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2014 2015 SEASON SPONSOR

BOB BAKER I ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PENNY RITCO I EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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2014/15 SEASON Bob Baker | Artistic Director penny ritco | executive Director

Board of Governors Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Chair Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Tom Redl, Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Marc de La Bruyère Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole Ralph B. MacMillan Sandy Mactaggart (Honourary) Jack McBain Arliss Miller Catrin Owen Ex Officio Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Ralph Young

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

HonoUrary Directors

Jack N. Agrios, Ken Bautista, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Christine Bishop, Dan Block, Guy Bridgeman, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Len Dolgoy, Allison Edwards, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, James Gillespie, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Beverlee Loat, Al Maurer, Ashif Mawji, Maureen McCaw, Eva McGregor, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Rob Reynolds, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, Gaurav Singhmar, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, Chief Justice A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa

KIM’S CONVENIENCE

By Ins Choi September 20 – October 11, 2014

THE DAISY THEATRE

By Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes October 15 – November 2, 2014

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

By Richard Bean October 25 – November 16, 2014

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens November 29 – December 23, 2014 Presented by

VENUS IN FUR

By David Ives January 17 – February 8, 2015 Presented by

PLAYING WITH FIRE

THE THEO FLEURY STORY

By Kirstie McLellan Day January 28 – February 15, 2015

LIFE, DEATH AND THE BLUES

By Raoul Bhaneja February 11 – March 1, 2015

VIGILANTE Book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Christenson March 7 – 29, 2015 Presented by

ARCADIA

By Tom Stoppard March 21 – April 12, 2015 Presented by

AVENUE Q Book by Jeff Whitty Based on an original concept by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx April 25 – May 24, 2015 Presented by

THANK YOU

WE EXTEND OUR HEARTFELT THANKS to all our donors, whose generosity, loyalty and commitment play a crucial role in ensuring our community has the opportunity to experience the joy of the performing arts. All of our donors have a profound and lasting impact on the quality, accessibility and relevance of the Citadel’s productions, facility and educational offerings.

ENCORE | Campaign Support VISIONARY

MENTOR

Maclab Enterprises

Bryan & Company LLP Capital Power Felesky Flynn LLP The Highbury Foundation Richard & Erin Kirby Jack & Lorraine McBain Morgan Construction and Environmental Ltd. Rob & Beth Reynolds Chris & Dale Sheard Susan Wylie & Bruce Hagstrom

Gifts of $1,000,000 and above

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 Dentons Canada LLP 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 J.G. Greenough Lisa & Marshall Sadd

DREAMER

Susan & James Burns Butler Family Foundation 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 The Sequeira Family The Summit Foundation Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp

FRIENDS

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Don & Lorna Kramer Stuart & Sherry Lee Joseph & Nancy Thompson

Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Keith & Valerie Alessi Lorraine Bray & Jim Carter

| Annual Support STEWARD

DIRECTOR

Marc de La Bruyère & Stacy Schiff Ada Hole Muriel Hole Maggie & John Mitchell Rob & Beth Reynolds

Madam Justice L. Darlene Acton The Honourable John & Ruth Agrios Bob Baker & Tom Wood Dr. & Mrs. Luis & Alexis Baptista John & Judith Cosco Doug & Wendy Davey Dr. Elizabeth Dixon & Dr. Ben Macedo Grant Dunlop & Erika Norheim Allison & Glyn Edwards Leslie Frankish Cecil & Anne Hoffman Wolfgang & Elizabeth Kaminski Cherisse Killick Leo J. Krysa Family Foundation Jack & Lorraine McBain Arliss Miller

Gifts of $10,000 +

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999

David & Jan Bentley Don & Lorna Kramer Sandy & Cécile Mactaggart Al & Fran Olson Tom & Corrie Redl Robert Rosen Aroon Sequeira Chris & Dale Sheard Weir Family Fund

Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999

Ove & Susan Minsos Nobert & Patricia Morgenstern David J. Mundy Esther Ondrack Playhouse Publications Ltd. The Poole Family Jerry & Mary Preston Sir Francis Price & The Honourable Marguerite Trussler Penny Ritco Alan Rose & Judy Schroder Arnold & Grace Rumbold Kayla Shoctor Marshall & Debby Shoctor Eira Spaner Larry & Moira Staples Buddy Victor Paddy Webb Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp VIGILANTE 5

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Bart & Carole West

Fred & Helen Otto Tom & Judy Peacocke Wendy Kotow Poster Tech Linda Youell Aline Pratch Ralph & Gay Young Curtis & Sandra Prosko Leon Zupan Richard Remund Antoni & Lucyna Rojek LEAD Sentinel Self-Storage Co. Gifts of $500 - $999 Doug & Devika Short Dagny & Graeme Alston Allen & Myrna Snart Bonnie Andriachuk & Marianne & Kent Darrel Ewaschuk Stewart Anne Anfindsen Neil & Merle Taylor Anonymous Michael & Kathleen James Archibald & Tomyn Heidi Christoph Douglas & Dorothy Fiona & Stephen Warren Bamforth Ben Wiez Ida & Tommy Banks Sarah Wylie Jim & Helen Banks SUPER Jane Batty Andrew & Barbara Belch SUBSCRIBER Barbara Blackley Gifts of $100 - $499 Joyce Buchwald Baha & Sharon Norman & Anne Burgess Abu-Laban Brian & Barbara Burrows Greg Alcorn Chris & Leah Burrows David & Connie Anderson Martin & Anna Andrea Ronald Cavell Betty Andrew Z & M Chrzanowski Gail Andrew Janelle Conrad Diana & Laurence Heinz Feldberg Andriashek Betty & Mike Gibbins Patricia Anholt Ghislaine Hebert Anonymous Brad & Lori Armstrong Elizabeth, Rosalina & James Ash Cynthia Hicks Halfdan Baadsgaard Bill & Jana Holden Diana Bacon Lynn & Thomasz Charlotte & Mark Hruckowski Ballerman Bonnie Hutchinson Roderick Banks Norman & Valerie Tony & Valerie Barlott Kneteman Ingrid Barlow Ken & Jennifer Kouri William & Carole Barton Christine Kyriakides Maurice & Annette Bastide Walter & Stella Baydala Dr. Ed & Nikki Lazar Barb & Jim Beck Teresa Mardon Joan Bensted - Royal Lepage Donna Bereska Suzette Marxheimer Ian & Linda McConnan Madhu & Sundri Bhambhani Douglas & Claire Terri & Gary Biasini McConnell Sophie & Paul Bishop Norma & Gordon Angie Bogner McIntosh Beverley Boren Gordon & Agneta Amy Borkent McKenzie Keith & Elizabeth Bowering Marie Montgomery Maureen & Jim Moran Robert & Maureen Braun Norma Brekke Bill & Joyce Mustard Anne Brereton Lewis & Lindsay Jack Brown Nakatsui Linda Brownlee Thomas Newton

Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Dave Wilson & Carol & Rae Allen Gail Allord Anonymous Becker Bruce & Carol Bentley Dr. Doug & Mary Bosko Guy Bridgeman & Dianne Ross David & Marlene Burnett Butler Family Foundation Frank Calder Linda Cook Lesley Cormack J. Susan Davis Richard Gil Neil Gower J.G. Greenough J. Halford Brent & Deborah Hesje J.D. Hole Brenda & John Inglis Investors GroupSherwood Park Gail & Andrew Jarema Linda & Siegfried Kowand In Memory of Dr. Kris Kristjanson James & Maggie Laing Stuart & Sherry Lee Robert & Dawn Lemke Peter & Dorothea Macdonnell Fund Linda & Kim Mackenzie James McFarland Keith & Brenda McNicol Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Q.C. Jim & Celestine Montgomery Laverne & Aaron Nathan Edna & Cal Nichols G. Douglas Oakley & Elizabeth McAfee Catrin Owen PCL Constructors Inc. The Press Gallery Henry & Helen Resta Soloman & Marilyn Rolingher Suggitt Publishers Neil & Merle Taylor Mike & Michele Thompson D. Lorne & LeeAnn Tyrrell David Verbicky 6 VIGILANTE

Jeremiah Burak Kevin Burghardt John Bylhouwer Jessica Callele James & Joan Carlson Martin Carroll Barry Cavanaugh Don Chisholm Brent Christopherson Wayne Church Gordon & Janet Clanachan Janet Clark David & Linda Climenhaga Jack & Marilyn Cohen Ruth Collins-Nakai David Cornish Karen Cox Kim & Rick Craig Marilyn Cree Robert Crosbie Randall & Angela Croutze Patrick & Luxie Crowe Delbert & Jane Dahl Jillian Dal Bello Patricia Dawson Marcella Dejong John Devlin & Patti Proctor Lorne & Edith Dixon Brad Doucette Simonne Doucette Julie-Ann Dron Francis & Muriel Dunnigan Randy & Wendy Dupree Roland Duquette L.A. Dushenski Douglas Duval Carmen & James Dykes Jaqueline Eddy-Caithness Liz Edmunds Dr. Rod & Pat Eidem Jacqueline & Martin Elton Dean Evanger Noella Fagnan Thomas A. Farrell & Anne Henderson Lawrence & Alayne Farries Gail Faulkner Pat Ferguson Lois Field Kristen & Mark Finlay Robert Fleming Rose Fowler C.R. French Charles Friedrich Gaston Fuentealba Jean Fukushima John Galanka Ken & Barbara Galm Daniel Gamache Frank Gibson Shirley Gifford Harry Gill Isidor & Grace Gliener Gaie Goin Bill Grace

Carole Anne Gramniak Lilian Green Paul Greenwood Audrey Groeneveld Brenda Gross Kathy Hancock Lois & Chan Hawkins Tatsuyuki & Doris Hayashi Linda Henderson Robert Henderson Debbie Hill Patsy Ho Donna Holowaychuk Ray & Elaine Hook Robert & Laurel Hudson Judith Hugh Mary Hurlburt & Norm Stacey Elesevata Hymonyk Caroline Hyndman Richard & Laurel Innes Erik & Franziska Jacobsen Shiraz Jaffer Chris Jager & Jean Coutts Ladislav & Ludmila Jakoubek Paula Jamison Evelyn Jensen Carolyn Johnson Joan Johnston Jerry Juzwa Venta Kabzems & Stan Houston Brian & Ida Kaliel Jatinder Kalra Jerry & Miriam Katz Doris Kent Angela Kercher Nolton Knippel Kara Knoop Liz Kohle Darlene Kos Tina Kovlaske Anita Kozyrskyj Tim Kruger Maureen Kular John & Sylvia Laarhuis Lew Lamontagne Neil Lang Patricia Langan Cecilia Laskoski Jack & Diane Latham Ruth & George Lauf Steve Laurion Don & Gwen Lawrence Allen Lee Sigmund Lee Theresa Lema

Marilyn Lemay Valda Levin Mary Lister Myron & Maureen Liviniuk Chris & Cecilie Lord Andre Louw Emily Low Don Lucas Jeff Lukan Shauna & George Lutzer Shirley MacArthur James MacDonald Douglas MacDougall Mary Machum Sam MacIsaac Dawn MacRitchie James MacSween Don & Cristina Mah Jo Anne Mahood David Maplethorpe Estelle Marshall Bev Martin Neil & Pamela Martin Stacy & Mark Maurier Sharon Marie & Tim Mavko Ross McCrady Alan & Patricia McGeachy Andrew Douglas McGregor Betty McMillan Linda Medland Davis Dr. A. & Evelyn Meer Pamela & Dennis Melnyk Mark Mertens Bonnie Moon Gordon & Cathy Moorhouse Al Morrow Alexis Morrow Kevin & Robyn Mott Dave Mowat Doug & Kathy Murray Marie Muszynski Leita Siever & Craig Neuman Roy & Trudy Nickerson Ian & Lou Nicol Jennifer Oakes Dianne Oberg & Marty Taylor Erin O’Connell Mary O’Connell Soren Odergard Linda & Thomas O’Leary

David & Paula Onderwater Wade O’Neill James & Beverley Orieux Vital & Colleen Ouellette Kathy Packford Stacey & Chris Padbury Marian Palahniuk Fred & Mary Paranchych Aleda Patterson Carol Pawlenchuk Donna Pawliw Leslie & Rick Penny Richard & Catherine Perry Gordon Peterson Gerald Piro Tammy Pidner E. Fay Plomp Jeff Polovick Susan & Darrell Portz Jean & Edward Posyniak Paul & Leslie Precht Olga Predy Michael Prendergast Helen Primrose Barb Prodor Diana Purdy Andrew & Carol Raczynski Jeff Ramage Darlene Rasko Barbara Redmond-Ellehoj Laverne Remirez Sheila Ringrose Ron & Carol Ritch James Ritco Donna & David Roseman Betty Ross Heather Ross Tina & Tony Rota Orla Ryan Deborah Salo Wayne Sartore Kay Savey Lynora M. Saxinger Carolyn Scheidt Charles & Marilyn Schroder Allan & Marianne Scott Seagate Contract Management Ltd. Noel Sharp Glenn & Margaret Sharples Chen Shen Richard Sherbaniuk Andrew Shum & Timothy Riordan

Ellie Shuster Randy Sibulak Sol & Shirley Sigurdson Barbara & Gerry Sinn Sheila Sirdar Lynn Smarsh Trina Smith Dale Somerville Keith & Beverley Spencer Brian Sproule Kim Stadelmann Jean & Gerry Staring Fund Elout Starreveld Delores Stefaniszyn Lori Stokowski Lynn Storbakken Ben & Larraine Strafford Caroline Stuart Darren Sutton Campbell & Rosalind Sydie Gerard Tertzakian Erin Thackeray Tony Thai & Alvin Schrader Frank & Roseanne Thede Allison Theman Maggie Thompson Colin Tooth Mary-Ann Trachimowich Larry Trekofski John & Alana Tucker Darcy & Marion Turner Henriette van Hees Peter Vana Chris Vilcsak Lori Wall Shirley Watson Susan Watson Violet Watson Fabian Way Robert & Ann Weir William Wells Willis Winter John Wodak Daniel & Tonya Wolfe Lynn Wolff & Ed Holmes Susan Wright Colin Wylie Dr. Randall & Nancy Yatscoff Betty & Bill Young Antonio Zaragoza Diane Zinyk Ried & Heidi Zittlau Gerrhard Zmatlo Brian Zrobek & Pamela Chung

To learn more about donating to the Citadel Theatre, please visit www.citadeltheatre.com or contact Sydney Stuart at 780.428.2142 or sstuart@citadeltheatre.com.

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

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

Government & Foundation Supporters

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor, 1922 – 2001

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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Dr. Ghalib Ahmed | The U of A Wardrobe Department

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PARTNERS

Recognizing our PRODUCTIONS PRESENTING SPONSORS

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STUDENTS CLUB The Maclab Enterprises Students Club is a Citadel Theatre/Robbins Academy program that offers a unique glimpse into the world of professional theatre to a wide range of junior and senior high school students from Edmonton and surrounding areas.

Frankenstein – Andrew Kushnir, Tracy Penner, Sarah Gale, Nick Green.

Designer: Bretta Gerecke. Photo: Jackson Hinton

On the first three Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of each of our mainstage productions, Students Club members enjoy a small reception before the show and then participate in a highly engaging, interactive presentation, featuring special guests from Edmonton’s talented theatre community. Following the performance there is a talkback session with members of the production’s cast and crew.

Prior to Students Club performances, the students are joined by a special guest from the industry. Our most recent guest was Amy Kucharek, a multi-talented theatre artist who works collaboratively in design, production management, scenic painting, and props building. Amy has been a key artistic contributor at Catalyst Theatre over the past 10 years and she shared an inside view of the company’s history and creation process in addition to a demonstration of the use of props and costumes. Amy has a diploma in visual arts and is a graduate of the Theatre Production program at Grant MacEwan University. Here at the Citadel she most recently worked on props for last season’s Make Mine Love and currently serves as the principal design instructor at the Citadel’s Foote Theatre School.

To become a part of Students Club for our 50th Anniversary season, or for more information about the program, please contact Shirley Tran at groupsales@citadeltheatre.com or (780) 428-2127.

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DONOR PROFILE edward and nikki lazar

How long have you been attending productions at the Citadel Theatre?

Of all the productions you have seen, which has been your favourite and why?

We moved to Edmonton from Montreal in 1994 as new university graduates continuing our studies – we’ve always loved the theatre.

So we would attend as many productions as we could. In 1999 we were able to become season ticket holders. We would go to the theatre for “date night” while having very young babies at home!

Some of the more edgy productions have always been our favourites – ones with a moral message. The one man show Bigger Than Jesus from the 2005/2006 season was one of our absolute favourites. It was so profound in how it portrayed the idiocracy/ misunderstandings of religion.

Why do you choose to donate to the Citadel?

We believe that the arts are an integral part of a vibrant city and love to support the local venues. As our children have grown up we have introduced them to the love of theatre as well.

Has donating to the Citadel changed or impacted your perspective on the Arts?

It was never a question for us to donate to the Citadel. In this advanced computer age we need to ensure the next generation can appreciate more traditional methods of learning and entertainment.

Do you think the Arts are an integral part of a thriving community?

A community can’t survive without the arts – all of them. Music, theatre and the visual arts.

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Musicals are also favourites of ours – and are real crowd pleasers! We have seen so many good productions so we have really supported the Citadel through thick and thin. It’s nice to see some more sophisticated plays being brought to the Citadel.

Which production are you looking forward to this season?

Over the years the quality of the productions has matured and grown along with the growth of the city. It’s been very interesting and exciting to see and we are excited to see all the new productions this year.

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Writer/Director/Composer/Lyricist............. Jonathan Christenson Choreographer. . ......................................... Laura Krewski* Sound Designer......................................... Wade Staples Music Producer......................................... Matthew Skopyk Voice, Speech & Text Director................... Betty Moulton Production Dramaturg............................... Sarah Garton Stanley Music Direction.......................................... Jonathan Christenson (Vocals) & Matthew Skopyk (Band) Costume Designer..................................... Narda McCarroll Lighting Designer....................................... Beth Kates Lighting Assistant...................................... Kevin Green Set Concept & Development..................... Jonathan Christenson & James Robert Boudreau Costume Associate. . .................................. Megan Koshka Set Consultant – Paint & Finishes. . ............ Marissa Kochanski Fight Choreographer. . ................................ Jonathan Purvis Assistant Director...................................... Patrick Joseph Lundeen

Featuring

Jan Alexandra Smith*................................ Johannah Donnelly David Leyshon*.......................................... James Donnelly Carson Nattrass*.. ...................................... Will Donnelly/Ensemble Scott Walters*............................................ Tommy Donnelly/Ensemble Kris Joseph*.. ............................................. Daniel Donnelly/Ensemble Eric Morin*................................................. Robert Donnelly/Ensemble Lucas Meeuse*.......................................... Johnny Donnelly/Ensemble Benjamin Wardle. . ...................................... Michael Donnelly/Ensemble

Musicians

Matthew Skopyk........................................ Computer Programming, Keyboards, Banjo Morgan Gies.............................................. Guitar Emily Siobhan McCourt............................. Fiddle Nathan Setterlund...................................... Guitar, Bass, Mandolin Kurtis Schultz.. ........................................... Percussion

Production

Catalyst Producer...................................... Eva Cairns Catalyst Production Manager.................... James Robert Boudreau Stage Manager.......................................... John Raymond* Assistant Stage Manager........................... Jenn Best* Catalyst Associate Technical Director....... Kevin Green Set Build.................................................... Peter Locock, Chris Hayes, Greg Cardinal,

Serge Menard, Brad Weir, Nick Shostak Scenic Art.................................................. Nicole Deibert, Richard “Buck” Stevens Cutters....................................................... Julie Davie, Joanna Johnston Stitchers.. ................................................... Julie Davie, Ava Siemens, Joanna Johnston,

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Catalyst Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre (PACT) and engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA).

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First and foremost we thank our colleagues at the Citadel – Bob Baker, Penny Ritco, Cheryl Hoover, Bill Heron, Ken Davis and everyone on staff for their support and investment in this new work. We also thank Jillian Keiley and Sarah Garton Stanley, from the National Arts Centre English Theatre, for their commitment to the development of Vigilante.

A big thank you to Claude Giroux, Alan Roberts, the team and audiences at Keyano Theatre in Fort McMurray, where the workshop version of Vigilante was presented in November 2013.

Catalyst Theatre also acknowledges the contributions of Candice Charney, Joel Crichton, Chris Cook, Oscar Derkx, Vincent Forcier, Jennifer Goodman, Ellie Heath, David Ley, Nancy McAlear, Brenda McNicol, Ryan Parker, Wayne Paquette, Roman Pfob, Garett Ross, Kate Ryan, and Scott Shpeley to the workshop and development of Vigilante.

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Board of Directors: Janine Andrews (Chair), Julie Brown, Eva Cairns, Jonathan Christenson, Rob Dunseith, Leo Lejeune, Rena Liviniuk, Sue Quon, Zack Siezmagraff Catalyst Theatre 8529 Gateway Blvd, Edmonton AB T6E 6P3 | www.catalysttheatre.ca | Tel: 780.431.1750 You can also follow Catalyst on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

about Catalyst Theatre Catalyst Theatre creates new, original Made-In-Edmonton productions that are presented across Canada and internationally. Under the artistic leadership of Jonathan Christenson, and with the ongoing collaboration of Resident Artist Bretta Gerecke, these multi award-winning productions have included The House of Pootsie Plunket, The Blue Orphan, Frankenstein, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe and Hunchback.

In the past few years Catalyst productions have been presented by The Citadel Theatre; Barbican Theatre and the London International Festival of Theatre (London); The New Victory Theater (New York); Canadian Stage and the Luminato Festival (Toronto); Vertigo Mystery Theatre, Theatre Calgary and the High Performance Rodeo (Calgary); Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ottawa); Keyano Theatre (Fort McMurray); PuSH Festival, Arts Club Theatre and The Cultch (Vancouver); Persephone Theatre (Saskatoon); and the Yukon Arts Centre (Whitehorse). In January, Catalyst’s production of Nevermore opened at New World Stages in New York City, in partnership with Tony-Award winning producers Radio Mouse Entertainment (www.nevermoreshow.com).

In September 2015 Catalyst Theatre will relocate from its current Old Strathcona venue to a new home in the Maclab Theatre at the Citadel. We hope you’ll join us for our first season in our new downtown home!

Catalyst Theatre gratefully acknowledges the ongoing operating support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Edmonton Arts Council and the City of Edmonton as well as our sponsors and individual donors. Catalyst also acknowledges the support of The Community Initiatives Program of the Alberta Lottery Fund.

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Vigilante

is inspired by the story of James and Johannah Donnelly, Irish immigrants who settled in Canada in the mid-nineteenth century. Their story has attracted many writers and historians over the years, but the facts remain elusive. What actually happened is sketchy and contradictory. There have been as many different tellings of their tale as there have been writers who’ve told it. While it’s tempting to want to establish exactly what happened to the Donnellys, in the end there is no authoritative version of their story. But is there ever an authoritative version of anyone’s story? An event experienced by twenty different people will have as many different variations. Who’s to say which one is the truth? It’s been said that history’s told by the victors, a reminder that what we call “history” is vulnerable to the biases of those who present it as fact. One thing that’s certain is that we’ll never really know what happened to the Donnellys, or why it happened, or what they were actually like as people.

As such, the Donnellys of this play are unapologetically imaginary. Their story is closer to a dream of what might have happened than a representation of “the factual” Donnellys – a “what if”, inspired by the fragments of historical fact that we have at our disposal: what if there were such a thing as ghosts? And what if those ghosts could speak? The story they might tell would be as much a love story as it would be a story of hate, a story told by those who’ve never had the chance to speak – the ghosts of the Donnelly boys themselves – or at least an imaginary version of them. I hope that the play you’re about to watch taps into something essential about the Donnellys, something that transcends time, and brings fresh meaning to their story nearly two hundred years after it first happened.

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BETH GRAHAM is an actor and playwright. She has co-written several plays including The Drowning Girls, Mules and Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things. Beth’s latest play, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble, was developed during her participation in the Citadel Playwright’s Forum, and was recently produced at Theatre Network and before that at Factory Theatre in Toronto.

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“It’s the best play that Tom Stoppard has ever written,” unequivocally states Citadel artistic director Bob Baker of the playwright’s Arcadia.

“They say that Stoppard plays are short on emotion but I disagree. He’s just a very smart writer with complex ideas and I think audiences sometimes get stuck in that – forgetting that his plays are based on real, human emotions.

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Arcadia has a lot of big ideas – sort of a mystery without being mystifying. And there is a love story that threads all the way through. The play takes place in a reading room in one of the great houses of England and the time is split between present day and 200 years ago.

The challenges of complex language and ideas, the two time periods and the wide range of the characters, makes this a perfect piece for the participants of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.”

At 77, Sir Tom Stoppard is still ruggedly handsome. He’s revered as one of the great playwrights of our time and is approachable, witty and genuinely interested in theatre.

When asked to talk about himself, he once observed, “A writer ought to be the best possible source about their work but the writing instinct doesn’t come out of selfexamination. That part of yourself in your work is expressed willy-nilly without your cooperation, motivation or collusion.”

Tom Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia in 1937. Being Jewish, his family fled the Nazi invasion and, after years wandering as refugees, and surviving the death of his father in a Japanese bomber attack, found themselves in Darjeeling, India.

After the war, his mother married Kenneth Stoppard, an army major, and the family moved to England. Kenneth Stoppard was every inch the military man. “He read very little,”

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observes Stoppard dryly. Stoppard now refers to that period as, “I was coming on well as an honorary Englishman.” That may explain why the writer always felt a little “different” from his English hosts and quite probably had a profound effect on his ability to comment on the society in which he found himself.

At 17, Stoppard left school to go into journalism and even took a stab at theatre criticism.

“I wasn’t very good,” he modestly remembers. Still questing for self-expression, he began writing short radio plays for BBC radio. “It was the golden age of British Theatre and everyone wanted to write a play.”

In 1964, he was sent to a “mansion” in Germany for 5 months by the Ford foundation. He emerged (after several further revisions) with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. A hugely successful production at the Old Vic gave him international success. With typical self-deprecating humour, when asked what the play was about he replied, “It’s about making me very rich.” He followed that with Jumpers (1972), a murder mystery with philosophical undertones and Travesties (1974) which placed Lenin, Joyce and others together in World War I. The Real Thing (1982) was a turning point for Stoppard. It was a love story that (suggested the critics) had a genuine beating heart at the centre. It also was a huge success for him and made a star of Jeremy Irons.

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Stoppard is president of the London Library – where he finds much of his research. But does he write there? Well, no. He’s a smoker (and embarrassed about it) but finds, “I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.” He writes, in longhand, at his desk in Chelsea Harbour, where he retreated when he found the life in London too seductive of his time.

Stoppard says, “I essentially write about things that please me, interest me. I only find out later if it works as theatre or not.” He writes from beginning to end, “So the first thing I write is the first scene of the play” – which he scribbles with a stylish silver Caran d’Arche fountain pen made in Geneva. (He recently told an interviewer that he no longer writes with a quill pen because his last goose had died.). He doesn’t use a computer because he goes back, over and over again, writing in changes and making notes to himself. Then he dictates the play to his secretary – ad-libbing in the stage directions. After 40 years of writing, the problem remains the same, “You can’t start writing until you know what you are doing and you don’t know what you are doing until you start writing. I still have to resist the false intuition that I need to know as much as possible in advance. The essential thing is to know as little as possible. Ideally, when things fall out well, you shouldn’t feel clever, you should feel lucky.”

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If, perhaps, you have never seen a Stoppard play, you may be more familiar with his work than you think. No effete ivory tower dramatist, Stoppard not only acknowledges (and even applauds) popular culture but has incorporated his interest into his plays. (His latest radio play for the BBC was called Darkside written to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s album, Dark Side of the Moon.) You may remember his accepting an Academy Award for co-writing Shakespeare in Love in 1999. He is highly regarded as a “polisher” in the movie business and his (uncredited) re-writes have graced many popular films. “Polish... It’s such a strange word for what one does. I ‘interfered’ with George (Lucas’) script in a mild way.” He’s referring to his work on Lucas’ Star Wars Episode III. (Given Stoppard’s lifetime track record – we’ll forgive him for that one.) Steven Spielberg credited Stoppard with “writing almost every line of dialogue for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” Spielberg is a great fan of collaboration. The director once pulled Stoppard out of the shower because he was having problems with a scene he was in the act of shooting for Schindler’s List. Stoppard dictated his thoughts to Spielberg on the phone while standing naked and dripping wet in the hallway of his home. The changes appeared in the final version of the film. Stoppard has contributed dialogue (“I do about one a year for Hollywood”) to The Bourne Legacy and Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. He’s an unabashed movie fan. He says, “The second reason I do it is that I love to work with people I admire,” and then adds more pragmatically, “The first reason, of course, is that it overpays.”

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A couple of years back, the BBC produced a Stoppard penned television mini-series, Parade’s End. It starred a pre-Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch.

Because Stoppard compresses so many ideas into Arcadia, to go any deeper into the plot (which combines iterated algorithms and the chaos theory with 18th century gardening) would only serve to confuse. Like all of Stoppard’s plays it is meant to be seen on a stage where it unfolds with clarity. Famously a fan of theatre’s collaborative process he says, “I rely heavily on an actor’s performance to help individualize a character.”

The playwright begins Arcadia (which means “paradise”), with his pen deep in the Oscar Wilde inkwell, and with what might be called “an English drawing-room farce.” The fact that the discussion ruminates on the death of the universe and the meaning of life doesn’t make it any less witty. Ratcheting about in various time zones, we find ourselves in 1809 with a group of characters in the Baronial Ridley House, coping with the wrenching change of classicism to romanticism and whose life becomes of great interest to the future inhabitants of the same dwelling. The stories alternate, the conversation and ideas reverberating through time, until at the end we find ourselves in one of the great metaphorical and theatrical of endings – the two epochs appear on stage at the same time dancing in a stately waltz. They swirl past each other, unseen and unseeable, but yet profoundly aware of the other.

Despite his dabbling in the pop arts, Stoppard’s first love is the stage. He says, “Theatre is not just a childhood playground but it can be a recreation for people who like to stretch their minds.”

Tom Wood’s production of Arcadia previews on the Shoctor Stage of the Citadel on March 21.

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Daniel Donnelly, Ensemble

Kris Joseph is a Saskatchewan-raised, Ontario-groomed artist who’s called Edmonton home since 2012. He has worked across the country, with recent credits including Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); Equivocation (Persephone Theatre); Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); Bat Boy! The Musical (Black Sheep Theatre); The Three Musketeers and Little Women (Citadel Theatre); Whispering Pines, Facts and Zadie’s Shoes (Great Canadian Theatre Company); The Turn of The Screw (Screwdriver Collective); Airport Security and The Churchill Protocol (Gruppo Rubato); Oliver, Creation, A Christmas Carol, Mother Courage, The Changeling, and Macbeth (Canada’s National Arts Centre); Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); The Pillowman (Vision Theatre); Doubt (Gladstone Productions); and two national Fringe tours. At home he shares his life with two Bengal cats, a saltwater aquarium, and the most supportive husband anyone could want.

David Leyshon

James Donnelly

David’s most recent credits include It’s a Wonderful Life (Persephone Theatre) and Billy Bishop Goes to War (Theatre Northwest). Other theatre credits include The Three Musketeers, Little Women (Citadel Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, The Comedy of Errors (Neptune Theatre); Guys and Dolls, It’s a Wonderful Life (Chemainus Theatre); The 39 Steps, Cinderella (Globe Theatre); The Fantasticks, An Ideal Husband (Theatre Calgary); A Few Good Men (Citadel/ MTC); The Wizard of Oz (ATP); Rope, Evelyn Strange (Vertigo Theatre); Perfect Wedding, Run For Your Wife (Drayton); Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew (Stratford Festival); seven seasons with The Shaw Festival. Some favourites including The Importance of Being Earnest, Major Barbara, Happy End and The Cassilis Engagement.

David holds a BFA from the University of Regina.

Lucas Meeuse

Johnny Donnelly, Ensemble

Lucas is thrilled to be home in Alberta performing Vigilante once again. Select theatre credits include Mary Poppins, Cabaret (Theatre Aquarius); Into the Woods, The Jungle Book (Neptune Theatre); 9 to 5, The Sound of Music (Drayton Entertainment); 9 to 5 (Mayfield); Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Citadel Theatre); Treasure Island (TNB); West Side Story (TSJ); The Sound of Music (Persephone); and Canada in Love (Smile Theatre). Film and television credits include Warehouse 13 (SyFy); and boy-band leader Danny T. in Odd Squad (PBS/TVO). Huge love and thanks to Jonathan, Laura, the Citadel, Mom, Dad and Aaron.

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bios Eric Morin

Robert Donnelly, Ensemble

Eric is very excited to be collaborating with Catalyst Theatre!

He has admired their work and creative process from afar since he first stumbled upon Nevermore at the High Performance Rodeo. Selected theatre credits include: Dogfight (Fallen Rock Productions); Footloose (Drayton Entertainment); City of Angels (Theatre By the Bay); FALSETTOS (Acting Up Stage); The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee (1000 Island Playhouse); A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Three Musketeers, Little Women: The Musical and Beauty and the Beast (Citadel Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Next to Normal (Arts Club); The Wizard of Oz (Ross Petty Panto); and The Altar Boyz (AngelWalk and VPP). Eric is a graduate of The Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Training Program (2011/12). He earned his BFA at the Ryerson Theatre School, and attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Many thanks to his family and friends for their constant love and support.

Carson Nattrass Will Donnelly, Ensemble

Vigilante is Carson’s second engagement with Catalyst Theatre, having previously performed in Nevermore at Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre. This is also his second engagement with the Citadel Theatre, having previously performed in Guys and Dolls. He recently directed A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline and Footloose for Rainbow Stage and has had the pleasure of performing for Mirvish Productions, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Rainbow Stage, Dry Cold Productions, White Rabbit Productions, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, Danny Schur Productions, Theatre Projects Manitoba, The Belfry Theatre, Free Will Players, Theatre Calgary, Ground Zero Theatre, Lunchbox, Regina Globe, Magnus Theatre, Theatre Orangeville, Talk is Free and Festival Antigonish. Carson is a proud graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program. Much love to Sharon, Theodore and my cast mates in the New York production of Nevermore! Follow him on Twitter at @carsonnattrass.

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bios Jan Alexandra Smith Johannah Donnelly

Jan has always dreamed of working with Catalyst Theatre and is excited to be kicking off her 30th year in the professional theatre with this prolific and unique company. She has performed across Canada with theatres including the Shaw Festival, the Grand, Royal Alexandra, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Alberta Theatre Projects, Tarragon, Theatre Calgary, Manitoba Theatre Center, the Charlottetown Festival and the Citadel Theatre. In Edmonton, Jan has choreographed for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival and the Citadel. She also directed and choreographed Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for the Mayfield in 2007. She has since directed award nominated productions including Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Murder on the Nile and Dangerous Corner for Vertigo Theatre, productions for Lunchbox Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, The Capitol Arts Center and most recently, God of Carnage and the Canadian premiere of The Mountaintop for Theatre Calgary.

Short-listed in 2013 for the Gina Wilkinson Prize, Jan has been nominated for multiple awards in both performance and direction.

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Tommy Donnelly, Ensemble Scott is ecstatic to be joining forces with the Catalyst and Citadel Theatres for this production of Vigilante! Hailing originally from Edmonton, Scott has been performing across Canada & the USA for over 15 years. His last performances in Edmonton were as Corny Collins at the Mayfield Theatre’s Sterling Award winning production of Hairspray, as well as playing Arch Deacon Claude Frollo in Catalyst/Citadel Theatre’s production of Hunchback.

Recent credits include: Mary Poppins, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Rocky Horror Show (Arts Club Theatre); Evil Dead: The Musical (DSRP); Legally Blonde: The Musical (Theatre Under the Stars). Other favourites include the 20th anniversary of The Number 14 (Axis Theatre); We Will Rock You (Mirvish); and Grease (Citadel Theatre). Scott is very grateful for the big love and support of his family and friends!

Benjamin Wardle Michael Donnelly, Ensemble

Benjamin is thrilled to be returning to the cast of Vigilante and to be making his Citadel debut! His past credits include Andrew and Andrea, Mavra and La Tragedie de Carmen (Assistant Director - LTO); The Soul Collector (Catalyst Theatre); That Summer (Theatre Northwest); Romeo & Juliet and James and The Giant Peach (ProjectX); Chicago (Mayfield); The Wizard of Oz (Footlight); The 39 Steps, Barefoot in the Park, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change (RRT); Crazy for You, and The Odyssey (CCPA).

Benjamin would like to give a big thank you to Jonathan, Laura, Betty, the cast and crew, family, friends and LN. Follow the antics on Twitter @wardlally.

Matthew Skopyk

Music Producer/ Director, Computer Programing, Keyboards, Banjo

Matthew Skopyk is an Edmonton-based sound designer, composer and music producer. Music production credits include: Vigilante, The Soul Collector, Nevermore (Catalyst Theatre). Sound design and composition credits include: Titus Andronicus (Free Will Players); Palace of the End (Theatre Network); and Enron (National Arts Centre). Matthew currently resides as the Head of Audio for the Drama Department at the University of Alberta.

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Musician – Guitar

Morgan has been involved in Edmonton’s music scene for many years. He is very excited to be making his theatrical debut with Catalyst Theatre.

Emily Siobhan McCourt Musician – Fiddle

Emily McCourt is an actor, dancer, singer, musician, and general artist currently living in Edmonton. A long-time lover of both Catalyst Theatre and The Citadel, she is thrilled to be making her debut in Vigilante! Select theatre credits include, Salome (University of Alberta - Media Room); Almost Maine (ACT); Bright Lights, Cold Water (Watching Netflix At 3am Questioning Your Mortality) and Fortuitous Endings: What to do When You Wake Up Drunk in a BBQ Cover in Your Neighbors Backyard (Toy Guns Dance Theatre); How To Eat Like A Child (Promise Productions); Attempts On Her Life, Into The Woods, and The Cherry Orchard (MacEwan Theatre). Select film credits include: Harriet in Cut Bank (Kilburn Media); Cindy’s P.A in Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Bloodmania (Diabolique Films); and Stephanie in The Icarus Complex (Cave Puppet Films).

Nathan Setterlund Musician – Guitar, Bass, Mandolin

Nathan Setterlund is an accomplished musician and composer.

He has performed in musical groups Fractal Pattern, In Irons, Mass Choir and most recently Viking Fell. Nathan has a Bachelor of Arts from Grant MacEwan University. As a prominent member of the Edmonton music scene he is very excited to work with the Catalyst team in this new endeavor.

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bios Kurtis Schultz

Musician – Percussion

Kurtis Schultz has been performing as a drummer for over sixteen years in every genre including rock, country, jazz and blues. After completing the jazz performance diploma program at MacEwan, he spent one year performing in the University of Alberta Big Band under the direction of Tom Dust. He plays in multiple original projects such as Unwed Mothers and Lonesome Dove and has shared the stage with Matthew Good Band, Corb Lund, Big Sugar and Danko Jones, among others. At the age of eighteen, he decided to dive head first into music production and audio engineering. He currently works as a producer, engineer and session musician at Sound Extractor Studio in Edmonton.

He is also an accomplished DJ, holding residencies at multiple Edmonton venues and having performed alongside artists such as Mat the Alien, Humans, REL1, Grandtheft and many more.

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bios Jonathan Christenson Writer/Director/Composer/Lyricist

Jonathan is a director, playwright, composer and the Artistic Director of Catalyst Theatre. His plays include Vigilante, The Soul Collector, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, The Blue Orphan and The House of Pootsie Plunket. These plays, as well as his adaptations of Frankenstein and Hunchback, have been presented at theatres throughout England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and North America. They have been presented at juried festivals such as the London International Festival of Theatre, Luminato, Le Carrefour, The High Performance Rodeo, the PuSh Festival, and Magnetic North. His work has been honoured with fifteen Sterling Awards, a Betty Mitchell Award, an SAT Award, two Scotsman Fringe First Awards, a Herald Angel Award, and two City of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Awards.

Jonathan’s work has also garnered several additional nominations for Sterling Awards, The Stage Awards, Betty Mitchell Awards, Dora Awards, and Alberta Book Awards.

In 2011, Venture Magazine named him one of “Alberta’s Fifty Most Influential People” and Alberta Playwrights Network chose him as one of Alberta’s one hundred most significant theatre artists of the past one hundred years. His plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press and Newest Press and his work has been featured in American Theatre, Canadian Theatre Review, PRISM International, Canada World View and All Stages Magazine. He has also written a peculiar children’s book called Maximilian’s Mistake, that is part of the series Odd Little Books published by Bayeaux Arts. His production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe opened Off-Broadway in January (nevermoreshow.com). Jonathan holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Alberta where he occasionally returns to teach and direct.

He lives in the heart of Edmonton with his wife Siân and their six-year-old son Augustus.

Jenn Best

Assistant Stage Manager

Jenn has a hands-on relationship with Canadian History. She worked on the site restoration crew at the McLean Steam Sawmill in Port Alberni, BC as a livestock wrangler and legit teamster at Fort Edmonton Park. She even gets down n’ dirty in the cretaceous soil as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Canadian Badlands Passion Play in Drumheller, AB. She has Stage Managed for Shadow Theatre on Flight of the Viscount, Jack Goes Boating, Fool for Love, Little Elephants and Grace; for Trunk Theatre on 4:48 Psychosis, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Clean House.

For several seasons, she lived out of her suitcase, touring with the gay hiphopera, Bash’d; Theatre Network’s co-production of the 90’s punk rockumentary, Hard Core Logo: Live; and Sage Theatre’s 2014 revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

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Production Manager, Set Concept & Development Jim Bob is a freelance Production Manager/Technical Director.

Previous Catalyst Theatre productions include Hunchback, Nevermore, Frankenstein and The Blue Orphan. He is also currently working on the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, BC. He was the Technical Director for the Alberta Centennial Initiative’s 2005 Royal Visit and Production Manager for the Edmonton Fringe Festival in the 90’s. In the 1980’s he worked for companies such as The Stratford Festival, The Banff Centre, The Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Vancouver Playhouse and The Canadian Stage Company. For more information visit his web site at mopboy.com.

Sarah Garton Stanley Production Dramaturg

Sarah is the Associate Artistic Director of English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre. Since joining the company she launched and curates The Collaborations: an approach to creation investment that implicates the NAC in several processes and communities in a variety of ways. She is also the co-creator and Artistic Director of The SpiderWebShow.ca a site where performance minds meet. Sarah is a director and dramaturg.

Other active dramaturgical projects include Evangeline by Ted Dykstra (Citadel Theatre/Confederation Centre); and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Robert Chafe (Artistic Fraud). Sarah is also Co-Director of Selfconscious Theatre.

beth kates

Lighting Designer

Beth is an award-winning Lighting, Projection, Set and Costume designer and the co-creative director of Playground Studios. Their interactive installations include LightSpan (NuitBlanche North), Night Light Travels (NuitBlanche Toronto), and The ToyBox which has been played in by 1000’s! They also have created video for Ragtime at the Shaw Festival, and the last four Ross Petty Panto’s.

Highlights: MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus, (Wyrd Productions), Road to Mecca (Soulpepper), SPIN by Evalyn Parry, Brimful of Asha by Ravi Jain, many shows for Koba including Dora the Explorer and The Backyardigans. She also transformed Passe Muraille into a synagogue for Julie Tepperman’s Yichud. Her favourite production is her 2 ¾ year old son Aaron. Upcoming: Pygmalion, Light Up the Sky (Shaw Festival), Emily’s Piano (YPT), and her co-creation with Steven McCarthy Memory Play. Beth started her career in rock & roll, so this production is an exciting return to her roots. She is a proud member of Associated Designers of Canada. www.playgroundstudios.ca | www.bethkates.com VIGILANTE 53

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bios Marissa Kochanski Set Consultant – Paint & Finishes

Marissa has worked as a set/costume designer for the last fifteen years. She is the resident set designer for St. Albert Children’s Theatre, a member of the creative team for the CANOË VOLANT winter festival, an Artistic Associate of Firefly Theatre, and is often found sketching, painting, cutting or gluing around the Citadel Theatre and Victoria School for the Arts.

Megan Koshka

Costume Associate

Megan Koshka is a freelance Canadian theatre designer, based in Edmonton Alberta. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a degree in set, costume and lighting design. Upcoming projects include set design for Freewill Shakespeare Festival (Free Will Player’s Theatre Guild), and set design for Suburban Motel Series (Punctuate! Theatre). Recent credits include Associate Designer for The Laws of Thermodynamics (Theatre Yes); costume design for Full Frontal Diva (Blarney Productions); set and costume design for Rumpelstiltskin (Alberta Opera); lighting design for Genius Code (Surreal SoReal); and costume design for East of Berlin (Punctuate! Theatre & East/West Collective) which won a 2014 Sterling Award for Outstanding Independent Production. You can view her portfolio online at mkoshka.com.

Laura Krewski

Choreographer

Laura has choreographed original musicals Nevermore, Frankenstein, and Hunchback for Catalyst Theatre. Previous choreography credits include Enron (National Arts Centre); Spamalot, The Forbidden Phoenix and As You Like It (Citadel Theatre); Next to Normal (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary); Spring Awakening (Belfry Theatre); Chicago, Footloose (Mayfield); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Belfry Theatre/ Vancouver Arts Club); Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore (Edmonton Opera); and the new musicals RICH and Rapa Nui (Manitoba Theatre for Young People). Laura also produced and choreographed FreeFall and Jazz Playground for her company Freefall Dance. She has taught for Orchesis Dance Group at the University of Alberta, The Citadel/Banff Professional Theatre Program, Edmonton Festival Ballet, Edmonton Contemporary Dancers and The Canadian College of Performing Arts. Laura has received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in Arts and Culture, as well as three Sterling Awards and a Betty Mitchell Award for choreography.

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bios Patrick joseph Lundeen Assistant Director

Patrick is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Select acting credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel Theatre); Sia (Pyretic Productions); The Taming of the Shrew (Freewill Shakespeare); and his Sterling nominated performance in Kill Me Now (Workshop West Theatre). Patrick is Co-Founder and now Executive Director of the Common Ground Arts Society and is a 2014 recipient of the Enbridge Emerging Artist Award through Nextfest. This season at the Citadel he is working as the Associate Outreach Coordinator for the Citadel Theatre hosting the Citadel Theatre’s Students Club, Seniors Club, instructing at the Foote Theatre School and assistant directing Catalyst Theatre’s upcoming production of Vigilante. Throughout the 2014/15 season, Patrick is honoured to be working as Catalyst’s Intern Artistic Director. Huge thank you to his friends, family, and partner Lianna.

Narda McCarroll Costume Designer

Narda is elated to be a part of this incredible production. She began her design career with Catalyst as Bretta’s assistant on The Abundance Trilogy many years ago. Some of her favourite design credits include: costumes for The Penelopiad, Julius Caesar, set/ lights for True Love Lies, production design for Extinction Song and Shining City, co-production design for Vimy (Citadel Theatre); set/lights for Othello (The Shakespeare Company); set for Around the World in 80 Days, production design for Red, Mary’s Wedding (Alberta Theatre Projects); set/lights for Sweeney Todd (Vertigo Theatre); set/costumes for The Trespassers (Belfry Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse); and lights for the national tour of The Drowning Girls. Narda designed the costumes for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival for 16 seasons. She also designed the costumes for the feature film Cut Bank which premiered at TIFF this past September. She is the recipient of three Sterling Awards and two Betty Mitchell Awards.

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bios Betty Moulton

Voice, Speech & Text Director Betty Moulton has taught and coached voice, speech and text for over 30 years in the U.K. and multiple North American professional actor training programs. She has given master classes and workshops across the U.S. and Canada for a variety of theatre companies and acting studios. She heads the MFA program in Theatre Voice Pedagogy at the University of Alberta and teaches voice for the BFA acting students. Professional coaching credits include Nevermore, Hunchback, The Soul Collector (Catalyst); As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women and The Three Musketeers (The Citadel/Banff Professional Program); as well as ten seasons as Company Voice, Speech and Text Coach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder (37 productions).

Jonathan Purvis Fight Choreographer

Last season at the Citadel, Jonathan was Fight Director and Choreographer on Romeo & Juliet. Other Citadel credits include Spamalot, The Penelopiad, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Musketeers, Little Women: The Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Forbidden Phoenix. Selected acting credits elsewhere include I Am For You (Concrete Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (Chemianus Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Love’s Labours Lost (The Shakespeare Company); Dying City (Pangloss Productions); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Calgary); Gnomes, The Princess and the Peabrain (Calgary Fringe); and Almost Maine (The Motel Space).

He has appeared as an actor and stuntman in numerous independent films and shorts. He has studied stage combat, dance and gymnastics extensively alongside his acting career.

Jonathan is a two-time participant of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

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bios John Raymond

Stage Manager

John has stage managed all of Catalyst Theatre’s first productions since 2006, including: Frankenstein, Nevermore, Hunchback, The Soul Collector and recently Elephant Wake. He has toured Catalyst Theatre productions to Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, New York City and London, England. John was Citadel Theatre’s Director of Production for six years before becoming a faculty member in the U of A’s Drama Department in 2004. There he leads Canada’s only specialized BFA in Stage Management. John’s previous Citadel credits include An Ideal Husband, A Delicate Balance, Lady be Good, Wingfield’s Folly, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Shakespeare’s Will, True Love Lies and the Young Acting Company’s Wonderful Town last spring. Over the years he has also worked for Centaur Theatre, Canadian Stage, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Edmonton Opera and The Banff Centre for the Arts.

Wade Staples

Sound Designer

Wade is pleased to be part of bringing the world premiere of Vigilante to the Citadel Theatre. Past design credits with Catalyst Theatre include: The Blue Orphan, Frankenstein, The Key to Violet’s Apartment, Carmen Angel, Nevermore, Hunchback, and The Soul Collector. Wade holds diplomas in Music, Recording, and Theatre Production from MacEwan University, where he has been an instructor and sound designer for the Theatre Production program for the past twenty-one years. A board member of the Associated Designers of Canada, Wade has designed and toured numerous productions across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He also operates his own production company offering services in design, consulting, rentals and sales, production management, and pyrotechnics. This summer Wade will be designing the sound for the ADC Exhibition being held during the Prague Quadrennial of Design 2015, where his designs for Nevermore will also be one of the works presented.

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PENNY RITCO

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES FTS Teaching Assistants Debbie Theuss Brady Hughes Director, Citadel/Banff Josh Languedoc Centre Professional Jackson Longworth Theatre Program Lianna Makuch Brian Dooley Eric Smith Director, Play Development Doug Mertz ADMINISTRATION Director, Education & Marianne Bouthillier Outreach James MacDonald

Don Horsburgh

Resident Music Director

Wayne Paquette

Academy Associate

Diana Stevenson

Manager, Foote Theatre School

Patrick Lundeen

Education Outreach Associate

Young Company Instructors Amber Borotsik Shannon Boyle Heather Inglis Reed McColm Linda Rubin Kate Ryan Kim Mattice-Wanat FTS Instructors April Banigan Mhairi Berg Adam Blocka Ashley Butler Gregory Caswell Ellen Chorley Matt Graham Crystal Hanson Sally Hunt Binaifer Kapadia Annette Loiselle Patrick Lundeen Barb Mah Andrew Ritchie Matt Schuurman Liana Shannon Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule Jon Lachlan Stewart

Asst. Rentals Manager

Shirley Tran

School Booking Coordinator

Kristen Hiemstra Josh Wickard

Assistant Box Office Managers

Associate Executive Director

Guest Services Supervisors Laurel Carter Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Cody Carver Company Manager Sarah Farnsworth Laurie McInnes Jessica Glover Business Affairs Myrna Gosnell Amanda Gregoire FACILITY Mark Harding Louis Barron Courtney Lair Director Tara-Lee LaRose Maintenance Jacob Liska Colin Deegan Guest Services Bill Daniels Representatives Janitorial Rebekah Andrews Bee Clean Services Sam Banigan Colleen Bunyan Security Michaela Chiste Alberta Crowd Victoria deJong Management Carol Dreger Building Porter Christina Harbak William Cardle Stuart McDougall Tara Gale Lisa McNicol Brittany Molner FINANCE Carly Neis Pat Bradley Chris Powell Director of Finance Mark Sinongco Daniel Jee Valerie Smart Accounts Payable/ Receivable Dustyn Tennessen Michael Vetsch Cheryl Sinclair Peni Christopher

Payroll Accountant

GUEST SERVICES

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Kimberlee Stadelmann Ken Davis Director/ Box Office Manager

Theresa Hovdestad House Manager

John Markey

Rentals Manager

Director, Marketing & Communications

Executive Director

Neil LeGrandeur

Marketing Associate, Beyond the Stage

Mel MacDonald

Administrator, Marketing & Fund Development

Sheila Cleasby

Head of Electrics

Meaghan Skerik

Assistant Head of Electrics

Elijah Lindenberger Electrics

Angelica Menck

Nicole Deibert

Scott Smith

Richard ‘Buck’ Stevens

Manager, Corporate Relations Media Relations Manager

Head of Scenic Paint Assistant Head of Scenic Paint

Fund DEVELOPMENT Jim Meers Neil Luipasco

Director, Fund Development

Sydney Stuart

Manager, Fund Development

PRODUCTION

Head of Props

Charlotte Hunt

Assistant Head of Props

Angie Sotiropoulos Props

Marc Anderson

Head Stage Carpenter

Cheryl L. Hoover

Dan Beggs

Bill Heron

Patsy Thomas

Michelle Chan

Kayla Fulton

Patrick Fraser

Lorraine Price

Director

Technical Director Resident Stage Manager Assistant Technical Director

Stage Carpenter Head of Wardrobe Assistant Head of Wardrobe Head of Wardrobe Running

Stephanie Ripley

Sang Sang Lee

Kyla Maki

Amy Sanders

Owen Hutchinson

Danine Regenwetter

Nick Rose

Samantha J. Rumball

Perry Harris

Katie Patton

Peter Locock

Linda Bourgon

Assistant Technical Director Administrative Assistant Head of Audio

Assistant Head of Audio Audio

Head of Scenic Carpentry

Dresser Dresser

Wardrobe Maintenance Head of Wigs

Assistant Head of Wigs Wigs

Chris Hayes

Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry

Greg Cardinal

Scenic Carpenter Manager, Communications Serge Menard – Robbins Academy/ Scenic Carpenter Citadel Social Media

Kristen Finlay

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.

Zoë Afaganis, Johanna Andreoff, Nelda Arnst, Judith Babcock, Shelley Benson, Erika Beyer, Ursula Blumentrath, Bernadette Bolton, Florence Borch, Ken Borch, Rosi Bossio, Allan Budlong, Jeanette Calder, Patrick Caron, Dee Cartledge, Gina Chea, Maryruth Diaz, Carol Dreger, Shirley Dunn, Christianne Elefante, Laurie Ferchoff, Lil Filewych, Wendy Fraser, Gilberte Gagné, Irene Gagné, Louise Gagné, Doreen Gagnon, Bonita Gillespie, Mervan Gorrie, Marg Gronnestad, Vicki Hall, Jeffrey Haswell, Rosemarie Heaney, Brad Heller, Marilyn Hemsing, Daniel High, Amelia Hihn, Maria Hollinshead, Ron Homenchuk, Theresa Hryciw, Laura Hughes, Judy Hume, Kimberly Hunyh, Bruce Johnson, Madalyn Johnson, Marilyn Jones, Jessica Kavanagh, Eva Kopecka, Arndt Kuethe, Janice Kuethe, Bonnie Labranche, Coral Levang, Karen Lewis-Caron, Anna Linetsky, Fran Linklater, Elizabeth Luchko, Marlene Lukevich, Caroline Lutz, Ross MacHetchuk, Dawn Madill, Donna McKay, Tom McLean, Donna Miller, Karen Miller, Janice Minamide, Monica Molina-Ayala, Bob Moore, Joan Murchie, Sulochana Muthia, Florence Nieberding, Dennis Nolan, Barbara Olynyk, Linda Orlecki, Denise Parent, Edith Parsons, Susan Patenaude, Barb Reinhardt, Lori Ristoff, Cheryl Ritchie, Monica Robillard, Louise Rogucki, Helen Rusich, Angela Seery, Phil Slawsky, Valerie Smart, Mary Smith, Phyllis Solsberg, Charlotte Stel, Eileen Stephens, John Tran, Diane Trithardt, Rose Unguran, Linda Uzule, Arlene Vaxvick, Brenda Voyce, Selena Wang, Karl Waskiewicz, Kay Willekes, Steve Winkler, Bonnie Woloschuk, Denise Woollard, Laura Wylde, Lil Yewchuk, Carole Zubick VIGILANTE 61

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