEETOO.......................................................... Edwin CARSON LEE............................................................... Toby AMY SAWKA................................................................ Fanny OSCAR DERKX............................................................ Young Scrooge STEVE ROSS.. .............................................................. Mr. Fezziwig NANCY McALEAR....................................................... Mrs. Fezziwig ALEX KELLY................................................................. Will Tetterby LAURA KREWSKI........................................................ Granny Fezziwig JULIA GUY................................................................... Belle STEVE ROSS.. .............................................................. Ghost of Christmas Present DOMINICK STEFANYK KLEINMEYER....................... Ragged Caroler Carsyn SEETOO....................................................... Jenny Cratchit ADAM SKOGSTAD...................................................... Philip Cratchit LAUREN MARUSIN.. .................................................... Martha Cratchit VIRGINIA BRIGGS....................................................... Belinda Cratchit REECE WOYCHESHYN.............................................. Peter Cratchit MERRAN CARR-WIGGIN............................................ Alice JEREMY CRITTENDEN............................................... Mr. Topper JULIA GUY................................................................... Emmeline ALEX KELLY................................................................. George EVAN HALL.................................................................. Joseph ANNETTE LOISELLE.. .................................................. Tilly MAKAYLA SCHWARTZ............................................... Margaret OSCAR DERKX............................................................ Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come NANCY McALEAR....................................................... Laundress JOHN KIRKPATRICK................................................... Old Joe AMY SAWKA................................................................ Nora KEIRA McLEOD........................................................... Caleb’s Daughter ADAM SKOGSTAD...................................................... Turkey Boy ETHAN FORTIN. . .......................................................... Poulterer’s Apprentice TERYN EVANS............................................................. Mr. Denham WALKER LEE............................................................... Trinket Seller CAITLIN ANDERSON. . ................................................. Wealthy Twin BRIDGET Gutteridge-Hingston......................... Wealthy Twin ESMÉ BABIAK.. ............................................................ Spoiled Boy

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om Wood is an accomplished playwright, actor, director and teacher.

He has worked with every major theatre in Canada and a number in the United States. Mr. Wood has spent eight years with the Stratford Festival and six with the Shaw Festival. For the theatre, he has written B-Movie, The play (five Dora Mavor Moore awards and the Chalmers Award for Best New Play), Clap Trap, a farce, produced at Canadian Stage in Toronto and the National Arts Center in Ottawa, and Make Mine Love, a comedy about movie-making in Hollywood, circa 1938 which premiered during the Citadel’s 2014/15 season. He has also adapted this production of A Christmas Carol (in its 17th season), Pride and Prejudice, a new version of Servant of Two Masters (set in the Klondike), a new version of Uncle Vanya (set in Alberta in 1928), and a new version of Peter Pan (set in the prairies during the depression). His production of Vanya debuted in America, starring William Hurt at the Artists Repertory Theatre for an extended run and rave reviews. He has performed at the Citadel as James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (Sterling Award nomination), and John in Shining City (Sterling Award). Some of his directing credits at the Citadel include Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Romeo and Juliet, Doubt: a parable, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, The Sound of Music and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Coming up in April is Mr. Wood’s latest adaptation, the world premiere of Sense and Sensibility.

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Christenson’s Catalyst Theatre began its descent into the netherworld innocently enough.

Christenson was in Fort McMurray directing a production of Disney’s dappled Beauty and the Beast when he was approached by theatre maven Paul Gelineau with the suggestion that the director bring his theatre company to the burgeoning oil town with an original production. Gelineau suggested Mary Shelley’s gothic tale of mortal life after death, Frankenstein, and Christenson’s dark path was set. While researching Shelley’s classic, Christenson came across “a bunch of stuff about Poe” that set him thinking of creating a new show about the haunted American writer. When that one, called Nevermore – The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe, also took off, it lead the company to productions across Canada, The West End and Off-Broadway. (It is currently set to run 75 productions in the next three months.) Christenson thought, “Well, let’s make it a trilogy” and came up with Victor Hugo’s classic tale of Quasimodo, the disfigured bell-ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. That one also became a monster hit and its run at the Citadel played to something over 90% capacity.

In the beginning, back in 1996 Christenson saw Catalyst as a local company that would use a heightened sense of theatre to tell its stories. “Over the years,” he muses, “it became clear to me that what is at the heart of (our theatre’s) distinctive style is that we work in the psychological realm. It’s not really meant to capture real world experiences – it’s about

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what we experience inside. All landscapes for me are psychological dreamscapes. We move through time and place and our characters exist in a very fluid space. I have a real interest in characters who live in extreme states.”

Christenson’s plays and musicals have tended to the whimsically serious but that doesn’t mean they are not often quite droll in their production. “There’s often a fine line between comedy and tragedy,” he observes. “It’s like in our most grief-stricken state we know how close we are to laughter. There’s a certain kind of absurdity to what you’re going through and both are a kind of cathartic release.”

Pursuing his dream of moving outward from his Edmonton base, Christenson took his production of Fringe favourite Elephant Wake to the fabled Edinburgh Festival. “It’s a festival where presenters come from all over the world to look for new prospects.” Elephant Wake proved to be a winner and opened up all sorts of possibilities in the U.K. “We did that with our next three shows and all three got picked up. So our reputation grew and slowly the theatres got bigger and bigger.”

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They sure did. The company played the fabled Barbican in London and the equally fabled jewel-box Victoria Theatre in New York built in 1902 by Oscar Hammerstein and which provided a home for George Arliss, Tyrone Power and Mary Pickford over the years. Along the way, the company, now with a repertoire of 22 plays, has played to sold-out houses and has been showered with awards and honours. Christenson has been short-listed for the prestigious Siminovitch Prize among many other awards and recognitions.

There is no doubt the producer/director/writer/composer/director is a solo phenomenon but he is the first to spread the credit around. The most integral influence in his productions has been resident designer Bretta Gerecke. As set, lighting and costume designer, she was responsible for the unique look of most of the company’s productions over the years, creating a crazy-quilt of designs that linger in the mind. When budgets are tight she gets downright alchemic – for Frankenstein she tortured paper into fantastic shapes and dressed the entire cast in it. “A startling storybook come to life,” said Liz Nicholls in the Journal.

Christenson was saddened at the beginning of the creative process for the company’s new work, Fortune Falls, when, after the initial planning for the project, Gerecke had to drop out for family reasons.

As with many developing works Christenson had some problems with this one. “I took some of my earlier writing to a workshop but it wasn’t working for me. So I approached Beth Graham.”

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I love collaboration.

“All of my productions are a real dialogue.

My favourite place in the world is the rehearsal hall.

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Beth Graham is a familiar name to Edmonton theatregoers. She’s a terrific actress (the Citadel’s The Penelopiad) and vigorous playwright. She first burst upon the scene right out of the U of A with her play, The Drowning Girls, (written with Daniela Vlaskalic and Charlie Tomlinson) in 1999 at the Fringe. She followed that up with, among others, Comrades, and the Governor General’s Award nominated, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble. She also found time to appear as an actress in such Catalyst plays as Nevermore, Hunchback and The Blue Orphan. Christenson remembers, “We started working together taking it a day at a time to see how it felt. We developed a great working relationship.” Says Graham, “We’d talk. We’d generate a megaton of writing. We’d assemble it. We’d talk some more.

There’s lots of back and forth.”

Christenson observes, “I love collaboration. All of my productions are a real dialogue. My favourite place in the world is the rehearsal hall.” Slowly a familiar, well-practiced team

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began to coalesce around the two writers. “Sound designer Matthew Skopyk was with us from almost the very beginning. We had a voice and text coach and a dramaturge.”

Another long time valued and creative member of the team was choreographer Laura Krewski. Krewski is responsible for the stylized movement that is so much part of Catalyst productions. Turkish Canadian designer Kerem Cetinel put his own creative stamp on set and lighting. “So we had these wonderful, creative people bringing their imagination and creativity to it and so it began to happen really fast. In the last three and a half weeks of rehearsal (for the Calgary opening) we cut 24 people out of the show.”

“I was listening to CBC radio and I heard this documentary on a town called Smith Falls – close to Ottawa. It became the home to the first Hershey’s (Chocolate) plant outside of the United States. The town identified themselves as “the sweetest place in Canada” and things went well for about 40 years. Then Hershey decided to move their plant to Mexico.

What happened to Smith Falls was the loss of a real sense of identity for the residents. They didn’t know who they were anymore. The plant was taken over by a marijuana operation and the sweetest place on earth turned into a glorified grow-op. It struck me that the town has a very Canadian story. We seem to attach such a sense of who we are to the American Dream. Fortune Falls asks the question ‘What are we?’ ‘How do we build our own hopes and experiences?’ I wanted to use this story as a kind of whimsical tale that would profoundly explore the Canadian human experience.”

wanted a slightly more “Icontemporary feel to try and

reflect the experience of the millennial generation so I cast this show quite young.

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Everett Liddleman spent his youth dreaming of a job at the Mercey Chocolate Factory and finally lands employment on the day when everyone is let go. He is grandly declared “the head of security.” What that means is he will be the lone caretaker in the big, gloomy, empty plant. “Once he is inside the plant he immediately moves into an interior landscape and, a little like the title character in Stephen King’s The Shining, he reacts to the characters he encounters. I suppose you might call them ghosts, but many of them are manifestations of himself inviting him to go on a journey.”

Observes Christenson, “I wanted a slightly more contemporary feel to try and reflect the experience of the millennial generation so I cast this show quite young. I wrote the music in a more contemporary pop style which is quite different from anything we have done before. This is something new we are exploring but all of our shows have had that Catalyst approach and this one is definitely built on what has gone before.”

Fortune Falls, a co-production of Catalyst Theatre and Alberta Theatre Projects, begins on January 17, 2017 in the Maclab Theatre.

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BIOS robert benz

Reverend Fish/Mr. Rank This is Robert’s first appearance at the Citadel. Selected Theatre: 10 out of 12, The Realistic Joneses, Passion Play, Shining City, The Pillowman (Wild Side); Scaramouche Jones (Blarney); Romeo & Juliet, Love’s Labours Lost, Coriolanus, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew (Freewill); Equivocation, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, God of Carnage, Gordon Winter, A Christmas Carol (Persephone); Where the Blood Mixes (Network, Aquarius, WCT); Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony & Cleopatra, The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Where the Blood Mixes, Buz’Gem Blues, Wawatay (Saskatchewan Native Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Magnus). Selected television: Corner Gas, renegadepress.com, The Englishman’s Boy, and Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story.

darla biccum Mrs. Dilber

Originally from Saskatchewan, Darla now calls Hamilton home.

Darla is thrilled to return to the prairies to be a part of Citadel’s holiday tradition! Select theatre credits include the World Premiere of Joey Tremblay’s The Alice Nocturne, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, George Dandin, Marg Szkaluba, Pissy’s Wife (Globe Theatre); Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, A Doll’s House and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Persephone). Film and television credits include Vampire Dog, Dolan’s Cadillac, The Listener, Little Mosque on the Prairie, as well as appearing in all six seasons of the CTV hit, Corner Gas, and the multi award-winning web series, inSAYSHAble. This February, Darla will perform in Superior Donuts with Coal Mine Theatre in Toronto. Special thanks to family and friends for all their support and extra love to Sheldon. Happy Holidays! See more at www.darlabiccum.com.

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BIOS MERRAN CARR-WIGGIN Alice

Merran is thrilled to make her Citadel debut with A Christmas Carol.

Previous theatre credits include The Subway Circus and Bonnie & Clyde (Blarney Productions); Everyone We Know Will Be There (Tiny Bear Jaws); The Comedy of Errors (Theatre Calgary); and Othello (The Shakespeare Company). For the Edmonton Fringe, Merran co-produced and starred in Gruesome Playground Injuries (BrainPile). She starred in the hit Sterling-nominated production, Princess Confidential, and the sold out sequel, Princess Confidential: Familiar Melody (Promise Productions). Merran also co-created and performed her production For When She Wakes for the SkirtsAFire Festival. Recent film credits include Love of my Life and Happily Ever After (Paragraph Pictures); Fantasies of Flying (Tribal Alliance); and the award-winning short film, Pumpkin (Be Nothing Productions).

Merran graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program.

JEREMY CRITTENDEN Mr. Swidger/Mr. Topper

A participant in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, Jeremy is proud to be back at the Citadel for his third season in A Christmas Carol. Originally from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Jeremy now lives in Toronto with his dog, Sebastian. Theatre credits include The Three Musketeers and Little Women: The Musical (Citadel); Avenue Q, Altar Boyz, Cabaret and Miss Saigon (Arts Club); Spelling Bee and The Life Inside (Belfry); Mary Poppins (WCT/ Persephone); Anne of Green Gables (Theatre Calgary); Avenue Q and Spamalot (Stage West); Amadeus (Chemainus); and Thank You For Being a Friend (Joseph Patrick). Jeremy has won a Jessie Award, multiple Ovation Awards, and has garnered two Calgary Critics Choice nominations. Special thanks to Bruce, Jonathan, the Talent House team, and Zach for their incredible support. Twitter/Instagram: @jcritty www.jcritty.com

Oscar Derkx Young Scrooge

Oscar is very happy to be returning to the Citadel’s production of A Christmas Carol. Previous acting credits include Encounters (Citadel Theatre); The Hothouse Prince (Teatro La Quindicina); Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); The Suburban Motel Series (Punctuate Theatre); The Antyssey and Under Cover (Concrete Theatre); Never Swim Alone (Blarney Productions); The Violet Hour, Bloody Poetry, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Blood Wedding and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Studio Theatre); Macbeth (Theatre Prospero); as well as Alphonse and The Fantasticks (TNT Theatre). He is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a BFA in Acting. a christmas carol 43

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BIOS TERYN EVANS Mr. Denham

I have always wanted to be an actor since I was a kid. I enjoy it, and I want to hone my skills as an actor as much as I can. I hope to keep on acting professionally in the future; it’s just so much fun! I was a student in the Foote Theatre School’s Young Companies during 2015-16. It was an amazing experience and I learned so much. At the moment I’m just trying to gain more experience and try to build a solid resume so that I can eventually expand my acting into the film industry. Theatre acting is different, of course, because it offers the actor the ability to connect more with the audience. That’s the beauty of theatre.

BETH GRAHAM Mrs. Cratchit

Beth’s Citadel credits include Alice Through the Looking-Glass, The Drowning Girls, A Christmas Carol, The Penelopiad and Death of a Salesman. Other selected theatre credits include Nevermore, Hunchback and The Blue Orphan (Catalyst Theatre); Cocktails At Pam’s and Cause and Effect (Teatro la Quidicina); Gidion’s Knot (Edmonton Fringe); and The Wizard of Oz (Globe Theatre). Beth’s play, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and received the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award. She is a co-writer on Catalyst Theatre’s upcoming production of Fortune Falls with Jonathan Christenson. Beth is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA acting program and the 2013 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

Julia Guy Belle/Emmeline

Julia is honoured to be a part of A Christmas Carol again this year! Originally from Calgary, she is now based both in Vancouver and Alberta. Select credits include Arcadia (Citadel Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Calgary/National Arts Centre); William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead (The Shakespeare Company/Ground Zero/Hit & Myth); Othello and Twelfth Night (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Calgary’s Shakespeare by the Bow); Cymbeline and FuddyMeers (Studio Theatre); and Whisper (Studio Theatre/Catalyst). Julia is looking forward to participating in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program for the second time this spring and is a graduate of the BFA acting program at U of A. a christmas carol 45

BIOS Evan Hall Joseph

Evan is thrilled to be back at the Citadel as part of this fantastic Edmonton tradition. Select credits include Clybourne Park (Citadel); The Hothouse Prince (Teatro la Qunidicina); Fritters in Kandahar (Lunchbox Theatre); The Brink (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); Macbeth and As You Like It (Shakespeare Company); Salt-Water Moon (Whizgiggling Productions); Mary’s Wedding (Capitol Theatre); Othello and Twelfth Night (Freewill Players); This is War (Punctuate Theatre); as well as acclaimed productions, with his partner Merran Carr-Wiggin and their company Brainpile, of Gruesome Playground Injuries and Bonnie & Clyde (with Blarney productions). He is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program. Enjoy!

AARON HURSH Fred

Aaron is very grateful to be a part of this wonderful production once again. Based in Saskatoon, Aaron is an actor, director, producer and technician. Aaron’s previous Alberta credits include A Christmas Carol and Arcadia (Citadel Theatre); and Ash Rizin (ATP/Green Thumb). Other acting credits include Dying City, The December Man, Reasons to Be Pretty, and Lungs (Fire in the Hole Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the SK); Salt-Water Moon (Station Arts Centre); The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Persephone Theatre); The Selkie Wife (Dancing Sky Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Globe Theatre); King Lear (Theatre Naught); and The Pillowman (Wild Geese Equity Co-op, Vancouver). Aaron trained at the University of Saskatchewan and the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

ALEX KELLY Caleb/Will

Born and raised Prince Edward Islander Alex Kelly has performed as Brunette/Lary in Perry Loved Mary (Old Flame); A-Rab in West Side Story, Evangeline (Citadel); We Are Canadian and Abegweit Soul of the Island (Confederation Centre); Tyler/Vince in Brantwood 1920-2020, Usnavi in In The Heights, Hello Dolly!, Rolly in Marathon of Hope, Governor Slaton in Parade, and Judas in Godspell (Theatre Sheridan). Lots of love to the fam jam and the Talent House! Cheers.

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BIOS JOHN KIRKPATRICK Jacob Marley/Old Joe

John’s Citadel credits include A Few Good Men (co-production with Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), As You Like It, Rock ‘n’ Roll (co-production with Canadian Stage Company), Julius Caesar, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Stones in His Pockets, Measure for Measure and Servant of Two Masters. Selected recent acting credits include Macbeth, As You Like It, The Hypochondriac, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Alice Through the Looking-Glass and Christina; The Girl King (Stratford Festival); Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage); King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Hamlet (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); The Leisure Society (Theatre Network); The Gift of the Coat, That Elusive Spark and The Age of Arousal (Alberta Theatre Projects). John has a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta. The very best of the holidays!

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BIOS LAURA KREWSKI

Granny Fezziwig/Dance Captain Laura’s Choreography credits include West Side Story, A Christmas Carol, Spamalot and As You Like It (Citadel Theatre); new musicals Fortune Falls, Vigilante, Hunchback, Nevermore and Frankenstein (Catalyst Theatre); Made in Italy (Western Canadian Theatre); Enron (National Arts Centre); Next To Normal (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary); Chicago and Footloose (The Mayfield); I Think I’m Fallin’, Home is a Beautiful Word and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Belfry Theatre); Rich and Rapa Nui (Manitoba Theatre for Young People). She recently developed a new dance work based on The Yellow Wallpaper presented at The Expanse Festival. Laura is a guest instructor for Canadian College of Performing Arts, Grant MacEwan University and the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

ANNETTE LOISELLE Mrs. Denham/Tilly

Citadel credits include playing Calpurnia in Julius Caesar and directing Shelter, Unity 1918, and Vinegar Tom for Teens at the Turn.

Annette is Festival Director for SkirtsAfire, HerArts Festival. She is also co-founder of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, with whom favourite roles include Beatrice (Sterling nomination), Kate, Portia (Merchant), Hermione, Rosalind, and Queen Elizabeth. She was one of three finalists for the Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award of Excellence in Shakespeare. Favourite past performances include Adult Entertainment/Criminal Genius (Punctuate Theatre); The Mothers (SkirtsAfire); STRIKE! The Musical (Workshop West); The Passion of Mary (Writer & Performer, The Roxy); Rabbit Hole (ATP); The Last Train (Shadow Theatre) and Bloody Poetry (NLT, Sterling nomination).

Annette is a graduate of the U of A’s BFA acting program. Love to Terry, Lili, Josie, Dez and Riles.

NANCY McALEAR Mrs. Blum/Mrs. Fezziwig

Nancy is a Sterling Award-winning actor and has been nominated multiple times for both her acting and directing work. She just completed a season at the Shaw Festival where she directed Hello from Bertha and Talk to Me like the Rain and Let me Listen. While there, she also assisted Molly Smith, Eda Holmes, and Martha Henry.

She was honoured this year to be short-listed for both the Gina Wilkinson Prize as well as the RBC Emerging Director Prize with Crow’s Theatre in Toronto. Later this season, Nancy will be directing the North American premiere of The Believers with her company, MadFandango Theatre Collective. As an actor, Nancy has worked across the country in theatre, film, and television for twenty-five years. a christmas carol 49

BIOS GLENN NELSON Ebenezer Scrooge

Glenn’s Citadel credits include West Side Story, One Man, Two Guvnors, Death of a Salesman, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Equus, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, King Lear, 1984 and To Kill a Mockingbird. Other theatre credits in Edmonton include Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and Comedy of Errors (Freewill Players); Little Elephants, The Odd Couple, Uncle Vanya, Fly Fishers Companion, Sexy Laundry, Harvest and Mistakes Were Made (Shadow Theatre, Sterling nomination); My One and Only (Workshop West); Metastasis (Northern Light Theatre); as well as Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Rumors, The Last Romance, and The Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes (Mayfield Theatre).

STEVE ROSS

Mr. Toll/Mr. Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Present Steve has spent thirteen seasons at The Stratford Festival in productions of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, The Alchemist, Man of La Mancha, Crazy for You, Tommy and Fiddler on the Roof. Other credits include London Road, Indian Ink, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods and Dream (Canadian Stage); Assassins (TIFT/Birdland); Orson’s Shadow (Pilot Group); A New Brain (Acting Up Stage); Shrek and A Christmas Story (The Grand Theatre); One for the Pot and Forum (Drayton); The Producers (Neptune); Seussical and Sylvia (Aquarius); The Three Musketeers (Chicago Shakespeare); Guys and Dolls (MTC/Citadel/ TC); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Citadel); The Foursome and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (New Stages); and Three Sisters (ATF).

Steve trained at the National Theatre School.

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BIOS AMY SAWKA Fanny/Nora

Recent theatre credits include Puss in Boots (Goodger-Pink Productions); Fritters in Kandahar (Lunchbox Theatre); Polonius and His Children, The Meaning of Thomas, The Possible Lives and Castle in the Sky (Sage’s IGNITE Festival); Goldilocks and the Three Polar Bears (Evergreen Theatre); Stick Rag Idols (Red Phone Theatre); The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus (Third Street Theatre); iRobot Theatre (Swallow-A-Bicycle); Karl Nimeni is Not Dead (I Killed Karl Nimeni) (Dancing Monkey Laboratories); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare Company Outreach); Drama: Pilot Episode (Alberta Theatre Projects); and Vicarious Entertainment (WireTap Collective). Amy graduated with honours from York University and holds her BA, specialized in Theatre. Amy would like to thank her amazing family for all their love and support.

LILLA SOLYMOS Tiny Tim

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Lilla is very excited to reprise the role of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol at the Citadel Theatre this year. She is nine years old and loves singing, dancing, acting, and performing. Lilla started acting at Foote Theatre School. She is dancing at Shelley’s Dance Company and singing in the Cantilon Children’s Choir. When Lilla is not on stage or in the dance studio, she is helping her brother make stop motion animation, reading, or playing her ukulele. Her creative energies often materialize as craft creations or song lyrics. Lilla would like to be a world-renowned actress, dancer, or maybe both.

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BIOS JAMIE WILLIAMS Bob Cratchit

It is with great joy Jamie reprises the role of Bob Cratchit, after such a wonderful experience in last year’s A Christmas Carol. He is a two time participant of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, performing the role of Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia, and Friar Laurence in 2014’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Since then, Jamie has performed in Hilda’s Yard (Upper Canada Playhouse) and Real Estate (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). Earlier this year Jamie played John Cummings in Here On The Flightpath, performing opposite his wife, actress Melanie Janzen, for the inaugural season of The Foster Festival. It is a great pleasure to be back at the Citadel and to be involved in this beloved production of A Christmas Carol.

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TOM WOOD

Ebenezer Scrooge Tom was last seen on the Citadel stage in the role of James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Other Citadel credits include: Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, John in Shining City, Martin Dysart in Equus, and Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. For the Citadel he has directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Glass Menagerie, Doubt, The Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Homeward Bound, Metamorphoses and Arcadia. Tom’s writing credits include, ClapTrap, B-Movie and Make Mine Love. He has also adapted for the stage The Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol, Servant of Two Masters, Vanya, Peter Pan and Pride and Prejudice. Later this season, the Citadel will present Sense and Sensibility, the world premiere of Tom’s adaptation of the Jane11:38 Austen Eurasia_Citadel-2016.pdf 1 2016-09-30 AM classic.

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BIOS BOB BAKER Director

Bob Baker served as Artistic Director here at the Citadel for the past 17 years, and now joins us as Artistic Director Emeritus and Director of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. For the past 16 years, Mr. Baker has directed A Christmas Carol and is particularly proud of the amazing Youth Companies he has had the pleasure to work with. He would like to thank the parents for their incredible patience and commitment to supporting their children’s passions. Mr. Baker was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for exceptional service, excellence and community involvement; a University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award; MacEwan University Medal of Excellence; is a member of Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame; is a recipient of a PACE award from Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical Institutes; and was recently chosen as one of the 25 Influential Alberta Artists by the Alberta Foundation of the Arts. Later this season, Mr. Baker will direct the World Premiere of Tom Wood’s new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility featuring the Participants of the 2017 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

WAYNE PAQUETTE Associate Director

For the Citadel, Wayne has directed Blackbird, co-directed The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, and assistant directed The Wizard of Oz, The Glass Menagerie and Doubt: a parable. Wayne is the Artistic Director of Blarney Productions and an Artistic Associate with Shadow Theatre, as well as an associate member of the Academy here at the Citadel Theatre.

Most recently, Wayne directed Full Frontal Diva, MOTE, A Steady Rain, Bonnie & Clyde, Love Letters, A Slow Air, and Dark Vanilla Jungle for Blarney Productions. Much love to Denise.

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BIOS LESLIE FRANKISH Set & Costume Designer

Leslie began her career as a Set & Costume Designer in 1980 for the Citadel Youth Theatre. Returning to the Citadel in recent years designs include Other Desert Cities, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, Private Lives, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver!, The Constant Wife, Measure for Measure, and Present Laughter. Resident designer positions include the Phoenix Theatre and Shaw Festival where her designs included Pygmalion, Misalliance and Heartbreak House. Other credits include Angels in America I & II, Singer, Into the Woods (Canadian Stage Company); Hard Times, Lilies (National Arts Centre); La Bête (Theatre Calgary); A Little Night Music, The Caretaker (Vancouver Playhouse); and The Homecoming (Stratford Festival). Leslie was also the Senior Production Designer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. www.lesliefrankish.com.

ROBERT THOMSON Lighting Designer

Robert Thomson is widely recognized as one of Canada’s most prolific and versatile lighting designers for theatre, opera and dance. Citadel credits include Private Lives, August: Osage County, Wizard of Oz, Macbeth, Oliver! and Peter Pan. He served twelve seasons as Resident Lighting Designer at The National Ballet of Canada, twenty-four seasons at the Shaw Festival and thirteen seasons at the Stratford Festival. He designed for a diverse range of Canadian and International companies, including the NAC, Canadian Stage, RMTC, Globe Theatre, The Belfry Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, and Stuttgart Ballet. His award-winning design for Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung has been seen around the world. His designs have garnered a Sterling Award, four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and the prestigious Siminovitch Prize. He is Associate Professor of Lighting Design for Carnegie Mellon University.

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BIOS MICHAEL BECKER

Sound Designer (1954-2011) Becker loved Christmas, loved the magic of it. All the more fitting that he was asked to be a part of and to create the score for the Citadel’s production of A Christmas Carol. He was ever so thrilled and proud with its return year after year. Becker had a kinship with the theme of A Christmas Carol. He was compelled to help those in need. Every year he gave generously to the Salvation Army, an organization that once gave him food and shelter for a night in his early teens. For 35 years Becker composed music and designed sound for theatre, radio dramas and film. Becker is with us all tonight, a shining star. “Merry Christmas, everyone.”

DON HORSBURGH Music Director

Recently Don has been the Music Director for West Side Story, Evangeline, Avenue Q, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Penelopiad, Next to Normal, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women, Hunchback (Citadel Theatre); The Threepenny Opera (Stratford Festival); Hairspray, White Christmas, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Winnipeg); Guys and Dolls (MTC, Theatre Calgary); Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Once On This Island (Canadian Stage); The Sound of Music and Aspects of Love (North American tours). Don has also provided original music for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Penelopiad, August: Osage County, Pride and Prejudice, Blithe Spirit, and The Constant Wife.

He is the recipient of five Dora Awards, a Betty Mitchell Award, and three Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards.

LINDA RUBIN Choreographer

Linda is excited to return to the Citadel for the seventeenth season of A Christmas Carol. Previous Citadel credits include Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some of her choreographic credits include The Edmonton Opera, Opera Nuova, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network, Workshop West Theatre, L’UniThéâtre and other theatres in western Canada. Linda is engaged in rehearsal direction and mentoring productions for dance and theatre companies. Ms. Rubin is a Professor Emerita, University of Alberta, where she taught dance and stage movement in the BFA in Acting professional actors’ training program. Linda has been a core faculty artist engaged in the dance and movement training for The Citadel’s Young Companies.

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BIOS DOUG MERTZ Dialect Coach

Doug Mertz is happy to be back for the eighth year coaching dialects for this much-beloved show. He has coached dialects for more than 40 shows in the US and Canada including Million Dollar Quartet, West Side Story, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Mary Poppins here at the Citadel. He has taught dialects locally for the University of Alberta BFA program, Theatre Alberta, Rapid Fire Theatre and the Foote Theatre School. Doug is the Director of Education and Outreach here at the Citadel and will be appearing later this season in Peter and the Starcatcher.

MICHELLE CHAN Stage Manager

Michelle’s previous Citadel credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Christmas Carol, Avenue Q, Venus in Fur, One Man, Two Guvnors, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Clybourne Park, Make Mine Love, Spamalot, Private Lives, A Few Good Men, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women: the Musical, August: Osage County, The Forbidden Phoenix, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Blackbird, The Wizard of Oz, and The Pillowman. Assistant stage manager credits at the Citadel include Oliver!, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Grease, Hamlet, and Cabaret.

Other favourite credits include Mothership Down (Paper Tiger Productions); Afterplay (Blarney Productions); Evelyn Strange and Cocktails at Pam’s (Teatro la Quindicina). Big thanks to Candice, Kerry, Erin, Molly and Lore! Merry Christmas to Everyone!

CANDICE CHARNEY Assistant Stage Manager

Candice is excited to be back for her ninth season with A Christmas Carol. Previous Citadel credits include Assistant Stage Managing The Sound of Music, Hunchback, Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, The Jungle Book, Half Life and The Pillowman. She has also been the Apprentice Stage Manager on Peter Pan, I Am My Own Wife, Blithe Spirit and Frozen. Other recent credits include Stage Managing That’s Danger (Alberta Workers’ Health Centre); Book of Ashes (International Children’s Festival of the Arts); Airswimming, Good With People and Scaramouche Jones (Edmonton Fringe Festival). Much love to my beautiful partner Myriam, and our wonderful kids, Trey, Joel and Anna.

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BIOS KERRY JOHNSON Assistant Stage Manager

Originally from Winnipeg, Kerry has been working as a Stage Manager in Edmonton for the past ten years. This season at the Citadel, Kerry returns for her eighth year on A Christmas Carol.

Some favourite SM and ASM credits include Other Desert Cities, Arcadia, The Penelopiad, The Forbidden Phoenix, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz and Noises Off (Citadel Theatre); Ursa Major (Catch the Keys/Workshop West); The Ecstatics (Northern Light Theatre); Mary Poppins (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Liberation Days (Theatre Calgary); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Alberta Theatre Projects) and Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre/ATP). Kerry is a graduate of the BFA Stage Management Program at the U of A and the Theatre Arts Program at Grant MacEwan University.

MOLLY PEARSON

Assistant Stage Manager

Molly’s recent credits with the Citadel Theatre include apprentice stage managing Playing with Fire, The Penelopiad, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and A Christmas Carol. She has also stage managed The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux for Northern Light Theatre/ l’UniTheatre, La Voix Humaine for l’UniTheatre/Opera NUOVA; Jean et Beatrice for l’UniTheatre; assistant stage managed Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It and Coriolanus for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival; Helen Lawrence for The Arts Club Theatre; Working It Out with The Workers Health Centre; The Blue Flame Power Game, and The Origins of Power Woman for ATCO Energy Theatre; and Alcina and Rusalka for Opera Nuova.

ERIN VALENTINE

Apprentice Stage Manager/Child Supervisor Erin Valentine holds her BFA in Stage Management from the University of Alberta. Last season, she joined the Citadel as Apprentice Stage Manager for BOOM and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Additional credits include Production Assistant for The Last Five Years (Theatre Network); stage management for Hansel and Gretel (Alberta Opera); Encounters and Evolution (Citie Ballet); Afterimage (Citadel Young Companies); 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). Erin looks forward to returning to the Citadel later this season for Peter and the Starcatcher. a christmas carol 59

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Manager, Foote Theatre School

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Education Outreach Associate

Young Company Instructors Amber Borotsik Shannon Boyle Matt Graham Dave Horak Don Horsburgh Heather Inglis Doug Mertz Kate Ryan Kim Mattice-Wanat FTS Instructors Matt Alden Joleen Ballendine Mhairi Berg Adam Blocka Ashley Butler Tracy Carroll Ellen Chorley Quinn Contini Matt Graham Crystal Hanson Brady Hughes Sally Hunt Binaifer Kapadia Neil Kuefler Annette Loiselle Joey Lucius Barb Mah Conni Massing Liana Shannon Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule Mark Vetsch

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