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HENRY HOLE, 1884 - 1954 On the Citadel’s 30th Anniversary, a gift was made by the Company of Harry Hole, James F. Hole, Ralph K. Hole and Robert W. Hole on behalf of the Hole family — in honour of their late father, Henry Hole. 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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STUDENTS CLUB Another exciting New Year is upon us and we are pleased to welcome back our 1000 Students Club Members after the break. The Maclab Enterprises Students Club is a Citadel Theatre/Robbins Academy program that offers a unique glimpse into the world of professional theatre to a wide range of junior and senior high school students from Edmonton and surrounding areas. On the first three Tuesdays and Wednesdays of our season’s productions, Students Club members gather to enjoy a small reception before the show and then participate in a highly engaging, interactive presentation/demonstration involving one of the Citadel’s talented theatre artists. Following the performance, students are then invited to stay for a lively talkback session with members of the production’s cast and crew. Prior to seeing Clybourne Park, students will be treated to a backstage tour of the Maclab Theatre. With help from Assistant Technical Director, Stephanie Ripley and Audience Development Associate and performer, Patrick Lundeen, students will get a behind-the-scenes tour of the space, learn about it’s intricacies as a thrust stage, discover technical elements unique to the theatre and stories and insights about Citadel productions like A Christmas Carol. If you would like to become part of this season’s Students Club, or require more information about the program, please contact Shirley Tran, Group Sales at 780-428-2113. For individual students who are interested in joining please email Shirley at groupsales@citadeltheatre.com and leave your name, contact information and the name of the school you attend.
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THE CAST (in order of appearance) DOUG MERTZ………………................................... Russ/Dan KERRY SANDOMIRSKY……………….................. Bev/Kathy SEREANA MALANI………………........................... Francine/Lena COLE HUMENY………………................................ Jim/Tom MICHAEL BLAKE…………………........................... Albert/Kevin MARTIN HAPPER………………............................. Karl/Steve TRACEY POWER……………….............................. Betsy/Lindsey EVAN HALL………………........................................ Ensemble Director……………………………................................ JAMES MacDONALD Assistant Director………………... ........................... SIMON BLOOM Set Designer………………...................................... MARISSA KOCHANSKI Lighting Designer……………….............................. NARDA McCARROLL Costume Designer………………............................ LEONA BRAUSEN Stage Manager……………….................................. MICHELLE CHAN Assistant Stage Manager………………... .............. SANG-SANG LEE Act 1: A house in the Clybourne Park neighbourhood of Chicago, 1959. Act 2: The same. 2009. The play is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes long including one intermission of 20 minutes. “CLYBOURNE PARK is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.” CLYBOURNE PARK was produced on Broadway by Jujamcyn Theaters at The Walter Kerr Theatre, 2012. Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of CLYBOURNE PARK Off-Broadway in 2010. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. The Citadel engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Production personnel for the Citadel Theatre are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Employees (I.A.T.S.E.) Sponsors
about the
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Bruce Norris Bruce Norris is the author of Clybourne Park, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2012, the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards (London) for Best Play, 2011, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2011. Other plays include The Infidel (2000), Purple Heart (2002), We All Went Down To Amsterdam (2003), The Pain And The Itch (2004) and The Unmentionables (2006), and A Parallelogram (2010), all of which had their premieres at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago. Two plays, titled The Low Road and Domesticated, respectively, had 2013 premieres at the Royal Court Theatre, London and at Lincoln Center Theatre, New York. His work has also been seen at Playwrights Horizons (New York), Lookingglass Theatre (Chicago), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington, D.C.) Staatstheater Mainz (Germany) and the Galway Festival (Ireland), among others. He is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award (2009), and the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama (2006) as well as two Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago) for Best New Work. As an actor he can be seen in the films A Civil Action and The Sixth Sense, and the recent All Good Things. He lives in New York.
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Clybourne Park was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1957 classic play A Raisin in the Sun, which is about the Youngers, a lower-class African-American family who have an opportunity to move out of their poor neighbourhood to find a “better” life in a largely white, middle-class area of Chicago called Clybourne Park. Towards the end of the play, a white man from Clybourne, Karl Lindner, appears at the Younger apartment to try to buy back the house. Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun in response to the legal battle waged by her parents, who were barred from purchasing a home in the predominantly white neighbourhood of Washington Park by its Owners Association. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bruce Norris’ reimagining of the Younger’s predicament was inspired by his own struggle of seeing A Raisin in the Sun as a boy, and identifying with its “villain”, Karl Lindner. “I watch [A Raisin in the Sun] at twelve years old,” Norris wrote in an interview in 2012, “and I could realize even then that I’m Karl Lindner”. Norris began to surmise about the conversations that would have gone on back in the white neighbourhood about the sale of the house to a black family – a fascination which became the focus of Clybourne Park. Norris sought to create balance by expanding on the role of Karl Lindner, and bringing life to the community that surrounded him. Act One of Clybourne Park takes place on the same afternoon as the final act of A Raisin in the Sun, mere minutes after Karl has returned from his meeting with the Youngers. The second act, set in the same house 50 years later (a length of time which, incidentally, marks the distance between when A Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park were written), demonstrates in hindsight the predictions of the first act. It also gives us the opportunity to see how attitudes about race and realty have changed in the intervening years – if at all. Since its 2010 premiere at New York’s Playwrights Horizon Theatre and subsequent 2012 transfer to Broadway, Clybourne Park has garnered both critical and commercial success. It received the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2012. The Pulitzer committee described Clybourne Park as “a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America’s sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness.” It has been performed by many of North American’s leading theatre companies, including Chicago’s own Steppenwolf Theatre Company. It continues to be produced internationally, and is often seen in repertory with Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
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“It’s about the white response to race, about being the power elite, about being the people who have power in the race argument, and what that makes us in the present day – the contortions that makes us go through. Because on the Left we really, really like to deny the power that we have. We don’t want to seem like we’re powerful and have the largest army in the world. We want to pretend that we don’t. So, while the play is about white people, it’s even better if there are black people in the audience because it makes white people even more uncomfortable.” - Bruce Norris
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We always hope that when you leave the theatre that the play stays with you – that you talk about it in the restaurant or the parkade, and that when you wake up the next day it’s still rattling around in your brain. Clybourne Park gives us that opportunity. It’s a play about race relations, but like all great plays, it transcends simple classification. And just as each of us will identify with different themes, characters, or arguments presented in the play, likewise we will all think the play is about something important to us: gentrification, gender politics, marriage, children, political correctness, urban development…or real estate. I’ve never been a fan of “good” characters or “bad” characters – I like the grey area, where a character isn’t so easily identifiable or dismissible. And we eventually realize that in all of their glory and failing, that they remind us of ourselves…whether we like to admit it or not. Plays which tackle big contemporary urban issues are rare – and if they can make us laugh at ourselves…or others… all the better. James MacDonald Director
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Some people read Craigslist for its entertainment value. One of those was Vancouver broadcaster and wit Bill Richardson. Richardson is well known to anyone who listens to CBC radio where he has hosted an eclectic collection of shows over the years – In Concert, Saturday Afternoon At the Opera, As You Like It and many more. He has also written a number of books, one of which, Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast, won the Stephen Leacock medal for humour. Richardson told a Vancouver interviewer, “Craigslist is a rich vein of stuff. It’s just so full of stories and weirdness and all the evidence of humanity. A kind of humanity, anyway.”
“FREE HUMAN SIZED HAMSTER WHEEL AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE PICK UP. CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO 200 POUNDS. NOT RECOMMENDED TO HOUSES WITH SMALL CHILDREN OR ANIMALS.” At the same time that Richardson was chuckling at Craigslist over his morning coffee, Veda Hille, one of Canada’s foremost indie performer/singer/songwriters, was looking for something new and challenging. Hille had been in the music business for many years and excelled in one of the toughest professions around. She had tried her hand at classical music and spent a year as what she describes as “an inept lounge musician.” She attended art school and studied sculpture, film and performance art. In the early 1990’s, she discovered she had a talent for writing music. Audiences enjoyed her efforts and, as is the
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“Tuesday night around 11:30 you came out of the subway and I followed you. I ran up and grabbed your arm, took your purse and ran away. I’ve done many a snatch-and-grab but no one has ever stuck in my mind like you. There was a quick moment when our eyes met and I felt something strong. If I wasn’t so shy I would have asked your name. Of, course, I later got your name from your driver’s licence. So Jennifer, if you’d like to get together for a drink sometime get back to me.” Back in 2009, Hille was preparing for Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, an innovative midwinter endeavour designed as a platform for creative artists. She noted the huge success of The Drowsy Chaperone, a modest Toronto Fringe musical that went on to become the toast of Broadway. (The Drowsy Chaperone played the Citadel in 2009). So, she began writing a series of short musicals and, seeking collaboration, turned to her old friend Bill Richardson. She asked him what he would like to write about and his immediate answer was, “Craigslist.”
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The two came up with Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata. (A cantata being an Italian word for a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment. It is usually sacred but Bach, who loved the genre, often wrote secular cantatas.)
“Needed: A look-alike of Sarah Palin for adult movie.” Richardson was attracted to Craigslist not just for the weird items offered for sale. What most interested him was what Craigslist said (often unintentionally) about the people who avail themselves of its services. “Many of the postings were fairly pedestrian, as you’d expect with classified ads, but others were very self-consciously well-written, by people trying to score literary points. And then there were some that had a real humanity, a naked sort of neediness breaking through the writing.” Hille described the service as, “A mass of humanity pressed against the glass.” The original song cycle was a big hit and there was a strong feeling among all involved (including audiences) that the material could support a full-length work. And so, much like that other B.C. theatrical phenomenon Ride the Cyclone (2013 Citadel production) Do You Want... just grew and grew. It moved to Toronto and became a hit there.
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Noting the success of Ride the Cyclone during its run here and checking out the critical enthusiasm and copious box office returns of Do You Want..., Citadel Artistic Director Bob Baker decided that theatrical lightning could strike again and he booked the production into The Club (Rice Theatre). Baker was heartened by the success of a number of shows in his new theatrical venture (Susan Gilmour and Réjean Cournoyer’s one person shows/Bridget Ryan’s two sold-out shows/Blind Date, featuring the single, sexy, red nosed clown Mimi, which has played to sold-out houses twice in The Club) and felt the space was ideally suited for the pocket musical. “I am interested in us developing pieces for the space. Rebecca (Northan – who is Mimi) was over the moon when she saw it. She’s very prolific and now that she is becoming a colleague she’s got dozens of ideas.” (Northan will be starring later this year, along with John Ullyatt, in Baker’s production of Tom Wood’s new screwball comedy, Make Mine Love.)
“I am a female in my mid 60’s and I am looking for a roommate. Times are tight and I need some extra money. I am willing to rent out the bathroom in my East Village home. You can easily put an air mattress in there. I only ask that when I need to use the bathroom you are not in it.” The production of Do You Want... we will see here is much the same as the one that wowed earlier audiences in Toronto and Vancouver – although Richardson and Hille keep working on the show to keep it updated. The original cast will be appearing and judging from audience and critical reactions (“Hilarious, quirky, touching and tuneful,” enthused one critic) a merry evening will follow. All quotes in this article are edited and originally appeared in Craigslist. Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata opens in the Citadel’s The Club Cabaret Venue on February 5 and runs through February 23.
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BIOS MICHAEL BLAKE
Albert/Kevin
Selected acting credits for Michael include The Merchant of Venice, The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Henry V (Stratford Festival); title role in Othello, and The Comedy of Errors (Bard on the Beach); Simba in The Lion King (Mirvish/Disney); Scientific Americans (Segal Center/Side Mart); Harriet T!, and Jacob Two Two (YPT); Mother Courage and Her Children, and A Christmas Carol (NAC/MTC); Nativity: A Coyote’s Christmas, and Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet (NAC); Raisin in the Sun, Blink, As You Like It, Three Sisters, The Time of Your Life, and The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (The Belfry Theatre/Arts Club); Something is Going to Come (OLG); This season Michael will appear in King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Beaux’ Strategem for the Stratford Festival. Selected Film and TV credits include Degrassi Jr High, YTV Rocks, Senior Trip and Earth: Final Conflict. Michael trained at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal and at the Soulpepper Academy in Toronto.
MARTIN HAPPER
Karl/Steve
Edmonton Credits: Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent in Brixton (Theatre Network), Language of Angels (NLT), and The Tempest, Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, and As You Like It (Freewill Shakespeare Festival). Most recently Martin appeared as Lord Windermere in Lady Windermere’s Fan and Valentine in Arcadia (Shaw Festival). Toronto Credits: The Normal Heart (Studio 180), The Happy Woman (Nightwood), Theory (SummerWorks), and A Boy Called Newfoundland (TheatreSmash). Elsewhere: eight seasons at the Shaw Festival including Belle Moral (also for NAC), and Saint Joan (also for Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The 39 Steps, Age of Arousal (Arts Club); The 39 Steps (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Thy Neighbour’s Wife (Theatre NorthWest); Mary’s Wedding (TheatreOne). TV: Mayday, Murdoch Mysteries, Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, The Eleventh Hour, and Breaker High. Upcoming: Arms and the Man and The Charity that Began at Home (Shaw Festival). Martin is a graduate of the University of Alberta, BFA Acting program.
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BIOS COLE HUMENY
Jim/Tom
Cole is an Edmonton-based performer. He made his Citadel Theatre debut last season in A Few Good Men. Favourite theatre credits include One with Ghost River Theatre; Ride, The Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide, and Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen with Northern Light Theatre; Peter Pan with the Globe Theatre; Shatter with The Maggie Tree, and ManDance, a co-created physical theatre piece performed at a number of theatre festivals in Alberta. Cole is a graduate of MacEwan’s Theatre Arts Program and the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program. Next up you can catch Cole in Jason Chinn’s The Murderer’s Confess at Christmastime, a Serial Collective production as part of Theatre Network’s Roxy Performance Series.
SEREANA MALANI
Francine/Lena
Clybourne Park marks Sereana’s debut performance at the Citadel. Born in the Fiji Islands and raised in beautiful British Columbia, Sereana now calls Edmonton home. Theatre credits include Measure for Measure and Elizabeth Rex for Bard on the Beach; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth for Theatre Prospero; Ride for Northern Light Theatre; Hamlet for Media Room; The Skriker and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Exit 22; Sexual Perversity in Chicago for Quiet Things Creative; whisper for Catalyst Theatre & Studio Theatre; The Ghost Sonata, Yellow Moon and Cymbeline for Studio Theatre. Sereana is a graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta. She would like to thank her friends and family for all of their love and support, especially her wonderful husband Elliott.
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BIOS DOUG MERTZ
Russ/Dan
Previously this season Doug appeared as Toll, Reverend Fish and the Coachman in A Christmas Carol. Doug’s Citadel credits include Captain Matthew A. Markinson in last season’s A Few Good Men, Egeus and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Sheriff Gilbeau in August: Osage County. Other Edmonton credits include Driving Miss Daisy with Michael Learned (Mayfield); The Tempest and Julius Caesar for Freewill Shakespeare; Evie’s Waltz for Shadow Theatre; Doubt: a parable for Studio Theatre; Pervert for Northern Light Theatre; and The Unseen, which won the first-ever Critics’ Choice Award, for Chorus Productions in the 2011 Edmonton Fringe. Doug teaches part-time at the University of Alberta and is the Director of the Foote Theatre School and Young Companies here at the Citadel.
TRACEY POWER
Betsy/Lindsey
Tracey was last seen at the Citadel in Blackbird. Most recently she choreographed and performed in Les Miserables for Western Canada Theatre and directed Chelsea Hotel, The Songs of Leonard Cohen. Acting credits include: UBUNTU; The Cape Town Project (WCT/ Theatre Calgary), La Cage Aux Folles (Vancouver Playhouse), The Number 14 (Axis Theatre), Stray (Workshop West), The Bone House (FTA), Urinetown, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Living Shadows, A Story of Mary Pickford, (Firehall Arts Centre), The Back Kitchen, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Arts Club), The One That Got Away (Electric Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry V (River City Shakespeare). Also a playwright, Tracey spent the summer developing a new musical entitled, Miss Shakespeare. Tracey has been the recipient of the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes and Jessie Richardson Awards for her work.
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BIOS KERRY SANDOMIRSKY
Bev/Kathy
With recurring roles on Arctic Air and The Killing, Kerry Sandomirsky has appeared in more than one hundred productions for stage and screen. For the Citadel: Tartuffe & Metamorphoses. Selected: Brilliant! & The One That Got Away (Electric Company/NAC); Much Ado About Nothing & Winter’s Tale (Bard on the Beach); How It Works & Unity, 1918 (Touchstone); Skylight & Patience (Belfry/ MTC); The Wars & The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Calgary/Vancouver Playhouse); Fire & Dancing at Lughnasa (The Globe). Recently: Communion (Ruby Slippers); Haunted (Touchstone); Calendar Girls (Arts Club). She teaches at the Studio 58 theatre program at Langara College and has scripted a onewoman show, Wobble, at the 2013 Banff Playwrights’ Colony. Her team won the Grey Cup.
EVAN HALL
Ensemble
Clybourne Park is Evan’s first appearance at The Citadel Theatre. Other Edmonton credits include: Mary’s Wedding (Capitol Theatre), Macbeth (Theatre Prospero), Twelfth Night, Othello (Freewill Shakespeare Festival), Cymbeline, Fuddy Meers, Whisper (Studio Theatre), Murielle (Blarney/Promise Productions) and Gruesome Playground Injuries (BrainPile). Elsewhere he has been seen in Eyes of the Enemy (Watch Me), Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Double Falsehood (SITP Calgary), and the world premiere of The Brink (Prairie Theatre Exchange). He has also appeared in Hell on Wheels (AMC TV). Evan is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program.
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BIOS JAMES MacDONALD
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James’ Citadel directing credits include A Few Good Men, God of Carnage, Billy Bishop Goes to War, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead, Fire, Shining City, Vimy (Sterling Award), Equus, I am My Own Wife, and Stones in his Pockets. Elsewhere James’ directing credits include Julius Caesar for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; The Old Ladies for the Shaw Festival; Much Ado About Nothing, Fire (Dora Award), and As You Like It for Canadian Stage; and seven productions for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, where he was the founding artistic director. As an actor, James’ most recent appearance at the Citadel was as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Other Citadel acting credits include Marley in A Christmas Carol, The Three Musketeers, Little Women: the Broadway Musical, Blackbird, Pride and Prejudice, Measure for Measure, Amadeus, Einstein’s Gift (Sterling Award), Wit, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Of Mice and Men (Sterling Award). Elsewhere, his credits include the title roles in Macbeth and Henry V for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. James is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program. He is an Artistic Associate at the Citadel, and the Program Director of the Citadel/ Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.
SIMON BLOOM
Assistant Director
Simon Bloom is the co-artistic director of the Dora award-winning theatre company Outside the March. Upcoming, Simon will be directing a remount of East of Berlin as part of the 2013/14 Punctuate! Performance Series. Directing credits include Murderers Confess at Christmastime (Outside the March/SummerWorks); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Studio Theatre); Hamlet, East of Berlin (U of A); The Absent One (StageLab); The Meaning of Thomas (Ignite!); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Quiet Things Creative); Splinters (Plutonium Playhouse). Simon holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta, and is a participant in the 2014 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.
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This is local designer/performer Leona’s third costume design for the Citadel including Betty’s Summer Vacation and Homeward Bound. Some of Leona’s other credits include Whiplash Weekend, The Scent of Compulsion, The Hothouse Prince, and The Ambassador’s Wive’s for Teatro La Quindicina, The last two garnering Sterling Awards. Leona has also designed many shows for Shadow Theatre, and 9 to 5 at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre where she will be designing the costumes for Deathtrap and Hairspray next spring. Leona also performs in Die-nasty the improvised Soap Opera, The Irrelevant Show on CBC radio and is a co-host of Hey Ladies at Theatre Network.
MARISSA KOCHANSKI Set Designer
Marissa Kochanski has worked as a professional set and costume designer for the last fifteen years. Previously at the Citadel she designed set and costumes for The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate, Prairie Boy’s Winter, A Giraffe in Paris, New Canadian Kid, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess’s Favourite Stories and The Sword and The Stone. She is resident set designer for St. Albert Children’s Theatre and a freelancer whose past clients include Theatre Network, Firefly Theatre, Teatro la Quindicina, Keyano Theatre, and Victoria School for the Arts. Marissa is a regular contributor to Edmonton’s festivals, including costumes and installations for the Flying Canoe Adventure Walk in Mill Creek Ravine, and a combustible sculpture for the Silver Skate Festival, both coming in February. You can visit one of Marissa’s designs year round at the Strathcona County Public Library – a career highlight was designing the special features for the children’s area. She has won a Sterling Award for Best Set Design (Marion Bridge, Theatre Network), as well as a Betty Mitchell Award (Calgary) for Best Costume Design (The Black Rider, November Theatre.) She is also a lyricist, and was a finalist in the 2012 International Songwriting Competition in the Children’s Music Category, as part of the pop duo The Skips.
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BIOS NARDA McCARROLL Lighting Designer
Last season at the Citadel, Narda designed the lights for A Few Good Men and costumes for The Penelopiad. Narda’s other Citadel credits include set/lights for True Love Lies; lights for As You Like It, The Drowning Girls (cross Canada tour), The Forbidden Phoenix and The Goat; production design for Extinction Song, Shining City, Fully Committed, Blue Orange, The Syringa Tree and co-design for Vimy; and costumes for God of Carnage, Julius Caesar, The Pillowman and Einstein’s Gift. Other favourite design credits include set/lights for Sweeney Todd and The 39 Steps for Vertigo Theatre; production design for Red and Mary’s Wedding for Alberta Theatre Projects; and set/costumes for The Trespassers for Belfry Theatre/ Vancouver Playhouse. Narda has designed costumes for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival for fourteen seasons. This past summer she designed costumes for the feature film Cut Bank. She is the recipient of three Sterling Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards.
MICHELLE CHAN
Stage Manager
Earlier this season at the Citadel, Michelle stage managed A Christmas Carol and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Last season, Michelle was stage manager for Monty Python’s Spamalot, Private Lives, A Christmas Carol and A Few Good Men (Citadel/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre co-production). Other Citadel stage manager credits are The Sound of Music, God of Carnage, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women: the Musical, August: Osage County, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Blackbird, The Wizard of Oz, The Forbidden Phoenix, Vimy, Wingfield’s Inferno, The Pillowman, Bird Brain, Fully Committed, Vanya, Shakespeare’s Will, Wingfield on Ice, Stones In His Pockets, Homeward Bound and The Sword in the Stone. Assistant stage manager credits at the Citadel include Oliver!, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sound of Music, Grease, Servant of Two Masters, Hamlet, Cabaret and Art. Other favourite stage manager credits include Mothership Down with Paper Tiger Productions; Afterplay for Blarney Productions; Evelyn Strange, Cocktails at Pam’s and Fever Land for Teatro la Quindicina and The 7th Circle and A Hero for All for Fringe Theatre Adventures. Big thanks to Sang-Sang!
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BIOS SANG-SANG LEE Assistant Stage Manager
Last season at the Citadel, Sang-Sang was assistant stage manager on Spamalot and Private Lives. Other Citadel credits include The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, A Christmas Carol, Billy Bishop Goes to War and As You Like It. Elsewhere, she has worked on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear for Freewill Shakespeare Festival; Hunchback for Catalyst Theatre; The Super Groovy 70s, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for Mayfield Theatre; Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show for Odd Lot Theatre; Seussical for St. Albert Children’s Theatre; Sang-Sang has spent a summer in Italy working on Don Giovanni with COSI. She is a graduate of Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Production program. Many thanks to Michelle!
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Assistant Technical Director
Kyla Maki
Kathleen Morley First Hand
Julie Davie
First Hand Administrative Assistant Margie Berggren Milliner Head of Audio Genevieve Savard Ian Trace Stitcher Assistant Head of Audio Karen Beames Peter Locock Boots and Shoes Head of Scenic Lorraine Price Carpentry Head of Chris Hayes Wardrobe Running Assistant Head Barbara Becker of Scenic Carpentry Wardrobe Maintenance
Owen Hutchinson
Greg Cardinal
Samantha J. Rumball
Perry Harris
Tammy Fox
Scenic Carpenter Scenic Carpenter
Serge Menard
Head of Wigs
Assistant Head of Wigs
Scenic Carpenter
Sheila Cleasby
Head of Electrics
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. Johanna Andreoff, Gale Arneson, Nelda Arnst, Judith Babcock, Connie Banigan, Carolyn Bell, Jacqueline Bell, Shelley Benson, Erika Beyer, Ursula Blumentrath, Jeanine Bonot, Florence Borch, Ken Borch, Shirley Boven, Loveth Bradley, Allan Budlong, Eileen Budlong, Jeanette Calder, Dee Cartledge, Gina Chea, Victoria DeJong, Carol Dreger, Shirley Dunn, Clifford Edwards, Lil Filewych, Laurie Fornal, Brenda Fraser, Wendy Fraser, Gilberte Gagne, Irene Gagne, Louise Gagne, Doreen Gagnon, Jackie Genest, Mervan Gorrie, Sharon Green, Christine Hall, Vicki Hall, Jeffrey Haswell, Rosemarie Heaney, Brad Heller, Marilyn Hemsing, Linelle Henderson, Daniel High, Amelia Hihn, Maria Hollinshead, Ron Homenchuk, Laura Hughes, Judy Hume, Laura Hughes, Bruce Johnson, Madalyn Johnson, Jessica Kavanagh, Kathleen Kellman, Carol Klass, Eva Kopecka, Arndt Kuethe, Janice Kuethe, Bonnie Labranche, Kim Lang, Nicole Leblanc-Lamarre, Ron Levang, Coral Levang, Karen Lewis-Caron, Patrick Lewis-Caron, Fran Linklater, Elizabeth Luchko, Caroline Lutz, Ross MacHetchuk, Dawn Madill, Wesley Matte, Angella Matthew, Donna McKay, Tom McLean, Donna Miller, Karen Miller, Janice Minamide, Monica Molina-Ayala, Donna Molloy, Robert Moore, Joan Murchie, Sulochana Muthia, Patricia Navarro, Florence Nieberding, Gina Nolet, Dennis Nolan, Barbara Olynyk, Linda Orlecki, Nicole Orlecki, Edith Parsons, Susan Patenaude, Anna Popowich, Joyce Powell, Kevin Przyswitt, Renee Przyswitt, Doreen Pysar, Tracy Renz-Augustin, Monica Robillard, Louise Rogucki, Audrey Ross, Ian Ross, Liam Ross, Helen Rusich, Joyce Schwan, Angela Seery, Phil Slawsky, Valerie Smart, Phyllis Solsberg, Evelyn Stark, Charlotte Stel, Eileen Stephens, Shu-wen Tham, Diane Trithardt, Rose Unguran, Mona Vandersluys, Brenda Voyce, Laura Wallace, Jason Way-Kowalchuk, Selena Wang, Kay Willekes, Bonnie Woloschuk, Denise Woollard, Laura Wylde, Lil Yewchuk CLYBOURNE PARK 53
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In recognition of the Citadel Theatre’s 50th anniversary in 2015, the ENCORE Campaign plans to raise $5 million through several fundraising initiatives to support Citadel productions and programs along with an exciting facility enhancement. For more information about the ENCORE Campaign, please contact: Neil Luipasco OR Director, Fund Development 780.428.2141 nluipasco@citadeltheatre.com
Sydney Stuart Manager, Fund Development 780.428.2142 sstuart@citadeltheatre.com
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