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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 By Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence & Mary Francis Moore Oct 4 – Nov 6, 2016
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux Original concept & direction by Floyd Mutrux Oct 22 – Nov 13, 2016 Presented by
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
DISGRACED By Ayad Akhtar Jan 21 – Feb 12, 2017 Presented by
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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 Disgraced! We’re very proud to present this provocative, incredibly crafted production that took Toronto by storm last season. This Pulitzer Prizewinning play is everything I think good theatre should be – smart and spiky writing that asks tough questions about faith, race relationships, and the responsibilities inherent in creating art. This is the kind of great play that will leave you deliberating and discussing long after it’s finished. A big welcome to the incredible cast, and whole team from Hope and Hell Theatre Company. This is a great production of a stellar script, and an important conversation for us all to have. Thanks so much for being a part of the Citadel family, and for supporting live theatre in Edmonton. Enjoy the show! Sincerely,
Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director
PS - Next up in our season is the all-singing, all-dancing, all-Gershwin musical, Crazy for You! It plays March 4-26 in the Shoctor Theatre. It is an incredibly fun night out, filled with all kinds of songs you know and love, like: I Got Rhythm and Someone to Watch Over Me. I hope you’ll join us!
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
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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. 10 CITADEL THEATRE 2016/17 SEASON
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RAOUL BHANEJA.............................................. Amir KAREN GLAVE................................................... Jory GABE GREY........................................................ Abe MICHAEL RUBENFELD.. ................................... Isaac BIRGITTE SOLEM.............................................. Emily Director................................................................ ROBERT ROSS PARKER Set & Costume Designer.. ................................. SUE LePAGE Lighting Designer............................................... REBECCA PICHERACK Sound Designer.................................................. JOHN GZOWSKI Assistant Director............................................... SEHAR BHOJANI Fight Director...................................................... DANIEL LEVINSON Stage Manager................................................... FIONA JONES Assistant Stage Manager.................................. SAM HALE This performance is approximately 80 minutes with no intermission. The action of the play takes place in an apartment on New York’s Upper East Side between the late summer of 2011 and the spring of 2012. DISGRACED was developed in part at the New Writers New Plays residency at Vineyard Arts Project (Ashley Melone, Founder and Artistic Director). DISGRACED had its World Premiere in January 2012 at American Theater Company, Chicago, Illinois (PJ Paparelli, Artistic Director). New York Premiere produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2012. Original Broadway Production produced by The Araca Group, Lincoln Center Theater, Jennifer Evans, Amanda Watkins, Richard Winkler, Rodger Hess, Stephanie P. Mcclelland, Tulchin/Bartner Productions, Jessica Genick, Jonathan Reinis, Carl Levin/Ashley De Simone/TNTDynaMite Productions, Alden Bergson/Rachel Weinstein, Greenleaf Productions, Darren Deverna/Jere Harris, The Shubert Organization, and The David Merrick Arts Foundation. DISGRACED is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
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City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of American Dervish, published in 25 languages worldwide and a 2012 Best Book of the Year at Kirkus Reviews, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Shelf-Awareness, and O (Oprah) Magazine. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. His play Disgraced played at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater in 2012 and premiered at the Bush Theater in London in May 2013. Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His play The Invisible Hand was nominated for the ATCA/ Steinberg Award, and won Best New Work 2013 from the St. Louis Theater Critics Circle. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. He has received commissions from Lincoln Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities with degrees in Theater and Film Directing.
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has the power to make us uncomfortable. And that is a rare and special thing in the theatre. Often, plays move us, sometimes in ways that surprise us, but the laughter or tears feel cathartic. Those emotions are a welcome release. Disgraced, however, can feel like a challenge. “I’m not sure how I’m supposed to feel,” was my initial reaction to the piece. And I believe that kind of provocation in art is rare and deeply valuable. This play has the power to challenge our assumptions, and the discomfort it creates is important. Ayad Akhtar is exploring his cultural and religious background as a Muslim. But he is really asking broader questions about tribalism in modern society. As educated and progressive members of the modern world, we can feel like strong individuals who have moved beyond tribal prejudices and loyalties. In Disgraced, we meet a group of successful and affluent people who we confidently believe are not defined by the colour of their skin or their parents’ religion or nationality. But are they (and perhaps we?) more bound by these loyalties than we realize and would like to admit? Is there a tension between the individual and the group identity? As much as we hope as a society to overcome our divisions and differences, are the politics of identity inescapable? Disgraced calls us to this discussion, and it is an urgent discussion we ignore at our peril. — Robert Ross Parker
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became the only popular American composer to have made “aHelasting dent in the granitic facade of classical music. ” Young Jacob was big into sports but, one day in his 10th year, his parents decided that brother Israel should better himself and take music lessons. They bought a piano and installed it in their second floor home at 242 Snediker Ave. An excited Jacob ran to the instrument and played, completely by ear, a popular piece he had heard the day before. He’d never had a lesson. His parents were surprised. Israel was relieved.
By the age of 15, Jacob left home and found work as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, a profession peculiar to the times when recordings were of very poor quality and piano players or vocalists were employed to perform a composer’s new songs anywhere people gathered – barbershops, department stores, street corners. He earned $15 a week, which he supplemented by making piano rolls for the popular self-playing instruments of the day. He wrote some songs of his own as well. Inspired by Stephen Foster’s The Old Folks at Home, and with the help of lyricist Irving Caesar, the kid from the New York slums who had never been south of Jersey, wrote a heartfelt ditty of a displaced Southern boy who longed to return to his home in Dixie. He penned it in 10 minutes, he later claimed, one afternoon on a bus ride home for the night. “The birds are singin’. The banjo’s strummin’,” he wrote.
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In 1919, Jacob Gershwine (now George Gershwin) sang it at a party where neighbourhood buddy Asa Yoleson (now big vaudeville star Al Jolson) heard him and incorporated it into his act. George was 20 years old and Swannee, with Jolson’s help, became the biggest hit of his career, selling a million sheet music copies and financing Gershwin’s course for the rest of his life. Freed from the grind of furnishing hit songs for radio, Gershwin turned to Broadway and the movies. Turned out that brother Ira (Israel) was a talented lyricist and the two of them collaborated on the Broadway shows Show Girl, Girl Crazy, I Got Rhythm and Of Thee I Sing, which went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. In the movies, he wrote for Astaire and Rogers. And the hits just kept on coming: Love is Here to Stay, A Foggy Day. Nice Work If You Can Get it, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, The Man I Love, S’wonderful, Summertime, A Foggy Day, Love Is Sweeping the Country. His music was played all the time and everywhere. Jazz musicians viewed I Got Rhythm as a seminal work whose harmonic progressions supported as much jazz improvisation as the blues. With An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue and his oft produced opera Porgy and Bess, wrote David Schiff in The Atlantic, “He became the only popular American composer to have made a lasting dent in the granitic facade of classical music. His classical compositions had a life on the pop charts and the pop music has, in turn, been enriched by the harmonic sophistication and expressive complexity of his classical works.”
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“And so it worked out. It was a real labour of love.” There is a story that Gershwin once went to Ravel and asked him for lessons in composition. Ravel is famously quoted as observing, “Why should you be second rate Ravel when you can be a first-rate Gershwin?” Gershwin died much too soon of a brain tumour in the early hours of July 11, 1937. He was 38 years old. But, of course, his music went on. In 1986, American playwright and director Ken Ludwig had a hit on his hands. In London’s Gielgud Theatre, his Lend Me A Tenor was convulsing audiences on its way to a long and successful run in North America. Meanwhile back in New York, Broadway producers Roger Horchow and Elizabeth Williams, noting the continuing success of the music of the brothers Gershwin, secured the rights to one of their earlier shows, Girl Crazy. Because of Ludwig’s comic smash, they came to him to adapt the original. Remembers Ludwig, “Musicals in those days were very different. With respect to the authors who are long gone, it didn’t hold together or make sense for audiences today.
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It had a lot of stereotypes that we would find repugnant; it had not much of a storyline, a very thin little thread. It was like a lot of little sketches and then a great song.” Ludwig declined but the producers allowed him to try and write a whole new musical from scratch. The delighted playwright immersed himself in the Gershwins. “I must have the biggest selection of Gershwin CDs in the world,” he chuckles. He haunted archives and museums. He found Naughty Baby in a Maureen McGovern album and others on the famous Louis Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald Gershwin collection. He located director Mike Ockrent, who helped him with his dramatic and comic smarts and the two found the then unknown (moreor-less) choreographer Susan Stroman (who went on to create much of The Producers). “I wrote it very quickly – they came to me in December 1991 and I had the first draft by March 1992. We did a workshop and everyone was really happy with it and so they scheduled rehearsals for summer. Lo and behold, we had quite a success.” I guess. It played for years on Broadway, winning three Tony Awards including Best Musical, and then it went to England where it won two Oliver Awards. “And so it worked out. It was a real labour of love.” Ludwig stitched together bits and pieces of every old stage and movie musical you’ve ever seen. It begins on the New York stage where Bobby Child, the singing/dancing son of a wealthy New York family is performing. The show features callow producers and Broadway
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Babies, mistaken identities and production numbers. And then it switches to Deadrock, Nevada, where Bobby meets laconic cowboys, the spunky Polly Baker and inherits The Gaiety, a failing local theatre. Will Bobby win the stubborn Polly, will a group of chorus girls show up in dusty Deadrock and will they all (including the cowboys who, surprisingly, also sing and dance) get together to put on a show? Did Fred Astaire ever dance on a ceiling? I was in New York in 1992, and had an afternoon off, so I decided to drop in and see what was creating all the fuss. The show certainly lived up to its hype – charming, tuneful, funny and filled with enough nostalgia to power a decade of Busby Berkley musicals. I was particularly struck with leading man Harry Groener. Groener is an old Broadway hand having appeared in Spamalot, Sunday in the Park With George and Cats – among many others. He’s a song and dance man in the Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Gower Champion tradition – good looking, blessed with a pleasant light tenor, a great sense of timing and a rubber body that seems unmoored to any bone structure. Groener secured a Tony nomination for his role. I was reminded of Groener when we saw Edmonton actor Andrew MacDonald-Smith as Bert in his Sterling Award winning performance in the Citadel’s Mary Poppins. He has all the same attributes combined with a winning, accessible stage presence. It’s hard to imagine anyone who would be better to strap on Groener’s tap shoes and assume the role of Bobby. The Citadel acceded to the obvious and indeed MacDonald-Smith will star in their upcoming production of Crazy for You. MacDonald-Smith ruefully observes about the tap heavy show, “I actually didn’t know a lot about Crazy For You but when I started going over it with the director I immediately knew that this was a role for me – but I’ll certainly have to brush up on my tapping!” The rest of the cast is a blue ribbon troupe, a who’s who of local talent including John Ullyatt, Susan Gilmour, Rachel Bowron and Jesse Gervais. The show will be directed by Stratford vet and two-time Tyrone Guthrie award winner, director/choreographer Dayna Tekatch. The show features such Gershwin brothers hits as Bidin’ My Time, I Can’t Be Bothered Now, Someone to Watch Over Me, Shall We Dance?, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm and many more. Crazy for You spills joyously onto the Shoctor stage of the Citadel on March 4 and runs through March 26.
About HOPE AND HELL THEATRE CO. Formed in 1995 by Raoul Bhaneja and Birgitte Solem for the national Fringe tour of Sad Surgeon, Hope and Hell Theatre Co. has toured Hamlet (solo) since its premiere in Toronto in 2006 all across Canada including a run at the National Arts Centre, Off-Broadway, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and The Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2014, in association with Theatre Passe Muraille, they began a 16-month tour of Canada, touring the Dora-nominated musical Life, Death and The Blues. Hope and Hell Theatre Co. is committed to bringing diverse stories and artists to stages across Canada and the world.
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RAOUL BHANEJA Amir
A graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada, Raoul is thrilled to return to the Citadel, where he appeared in the 2015 TPM/Hope and Hell Theatre Co. production of Life, Death and The Blues. Other appearances in Edmonton include a Fringe Festival hold over at The TransAlta Art Barns with Hamlet (solo), also directed by Robert Ross Parker; guest spots with improv masters DIENASTY and many musical gigs with local blues great Graham Guest. Raoul has worked on stages across the country, including The Stratford Festival and several world premieres at The Tarragon Theatre. A familiar face on screen, Raoul has over 90 film and television credits including most recently The Art of More for Sony Crackle and as lobbyist R. M. Dutton opposite Jessica Chastain in the Hollywood political thriller Miss Sloane.
KAREN GLAVE Jory
Karen has been on stage in a variety of productions including the sold-out production of The Postman (directed by David Ferry, Panamania 2015); Macbeth and Cyrano de Bergerac (Stratford Festival); Paulo and Daphne (Theatreworks); The Lady Smith (Theatre Passe Muraille); New World (Tarragon Theatre); Little Tongues (directed by Paul Lampert, Toronto Fringe Festival/ NOW Magazine Critic’s Pick: Outstanding Ensemble and Production). Film and television credits include The Strain and Crimson Peak (directed by Guillermo del Toro), River, Saving Hope, Suits, Remedy, Sensitive Skin, Lost Girl, The Day After Tomorrow, Shooting Oliver, and the award-winning Last Night by Don McKellar. A graduate of George Brown Theatre School, Karen was also part of the 2001 President’s Class at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in Oxford, England. Karen dedicates all her performances to Hugh Glave. Love you Daddy!
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GABE GREY Abe
Gabe Grey is best known for his role as Dr. Ned Patel on Global TV’s Bomb Girls, and as Dr. Naveed Mirali on the Spielberg/ABC drama, Lucky 7. He starred in Deepa Mehta’s film, Beeba Boys, which premiered at TIFF 2015. His next film, Hellmington, will be released in theatres in 2017. Gabe ventured into voice work in the videogames Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal by Ubisoft. He is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Actors Conservatory and a recipient of Reel Canada’s RBC Emerging Artist Award. Selected film and television credits include Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, The Border, Nikita, Covert Affairs and the feature film Toilet. Theatre credits include David Moss in Glengarry Glenn Ross; Freddie Mercury in UnCovered: Queen and Bowie; and 30 Dates. Gabe also has a dog named Bruno who takes up most of his Instagram feed: @gabe_grey
MICHAEL RUBENFELD
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Michael Rubenfeld is an actor, writer, director and producer living in Toronto and Krakow. As a performer and playwright, his work has been seen on stages in Canada, Europe and America. Acting credits include Isaac in Disgraced (Mirvish); Abram in Our Class (Canadian Stage/Studio 180 and Wilma Theater); and Louis in Angels in America (WJT). Michael has created multiple works with Selfconscious Theatre, including The Book of Judith and We Keep Coming Back, which will be touring to Poland, Berlin and Canada in 2017/18. Michael is the producer of the award winning Guerrilla Folk Opera, Counting Sheep and was Artistic Producer of the SummerWorks Performance Festival for eight years. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. michaelrubenfeld.com
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BIRGITTE SOLEM Emily
Birgitte is excited to be making her Citadel Theatre debut, having worked extensively in theatre, television and commercials for the last two decades. Last year, she co-produced and starred in Disgraced as part of the off-Mirvish season at the Panasonic Theatre, in association with Hope and Hell Theatre. Other theatre credits include Mom’s the Word (Drayton Festival and Magnus Theatre); Language of the Heart and The Rochdale Project (Theatre Passe Muraille); Filthy Rich, Sometime, Never, Anne and Stolen Lives (the Blyth Festival); Fifteen Seconds (Great Canadian Theatre Company); and Fast Lane (National Arts Centre). Television credits include The Handmaid’s Tale, Mayday, Alien Mysteries; Breakout Kings; Little Mosque on the Prairie and ReGenesis. Film credits include Suicide Squad, The Headhunter’s Calling, Anonymous and Population Zero.
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ROBERT ROSS PARKER Director
Robert is an NYC based Canadian theatre artist. He is the co-artistic director of the Obie award winning Vampire Cowboys with Qui Nguyen (Nguyen, he, and the company were listed among NYtheatre. com’s 2004 people of the year). He has directed all of their productions including Soul Samurai, Alice in Slasherland, and The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G. Other directing credits include Fast Company (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Branched (InViolet), How to be a New Yorker (CRC productions), She Kills Monsters (The Flea), Goodbye Cruel World (Roundtable Ensemble), and Hamlet (solo) (Hope and Hell). As an actor, Robert recently played Roland in Constellations (Hangar Theatre). He is the former editor of The Dramatist, the Journal of the Dramatists Guild of America. Robert has his BFA from Concordia and MFA from Ohio University.
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Set & Costume Designer Sue has more than 150 theatre design credits to her name, including productions with Soulpepper, Factory Theatre, Blyth, Ballet Jörgen Canada, Tarragon, Canadian Stage, the Stratford Festival, the NAC, the Banff Centre, the Grand Theatre, YPT and the Charlottetown Festival. Select credits include Death of a Salesman and August: Osage County (Citadel); Arcadia (Mirvish); The Philanderer, When We Are Married, Guys and Dolls, Ragtime, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Born Yesterday and Saint Joan (Shaw); It is Solved by Walking (HomeFirst); Red (Neptune); The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (NAC/Neptune); and Lillian Alling (Vancouver Opera/Banff Centre); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Private Lives, The Seagull, The Seafarer, Death and the Maiden (with CS), and Billy Bishop Goes to War (Royal MTC). Sue is a member of Associated Designers of Canada.
REBECCA PICHERACK Lighting Designer
Rebecca Picherack is an award-winning Toronto-based lighting designer who has created lighting for dance and theatre projects across three continents. Select credits include Dead Metaphor (Dir. George F Walker, Mirvish); Da Kink in My Hair (Dir. Weyni Mengesha); Century Song (Volcano); Blood Wedding (Soulpepper); Within the Glass and Infinity (Tarragon); Sleeping Beauty (Ballet Jorgen); Armstrong’s War (Canadian Rep); 20th of November and Tom at the Farm (Buddies in Bad Times). Rebecca has received three Dora Awards for excellence in lighting design. 40 CITADEL THEATRE 2016/17 SEASON
JOHN GZOWSKI Sound Designer
Composer, sound designer, musician, occasional Foley artist and instrument-maker John Gzowski has played banjo for opera in Banff, studied Carnatic classical music in India and played oud and guitar in jazz and folk festivals across Canada and Europe. His theatre work has won him six Dora Mavor Moore Awards for companies like Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Luminato Festival, Mirvish Productions, National Arts Centre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Arts Club Theatre Company, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Dancemakers, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre and Young People’s Theatre in about 200 productions. Gzowski has played on numerous CDs, with recent releases with Patricia O’Callghan, Tasa, and Autorickshaw, as well as a Juno Award nomination with Maza Meze.
SEHAR BHOJANI* Assistant Director
Sehar was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She has had the privilege of working alongside some of Canada’s leading talents and texts including the Montreal premiere of Anusree Roy’s Letters to my Grandma. She was recently a part of Factory Theatre’s Foundry, a playwriting unit for emerging playwrights, and starred as Rosaline in Dauntless City Theatre’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Currently, Sehar is a part of the inaugural Artist Producer Training Program while developing her own play surrounding the circumstances that lead to extremism. * Sehar Bhojani’s Assistant Directorship is generously supported by the Theatre Ontario Professional Development Program
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Daniel is the Artistic Director of Rapier Wit, Canada’s oldest stage combat school and production company, and is a certified fight master with Fight Directors Canada. He has produced, directed, performed and taught across Canada and has been a guest artist in the U.S., U.K. and Italy. He has worked with such companies as the Stratford Festival, Volcano Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Stage, Shakespeare in the Rough, Second City, and Dodger’s Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway. For more information about Daniel, please visit his website at www.rapierwit.com. DISGRACED 41
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Fiona is pleased to have her chair and tray table in an upright position. Now that she has come to a full stop at the terminal building, she is delighted to be back at the Citadel again with Raoul and the entire Disgraced company. Stage managing in theatres small and mid-sized, although the ambition was large, in venues large and small, indoors and out, from Salt Spring Island, B.C. to Guysborough, N.S. and a multitude of stops betwixt and between for the past 26 years. Be careful opening the overhead bin. Things will have shifted enroute.
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Assistant Stage Manager Selected credits include The Realistic Joneses and An Enemy of the People (Tarragon); Body Politic (Buddies in Bad Times/ lemonTree Creations); Hedda Gabler (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage); Parfumerie (Soulpepper); Mr. Burns (Outside The March); Here On The Flight Path (Foster Festival); 52 Pick-Up and The Glass Menagerie (The Howland Company/Toronto Fringe); The Last Five Years (Daemon Theatre); Ajax (Por Nobody) and And Now The End (SummerWorks); Jesus Christ Superstar and The Tempest (Hart House), and Fall (Dance North).
Special Thanks Hope and Hell Theatre Co. would like to thank Ayad Akhtar, David Mirvish, the staff at Mirvish Productions, Bob Baker, Penny Ritco, Daryl Cloran and the fantastic team at The Citadel. A huge thank you to Alan Convery and TD Bank Group for their generous support along with the Toronto Arts Council and Canada Council. Thanks to Jeffery Machado and EQ3 for the furniture, as well as The ARACA Group, Chris Till at CAA, The Lincoln Centre, Jacoba Knaapen at the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, Theatre Passe Muraille, Robert Vaughan and staff at DPS, Richard Jordan of Richard Jordan Productions (U.K.), Jonas Chernick, Raven Dauda, Su Hutchinson, Ali Momen, Natasha Mytnowych, Jay Holz, Annie Terrazo, the Aga Khan Museum, Derrick Chua, Stephen Guy McGrath, Colin Rivers and Cylla von Tiedemann for the photography.
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