Born-Again Crow – Digital Program

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is situated on the lands of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Wendat, and the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We acknowledge them and any other Nations who care for the land (acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded) as the past, present, and future caretakers of this land, referred to as Tkaronto (“Where The Trees Meet The Water”; “The Gathering Place”). Buddies is honoured to be a home for queer, trans and 2-Spirit artists on these storied and sacred lands that have been stewarded by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years before the arrival of colonial settlers.

photography + design by Fran Chudnoff

director’s note

There is Space There is Listening There is Waiting There is Danger There is Hurt There is Grief There is the thing with Feathers There is Questioning There is Whining There is What is Not Fair There is Loneliness There is Evil There is Nothing There is Choices There is not making all your own Choices There is a Maybe Road There is Change There are Fighters There is Weakness There is Protection There is Feeling like one is Dead There is Feeling Real There is Responsibilities There is Giving There is Nature There is Becoming a Part Of Nature There is Obliterating Nature There is Bearing Witness There is Being Frightened There is Colonialism There is Colonialism Broke Us There is Genocide There is Enough There is Forgiveness There is Wanting to See What Happens Next There is Being More or Less a Good Person There is Acting on Behalf of the Meek There is Blessed are The Meek There is Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness There is Blessed are the Merciful There is Blessed are the Pure at Heart There is Blessed are the Peacemakers There are No Guarantees There are Saints There are Aspirations There are Assholes There is Conversion There is Waiting There is Violence There is Righteousness There is A Moral Way There is Morality There is Death There is Crow There is Birth There is Again There is Love There is Love There is Love There is Love

Can you change anything?

“and the crows and flies who don’t care about gender will one day make away with my jet-black finger nails and scraggly armpit hairs and lay tobacco at my grave and tell their crow and fly kin that i was once a broadshouldered trickster who long ago fell from the moon wearing make-up and skinny jeans.”

“I’m the next act Waiting in the wings I’m an animal Trapped in your hot car I am all the days That you choose to ignore.”

– All I Need, Radiohead

– Billy-Ray Belcourt

cast + crew + creative teaM

Caleigh Crow // playwright

Jessica Carmichael // director

Tara Sky, Cheri Maracle, Dan Mousseau, Madison Walsh // performers

Shannon Lea Doyle // set designer + animal prop design + mask design

Asa Benally // costume designer

Hailey Verbonac // lighting designer

Chris Ross-Ewart // sound designer

Jenn Dzialoszynski // fight director

Ferne Hudson // stage manager

Frankie Bayley // apprentice stage manager

Lochlan Cox // props buyer + props builder

Chanti Laliberte + Van Ward // wardrobe associates

Julia Howman, Anthony Allan, Amber Pattison, Rebecca Vandevelde, Mojo Noble, Sebastian Marziali // production leadership

El Patey, Darren Shaen, Kit Norman, Van Ward // head technicians

steph raposo, Nicole Eun-Ju Bell, Julie M. Li, River Oliveira, Mike Dowdall, Laura Shaen // install crew

Andy and Bill (Soulpepper), Mike Grdosic, Antel Kollenberg // carpenters

Susanna Feng, Matty Armour // scenic painters

Sonja Rainey, Matty Armour // mask makers

Jack Hawk // relaxed performance consultant

Gaitrie Persaud-Killings + Courage Bacchus with David Hughes + Nancie Anderson // ASL interpretation

thank you

Patricia, Jasmine, and Rhett at Soulpepper

Alannah at Tarragon

The Props Department at the Canadian Opera Company

Kai Masaoka

Indigenous Affairs Office

Toronto Wildlife Centre

artIst BIos

Caleigh Crow [she/her] // playwright – Caleigh is a playwright, director, and performer from Mohkinstsis. She is the co-founder of Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre. In 2024 she was honoured to receive the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for her play There is Violence There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow, published by Playwrights Canada Press. That play premiered in her hometown, played in Saskatoon and Whitehorse, and she is excited to share Beth’s story with the audiences in Toronto. Caleigh is also a director, and had the pleasure of directing antigone lives* by Susanna Fournier for WhyNot Theatre as part of their ThisGen Fellowship program. She also co-wrote and co-directed Yisstsiyi at the University of Lethbridge, and has assistant director credits at Vertigo Theatre and Theatre Calgary. In spring of 2025, she will be directing Round and Round by Col Cseke for Inside Out Theatre in Mohkinstsis. She would like to extend her gratitude to ted witzel for programming this piece, to Jessica Carmichael for assembling such a brilliant cast and for her deep consideration of the script, to the actors and creative team for sharing their shiny, shiny gifts. Major thanks to the teams at Buddies in Bad Times and Native Earth Performing Arts for building such a respectful and warmhearted nest for this show, day by day, twig by twig.

Jessica Carmichael [she/her] // director — Jessica is fucking lit to be back working with both Native Earth and Buddies on Caleigh’s electric work, with such an exhilarating team. With NEPA, Jessica was their artistic ass (2013-2015), program D of the Animikiig Unit (2013-2015), and directed 4 digital works for NEPA/Nightwood/New Harlem Productions as part of Embodying Power and Place (2021). With Buddies, she was co-curator of The ArQuives performance for the 2017 Rhubarb Festival. Jess is a grad of the National Theatre School of Canada (Acting), the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art/Kings College London (MA Text & Performance Studies), the UofA (MFA Directing), and studied with the Stratford Festival’s Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction. Recent directing: Hamlet (CanStage, 2024); The Clearing (Shaw Festival, 2023); Middletown (NTS, 2023); Grief (Concordia University, 2023) Theatre for One (Centaur Theatre, 2022), The Rez Sisters (Stratford Festival of Canada, 2021). Jessica is an associate prof. in the Theatre Dept. of Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Molian/Montréal.

Elena Belyea [they/them] // dramaturg – Elena (or Eli) Belyea is a queer and trans playwright, performer, producer, arts educator, and Artistic Director of Tiny Bear Jaws (@tinybearjaws). They were born and raised in amiskwaciwaskahikan (colonially known as Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory and have had works produced across Turtle Island and internationally (including Hungary, Austria, Berlin, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, and Quebec City). They’ve been programmed by companies like Factory and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto), One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary), UpintheAir Theatre (Vancouver), the Centaur Theatre (Montreal) to name a few. Elena was the recipient of the 2023 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical, and their company, Tiny Bear Jaws’ production of Smoke won the 2023 Sterling Award for Outstanding Indie Production. In 2024, Elena was a member of Spindle Films

Inaugural Trans and Non-Binary Filmmaking Intensive, and will be filming their first short in Spring 2025. More at elenabelyea.com (@elenabelyea on Instagram).

Tara Sky [they/she] // Beth — Theatre: Tiger Lily in Wendy and Peter Pan, Cordelia in King Lear, Ginette Ménard in Les Belles-Soeurs and Beth Summers in 1939 (Stratford); Christine in Where the Blood Mixes (Soulpepper); Ensemble in Reasonable Doubt (Persephone Theatre); Young Grete in Holy Mothers (SummerWorks); Angel in Nativity (NAC). Film/TV: Delivery, The River You Step In, Ruby Sky P.I. Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Etobicoke School of the Arts. Instagram: @tara.kitty.sky, @taraskybeads. Et cetera: Thank you, ʼanálhzaqʷ, to the trailblazers who paved the way for me to be on stages like this one.

Cheri Maracle [she/her] // Francine – Cheri Maracle is an Award winning Actor/Singer/Songwriter/Playwright of Mohawk & Irish ancestry, of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario. She has performed across Turtle Island and abroad for the past 30 years. Recent tv credits include: Alaska Daily (CBC), Bones of Crows (CBC), The Coroner (CBC), UNSETTLED (APTN, TVO), The Parker Andersons (BYUtv), Blackstone (APTN, *CSA nominated), Tribal (APTN), DeGrassi (MTV, Family Channel), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC) and more. Selected Theatre credits include; Women of the Fur Trade *Outstanding Performance Award Win/Rideau Awards, (The National Arts Centre, GCTC, Native Earth), Tartuffe: An Indigenous Misadventure (Arts Club Theatre), WhiteNoise (The Firehall Arts Centre), Paddle Song (Various *Best Performance nomination at High Performance Rodeo), The Unnatural & Accidental Women (The National Arts Centre), and Keepers of the Salish Sea, (The Cultch).

Dan Mousseau [he/him] // Tanner Braeden / Jane / Jim / Stephen –Dan Mousseau is a Dora award winning actor for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role, teacher, and a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University and the Soulpepper Academy. Selected theatre credits include: Hamlet (Canadian Stage); Wildwoman, The Seagull, Innocence Lost (Soulpepper); Prodigal* (Howland/Crow’s Theatre): Three Sisters (Howland); A Christmas Carol (Soupcan Theatre/Three Ships Collective); Perfect Wedding (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Selected Film/TV include: The Boys (Amazon), Frankie Drake Mysteries, Strays, Workin’ Moms (CBC), Tempted by Danger (Lifetime), Sincerely Yours Truly (Hallmark).

Madison Walsh [she/her] // Crow – Madison is the co-creator, writer, and star of the award-winning TV series, Something Undone (CBC/ITVx) which took home top prizes at SXSW and Series Mania. Her stage credits include Elinor in Sense and Sensibility (Citadel Theatre) and Sharla in Killer Joe (Coal Mine Theatre). Her screen credits include Hudson and Rex, The Expanse, Mrs. America and the upcoming indie feature, Surfacing. She voices several recurring roles for Ubisoft’s Division among others. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. She’d like to thank Jess big time for all of her support and creative madness. This marks Madison’s Buddies debut and she is jazzed to crash the party.

Shannon Lea-Doyle [she/her] // set designer — My Buddies Debut! My second show with NEPA. Thank you to Jess, my collaborators and the production teams. I have designed over 50 Canadian productions in the past ten years; in tiny storefronts, legion halls, on big old stages, and nice newer ones too. I am thrilled to be designing shows in the same place I grew up. I want to thank Frank, my kids, all the Grandparents and especially my Mom and Dad for their love and support.

Asa Benally // costume designer — Citizen of the Navajo and Cherokee Nations. The Rez Sisters, 1939 (Stratford Festival); T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods (The Royal Winnipeg Ballet): The Clearing (The Shaw Festival); Whale Song, Devilfish, Cold Case (Perseverance Theater); The Winter’s Tale (HERE Arts Center); Seven Minutes (Waterwell); Where We Belong (Woolly Mammoth Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, The Goodman Theater, The Public); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (The Gingold Group); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Keen Company, Drama Desk Nomination); Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage); Too Heavy For Your Pocket (George Street Playhouse); Skeleton Crew (Westport Country Playhouse); Father Comes Home… (Juilliard); Measure for Measure (The Public Theater Mobile Unit); Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure (Frog and Peach Theater Co.); The Brobot Johnson Experience (The Bushwick Starr); Tricks the Devil Taught Me (Minetta Lane Theater); Coriolanus, The Seagull (Yale School of Drama); Roberto Zucco (Yale Cabaret). Training: M.F.A Yale School of Drama. B.F.A. Parsons School of Design. Online:www. asabenally.com, Instagram: @Asa_Benally_Design.

Hailey Verbonac [he/him] // lighting designer — Hailey Verbonac is an Afro-Indigenous (Red River Métis) artist and theatre designer. Originally from Inuvik, NWT (on Inuvialuit and Gwich’in land), he trained at the National Theatre School of Canada in production design and technical arts. Lighting, video, watercolour, and digital artwork are his preferred media for storytelling. He is interested in exploring the connection of the physical and spiritual being in a cultural context and storytelling in all its variations. This is his Buddies debut.

Angelina Bomberry [she/her] // lighting apprentice — Angelina Bomberry is a Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk Nation) and A’no:wara niwaki’taro:ten (Turtle Clan) woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River reservation in Southern Ontario. She is currently in her second year at Humber Polytechnic, studying Theatre Arts – Technical Production, and is set to graduate in Spring 2025. Angelina specializes in the lighting, properties, and costuming departments. Angelina was part of Native Earth’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance 37, an annual festival showcasing and developing Indigenous works. Serving as the Festival Lighting Design Intern on the W37 Festival Team, she is passionate about representing her people and community with positivity and resilience in the theatre world. Inspired by Indigenous artists and creators from across Turtle Island, she aims to collaborate closely with Indigenous creators in future productions to amplify Indigenous voices.

Chris Ross-Ewart [he/him] // sound designer — Chris makes sound for theatre and lots of other contexts too. He was last at Buddies with Pearle Harbour’s Distant Early Warning, and is very happy to be back this season. He has worked with Jessica Carmichael on Hamlet in High Park and The Clearing at Shaw. He also works as a mental health worker at Insite, a safe injection site, and would love to talk with you about safe supply. There are two crows looking through the window at me as I’m writing this. I better go. chrisross-ewart.com

Jenn Dzialoszynski [she/her] // fight director— Jennifer is a fight director, actor, stage combat instructor, and voice artist. She is so happy to be among this passionate and thoughtful company, taking on this fierce work. She has worked with theatres across the country both on stage and off including Canadian Stage, Obsidian Theatre, Necessary Angel, Shakespeare Bash’d, The Shaw Festival, Tarragon, The Stratford Festival, The Coal Mine, Magnus Theatre, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Grand, The Citadel, Harold Green Jewish Theatre, among others.

Ferne Hudson (she/her) // stage manager – Ferne has worked professionally as a Stage Manager for 16 years both in Canada and internationally, since graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. Theatre Credits Include: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Dolly Parton’s 9–5, Candida, The Orphan of Chaos, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie Macrimmon, The Revolution of Steve Jobs, Bombay Black, Jack and the Beanstalk, The White Card, The Magic Flute, Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and many more. When not working on theatre productions, Ferne loves to travel and work on her other interests in health, wellness and advocating for neurodiversity. She is delighted to have her debut at Buddies in Bad Times.

Frankie Bayley (they/he) // apprentice stage manager – Frankie Bayley is a queer theatre artist based in so-called Toronto. They are a collaborative artist who enjoys creating art that pushes folks to expand their understanding of our world and what we owe to each other. He particularly values theatre that gives space to marginalized voices, especially those of queer, trans, disabled, and racialized folks. Since graduating from Queen’s in 2020, they have worked in stage management with Two Planks and a Passion and Crossroads Theatre Company and as an actor with Pencil Kit Productions and EveryBODY On Stage. This is his second show with Buddies and he’s jazzed !

Julia Howman (she/her) // production manager (NEPA) – Julia is a multidisciplinary designer, production manager, stage manager, and technician. Julia is a settler on Turtle Island, was raised in Doha, Qatar, and currently resides in Tkaronto. Recent credits include: Production Design and Production Management, The Chemical Valley Project (Broadleaf Creations with The Great Canadian Theatre Company); Projection Design, Distant Early Warning (Pearle Harbour/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Head Technician, Sweeney Todd (Talk is Free Theatre); Production Management, An IMM-Permanent Resident (Nautanki Bazaar/Why Not Theatre).

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opened at the Carrefour International Theatre Festival in Québec City before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre in London. In 2020 Martin was awarded the Nyssen-Bansemer Theatre Prize

Artistic Director JOELLE PETERS

Managing Director HIMANSHU SITLANI

Production + Facilities Manager JULIA HOWMAN

Associate Producer YAGO MESQUITA

Marketing Coordinator ZOE MARÍN

Administrator KRISTEN FRANCIS

Animikiig Program Director IRMA VILLAFUERTE

IPTP Producer in Residence JANIS MAYERS

Season Visual Artist HANNAH SAGE LAFORME

Media Relations

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Patron Services Coordinator ALEX FRANKS

Patron Services Representatives

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Vice-President/Treasurer GEORGIA QUARTARO

Secretary JACQUELINE NUNES

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Photo of Madison Walsh, Tara Sky, and Dan Mousseau by Jeremy Mimnagh, set design by Shannon Lea Doyle, costume design by Asa Benally, lighting design by Hailey Verbonac.

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opened at the Carrefour International Theatre Festival in Québec City before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre in London. In 2020 Martin was awarded the Nyssen-Bansemer Theatre Prize

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