Welcome to our presentation of The Birds and the Bees by Mark Crawford. This production is truly special in that it signifies a second collaboration with our friends at Arts Club Theatre Company. This partnership is an exciting opportunity to unite with another reputable Canadian theatre company, merging our dedication to storytelling. We are sincerely grateful for the chance to collaborate with the Arts Club, and we are confident that this partnership will elevate your theatre experience.
The Birds and the Bees also continues our relationship with playwright Mark Crawford. Many of you may remember his previous work at ATP, The New Canadian Curling Club, which was produced here in 2019 to critical and audience acclaim. ATP was also integral to the development of The Gig which had its world premiere at Theatre Aquarius in 2023. We are thrilled to welcome Mark back to our stage and to present another of his heartfelt and hilarious plays to our audiences.
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We hope you find joy in the camaraderie of the talented cast and creative team of The Birds and the Bees, and may you leave the theatre tonight with a renewed appreciation for the beauty and complexity of human relationships.
Thank you for your continued support and for joining us at Alberta Theatre Projects!
Haysam Kadri
Artistic Director, Alberta Theatre Projects
We are thrilled to be able to bring this production to Alberta Theatre Projects, and share this version of Mark Crawford’s much loved sparkling comedy with Calgary theatre lovers. We have enjoyed huge laughs in the rehearsal room, and we look forward to sharing the follies, mis-steps and joy of these characters with you too. We can all do with a good laugh right now.
For the characters in this play things don’t always work out, but something else happens instead, that offers the chance for change and growth - perhaps not as intended, but another way. We follow them trying and failing, attempting connection but often unable to get past their self-imposed walls. We also find hope in the notion that accepting ourselves as part of a bigger system - not separate, but together, might be our ultimate salvation in the end.
Through comedy, we connect with laughter, joy, forgiveness, and release. Through embracing ourselves as natural beings of expression, we open up to more joy, more love.
I sincerely hope you enjoy tonight’s performance of The Birds and the Bees as much as we enjoyed making it for you.
Lauren Taylor
Director, The Birds and the Bees
RILEY HARDWICK
ARGHAVAN JENATI
NANCY KERR
GERRY MACKAY BEN SARAH GAIL EARL
MARK CRAWFORD
LAUREN TAYLOR
MICHELLE THORNE - SPEIR
TED ROBERTS
ALAIA HAMER
MICHAEL HEWITT
TED ROBERTS
SAMMIE HATCH
KATHERINE MATLASHEWSKI
LISA RUSSELL
CHANDLER ONTKEAN
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STAGE MANAGER
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The Birds and the Bees is produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www. MQlit.ca
The Birds and the Bees premiered at the Blyth Festival in June, 2016.
Special thanks for the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
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We acknowledge that Alberta Theatre Projects and Arts Commons are located on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda (Chiniki, Goodstoney/Kichipwot, and Bearspaw First Nations). This territory is also the home of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts 5 and 6. We thank these Nations for sharing this land with us and commit to being good stewards of this land, while we are here. We welcome all who work, live, and play in, as well as honour and celebrate this historic territory.
RILEY
HARDWICK BEN
For the Arts Club: Debut. For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre: Everybody, Cerulean Blue (Studio 58), Romeo and Juliet (Crane Creation Theatre), I Was Here (Soulpepper CYA). Other: Riley Hardwick is an actor and Jessie Award-winning sound designer from Ottawa, Ontario. He is a cast member of The Improv Centre, and a graduate of Studio 58. Riley is incredibly grateful to be making his Arts Club debut with such a lovely team. Thanks to Hanneke and Boston for their endless support.
ARGHAVAN JENATI SARAH
For the Arts Club: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Thousand Splendid Suns. For ATP: Debut. Other Select Theatre: Alice Munro Stories (Belfry), Lady Parts: Brain (Pi Theatre), Lady Parts (Revolver Festival), 3.7% (Boca Del Lupo), Galatea (Bard OnThe Beach). Select Film & TV: The Recruit (Netflix), With Love and a Major Organ (SXSW premiere) Honor Society (Paramount+), Fresh (Hulu), Turner & Hooch (Disney+), Heart of the Matter (Hallmark), A Million Little Things (ABC), Big Sky (ABC), Girlfriends Guide to Divorce (Bravo), Arrow (CW), Ashbridge (CBC), X-Files (Fox), Medical Drama (TIFF, NoBudge), Dream Interpreter (NoBudge), Shit Sponge (Won Best Actor at TIFF Bell Lightbox & RNG 2022), This is That (CBC). As a comedian she has performed for Just For Laughs, The Improv Centre, Blind Tiger Comedy and regularly at The HERO Show! She was selected for the 2024 JFL Comedy Showcase. Thanks to my supportive mom! Instagram: @ArghavanJenati
NANCY KERR GAIL
For the Arts Club: Redbone Coonhound (debut). For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (The Cultch), Almost Maine (The Cultch Lab), My Tom (Railtown Actors Lab), Sight Unseen (Waterfront Theatre). Film/TV: Under the Bridge, Woman of the Hour, So Help Me Todd, Port Lawrence, Superman & Lois
GERRY MACKAY EARL
For the Arts Club: Hamlet, Dinner with Friends, August Osage County, One Man Two Guvnors, Redbone Coonhound. For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre: Late Company (Touchstone), Indian Arm (Rumble), All Shook Up, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gateway); A Christmas Carol, Alice Munro Stories (The Belfry); Equivocation, Winter’s Tale, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Troilus and Cressida (Bard on the Beach), Oedipus the King, Romeo and Juliet, Robin Hood, Black Comedy (Citadel); A Perfect Ganesh, For the Pleasure of Seeing her Again (Globe); Homeward Bound (Canadian Stage), The Illusion, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, King Lear (Stratford Festival). Other Film/TV: Pain Killer Jane, Ties that Bind, Due South. Excited to bring this play to your community, Enjoy!
MARK CRAWFORD PLAYWRIGHT
One of Canada’s most popular playwrights, Mark’s work has been produced across the country and around the world. Alberta Theatre Projects produced his play The New Canadian Curling Club in 2019, and Mark was member of the theatre’s Playwrights’ Unit in 2021, developing The Gig. He is the author of several other plays including Stag and Doe, Bed and Breakfast, and Chase the Ace. His work is published by Scirocco Drama. As an actor, Mark has performed across Canada, most recently in By the Light of a Story (Theatre Orangeville), Chronicles of Sarnia (Blyth Festival), and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish Productions.) His new play, The Golden Anniversaries, premieres this summer at the Blyth Festival, and his newly adapted dialogue for Die Fledermaus premieres at Vancouver Opera this fall. Mark grew up on his family’s farm in Southwestern Ontario, and now lives in Stratford.
LAUREN TAYLOR DIRECTOR
For the Arts Club: The Birds and the Bees (2019, debut). For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre recent credits: Kindred (Belfry Theatre), The This and Here and Now (United Players), Tomorrow Love & 6 of 1 (Studio 58), Lights (dramaturg) and C’mon Angie (Touchstone Theatre). Other: Literary Associate, Malthouse Theatre, Royal Court Young Writers program, alumni Lincoln Centre Directors Lab, Adjunct Professor University of British Columbia. A dual Canadian/Australian director and dramaturg born in Naarm, on the Kulin nation (Melbourne), she made her Arts Club debut in the before times with the 2019 production of The Birds and the Bees. Lauren is thrilled to work on the ATP production for Calgary audiences, and grateful to host nations.
MICHELLE THORNE - SPEIR
INTIMACY DIRECTOR
Michelle Thorne - Speir is a practice-based Director, Designer, and Educator residing on the traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəyəm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work focuses on building community through innovative and collaborative performance arts experiences. Originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta, she is the co-founder and former Artistic Director of Theatre; Just Because. Since graduating with an MFA in Directing from the University of British Columbia, Michelle has worked with Excavation Theatre, Rice & Beans Theatre Company, The Arts Club Theatre Company, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver Fringe, Keyano Theatre, Arts Council Wood Buffalo, Vancouver Young Actor’s School, and the Lights Up Musical Theatre School.
TED ROBERTS
SET DESIGNER/TOUR LIGHTING DESIGNER
For the Arts Club select credits: Starting Here Starting Now, The Cull, numerous other Arts Club productions. For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre: Fado (Firehall Arts Centre), Lighting design - It’s A Wonderful Life (Persephone Theatre). Other: Ted Roberts has been the Resident Designer for the Arts Club Theatre Company the past 40 years and has worked as the Set & Lighting design coordinator for ACT touring productions for the
past 30 years. Thus culminates to 200-something productions that Ted has brought to life through his design work for the Arts Club Theatre Company.
ALAIA HAMER COSTUME DESIGNER
For the Arts Club: The Cull, Beneath Spinghill, The Birds and the Bees, The Sound of Music; assistant design: Sweat, The Humans For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre: HMS Pinafore, Carmen: Up Close and Personal (Vancouver Opera); Beautiful Man (Pi Theatre); Assistant Designer for Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, The Taming of The Shrew, Macbeth (Bard on the Beach). Other: Graduate of UBC, Department of Theatre and Film.
MICHAEL HEWITT ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER
For the Arts Club: The Birds and the Bees (2019, debut). For ATP: Debut. Other: Michael is a multi-disciplinary, theatre designer with a focus on Lighting and Sound, as well as a music composer. Michael has also mentored students at Capilano University as well as Douglas College. Full bio at www.michaelkhewitt.com Instagram: @michaelkhewitt
SAMMIE HATCH SOUND DESIGNER
For the Arts Club: Sound Design Intern: Million Dollar Quartet (2017), Sound Designer: The Birds and The Bees (2019). For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre: as Sound Designer: Kuroko (VACT), Three Winters (The Cultch), C’mon, Angie! (Touchstone Theatre). Other Theatre: as Stage Manager: Poly Queer Love Ballad (Queer Arts Festival/Touring Stage Manager), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Pacific Theatre/Ensemble Theatre Company), and ASM for Hir (Pi Theatre). Other: Sammie is a graduate from UBC’s Design and Production program and is honoured to return for the touring production of The Birds and The Bees. She’s currently with Eos Lightmedia and has provided sound designs locally for the Delta Discovery Centre and the YVR Pier D Atrium Experience. Instagram: @thesammiehatch
KATHERINE MATLASHEWSKI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
For the Arts Club: Debut. For ATP: Debut. Other Theatre selected credits: Courage Now (Firehall/vAct), Disclosure (Vancouver Fringe), One of a Kind (VICF), East Van Panto: Alice In Wonderland (Theatre Replacement), The Rocky Horror Show, Cerulean Blue, TomorrowLove (Studio 58). Other: Katherine is an interdisciplinary artist and a graduate of Studio 58. Special thanks to Lauren for the opportunity to work with this fantastic cast and crew! Instagram: @katm347
LISA RUSSELL STAGE MANAGER
For the Arts Club: Debut. For ATP: The New Canadian Curling Club, Glory. Elsewhere: Meteor Shower (Theatre Calgary), Trouble in Mind (MTC/ Citadel Theatre), Six, Hadestown (Citadel Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro, Flight, Fidelio (Pacific Opera Victoria), The Unnatural and Accidental Women (National Arts Centre), Die Fledermaus, Madame Butterfly (Calgary Opera); Elf, The Cure for Death by Lightning, Liberation Days, Les Misérables (Western Canada Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Drowning Girls (Globe Theatre); Grace & Glorie, Over the River and Through the Woods (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Souvenirs, The December Man, Steel Kiss (Green Thumb Theatre). Other: Seven seasons at the Stratford Festival, Production Stage Manager for the Summer Arts Festival at the Banff Centre for four years, Sessional Instructor at the University of Calgary and MacEwan University. Awards: Two Tyrone Guthrie Awards from the Stratford Festival.
CHANDLER ONTKEAN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
For the Arts Club: Debut. For ATP: Cowgirl Up. Select ASM/SM Credits: The Girl on the Train, Whispers in the Dark, Deathtrap, The Lonely Diner, Undercover, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily (Vertigo Theatre); Shark Bite, Home for the Holidays (Lunchbox Theatre); A Christmas Carol (2023), Noises Off!, Mary and Max (Theatre Calgary); Screwball Comedy, Elvis Has Left the Building (StageWest). When not working in theatre, Chandler alsoworks in film costuming, watches LOTS of movies, and admires sloths. Thanks to her family, roommates, and local movie theatre employees who keep her sane and feed her popcorn.
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Alberta Theatre Projects was founded by Douglas Riske and Lucille Wagner in association with a dedicated group of Calgary artists and volunteers in 1972. D. Michael Dobbin, Producing Director Emeritus, 1983-1999.
Alberta Theatre Projects is a not-for-profit theatre and an active member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT). Alberta Theatre Projects engages theatre artists who are members of Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC), Associated Designers of Canada (ADC) and Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA) under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement (CTA). Production and technical personnel are engaged under a collective agreement with IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) Local 212. Alberta Theatre Projects is an allied member of The Calgary Congress for Equity & Diversity in the Arts (CCEDA).
Charitable Registration Number: (B.N.) 11878 1236 RR0001
PHOTO BY JEFF YEE
