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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 Ex Officio Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Ralph Young

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

HonoUrary Directors

Jack N. Agrios, Ken Bautista, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Christine Bishop, Dan Block, Guy Bridgeman, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Len Dolgoy, Allison Edwards, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, James Gillespie, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Beverlee Loat, Al Maurer, Maureen McCaw, Eva McGregor, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Rob Reynolds, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, 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

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

By Eugene O’Neill September 21 – October 13, 2013

THE DAISY THEATRE

By Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes September 28 – November 17, 2013 Presented by

2 PIANOS 4 HANDS Written, Starring & Directed by Ted Dykstra & Richard Greenblatt October 26 – November 17, 2013

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens November 30 – December 23, 2013

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By Bruce Norris January 25 – February 16, 2014

DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT? A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA

By Veda Hille, Bill Richardson & Amiel Gladstone February 5 – 23, 2014

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

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

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

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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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by VEDA HILLE, BILL RICHARDSON Directed by AMIEL GLADSTONE Musical Direction by VEDA HILLE Choreography by MONICA DOTTOR

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The play is approximately 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This production was originally produced by Acting Up Stage Company and Factory Theatre in Toronto from January 30-March 3, 2013.

Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata was developed and premiered at the Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, BC, 2012.

Originally produced in a 20 minute version by Theatre Replacement as a co-commission with PuSh and Theatre Conspiracy, Vancouver, BC, 2009. Thanks to the Arts Club’s ReACT play development program, the PuSh international Performing Arts Festival, and the Belfry Theatre’s Spark Theatre Festival.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

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We were a Free Press family; the other daily paper was the Winnipeg Tribune. The Free Press was delivered in the afternoons. After school and before dinner, my brothers and I clamoured for the funnies. Unassertive and unstrategic, I typically lost the tussle.

Denied the main meat, I gnawed the gristle: the classifieds. I pouted, but in truth, the classifieds were more an education than a hardship. The first few pages contained the obituaries, for which I developed a perverse, lasting fondness, and from which I gathered valuable evidence about the certainty of corporal transience. And from what followed — apartments for rent, items sought, oddments for sale or hire, employment available, husbands and wives required — I deduced that life, however long it lasted, would be eventful. Before there would be death there would be love and work and stuff, so maybe there was a reason to go on after all, despite being at the bottom of the food chain when it came to Peanuts, Blondie, and Archie.

Between the Free Press classified ads from the 1960’s and the latter day online bazaar called Craigslist, there’s not so much of a gulf. Neither would it exist were it not for the human longing for a marketplace, an exchange. We acquire, then we tire. We choose, then disabuse. We ingest, then we expel. That’s what makes the world go round. It’s ever been thus. It will always be the same; all that alters is the vessel of conveyance.

Craigslist, by dint of living online, is vaster and more cosmopolitan and more rapidly evolving than any print medium could ever be; but it’s no less bland or utilitarian for all its immediacy and expansiveness. For the most part, just as with newspaper classifieds, it makes for pretty dull reading, a catalogue of quotidian requirements, enlivened now and again by something ironic or offbeat. For example, “Wanted: a young lady of German parentage; must be a 36-inch bust and understand bookkeeping on a small scale.” Also, “I will pay you one dollar to sit in my bathtub full of noodles.” The first appeared in 1892 in the New York Post, the second, much more recently, on Craigslist. One imagines, somehow, that the two advertisers would have a lot to say, one to the other. The well of human perversity and curiosity is no more plumbable now than it has ever been or will be.

The texts for the songs in Do You Want What I Have Got are taken wholesale from Craigslist or were inspired by what was found there. Wave after wave of subsequent postings would have long since washed away any trace of these, were it not for the way the brilliant Veda Hille has made them singable, and the way she and director Amiel Gladstone have found within this random scattering a surprising emotional arc and unanticipated tenderness.

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“Disneyfication” has been recognized, usually in a most negative way, as implying homogenization of consumption and merchandising while stripping a real place or event of its original character and repackaging it in a sanitized format.

Gee Whiz. That is hardly the way to describe kindly old Uncle Walt who gave us a long parade of indelible, nay lovable, characters beginning with Snow White in 1937 and stretching through Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast all the way up to Elsa and Anna, the singing princesses of his (or more aptly his company’s) current mega hit, Frozen. Is “Disneyfication” suggesting that, as one sour observer put it, “Behind all those pretty little sentimental creatures in grey fur coats there lurks a cold ferocious beast?”

My kids grew up with the twinkly Walt of Disney’s Wonderful World of Colour on TV. Walt was a genial family member who told wonderful stories of singing dwarfs, scary stepmothers, fire-belching dragons and hideous beasts who turned into handsome princes.

He was sort of like Tom Hanks. Come to think of it, Disney was played by Hanks in just that manner in the company’s Christmas hit, Saving Mr. Banks, a film about the making of Mary Poppins (the movie musical version). I loved the movie but I suspect that crusty old Walt was more than a bit Disneyfied himself. Disney had long ceased to be the creative animator who created Mickey Mouse. (In fact he could neither sign his name with that famous Disney flourish – nor could he still draw Mickey.) He had transformed into the visionary entrepreneur that led his company to become the biggest purveyor of entertainment and fantasy in the world.

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Nor, I suspect, would he tell the prickly P.L. Travers, who wrote the original books, “That’s what we do, we storytellers. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope, again and again and again.”

I will try to avoid spoilers for those who have not seen the film but to stick to the true tale of Walt and P.L. First, we have to accept that Walt did Disneyfy everything he touched. He set the template for his endearing army of anthropomorphized creatures – funny little furry vaudevillians who often spoke in Brooklyn accents (Timon/Dumbo’s Mouse) and events cannily designed to touch the heart (“Bambi, your mother can’t be with us anymore”) or instill a delicious fear in the hearts of children (Snow White in the forest/the fearsome Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty).

Sometimes the idea worked as with Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, or Mary Poppins (the next production scheduled for the Citadel mainstage). Sometimes it didn’t – Alice in Wonderland or Pocahontas. Often Disney would promise to honour an original concept but went ahead and did what he did best – create fantasy worlds that, admittedly, appealed to vast numbers of ticket buyers. (Me too. Perhaps I should establish my bias. I have probably seen every Disney movie ever made, including the early silent cartoons and World War ll propaganda shorts, and have been to Disneyland, Disney World and Disneyland Paris as a journalist, father and grandfather so many times I have lost count.) While securing the rights for the music in Fantasia there was a famous photograph of Walt with Igor Stravinsky, the aesthetic composer of the modernist atonal ballet The Rite of Spring. It was a photo-op and

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the confused Russian was thrust in front of the cameras and then was immediately ushered out of the room. The studio did not honour the composer’s vision of a pagan ritual in which a young maiden is sacrificed to invoke the coming of spring but instead ambitiously (and brilliantly) gave us the entire story of creation, right down to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Stravinsky’s thoughts on the transmogrification are not recorded.

Many millions of people have been enchanted by the studio’s work – Snow White may be the most viewed movie ever made. In those years it cost 10 cents to see a movie and it played everywhere. The Disney archivist once told me of accounts of aboriginals deep in the jungles of Africa listing the names of the 7 dwarfs to unbelieving explorers.

Judging from the results, for much of Mary Poppins (the movie), Travers’ wishes were ignored. The story goes that Walt was introduced to the spit-spot nanny by his daughter, Diane, in the 1940’s. She loved the book and begged her father to make a movie of it. Disney courted Travers for two decades with, wrote biographer Caitlin Flanagan in the New York Times, “attention, flattery, transcontinental telegrams and personal visits.” Initially, Disney wanted to make Mary Poppins into an animated character, but Travers would have none of it, so Walt agreed to make a live-action film.

The eccentric author, who was about to lose her home, finally took Disney’s offer for $100,000 and a cut of the gross. He even gave her script approval (something he had never done before).

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In 1961, Travers finally agreed to let Disney make a movie about her magical nanny who flew in to change the lives of the Banks family of Cherry Tree Lane one day when the wind changed to blow from the west.

Disney brought her to the studio for script consultations and Travers proved to be a formidable, unyielding force. She didn’t want music. She hated the idea of Dick Van Dyke, a television comic, in the role of Bert. There would be no animation in the film – the thought of dancing penguins drove her to apoplexy. Poppins in the book was stern and disciplinary.

Travers saw the story as a tribute to her beloved but alcoholic father. Disney always thought of it as an entertaining family adventure.

From the movie: TRAVERS: Mary Poppins is not for sale. I won’t have her turned into one of your silly cartoons.

DISNEY: Says a woman who sent a flying nanny with a talking umbrella to save the children.

TRAVERS: You think Mary Poppins has come to save the children. Oh, dear...

When released in 1965, Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and (yes!) Dick Van Dyke, became an instant hit. It was the most profitable film of the year, beating out Goldfinger and My Fair Lady. To be fair to the filmmaker, Disney marshalled all the movie magic he had

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amassed during his long career. Mary Poppins was Disney’s crowning achievement.

It was nominated for thirteen Oscars and won five – the most any Disney film had ever won. And the film was genuinely special to Walt, expressing not only the power of the imagination, but also of love, kindness, and compassion.

Needless to say, Travers hated the picture even though it made her a rich woman. It also unsealed her creative juices and she wrote several more successful books about the no-nonsense nanny and the Banks family only stopping when she observed, “Mary Poppins can’t just keep flying in and out.”

British uberproducer Cameron Mackintosh (Les Miz/Cats etc. etc.) also pursued Travers for many years. He wanted to put Disney’s version on the stage. He ran into the same resolute woman the Hollywood entrepreneur had years before.

Mackintosh tracked her down in 1994 when she was 93. Travers had enough of the movie business and vowed never again to allow a travesty be made of her beloved character. Macintosh told her he wanted to return to the original concept and then spoke the magic words (here roughly translated because I wasn’t there) “I feel that the redemption of the children’s father, Mr. Banks, was what really lies at the heart of the story.” Mackintosh promised he would dig more deeply into the story of how Mary Poppins turns the Banks family from a dysfunctional unit into a loving family. The flinty Travers began to melt. “No Americans!” demanded the writer. Mackintosh promised no Americans would be allowed. In fact, he hired Julian Fellowes to rewrite the book.

Fellowes is best known nowadays as the creator and writer of Downton Abbey.

The new Mary Poppins opened in the West End in 2004 and immediately began to attract huge audiences and continues to be a great success. It is more than a little ironic that some reviewers found the new Poppins to be a little too dark, missing the appealing warmth of the movie version.

In fact, when the show transferred (successfully) to New York it was slightly re-written to give it a bit more of that old Disney twinkle.

Somewhere, Walt must be smiling.

Mary Poppins, co-created by Sir Cameron Mackintosh –- and giving full credit to both Disney and P.L. Travers – previews on the mainstage of the Citadel on March 15.

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JOSH EPSTEIN Performer

Josh spent the last year writing, producing and acting in the feature film adaptation of the play, Studies in Motion, about Eadweard Muybridge which will be released in late 2014. Motion 58, Josh’s film company with Kyle Rideout, has won awards from the CBC, NSI, Bravo! Fact, NFB, and Comic-Con film festivals. Josh has starred in shows across the country including The Producers, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and he recently appeared in two seasons at The Stratford Festival where he won the John Hirsh award for most promising actor and appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline and The Matchmaker. Upcoming, Josh will appear in the film Lawrence & Holloman, the TV show Package Deal, and as Sir Robin in Spamalot. Josh is a graduate of Studio 58. @joshepstein1

BREE GREIG Performer

Having recently moved to Toronto from Vancouver, Bree is thrilled to re-join the Craigslist team! Recent credits include being a member of the original Arts Club production of Craigslist Cantata, The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music (both Footlight Theatre Company), The Fantasticks (Vancouver Playhouse), and Bat Boy The Musical (Patrick Street Productions). Bree is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.

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QASIM KHAN Performer

Qasim is excited to be joining the Craigslist family! A recent graduate of the Soulpepper Academy, he recently appeared in The Crucible, Royal Comedians, Dirt, The Haunted Man (Soulpepper); The Prize (Tonic); At The End, Napoleon vs. The Turk (Toronto Fringe); As You Like It (Smashin’ Bat); workshops of Abhimanyu (Theatre Direct), High Rise (Expect Theatre), and Zero Privacy Project (fu-GEN). Film/TV highlights include Nikita, Saving Hope, Dan For Mayor, and Little Mosque on the Prairie. He holds his degree from the University of Toronto/Sheridan College joint Acting program. Special thanks to Mitchell, Amiel, Robyn, Will, and his family!

SELINA MARTIN Performer

Selina Martin is a Toronto-based theatre artist and musician.

She’s excited to be performing again in Do You Want What I Have Got? Previous theatre work includes Crow’s Theatre (Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Dali, Godzilla), One Yellow Rabbit Theatre (Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica), and Bald Ego Theatre, with whom she co-created 12 original plays. Selina is also the author of three highly acclaimed CDs. Her most recent, Disaster Fantasies, has received glowing praise from across the country, and has been described by music writers as “smart”, “vivid”, “brave”, “masterful”, “reckless”, and “must hear”. www.selinamartin.com

BARRY MIROCHNICK Performer

Barry Mirochnick is a Vancouver-based drummer and multiinstrumentalist originally from Winnipeg. He was a performer in Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata at PuSh Festival 2009, The Arts Club Revue Theatre in 2012, on tour for the Arts Club, and in 2013 for Acting-Up Stage/Factory Theatre in Toronto.

In the past few years, Barry has toured, recorded, and gigged with Veda Hille, Neko Case, Great Aunt Ida, Jakob Dylan, Whitehorse, and Boxcar Campfire.

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MARGUERITE WITVOET Performer

Marguerite Witvoet is thrilled to be reunited with the Craigslist gang for this Western tour. Crossing territories as a performer, composer, music director and teacher, Marguerite has gained a reputation as a creative and versatile musician. Working with cultural institutions across Canada, Marguerite is actively involved in the creation and development of new opera and musical theatre, performs and conducts regularly, and composes music for theatre and film. As well as teaching voice and piano in her private studio, Marguerite currently teaches Interdisciplinary Creation & Collaboration in the new Bachelor of Performing Arts program at Capilano University, Singing & Choir at Langara College, and is faculty vocal coach for the International Advanced Voice Workshops at the Banff Centre.

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AMIEL GLADSTONE Director/Playwright

Amiel Gladstone is a West Coast-based writer and director. As a director, his productions have been both site specific in unusual venues and in traditional theatres, including numerous world premieres for companies such as Alberta Theatre Projects, Acting Up Stage, Arts Club, Belfry Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Factory Theatre, PuSh Festival, Pacific Opera Victoria, Theatre SKAM, Theatre Replacement, Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse and Vancouver Opera. As a playwright, his plays have been produced by Alberta Theatre Projects, the Belfry Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, the National Arts Centre, Solo Collective, Western Edge Theatre, and Theatre SKAM.

VEDA HILLE

Music Director/Playwright Veda Hille has been writing songs, making records, and playing shows all over since 1992. She has released 14 albums, the latest being Peter Panties. Collaborations with other artists have resulted in video and music performances, electro acoustic experiments, rock songs for children, eccentric musicals, and an opera about pine trees. Veda will be hitting the road on tour later this year; keep an eye out in your town.

BILL RICHARDSON Playwright

Bill Richardson is a writer. He lives in Holmfield, Manitoba.

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Monica is a 6 time Dora Mavor Moore* award nominated actor & choreographer and Dora Award winner with The Penelopiad ensemble (Nightwood). Most recently Monica was in The Shape of Rex (Factoria Films), Picture Day (Snitch Pictures-TIFF), Murdoch Mysteries, Saving Hope (CTV), Lost Girl (Showcase).

CHOREOGRAPHY: The Penelopiad*, Craigslist Cantata* (Acting UpStage); Malaria Lullaby (CompanyBlonde); The Red Queen Effect (7th Stage), The Russian Play* (Factory); The Real McCoy, Queen Marie (4th Line) ACTING: The Penelopiad*, Petrichor (Kitchenband); The Red Queen Effect, SCRATCH*, Featuring Loretta (Factory); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Overcoat*, The Middle Place (Canadian Stage); Chekhov’s Heartache, Chekhov’s Shorts (Smith-Gilmour). Upcoming: HER2 by Maja Ardal.

Robin Fisher

Set and Costume Designer Select Designs include set and costumes for: Fiddler on the Roof (Western Canada Theatre), The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (Globe Theatre), A Year With Frog and Toad and Cinderella (Young People’s Theatre), Hand of Bridge/Telephone (Canadian Opera), The Little Prince (Grand Theatre), The Tempest (Canadian Stage), The Syringa Tree and Circle Mirror Transformation (Great Canadian Theatre Company). Costumes: The Rez Sisters (Factory Theatre), The Ends of the Earth (Belfry Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Soulpepper). Et Cetera: Robin is the recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore awards. Upcoming: Set and Costumes for Elegies (Acting Up Stage).

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KIMBERLY PURTELL Lighting Designer

Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance. Kimberly’s designs have been critically acclaimed both on the national and international stage. Previously for Acting Up Stage, Kimberly designed Falsettos, Caroline or Change, and Parade. Most recently her credits include Waiting for Godot (Stratford Festival); Proud (GCTC), God of Carnage (Mirvish & Studio 180), Race (Canadian Stage); La Ronde and Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Soulpepper), Arigato Tokyo (Buddies), Iceland (Factory Theatre), Loveloss (Dancemakers), Someone Else (Crow’s Theatre), Clybourne Park and The Normal Heart (Studio 180), Rigoletto (Opera Hamilton), Svadba (Edmonton Opera). Upcoming she will design Ariadne Auf Naxos (Pacific Opera), and Jane Eyre (MTC), She is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award, has received 3 Dora Awards and 20 nominations, and has been nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award.

OZ WEAVER

Assistant Lighting Designer Oz Weaver is a Toronto-based lighting designer, production manager and producer who has helped create over 50 shows.

Oz has been affiliated with companies such as; Harbourfront Centre (Enter the Shadow & PARIS1994/Gallery), The Glenn Gould School/U of T (Co-LD with Kim Purtell – Don Giovanni), The Sony Centre (Glenn Gould Gala & Dreamwalker Dance), ProArteDanza (Short Stories, SIP & Fall 2013 Season), Canstage (Race), Buddies in Bad Time (Arigato Tokyo), Factory (HeartStop), SoulpepperTheatre (La Ronde), The Grand Theatre (Shirley Valentine, Sherlock Holmes & Kingfisher Day), Beal Musical Theatre (Hairspray, Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast, Children of Eden, Fame & Les Miserables), and The Dietrich Group (PARIS1994/Gallery, I am an animal). Oz has been nominated for a Brickenden Award, and has won two Dish Awards for his designs of Into the Woods & Phantom of The Opera.

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JESSICA SEVERIN Stage Manager

Jessica is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, and is thrilled to be joining Acting Up Stage Company for The Craigslist Cantata. Most recently: This Wide Night (Summerworks); Suds! (Thousand Islands Playhouse); La Ronde, A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper); Armide (Glimmerglass Opera Festival, Versailles Royal Opera, Opera Atelier); Billy Elliot (Mirvish Productions). Selected credits: Eight seasons with Soulpepper, five seasons with Opera Atelier, productions with Mirvish Productions, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Tarragon, Tapestry New Opera, Nightwood, Theatre Smith Gilmour, Drayton Entertainment, Nuit Blanche and George Brown Theatre.

SHANNA MILLER Production Manager

Shanna Miller is a Toronto-based technical director and production manager. She works in theatre and dance with companies across the country. Recent credits include Stria (ChartierDanse); Svadba – Wedding (Queen of Puddings Music Theatre); Agokwe (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), Spin by Evalyn Perry (Outspoke Productions), Penny Plain, Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy and 10 Days on Earth, Provenance (Ronnie Burkett).

Shanna is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada – Technical Program. She is currently the Technical Director for Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes and feels very privileged to be part of this production.

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Since 2004, under the leadership of Artistic & Managing Director Mitchell Marcus, we’ve been rewarded time & again with rave reviews, sold-out performances, 6 Dora Awards and 8 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards. Staged in intimate settings and starring Canada’s finest artists, our productions are timely, thought-provoking and entertaining, challenging expectations of the genre. Past work includes Falsettos, Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata, Caroline, or Change, Ride The Cyclone, Parade, The Light In The Piazza, A New Brain, A Man of No Importance and Elegies: A Song Cycle. Each year we present a series of concerts, train and mentor young performers from across Ontario through One Song Glory and The Banks Prize, and develop new musical works through our NoteWorthy program.

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ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES FTS Teaching Assistants GUEST SERVICES James MacDonald

Director, Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program

Brian Dooley

Director, Play Development

Sophie Gareau-Brennan Katie Hudson Josh Languedoc Lianna Makuch Nadine Nahas

ADMINISTRATION

Doug Mertz

Marianne Bouthillier

Don Horsburgh

Peni Christopher

Director, FTS & Young Companies Resident Music Director

Wayne Paquette

Academy Associate

Diana Stevenson

Manager, Foote Theatre School

Young Company Instructors Shannon Boyle Don Horsburgh Heather Inglis Jackie Pooke Linda Rubin Kate Ryan Adrianne Salmon FTS Instructors April Banigan Mhairi Berg Adam Blocka Shannon Boyle Ashley Butler Gregory Caswell Ellen Chorley Crystal Hanson Sally Hunt Binaifer Kapadia Meghan Koshman Annette Loiselle Patrick Lundeen Tim Mikula Michele Miller Barb Mah Gail Olmstead Andrew Ritchie Matt Schuurman Liana Shannon Linette Smith Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule

Associate Executive Director Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Company Manager

Laurie McInnes

Box Office Manager

Theresa Hovdestad

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Cheryl Sinclair

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Scott George Lafluer Assistant Head of Electrics

Meaghan Skerik Electrics

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Kristen Finlay

Andrea Steinwand

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Jason Magee

Richard Stevens

Angelica Menck

Jim Meers

Debbie Theuss Shirley Tran

School Booking Coordinator

Kristen Hiemstra Josh Wickard

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Neil LeGrandeur

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Fund DEVELOPMENT Neil Luipasco

Director, Fund Development

Sydney Stuart

Manager, Fund Development

PRODUCTION

Cheryl L. Hoover Director

Bill Heron

Technical Director

Michelle Chan

Head of Scenic Paint Assistant Head of Scenic Paint Head of Props

Charlotte Hunt

Assistant Head of Props

Marc Anderson

Head Stage Carpenter

Andrew Hill

Assistant Head Stage Carpenter

Dan Beggs

Stage Carpenter

Patsy Thomas

Head of Wardrobe

Kayla Fulton

Assistant Head of Wardrobe

Lorraine Price

Head of Wardrobe Running

Barbara Becker

Wardrobe Maintenance Resident Stage Manager Samantha J. Rumball Patrick Fraser Head of Wigs Assistant Tammy Fox Technical Director Assistant Head of Wigs

Stephanie Ripley

Assistant Technical Director

Kyla Maki

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Owen Hutchinson Head of Audio

Ian Trace

Assistant Head of Audio

Peter Locock

Head of Scenic Carpentry

Chris Hayes

Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry

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

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