CONSTELLATIONS BY NICK PAYNE
MIKE TAN AND JAMIE KONCHAK PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIN WALLACE
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he characters in Constellations by Nick Payne navigate (again and again) the myriad of possibilities that exist in their relationship. The play invites us to consider some of the moments in our lives where a relationship or a career may have pivoted based on a decision we made or a force outside our control. There are infinite ways our lives can go.
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On the first day of rehearsal for each of our shows Alberta Theatre Projects staff and the artists involved get to know each other through a round of introductions. For Constellations we asked everyone to share what they might have been doing had they not chosen whatever brought them to ATP. A few folks might have been police officers, a few thought they would probably be retired by now and, to everyone’s surprise, we discovered that David Fraser, ATP’s Director of Production and the set and lighting designer for Constellations, would have been a dentist. As I heard everyone speak about what they might have done I was grateful that they had chosen the paths they did and that I have had the pleasure of working with them. I am pivoting in a new direction in March and will be leaving my role as Executive Director to reconnect with my artistic work and apply what I have learned in my time here to new projects. In my 16 years at ATP there have been 142 shows produced. Those shows were produced by exceptional artists from across Canada, supported by phenomenal staff and enjoyed by the most supportive audience in Calgary. I am deeply honoured that my path has crossed with you all. Thank you. Until we meet again, Vicki Stroich Executive Director
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A BEAUTIFUL VISUAL LANGUAGE AN INTErvIEw wITh JACQUI BURNHAM, AMErICAN SIgN LANgUAgE (ASL) CONSULTANT AND INSTrUCTOr FOr CONSTELLATIONS ATP we are excited to be working with you as the ASL Consultant and Instructor for our production of Nick Payne’s Constellations, Jacqui. we’d love to hear more about you. Jacqui Burnham I have a diverse background with various experiences, ranging from doing Artistic Director work with Sign Theatre, to teaching American Sign Language, and Deaf Interpreter work to currently running a program for Deaf Plus/Deafblind individuals, specializing in Deafblind Intervenors. I want to share my background as a hearing person, who suddenly lost their hearing at age 6 ½ after a bout of meningitis which resulted in my becoming Deaf. ATP how would you describe that experience? Jacqui Burnham During that time, I felt my world was ripped apart, not quite understanding the world surrounding me as a Deaf person, and not quite able to accept the suddenly silent world without sound. This itself was a journey to discovery and acceptance for me as a Deaf person. It is a unique experience to partake, and complicated to understand. I would not trade it for anything as it has given me the opportunity to better understand myself as a Deaf person, advocate and educator. It is such an essential part of my life to educate and teach those interested in Deaf Culture and American Sign Language. This language is the most beautifully visually expressed form of communication. ATP It is captivating to watch you, our ASL/English Interpreters Stephanie hoebers and Andrea Sereda and the actors speak that beautiful language on our stage. what would you like people to know about ASL? Jacqui Burnham As a Deaf person and in my various roles within the community I am often asked about ASL and Deaf Culture. The important thing to keep in mind is that ASL Photo top: Left to right, ASL Consultant/Instructor Jacqui Burnham, ASL/English Interpreter Stephanie hoebers, Actors Mike Tan and Jamie Konchak, ASL/English Interpreter Andrea Sereda, and Director valerie Planche at the first read-through of Constellations. Photo: Alberta Theatre Projects
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ASL/English Interpreters Stephanie hoebers (left) and Andrea Sereda (far right) live-translate a scene from Constellations in rehearsal with actors Mike Tan and Jamie Konchak (centre). Photo: Alberta Theatre Projects
itself is a language with no written form, but rather is a visual language used by the Deaf Community all over the USA and Canada. ASL is not international, rather each country has their own unique based sign language depending on the country of origin. ASL is a visualgesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by Deaf people. For many Deaf people, ASL and Deaf culture ties the Deaf community together, and allows us to form a community which is unique and important to our daily aspect of life. Deaf culture in any Deaf community is the core part of how Deaf people form ties within our communities and come together and share a common bond and love for our language. ATP Thank you for being part of our production, Jacqui. Jacqui Burnham I want to thank Alberta Theatre Projects for allowing me to be involved in this project, it is inspiring to educate and bring awareness to others on ASL and the Deaf community. If anyone is interested in ASL courses connect please contact: aslcoordinator@calgaryscope.org ABOUT ASL/ENGLISH INTERPRETERS STEPHANIE HOEBERS AND ANDREA SEREDA Andrea and Stephanie have over 33 combined years of interpreting experience and have been working in this specialized area of performing arts together since 2004. Though they arrived at their passion for interpreting theatre through very different paths, they each bring a unique but complimentary skill set to the process. It is through that mutual passion they have created a partnership to increase accessibility to performing arts in Calgary and together have interpreted a number of performances throughout the city from community theatre to professional theatre stages. They are thrilled to be able to provide access to an unprecedented nine shows for Calgary Deaf audiences this theatre season. Alberta Theatre Projects is hosting an ASL Interpreted Performance of Constellations on wednesday, March 7th. For more information, call 403-294-7402 or visit the Accessible Performances page on ATPlive.com.
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Director’s Note I admit it! I’m a hopeless romantic. As I get older, I become aware that my insides, my thoughts and how I perceive myself has not changed that radically since I was in my late 30’s. My awareness grows and expands, I aspire toward discernment as opposed to judgment, but when I catch myself in the mirror, I am often surprised by what I see. My outer shell is getting older. This duality is what connects me to this play. I am the baby of my family. I lost my parents while in my 30’s, and in the last 7 years I’ve lost 2 of my older brothers. Sometimes it feels like they were not real. Did I make them up? Dream them? Then a day comes where I’m walking in the woods and I get a whiff of cedar, and I hear laughter. I am flooded by the memory of my parents sitting on the front steps with the parent neighbours, the teens hanging out, and us little kids playing hide and seek under the massive cedar hedges on a hot Montreal night. In that moment they are a part of me and also part of another time, another world… Nick Payne wrote this play after his father’s death, during which he met his future wife! The worst and best experiences happening at the exact same time. how does one let go AND allow in at the same time? Often we can only see within our little bubble. we think the sun is at the centre of the universe because it’s the centre of what we can see. Payne invites us to imagine everything we’re NOT seeing. Inspired by science, this is a relationship play about moments when we make decisions, choices, consciously or unconsciously. It’s also about the fleeting nature of this biological existence, life. It’s about consequence, chance, relationship, and love! hugh Everett in the 1950’s suggests that, “ … for every situation where there is a probability of outcome A or outcome B, both paths are followed but in separate universes – the universe splits and leaves 2 universes that continue to exist but can’t communicate with one another.” what if, when someone dies, they still exist in another universe?… I miss you Michael. Thanks for teaching me how to dance. Valerie Planche
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DIrECTED By vALErIE PLANChE CAST Jamie Konchak Marianne Mike Tan roland
COMPANY Director Valerie Planche Set/Lighting Design David Fraser Costume Design Hanne Loosen Composition/Sound Design Dave Clarke Fight Director Karl Sine Stage Manager Johanne Deleeuw Apprentice Stage Manager Emma Slunt ASL Consultant/Instructor Jacqui Burnham ASL/English Interpreters Stephanie Hoebers & Andrea Sereda ATP wishes to thank Inside Out Theatre for their support of our accessible performances through their good host Program. Originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry grove, Executive Producer, and The royal Court Theatre by special arrangement with Ambassador Theatre group and Dodgers on December 16, 2014.
CONSTELLATIONS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New york. Alberta Theatre Projects acknowledges that we gather and create on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Stoney Nakoda First Nations, including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nation. The City of Calgary is also home to MÊtis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
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JAMIE KONCHAK Marianne
FOR ATP: 1979, The red Priest, The Apology, The Penelopiad, heartbreaker, The romeo Initiative, why Freud Fainted, Oliver Twist, vincent in Brixton. ELSEWHERE: A Christmas Carol, The great gatsby (Theatre Calgary); Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage); The Drowning girls, Calamity Town, Farewell, My Lovely, The huron Bride (vertigo Theatre); Nothing Less, Liberation Days, The Tempest (Two Planks and a Passion); The Floating Mouse (The green Fools); Songs From Nightingale Alley (Oyr/Feast of Friends). AWARDS: 3 Betty Mitchell Awards for Supporting and Lead Performance, Calgary Critics Award (The Floating Mouse), 2 robert Merritt Awards for performances in Nova Scotia. Jamie proudly calls Calgary home and lives along the Bow river with husband, graham and Pomeranian, Pepper.
MIKE TAN Roland
Mike is very excited and thankful for his debut performance with ATP! ELSEWHERE: (Selected) Cowboy vs. Samurai (Chromatic Theatre); Travels with My Aunt, Sherlock holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, wait Until Dark (vertigo Theatre); Little red river, On the Side of the road, Lucy Lost her heart (Theatre Junction). Mike currently works as a photographer at Diane + Mike Photography (dianeandmike.ca) shooting the best festivals, such as Calgary Folk Music Festival, Sled Island, and M:ST Performance Art Festival. he enjoys silly dances with his son, Aiden; pillow talk with Frankie and Prismo (cats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯); and living up to super-Di.
NICK PAYNE Playwright
Nick Payne’s plays include If There Is I haven’t Found It yet (Bush Theatre and roundabout Theatre Company, New york), wanderlust (royal Court Theatre), Sophocles' Electra (gate Theatre), One Day when we were young (Paines Plough/Sheffield Theatres and Shoreditch Town hall), Lay Down your Cross (hampstead Theatre), Constellations (royal Court Theatre and Duke of york’s), and The Same Deep water As Me (Donmar warehouse). he is the recipient of the 2009 george Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, 2012 harold Pinter Playwright’s Award, and the 2012 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play for Constellations.
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VALERIE PLANCHE Director
FOR ATP: Directing debut. ELSEWHERE: Skylight, Bad Jews (Theatre Calgary) (Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Director); hana’s Suitcase (Storybook Theatre), Love and Information (Ambrose University), Body Awareness (Shadow Theatre), Canadian premiere; homelife (Aboriginal Arts), Canadian premiere; Blood: A Scientific romance (Sage Theatre), world premiere; ruined (Ellipsis Tree Collective), Canadian premiere; Thy Neighbour’s wife (Urban Curvz Theatre) (Betty Mitchell nomination for outstanding production); The Duplex (Lunchbox Theatre) (BD&P Emerging Director Program mentored by Dennis garnhum); Petty Threats (Petro Canada Series staged reading, Lunchbox Theatre), The Odd Couple (Chaemera Productions); Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company); revital Signs (in studio for The University of Calgary), The Fourth King (St. Augustine School for the Performing Arts); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Under the Cover Theatre). ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Spiders web (vertigo Mystery Theatre), glenn (Blacklist Theatre Co.). valerie is an award winning, 30-year veteran actor, director and a teacher. She has appeared in Tv and film, and has performed on stages all across Canada.
DAVID FRASER
Set/Lighting Design FOR ATP: Set & lighting design for: Buyer & Cellar, Butcher, Playing with Fire: The Theo Fleury Story, The Syringa Tree and The goat. Lighting design for: The Last wife, 1979, The Motherf**ker with the hat, Charlie Brown, Unity 1918, who’s Afraid of virginia woolf?, and the ENBrIDgE playrites Festival 2005 – 2012. ELSEWHERE: Most recent work includes: Elektra – light design (Edmonton Opera), wait Until Dark – set design (vertigo Theatre), richard III – lighting design (The Shakespeare Company). AWARDS: Nominated for a Jessie richardson Award, two Betty Mitchell Awards, a SATAward, and thirteen Elizabeth Sterling haynes Awards, thrice as a recipient for his designs. David is the Director of Production at ATP and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.
HANNE LOOSEN Costume Design
FOR ATP: To the Light. ELSEWHERE: Skylight, The Shoplifters (Theatre Calgary); Macbeth, The Three Musketeers (The Shakespeare Company); Sextet (verb Theatre); Cinderella, The Magic Flute (Calgary Opera, School Tours); Bea, Shakespeare’s will (Sage Theatre); The Tall Building (handsome Alice Theatre); Lord of the Flies, hana’s Suitcase (Storybook Theatre); Children's Corner after Debussy (State Opera
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Berlin); New Scenes (Deutsche Opera Berlin), Dis Placed (gauge Dance Theatre); Attila (Mariinsky Theatre); Three Sisters (Stage Entertainment Amsterdam). hanne is an MFA graduate in scenography from the Technical University of Berlin. She obtained her BA from Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
DAVE CLARKE
Composition/Sound Design Dave is a musician, actor and writer. he has composed music and produced sound designs for theatre, film, dance and multi-media for three decades. recent projects include sound designs for Concrete Theatre's Consent and Paper Song; his play That's Danger! is in its seventh year of touring for Alberta’s worker's health Centre. Dave was the sound guy for CBC radio’s The Irrelevant Show. he has won several awards for his work, including Sterling Awards for outstanding actor (The Unseen, Chorus Productions), outstanding score (Dog, Surreal Soreal Theatre), musical direction (Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp) and sound (Shakespeare’s will, vimy, The Ecstatics).
JOHANNE DELEEUW Stage Manager
Johanne has been a professional stage manager for more years than she cares to count. FOR ATP: waiting for The Parade, Cockroach, The Circle, Becky’s New Car, Charlotte’s web, Butcher, games, you will remember Me, Around the world in 80 Days, Dust, The valley, Intimate Apparel, Thinking of yu, Drama: Pilot Episode. Johanne has also stage managed shows for vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, Stage west, Sage Theatre, ground Zero Theatre and One yellow rabbit. She is currently the resident Stage Manager and Company Manager for One yellow rabbit. In her spare time, Johanne enjoys knitting and travelling with her husband, Calgary Blues Musician Tim williams. She is thrilled, as always, to be working again with her dear friends at Alberta Theatre Projects.
EMMA SLUNT
Apprentice Stage Manager FOR ATP: 1979. ELSEWHERE: 39 Steps (vertigo Theatre),Time Present (Lunchbox Theatre). Assistant Stage Manager: Seussical The Musical, Beauty and The Beast (Storybook Theatre), Bengal Tiger At The Bagdad Zoo (Search Tower Company), Man Equals Man (University of Calgary). Stage Manager: Bridge To Terabithia (Storybook Theatre), The Container (University of Calgary). She is so excited to be working on this powerful show.
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KARL SINE
Fight Director Karl works as an actor, director and a certified fight director with Fight Directors Canada. Selected fight directing credits: wait Until Dark, Sherlock holmes & The Case Of The Jersey Lily, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, The game’s Afoot, Farewell, My Lovely, The huron Bride (vertigo); Carmen, Silent Night (Calgary Opera); King Lear, Liberation Days, The great gatsby (Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers, Macbeth, romeo & Juliet, Equivocation, Othello, Titus Andronicus, hamlet (The Shakespeare Company); She has a Name (Burnt Thicket). Selected acting credits: The Case Of The Jersey Lilly, The hound of the Baskervilles (vertigo); Macbeth, Equivocation, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Land of the Dead (TSC); The Crucible, Pride & Prejudice, Enron, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing (TC); Queen Milli Of galt, Mary's wedding (rosebud). AWARDS: Karl has won multiple Betty Mitchell awards for his work as a fight director and as an actor. Karl wishes to thank his wife, Lindsey and his three beautiful children Olivia, Charlie and Zachary.
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who we are BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE Anne J. Brown, President – Provincial Court Judge Alex G. MacWilliam, Past President – Partner, Dentons Canada LLP Joshua A. Jantzi, vice President, governance – B.Sc., J.D. Partner, Dentons Canada LLP Vishal Saini, vice President, Advocacy – Supervisor, Lease Administration, IOgC, government of Canada Mark Brown, Treasurer – Independent Contractor (Katz group real Estate), yardi Systems Consultant John Humphrey, Secretary – Emeritus Professor of Classics – Department of Classics and religion, U of C MEMBERS Mark Brown – Independent Contractor/Consultant Dr. Maire Duggan – MD, FrCPC, Professor and Doctor – University of Calgary/Cumming School of Medicine Gloria Fournier – vice President and Chief Financial Officer – rifle Shot Oil Corp. Hanif Ladha – Managing Director, Corporate Living Suites Shui Sun (Johnson) leong – Project Manager, Stephenson Engineering Ltd Angela Maitland – Investment Solutions Executive – Sun Life Financial Chima Nkemdirim Marilyn Potts – Professor Emeritus – St. Mary’s University Drama – Educator/Director/Actor Renee Reichelt – Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Abhay Sisodiya – Director, Maher human resources Consulting Inc. Susan Tyrrell
STAFF ADMINISTRATION Vicki Stroich, Executive Director Sharon Lensen, Director of Finance & Administration Kate Donovan, receptionist ARTISTIC Dianne Goodman, Producer MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Ashley Meller, Director of Marketing and Communications Courtney Sharma, Marketing & Communications Specialist Kara Sturk, Marketing & Communications Coordinator TICKET OFFICE Matt Smith, Ticket Sales Manager Manisha Dangol, Ticket Sales Coordinator Raynah Bourne Rebecca Fauser Lara Schmitz Kyle Schulte
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YOUTH ENGAGEMENT Talore Peterson, Artistic Associate youth Engagement Cayley Wreggitt, University of Calgary Intern Sydney Hunt, D. Michael Dobbin Apprentice PRODUCTION David Fraser, Director of Production Dannyll Challis, Technical Director Shannyn Dowsett, head Dresser Barry Eldridge, head Scenic Carpenter Laura Farn, head of Props Andy Fawcett, head Electrician Leor Katzev, head Stage Carpenter Melissa Mitchell, head of wardrobe Susan Soprovich, head Scenic Artist Kam Sherman, head of Sound DEVELOPMENT Dale Turri, Director of Development Kathryn Kerbes, Individual giving & Special Events Manager Kodie Rollan, Development Coordinator
who we are FRONT OF HOUSE Sharon Lancaster, Front of house Manager Megan Baldrey Marinko Pavic Greg Wilson Andrea Hansen Jessica Anger Karin Anger Leon Bailey Grant Catt Kelley Cheetham Hei-Ling Choi Ali Deregt Adam Frazer
Stacy Hancock Marcela Hernandez Chloe Huberdeau Emma Knox Sarah Knox Laurel Marshall Sima Masouji Dan Patterson Camille Pavlenko Kyle Rutherford Anil Singh Indra Singh David Sklar Mary Van Steinburg
ATP PLAYWRIGHTS UNIT Louise Casemore • Anna Chatterton • Kris Demeanor • Jan Derbyshire • Michaela Jeffery Stephen Massicotte • Makambe Simamba • David van Belle • Adrienne Wong Meg Braem (Co-Director) • Laurel Green (Co-Director) • Vicki Stroich (Dramaturg) CREATORS IN RESIDENCE Christian Goutsis • Bruce Horak • Rebecca Northan CONSULTING PROFESSIONALS Geoff Cuskelly & Dave Holmes, Physiotherapists, Tower Physio • Dr. Amanda Diep, Exige Medi Spa Dr. Murray C. McEwen, Chiropractor, Associate Chiropractic Clinic • Dr. Wei Qiang, MD, CCFP Dr. James Reid, Dentist • Dr. Marilyn Wong, Optometrist, Eyedeology Special thanks to our $10 Ticket Thing supporters: Alberta Ballet, Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary Opera, Cinematique, Company of rogues, glenbow Museum, One yellow rabbit Performance Theatre, Stage west, Storybook Theatre, Theatre Calgary, vertigo Theatre, verb Theatre 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).
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