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2019/20 SEASON

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Wendy Dupree President Julie Afanasiff Treasurer Jennifer Addison (Specialist Director) Jeff Boadway James Casey Lesley Cormack Sandra Haskins Hubert Lau Dave Mowat Tammy Patterson Micah Slavens

HONOURARY DIRECTORS Jack N. Agrios, Jane Batty, Ken Bautista, 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, Jane Halford, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Becky Hole, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Richard Kirby, 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, Peter Silverstone, Gaurav Singhmar, Larry Staples, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa

2019/20 SEASON RING OF FIRE: THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH Created by Richard Maltby, Jr. Conceived by William Meade July 20 – Aug 11, 2019

THE COLOR PURPLE Book by Marsha Norman Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray Sep 21 – Oct 13, 2019

FIGHT NIGHT

By Ontroerend Goed Oct 17 – 27, 2019

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By Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss Nov 1 – 24, 2019

A CHRISTMAS CAROL A New Adaptation by David Van Belle Based on the Novella by Charles Dickens Nov 30 – Dec 23, 2019

COST OF LIVING

By Martyna Majok Jan 11 – Feb 2, 2020

EVERY BRILLIANT THING

By Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe Feb 1 – 23, 2020

AS YOU LIKE IT Written by William Shakespeare Adapted by Daryl Cloran Feb 15 – Mar 15, 2020

THE GARNEAU BLOCK Adapted by Belinda Cornish From the novel by Todd Babiak Mar 14 – Apr 5, 2020

PETER PAN GOES WRONG

By Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer Based on Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Apr 11 – May 3, 2020

AFTER THE FIRE

By Matthew MacKenzie Apr 18 – May 10, 2020

Message From The

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome to Six! This musical is a phenomenon! We are so lucky to have this incredible production here at the Citadel, and so proud that Edmonton is a step on this show’s meteoric path to Broadway!

Six is an incredible success story. Starting as a University project, then playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the production was picked up for an incredibly successful run in London’s West End. And this year the production has made its North American debut at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Boston’s American Repertory Theater, and now at The Citadel!

(The only theatre in Canada where you can see Six!) After Edmonton, the production travels to St. Paul, Minneapolis, and then opens on Broadway.

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss have created an exhilarating and empowering story with absolutely infectious music (which has already had over 50 million streams online!) We are proud to welcome this incredible cast of Queens to the Citadel en route to Broadway (including Winnipeg’s own Andrea Macasaet!).

And thanks very much to you, our audience, for supporting live theatre in Edmonton.

In the new year, with both Hadestown and Six playing in New York, Citadel audiences can proudly say, “We saw it first in Edmonton!” for two of Broadway’s most popular productions!

Sincerely,

Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director

PS – It’s our 20th anniversary of A Christmas Carol, and this year to celebrate, we’re premiering a brand new adaptation written by Edmonton’s own David van Belle, and starring St. Albert-born Ted Dykstra as Scrooge! We hope you’ll join us for this magical new production of the story you know and love, filled with music (a live band!) and beautiful new sets and costumes.

We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is Treaty No. 6 territory

and a traditional meeting ground and home of the First Nations, including both the treaty signatories – Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stony and Cree-Iroquois – as well as other Indigenous peoples, such as the Blackfoot and Métis, who occupied this land. We extend our appreciation for the opportunity to live, create, and perform on this territory.

Nikistêyhtamâkânân oma askîwihtâwin ita kâ mâwasakôyâhk Nikotwâsik Kâ akihtêk omâmawôpayônôwâw Nistam Îyinôwak, nânapo ôkih tipahamawâkan tahkikwanênkêwak-Nêhîyawak, Nahkawînôwak, Opwâsîmowak, Asinî Pwâtak êkwah Nêhîyaw Paskosikanak-êkwah kotakak Îyinôwak, tâpiskôc Kaskitêwayasitak êkwah Âpihtwâyak, kâkîh kikîwîhkêcik otah. Nitâniskê nanâskôtênân tawâw ôtah êh ayâyâhk tita wîci pimâtisîhtamâhk, tita osîhcikêyâhk êkwah tita nôkohtihiwêyâhk otah askîwihtâwinihk.

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PREMIER SUPPORTERS WE ARE PROUD TO RECOGNIZE our Premier Supporters; our partners in the creation of theatre at the Citadel.

THE HOLE FAMILY • THE JOHN AND BARBARA POOLE FAMILY FUND THE ELDON & ANNE FOOTE FUND • THE JOSEPH H. SHOCTOR FUND

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 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 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

DR. JOSEPH H. SHOCTOR, 1922 – 2001 executive producer and founder, the citadel theatre Joe’s vision brought professional theatre to Edmonton Joe’s dream built the Citadel Theatre Joe’s spirit continues to inspire the theatre we create today Joe’s legacy lives on through a generous gift to the Citadel from his estate

HENRY HOLE, 1884 – 1954 On the Citadel’s 30th Anniversary, a gift was made by the Company of Harry Hole, James F. Hole, Ralph K. Hole and Robert W. Hole on behalf of the Hole family — in honour of their late father, Henry Hole.

The Citadel Theatre is proud to honour Henry Hole’s integrity, compassion and leadership in the dedication of this complex to his memory.

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L AT E S E ATIN G /REA D MITTA N CE We endeavour to minimize the distraction for our patrons and the actors when seating latecomers. If you arrive late for a performance, you will be seated at the first appropriate moment in the play in designated latecomer seating. If you must leave the theatre during the performance you will be reseated in designated seats at the back of the theatre.

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STUDENTS CLUB The Citadel Theatre believes that young people are integral to the artistic fabric of our community and we are committed to programming and initiatives that develop their creative voices and encourage their participation. Students Club offers a unique glimpse into the world of professional theatre to a wide range of local junior and senior high school students. Prior to select performances of each of our Mainstage shows, members gather for a light supper and then participate in a highly engaging, interactive presentation with one of our region’s talented theatre artists, covering some aspect of theatre – from choreography to design, from stage combat to Shakespeare. Following the performance, students stay for an informative talkback with members of the production’s cast and crew.

Prior to Students Club performances of Six, students enjoyed an interactive workshop with Andrew Ritchie. Andrew is a director and theatre maker from Edmonton. Andrew has worked across Canada and his work has ranged from new work, classical text, and immersive theatre. Andrew holds an MFA in Directing/ Creation from York University, a BA in Drama from University of Alberta and is a graduate of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. He is a co-founder of the Found Festival, Edmonton’s only site-specific arts festival, and was festival director from 2012-2015. He is an artistic director of You Are Here Theatre and founding co-artistic director of Thou Art Here Theatre with his best friend Neil Kuefler. He has performed improv across North America, Andrew Ritchie is an alumnus of Rapid Fire Theatre and current ensemble member of Hitchhikers Improv. Currently he lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and is the Theatre School Director and Sandbox Series Coordinator for the Globe Theatre. Upcoming he is directing Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn (Fringe Theatre Adventures) and The Circle by Geoffrey Simon Brown (Globe Theatre). www.andrewritchie.net Through the workshop the students learned how directors work alongside actors to create performances unique to that actors personality and abilities. They now understand methods a director uses to get the best performance out of individuals and the notion of directing to personal advantages.

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ADRIANNA HICKS..................................... Catherine of Aragon ANDREA MACASAET................................ Anne Boleyn ABBY MUELLER.. ....................................... Jane Seymour BRITTNEY MACK....................................... Anna of Cleves SAMANTHA PAULY................................... Katherine Howard ANNA UZELE.............................................. Catherine Parr NICOLE KYOUNG-MI LAMBERT.. ........... Alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr MALLORY MAEDKE.................................. Alternate Boleyn/Seymour/Howard/

Dance Captain Directors...................................................... LUCY MOSS & JAMIE ARMITAGE Choreographer. . .......................................... CARRIE-ANNE INGROUILLE Set Designer. . .............................................. EMMA BAILEY Costume Designer.. .................................... GABRIELLA SLADE Lighting Designer....................................... TIM DEILING Sound Designer.......................................... PAUL GATEHOUSE Orchestrator................................................ TOM CURRAN Musical Supervisor. . ................................... JOE BEIGHTON Music Director. . ........................................... ROBERTA DUCHAK Casting......................................................... BOB MASON New York Casting...................................... TARA RUBIN CASTING &

PETER VAN DAM, CSA Musician Contractor.................................. JIM COCKELL Stage Manager........................................... LISA RUSSELL Assistant Stage Manager.......................... AL GADOWSKY Associate Director...................................... MEGAN E.FARLEY Assistant Choreographer.......................... MALLORY MAEDKE Associate Costume Designer................... MIEKA VAN DER PLOEG Associate Lighting Designer..................... PAUL TOBEN Associate Sound Designer.. ...................... JOSH MILLICAN Photography. . .............................................. LIZ LAUREN

(Courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare Theater) The run time of this performance is approximately 80 minutes with no intermission.

Six © 2017 Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss.

Six was originally performed by Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society. This production was first performed on 11th July 2018 at Norwich Playhouse, England and opened at the Arts Theatre, London on 18th January 2019. Six is presented under license from Ex-Wives Ltd., London.

All rights reserved. For all rights enquiries: rights.sixthemusical.com Six received its U.S. premiere at The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on May 22, 2019, Rick Boynton, Creative Producer; Barbara Gaines, Artistic Director; Criss Henderson, Executive Director.

The Citadel engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Production personnel for the Citadel Theatre are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.) Sponsors

EDMONTONˇS RELAXING FAVOURITES

CATHERINE OF ARAGON

BIRTH AND DEATH 15 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 MARRIAGE 1: To Arthur (Henry’s older brother) 14 November 1501 (aged 15) 2: To Henry 11 June 1509 (aged 23) CHILDREN Mary, born 18 February 1516; 3 stillborn children; 2 died as babies; further miscarriages INTERESTS Religion, sewing, dancing, a bit more religion CAUSE OF DEATH Probably a type of cancer REMEMBERED FOR Her refusal to accept that her marriage was invalid; her faith; her dramatic speech to Henry at the court to judge the annulment of their marriage DID YOU KNOW? Catherine was Regent (whilst Henry fought in France in 1513) during the Battle of Flodden; when James IV of Scotland was killed in the battle she wanted to send his body to Henry as a present…

QUEENSPIRATION Beyoncé and Shakira

ANNE BOLEYN

BIRTH AND DEATH MARRIAGE CHILDREN INTERESTS CAUSE OF DEATH REMEMBERED FOR DID YOU KNOW?

JANE SEYMOUR

A LITTLE BIT

BIRTH AND DEATH MARRIAGE CHILDREN INTERESTS CAUSE OF DEATH REMEMBERED FOR

Probably 1501 – 19 May 1536 25 January 1533 (aged 31) Elizabeth, born 7 September 1533 (later Queen Elizabeth I); At least two miscarriages Fashion, dancing, flirtation, collecting evangelical works Executed on Tower Green, London Headlessness; bringing about the break with the Pope; having a sixth fingernail Anne was fluent in French and would have acted as a translator during the visit of Emperor Charles V to court in 1522…

QUEENSPIRATION Lily Allen and Avril Lavigne

1507 or 1508 – 24 October 1537 30 May 1536 (aged 28/9) Edward, born 12 October 1537 (later King Edward VI) Religious faith, being obedient Haemorrhage after birth of Prince Edward Being the ‘only one he ever loved’; having two troublesome brothers who fought over the regency of the young Prince after King Henry’s death DID YOU KNOW? Whilst Anne was still alive, Henry sent Jane a gift of money, which she refused, apparently saying there ‘was no treasure in this world that she valued so much as her honour’…

QUEENSPIRATION Adele and Sia

ANNA OF CLEVES

BIRTH AND DEATH MARRIAGE CHILDREN INTERESTS REMEMBERED FOR DID YOU KNOW?

KATHERINE HOWARD

BIRTH AND DEATH MARRIAGE CHILDREN INTERESTS REMEMBERED FOR DID YOU KNOW?

CATHERINE PARR

T OF HER-STORY...

BIRTH AND DEATH Probably 1512 – 5 September 1548 MARRIAGE 1. To Sir Edward Burgh, a courtier 1529-1533 2. To John Neville, Lord Latimer 1534-1543 3. To Henry 12 July 1543 4. To Thomas Seymour May 1547 in secret CHILDREN A daughter (to Thomas Seymour) who died as a baby CAUSE OF DEATH Childbirth INTERESTS Writing books; encouraging education; Reformation REMEMBERED For surviving DID YOU KNOW? Catherine was the first woman in England to publish books under her own name and in English QUEENSPIRATION Alicia Keys and Emeli Sandé

1515 – 16 July 1557 6 January 1540 (aged 24) None Staying alive Staying alive When Henry first met Anne of Cleves he disguised himself, possibly imagining some sort of romantic reaction. When he kissed her, she is said to have turned away coldly at this hideous stranger molesting her; according to a witness, Lord Russell, he ‘never saw His Highness so marvellously astonished’…

QUEENSPIRATION Nicki Minaj and Rihanna

Probably 1523 – 13 February 1542 28 July 1540 (aged 17) None Dancing, music, animals Being completely used (and abused) by those with more power From her arrest on 8 November 1541 to her execution three months later, Catherine stayed under house arrest at Syon House; in late January 1542, an Act was passed in parliament that made it treason for a woman to become the king’s wife without ‘plain declaration before of her unchaste life’, meaning Henry could have her killed…

QUEENSPIRATION Ariana Grande and Britney Spears

History of There are many potential origin stories for this show.

One wherein the idea of the six wives as a pop group came to Toby in a sudden vision in the back of a poetry class and he scribbled the idea down along with the phrase, ‘need Lucy.’ One that goes further back to an evening spent despairing over the gender disparity in meaty theatrical parts and joking about writing a musical called ‘Live and Let Dido.’

Another that goes still further back to the formation of our friendship when we first went out on the town together and discovered we are both aggressively enthusiastic dancers. But the origin story that hopefully gives the best sense of where this piece has come from, and where we hope it might end up, actually took place much later than these, during our first proper writing session together in January 2012.

We already knew we had a slot at the Edinburgh Fringe to fill with an original musical. The Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society (yep - acronym C.U.M.T.S...) – weary of annually haemorrhaging money in Edinburgh on the rights to real musicals by real writers – had generously granted us the opportunity to pen their upcoming production. We also had the basic concept of “the six wives of Henry VIII, but - like - a pop group” and some other criteria outlining the kind of show we wanted to write: e.g. we wanted a show that experimented with the form of a ‘traditional’ musical; we wanted to use pop music because that is what we both formally define as “our jam.” We had very little else.

So in that initial meeting, we did two things. We spent an inordinate amount of time thinking up increasingly obscure potential titles for the show – the first of which was SIX. But we also decided to write a kind of manifesto of what we were trying to achieve – a manifesto that we hoped could act as a guidepost to check ourselves against during the writing process.

Looking back on it now, it seems utterly absurd that two people who had never written anything together before – let alone an entire musical – came up with a document as unbelievably grand and self-righteous as this. (Honestly, who did we think we were?) We definitely fell short of our aims in some ways. For instance, it’s still very much up for debate whether or not the show actually passes the Bechdel test (oops). And in other ways, these aims feel very much like a relic of our own individual journeys discovering the discourse surrounding gender – a snapshot of a very specific moment in our lives in early 2012.

Indeed, if we were to write this kind of document now, we are sure the outcome would be considerably different.

But nonetheless this six point plan was essential in shaping our writing process and hopefully goes some way to explaining why the show exists in the way it does:

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SIX’s ‘Six-Point Plan’ – what we’re trying to do: 1. We want to provide a different perspective on the six queens separate from their status as wives 2. We will give female historical figures a voice to tell their own experiences – experiences that have, in the past, predominantly been told by men

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3. We aim to show that even 500 years later, there are still parallels to be found in the female experience 4. We will show that women can tell stories together that are interesting, engaging, clever, and funny – stories told by women do not have to be about or include men in order to be entertaining 5. We plan to use the pop concert genre to enable this fun, silly, comic, and powerful story to be told exclusively by women – but not just ‘for’ women – and in order to facilitate our third aim 6. All of the above needs to be done whilst above all acknowledging the silliness and campness of its own genre and being self-aware of its own message; it should never be earnest or too sincere

Lastly, we’d just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has been involved in SIX’s journey, especially all of the remarkable performers who have thus far brought Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleves, Howard, and Parr to life onstage. You are all true queens.

THANK YOU.

SERVING EDMONTON FOR OVER 35 YEARS!

- Marlow and Moss xoxo

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FORESHADOWING Colin MacLean is the dean of Edmonton theatre reviewers.

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After 19 years, their much lauded production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol went off to a special place reserved in theatrical heaven.

That doesn’t mean there will be no Cratchits, Scrooges, ghosts and all the other Dickensian creations haunting the Maclab theatre this festive season.

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FORESHADOWING with Colin MacLean Citadel Artistic Director Daryl Cloran noted in a press conference earlier this year that the previous Tom Wood (playwright) and Bob Baker (director) production was still a potent force in the community but that the Citadel’s world had changed greatly in the decades.

“It is a story that everyone knows and loves and we want to make sure that all the elements that were important in our previous production will remain. At the heart of our production is the strong relationship the Citadel has established with our community. Our long-time link with the Food Bank will continue.”

Perhaps a major part of that change is best summed up by the playwright Cloran has chosen to pen the new take on the old tale, David van Belle. “When I look at the audiences who attend the Citadel today, especially in the student matinees, I am struck at how different they are now. In my discussions with Daryl, we talked about finding more space for people of colour. And for women artists. The new production will certainly be a show that people will want to go and see but we talked about how stage productions should reflect the audiences of today.”

Cloran’s relationship with van Belle, a well known Edmonton-based actor, director, theatre advisor and playwright, goes back a long way. In 2014, Cloran directed one of van Belle’s larger productions, Liberation Days, for Theatre Calgary. The two have been discussing A Christmas Carol ever since they had a meeting at the Banff Playwrights Colony some three years ago. “When he was appointed Artistic Director at the Citadel we started to

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pursue a series of serious conversations on the project,” remembers van Belle. “I think one of the reasons was that I loved to write for larger stages – which is not very common.

Most playwrights write small productions with few actors just to get their work produced.

I had been writing larger productions for A-list theatres pursuing my interest in spectacle and stage craft. When Daryl mentioned A Christmas Carol I thought ‘WOW! What a chance for some beautiful technical artistry.” With a chuckle Cloran promises, “It will be a lavish production.”

Van Belle: “One of the things that drove me along through the whole process was that the story is so strong. The story of rehabilitation is at the core of the whole thing. Much of the original dialogue is still there but (with the help of script doctor Colleen Murphy) I learned that I could probably change what I wanted as I went along, but I’d have to tell the story.

As long as I stuck to the story – the production will work.”

Cloran: “We looked at the various elements of the story and decided that nostalgia was a driving factor. We kept returning to the ‘40’s and ‘50’s.”

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WE WERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT WOULD “CHANGE THE SETTING BUT WOULD ALLOW THE AUDIENCE TO ENGAGE IN THE SAME DEPTHY FEELINGS.” We were fat and happy in those years. A debilitating World War was over and a period of peace, productivity and prosperity descended upon us. Christmas became a bountiful celebration featuring food not seen for generations. The films, toys and television programs of the era have become our own Christmas traditions. At the movies we went to see Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life. Holiday Inn, and its step-child, White Christmas found huge audiences. On television, there was Rudolph, the Grinch, Charlie Brown and Frosty. Musically, Jingle Bell Rock was the first rock /n roll Christmas song but other Christmas bon bons included Silver Bells, A Holly Jolly Christmas and Eartha Kitt purring her way through, Santa Baby. Toys introduced during those years were Mr. Potato Head, Barbie and Etch A Sketch. As Neil Diamond chanted, “Good times never seemed so good...” The Americans were reaching for the moon. That’s no metaphor – a decade later they made it.

And what better time than to place a re-imagined A Christmas Carol?

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Dickens became recognized as “the man who invented Christmas.” He took an obscure pagan festival and, with the power of his one small novella, changed the face of Christmas forever. Says van Belle, “We were looking for something that would change the setting but would allow the audience to engage in the same depthy feelings.”

Set and Costumes for the production are from the Citadel’s oft-used designer Cory Sincennes (Crazy For You/Spamalot). Sincennes was part of the team from the very beginning. “I wanted to bridge the nostalgia of the two worlds and bring them together in a way that felt familiar to us so that this new adaptation will welcome the audience as if it had been a part of their tradition their whole lives.”

Much of the fun of the Baker production was in the many surprises it brought to audiences.

In this new envisioning, “surprise” and “magic” are also part of the experience. I can offer you a few clues for what is to come. Bob Cratchit has died in World War II leaving Mrs. Cratchit to support her impoverished children. She goes to work, not for the Macy’s of Miracle on 34th Street, but for Marley’s, which, of course, is run by the crotchety miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. The plot has the grasping old geezer as a bottom-line kind of guy who puts business before anything else. He learns, through the ministrations of three benign ghosts, that, “The common welfare of man was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence were all my business.”

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FORESHADOWING with Colin MacLean This new version of the 176 year old story is now filled with music. There will be a number of old Christmas Carols and some hits culled mostly from the 40’s and 50’s like, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...” which van Belle promises is going be a “show stopper.”

Warming to the process, van Belle enthuses, “I love magic. I love reveals. I have always been a believer that there are many things theatre can do that just can’t be done in the movies or on TV. What makes theatre vital in the 21st century is that you have to keep surprising your audiences. There will be a lot of that in this production. I want to make people gasp.” Continuing the thread Sincennes observes, “We decided to lean heavy into the ghost story aspect of the cautionary tale – which provides us with lots of opportunity for magic and unexplained moments.”

Sincennes loved juggling the time aspect. “The story crosses so many dramatically different eras of history and fashion through flashbacks. Post industrialization, the world began to evolve so fast – so by setting our show in a post WW2 setting audiences will see how much change Scrooge has had to live through in his life. This new historical context provides so many extra layers of character and story to explore. In our time line, Scrooge would have lived through both world wars and the great depression – to name just a few huge events in world history. From a late Edwardian era, through the roaring ‘20’s to the late 1940’s – there is so much exciting imagery to explore.”

One person ready for this A Christmas Carol is the Pride of St. Albert, Alberta and one of Canada’s premier actor/playwright/performers, Ted Dykstra, who will play Scrooge. “The last time I was here,“ he muses, “I presented Daryl with a list of roles I’d like to play. Two years later, he called me and said, ‘Here you go!’ A reason I love A Christmas Carol so much is you can take this universal story of redemption and place it in any year. It’s timeless and will always be current. I take the responsibility of playing Scrooge in this first production of a new vision very seriously.”

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BIOS TOBY MARLOW

Writer

Toby is the composer and co-writer of Six. Following the show’s debut at the Edinburgh Fringe last year (and after somehow graduating from university despite the copious amounts of theatre and minimal amounts of actually doing his degree #oops), Toby has had the most incredible time developing Six and working with some unbelievably talented creatives in order to bring this ridiculous pop concert to life. He’s so proud of the work that everyone has done on this production, and he can’t wait to share it with everyone who comes along – like you! Toby is also the co-writer and co-performer of the award-winning Hot Gay Time Machine, which has enjoyed sold-out runs in London’s West End and at both the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe Festivals.

Toby studied English at the University of Cambridge (where he met friend and colleague, Lucy Moss) and his previous co-writing and composing credits include Six, Hot Gay Time Machine, Red/Wolf and this biography. @thetobymarlow

LUCY MOSS

Writer/Co-Director

Lucy is one half of Marlow and Moss, the writing duo behind Six, and also one half of the show’s directors. Previous writer-director credits include: the multi-award-winning Hot Gay Time Machine (Trafalgar Studios, Edinburgh Fringe) – with whom she has also written for Courtney Act’s Christmas Extravaganza (Channel 4). Previous directorial credits include: Pelican: The Cat Man Curse (Soho Theatre); Pelican: Fisk (Edinburgh Fringe); Wasted (Edinburgh Fringe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (U.S. Tour). Credits as associate/assistant include: Boris: World King (Trafalgar Studios); Monster (Perth Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe); and Red/Wolf (Vaults). Lucy studied history at Cambridge University and trained in Dance and Musical Theatre at Laine Theatre Arts. @mucyloss

JAMIE ARMITAGE

Co-Director

Jamie is a Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre and an Artistic Associate at the King’s Head Theatre. Directing credits include: Southern Belles, as well as And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens (King’s Head Theatre); Love Me Now (Tristan Bates Theatre); Spoonface Steinberg (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Richard II (Emmanuel Chapel); Footlights Pantomime: Robin Hood, and Henry IV Part 1 (ADC Theatre). Credits as Associate include: The Boys in the Band (West End). Credits as Assistant include: The Hunt (Almeida Theatre); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse and NT Live); Out of Order (U.K. Tour); Platinum (Hampstead Theatre); and The Boys in the Band (Park Theatre & U.K. Tour). @jararmitage

CARRIE-ANNE INGROUILLE

Choreographer

Carrie-Anne is a performer, choreographer, and director originating from Guernsey. She is associate artistic director of ZooNation Dance Company. Some credits with the company include: Into the Hoods, Some Like it Hip Hop, ZooNation: Unplugged, and The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Some of Carrie-Anne’s other credits include: Blaze, The Street Dance Sensation (Peacock Theatre and European tour); Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s and U.K. tour); The Suicide (NT); I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical (London Palladium); The Catherine Tate Show Live (U.K. tour); Change4Life Summer Campaign 2015, StreetDance 3D (Vertigo Films); Sony Dance Star Party (Playstation 3 Games); Elderbrook Good Times (music video); Google Engage EMEA Corporate Dublin, and F&F Children’s Autumn Campaign 2015 (internet advertisement).

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BIOS EMMA BAILEY

Set Designer

Emma is an award-winning set and costume designer based in London and originally trained as an architect. She graduated from the prestigious Motley Theatre Design Course in 2010 and in 2011 she was awarded the Linbury Prize for Stage Design for her production of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm at the Royal Opera House. She trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2011 and designs set and costumes for theatre, opera, music and fashion.

GABRIELLA SLADE

Costume Designer

Set and costume credits include: Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Theatre & U.K. Tour); Murder for Two (U.K. Tour, Watermill Theatre & The Other Palace); Showstopper! (The Other Palace & The Lyric, West End, previously The Apollo, Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family - 2016); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre); Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre); A Spoonful of Sherman (U.K. Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (U.K. Tour); Cinderella (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Loot (Watermill Theatre & Park Theatre); Bodies (Royal Court Theatre); Romeo and Juliet; Caucasian Chalk Circle: How Do You Eat an Elephant? (National Youth Theatre Wales); The Iris Murder (Traverse Theatre & Scottish Tour); Kommilitonen! (Welsh National Opera); Stig of the Dump (U.K. Tour); Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland (Oxford Playhouse); Bumblescratch (Adelphi Theatre, Gala Performance); Henry VI; Richard III (Wales Millennium Centre); House of Blakewell - We Can Make You Happy (Edinburgh Festival & Vault Festival); Love Birds; Happy Never After (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival); and Dead Born Grow (Frantic Assembly & National Youth Theatre Wales).

Costume credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre, West End); The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London); Working (Southwark Playhouse); The Green House, Folk (National Dance Company, Wales); In The Heights (King’s Cross Theatre & Southwark Playhouse, Winner of 3 Olivier Awards); Peter and the Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate); The Last Five Years (St. James’ Theatre); The Last Mermaid (Wales Millennium Centre); A Christmas Carol; The Adventures of Pinocchio; The One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Castle Theatre); Just So; Wind in the Willows (South Hill Park). Gabriella received a Whatsonstage, Broadway World and Off West-End Award nomination for Best Costume Design for Six, 2018. She also received a Broadway World and Off West-End Award Nomination for Best Costume Design for In the Heights, 2016. Gabriella studied Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

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BIOS TIM DEILING

Lighting Designer

Six (West End); American Idiot (West End/U.K. Tour); Knights Of The Rose (West End); Club Tropicana (U.K. Tour); Our House (U.K. Tour); Summer Holiday (U.K. Tour); Dedication (Nuffield Theatre); Miss Atomic Bomb (St. James); Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Aladdin, Jack & The Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Vanities, Bash (Trafalgar Studios); The Mikado & Iolanthe (U.K. Tour); Crazy for You, Guys & Dolls, On the 20th Century (Guildhall); Miracle on 34th Street (U.K. Tour); HMS Pinafore (Hackney Empire/U.K. Tour); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Southwark Playhouse); Incognito (The Bush); Fuck The Polar Bears (The Bush); Table (Arts Ed); Zombie Prom (Landor Theatre); The Dr. Who Experience (BBC Cardiff); Bare (Greenwich Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Platform Theatre); Moby Dick, Annie Get Your Gun, Closer To Heaven, Honk, Loserville The Musical, Whistle Down The Wind, Pacific Overtures, Bare, and Billy (The Union); Good With People (59E59, NYC); The 8th (The Barbican); Boiling Frogs (Southwark Playhouse); Wigan, and 65 Miles (Hull Truck); Chips With Everything (Embassy Studio); As Is (Finbourgh Theatre); Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios); The Oikos Project and Protozoa (The Red Room); Zombie Prom The Musical (Landor Theatre); and Macbeth (Sprite Productions). Tim was the Associate Lighting Designer for the National Theatre. He has also worked as an Associate Lighting Designer on projects like The Lorax (Old Vic/International); Scottsboro Boys, White Christmas, (West End); Chicago (West End, International); 9 to 5 The Musical (U.K. Tour); Exterminating Angel (Copenhagen Opera House); Pippin (Chocolate Factory); and High School Musical 2 (U.K. Tour). Film Credits: Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (EON Films); Animal Charm, and The Prank Show (BBC). www.TimDeiling.com

PAUL GATEHOUSE

Sound Designer

Highlights as Associate Sound Designer: Walt Disney Theatrical and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Zurich, Dubai, Japan); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera (London, Broadway, Hamburg, Paris); Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular (Venetian); 25th Anniversary Productions of Les Misérables (International Productions); Phantom of the Opera (National Tour); Love Never Dies (Adelphi and Australia); Half A Sixpence (Chichester, Noel Coward Theatre); Hamilton (Victoria Palace); 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Misérables (The O2 Arena); 25th Anniversary Production of Phantom of the Opera (The Royal Albert Hall); 5.1 mixing for Miss Saigon Definitive Live Recording at the Prince Edward Theatre and the Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance; and Walt Disney Theatrical’s release of Newsies Live.

TOM CURRAN

Orchestrator

Tom studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. As orchestrator/ arranger: Hot Gay Time Machine (Trafalgar Studios); Six (Arts Theatre/U.K. Tour); Barnum (associate orchestrator, Menier Chocolate Factory); Shadows & Reflections (Marc Almond U.K. tour); West End Bares (Novello/Shaftesbury); Funny Girl (associate orchestrator, Menier Chocolate Factory/Savoy/U.K. tour); Liza Pulman Sings Hollywood (U.K. tour); High Society (additional orchestrations, The Old Vic); The Sound of Music (U.K. tour 2015/16); Fully Committed (Menier Chocolate Factory); My Land’s Shore (workshop, RADA); Peter Pan (workshop, Lyric); Jekyll & Hyde (Union Theatre); After The Turn (Courtyard Theatre); and five shows for Cambridge Touring Theatre. www.tomcurran.co.uk SIX 41

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BIOS JOE BEIGHTON

Musical Supervisor

Joe studied music at Cambridge University where he was president of the Musical Theatre Society and a choral scholar. He then trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Past credits include: Bare (Musical Director, LAMDA), Cinderella (Musical Director, Civic Theatre Chelmsford), Six (Musical Supervisor, UK Tour & Arts Theatre London), Luke Bayer in Concert (Live at Zedel), And Tell Sad Stories Of The Deaths Of Queens (Kings Head Theatre London), Spring Awakening (Greenside Venues, Edinburgh), Damn Yankees (Asst. Musical Director, Unicorn Theatre), There’s No Business Like Show Quizness (Musical Director, Pizza Express Live: Holborn), Janie Dee ‘Off the Record’ (Musical Director, Live at Zedel), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Asst. Musical Director, Bernie Grant Arts Centre).

ROBERTA DUCHAK

Music Director

Regional: Six, Hamlet, The Little Mermaid, Romeo and Juliet the Musical – The People vs.

Friar Lawrence, Murder for Two, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Little Shop of Horrors, South Pacific, 42nd Street, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Crazy for You, Hazel, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, West Side Story, White Christmas, Young Frankenstein, Hello, Dolly!, Oliver, The Sound of Music, Sweeney Todd, Ragtime, Spamalot, Gypsy, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Miss Saigon (Drury Lane Theatre); Brigadoon (Goodman Theatre); The Story of My Life (dir. Richard Maltby, Jr. - Biograph Theater); The Original Grease (American Theatre Company); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Mercury Theater Chicago; and A Little Night Music (Musical Supervisor - Writers Theatre). Film: Les Misérables (vocal coach for Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman). Awards: one Jeff Award, five nominations.

Acting: Ragtime (Mother); Broadway: Scrooge (Ghost of Christmas Past); Showboat (Magnolia, Ellie - National Tour); and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona Lisa Peretti Chicago/National Tour). Ms. Duchak has two vocal studios in the Chicago area.

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BIOS ADRIANNA HICKS

Catherine Of Aragon

Citadel: debut. Broadway: revival of The Color Purple, and Aladdin.

Regional: PaperMill Playhouse, Encores! City Center, Ridgefield Playhouse, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Casa Mañana. Touring: revival of The Color Purple. International: Sister Act, Dirty Dancing (Germany); and Legally Blonde (Austria). Concert: Michael Bublé Call Me Irresistible tour. Education: BFA in musical theatre, The University of Oklahoma. Awards: 2017 Emmy Award, 2018 Elliot Newton Award, 2019 Oklahoma City Broadway World Award.

ANDREA MACASAET

Anne Boleyn

Citadel: debut. Other: American Repertory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Heathers the Musical, Avenue Q (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); and Prairie Nurse (Station Arts Centre). Andrea is thrilled to be a part of Citadel’s exciting season and to reprise her role for the Canadian Queendom. Big love to family and friends who have been there every step of the way throughout this journey! Upcoming: Six on Broadway.

ABBY MUELLER

Jane Seymour

Citadel: debut. Broadway: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Carole King), and Kinky Boots. Off-Broadway: A Minister’s Wife (Lincoln Center Theater); and School of Rock (Off-Broadway workshop at Gramercy Theatre). Regional: Six (Chicago Shakespeare Theater & American Repertory Theater); The Three Musketeers (Constance); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Milly); Brigadoon (Fiona); Into the Woods (Cinderella); The Full Monty (Georgie); 1776 (Abigail Adams); Les Misérables (Fantine); Miss Saigon (Ellen); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator); Mary Zimmerman’s Candide; and Pippin (Catherine).

Television: America’s Got Talent (NBC); and The Today Show (ABC).

BRITTNEY MACK

Anna Of Cleves

Citadel: debut. Off Broadway: Black Nativity. Regional: Merry-GoRound Playhouse, Phoenix Theatre, The Palace Theatre, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Main State Music Theater, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Roxy Regional Theatre, and Seacoast Repertory Theatre. Touring: production singer for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Television: Empire (Fox). Education: certificate from integrated program, American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

Awards: 2011, 2014 Arizoni Theater Awards. Thank you so much to the entire Six team for creating such a special and beautiful piece, and for trusting us with this story.

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BIOS SAMANTHA PAULY

Katherine Howard

Citadel: debut. West End: Evita as Eva Peron (Regents Park Open Air Theatre). National Tours: Bat Out Of Hell. Chicago/Regional: Six (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Citadel Theatre, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts); Evita (Westport Country Playhouse); Honeymoon in Vegas, Evita, Godspell (Marriott Theatre); Hairspray, Elf (Paramount Theatre); Beaches (Drury Lane Theatre). Television/ Film: Chicago PD (NBC); and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate). Education: BFA Music Theatre, Viterbo University. Proud member of AEA. Thanks and love to family, friends, Stewart Talent, and the entire Six team. @sampauly www.samanthapauly.com

ANNA UZELE

Catherine Parr

Anna Uzele is delighted to be making her Citadel debut! Broadway: Once on This Island (Andrea). Television: City on a Hill (Showtime).

Regional: Six (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, American Repertory Theater); Dreamgirls, and The Drowsy Chaperone (Lyric Theater of Oklahoma). Education: BFA Musical Theater - Texas State University 2018. Many thanks to a lovely crew, and to this powerful family of women, “All my love, Catherine.�

NICOLE KYOUNG-MI LAMBERT Alternate Aragon/Cleves/Parr

Nicole is thrilled to make her Citadel debut! Favorite credits include Six (Chicago Shakespeare and American Repertory); Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (Mercury Theater Chicago); Sour Kangaroo in Seussical (Marriott Theater); Memphis and In the Heights (Porchlight Theater); Jennifer in Creatives (Chicago Workshop Theater); Godspell (St. Sebastian Players); and Mimi in Rent (Brightside Theater). Nicole has her BA in Music Education from Roosevelt University. She would like to thank her family and friends and DDO for their fierce support. www.nicoleklambert.com

MALLORY MAEDKE

Alternate Boleyn/Seymour/Howard/Dance Captain Citadel: debut. Chicago: Legally Blonde, The Little Mermaid, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray (Paramount Theater); Seussical (Marriott Theatre); Memphis (Porchlight Music Theatre); Hair (Mercury Theatre); Cabaret (Theatre at the Centre); Janis Joplin in Beehive the Musical (Little Theater on the Square); 42nd Street, All Shook Up, The Addams Family (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre); and One Hit Wonders (Black Ensemble Theater). Concert: backup vocalist for Kristin Chenoweth at The Chicago Theater. Education: Columbia College Chicago. Ms. Maedke is also a voiceover artist.

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BIOS LISA RUSSELL

Stage Manager

Lisa has worked in opera, theatre and musical theatre across Canada and is thrilled to be back at the Citadel once again, after most recently stage managing Hadestown. Selected credits include: The Unnatural and Accidental Women (National Arts Centre); Fidelio (Pacific Opera Victoria); Romeo and Juliet, and Drowning Girls (Globe Theatre); Liberation Days and Les MisĂŠrables (Western Canada Theatre); The December Man, and Steel Kiss (Green Thumb Theatre). Lisa was the production stage manager for the Summer Arts Festival at the Banff Centre for four years and spent seven seasons at the Stratford Festival.

AL GADOWSKY

Assistant Stage Manager

Citadel: Al has assistant stage managed Matilda, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Silver Arrow, West Side Story, and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Other stage and assistant stage management credits include Anne of Green Gables the MusicalTM, Atlantic Blue, Jesus Christ Superstar, Million Dollar Quartet, and Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); The Humans (Citadel/Canadian Stage); Crazy for You (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Rigoletto, La Traviata, Les Feluettes, and Turandot (Edmonton Opera). Al would like to thank his family and friends for their continuing love and support.

PAUL TOBEN

Associate Lighting Designer

Angels in America Parts 1 and 2, Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, and many others at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and designs for five seasons of the Humana Festival including Evocation to Visible Appearance, Airness, The Grown-Up, and The Roommate. August Rush (Paramount); Mystery of Love and Sex, Witch (Writers Theatre); Electra (Court Theatre); Cry it Out (Northlight Theatre); The Wolves (Studio Theatre); NSFW (Roundhouse); Silent Sky, Triangle, Upright Grand (TheatreWorks); The Book of Will (Denver Center Theatre); Fly by Night, Medea (Dallas Theater Center); The Who and The What (Kansas City Rep); Futurity (The Walker Arts Center); Daddy Long Legs (New York, regional and international premiers); and The Story of my Life (Broadway). www.paultoben.com

JOSH MILLICAN

Associate Sound Designer

In addition to acting as the Associate Sound Designer for productions of Six at Chicago Shakespeare and American Repertory Theater, selected credits as Associate include: Hillary and Clinton (Broadway); The New One (Broadway); The Waverly Gallery (Broadway); Head Over Heels (Broadway); The Band’s Visit (Broadway, U.S. National Tour); Prince of Broadway (Broadway); An American in Paris (Broadway/West End/U.S. National Tour/International Tour); Sunday In The Park With George (Broadway); She Loves Me (Broadway); Amazing Grace (Broadway); The Bridges of Madison County (Broadway/U.S. National Tour); Big Fish (Broadway). Graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

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BOB MASON

Casting

Bob Mason is in his nineteenth season as Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s casting director, where his credits include over one hundred productions and thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition to numerous productions with Barbara Gaines, other productions of note include: a host of Sondheim musicals directed by Gary Griffin; Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, Fifth Avenue/ACT), directed by Rachel Rockwell; Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3, directed by Edward Hall; and The Molière Comedies, directed by Brian Bedford. He directed and co-created Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Prior to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and has been a visiting educator for the School at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University.

TARA RUBIN CASTING/PETER VAN DAM, CSA

New York Casting

Select Broadway/National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Select Regional: Yale Repertory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, Asolo Rep. www.tararubincasting.com

KENNY WAX

Producer

Kenny has so far produced five shows with Mischief Theatre: including the multi-award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, now in its 5th year at the Duchess Theatre, on a U.S. tour and off-Broadway; Peter Pan Goes Wrong played the West End twice and is touring the U.K. this Autumn; The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is on a U.K. tour and in its third year at the Criterion Theatre; Mischief Movie Night gained Mischief their fourth consecutive Olivier nomination; Groan Ups is currently playing at the Vaudeville and marks the company’s first of three shows in a year-long residency at the theatre.

Recently, Kenny also set up Mischief Screen with Mischief Theatre, having been the Executive Producer of two Christmas television specials on BBC 1: Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong. This Christmas, Mischief will hit the airwaves again with a six-part comedy series commissioned by BBC1, The Goes Wrong Show. In 2013, Kenny presented the world première of Top Hat, winning three Olivier Awards including ‘Best New Musical’, with 1995’s Once on This Island winning the same award. Kenny is also renowned for producing some of the best family theatre both in the West End and on tour. Productions include: What the Ladybird Heard, We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, Around the World in 80 Days, and the Olivier nominated stage adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather. A stage adaptation of Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch had a magical West End Season this Summer, with Oi Frog and Friends leaping out on tour before coming into the West End for Christmas. Kenny is the President of the Society of London Theatre.

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ANDY BARNES & WENDY BARNES

Producers

Global Musicals was founded in 2017 by Andy and Wendy Barnes. Previous joint producing credits include: The Great British Musical (Criterion); Lift (Soho Theatre); The Little Beasts (The Other Palace); From Up Here (South Hill Park); The House of Mirrors and Hearts (Arcola); Danny Hero (The Core); As development producers: The Go-Between (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal and Derngate, Derby Live); Pieces of String (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); As associate producers: The Go-Between (The Apollo, London). Andy’s additional credits include: The Wiz (Hackney Empire); Departure Lounge (Edinburgh, New York, London); Dr. Foster (Menier Chocolate Factory); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Gene Frankel Theatre, New York). As associate: When Harry Met Sally (U.K. tour); Tell Me On A Sunday (U.K. tour). Other new British musicals coming soon from Global include Pieces of String and Club Mex. Find out more: @globalmusicals www.globalmusicals.com

GEORGE STILES

Producer

George is best known as the Olivier Award winning composer of stage musicals such as Honk!, Betty Blue Eyes, Mary Poppins, and Soho Cinders – all written with lyricist Anthony Drewe.

However, he’s delighted to be making his debut as a producer with Six, having seen the 2017 student production in Cambridge and completely, er... lost his head. He’s also very happy to be working with three such champions of new British musicals, Kenny Wax and Wendy and Andy Barnes. Stiles and Drewe have a deep passion for nurturing new writing through MercuryMusicals. com and their annual Stiles and Drewe Prize. If you’re a young writer inspired by what you see tonight then get creative – it happened for Marlow and Moss! www.stilesanddrewe.com

KEVIN McCOLLUM

Producer

Kevin McCollum has received the Tony Award for Best Musical for In the Heights (2008), Avenue Q (2004), and Rent (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently represented Off-Broadway and on tour with the Olivier Award winning The Play That Goes Wrong. He produced Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, Broadway; Something Rotten!, Broadway, National Tour; Hand to God, Broadway, West End; Motown: The Musical, Broadway, West End, National Tour, UK Tour; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006, five Tony Awards), Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème (2002), [title of show] (2008), the touring and Broadway productions of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the Off-Broadway hit De La Guarda, and the recent hit revival of West Side Story. Upcoming projects include the West Side Story film (directed by Steven Spielberg); The Notebook (music and lyrics

by Ingrid Michaelson, book by Bekah Brunstetter); and, through his joint venture with Fox Stage, adaptations of Mrs. Doubtfire and The Devil Wears Prada. In 1995 Mr. McCollum co-founded the Producing Office, and has since created Alchemation, a theatrical and media producing company committed to new work. Awards: Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing (1995). Education/Training: University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music; MFA, film producing, Peter Stark Program at the University of Southern California.

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DARYL CLORAN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • CHANTELL GHOSH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ARTISTIC

Artistic Coordinator

Clayton Plamondon Meg Prusko Deanna Robillard Joyanne Rudiak Geraldine Schaer Alieda Sekulich Liana Shannon Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule Julie Sucie

Indigenous Associate Artist

ADMINISTRATION

Manager, Foote Theatre School

Peni Christopher

Jessie van Rijn Producer

Rachel Peake

Associate Artistic Director

Doug Mertz

Director, Education & Outreach

Wayne Paquette

Christine Frederick Diana Stevenson Neil Kuefler

Education Outreach Associate

Young Company Instructors Amber Borotsik Shannon Boyle Michael Bradley Anna Davidson Alexander Donovan Elaine Dunbar Jan Henderson Dave Horak Heather Inglis Kim Mattice Wanat Doug Mertz Leigh Rivenbark Kate Ryan FTS Instructors Joleen Ballendine April Banigan Shannon Boyle Ashley Butler Sydney Campbell Ellen Chorley Quinn Contini Sophie Gareau-Brennan Crystal Hanson Brady Hughes Sally Hunt Binaifer Kapadia Sydney Keenan Josh Languedoc Marguerite Lawler Annette Loiselle Joey Lucius Barb Mah Rhys O’Donnell

Kimberlee Stadelmann

Associate Executive Director

Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Company Manager

Rebekah Andrews Executive Assistant

FACILITY

Louis Barron Director

Maintenance Bill Daniels Yang Yang Janitorial Bee Clean Services Security Alberta Crowd Management Building Porter William Cardle Tara Gale

GUEST SERVICES Shirley Tran

Patron Relations Manager

Calvin Simonson

Assistant Patron Relations Manager

Rebecca Harding

Data Administrator & Designer

Theresa Hovdestad

Senior Manager, Front of House Operations

Jules Pepin

Assistant House Manager

Jacob Liska

Volunteer Coordinator

Hayden Weir

Assistant Bar Manager

Laurel Carter

Events Manager

Jennifer Graham

Assistant Events Manager

Guest Services Supervisors Alyssa Bartlett Melissa Budinski Dani Dreger Eden Edwards Cameron Freitas Jessica Glover Emma Jones Jacob Liska Hayley Moorhouse Chris Pereira Dustyn Tennessen Erin Valentine Guest Services Representatives Rebecca Antonakis Melanie Bahniuk Sam Banigan Helen Belay Melissa Belton Alex Berry Brett Boyd Emily Boyle Mitchell Bradbury Colleen Bunyan Brooklyn Decker Courtney Dewar Carol Dreger Josephine Hendrick Kyla Huffman Leif Ingebrigtsen Hale Johnston Joel Leslie Joshua Manning Jossie Mant Graham Mothersill Vina Nguyen Taylor Ogilvie Ben Osgood Logan Stefura Michael Vetsch Alex Voutchkov Kate Walker Mimi Ward Vanessa Wilson Lauren Zazula

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Elijah Lindenberger

Acting Head of Electrics

Ken Davis

Meaghan Skerik

Arthur Mah

Nicole Deibert

Kristen Hiemstra

Jim Meers

Mel MacDonald

Angie Sotiropoulis

Strategic Lead, Marketing Asst. Head of Electrics Larissa O’Hare & Communications Electrics Mac Brock Denis Pellerin Community & Media Electrics Engagement Specialist Videographer

Creative Manager

Marketing Coordinator

Head of Scenic Paint Head of Props

Assistant Head of Props

Anderson FUND DEVELOPMENT Marc Head of Stage Carpentry Sydney Stuart

Director, Fund Development

Kris Aasen

Assistant Head of Carpentry Manager, Fund Development Scott Bricker Rebekah Andrews Stage Carpenter Coordinator, Patsy Thomas Fund Development Head of Wardrobe

John Markey

Eden Edwards

Asst., Fund Development

Sang-Sang Lee

Asst., Fund Development

PRODUCTION

Cheryl L. Hoover

Director of Production

Patrick Fraser

Terri Grant

Assistant Head of Wardrobe

Olivia Derksen

Head of Wardrobe Running

Jonathan Beaudoin

Dresser/ Wardrobe Maintenance

Technical Director

Katie Patton

Asst. Production Manager

Christa Hoefling

Asst. Technical Director

Gaylynne Fell

Gal Minnes

Jacinda Maxwell Geoff Wright

Asst. Technical Director

Head of Wigs

Assistant Head of Wigs Wigs

Kyla Maki

Administrative Assistant

Michelle Chan

Resident Stage Manager

Owen Hutchinson Head of Audio

Nick Rose

Assistant Head of Audio

Bobby Smale Audio

Peter Locock

Head of Scenic Carpentry

Chris Hayes

Asst. 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 contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteers@citadeltheatre.com.

Zoe Afaganis, Johanna Andreoff, Judith Babcock, Shelley Benson, Erika Beyer, Karen Bokenfohr, Florence Borch, Ken Borch, Allan Budlong, Margot Byer, Patrick Caron, Dee Cartledge, Rob Cauti, Gina Chea, Ruth Diaz, Sarah Farnsworth, Lil Filewych, Wendy Fraser, Irene Gagne, Louise Gagne, Dan Germain, Bonita Gillespie, Margaret Gronnestad, Julie Harvey, Jeff Haswell, Rosemarie Heaney, Brad Heller, Daniel High, Maria Hollinshead, Theresa Hryciw, Laura Hughes, Bruce Johnson, Madalyn Johnson, Mary Johnston Therrien, Samantha Ju, Joanne Kallal, Veronica Keuchel, Robin Knight, Eva Kopecka, Arndt Kuethe, Janice Kuethe, Wendy Kurtz, Joy Lardner Susan Lauridson, Karen Lewis-Caron, Leola Losier, Elizabeth Luchko, Neelam Mabood, Rita MacDonald, Ross Machetchuk, Dawn Madill, Aidan McBride, Joslyn McDonald, Donna McKay, Linda McMurdo, Donna Miller, Karen Miller, Janice Minamide, Monica Molina, Desiree Molnar, Bob Moore, Joan Murchie, Florence Nieberding, Linda Orlecki, Edith Parsons, Susan Patenaude, Hailey Pilon, Donna Prato, Doug Racine, Joan Redman, Barbara Reinhardt, Lori Ristoff, Cheryl Ritchie, Monica Robillard, Louise Rogucki, Janice Ruf, Tracey Schaufele, Susan Schroter, Angela Seery, Art Shea, Theresa Shea, Amanda Sim, Phyllis Solsberg, Victoria Spang, Colleen Stepney, Nicole Supa, Rhonda Taft, Arlene Travnik, Diane Trithardt, Christine Tupper, Christine Twardzik, Lacey Untereiner, Brenda Voyce, Annette Ware, Julia Weaver, Janet Wheler, Liz White-MacDonald, Kay Willekes, Laura Wylde, Colette Zuberbuhler

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