Public Enemy By Olivier TranslatedChoinièreandAdapted by Bobby Theodore Directed by Brendan Healy
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Front, inside and back covers: Jonathan Goad, Michelle Monteith, Matthew Edison. Photo: Lorne Bridgman.
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Public Enemy is generously underwritten by John and Nancy Embry. This translation was commissioned by L’ACTIVITÉ with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This production runs approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
Alysson Bernabe Daniela Mazic Scenic Artists
Sophie Moynan Puppet Builder
Head of Wardrobe
Costume Designer
Janet Pym
Public Enemy is under written by Sandra Simpson in recognition of her gen erous gift to Canadian Stage’s Campaign.Transformation
Matthew MacInnis Stage Manager
Josh Vlodarchyk Head Technician
Sharon Ryman Wig Stylist
Barbara Morrone-Sanchez Dresser
Canadian Stage is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and the Toronto Al liance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and engages professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement.
Elizabeth Matthew Edison Daniel Jonathan Goad
Tyler Rosemary Dunsmore
James Michelle Monteith
Maja Vujicic
Kimberly Purtell Lighting Designer*
Sound Designer*
Jillian Wardell Assistant Technical Director
Jennifer Newnham Assistant Stage ProductionManager
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Richard Feren
Cast
Head of Wardrobe
Ming Wong
Production credits Public Enemy
Janet Pym
Notes
Anita Nittoly Fight Director
*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659
Finley Burke
Ben Junor
Julie Fox Set Designer
Playwright, Artistic Adviser, General & Artistic Director of L’ACTIVITÉ
Stage Crew - Flies Colin EdwinFisherFisher Stage Crew
Olivier Choinière
Melissa Amy Rutherford Suzie
Everett Dalingwater House Technician - Audio Bennett Hyslop LX Operator
Mary Spyrakis Head of Props Chynah Philadelphia Props Assistant
Bobby Theodore Translator & Adaptor
Stage Employees of Canadian Stage are represented by Local 58 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Brendan Healy Director
Finley Burke — Tyler
Finley is thrilled to make his Canadian Stage Company debut as Tyler in Public Enemy. He is excited to be a part of this incredible production. Finley just returned from New York city where he was a member of the Atlantic Acting School’s Summer Teen Ensemble. Recent roles include Grover in The Lightening Thief and Felzig in The Drowsy Chaperone at Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts. Finley would like to thank his family, friends and teachers for their incredible support!
He was last seen on stage at Tarragon, pre-pandemic, in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. Currently, he can be seen on Amazon Prime in season three of The Boys.
Olivier Choinière is the Artistic Director and co-Executive Director of L’ACTIVITÉ. He’s been working as a playwright and theatre director for over twenty-five years. His plays have been translated into many languages and have been performed in Canada, Europe, and Asia. Olivier Choinière teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada and frequently gives workshops and lectures. He is a regular contributor to Jeu, Liberté, and Nouveau Projet magazine. His plays are published by Atelier 10, Leméac, and Dramaturges éditeurs.
Olivier Choinière — Playwright, Artistic Adviser, General and Artistic Director of L’ACTIVITÉ
Rosemary Dunsmore — Elizabeth Rosemary is delighted to return to the stage after the Covid-19 hiatus. In the interim, she worked on a variety of TV and film projects, including Chucky, several Christmas/romance movies, the feature Misanthrope, Three Pines (a Louise Penny series), Fellow Travelers, Good Sam and Scaredy Cats, and the animated series Paw Patrol and Unicorn Academy. She is remembered for roles in Anne of Green Gables (Katherine Brooke), Orphan Black (Susan Duncan) and Mom P.I. in the self-named CBC series. She has been on stages across the country in all manner of plays, both acting and directing. Teaching acting has been another busy aspect of her career. In this building she performed Buried Child, Festen, Glass Menagerie, The Changeling, The Monument, Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers, and Single.
Richard Feren — Sound Designer
Richard has been creating music and soundscapes for theatre, dance, and film since 1992. He has won seven Dora Awards, the 1999 Pauline McGib bon Award, and was the first sound designer ever shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize in 2012. For Canadian Stage: As You Like It, Much Ado
Cast and Creative biographies
Matthew Edison — Daniel
Matthew is grateful and excited to be returning to live theatre with Public Enemy at Canadian Stage where he got his start twenty-three years ago in Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other Canadian Stage credits include Amadeus and Proof (for which Matthew was nominated for a Dora Award).
Julie Fox — Set Designer
Brendan is the Artistic Director at Canadian Stage. As a director, his work has been presented across the country. His productions have garnered multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards and he is a recipient of the Ken McDougall and the Pauline McGibbon awards for directing.
Jonathan Goad — James
About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Every Brilliant Thing, The Other Place, The Test, THIS. Other recent credits: Hamlet (Stratford Festival); The Cold War (VideoCabaret); Every Brilliant Thing, Perfect Wedding, Miss Caledonia (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Going, Going (short film by Fiona Highet); Carmen (feature film score); The Flick (Outside the March/Crow’s Theatre). Upcoming: Grand Ghosts (The Grand Theatre); Frankenstein (Kidoons/Wyrd Productions).
Julie Fox has been a production designer for theatre, dance and opera in Canada for over 20 years. For Canadian Stage: Full Light of Day, Tartuffe, Cosmonaut. Other theatre credits include: Crow’s Theatre, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Why Not Theatre, Necessary Angel, Volcano, Centaur, NAC, Segal Centre, Citadel, Theatre Junction, Manitoba Theatre Centre. She has received four Dora Awards for outstanding set design, the Virginia Cooper Award for costume design, and been nominated for Sterling and Meta awards. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where she also teaches.
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Brendan Healy — Director
Canadian Stage Debut. Theatre: Henry VIII, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Pentecost, Phèdre, The Music Man, King John, Pericles, Orpheus Descending, Henry IV, Henry VI, Fiddler on the Roof, As You Like It, Fuente Ovejuna, Julius Caesar, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Bar tholomew Fair, The Brothers Karamazov (The Stratford Festival); The Drawer Boy (Blyth); A Whistle in the Dark, Speaking in Tongues (Company Theatre); Our Class, The Laramie Project (Studio 180); King Lear (Soulpepper); Arcadia (Theatre Junction). Directing: The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Stratford Festival); John by Annie Baker (Company Theatre). Film/TV: Reign, Alias Grace, Dark Matter, Dorsal, Nikita, Republic of Doyle, Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Unnatural History, Othello, Rookie Blue. Training: NTS, Birmingham Conservatory, University of Waterloo, Banff Centre. Teaching: NTS, Fanshawe College.
Notable productions include Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies, Jean Genet’s The Maids, and Daniel MacIvor’s Arigato,Tokyo. Brendan is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where he is a regular instructor, and holds a Masters in International Arts Management. Prior to coming to Canadian Stage, Brendan was the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Jennifer Newnham is a stage manager and theatrical artist. Jennifer has been involved with Canadian Stage this season behind the scenes in other departments and is very excited to be back in the rehearsal room as part of the Stage Management team for Public Enemy. Canadian Stage Credits include Other People, Is God Is, and Dixon Road. Other theatre credits include Dispatch, The Last House, BoyFish, Borne and Razed, Hatching in a Cage, River flows West (Newmarket National Play Festival); Days of Wine and Roses (Hart House Theatre); Boeing Boeing (Theatre Aquarius); The Vaudevillians (The Rose Theatre), (Orillia Opera House); Chess (Theatre Sheridan). Love always to Zoe, Sam, Steve, Half, and her late father Thom, who was always so proud of her.
Michelle Monteith — Melissa
Jennifer Newnham — Assistant Stage Manager
Matthew MacInnis — Stage Manager
Matthew is grateful to be back on the boards and working with this amazing company. Previously he spent ten seasons with the Charlotte town Festival, Five seasons with Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Theatre New Brunswick, Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre and several cross-Canada touring productions. Being in a creative environment after two years away has been a real privilege. Enjoy the show!
Michelle is an award-winning actor based in Toronto. Michelle has worked across much of Canada. Her last appearance at Canadian Stage was as Laura in The Glass Menagerie. She has worked for Soulpepper, Modern Times, Coal Mine Theatre, Why Not Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Harbour front Theatre, 2B Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Segal Centre, Nightwood Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the National Arts Centre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Theatrefront, Stratford Festival, Human Cargo Theatre, Resurgence Theatre, and Theatre Smith Gilmour. Michelle also works in TV/film, including audiobooks and anima tion. Most recently, Michelle received a diploma from George Brown College and spends time in the community supporting survivors of gender-based violence.
Anita Nittoly — Fight Director Theatre (Fight Director): entire 2019 Season (The Stratford Festival); The Last Wife, The 39 Steps, Successions (Centaur Theatre); Whole World (Carousel Players); Kitchen Radio, Stag & Doe, 2018 Season (Blyth Festival); Don Quichotte, Die Walkure, Carmen (Canadian Opera Compa ny). Theatre (Intimacy Director): Trojan Girls and the Outhouse of Atreus (Outside the March). Stage Combat Instructor, Fight/Intimacy Director: National Theatre School. TV/ FILM (Stunt Performer/Stunt Actor): (selected credits) SEE, Pretty Hard Cases, En hanced, Titans, The Boys, Dark Matter, KIN, Designated Survivor, 12 Monkeys, Murdoch Mysteries, various Ubisoft motion-capture.
Cast and Creative biographies
Maja Vujicic — Olivia Canadian Stage Debut. TV/Film: Circuit Breakers (Apple TV); A Ginger bread Christmas (Discovery+); Feel The Beat (Netflix); Mommy’s Little Star (Lifetime); UnPerfect Christmas Wish (Super Channel); Holly Hobbie (Hulu); Sesame Street (HBO/PBS); Christmas Is Believing (McSpear Film).
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Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance. Her designs have been critically acclaimed across Canada and internationally. Most recently for Canadian Stage, she designed Other People. She has also designed for Mirvish Productions, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Soulpepper, Studio 180, NAC, NAC Orchestra, Pacific Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, RMTC, and The Citadel Theatre. Kimberly has been nominated for numerous awards for outstanding lighting design and is the recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, a Montreal English Theatre Award, a Toronto Theatre Critics Award, an Ottawa Critics Circle Award and an Elizabeth Sterling Award. Kimberly is the Vice President of the Associated Designers of Canada.
Kimberly Purtell — Lighting Designer
Bobby Theodore — Translator and Adapter Bobby Theodore is a scriptwriter, dramaturg, and translator. Bobby has worked on several TV series, including Murdoch Mysteries, Flashpoint, and Knuckleheads (an adaptation of the iconic Québécois cartoon, Têtes à claques). After graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada’s playwriting section in 1998, he was a Governor General Award finalist in 2000 for his translation of 15 Seconds by François Archambault. Since then, Bobby has gone on to translate over 25 plays from French to English. For the stage, he co-created 300 Tapes (with Ame Henderson), which premiered at the Theatre Centre in Toronto and at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary. His most recent projects include a translation of Paradise in Flames by François Archambault and an audio guide for Province House in PEI.
Voice: Mighty Express (Netflix); Sesame Street Workshop (HBO/PBS) as well as her most recent upcoming undisclosed EOne Series airing this fall. Maja is a competitive dancer at JJ Dance Arts, plays the piano & ukulele, and sings. Maja is very grateful to her agent Michael S.E. White at The Characters for his continuously amazing support. Thank you to Canadian Stage for giving me this amazing opportunity, to all my mentors throughout the years and to my family and friends for your support
Amy Rutherford — Suzie Amy is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada and Birmingham Conservatory. She is an award-winning performer and playwright who has worked with many of the country’s leading artists. Recent theatre credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper); All The Little Animals I Have Eaten (Nightwood Theatre); Revisor (Kidd Pivot); Infinity (Tarragon Theatre).
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