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By KEVIN KERR Starring ANDREW WHEELER as Muybridge GAELAN BEATTY. ............................................................. Tadd / Chorus JULIEN GALIPEAU............................................................ Floredo / Chorus ALLAN MORGAN............................................................... Dr. Pepper / Blacksmith / Leland Standford / Chorus DAWN PETTEN. ................................................................. Susan / Chorus KYLE RIDEOUT................................................................... Bell / Chorus MICHAEL RINALDI. ........................................................... Bigler / Chorus JUNO RUDDELL . .............................................................. Blanche / Chorus CELINE STUBEL................................................................. Flora / Chorus ERIN WELLS........................................................................ Mrs. Harrison / Mrs. Smith / Actress / Chorus JONATHON YOUNG. ....................................................... Eakins / Larkins / Chorus FRANK ZOTTER. ................................................................ Rondinella / Chorus Directed by. ......................................................................... KIM COLLIER Choreography by............................................................... CRYSTAL PITE Costume Design by........................................................... MARA GOTTLER Composer. ........................................................................... PATRICK PENNEFATHER Original Set, Lighting & Video Design by................................................................. ROBERT GARDINER Lighting Adapted by......................................................... ADRIAN MUIR Movement Rehearsal Director....................................... ANDREA HODGE Assistant Scenographer. ................................................. JAMIE NESBITT Assistant Director.............................................................. Blake William Turner Stage Manager................................................................... JAN HODGSON Assistant Stage Manager................................................ JENNIFER SWAN The play is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes including one intermission.

The 2010 tour of Studies in Motion is dedicated to the memory of Azra North Young, who loved the cast and the show, and whose spirit we carry with us.

Thank Yous and Acknowledgments: Studies in Motion was originally co-produced by Electric Company Theatre and Theatre at UBC and premiered at the 2006 at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. The project was subsequently redeveloped for a 2009 tour, presented by the Vancouver Playhouse, Alberta Theatre Projects, the Yukon Arts Centre, and Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques.

Special thank-you to Matthew Jocelyn at Canadian Stage for his support of the development of this 2010 production, and to members of the 2009 cast: Anastasia Phillips, Josh Epstein and Kristian Ayre.

Electric Company receives ongoing support from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver, the Melusine Foundation, the Vancouver Foundation, the Eric Hamber Foundation, and countless individual and business supporters.

An earlier version of Studies in Motion script is published by Talon Books and is available at TalonBooks.com.

Composer Patrick Pennefather’s music from Studies in Motion can be found online at CDBaby.com or through iTunes.

The playwright would also like to thank Workshop West Springboards Festival and Jeff Page for their contributions to the 2008 redevelopment of the script.

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 Employees (I.A.T.S.E.) Sponsors

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A few years back, celebrated designer Robert Gardiner, a professor at UBC’s Department of Theatre, Film & Creative Writing, approached our company with his vision to experiment with video projectors as a lighting source for the stage. We knew that our future project Studies in Motion would be a perfect match thematically and visually for his innovative design aesthetic and we began our joint, extended design/dramaturgy/creation process in January of 2005.

The building of the piece was the result of an extensive conversation and active collaboration between all artists on the project where we challenged ourselves to create side by side, to allow staging to affect writing, writing to affect choreography, which would in turn affect design and so on.

The intersection of science and culture has always fascinated the artists at the Electric Company. We see the work of Eadweard Muybridge as a kind of pivot point between our contemporary media-driven culture and the late 19th century when photography was a new and fascinating technology. With the domination of media arts, film and television in our culture today, Studies in Motion takes us back to a revolutionary time when photography began dramatically altering our perception of the world.

The play was inspired by Muybridge’s photographic investigations into animal locomotion which he began in the early 1870s and continued through to the mid-1880s. His iconic work features sequences of photographs each revealing a fragment of a larger action, made possible by the birth of instantaneous photography. In isolation, the studies seem scientific, orderly and rational. But as they accumulate in his exhaustive catalogue of movement, the images become emotionally charged with a sense of obsession, poetry, humour, beauty, and even madness.

Studies in Motion is at one level an exploration of the birth of the mediated body. In an increasingly virtual world, how do we separate the idea of our body from the idea of its representation? The play examines that tension between our live, real, and immediate experience, and the increasingly filtered way in which we interact with our world. In our modern era of decontextualized images and fragmented narratives there remains the need to organize the world in coherent patterns in order to find meaning and attempt to answer that most basic question: “How do I go on?” In exploring this, the play is structured as a blend of fiction and fact – a fusion of text, physicality and projected imagery which tells a story about a revolution in perception and the ensuing challenges to our understanding of truth, meaning and memory.

On behalf of the Electric Company, we hope you enjoy our production and thank you so much for coming.

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Producer. ....................................................... Nathan Medd Touring Production Manager................... Adrian Muir Props Builders............................................... Rob Lewis, Tracy Lynch Props............................................................... Jan Hodgson, Robin Richardson, Jennifer Stewart Video Technician. ........................................ Corwin Ferguson Wardrobe Supervisor.................................. Jennifer Stewart Wardrobe Assistant..................................... Sydney Cavanagh Costume Cutter............................................ Line Richard Costume First Hand. ................................... Concepcion Cia Costume Sewer............................................ Amira Jawad Lighting Assistants...................................... Conor Moore, Stacy Sherlock

Electric Company Theatre is:

Artistic Director............................................ Jonathon Young

Artistic Producer. ......................................... Kim Collier Incoming Artistic Director......................... Kevin Kerr

Artistic Associate. ........................................ David Hudgins

Managing Producer. ................................... Nathan Medd

Company Manager. .................................... Jennifer Swan

Associate Producer. .................................... Blake William Turner

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Other plays include Skydive for Realwheels (2008); Studies in Motion for the Electric Company (2009); Spine for Realwheels / University of Alberta and an adaptation of The Secret World of Og for Carousel ( 2009). He received the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 2002 for his play Unity (1918) (Touchstone Theatre, 2001), and is the recipient of three Jessie Richardson Awards for Outstanding Original Script.

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Eadweard J. Muybridge may not be a household name, but his contribution to the way we examine our world is immeasurable. As one of the pioneers of motion capture, his – at the time – controversial experiments in photography would lead to the creation of cinema at the beginning of the last century.

It all started with a simple question: Does a horse, while at a gallop, ever completely leave the ground? In a series of experiments, Muybridge would prove that all four hooves do indeed leave the ground, by setting up an array of cameras at intervals along the horse’s path, and photographing it at various points of motion. In our era of ‘bullet-time’ action sequences and computer-generated 3D imagery, this may seem like a simple solution, but for 1872, it was an incredible innovation that would change the way we looked at our world.

For Muybridge, this experiment would launch a career in studying the motion of life itself, in all shapes and sizes. Between 1883 and 1886, Muybridge would make over 100,000 images of zoological subjects walking, running, leaping, and everyday people going through simple commonplace motions such as picking flowers, hanging laundry or jumping hurdles. Controversially, these models were often completely nude, to better document musculature and posture.

Muybridge’s curiosity, ingenuity and drive steered him down a path of scientific discovery, leading to fields in biomechanics and athletics, while inspiring the work of the early motion picture industry.

He was also surprisingly acquitted for the ‘justifiable homicide’ of his wife’s lover, Major Harry Larkyns in 1874.

Indeed, Eadweard Muybridge had a personal life as intriguing as his groundbreaking work in photography – a life worth studying. Studies in Motion uses stylistic movement, image projection and intricate lighting to display both the significance of his scientific work, and the challenges of a haunted personal life.

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The new space, called Citadel Too, was to feature “avant garde” theatre. For some reason or other, I missed the opening. I did not bring my CBC cameras to the big announcement. That night, at a mainstage opening, Neville stood at one end of the old Citadel lobby (with me at the other) and bellowed, “And where were you this morning?” You have not felt naked fear until one of the great voices of world theatre, a voice that had once declaimed opposite Richard Burton in Othello in London’s West End, is raised in righteous anger in your direction. I’m sure people in far away Hinton thought tectonic plates were shifting.

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Soon the space was filled with Hosanna, Michel Tremblay’s story of a transvestite searching for love in the mean streets of ‘70’s Montreal. Beckett’s Nagg and Nell carried on a conversation while encased in trash cans in Endgame. Sharon Pollock’s first full-length play, Compulsory Option, was premiered. Neville was right: it wasn’t everyone’s cup of theatrical tea but it was challenging and hugely exciting stuff.

In those years, alternative or experimental theatre was easier to describe. We knew what it was alternative to – the classics, Broadway and West End shows, musicals and Neil Simon.

(Although no less a magisterial voice than the Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre suggests that the Citadel’s first production – Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – was regarded, at the time, as “alternative.”) But the line between alternative and mainstream theatre has become so blurred in the past few years, it’s “It’s not for everybody but no wonder current Citadel artistic director Bob for those patrons who want to be Baker puzzles, “Theatre in this country has engaged in a social, intellectual enjoyed such an evolution that it is difficult and emotionally challenging way, to define the terms of reference of alternative theatre. I understand it in terms of the Citadel. this will be the theatre for them.”

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Rice Theatre Series Our shows in the Rice season are an alternative to Billy Bishop, Little Women and The Three Musketeers. In the Rice, the programming is almost completely contemporary. Think of Blackbird, Popcorn, Scorched and Pillow Man. I think it’s important for our audiences to keep abreast of what is current in the world – what is pushing boundaries, theatrically.”

For much of the 20th century, theatre in North America was largely defined by the European tradition brought to us by travelling English companies. It might be said that it took two world wars and the development of a Canadian voice on CBC radio to nurture our own theatre. In fact, for years, with playwrights like Fletcher Markle, Len Peterson, Joseph Shull, W.O. Mitchell and Lister Sinclair, CBC radio provided the only national theatrical presence in the country. “...I think it’s important for our

audiences to keep abreast of what is South of the border, Americans enjoyed a current in the world - what is robust theatre in the 20th century – at least in New York. The ‘20’s indeed roared on stage pushing boundaries, theatrically.” and in 1927, Broadways’s greatest year, there were 70 theatres in operation around Times Square. Off-Broadway was equally active – even to the extent that a “subway circuit” was developed to carry patrons to the small experimental theatres in Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side.

Later, pocket musicals, such as Little Mary Sunshine and Leave it to Jane began to attract larger audiences. Many of them, Godspell, Little Shop of Horrors, Nunsense, Hair and Rent moved uptown to Broadway.

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean Meanwhile, in Canada the large regional theatres were developing. Visionaries such as David French, Michel Tremblay, Judith Thompson and Robert LePage were creating a bold new alternative theatre and, for the first time, we began to export our stuff to theatres in Britain, France and the United States.

And then came the Fringe. It all began in Edinburgh in 1948 with the small, entrepreneurial theatres, often located in pubs, that sprang up around the “official” presentations.

In 1982, Edmonton writer/directer Brian Paisley saw the possibilities of a Fringe Theatre event that could exist by itself. A small governing body would be set up to look after tickets, scheduling and the like – and then get out of the way. The shows would be unjuried and open to all.

A whole new audience and performers emerged changing shape and direction of Canadian theatre forever.

It is this anarchic and often challenging form of theatrical expression the Rice Season at the Citadel taps into.

This year the three-play season begins with Studies in Motion, the story of photography pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, whose studies in animal and human locomotion – using horses and naked humans – prefigure the invention of the motion picture. Muybridge’s story could have been told in classical,

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Rice Theatre Series linear theatrical terms – heaven knows, it’s as big, juicy and event filled as any Victorian yarn, with operatic love stories, murders, trials, an abandoned child, exploration, adventure and a Holmesian fascination with machines and the way things work. But Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre is dedicated to using all the elements available to modern theatre, illuminating their texts with technical wizardry, films, choreography, acting, music, inventive staging, and creative use of venue (harbours/swimming pools). The 12 person cast and the massive technical demands of the work necessitated that it be moved from the season’s traditional home in the Rice Theatre onto the Citadel Mainstage.

Next up will be Another Home Invasion by Joan MacLeod (The Shape of a Girl.) By all reports it’s a spellbinder that is, according to Baker, “Brave in its relevancy, addressing as it does the issue that so many of us are facing today, the aging parent generation.” Nicola Lipman, the legendary Maritime actress, performs a tour-de-force. She plays the elderly Jean who is looking after her aging, disabled husband and keeping her small family unit working until a young delinquent violates her haven and upsets her carefully laid out, if rather rickety, plan. “Piercing, accurate writing,” said one critic. “Tight and suspenseful,” said another.

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean

“...Great theatre forces us to reevaluate our ideas.”

Brad Fraser. Fraser, whose controversial ways and incendiary plays such as Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love gave him the reputation as “the bad boy of Canadian theatre,” is no longer a boy. (He’s 51 now.) But, he is still a very funny writer and his season finisher, True Love Lies, is a product of his more mature years. Fraser maintains his edge and still has the ability to challenge audiences but, in this one, his primary objective is to make people laugh.

“I don’t see many restrictions to the Rice Season except in the matter of taste. We never set out to purposefully offend or alienate our audiences,” says Baker. “But it’s a place where artists can express themselves and audiences can choose their uncensored and unhindered expression. Often the plays demand audiences take a new look at situations they have probably already made up their minds about. Great theatre forces us to reevaluate our ideas.”

Mark the dates. Another Home Invasion runs February 12th to March 6th and True Love Lies opens on April 23 running through May 15. Both will play in the Rice Theatre.

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GAELAN BEATTY

Tadd / Chorus

Gaelan is thankful to be given the opportunity to return to this fantastic piece of theatre that has already taken him across the country once. A graduate of the Studio 58 theatre training program in Vancouver, Gaelan has worked in musical theatre, children’s theatre, Shakespeare, and straight theatre. Most recently he returned for his 3rd season at Bard on the Beach to play Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and was also seen at the Richmond Gateway as Trevor Graydon, the quick singing boss, in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He would like to thank Melissa for her limitless love and support.

JULIEN GALIPEAU

Floredo / Chorus

Julien is pleased to be returning to the cast of Studies in Motion for its 2010 tour. Most recently he appeared as Floredo in Studies in Motion’s 2009 tour. Other credits include young George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life for the Arts Club and young Lucius in Titus Andronicus for Bard on the Beach. Currently Julien lives in Vancouver and is a grade 10 French immersion student. He wishes to thank his family and friends for their ongoing support, enjoy the show!

ALLAN MORGAN

Dr. Pepper / Blacksmith / Leland Standford / Chorus Allan Morgan is pleased to be returning to the Citadel Stage where he was last seen in the CanStage production of The Overcoat, a production that toured across the country and around the world. A resident of Vancouver, Allan is a well known stage performer who has garnered several Jessie Richardson nominations over the years, and has received 4 awards for his work. He was also the recipient of the Victoria Critics Association award for performer of the year for his work in I Am My Own Wife at the Belfry Theatre. He is a regular performer at Bard on the Beach in Vancouver, where he has been in The Tempest, Cymbeline, Richard II, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well and As You Like It. Other credits include Coronation Voyage and An Ideal Husband for the Vancouver Playhouse/National Arts Centre; Lilies, Dirty Blonde and Unless for the Vancouver Arts Club and Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre and How Do I love Thee for the playRites Festival at ATP. After this tour Allan returns to Calgary where he will appear as Benedick in the Theatre Calgary production of Much Ado About Nothing. He is very pleased to be back working with this talented cast, and wonderful company.

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DAWN PETTEN

Susan / Chorus

Dawn is happy to bare all for her Citadel debut. She has been on board with Studies in Motion since its early day workshops and even prior to that, was a huge Muybridge fan and made Christmas gifts with his images. This tour continues an electrifying year for Dawn, as she just finished a successful run of the world premiere of Electric Company’s Tear the Curtain! at the Arts Club Theatre and also played in Electric Company’s At Home With Dick and Jane earlier this year.

Dawn has also acted at MTC, ATP, PTE, the Vancouver Playhouse, Caravan Farm Theatre and Bard on the Beach among others. Her favourite roles include playing Nora in A Doll’s House (directed by Kim Collier) and the original Sissy in Kevin Kerr’s Unity, 1918. Originally from Toronto, Dawn resides and works in Vancouver where she received her BFA in Acting from UBC and where her acting has been honoured with multiple Jessie Richardson award nominations and a couple of the statuettes.

KYLE RIDEOUT

Bell / Chorus

Kyle is thrilled to rejoin Studies in Motion. For the last seven years, Kyle has worked as an actor in theatre, voice-over, film and television.

Some highlights include Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Titus Andronicus for Bard on the Beach; A Christmas Carol for Vancouver Playhouse and Sword of the Stranger for IPP. He was the recipient of two Jessie Richardson Awards and is the co-founder of Motion 58 Entertainment (motion58.com). Recently his short film, Wait for Rain which he co-wrote and directed, won three national awards. Kyle is a graduate of Studio 58.

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MICHAEL RINALDI

Bigler / Chorus

Rinaldi is very excited about doing this fantastic show with such an elite team of actors. Especially the one he’s married to. Rinaldi trained at UVic, and now lives in Vancouver with his wife and their two boys. Select credits include The Greatest Cities in the World for Theatre Replacement - Festival TransAmériques and Magnetic North; Orphans for WINK Theatre; The Dissemblers for Touchstone Theatre; Cozy Catastrophe for Theatre Melee/Summer Works, Toronto/Hive Magnetic North/Tremors 2010; The Blue Horse at Caravan Farm Theatre; Lazy Susan for Theatre Melee; Toothpaste And Cigars, which he also co-wrote with TJ Dawe. When not acting, Michael works as a writer and a sound designer in Vancouver.

JUNO RUDDELL

Blanche / Chorus

For the past year Juno has been busy raising her two beautiful boys Everett and Jake with husband Michael Rinaldi. Juno was last seen in Cozy Catastrophe, a smash hit for Theatre Melee/ Rumble Productions. Juno has worked for Carousel Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Touchstone, Caravan Farm Theatre, WCTC, Tiny Bird (Toronto), Green Thumb and PTC. Favourite film and television credits include Tooth Fairy; Jennifer’s Body; Robson Arms and The War Between Us. Juno is a graduate of Studio 58. It’s an absolute honour to be remounting Studies for the 3rd time with such a special team of actors and designers. For Az.

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CELINE STUBEL

Flora / Chorus

Celine is thrilled to be making her Citadel debut with The Electric Company. A Victoria-based actor, theatre credits include A Streetcar Named Desire for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre; Ride The Cyclone, Legoland, The Qualities of Zero and Circus Fire for Atomic Vaudeville; Tyland for Alberta Theatre Projects; Richard II and All’s Well That Ends Well for Bard on the Beach; The Constant Wife for the Arts Club, as well as Unless (co-pro with CanStage/Belfry); also for the Belfry Theatre Garage Sale and My Chernobyl (co-produced with the Gateway Theatre) for which she received a Jessie Richardson Award and Unity (1918), Lieutenant Nun and My Three Sisters, which she performed with her two sisters for Theatre SKAM. Celine is a graduate of the University of Victoria.

ERIN WELLS

Mrs. Harrison / Mrs. Smith / Actress / Chorus Erin has been working as an actor, writer, director and choreographer upon graduating from Vancouver’s professional theatre training program Studio 58 in 1999. Recent acting highpoints were her performance as Mosca in a musical adaptation of Ben Johnson’s Volpone; Claire in an original Vancouver production called Nanay that went on to perform in the Hau Theatre in Berlin and the 2009 fabulous spring tour of The Electric Company’s Studies in Motion.

This past winter/spring Erin was co-director and vocal coach for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the University of the Fraser Valley; co-director/choreographer of Juve by Campbell Smith for C.S.O.P.A. and director of Little Women the Musical for Chilliwack’s adult musical theatre company Secondary Characters. Erin is currently working towards her MFA in Directing.

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ANDREW WHEELER

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Andrew’s selected theatre credits include eight seasons at Bard on the Beach, where roles included Malvolio, Antony, Autolycus, Ulysses, Macbeth, Claudius and Benedict. Other theatre credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Clean House for Playhouse Theatre; Gypsy and Othello for the Arts Club; How It Works for Touchstone; Antigone and A Christmas Carol for Theatre London; The Forest for Centre Stage and Translations for Stratford Festival. Andrew’s selected film and television work includes Tin Man; Gunless, The L Word; X-Files; Supernatural; Passengers and The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

JONATHON YOUNG Eakins / Larkins / Chorus

Jonathon is the current Artistic Director of Electric Company Theatre which he co-founded with Kevin Kerr and Kim Collier in the midnineties. This is Jonathon’s third appearance at the Citadel Theatre after Tartuffe (1999) and Brilliant! (2004). With Electric Company and as a freelance actor, Jonathon has performed across Canada (Belfry Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Festival TransAmériques, Centaur Theatre, National Arts Centre) in Great Britain, (Edinburgh Fringe) and the USA (San Jose Stage Company).

In April 2011 Electric Company will present their live-cinematic production of No Exit at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Most recently Jonathon starred in Tear the Curtain! a film/ theatre hybrid created by Electric Company for the Arts Club Stanley Theatre in Vancouver. On television Jonathon has a recurring role in the sci-fi series Sanctuary.

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FRANK ZOTTER

Rondinella / Chorus

Frank was seen last at the Citadel in Julius Caesar. This is his first adventure with The Electric Company. In Vancouver, highlights include joining the Bard on the Beach gang for Merchant of Venice and Comedy of Errors; Unidentified Human Remains and Influence with Touchstone Theatre; The Miser for Vancouver Playhouse; Dead Serious for the Arts Club; Tough! for Green Thumb Theatre and Two Gentlemen of Verona for Savage God. He received a best actor award at the Vancouver Short Film Festival for Not Another Damn Musical (Comedy Central). In Edmonton his credits include Stuck and Dry the Rain for Workshop West; Grace (Sterling award) and The Dazzle for Shadow Theatre; Poster Boys for Theatre Network; The Elephant Man for the Studio Series and The Good Thief for Blarney Productions. Frank recently received a Betty Mitchel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role in Filth at Sage Theatre. He has received four Sterling Award nominations. Other highlights for Frank include Shades for Arlington Theatre/Off-Broadway, joining the acting ensemble at the Court Theatre in Chicago, and playing Puck at the Stratford Festival. Later this season, Frank will appear in True Love Lies at the Citadel.

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KIM COLLIER

Director

Kim is the Artistic Producer for Electric Company Theatre. Recent directing credits for the company include Tear the Curtain! presented by the Arts Club Theatre; Brilliant! presented by the Belfry Theatre and the live cinematic version of No Exit that toured to Theatre Calgary, Western Canada Theatre Company, Nightwood Theatre, and, this coming spring, to American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Her work with Studies in Motion has toured to The Yukon Arts Centre, Vancouver Playhouse, Alberta Theatre Projects, Festival TransAmériques, originally premiering at the PuSh Festival. Other directing credits for the company include The Wake, The Score, The One that Got Away, The Fall and HIVE 1,2,3. Kim directed the feature film adaptation of Electric Company’s The Score (Screen Siren Pictures/CBC). She directed Titus Andronicus for Bard on the Beach and A Doll’s House for Chemainus Theatre Festival. In 2009 Kim received the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Theatre and she is the recipient of three Jessie Richardson Awards for directing. She is a graduate of Studio 58.

CRYSTAL PITE

Choreographer

Vancouver-based choreographer and performer Crystal Pite has created works for Netherlands Dance Theatre 1, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident Choreographer 2001–04), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, Alberta Ballet, and The National Ballet of Canada, among others. Pite is a former company member of Ballet British Columbia and Ballett Frankfurt. In 2001, she formed her own company, Kidd Pivot, and continues to create and perform internationally in her own work. Crystal Pite is an Associate Dance Artist of Canada’s National Arts Centre and Associate Choreographer of Netherlands Dance Theatre. She is the recipient of the 2008 Governor General’s Mentorship Award.

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MARA GOTTLER

Costume Designer

Mara Gottler’s recent design credits include the world premiere of The Nightingale and Other Short Fables for Ex Machina/Canadian Opera Company/Festival d’Aix en Provence/Opera National de Lyon/De Nederlands Opera; Much Ado About Nothing and Antony and Cleopatra for Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival; Così Fan Tutte for Pacific Opera Victoria; The Life Inside for the Belfry Theatre; Photog: (Boca del Lupo) and Jocasta:Part IV of Thebes: City of Wine for Studio 58/ Nightswimming. Other engagements have included designs at the National Arts Centre, Festival TransAmériques, Alberta Theatre Projects, Vancouver Playhouse and the Arts Club.

As resident designer with Vancouver’s renowned Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, she has created 60 of its productions. Nominated for the prestigious Siminovitch Theatre Award and Dora Mavor Moore Award, she has also been the recipient of numerous Jesse Richardson Theatre Awards for excellence in costume design. As well as teaching design at Studio 58, the renowned theatre school at Langara College, Mara also creates her own fashion line, (maragottlerdesigns.com) and her clothing has been seen at entertainment events and in national magazines.

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PATRICK PENNEFATHER

Composer

Patrick Pennefather is an award-winning composer on over fifteen hundred live and multi-media productions in all aspects of musical direction, sound design and composition. Some previous and ongoing collaborators include Bard on the Beach, Arts Club Theatre, PuSh Festival, Electric Company Theatre, Touchstone, UBC, University of Florida, UCLA, CBC Radio & Television, Bravo Television, Vancouver International Comedy Festival, VTSL, City of Vancouver, McDonald’s Special Events, Silver Lining Ltd., Cossette Communications, and Palmer Jarvis/DDB. To hear some of his music go to www.patrickp.biz!

JAMIE NESBITT

Assistant Scenographer

Jamie designs across Canada. His resume includes the Canadian Stage Company, the NAC, the Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Bard on the Beach, the Arts Club, Gateway Theatre; the Electric Company, Pi Theatre, the Belfry Theatre, the Actors Repertory Theatre, the Yukon Arts Centre and many more. A graduate of Studio 58, he is the recipient of 7 Jessie Richardson Award nominations, 1 Jessie Richardson Award, the 2008 Mayor Arts Award, the 2007 Sam Payne Award and the 2006 Earl Klein Memorial Scholarship. www.jamienesbitt.ca

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BLAKE WILLIAM TURNER Assistant Director

With Edmonton-based THEATrePUBLIC, Blake has been spending the past four years as Jack Harding in the Spiral Dive Trilogy, a fivehour epic which will run at La Cité Francophone this January. Blake’s first full-length play, a blank-verse adaptation of Beowulf, will be produced by Workshop West in 2012 (co-directed with Artistic Director Michael Clark). In Vancouver, Blake’s newest work RADIUS (a 7-minute site-specific play for three audience members that ran in rotation for 3 hours) was presented as part of the Firehall Arts Centre’s BC Buds Festival. Blake is an Associate Producer with Electric Company Theatre and a graduate of MacEwan Theatre Arts.

ANDREA HODGE

Movement Rehearsal Director After 20 years on stage as a professional ballet dancer, most recently with Ballet British Columbia, Andrea switched her focus to behind the scenes spending her days rehearsing the BBC dancers for performances as their Ballet Mistress. She currently teaches dance to young children and is the rehearsal director for the Apprentice Company at Arts Umbrella. Andrea feels incredibly fortunate for the opportunity to work with the talented artists involved with the Electric Company Theatre.

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JAN HODGSON

Stage Manager

Jan was last at the Citadel Theatre with The Drowsy Chaperone. This past season’s credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels & Dangerous Corner for the Vancouver Playhouse; The Edward Curtis Project by Marie Clement for the PuSh Festival; Hive 3 for Progress Lab1422; Greatest Cities In The World for Theatre Replacement at Magnetic North Festival; Everyone at the Caravan Farm Theatre and Tear The Curtain for the Arts Club in Association with the Electric Company.

JENNIFER SWAN

Assistant Stage Manager

Jen is thrilled to be at the Citadel for the first time and back on tour with such a great company of people. She was last in Edmonton in the fall of 2008 stage managing Living Shadows: The Story of Mary Pickford for Village Theatre/Fringe Theatre Adventures. For the past ten years she has worked primarily at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, with frequent breaks to work across the country with lots of other friends and theatres. She is grateful to be doing what she does.

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We as a crew work on all show setups in all playing spaces. We are responsible for setting up and maintaining any lighting, video and/or electrical effects in Citadel produced productions, touring productions, rentals etc. within the Citadel complex.

We are required to work with other departments as needed. For instance we would work with the prop department on wiring a specifically designed chandelier, sconce, lanterns, special effects inset in to props, the costume department working with fiber optic or L.E.D.’s in costumes etc. and the carpentry shop with hanging lighting equipment on built scenery.

To start any production we need to meet with other departments, designers, directors, stage managers and production management to get as much information as possible to assess needs from the lighting department. Once the lighting design is complete I need to prep it for hang and focus. The department works together to pull gel (color filter), gobos (metal or glass design) for each lighting unit on the plot. We then pull any effects i.e: moving mirrors, gobo rotators, strobes, moving lights for the show. I need to then assess DMX (control signal) for aforementioned equipment. We have a large inventory in the complex of over 1000 lighting instruments and special effect equipment from which the lighting designer designs their lighting plot.

Once the plot is prepped and everything is ordered in we are ready to begin the hang. A qualified crew is added from IATSE local #210 and we begin. The hang can take anywhere from 8 to 16 hrs to complete depending on its complexity. Once complete we need to patch (assign each light a control number) in the lighting console, check the rig (all gear in hang) and fix any problems that arise. Once that step is done we are ready to focus all equipment with the lighting designer. We need to use a hydraulic lift to get to the lights on stage as they could be over 30’ in the air. We sometimes need to use a focus chair (movable chair attached to a pipe) over the set if we cannot access the equipment with the lift. We also focus from over the house seating from a front of house grid and coves.

The next step is cueing. The board operator spends time with the designer, director and stage manager setting lighting cues (looks) for the show. This continues through the entire rehearsal process with actors, and other technical aspects of the show until we are ready for opening night and the rest of the run.

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James MacDonald Director, Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program Brian Dooley Director, New Play Development Geoffrey Brumlik Director, Audience Outreach Doug Mertz Director, FTS & Young Companies Don Horsburgh Resident Musical Director Wayne Paquette Academy Associate Hannah Whittaker Academy Coordinator Diana Boratynec Manager, Foote Theatre School Young Company Instructors Ryland Alexander Shannon Boyle Kenneth Brown Jackie Herbst Heather Inglis Kevin Kerr Thrasso Petras Linda Rubin Ryan Sigurdson FTS Instructors Tara Brodin Ashley Butler Melissa Cabral Julie Golosky Jennifer Goodman Crystal Hanson Brad Heintzman Binaifer Kapadia Meghan Koshman Barbara Mah Daniela Masellis Doug Mertz Anna Paquin Kate Ryan Liana Shannon Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule Angela Zacher

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Libby Bolstler Accountant Paul Thorburn Systems Administrator Rosita Vasileva Payroll Accountant Gladys Wong Accounting Assistant

Bill Heron Technical Director Michelle Chan Resident Stage Manager Patrick Fraser Assistant Technical Director Kyla Maki ADMINISTRATION Administrative Assistant Marianne Bouthillier Brian Maxwell GUEST SERVICES Associate Executive Head of Audio Jenna Pryor Director Owen Hutchinson Venue Rentals Manager Peni Christopher Assistant Head of Audio Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Kimberlee Stadelmann Perry Harris Box Office Manager Company Manager Audio Neil Le Grandeur Curtis Knecht Les Myhr House Manager Receptionist/Admin Head of Scenic Carpentry Kristen Hiemstra Assistant Peter Locock Assistant Box Office Laurie McInnes Assistant Head of Manager Business & Legal Affairs Scenic Carpentry Trina Hritzuk Sheila Cleasby COMMUNICATIONS Volunteer Coordinator Head of Electrics & DEVELOPMENT Shar Powell School Booking Coordinator Scott George Lafluer Joshua Semchuk Assistant Head of Electrics Communications Manager Guest Services Supervisors Meaghan Skerik Jann Smith Steve Boleantu Electrics Marketing Manager Michelle Bonot Michelle Dias Deb Proc Linnea Dixon Head Scenic Artist Donor & Corporate Kayla Fuller Richard Stevens Relations Manager Natalie Gustafson Scenic Painter Jason Magee Mark Harding Jim Meers Marketing & Communications Caitlin Jackson Head of Props Associate Nonnie Lagerweij Charlotte Hunt Sydney Stuart Kristian Tustian Assistant Head of Props Donor & Corporate Guest Services Relations Associate Marc Anderson Representatives Head Stage Carpenter FACILITY Mike Anhorn Andrew Hill Louis Barron Matthew Baziuk Assistant Head Carpenter Director Candice Charney Dan Beggs Maintenance Bevin Dooley Stage Carpenter Doug de Vries Isabelle Gallant Patsy Thomas Manager Marg Gronnestad Head of Wardrobe James Paras Jacob Liska Kayla Fulton Bee Clean Services Abbie Murison Assistant Head of Wardrobe Security Charlotte Norris Lorraine Price Valerie Smart Alberta Crowd Head of Wardrobe Miranda Tonken Management Running Gina Varty Building Porters Barb Becker Jessica Venne Wardrobe Maintenance Richard Bukowsky Tara Gale Lloyd Bell PRODUCTION Wigs & Makeup FINANCE Cheryl L. Hoover Michael Devanney Director Keith Strong Wigs & Makeup Director

The Citadel is grateful for the kind generosity of its volunteers listed below. If you want to volunteer with the Citadel, please call Trina Hritzuk at 780-428-2137 or e-mail foh@citadeltheatre.com.

Johanna Andreoff, Tracy Arnell, Nelda Arnst, Dolan Badger, Crystal Bai, Mavis Baltzer, Trinity Barrow, Donna Bell, Shelley Benson, Erika Beyer, Ursula Blumentrath, Jeanine Bonot, Florence Borch, Ken Borch, Shirley Boven, Loveth Bradley, Shirl Brown, Melodie Brousseau, Eileen Budlong, Nancy Byway, Collin Campbell, Dee Cartledge, Jessica Chai, Jenny Chai, Joyce Dahl, Isabel da Silva, Carol Dreger, Shirley Dunn, Trevor Elliot, Janet Fayjean, Linda Ferro, Lil Filewych, Brett Flesher, Jeannette Flesher, Brenda Fraser, Gilberte Gagne, Irene Gagne, Doreen Gagnon, Karen Gahir, Jeanne Garland, Jackie Genest, Glenda Goodwin, Gerry Gordon, Mervan Gorrie, Myrna Gosnell, Taryn Graham, Petra Hagemann, Christine Hall, Pauline Hanh, Phyllis Harlton, Judy Harrold, Lucie Heins, Tim Heins, Bradley Heller, Marilyn Hemsing, Linelle Henderson, Daniel High, Amelia Hihn, Maria Hollinshead, Patty Holosney, Ron Homenchuk, Laura Hughes, Judy Hume, Maxine James, Shannon Joyes, Khatidja Khalfan, Darlene Kowalchuk, Cody Lang, Kim Lang, Clemence Lavoie, Louise Leibel, Maureen Letchford, Coral Levang, Ron Levang, Fran Linklater, Kyle Lobb, Katrina Lucyk, Marlene Lukevich, Tabatha Lyon, Bozena Macek, Dawn Madill, Donna Malloy, Nicholas Mather, Gloria McArthur, Thomas McLean, Karen Miller, Monica Molina-Ayala, Joan Murchie, Sulochana Muthia, Florence Nieberding, Dennis Nolan, Gina Nolet, Margaret Olson, Norman Olson, Joan Poletz, Anna Popowich, Gail Poston, Natasha Prasad, Petra Prendergast, Kevin Przyswitt, Renee Przyswitt, Doreen Pysar, Thor Quaranta, Andy Renema, Tracy Renz-Augustin, Gabrielle Roccia, Audrey Ross, Ian Ross, Helen Rusich, Carl Scott, Angela Seery, Valerie Smart, Phyllis Solsberg, Evelyn Stark, Cheryl Sulatycky, Helen Taggart, Anna Tandingan, Christy Tang, Shahna Tariq, Dorota Tecza, Liz Tweddle, Michelle Tymchuk, Rose Unguran, Mona Vandersluys, Lynne Vickers, Jane Voloboeva, Carol Ward, Allan Webb, Kay Willekes, Denise Woollard, Paul Yates, Lil Yewchuk 53

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