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LEAVING A LASTING LEGACYleaViNg a lastiNg legacy

We invite you to join the Bard Legacy We invite you to join the Bard Legacy Circle by making a planned gift in your will Circle by making a planned gift in your will to Bard on the Beach, ensuring its success to Bard on the Beach, ensuring its success well into the future. well into the future. Legacy gifts can take many forms Legacy gifts can take many forms through which you can enjoy specific tax through which you can enjoy specific tax advantages, often allowing you to make a advantages, often allowing you to make a larger donation than you thought possible. larger donation than you thought possible. Please let us know if you have already Please let us know if you have already recognized Bard in your estate plans. We recognized Bard in your estate plans. We would love to recognize you and include would love to recognize you and include you in our Legacy Circle events. you in our Legacy Circle events. For more information, please visit For more information, please visit bardonthebeach.org/support-us/legacy bardonthebeach.org/support-us/legacy

BARD LEGACY CIRCLE MEMBERS: Ensuring our future

These generous individuals have demonstrated tremendous foresight through planned gifts or bequests in their will. A heartfelt thank you for leaving a lasting legacy for Bard on the Beach.

2021 Bard Legacy Circle Members:

Helen Armstrong Thomas & Beverley Berger M Brayne A. Chapman Ann Coombs Muriel Densford Virginia Evans Joy Gaze June & Paddy Gooderham Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz Maureen Hannah Elizabeth Hardy Doug & Margaret Hatlelid Dr Ron Jobe Reet Kana Genny MacLean Betty McGowan Peter Mercer & Ginger Shaw A & W Milman Lynne Moran Barbara Morris & Angela Kelly Barbara Mount Ann & Patrick Munro Sasha Nowicki Andrew Piers Betti Port Deborah Pound Janine Reid Paul Schofield Bonita Sheldon David & Suzanne Smith Beverley Taylor Jo-Ann Ternier Barrie & Margaret Arlene Vivian Anonymous (3) BECOME A BARD MEMBER: Learn more about the Festival you love

Become a Bard Member and share our vision of a vibrant Festival that showcases the highest artistic quality, encourages innovative education programs, nurtures emerging artists and ensures accessibility for all. In 2021, Bard Members will enjoy exclusive benefits including: • Priority access to Bard’s digital content • Invitations to enlightening virtual panels with artists • Insight into Bard’s transition to a digital platform • Access to behind the scenes experiences, and more!

Amy McDougall, Head of Wardrobe, shares a behind-the-scenes look at Bard’s costumes during 2020's Creative Conversations with Amy McDougall and Jennifer Lines event. Jonathan Ryder, Bard’s Production Director, takes us through the site build in 2020’s Creative Conversations: Constructing and Deconstructing the Bard site.

Christopher Gaze leads a Creative Conversation with Bard artists.

For more information, visit bardonthebeach.org/membership For more information, visit bardonthebeach.org/membership or email development@bardonthebeach.org or email development@bardonthebeach.org

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Candelario Andrade Done/Undone: Editor Recent editing credits: Great Acts of Hope (Mortal Coil/Tsatsu Stalqayu/ National Arts Centre), Autumn Strawberry (Mochizuki Studios), Transcendence (by Anosh Irani), Artificial Eden (Simon Fraser University), Taking Shakespeare and Being Here (Belfry Theatre); Body Parts (Tara Cheyenne Performance), Bard Beyond the Beach (Bard on the Beach), The Day The Cat Saved My Life (Dir. Kagan Go) and Jesus Blood (Dir. Aryo Khakpour). As an editor, Cande has worked for Knowledge Network, Vancouver International Film Festival, and teaches video design at Langara's Studio58.

Kate Besworth (she/her) Done/Undone: Playwright Kate is a theatre performer and playwright currently working on the unceded and stolen lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Swwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. This is Kate's fourth year working with Bard on the Beach. Kate is in love with Charlie Gallant.

Arthi Chandra Done/Undone: Director Arthi Chandra is a Vancouver based director, writer, and actor. Her practice is rooted in devising text-based new works, and adaptations of contemporary and classical plays. Her work examines ways in which identities of race, gender, class, and queerness intersect with one another, and how people and ideas are shaped by systems and institutions. She is a graduate of the theatre performance stream from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

Mishelle Cuttler Done/Undone: Sound Designer & Composer Mishelle is a Vancouver based composer and sound designer whose work is centered around the integration of sound, music, and storytelling. Some recent projects include Made in Canada (rice & beans theatre), Good Things To Do (Rumble Theatre) and The Quarantettes (Bard on the Beach/The Chop). Upcoming: The Seventh Fire (Delinquent Theatre), Break Horizons: A Concert Documentary (The Cultch’s Transform Festival). She has an MFA in Musical Theatre Composition from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a BFA in Acting from UBC.

Ryan Cormack Done/Undone: Assistant Set Designer Ryan is a graduate of the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University and is currently studying set and costume design at The National Theatre School of Canada. Design credits include Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (DSDM), If/Then, Bring It On (QMT), Christina The Girl King (5th Co). Apprentice design: Actually (Obsidian/HGJT), Anne Of Green Gables (TIP). He extends a huge thank you to Pam and Jonathan for this opportunity.

Charlie Gallant Done/Undone: Performer Done/Undone marks my seventh season with Bard on the Beach. Having worked across Canada in theatre/film/tv, Bard remains a favourite company of mine and I am grateful to live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples while I’m here. I hope you enjoy Kate Besworth’s brilliant script and continue the conversations that her flesh & blood characters give rise to. Thank you for watching! Recent acting highlights: Good Witch (Hallmark/tv), Noises Off (Arts Club Theatre), Shakespeare In Love (Bard on the Beach), Long Day's Journey (Stratford Festival). Visit @charlie_byrd on Instagram for my photography. Graduate of Studio 58.