The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon at Alberta Theatre Projects

Presented

As we gather today in the embrace of the Martha Cohen Theatre for the extraordinary production of The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, I am thrilled to share in the joy and excitement of this momentous occasion with each one of you. This play, with its fantastic charm and supernatural curling match, has truly warmed our hearts, and I find myself reflecting on the remarkable journey that Alberta Theatre Projects has embarked upon over the past 49 seasons.

We have witnessed incredible stories unfold on this stage, stories that have sparked conversations, ignited imaginations, and left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of our country.

The Black Bonspiel serves as a fitting prelude to the grand celebration that awaits us. This play encapsulates the spirit of Alberta Theatre Projects – a fusion of tradition and innovation, a blend of the familiar and the fantastical. Just as Wullie MacCrimmon faces the unexpected on the curling rink, our upcoming season promises to confront and engage with the unexpected, pushing the boundaries of storytelling and theatrical expression.

The success of The Black Bonspiel is a testament to the unwavering support of our dedicated audience, the boundless talent of our creative teams, and the rich tradition of storytelling that make up the Canadian theatrical landscape. It reflects the excitement and anticipation that will define our 50th anniversary season.

Here’s to the countless stories that lie ahead. Together, we will explore new horizons, revisit cherished stories, and continue to be inspired by the power of live performance. I express my deepest appreciation for your continued patronage and enthusiasm.

With immense excitement and gratitude,

Haysam Kadri

Artistic Director, Alberta Theatre Projects

Good evening all, and thanks so much for coming to see the show! I’d like to thank Haysam for asking me to direct this wonderful classic, Orm Mitchell and family for trusting me with W.O’s wonderful play, and the entire team involved in getting this show up and running, and for their huge hearts and immense talents. It’s been a really fun ride, and now we get to add the final collaborator in you.

To me, this show is a celebration. It’s a celebration of the audiences like yourself that support ATP, many of you for years. It’s a celebration of ATP’s past, while also celebrating a new dawn for ATP under new leadership as the company heads toward a 50th anniversary. It’s a celebration of an amazing cast of Alberta actors, and of a renowned Western Canadian writer, who himself was celebrating the prairies, and the characters that inhabit it, with this play.

Most of all, though, it’s a celebration of the great game of curling. 1936 curling. No embedded hacks, no long slides, no stretchy pants. Old School. But while the game looked a bit different than the contemporary game we know now, Wullie’s competitive nature, and unwillingness to accept defeat sits somewhere deep in all of us, certainly in every curler, then and now.

Whether you believe in the devil is one thing, whether you believe in yourself is another. When the chips are down, and souls are on the line, can you make the shot? Would you even let the devil in the door if it came a knockin’? Let alone sign it’s contract and curl it a match. Can Wullie beat the devil? You’ll have to wait and see, but he believes in himself, and the rink he skips, and to me that’s worth celebrating.

Christian Goutsis Director, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon

KIRA BRADLEY

KEVIN COREY

SHELDON ELTER

NATASCHA GIRGIS

DAVID HAYSOM

EMILY HOWARD

VALERIE PLANCHE

TREVOR RUEGER

DAVID SKLAR

DAVID TRIMBLE

CLOCK SHIRLEY BROWN

WULLIE MACCRIMMON

PIPE-FITTING CHARLIE BROWN

O. CLOUTIE

MACBETH

LIZZIE BORDEN

ANNIE BROWN

REVEREND PRINGLE

JUDAS ISCARIOT

MALLEABLE CHARLIE BROWN

W.O. MITCHELL

CHRISTIAN GOUTSIS

CONRAD BELAU

JANE MACFARLANE

SCOTT REID

CAROLINE BROADLEY

*NARDA MCCARROLL

ANDREA WETTSTEIN

SARA TURNER

FERNE HUDSON

KATE PALLESEN

STACY VANDEN DOOL

PLAYWRIGHT DIRECTOR

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

DIALECT COACH

SET & PROPS DESIGN

COSTUME DESIGN

LIGHTING DESIGN

MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER

Special Thanks to:

Acadia Rec Centre, Alberta Curling Association, Scott Bellis, Canadian Curling Association, Cynthia Chan, Brayden Darichuk, Glenn Darichuk, Colleen Dickson, Michael Dobbin, The Glencoe Club, Dianne Goodman, Jodi Green, Craig Hall, Shannon Kleibrink, Ralamy Kneeshaw, Duval Lang, Lesley MacMillan, Dan McManus, Corey Mack, Matthew Mooney, Alex Sarian, Six Degrees Music and Sound, Shannon Tuer

The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon was first produced at Theatre Calgary in May, 1981. All performance rights enquiries should be directed to Orm Mitchell, 2383 Old Norwood Road, Otonabee, ON, K9J 0G6; omitchell@ trtentu.ca; www.womitchell.ca.

Special thanks for the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.

Land Acknowledgement

Alberta Theatre Projects acknowledges that we gather and create on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Tsuut’ina Nation, the Îethka Stoney Nakoda Nation, consisting of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Good Stoney Bands; and the Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes the Siksika Nation, the Piikani Nation, and the Kainai Nation. The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. Alberta Theatre Projects is grateful to have the opportunity to work and present in this territory.

KIRA BRADLEY

CLOCK SHIRLEY BROWN

For ATP: Heartbreaker, Romeo Initiative, Half Life, Peter Pan, Mick Unplugged, Myth of Summer, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Pageant, Strawberries in January, Wit. Elsewhere: Twelfth Night (Theatre Calgary), Book Club, Book Club II (Lunchbox Theatre); The Hollow (Vertigo Theatre), Mom’s The Word (Theatre Calgary), Having Hope at Home (Western Canada Theatre), Dogbarked (Theatre Northwest), An Eye for an Eye (Ghost River Theatre); Sylvia (Globe Theatre). Film/TV: JANN, Fortunate Son, Hell On Wheels, Forsaken. Other: A lover of hiking with good friends, pool and darts. Studied ASL for two years pre-Covid and looking forward to getting back to it. Interior house painter, set painter and facilities and maintenance painter at Arts Commons, and – a Mom to an awesome 13-year-old! Thank you to friends and family for their continued support through good and bad times. Thank you to my colleagues on stage, behind the scenes and in administration. With gratitude.

KEVIN COREY WULLIE MACCRIMMON

Kevin is excited to be back at ATP with such a great cast and crew! Some past ATP shows include GLORY (Betty Award for Best Ensemble) ZORRO: Family Code, Charlotte’s Web, The Wizard of Oz, Seussical the Musical and Tyland. Other credits include One Man, Two Guvnors (Betty Mitchell Award), The Louder We Get, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Betty Mitchell Award), Billy Elliot the Musical, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Calgary); as well as Strangers on a Train, The Ends of the Earth, Deathtrap, Dial M for Murder, In the Heat of the Night (Vertigo Theatre). Elsewhere he has performed in: George Dandin at The Globe Theatre, A Few Good Men (The Citadel Theatre/RMTC); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Prairie Boy’s Winter, A Christmas Carol (The Citadel Theatre). Kevin has also had the pleasure of touring Robert Wilson & Tom Waits’ opera The Black Rider across Canada and Catalyst Theatre’s The Blue Orphan throughout Canada, Scotland and Adelaide, Australia. Thanks to his amazing family Vanessa, Kaiya and Brennyn.

SHELDON ELTER

PIPE-FITTING CHARLIE BROWN

Sheldon is a Métis actor, writer, stand-up comic, musician and director originally from Northern Alberta. Credits include: Métis Mutt (One Little Indian Productions), Ministry of Grace (Belfry Theatre), After The Fire (Punctuate Theatre), The Comedy Company (Shadow Theatre), Stories From the Red Dirt Road, Martin Guerre (Charlotte Town Festival); Evangeline (Citadel Theatre/Charlotte Town Festival), Crazy For You (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary), Christmas Carol, Alice Through The Looking Glass, One Man, Two Guvnors, Julius Caesar, A Prairie Boy’s Winter, and Vimy (Citadel Theatre), BEARS (Punctuate! Theatre), The Crackwalker (Kill Your Television), Tartuffe, Sound of Music, Enron (NAC) L’Homme de la Mancha (L’Unithéâtre), HORSES: An Affront to Reason (Maggie Tree), NEVERMORE (Catalyst Theatre), HAIR The Musical, Shear Madness, The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, The Buddy Holly Story, The Full Monty (Mayfield Dinner Theatre). TV credits: Tribal, Hank Williams First Nation (APTN), Hell On Wheels (AMC). He is the co-star, writer, and Co-Executive Producer on Delmer and Marta, CAUTION: May Contain Nuts (APTN) He is a core-member of the ukulele rock band sensation, The Be Arthurs.

NATASCHA GIRGIS

O. CLOUTIE

For ATP: Drowning Girls (Cross Canada Tour), In Wonderland, Around the World in 80 Days, Blue Light. Elsewhere (Selected): One Christmas Carol (Storybook); Dark Lady, Complete History Abridged, Blues in the Night (LBT); Mousetrap, Humble Boy, Counsellor-At-Law (TC); Dracula: Bloody Truth, Sherlock Holmes, Ends of the Earth, Mystery of Edwin Drood (Vertigo); Nine Dragons (Gateway); Becoming Dr. Ruth (TNW); The Gig (Aquarius); Coyotes, Abundance, Beggar’s Opera (Caravan); Thousand Splendid Suns (Grand); Titus Andronicus, Richard III (Shakespeare Co.); What You’re Missing (Chutzpah Festival); Communion, Palace of the End, Life Skills (Network); Heroine, Love (Northern Light); Speaking in Tongues (Shadow); Trespassers (Belfry, Vancouver Playhouse); Lion in the Streets (Sage); Suite Surrender, Unnecessary Farce, Fiddler on the Roof, 39 Steps (Stage West); Amadeus, Macbeth, Constant Wife (ATF); Speak (Globe). Upcoming: Hounds of the Baskervilles (TNW). A warm thank you to all ATP staff, Board, Donors for helping to make this and all future shows in the Martha Cohen possible. Your tremendous efforts over the last several months are truly appreciated.

DAVID HAYSOM MACBETH

This is David’s first show with Alberta Theatre Projects. Most recently, he was in Macbeth Un-Scotched at Spirit Fire Theatre and starring as William Shakespeare. Elsewhere: The Merchant of Venice (The Shakespeare Company), Wolf on the Ringstrasse, All in the Timing, A Streetcar Named Desire, Of Mice and Men, Vincent (Spirit Fire Theatre). Notable Film/ TV credits: In Cold Light (Telefilm), Under the Banner of Heaven (FX), Joe Pickett (Paramount), Damnation (Universal), Fargo (MGM/ FX), The Killing (FOX), and I, Robot (20th Century Fox). David lives in Calgary and is a graduate of Mount Royal University’s Theatre Performance Diploma Program. Enormous gratitude to Haysam, Christian and the entire The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon team. David would also like to thank Meghan, his parents and friends for all of their love and support. He would like to say a final thank you to the audience whose energy and excitement are what makes coming to the theatre night after night so magical.

EMILY HOWARD LIZZIE BORDEN

For ATP: Teenage Dick. Elsewhere (Selected): The Importance of Being Earnest (Betty Mitchell Award for Lead Performance in a Comedy) (Theatre Calgary), The Extractionist (Vertigo Theatre), Miss Teen (Shadow Theatre). Film/TV (Selected): My Life with the Walter Boys (Netflix), Joe Pickett (Paramount+). She studied Neo Bouffon at the Manitoulin Conservatory of Performance and Creation aka The Clown Farm. Emily also works behind the scenes in Film/TV as a production coordinator, set decorator and art director: Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein (MGM+), Exhumed (Oxygen Media), Property Brothers (Scott Brothers Entertainment), The Calgary Stampede Rodeo Live Broadcast (Sportsnet). Upcoming: Sybil Evers in Chariots of Fire at Rosebud Theatre. Cassidy in Project: Six Shooter with Numera Films. Thanks and love to her friends, family, and Sam.

VALERIE PLANCHE ANNIE BROWN

Valerie is an award-winning actor, director, and arts educator of Métis, French and European heritage, with close to 40 years’ experience on Stage and in Film and Television. She has an MFA from the University of Alberta. As an actor, Valerie has performed across Canada and in the US, garnering awards such as an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Little Elephants and Queen Lear is Dead, Betty Mitchell Awards for The Importance of Being Earnest, Communion and The Good Life, as well as nominations for Gaslight, Music for Contortionists, Elizabeth Rex, The Constant Wife, Perfect Pie. As a Director some credits include Steel Magnolias for Theatre Calgary, Honour Beat for The Grand Theatre and New West Theatre, Queen Lear is Dead for the Fox Den Collective (won Best Director, Best new script and Best Production), Sweat (nominated for Best Production) for The Arts Club and Citadel Theatres, Constellations for Alberta Theatre Projects, Skylight and Bad Jews (won Best Director) for Theatre Calgary; Arden of Faversham for The Birmingham Conservatory – Stratford Festival. Film and TV roles include Under the Banner of Heaven, Billy the Kid, Blackstone, Burn Your Maps, It’s not my Fault (And I don’t Care Anyway), Brokeback Mountain, Right Side of Wrong, In Cold Blood, Shanghai-Noon, The Jack Bull, Blackstone, Heartland, Caitlin’s Way. Awards include the Flare Creativity Award from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2019, the Michelle Dias Award from Theatre Alberta in 2018, the Gina Wilkinson Award from the Shaw Festival in 2015 and an Alberta Graduate Teaching Award in 2014 from the University of Alberta. She is a member of Canadian Actors Equity, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, the Association of Acting Coaches and Educators, and the Canadian Guild of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

TREVOR RUEGER REVEREND PRINGLE

For ATP: Debut. Trevor Rueger has been an actor, director, writer, and dramaturge for over 30 years. In 2011 he received the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Billy Bibbit in Theatre Calgary/Manitoba Theatre Centre’s production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. As an actor, he’s been seen at Theatre Calgary, Lunchbox Theatre, Sage Theatre, Vertigo Theatre, Stage West, and the Garry Theatre. He is also the Executive Director of Alberta Playwrights’ Network an organization devoted to the development of playwrights and their plays. His directing credits include When Girls Collide, Columbo: Prescription Murder and Columbo Takes the Rap for Vertigo Theatre, Ai Yah! Sweet and Sour Secrets, Life After Hockey and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) for Lunchbox Theatre, Heroes for Sage Theatre, SHE and Matadora for Trepan Theatre, Medea and 33 Swoons for Rocky Mountain College and Courage for Lost Boy Productions. For 20 years he was an ensemble member and writer for Shadow Productions. He has written 5 produced Theatre for Young Audience plays. Trevor was also an original ensemble member of Dirty Laundry and for 10 years was the chair, writer, and producer of the Betty Mitchell Awards. Love and thanks to Shari, and my family…HURRY!!! HARD!!!

DAVID SKLAR JUDAS ISCARIOT

David is an actor/playwright who divides his time between Montreal and Calgary. He was artist-in-residence at the Jerusalem Theatre Company, Shakespeare-in-the-Rough, and assistant directed the Canadian Badland’s Passion Play in Drumheller. He has acted with Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Lunchbox, Theatre BSMT, Annerin Productions and Theatre NorthWest in B.C. He has toured across North America with the Dora Award nominated and META Award winning, Jabber, by Marcus Youssef. His latest play, Vial, was shortlisted for the Sharon Pollock Prize, Playwrights Guild of Canada and winner of Fire Exit Theatre’s annual new play competition. His voice can be heard in the recently released video game, Assassins Creed: Mirage.

DAVID TRIMBLE MALLEABLE CHARLIE BROWN

Having taken a 10-year Hiatus from Theatre to focus on Film and TV, David is stoked to be back on the boards with such a stellar group of Artists! He was last seen at ATP in Unity 1918, and at playRites 2005 in Mick Unplugged - directed by the Late Great Gina Wilkinson. Selected theatre highlights include Jake and the Kid, To Kill a Mockingbird, Our Town, Saint Joan (Theatre Calgary); Lion in the Streets, Trainspotting, Drinking in America, True West (Sage Theatre); Blue Surge, Bash, The Pillowman (Ground Zero): Ivanov, Arcadia, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Junction). TV/Film highlights include: Brokeback Mountain, Damnation, Heartland, Hell on Wheels, Fargo, Retail, Forsaken, Klondike, Broken Trails, Wynnona Erp, Joe Pickett and One Night in Aberdeen where David won an AMPIA award for best Actor in a lead Role. Special love and appreciation to my daughter Grayce, who continually reminds me that life is too short not to do what you love.

W.O. MITCHELL PLAYWRIGHT

Over his sixty-year writing career W.O. Mitchell wrote short stories, novels, magazine articles, radio and television plays, stage plays (including a musical), and film scripts. His work won numerous awards, including two Stephen Leacock awards, the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and three ACTRA awards. Through his reading performances, he became known as Canada’s Mark Twain. Perhaps no other Canadian writer has been so versatile, not only in art form, but in audience appeal. He is best known for his Jake and the Kid stories, dramatized in CBC’s radio series in the 1950s, and for Who Has Seen the Wind, a Canadian classic that has sold over three-quarters of a million copies in Canada alone and is taught in schools and universities across Canada.

CHRISTIAN GOUTSIS DIRECTOR

Christian is thrilled to have an opportunity to direct in the Martha Cohen here at ATP, a company that is very close to his heart, and for which he has acted, sound designed, composed music, and been a co-playwright. Previous credits at ATP include – As Actor: Charlotte’s Web, Drama: Pilot Episode, The Romeo Initiative, Heartbreaker, The Clockmaker, Amadeus, The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook, Strawberries in January, Pageant, The Drawer Boy, A Guide to Mourning, Grace, The Heart as it Lived, Tolstoy’s Wife. As Sound Designer and Composer: Vanya Sonia Masha and Spike, Venus in Fur, As Co-playwright/Sound designer and Composer - Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story, ZORRO: Family Code. As an actor, Christian has worked extensively on stage at major theatres all across Canada including; ATP, Theatre Calgary, Vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, The Shakespeare Company, The Citadel Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Globe Theatre, The Belfry Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Neptune Theatre, Ground Zero, and Stage West, and has featured in numerous radio plays, films, and network television programs for CBC, Syfy, NBC, YTV, CBS, Hallmark. He has directed at ATP (3 seasons of Fresh Prints), Lunchbox Theatre (Stage One), Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Hoodlum Theatre, and Calgary Young People’s Theatre. Christian is Casting and Voice Director at Six Degrees Music and Sound where he has cast and voice-directed countless Radio/TV/Web commercials for local, national, and international brands, along with voice-directing documentaries, animations, corporate narrations, and audiobooks. He voice-directed four seasons of radio plays for WordFest, three seasons of radio plays for Vertigo Mystery Radio, as well as award-winning animations Poor Billy: Chapter One, and The Legend of the Bunny Phantom. Christian makes his home in Calgary with his wife Kelly, and beautiful sons Simon and Clayton.

CONRAD BELAU ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Conrad is a non-binary, hard-of-hearing award-winning queer theatre director, actor and educator. In Calgary they’ve worked with Theatre Calgary, Ghost River Theatre, the High Performance Rodeo, Alberta Theatre Projects, Lunchbox Theatre, Stage West, Inside Out Theatre, Vertigo Theatre and many other predominant organizations. They are the creator and performer of the Instagram Livestream phenomenon MONO MAN MIA!, for which they won Broadway World’s “Vocalist of the Decade”. They are the Theatre Arts Director at Youth Singers of Calgary and work with the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium as an Arts Education Facilitator. Much love and admiration to Alix & Clarence. PROTECT TRANS KIDS.

JANE MACFARLANE DIALECT COACH

(she/her) For ATP: The Jungle Book, ZORRO: Family Code, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (a Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth production), The Last Wife, Fortune Falls, The Circle, Venus in Fur, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, The Mother**ker with the Hat, Toad of Toad Hall, The Highest Step in the World, Unity 1918, That Elusive Spark, Vincent in Brixton and The Syringa Tree. Jane has also coached shows for Vertigo Theatre, The Shakespeare Company and is the resident voice coach for Theatre Calgary, where she has coached over 75 productions, including 17 years on A Christmas Carol as Mrs Crachit, coach and associate director. Jane has taught theatre at a variety of universities and is currently on faculty in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.

SCOTT REID SET & PROPS DESIGN

Scott Reid has been designing for theatre, opera and dance for over 30 years. He is a set, lighting and projection designer. He has enjoyed designing for such diverse projects as theatre for young audiences touring shows, new plays, as well as large-scale operas and ballets. Although based in Calgary, Scott’s designs have been seen across North America: Alberta Kitchen Party, Stealing Sam, The Last Wife, 1979, Venus In Fur, 16 playRites Festivals (ATP); Clue, Misery, Murder on the Orient Express, The Drowning Girls, The Big Sleep, Turn of The Screw (Vertigo Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet, A Christmas Carol, Billy Elliot The Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Raisin in the Sun (Theatre Calgary); Macbeth, Eugen Onegin, Die Tote Stadt, The Flying Dutchman (set and projections), Otello, The Inventor (projections), Little Women, Faust, Dead Man Walking (Calgary Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Banff Centre); Botero, Memory Room, Our Canada, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Songs of a Wayfarer, Requiem (Alberta Ballet); Modern Vaudevillians, Juliet and Romeo, New Universe, The Wilds, Spontaneous Combustion (DJD). scottreiddesign.com

CAROLINE BROADLEY COSTUME DESIGN

Caroline is also the Head of Wardrobe for ATP and is thrilled to be designing her first show for the company. She recently had her design debut with The Shakespeare Co. and Hit & Myth’s production of Hamlet presented by Brampton on Stage. Caroline just celebrated achieving her 25th season with The Stratford Festival as Master Sewer II, Wardrobe Show Head, and Wardrobe Attendant. She has worked for many theatre companies across Canada including Theatre Calgary, The National Ballet of Canada, RMTC, Theatre Aquarius, and Summer at the Roxy. She’d like to thank her friends for their support and encouragement, her family for their nurturing of creativity, and her nieces, Violet and June, for being her two biggest cheerleaders.

NARDA

MCCARROLL LIGHTING DESIGN

Narda is grateful to be collaborating with this talented group of artists, artisans and technicians creating live theatre here in Calgary. Favourite ATP credits: GLORY, To the Light, ZORRO: Family Code, Slipper, Cockroach, The Circle, Red, Mary’s Wedding. Recent credits elsewhere: Cipher (Arts Club/ Vertigo); The Extractionist, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse, (Vertigo Theatre); Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest (The Shakespeare Company); The Garneau Block, Peter and the Starcatcher (Citadel Theatre); Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Vimy (Western Canada Theatre); The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella (Rainbow Stage); Brontë: The World Without (Stratford Festival). Narda’s work has been seen across the country with tours of Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); GLORY (Western Canada Theatre/ATP) and The Drowning Girls (Bent Out of Shape). She designed the costumes for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton for 16 seasons. She also designed the costumes for the feature film Cut Bank. Visit narda.ca to see images of her work.

ANDREA WETTSTEIN MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

Andrea Wettstein is a Composer, Voice Director and Producer at 6 Degrees Music and Sound in Calgary. She specializes in writing music for film, TV and Commercials, and has won multiple AMPIA and Anvil awards for her composition work. Her credits include music for Fly Over Canada (an amusement park ride based in Las Vegas + Vancouver); Travel Alberta’s Remember to Breathe campaign; Historica Canada’s Heritage Minutes; and documentaries Close the Divide and In The Name of Your Daughter. Andrea is also an avid vocalist and songwriter. Andrea would like to send a big thanks to the team at 6 Degrees, as well as ATP for this opportunity.

SARA TURNER STAGE MANAGER

For ATP: Cowgirl Up and The Red Priest. Other select stage management credits include: Sleuth, Gaslight, Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Thimble, Cipher, Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps, Dial “M” For Murder, Vintage Hitchcock (Vertigo Theatre); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Legends of Country, Million Dollar Quartet (Stage West); A Christmas Carol, The Louder We Get, The Secret Garden, Twelfth Night, The Audience, The Little Prince - The Musical, (Theatre Calgary); Naughty But Nice: Vaccin8te, Six in the City, NBN Too!, Crossing Swords, Touch Me: Songs For A (Dis)connected Age (Forte Musical Theatre); Sensory Box, Giant (Ghost River Theatre); It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Ride (Lunchbox Theatre); Canada 151, Million Dollar Quartet (Drayton Entertainment). Sara is grateful for her incredible family and friends, and for the creative and hilarious team on this show.

FERNE HUDSON ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Originally from the UK, Ferne graduated from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a degree in Stage Management. Ferne worked as a Stage Manager in London for 10 years before moving to Canada two years ago. Stage Management credits include: A (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Magic Flute, Cinderella, Twelfth Night, Once On This Island, Much Ado About Nothing, A Christmas Carol, Sleeping Beauty, The White Card, Little Red Cap, Jack and The Beanstalk, On McQuillan’s Hill, Rapunzel, As You Like It, Hello and Goodbye, Saturday Night, Floyd Collins, First Lady Suite and The Wall. Ferne worked as Assistant Stage Manager for ATP’s 2023 production of Bombay Black.

KATE PALLESEN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Kate has been actively working on operas, plays, and live events across Alberta since graduating from the University of Lethbridge with a BFA in Technical/Design Theatre in 2017. She also recently expanded her craft into new roles, working in Digital Marketing for Pochsy IV and Drama: The Pilot Episodes (Keep Frozen / Lime Green Kitten Productions). Kate has toured across Canada as the Stage Manager for bliss: the birthday party play (Verb Theatre), touring to Victoria’s Uno Fest and to Ottawa’s National Arts Centre. Select credits include: The Jungle Book (Alberta Theatre Projects), L’Elisir d’Amore, Béatrice et Bénédict, Macbeth, La Traviata, La Bohème, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Calgary Opera); Ghost Opera (Old Trout Puppet Workshop/Calgary Opera), STRUCK (Ghost River Theatre), The Thin Man, The Drowning Girls (Vertigo Theatre). Kate would like to thank her friends, family, and husband Derek for their constant support.

STACY VANDEN DOOL APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER

Stacy is excited to make her debut at Alberta Theatre Projects! Stacy graduated with a BFA in Stage Management at the University of Alberta. Previous credits include A Christmas Carol, The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel Theatre), Badlands Passion Play 2023, Badlands Passion Play 2022 (Badlands Amphitheatre), London Road (Tim Ryan Theatre), Chrysothemis and Richard III (U of A Studio Theatre). Stacy would like to thank her family and her fiancé Matthew for consistently supporting her.

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Gail and Bruce Kennnedy

Gavin Jones

Gayle Rutherford

Geoffrey Simon Brown

Georgina Clark

Glenda Magallon

Greg and Jacquie Halpen

Gregory J Forrest Professional Corporation

Hallgrimur Benediktsson

Helen Webster

Isabelle Jankovic and Ken Hill

Jack McIvor

James Rea and Tamela Hart

Janet Monteith

Jean Anne Murray

Jean Driver

Jeanette Kish

Jeanne Gonnason

Jeanne Watson

Jennifer and Hans Koppe

Jennifer Keene

Jerry Callaghan

Jesse & Martha

Jim and Joy Bews

JoAnn & Sean Reynolds

Joanne Kutchyera

Johanne Deleeuw

John & Barbara H

John & Tiffany Whitnack

John Pearce

Johnny Dunn

Jona & Marty Way

Joyce Stretch

Judith Larson

Judy N. Boyes

Juli Sacco

Karen Bartsch

Kate Reeves

Kathleen Eberle

Kathryn Osterberg

Kathy Carron

Kyle Russell

Larry Adorjan

Laurie Alisat

Laurie and Doug Strother

Leslie and Roger McMechan

Leslie Dunlop

Leslie Gavel

Levonne Louie

Linda Korsbrek

Lisa Squance and Chris Kowalski

Lisha Hassanali and Sharanpal Ruprai

Liz McGregor

Lori Forte

Luda Paul

Lynn and George Collin

Maggie Davis

Marg Perlette

Margaret Dickson

Margaret MacDonald

Marilyn Olynek

Marinko Pavic

Mark Thomas

Ms. Gwen Loveless

Nancy Thorpe

Nikki and Christopher Loach

Pamela Downey and Dennis Nesdoly

Pat Kover

Pat Maguire

Patti Sinclair

Paul & Christina Marlett

Peter Feldstein

Phyllis & Larry King

Phyllis and Chris Robb

Phyllis Gillanders

Richard and Susan Sawka

Richard Stothard & Lesley Sutton

Robert

Robert & Linda Lesoway

Robert Martin

Robert Pearson

Ron & Beverley Gray

Rowena Cromwell

Sharon Rubeling

Shawna Lindsay

Sheila Clarke

Stephen Bergstrom

Suniel Puri

Susan Kuhn

Suzanne Tough

Suzy and Andrew Judson

Tim & Kathy Carry

Tom McCabe

Tony Russell

Tricia Leadbeater

Trish Matheson

Trudy Pierpoint

Valerie and H. Allen Swanson

Vanessa Porteous

Wendy Livingstone

William Lee

Yvonne Hinks

Legacy Gifts

Richard Barr

Martha Cohen

Jo-Ann DeRepentigny

In Memory of Naomi Migas

Barbara Peddlesden

Kevin Peterson

MAJOR SPONSORS

GOVERNMENT & FOUNDATION SUPPORT

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

VENUE PARTNER

FOUNDATION SUPPORT & CORPORATE DONATIONS

MEDIA SPONSORS

HOSPITALITY

PARTNERS

WHO WE ARE ALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS

STAFF

ARTISTIC

Haysam Kadri, Artistic Director

ADMINISTRATION

Peita Luti, Executive Director

Rose Brow, Consultant

Megan Jovie, Administrative Assistant

DEVELOPMENT

Craig Hall, Consultant

Kathryn Kerbes, Consultant

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS & TICKET SALES

Matt Smith, Ticket Sales Manager

Kevyn Sander, Ticket Sales Coordinator

Kara Sturk, Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Emily Adams, Box Office Attendant

Jasmine Cha, Box Office Attendant

Jess Parker, Box Office Attendant

PRODUCTION

D.W. von Kuster, Production Manager

Sabrina Mueller, Interim Technical Director

Caroline Broadley, Head of Wardrobe

Anne Brugmans, Wardrobe Assistant

Geoff Buchanan, Head Stage Carpenter

Michael Carr, Head of Props

Gerry Dubbin, Head Dresser

Barry Eldridge, Head Scenic Carpenter

Andy Fawcett, Head Electrician

Misha Hlebnicov, Head of Sound

Derek Paulich, Head Scenic Painter

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE

Arlette Watwood, President Co-Founder & Head of Learning, Brightspot

Vishal Saini, Past President Manager, Lease Administration Indian Oil & Gas Canada(IOGC) Government of Canada

Daorcey Le Bray, Vice President – Chair of the Recovery Committee Communications Consultant

Amanda Espinoza, Vice President – Chair of the Governance and Nomination Committee Director of Business Operations, Studio Energy

Stephen Bergstrom, Co-Vice President- Co-Treasurer and Co-Chair of the Finance Committee Semi-Retired, Education and Accounting Professional

Clare Birks, Co-Vice President- Co-Treasurer and Co-Chair of the Finance Committee CPA, Chief Financial Officer at The Calgary Food Bank

Karen Towsley, Secretary Retired, Calgary Board of Education

MEMBERS

Emily Campbell, Director Communications Director, HomeSpace Society

Joshua A. Jantzi, Director B.Sc., J.D. Partner, Gowling WLG

Hanif Ladha, Director Managing Director, CLS Suites

Alex G. MacWilliam, Director, Arts Commons Board Representative Partner Dentons Canada

Uyen Nguyen, Director Co-Founder & Executive Director, Synaptic: Spinal Cord Injury and Neuro Rehabilitation Centre

Stuart Parnell, Director Managing Director, Stormont Capital Advisors

Alane Smith, Director Business Strategist, City of Calgary

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