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daryl cloran | Artistic Director Chantell Ghosh | executive Director

2018/19 season

Board of Governors Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Anne Foote Greg Greenough Ada Hole Ralph B. MacMillan Jack McBain Arliss Miller Tom Redl Sol Rolingher Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Marshall Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Ralph Young

Board of Directors Wendy Dupree President Sheila Witwicky Past President Robert Fernandez Vice President Julie Afanasiff Treasurer Jeff Boadway James Casey Lesley Cormack L. Neil Gower Sandra Haskins Hubert Lau (Specialist Director) Dave Mowat Tammy Patterson Emma Ripka (Intern) 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

ONCE Based on the Motion Picture Written and Directed by John Carney Music & Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová Sep 22 – Oct 14, 2018

REDPATCH

By Raes Calvert & Sean Harris Oliver Nov 1 – 11, 2018

MISS BENNET:

CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY

By Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon Nov 17 – Dec 9, 2018

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Based on the story by Charles Dickens Adapted by Tom Wood Nov 30 – Dec 23, 2018

SWEAT

By Lynn Nottage Jan 12 – Feb 3, 2019

ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Based on the novel by Roald Dahl Adapted by Dennis Kelly Music & Lyrics by Tim Minchin Feb 16 – Mar 17, 2019

THE CANDIDATE

By Kat Sandler Mar 30 – Apr 21, 2019

THE PARTY

By Kat Sandler Mar 30 – Apr 21, 2019

THE TEMPEST

By William Shakespeare Apr 20 – May 12, 2019

Message From The

Artistic Director Welcome to Sweat!

Sweat won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lynn Nottage began working on the play in 2011 by interviewing residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, which at the time was, according to the United States Census Bureau, officially one of the poorest cities in America, with a poverty rate of over 40 per cent. The script looks at how a community is affected when local factories are closed and the work moves out of town. Against that backdrop, the script asks tough questions about friendship, loyalty and survival.

This season, the Public Theatre in New York toured Sweat throughout America. But not to big theatres – to small communities, playing in churches and community halls. To the cities, and people, that this play speaks about. Each tour stop was supported by outreach activities designed to give communities a chance to respond to the play. To me, that’s the power of theatre: the ability to start conversations, for audiences to see a story and emerge discussing different points of view. Sweat is a real conversation-starter. I guarantee you’ll be talking about choices, responsibilities, and politics as you head home after the show.

This is a partnership with our friends at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. The production opened in Vancouver in October, and now comes to the Citadel. I believe the best thing about partnerships is the opportunity for artists from different communities to collaborate. This production is the perfect example: four of the actors are from Vancouver and four are from Edmonton. Our thanks to the Arts Club for their partnership, and thanks to you, our audience, for joining us at the theatre for this thought-provoking, heartfelt production.

Enjoy the show!

Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director

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PS - We announce our 2019/20 season on January 28.

We have some very exciting shows planned and I can’t wait to share them with you! Stay tuned!

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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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FOUNDER

Gifts of $500,000 - $999,999 The Eldon & Anne Foote Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation

AMBASSADOR

Gifts of $250,000 - $499,999 Darren & Laurel Durstling

LEADER

Gifts of $100,000 - $249,999 David & Jan Bentley Family Dentons Ashif, Zainul, Kinza & Aariz Mawji Arliss Miller Al & Fran Olson The Shoctor Family

Gifts of $50,000 - $99,999

INITIATOR

Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999

Lesley Cormack L. Neil Gower Q.C. Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Lewis & Lindsay Nakatsui Catrin Owen & John Sumner Aleda Patterson & Family Sir Francis Price & The Honourable Marguerite Trussler Tom & Corrie Redl The Sequeira Family Micah & Kristi Slavens Moira & Larry Staples The Summit Foundation Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp Ralph & Gay Young

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Guy Bridgeman & Dianne Ross Don & Lorna Kramer Stuart & Sherry Lee Dave & Sandy Mowat Esther & Howard Starkman Joseph & Nancy Thompson

Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Keith & Valerie Alessi Lorraine Bray & Jim Carter Susan & James Burns Butler Family Foundation

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| Annual Support STEWARD

Gifts of $10,000+ The Estate of Josephine Anne Bensted The McCoy Family Foundation Rob & Beth Reynolds Kayla Shoctor Marshall & Debby Shoctor

Melcor Developments Ltd. Dave & Sandy Mowat Al & Fran Olson The Overhead Door Co. of Edmonton Weir Family Fund 1 Anonymous

DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999

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who have recently passed away.

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

Government & Foundation Funders

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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ELECTRONIC D EVICES No doubt we have all been distracted by a cell phone, pager or watch alarm ringing or lighting up when attending the theatre.

Out of consideration for your fellow audience members we ask that you turn off all electronic devices that emit noise or light.

Thank you.

ALLERGY A LERT For the safety of those with allergies, please refrain from the use of perfumes or scented products before coming to the theatre.

L ATE SEATING/RE A DMITTANCE 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. You are welcome to move to your assigned seat at intermission. If you must leave the theatre during a performance you will not be allowed to return to your seat until intermission.

EMERGENCY EX ITS We ask that you please take a moment to identify the exit nearest you, so you can safely exit in the event of an emergency.

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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 performances of SWEAT, students enjoyed an interactive workshop with Rachel Bowron. An Edmonton-based actor, Rachel’s most recent theatre credits include Crazy for You (Citadel Theatre/ Theatre Calgary), Avenue Q (Citadel Theatre); A Lesson In Brio, Barefoot in the Park, The Hoof and Mouth Advantage (Teatro la Quindicina); Fallen Angels (Bright Young Things); Legoland (Blarney Productions); The Last Resort, Don’t Dress For Dinner (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Superman (Plain Jane Theatre). She is a Rachel Bowron three-time Sterling nominated actor, and was music director of the St. Albert Children’s Theatre for nine years. Rachel is thrilled to be returning to the Citadel in The Candidate/The Party this year! Through the workshop the students learned how actor-musicians artists can work navigate playing instruments to tell stories and the balance struck between truth and skill.

For more information on Students Club, or to become a part of the program, please contact Shirley Tran at 780.428.2127 or groupsales@citadeltheatre.com.

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By LYNN NOTTAGE Presented in partnership with

Arts Club Theatre Company

LORA BROVOLD.. ............................................. Jessie ANDREW CREIGHTNEY................................ Chris CHRIS W. COOK.. ............................................. Jason ALEN DOMINGUEZ.. ........................................ Oscar MARCI T. HOUSE............................................. Cynthia ANTHONY SANTIAGO.................................... Brucie/Evan NICOLE ST. MARTIN....................................... Tracey ASHLEY WRIGHT............................................. Stan Director................................................................. VALERIE PLANCHE Set Designer....................................................... SHIZUKA KAI Costume Designer............................................ JENIFER DARBELLAY Lighting Designer.............................................. DANIELA MASELLIS Sound Designer................................................. MISHELLE CUTTLER Resident Director.............................................. RACHEL PEAKE Vocal Coach....................................................... ALISON MATTHEWS Fight Director. . .................................................... JONATHAN HAWLEY PURVIS Assistant Director.. ............................................ JAY NORTHCOTT* Assistant Costume Designer. . ....................... ALAIA HAMER Stage Manager.................................................. RICK RINDER Assistant Stage Manager............................... RACHEL DAWN WOODS *Made possible through Obsidian Theatre’s Associates Program.

The play is approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission.

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

Co-commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle and Arena Stage. World premiere produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This production of Sweat was first presented in New York by The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director). Originally produced on Broadway by Stuart Thompson and Louise L. Gund. Sweat is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The Citadel Theatre would like to acknowledge the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

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

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About the

Playwright Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Her most recent play, Mlima’s Tale, premiered at the Public Theater in May 2018. In the spring of 2017, Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination) moved to Broadway after a sold-out run at The Public Theater. It premiered and was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival American Revolutions History Cycle/Arena Stage.

Other plays include By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por’knockers, and POOF!. She is working with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on adapting her play Intimate Apparel into an opera, commissioned by The Met/LCT. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory.

Nottage is currently writing the book for the world premiere musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees. It will premiere at the Atlantic Theatre Company starting on May 10, 2019, directed by Sam Gold. Over the years, she has developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That and Harpo. She is writer/producer on the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She is also an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia School of the Arts.

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In 2007, Colin was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Edmonton at the Sterling Awards.

You don’t have to look very far in children’s author Roald Dahl’s life to see from whence his darkness came. He lost his older sister and father when he was three years old. He was packed off to boarding school at the age of nine. In his autobiography, Boy, he recalls in great detail the headmaster’s penchant for floggings so vicious they drew blood.

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In World War II, he became a nimble air ace, achieving great success until he crashed in the Western Desert. He came close to dying in that one and was invalided out. Dahl was then promoted to intelligence officer where, as the BBC reported in a recent article, “He spent the rest of the war in the U.S. seducing heiresses and wealthy widows in the name of counterintelligence.�

His first marriage was to Hollywood star (and celebrated beauty) Patricia Neal. The couple lost their daughter to illness and their only son was left brain-damaged in a traffic accident. A few years later, Neal herself suffered a series of strokes.

After the war, he decided to try his hand at writing and achieved a degree of success with a series of macabre and disturbing ghost stories, which were published in magazines such as The New Yorker and Playboy. He wrote the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. And then came James and the Giant Peach. He first told the story to his own children and then decided to write it down. It was his first work for children and it was unlike anything else in the literature of the time. When his parents die, young James flies away from his grasping aunties on the giant peach of the title and the aunties are summarily squashed by the rolling fruit. Though the book appeared in the U.S. in 1961, Dahl had to wait until 1967 before a British publisher would risk it, and even then, he had to agree to come up with half the costs himself. In retrospect, it was a savvy move when the book quickly became a bestseller.

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Books and stories are of “ incalculable worth as weapons of defense, attack and survival.”

The books followed one after the other: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, The Witches, Matilda, George’s Marvellous Machine – and others. Over his decades-long career, he wrote 19 children’s books.

Dahl makes little bow to the tender years of his readers. His books may be filled with the wonder of childhood but the author challenges his young readers (and reminds adults) that children are grappling with far more than we care to remember. Dahl’s books are usually tales of empowerment as told from the perspective of the most powerless group of all. They inevitably involve adult villains who hate and mistreat children – although, there is always a “good” adult to counteract the bad. Whimsical and dark Dahl’s tales may be, but there is always an undercurrent of warm sentiment.

You don’t have to read too closely to hear the loving father behind the words on the page.

There is advice for young readers – suggestions on how to navigate the no man’s land of childhood. Dahl was an inveterate reader and used his writing to invite children into the

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world of great books. You might check out the authors Matilda takes out of the library in the 1996 film: Dickens, Hemingway, and Kipling. The enemy is often television. As the Umpa Loompas sing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, “So please, Oh please, We beg, We pray, Go throw your TV set away.” Exhorts the author, “Books and stories are of incalculable worth as weapons of defense, attack and survival. It’s about turning the alphabet into magic and using it to rule the world.”

Writing from a gypsy caravan that he kept in the backyard, Dahl created wild, phantasmagorical stories. He celebrated his small heroes and heroines – their curiosity, cleverness, imagination, ability to see humour in the darkest of situations – and he didn’t leave out the awful bits about death and suffering.

Dahl shared his love of words, often without explanation, leaving it up to the children to figure it out for themselves. Words like “gobblefunk” – confusing and mixing up words, “swizzfiggling” – the act of teasing, “repusant” – something extraordinarily wonderful, “zozimus” – the material that dreams are made of, “uckyslush” – something good to eat.

Or if you want a real challenge, try this one from the screenplay he wrote for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: “scrumdiddlyumptious.”

One survey called him, “One of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century” – ranking ahead of Dickens, Shakespeare, and Rowling. Said The Independent of 2012, “He’s arguably the Shakespeare of children’s literature – filmmakers and animators are still

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drawing from the enormous vat of material he created.” (Netflix recently announced an animated series that will encompass some of his most popular works – including Matilda.)

Like the Brothers Grimm fairy tales and J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter magical epics, Dahl’s books have often been banned from school libraries by parents and educators who consider them too inappropriate or scary for kids. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it,” observed Dahl in The Minpins.

His most successful book is 1988’s Matilda, which has sold somewhere north of 17 million copies.

who don’t believe in magic “Thosewill never find it.”

On the morning of April 12 in 2013, the normally sedate New York Times exhorted readers to “storm the barricades,” to “join the insurrection against tyranny, television, illiteracy, unjust punishment and impoverished imaginations (...and follow) a five-year-old with a poker face and an off-the-chart IQ.” The occasion was the opening of The Royal Shakespeare Company production of Matilda – rendered as a musical by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin. The reviewer, Ben Brantley, admitted to having “a knot in his stomach”

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for much of the production. Our own Citadel artistic director Daryl Cloran conceded that he shed a tear or two when he took in the same production in New York.

Cloran will direct the local production, which already has enjoyed a successful run in Winnipeg (it’s produced in partnership with the Art Club Theatre Company and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Matilda is the story of a little girl with extraordinary powers. The daughter of dim-witted, abusive parents, she finds refuge in library books – which she reads quickly, and then creates her own stories. She’s sent off to a private school where she must face the tyrannical and cruel Miss Trunchbull – who believes in Crunchem Hall’s motto: “Bambinatum est magitum,” or “Children are maggots.” The little girl finds companionship in her teacher, the shy, fragile Miss Honey. If Matilda is going to make it through to adulthood, she realizes she has to stand up to the adults in her world – and in doing so discovers her own remarkable powers. She sings, “Nobody but me is going to change my story (so) sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.”

Anyone who has seen the Broadway production will attest to the demands placed on the central character. She is called on to sing, dance, and perform like an experienced trooper. There are production numbers to be danced and power ballads to be delivered – a feat that could challenge a mini-Garland. The performance we saw in London left the audience breathless, exhilarated, and marveling. Cloran did not go to the major centres to find a showbusiness child savant to play the role – he looked right in his backyard. In both Edmonton and Winnipeg, the role is played by Lilla Solymos. You have probably seen Lilla before – she played Tiny Tim in the Citadel’s production of A Christmas Carol for three seasons. She got her first taste of theatre here in the Citadel’s Foote Theatre School. She’s a member of a local dance company and sings in an Edmonton choir. As is the practice in productions of the show (and necessitated by the demands on a young performer) the role will be double-cast. Winnipeg’s Anna Anderson-Epp will alternate with Lilla in the title role.

As an additional note, the fearsome Miss Trunchbull is traditionally played by a man. For the choice role, Cloran has chosen our own local chameleon John Ullyatt – a choice made in histrionic heaven.

Matilda: The Musical is about books and stories and how they became magic talismans in one child’s quest to find her place in a very scary world. It opens February 16 in the Shoctor Theatre and spins its alchemy through March 17.

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BIOS LORA BROVOLD

Jessie

Select theatre credits include: Bust, Let the Light of Day Through (Theatre Network); A Few Good Men (Citadel/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel); Circle, Mirror, Transformation (Sage Theatre/Shadow Theatre); The Liars, Three Days of Rain (Shadow Theatre); Heroines, Mo and Jess Kill Susie, Fat Pig (Northern Light Theatre); The Invention of Romance (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre); and My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Theatre Yes). Lora is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program and the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

ANDREW CREIGHTNEY

Chris

Theatre credits include Sweat (Arts Club) and The Shipment (Speakeasy Theatre). Film and television credits include Game Over, Man!, Girls VS The City, Android Employed, Auditions, Rufus 2, Lullaby For Pi, Yes I Do, The Troop, and Little Astro Boy.

CHRIS W. COOK

Jason

Chris is an Edmonton-based film and theatre actor. Select acting credits include Romeo & Juliet (Citadel); The Conversion (Kill Your Television); Wish You Were Here (Plain Jane); Featuring Loretta, and Risk Everything (Punctuate!); The Aliens (What It Is); Cold Pursuit (Summit Entertainment); and Damnation (Netflix). Chris has been a proud union member of CUPE Local 30 for 10 years and couldn’t be happier splitting his time between acting and blue collar union work. Love to Beth and Roxy.

ALEN DOMINGUEZ

Oscar

This is Alen’s Citadel debut. Previous acting credits include The Audience (Arts Club); Cornwalls’ All Inclusive Cancun Christmas (Chemainus); Rent (URP); West Side Story, Hairspray (Theatre Under the Stars); The Dining Room (Western Gold); and The Idiot (PusH/Neworld). Alen holds a BFA in Acting from UBC, and is a co-founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (web: caltac.ca). Upcoming: Marine Life (Ruby Slippers); Coriolanus (Bard on the Beach); and Anywhere but Here (Electric Company).

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BIOS MARCI T. HOUSE

Cynthia

Select credits include: Intimate Apparel, Clybourne Park, Disgraced, Sweat (Arts Club Theatre); Timon of Athens/Lysistrata (Bard on the Beach); The Madness of George III/Dracula (Shaw Festival); You Will Remember Me (Ruby Slippers Theatre); Glengarry Glen Ross (Classic Chic Theatre); The Ladies Foursome (The Grand Theatre); Who’s Life Is It Anyway (Real Wheel Theatre); The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot (Pound of Flesh Theatre); In The Next Room/The Vibrator Play (Tarragon Theatre/MTC); RUINED (Obsidian Theatre/Nightwood Theatre); and The Miracle Worker (Vancouver Playhouse).

ANTHONY SANTIAGO

Brucie/Evan

Anthony is delighted to be returning to the Citadel, having previously appeared in Of Mice and Men, Angels in America Part 2, and Peter Pan. Originally from Sherwood Park and currently residing in Vancouver, his selected theatre credits include Dear Elizabeth (Wunderdog Theatre); Dark Road (Ensemble Theatre Company); True West (Sonderhouse Productions); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Bard on the Beach); and Two Weeks with the Queen (Globe Theatre, Regina). Special love and thanks to his family, friends, Nya-Manet, James, and AKC.

NICOLE ST. MARTIN

Tracey

Nicole now calls Edmonton home and is thrilled to be making her Citadel debut. Credits include: Do This In Memory of Me (Northern Light Theatre/UniThéâtre); Anxiety (Theatre Yes); Bello (UniThéâtre, Concrete Theatre, Young People’s Theatre); WASP (Le Fixe); The Lady From the Sea (Timms Centre for the Arts); Antigonick, and Moderato Cantabile (Guilty By Association/Summerworks). Film and TV: Murdoch Mysteries, VWars, and Played. Nicole graduated from Drama Centre London (U.K.). Thanks to Michael and Luc. Dad, this one’s for you.

ASHLEY WRIGHT

Stan

Theatre credits: Sweat (Arts Club/Citadel); Hamlet, Comedy of Errors (Free Will Shakespeare); Mamma Mia!, Shakespeare In Love, August Osage County, A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor (Bard On The Beach); As You Like It, Omnium Gatherum, Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter, Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage); The Black Rider, The Fall, The Red Priest, Slavs! (Tarragon); Les Miserables (Mirvish); The Trials of Ezra Pound (Stratford Festival); and Floyd Collins (Patrick Street Productions/Talk is Free).

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BIOS VALERIE PLANCHE

Director

An award-winning actor, director and instructor with over 30 years of experience on stage, as well as in film and television. Selected credits as a Director include Constellations (Alberta Theatre Projects); Bad Jews and Skylight (Theatre Calgary). At the Citadel, Valerie has performed in The Crucible, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Equus. Valerie was awarded the Michelle Dias Award in 2018 from Theatre Alberta, and the Gina Wilkinson Prize from the Shaw Festival in 2015. This is her directorial debut at the Citadel.

SHIZUKA KAI

Set Designer

Shizuka is a Vancouver-based theatre artist known for her set design and puppets. Select Design credits: Topdog Underdog (Arts Club); Jabber (Green Thumb/Neworld); King Arthur’s Night (Neworld); Flee (Electric Company/Studio 58); Go, Dog. Go! (Carousel); and Hamelin - A New Fable (Axis). Select Puppetry credits: Slime (The Only Animal); Crème-Glacée (Théâtre la Seizième); and The Japanese Problem (Universal Limited). Shiz is a two-time Jessie award winner and four-time nominee, recipient of the Earl Klein Memorial Scholarship, and a graduate of Studio 58. shizuka.ca The Biggest Little Collector Shop in Edmonton

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BIOS JENIFER DARBELLAY

Costume Designer

Jenifer has designed for Alberta Theatre Projects, Theatre Calgary, Lunchbox Theatre, Vertigo Theatre, Mount Royal College, University of Calgary, Shakespeare In The Park, the Grandstand Show, Arts Club (Vancouver, B.C.), University of British Columbia, Gateway Theatre (Richmond, B.C.), and Two Planks and a Passion (Nova Scotia). She has her MFA in Theatre Design from UBC. Jen is a working painter, and a mom to two beauties. She is based in Vancouver.

DANIELA MASELLIS

Lighting Designer

Credits include: Kamloopa (Western Canada Theatre); The Breathing Hole (Stratford Festival); The Unplugging (Gwandaak Theatre); The Supine Cobbler (The Maggie Tree); The Crackwalker, The Conversion (Kill Your Television); Pinocchio (Alberta Opera); Beowulf (Workshop West); La Corneille (L’Unitheatre); Devour Content Here: A Show (Cowgirl Opera); An Almost Perfect Thing (Workshop West). Daniela holds her BFA in Theatre Design, is a graduate of University of Alberta, a five-time Sterling award nominee, and a full-standing ADC member.

MISHELLE CUTTLER

Sound Designer

Mishelle is a composer, sound designer, and musician based in Vancouver. Some favourite past projects include: Lysistrata (Bard on the Beach); Hir, The Events (Pi); Titus Bouffonius (Rumble); Wet (ITSAZOO); and STATIONARY (Delinquent). She will be back in Edmonton soon to design sound for The Candidate and The Party here at the Citadel. Other upcoming: The Matchmaker (Arts Club); and Shakespeare in Love (Bard on the Beach). She has an MFA in Musical Theatre Composition from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. mishellecuttler.com.

RACHEL PEAKE

Resident Director

Rachel is Associate Artistic Director of the Citadel Theatre. She has directed for Vancouver Opera, Persephone Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Globe Theatre, Théâtre la Seizième, WCT, Caravan Farm, Belfry, Studio 58, the elbow, Realwheels, Classic Chic, Alley Theatre, and Pacific Opera Victoria. A graduate of the U of A and Studio 58, Rachel spent five years as co-Artistic Director of Solo Collective Theatre in Vancouver. She is a three-time recipient of the Jessie Richardson Award for Directing, and a proud new mum. rachelpeake.com SWEAT 37

BIOS ALISON MATTHEWS

Vocal Coach

Film and television credits include Disney’s Snowdogs, Final Destination 2, Battlestar Galactica, and iZombie. Alison is the Voice Instructor at the Arts Club Actor’s Intensive; is the current Head of Coaching for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival; former Program Director of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program; Instructor at Capilano University; Theatre and Public Speaking Instructor at Vancouver Island University; MFA Theatre, University of British Columbia; BFA Theatre, University of Victoria; Associate Diploma in Drama & Speech, Trinity College London. alisonmatthews.com

JONATHAN HAWLEY PURVIS Fight Director

For the Citadel as an Actor/Fight Director/Choreographer: The Silver Arrow, Crazy For You, West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, Spamalot, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Penelopiad, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Three Musketeers, Little Women, Forbidden Phoenix, and Beauty & the Beast. Other credits: As You Like It, Macbeth (Bard on the Beach); Antony & Cleopatra, Three Musketeers, Julius Caesar, Much Ado, Romeo & Juliet, Comedy of Errors (St. Lawrence); Pirates of Penzance, Little Shop of Horrors (Thousand Island Playhouse); Singin’ in the Rain (Chemainus); I Am for You (Concrete). Love to his family, Alana, Fela, and Caddell.

JAY NORTHCOTT

Assistant Director

Ever since Jay was a child, they always wanted to change the world.

Jay didn’t develop any world-saving superhuman abilities, so they make art! Jay is a multidisciplinary director, playwright, puppet maker, solo performer, and advocate for racialized and marginalized artists. Favourite directing credits include: Iphigenia and the Furies (Saga Collectif); Cows (Theatre Junction); and Girls!Girls!Girls!

(Theatrextra). Acting credits: Premium Content (Major Matt Mason); The Listening Room (Cardiac Theatre); Saddest Dance Party Ever, and Light Skin Dark Skin (Swallow-A-Bicycle).

ALAIA HAMER

Assistant Costume Designer

Alaia Hamer is an emerging theatre designer located in Vancouver, B.C. Recent projects include assistant costume design for The Humans (Artsclub); costume for C’mon Angie (Touchstone); assistant costume for Macbeth (Bard on the Beach); set design for She Kills Monsters (UBC); associate costume design for Onegin (Arts Club); costume assistant for Wells Hill (Action at a Distance), among others.

Alaia is a graduate of the UBC Theatre Design program 2017, and holds an English literature degree from 2012.

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BIOS RICK RINDER

Stage Manager

Rick’s history with the Citadel includes The Heidi Chronicles (1990/91), The Taming of the Shrew (96/97), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (97/98), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (2001/02), Blue/Orange (03/04), Metamorphoses, The Goat (04/05), and Next to Normal in 2012/13.

Elsewhere, highlights of a long career include Billy Bishop Goes to War (CanStage), The Syringa Tree (Vancouver Playhouse), God of Carnage (Theatre Calgary) and several tours of Shirley Valentine. Rick lives in Maple Ridge, B.C. with the star of Rick’s Life, Nadine.

RACHEL DAWN WOODS Assistant Stage Manager

Rachel is happy to be back at the Citadel. Select credits include: A Christmas Carol (Citadel); The Comedy Company, Fly Me To The Moon, Annapurna (Shadow); The Ladies Foursome (Mayfield); Les Feluettes, The Merry Widow (Edmonton Opera); Irma Voth (Theatre Network); The Bully Project (Concrete); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Travesties, The Graduate, Guys and Dolls (Segal); The Other, Bears (Pyretic); A Christmas Carol, Gifts of the Magi (TNB); Dear Johnny Deere (Blyth/Lighthouse); Falsettos (Acting Upstage); Ed’s Garage, Footloose (Grand); Romeo and Juliet (NAC).

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MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Ken Davis

Director, Marketing & Communications

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Assistant Technical Director

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Administrative Assistant

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Assistant Head of Audio

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Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry

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PRODUCTION Cheryl L. Hoover

Director of Production

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Technical Director

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Assistant Production Manager

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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MAR. 30 – APR. 21, 2019

By KAT SANDLER Running in tandem ,The Candidate and The Party are a pair of fast-paced, frenzied comedies. Members of the cast will race back and forth between the Maclab Theatre and The Club to appear in two different shows running simultaneously.

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