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r u curious? 2016/17 season Board of Governors Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Chair Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Tom Redl, Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Marc de La Bruyère Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole Ralph B. MacMillan Sandy Mactaggart (Honourary) Jack McBain Arliss Miller Catrin Owen Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Sheila Witwicky Ex Officio Ralph Young
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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
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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
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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 AND SENSIBILITY Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the novel by Jane Austen Apr 22 – May 14, 2017
Welcome to Peter and the Starcatcher! I love this play. To me, it is everything that is great about theatre. It is fantastic, fun, innovative storytelling, which embraces theatre’s simple, transformative magic and asks you, the audience, to invest your imagination, your belief, and yourself in this story. The actors work as an ensemble, becoming hundreds of different characters and creating all the environments and magic themselves. And what a cast we have! This production is packed with some of the finest actors from Edmonton and across Canada. I am proud to welcome James MacDonald, Artistic Director of Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops, B.C., back to Edmonton, to direct this production. James, with our incredible designers, Megan Koshka, Narda McCarroll, and Bobby Smale, Choreographer Tracey Power, and Music Director Erik Mortimer, have built a fantastic, creative world for us to let our imaginations loose in, and allow ourselves to be transported across oceans to somewhere truly magical. I have two young sons (8 and 5 years old) who love the story of Peter Pan. I can’t wait to watch them watch this production. As a dad, I’m captivated by Peter’s ability to hold on to his youthful hopes and dreams and imagination in this story. I hope my boys never lose that. I hope I never lose that. As Peter says, “To have faith, is to have wings.” Tonight, let’s all fly together. Sincerely,
Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director
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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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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
THE CITADEL WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE ON • Dr. Ghalib Ahmed • The Audiology Clinic of Northern Alberta • Western Canada Theatre, Kamloops • Joanna Johnson, U of A Drama Department • Murray Palmer, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity • Lillian Messer, Theatre Calgary
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Based on a wonderfully irreverent book, Peter and the Starcatcher is often referred to as a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. The playwright prefers to describe it as “an origin story,” or even a “reboot.” Regardless, the characters, situations, dialogue, and even some of the props and costumes will be familiar to anyone who knows Barrie’s classic story in its many variations.
This is a play based in the power of imagination, the joy of make-believe, and the magic and wonder of being a child, seen through the eyes of adults. It is also heavily influenced by some of my favourite comedians, including Groucho Marx. The real pleasure in rehearsing the play was spent in exploration: discovering methods to use simple props in unusual ways, figuring out how to best utilize the entire theatre, and working as an ensemble to portray massive events onstage through movement, sound, and storytelling. There are many bookends associated with this production: Peter Pan was the first production in the Maclab Theatre, and featured two of our current cast members. In a different version, it was also the first production I worked on (as an assistant) during my tenure as associate artistic director of the Citadel. My journey as a theatre director and artistic director began by doing Shakespeare in Hawrelak Park with Free Will Players, with minimal scenery and props, no lighting or sound, and many outstanding young actors, designers, technicians, and administrators. After 27 years working in this community, it seems fitting to wrap up my time in Edmonton by directing a production that embraces the collaborative spirit of those early days, showcasing the versatility, ingenuity, sense of humour, and magnificent talent of Edmonton artists. — James MacDonald
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Longbourne, Netherfield Park, Rosing and mighty Pemberly itself came to vibrant life. The brilliant concept was the work of director Bob Baker and was the first of the Citadel shows to benefit from Baker’s lifelong dream of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, in which young theatre professionals spent six weeks at the Banff Centre attending master classes. They then came to Edmonton and performed in Tom Wood’s adaptation. The close company relationship that had developed among the mountains of Banff was obvious in an interior literary work that is a study in ensemble interconnection. The Citadel hopes to repeat that feat as the students of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, director Baker, adapter Wood and designer Frankish link again to present Austen’s first literary success, Sense and Sensibility, coming up next on the Citadel’s Shoctor Stage. Jane Austen’s name never appeared in her novels – “written by a lady” was the author credit. She wrote only six short books. They now sell in the millions but we’ll never know how many because they are long since out of copyright and anyone can publish them. She was regarded as a successful author in her time but never made much money. She concealed her writing from most of her acquaintances, slipping her writing paper under a blotter when someone entered the room. Though she avoided society, she was charming, intelligent and funny.
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At first it might appear that a tale of two young ladies of marriageable age who lived in genteel poverty with their widowed mother and experience love, romance and heartbreak might not be the stuff of today’s theatre. But Austen’s durable tale has shown remarkable endurance. In 1810, years after she wrote Sense and Sensibility, her father wrote to a publisher and offered it to him. The family came up with the necessary funds to have it published paying for the printing, advertising and distribution. It proved to be a modest success but never returned their investment. In fact, in her lifetime she earned about £600 from all her books combined, just enough to find a degree of independence. Surrounded by the love of her family and friends, she lived to be 42 and died in 1817. While her wildly successful contemporary, Sir Walter Scott, whose impact at the time might be compared to J. K. Rowling’s today, was writing his bold adventure novels in fiery letters across the sky, Austen was a miniaturist elevating the trivial to an art form. Sir Walter, however, was a fan, observing in a review, “The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going: the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiments is denied me.” Not everyone was enchanted – Carlyle dismissed her novels as “dishwashings.”
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“Austen’s greatest mainstream influence lies in the simple philosophy that ‘the heart wants what it wants’ where true love is more important than his or her social duties.
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We don’t know a lot about Austen. She wrote some 3,000 letters, mostly to her older sister Cassandra, but only 160 survive. In 1843, Cassandra destroyed her sister’s letters and cut pieces out of the others to prevent them falling into the hands of relatives and ensuring that “younger nieces did not read any of Jane’s sometimes acid or forthright comments on neighbours and family members.” In succeeding generations, the family expunged and sanitized the already opaque details of her life. Austen and her literary legacy were quietly disappearing. Then, in 1869, the family designated her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, to write a memoir. He described her as “dear aunt Jane” who was uninterested in fame and wrote only in her spare time. It would appear that the real Jane was somewhat different than outlined in the memoir. She relentlessly revised and rewrote her books and was perhaps less content than the family would have us believe. When she was very young, Austen fell in love with one Tom Lefroy, an impassioned but impoverished Irish law student and when finance and convention thrust them apart, they both carried a torch to the end of their lives.
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The memoir, however, resonated with Victorian readers and, fascinated by her rectitude and exemplary life, became a big seller rekindling a new interest in the author’s works. Since then, her novels have rarely been out of print. Austen wrote comedies of manners that depict the self-contained, poverty stricken provincial experiences of families in Regency England. Most of her works revolve around the delicate business of providing husbands for daughters of a marriageable age. Her characters are vividly drawn and she writes with a superb sense of comic irony, skewering rich and poor alike. Observes Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, “I wish, as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” Austen lures us into a world of gossip and bonnets. There are carriages, and ball gowns and romance. There is always a simple man of good fortune, like Mr. Darcy, around somewhere, a great plot and (always) a happy ending. She exhibited a sharp wit and wrote strong female characters. Her feminism was soft but she was still one of the first writers to suggest that women could martyr themselves for love and not increased social standing. She gave female characters the right to be happy – something we casually accept today. Observed Zoe Williams in The Guardian, “Austen’s greatest mainstream influence lies in the simple philosophy that ‘the heart wants what it wants’ where true love is more important than his or her social duties.”
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Austen has never been more popular than she is today. Just look at the endless stream of films (the latest being Love and Friendship, released just last year) and TV adaptions. There have been sequels, prequels, mashups and homages. Consider the Bollywood glitz of Bride of Prejudice in 2004. PD James wrote Death Comes to Pemberly in 2011, followed by a BBC miniseries. The recent book, Longbourn, by Jo Baker imagines the below stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice where the servants take centre stage. And who could forget the 2016 movie, Pride and Prejudice, and Zombies? Said Helen Fielding when pounding Pride and Prejudice into Bridget Jones Diary, “Jane Austen’s plots are so very good and have been market researched over the centuries, so I decided to simply steal one of them.”
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Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood family, focusing on the sisters Marianne and Elinor. Marianne is open and enthusiastic and becomes infatuated with the attractive John Willoughby. Willoughby is a dashing fellow and it’s easy to see why Marianne is attracted to him but, under his smooth exterior, he is a fortune hunting cad. He deserts her for an heiress and she eventually makes a sensible union with local bachelor Colonel Brandon. Elinor, the flip side of Marianne, is prudent and discreet and remains constant toward her lover, Edward Ferrars and, after overcoming some reversals, marries him. Not exactly the stuff of today’s cynical self-aware world. There were other warning signs in Austen’s wry, skeptical narrative voice which might have proven difficult to capture for a 21st century theatrical audience. But fate, and Austen’s own attitude toward her work conspired to assist her adapters. The author, who was then 19 years old, wrote the original Sense and Sensibility as a series of letters between her characters – as was the style of the day. But she was unhappy with the result and so changed the narrative style to emphasize dialogue. When he began his adaptation for Pride and Prejudice, Wood was agreeably surprised. He told me at the time, “Austen actually wrote more dialogue than Dickens” (Wood is also responsible for the superlative adaptation of the long-running adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Citadel). “Whole scenes, whole chapters are virtually all dialogue. The plot takes place inside the dialogue, moving the action. The language is incredible. I found all I had to do was paraphrase. The dialogue is very specific to each of the characters – to the way they shape a thought. That makes it great dialogue for theatre. In other times, Austen could easily have been a playwright.” The family Dashwood and all their friends (and enemies) in all their incredible lives will spill out onto the mainstage of the Citadel Theatre, beginning on April 22.
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CLINTON CAREW Bill Slank/Hawking Clam
Clinton is pleased to be returning to the Maclab stage at the Citadel with this fine crew. He comes from a long line of sea-faring folk, which may or may not have helped with preparation. Who can know for sure? Previously, at the Citadel, Cabaret, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Peter Pan. Work at other theatres include The Soul Collector, The Blue Orphan, Sticky Shoes (Catalyst Theatre); The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, and Mojo (Theatre Network); The Black Rider, and Hard Core Logo (November Theatre). He is the Artistic Director of Broken Toys Theatre, where he appeared onstage in Midsummer [a play with songs] and behind the scenes as director and translator for Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters and as director and writer for Star Killing Machine. He would like to send his love to his wife, Elena, and his daughter Penelope, who are the best. Enjoy the show!
NICH DAVIES Percussion
Born in Whitehorse, Yukon and migrating to rural Alberta soon thereafter, Nich Davies purchased his first drum-kit for $400 with money he had earned picking weeds for a self-storage lot. After finishing high school, Nich spent the next five years studying the jazz drumset, culminating with his graduation with distinction at MacEwan University’s Music Performance program. In 2011, Nich was invited to perform with the TD Ottawa Jazz Youth Summit and in 2016, was an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He has performed and toured with artists such as VISSIA, Two Bears North, The Consonance, Joe Nolan, Paul Cournoyer, Jenie Thai and productions such as 11’ O’Clock Number Improvised Musical (Grindstone Theatre); What Gives? (Teatro La Quindicina); and Song of the Martingale (StarDust Players).
OSCAR DERKX Peter
Oscar is thrilled to be returning to the Citadel to perform in Peter and the Starcatcher. Previous acting credits include A Christmas Carol, and Encounters (Citadel Theatre); The Hothouse Prince (Teatro La Quindicina); Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); Wish You Were Here (Plain Jane Theatre); Suburban Motel Series (Punctuate Theatre); The Antyssey, and Undercover (Concrete Theatre); Never Swim Alone (Blarney Productions); Bloody Poetry, and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Studio Theatre); as well as Alphonse, and The Fantasticks (TNT Theatre). He is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a BFA in Acting. Upcoming, you’ll find him at the second star to the right and straight on till morning. PETER AND THE STARCATCHER 39
PETER FERNANDES Smee
Peter is thrilled to be making his Citadel Theatre debut in Peter and the Starcatcher. He is a graduate of the Soulpepper Academy and the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program. Selected Credits include Passing Strange (Obsidian/Musical Stage Company); Alligator Pie (Western Canada Tour); Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), The Just, Incident at Vichy, Marat/Sade, The Dybbuk, Spoon River, Tartuffe, Idiot’s Delight, and The Crucible (Soulpepper); Are We There Yet? (Concrete); Work Plays (AWHC); Evil Dead: The Musical (Ground Zero, Hit & Myth); The Last Tree of Rapa Nui (MTYP); as well as Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing (Freewill Shakespeare). Upcoming: Onegin (Musical Stage Company/National Theatre Centre); King Lear, and Twelfth Night (Canadian Stage - Shakespeare in High Park).
RICHARD LEE HSI Prentiss
Richard is an Edmonton based actor, dancer, creator, and educator. He was last seen on the Citadel stage as a kickboxing unicorn/7-year old girl in Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Other selected acting credits include Games (Alberta Theatre Projects); Proud (Theatre No. 6); The Contract (Madfandango/Azimuth); Murderers Confess at Christmastime (Serial Collective/Theatre Network); Cowboy vs. Samurai (Chromatic Theatre); and Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen (Northern Light Theatre). As a dancer, he has worked with Edmonton Opera, Mayday Danse, Mile Zero Dance, The Good Women Dance Collective, Amber Borotsik, and Dancers’ Studio West. Most recently, CanAsian Dance (Toronto) presented his work Complicité, a dancetheatre collision of the mixed martial arts and contemporary dance worlds. Richard is a graduate of the B.F.A. Acting Program at the University of Alberta.
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DOUG MERTZ Lord Aster
Doug Mertz is very excited to work again with James MacDonald! Doug was most recently heard in Cardiac Theatre’s Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, and most recently seen in Witch Hunt at the Strand for Workshop West Theatre. Other credits include Much Ado About Nothing with Thou Art Here Theatre at the Lougheed House in Calgary; Clybourne Park (Sterling nomination), A Few Good Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and A Christmas Carol here at The Citadel; Driving Miss Daisy (with Michael Learned) and The Long Weekend at the Mayfied; Or the Whale and Doubt at Studio Theatre; Julius Caesar and The Tempest for Freewill Shakespeare; Shadow Theatre: Evie’s Waltz; StageLab: The Absent One and The Unseen at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Doug is also Director of Education and Outreach here at the Citadel.
ERIK MORTIMER
Piano/Keyboard/Music Director Erik is a musician based in Edmonton. He has been recognized with a Sterling award for his music direction, on The Last Five Years (Theatre Network), and was nominated on two other occasions for Drat the Cat (Plain Janes) and Honk (Grindstone Theatre). He has composed scores for Robin Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella at Fort Edmonton Park. Recent work includes What Gives, Songs of the Martingale and Off Book the Musical. He has music directed with the Citadel Young Company, Alberta Opera, and is pianist for Citie Ballet. Erik performs regularly with Andrea House and works as a side musician, studio musician, performer, and educator. He has had the opportunity to work with improv companies including Die-nasty, Rapid Fire, Rocket Sugar Factory and IBugairdini.
GLENN NELSON Alf
Glenn’s Citadel credits include West Side Story, One Man, Two Guvnors, Death of a Salesman, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Equus, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, King Lear, 1984 and To Kill a Mockingbird. Other theatre credits in Edmonton include Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and Comedy of Errors (Freewill Players); Little Elephants, The Odd Couple, Uncle Vanya, Fly Fishers Companion, Sexy Laundry, Harvest and Mistakes Were Made (Shadow Theatre, Sterling nomination); My One and Only (Workshop West); Metastasis (Northern Light Theatre); as well as Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Rumors, The Last Romance, and Henry and Alice: Into the Wild (Mayfield Theatre). PETER AND THE STARCATCHER 41
RYAN PARKER Captain Scott
Ryan is thrilled to be part of the amazingly talented group of creatives involved in this show. Ryan was last seen earlier this season as Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet. Selected credits include Nevermore (Off Broadway: Catalyst Theatre/Radio Mouse); One Man, Two Guvnors (Citadel Theatre); Coriolanus and Romeo and Juliet (Freewill Players); It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman! the Musical (Plain Jane Theatre); Barefoot in the Park and East of My Usual Brain (Teatro La Quindicina); and Spelling Bee (Mayfield Dinner Theatre). Ryan has a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta and a Theatre Arts Diploma from MacEwan University. Offstage, Ryan can either be found in his photography studio – ryanparkerphotography.com – or spending time with his wonderful wife, Claire, and son, Jackson.
ANDREA RANKIN Molly
Andrea is delighted to be working with this beautiful team. Previous credits include A Christmas Carol (‘14, ‘15) and Make Mine Love (Citadel); Cordelia in King Lear (Theatre Calgary/Bard on the Beach); Sarah in Shakespeare’s Rebel (Bard on the Beach); Desdemona in Othello (The Shakespeare Company); Luciana in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare By the Bow); a soloist in Macbeth, and Hansel & Gretel (Edmonton Opera); Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Marie in Pains of Youth, Mary Magdalene in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Wife in Blood Wedding (Studio Theatre); Thea in Spring Awakening (Strathcona Theatre Co.); Caroline in MOTE (Blarney Productions); as well as voice work on Mass Effect 3 (EA Games). Andrea has a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta. Here’s to the ‘insatiably curious’ little starcatcher in all of us.
GARETT ROSS Mrs. Bumbrake
Garett Ross is a graduate of the Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts Program, and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Alberta. Credits include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Penelope vs. The Aliens (Citadel); Nevermore, The Soul Collector, and Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); The Best Brothers, A Year in Winter, That Darn Plot, and Beginning of August (Shadow Theatre); Jack Goes Boating (Sage Theatre/Shadow Theatre); The Last Resort, Chicago, Hairspray, and Sheer Madness (Mayfield). Garett received a Sterling award for his work this past year in A New Brain with Plain Jane Theatre, and has been nominated for Sterling Awards for his work on Jack Goes Boating, That Darn Plot (Shadow Theatre), The Old Curiosity Shop (Poor Man’s Classic Co-op), and The Raven and the Writing Desk (Acme Theatre). 42 CITADEL THEATRE 2016/17 SEASON
FARREN TIMOTEO Black Stache
Farren was last seen at the Citadel Theatre in Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Make Mine Love, and Monty Python’s Spamalot, the last of which earned him an Elizabeth Haynes Sterling Award. Some of his other acting credits include The Light in the Piazza (Theatre Calgary); As You Like it, and Coriolanus (Freewill Shakespeare); Marvellous Pilgrims, and Scent of Compulsion (Teatro la Quindicina); Little Shop of Horrors, and Gentleman Prefer Blondes (Mayfield Theatre). In 2015, Farren was included in Avenue Magazine’s list of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40, celebrating the city’s most promising young leaders. Farren can next be seen performing in his own one-person play, Made in Italy, at The Club. He resides in Edmonton with his wife, Patricia Zentilli, and their six-year-old son, Leonardo.
STEPHANIE WOLFE Fighting Prawn
Stephanie’s most recent encounter with the Shoctor stage was last fall in The Curious Incident … This past year, she appeared in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Teatro la Quindicina), and Burning Bluebeard (Edmonton Actors Theatre). Local companies she has worked with include Citadel Theatre, Theatre Network, Northern Light Theatre, Workshop West, Free Will Players (where she will appear this summer), Phoenix Theatre and The Mayfield. Across Canada, Stephanie has worked at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, Regina’s Globe Theatre, Saskatoon’s Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, ATP and Theatre Calgary, in Calgary. Stephanie is a voice over artist and a recipient of Sterling and AMPIA Awards. Film and television credits include a recurring role on Tiny Plastic Men and 40 Below and Falling.
MORGAN YAMADA Ted
Morgan is playing Ted, and a few other characters along the way, in the wonderful adventure that is Peter and the Starcatcher! Morgan is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program (class of 2015), as well as an Advanced Actor Combatant with Fight Directors Canada (FDC). She would like to thank her family, friends and mentors for all of their support! She would also like to mention that sticky pudding is a wonderful thing that everyone should try at least once. Select theatre credits include Fiddle Cat (Kompany Family Theatre); Dead Centre of Town (2016 & 2015 - Catch the Keys Productions); Lunch with Mother (Short Girl Productions); and Under Cover (Concrete Theatre). PETER AND THE STARCATCHER 43
JAMES MacDONALD Director
This marks James’ 16th production as a director at the Citadel. His previous credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Fire, and Vimy. As an actor, he has appeared in over 20 productions at the Citadel, including five seasons playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Over the span of his 27-year career, he has worked across the country, including at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and has contributed to the development of over 50 new Canadian plays. A graduate of the University of Alberta, James was the founding artistic director of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. A former associate artist at the Citadel, James was recently appointed the artistic director of Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops.
MEGAN KOSHKA Set & Costume Designer
Megan Koshka is a freelance Canadian theatre designer, based in Edmonton. She is a member of the ADC and holds a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta. She is thrilled to be debuting her work as part of the Citadel’s mainstage series. Upcoming credits include set and costume design for Irma Voth (Theatre Network), and costume design for the 2017 Freewill Shakespeare Festival (Free Will Player’s Theatre Guild). Select credits include costume design for Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre/Alberta Theatre Projects), 2016 Freewill Shakespeare Festival (Free Will Player’s Theatre Guild), set and costume design for Gordon (Theatre Network), The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Alberta Opera, production design for The Other (Pyretic Productions), and associate costume design for Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre, 2015 Sterling Award Best Costume Design). View her portfolio online at mkoshka.com
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NARDA McCARROLL Lighting Designer
Last season, Narda was the Lighting Designer for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Selected Citadel credits include lights for Venus in Fur, Clybourne Park, A Few Good Men, As You Like It, The Drowning Girls (cross Canada tour); production design for Extinction Song, Shining City, Vimy (co-design); costumes for The Penelopiad, God of Carnage, Julius Caesar, The Pillowman, Einstein’s Gift. Favourite design credits elsewhere include Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); Turn of the Screw, The Haunting, and Sweeney Todd (Vertigo Theatre); Slipper, Cockroach, The Circle, Red, and Mary’s Wedding (Alberta Theatre Projects); Gracie, and The Trespassers (Belfry Theatre); and The Mikado (Calgary Opera). Narda designed costumes for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival for 16 seasons. She is the recipient of four Sterling Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards. narda.ca
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BOBBY SMALE Sound Designer
Bobby is a sound designer based in Edmonton, and he is very excited to be part of the artistic team for this amazing production. Design credits include sound design for Bittergirl (Citadel Theatre); The Merry Widow, The Magic Flute, The Mikado, and Pirates of Penzance (Edmonton Opera); Angels in America (Keyano Theatre); sound and media design for The Blue Light (Keyano Theatre); lighting and projection design for Next Year’s Man of Steel (Shadow Theatre); and Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things (Kill Your Television). He also builds custom guitars and stringed instruments from exotic hardwoods and found objects. His instruments can be found in the hands of musicians, on displayed in galleries, and out at guitar trade shows. To see and hear more, check out bobbysmale.com.
TRACEY POWER Choreographer
For the Citadel: Chelsea Hotel, The Songs of Leonard Cohen (actor/ director), Clybourne Park, Blackbird (actor), and The Jungle Book (playwright). Recent shows Tracey has choreographed include Onegin (Arts Club Theatre); Chelsea Hotel, The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Firehall Arts Centre/National Tour); Miss Shakespeare, which she also wrote (Firehall Arts Centre); three years of The East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement & The Cultch); and Singin’ in the Rain (Chemainus Theatre), which she also directed. Coming up, she will assistant direct Le Nozze de Figaro for Vancouver Opera, and choreograph The Winter’s Tale for Bard on the Beach. Tracey has worked across Canada and Internationally as an actor and playwright, and has been the recipient of the Jessie Richardson and Sterling Haynes Award for her work. www.traceypower.ca
Beth Dart
Assistant Director Beth Dart is the co-artistic producer of Catch the Keys Productions, an independent arts-based event and production company known for Dead Centre of Town, an annual site-specific theatre experience inspired by the true crimes and ghost stories of Edmonton’s past. She is the artistic producer of Common Ground Art Society and Found Festival, Edmonton’s only multidisciplinary found space and site specific arts festival. From 2008-2015, Beth curated the Nextfest NiteClubs, a series of multidisciplinary performance parties showcasing emerging artists. She works regularly with Good Women Dance Collective, Defiance Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, has produced the Mayor’s Celebration for the Arts since 2014, and is the programmer and stage manager of The Late Night Cabaret at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. 46 CITADEL THEATRE 2016/17 SEASON
KERRY JOHNSON Stage Manager
Kerry is delighted to be returning to the Citadel as the Stage Manager for Peter and the Starcatcher. Previous ASM credits at the Citadel include A Christmas Carol, Other Desert Cities, Arcadia, Mary Poppins, The Penelopiad, The Wizard of Oz and The Forbidden Phoenix. Select SM credits include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (ATP); Liberation Days (Theatre Calgary); Ursa Major (Catch the Keys/Workshop West); Christina/ Phillipe (Northern Light Theatre); and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Freewill Shakespeare Festival). Kerry is a graduate of the BFA Stage Management program at the University of Alberta and the Theatre Arts Program at MacEwan University. Big love to Molly and Erin and to her partner Andrew.
MOLLY PEARSON Assistant Stage Manager
Molly’s recent credits include stage managing Bust for Theatre Network, The Anxiety Project for Theatre Yes, Working It Out for The Alberta Worker’s Health Centre, The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux for Northern Light Theatre/l’UniTheatre, La Voix Humaine for l’UniTheatre/Opera NUOVA, Jean et Beatrice for l’UniTheatre, assistant stage managing Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It and Coriolanus for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival, A Christmas Carol for Citadel Theatre, apprentice stage managing Playing with Fire, The Penelopiad, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and A Christmas Carol for the Citadel Theatre, and Helen Lawrence for The Arts Club Theatre.
ERIN VALENTINE
Apprentice Stage Manager Erin Valentine holds her BFA in Stage Management from the University of Alberta. Earlier this season, she was apprentice stage manager and child supervisor for A Christmas Carol here at the Citadel. Previously at the Citadel, Erin was apprentice stage manager for BOOM and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Additional credits include stage management for Reflections, Encounters, and Evolution (Citie Ballet); Star Killing Machine (Broken Toys Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Alberta Opera); Afterimage (Citadel Young Company); Category E (Maggie Tree); The Contract (MadFandango Theatre Collective); Proud (theatre no. 6); Three Sisters (Broken Toys Theatre); Production assistant for The Last Five Years (Theatre Network); and apprentice stage manager for Eugene Onegin (Edmonton Opera). Thanks to the whole Peter and the Starcatcher crew, especially Kerry and Molly, for a wonderful, special experience! PETER AND THE STARCATCHER 47
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Liana Shannon Artistic Director Emeritus Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule Brian Dooley Director, Play Development FTS Teaching Assistants Christine Frederick Sophie Gareau-Brennan Indigenous Associate Artist Josh Languedoc Doug Mertz Marguerite Lawler Director, Education & Clayton Plamondon Outreach Joyanne Rudiak Don Horsburgh Resident Music Director Geri Schaer Wayne Paquette ADMINISTRATION Bob Baker
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Shirley Tran
School Booking Coordinator
Guest Services Supervisors Cody Carver Victoria deJong Jessica Glover Mark Harding Caitlin Hart Jacob Liska Jim Maher Marianne Bouthillier Brittany Molner Associate Executive Director Sifiso Nidza Calvin Simonson Peni Christopher Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Guest Services Company Manager Representatives Rebekah Andrews FACILITY Stephanie Bahniuk Louis Barron Melissa Budinski Director Colleen Bunyan Maintenance Michaela Chiste Bill Daniels Carol Dreger Jackie Kirschner Jonah Dunch Janitorial Sara Knourek Carly Neis Bee Clean Services Taylor Ogilvie Security Jules Pepin Alberta Crowd Natasha Pigford Management Chris Powell Building Porter Evelyn Scheibli William Cardle Dustyn Tennessen Tara Gale Michael Vetsch Kali Weber
FINANCE
Pat Bradley
Director of Finance
Bettyanna Huggins
Accounting Assistant
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Ken Davis
Director, Marketing & Communications
Fund DEVELOPMENT Marissa Kochanski Neil Luipasco
Director, Fund Development
Sydney Stuart
Manager, Fund Development
PRODUCTION
Cheryl L. Hoover
Director of Production
Bill Heron
Technical Director
Props
Amy Kucharuk Props
Danine Regenwetter Props
Angie Sotiropoulos Props
Marc Anderson
Head of Stage Carpentry
Gryphen Colling
Assistant Head of Stage Carpentry
Michelle Chan
Scott Bricker
Patrick Fraser
Perry Harris
Gal Minnes
Patsy Thomas
Resident Stage Manager
Scenic Carpenter
Technical Director, Rentals Scenic Carpenter
Assistant Production Manager
Kyla Maki
Head of Wardrobe
Judith Darough Cutter
Administrative Assistant
Claude Tanguay
Head of Audio
Barb Becker
Assistant Head of Audio
Susan Montelbetti
Head of Scenic Carpentry
Helen Flower
Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry
Tammy Barry
Scenic Carpenter
Brenda Inglis
Scenic Carpenter
Ashlynne King
Scenic Carpenter
Kathryn Neuman
Scenic Carpenter
Genevieve Savard
Scenic Carpenter
Ava Siemens
Head of Electrics
Elena Vandakurova
Owen Hutchinson Nick Rose
Peter Locock Chris Hayes
Greg Cardinal
Andre LaFrance Dan Menard
Serge Menard Mike Patton
Sheila Cleasby
Tailor
Fabricator Dyer
Miliner
Stitcher Stitcher Stitcher Stitcher Stitcher Stitcher
Stitcher Assistant Head of Electrics Lorraine Price Head of Manager, Media Relations Elijah Lindenberger Wardrobe Running GUEST SERVICES Brent Felzien Electrics Syd Gross Kimberlee Stadelmann Video Editor/Designer Nicole Deibert Dresser Director/ Kristen Finlay Head of Scenic Paint Kathryn Neuman Sales and Guest Services Manager, Communications Kim North Dresser Josh Wickard – Academy/Social Media Scenic Artist Terri Grant Patron Services Manager Kristen Hiemstra Amy Sanders Wardrobe Maintenance Sarah Farnsworth Graphic Designer Scenic Artist Samantha J. Rumball Assistant Patron Services Mel MacDonald Jim Meers Head of Wigs Manager Administrator, Marketing Head of Props Katie Patton Theresa Hovdestad & Fund Development Charlotte Hunt Assistant Head of Wigs House Manager Debbie Theuss Assistant Head of Props Gaylynne Fell Virginia Potkins Manager, Corporate Relations Wigs Rentals Manager
Crystal Johnston
Payroll Accountant
Sydnee Bryant
Meaghan Skerik
The Citadel is grateful for the kind generosity of its volunteers listed below. If you want to volunteer with the Citadel, please call Theresa Hovdestad at 780-428-2118 or e-mail volunteers@citadeltheatre.com.
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