Seeker Program, Centaur Theatre

CENTAUR THEATRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TALISMAN THEATRE PRESENTS

APRIL 15 – MAY 3, 2026 centaurtheatre.com

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Andrew Shaver and Bénédicte Bélizaire, photographed by Emelia Hellman

By Marie-Claude Verdier Translated by Alexis Diamond Directed by Rebecca Gibian

CENTAUR THEATRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TALISMAN THEATRE PRESENTS

By Marie-Claude Verdier Translated by Alexis Diamond Directed by Rebecca Gibian CAST Niamh - Bénédicte Bélizaire Lomond - Andrew Shaver Voice of Codex - Rosemarie Sabor CREATIVE TEAM Set Design - Geneviève Lizotte & Carol-Anne Bourgon Sicard Lighting Design - Paul Chambers Music & Sound Design - Antoine Berthiaume Fight Director - Robert Montcalm Stage Manager - Trevor Barrette Assistant Stage Manager - Ava Bishop Associate Lighting Designer - Jordana Natale

The English translation of SEEKER was originally commissioned by John Jack Paterson’s Bouche Theatre Collective for the virtual public workshop initiative “A Glimpse into New Translation: Online Workshop Series,” made possible by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and hosted by the Canadian Play Thing (Janet Munsil, producer).

Subsequently, Talisman Theatre commissioned an updated translation for its 2026 co-production with Centaur Theatre, also made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts. This translation was developed with the support of The Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac through Playwrights' Workshop Montréal.

Additional acknowledgments: CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec), Centre des auteurs.trices dramatiques, and Laurent Brotman, Stefanie Buxton, Ming Hudson and Anthony Santiago.

Show Runtime: 75 minutes, no intermission Marie-Claude Verdier and Alexis Diamond are members of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada.

Centaur Theatre Company is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the jointly negotiated Canadian Theatre Agreement. Centaur Theatre Company performs under the auspices of the Centaur Foundation for the Performing Arts.

A WARM WELCOME Welcome to the final production of our 57th season at Centaur Theatre! It feels particularly fitting to close with the English-language premiere of the awardwinning Seeker by Marie-Claire Verdier, in a luminous translation by Montreal playwright Alexis Diamond. It is a perfect culmination of our season dedicated to the View from Here.

For this production, we have partnered with Talisman Theatre, whose mission is to bring contemporary Quebec plays in English to Montreal's Anglophone and Allophone communities. This year marks their 20th anniversary, and like Centaur, they are deeply committed to building cultural bridges across this remarkably diverse city.

Seeker is a classic psychological thriller set in a future world plagued with unnecessary wars and manufactured misinformation. Directed by Centaur Theatre's Associate Artist, Rebecca Gibian, this hauntingly beautiful production reveals theatre's extraordinary power to reflect our most pressing concerns as a society and unleash our imagination through an emotionally charged, deeply human story. With nothing more than a stage, light, sound, and two actors, we are carried through an extraterrestrial epic that asks how our collective memory might be the very key to our collective humanity. It is an urgent, essential play for our times.

Thank you for joining us this season. Whether you are a first-time visitor or a long-time subscriber, choosing to come to the theatre — especially in turbulent times — is an act of belief: in the power of gathering, of shared stories, of the imagination ignited in community. We need each other more than ever. Thank you for being here.

Eda Holmes Artistic and Executive Director

A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR The speculative future of Seeker’s universe begins what may only feel like a few moments beyond our present, but the direct reflection of our reality that we have come to expect from theatre is altered; distorted. The bounds of what is possible have widened. How this speculative future operates within the bounds of the stage is where the real questions—and creative magic—lie.

The gift of Seeker is that it invites us to let go of the safe, comforting confines of what we know and to surrender to its altered reality. For our team of artists, this has above all meant diving feet-first into an unknown that is ours to define.

What a fertile soil for beginnings: an English-language world premiere, a Centaur directorial debut, and a new yet not-so-distant world to unfold.

Seeker balances on the edge of a precipice, or perhaps just beyond it, and teeters precariously, yet thrillingly, between earth-defining choices. Theatre at its very core is about the thrill of live experience, but Seeker pushes this theatrical engine to its very limit. The play itself then becomes an analogy for “seeking”: in real time, we share with Lomond his visceral experience of a changing world, jointly immersed while we make discoveries alongside him, even travelling together beyond earth… all while breathing the same air.

Our whole team—on and offstage—have taken this challenge for what it is: a thrilling opportunity to dig deep, let imaginations soar, and leave the world behind.

Rebecca Gibian Director of Seeker Associate Artist, Centaur Theatre

Marie-Claude Verdier

Playwright

Marie-Claude Verdier’s first play, Je n’y suis plus, was produced at the National Arts Centre’s French Theatre.

In 2018, Marie-Claude became the first playwright-inresidence at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), where she worked on her play Apparitions. Her sci-fi play Seeker has won the Michel Tremblay Prize from La Fondation du CEAD and was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award in 2022. Marie-Claude is also a dramaturg and has worked with many distinguished directors, including Marc Beaupré, Christian Lapointe, and Benoît Vermeulen. She lives in Laval.

Alexis Diamond

Translator

Based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, Alexis Diamond’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses theatre, installationperformance, opera, musical theatre, translation, curation and dramaturgy. Alexis was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Award for her translation of Pascal Brullemans’ plays for young audiences, AMARYLLIS AND LITTLE WITCH (Playwrights Canada Press), as well as for the 2021 Tom Hendry TYA Award for THE PROBLEM WITH PINK, the English translation of Érika TremblayRoy's play (Lansman), which has travelled as far away as Korea.

Previously, she has translated Marie-Claude Verdier’s plays JE N’Y SUIS PLUS/I’M NOT HERE (Composite Theatre) and ANDY’S GONE (Playwrights Canada Press). NZINGA (Hamac), co-written with Marie Louise Bibish Mumbu in collaboration with Tatiana Zinga Botao— and originally produced at the Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui with Théâtre de la Sentinelle—has enjoyed a multi-city tour in 2025-2026.

Alexis has served as co-artistic director for the Festival du Jamais Lu, literary manager for Erin Hurley’s SSHRC-funded research into the history of Quebec’s English-language theatre, and translation mentor for TRADUCTIONS CROISÉES (Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal/CEAD). She has a B.A. Honours in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University and an M.A. in English Literature from the Université de Montréal. Many of her works can be found at the Canadian Play Outlet.

Rebecca Gibian Director

Rebecca Gibian is a bilingual director and actor, Associate Artist at Centaur Theatre and Artistic Director of Persephone Productions. Drawn to work that reimagines and challenges the possibilities of theatre on both formal and thematic scopes, Rebecca is excited to continue creating room at the table for new voices, bold ideas, and untapped potential—a value that has always been a driving force in her work. Recent directing credits include The Importance of Being Earnest (Repercussion/Persephone Productions); How to Survive in the Wild (Segal Center produced by Persephone Productions); The Flick (Centaur produced by Persephone Productions); All Shall Be Well (Repercussion Theatre). She was awarded the 2020 RBC Emerging Director Prize through Studio 180. Rebecca also runs Centaur’s annual WinterWorks festival, dedicated to boundary-pushing performance. Selected acting credits include: Casey and Diana (Neptune Theatre); Halfway There, Perfect Wedding (Drayton Entertainment); Dear Robert (VideoCabaret); Kisses Deep; Paradise Lost (Centaur Theatre); Dracula, Madness of George III (Shaw Festival). Love to all the many, many martians who made Seeker possible.

Bénédicte Bélizaire

“Niamh”

Bénédicte Bélizaire is a multilingual actress and storyteller born in Haïti and raised in Ottawa. This is her Centaur debut. Recent on-screen credits: Doute raisonnable (Radio-Canada), L'Académie 2&3 (Super Écran), The Bold Type (Freeform), Amélie et Compagnie (TFO), 30 Vies (Radio-Canada). Recent Theatre credits: Scorpio Moon (Imago Theatre), How Black Mothers Say I Love You (GCTC). She thanks her family for their ongoing support.

Andrew Shaver “Lomond”

Andrew’s always had difficulty picking a lane. He’s an actor. He’s acted here several times, in fact (The 39 Steps, Trad, Cheech). He’s a director. And, well, he’s directed here several times too (Mob, Trad, Haunted Hillbilly, Stones in His Pockets). He's also directed across town at the Segal (Once, Sherlock, The Graduate, Scientific Americans, Gordon), and in French for Juste Pour Rire (Grease). He spent 4 years as a Realization Director at Ubisoft and 4 more at Stratford. He’s a songwriter and he releases music as Clever Hopes (new album in September). He hosts a nationally syndicated new music radio show and interview podcast called When We Wake with Andrew Shaver. He clowns around for the kids at the IWK Hospital in Halifax, and, most importantly, he’s a dad.

Big love to Mel for carrying the weight of the family while he came to play in his favourite city once again.

Rosemarie Sabor

Voice of Codex

Rosemarie Sabor is a bilingual actress, cellist, and voiceover artist, trained at the National Theatre School and based in Montreal. Stage credits include Pool No Water (dir. Rebecca Gibian) at the Segal Centre Studio, Si vous voulez de la lumière (dir. Florent Siaud) at Prospero, and Les Beaux Dimanches (dir. Christian Lapointe) at La Chapelle. Recent film and television credits include Phénix (dir. Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr), We Are Zombies (dir. RKSS), L'Autre (dir. Alexandre Franchi), and Discrètes (dir. Juliette Gosselin and Sophia Belahmer). She also lends her voice to a wide range of documentaries, audiobooks, and commercial projects.

Geneviève Lizotte

Set Design

Geneviève Lizotte has been working as a set designer, costume designer, artistic director, and stylist for over 20 years. In theatre, she has designed over 150 productions and collaborated with several renowned directors, including André Brassard, Robert Lepage, Claude Poissant, Christian Lapointe, and Catherine Vidal. Notable productions from the past three years include Mama, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre, Docteure, Affaires Intérieures, and The Seagull. At Cirque du Soleil, she has worked on Axel, ’Twas the Night Before, Reflekt, Tout Écartillé, and Le Monde est Fou. A longtime collaborator with Pierre Lapointe, she has worked on La Forêt des Mal-Aimés, Mutantes, and Punktet Chansons Hivernales. In film, she serves as Art Director for François Delisle’s films, including Cash Nexus and Chorus, as well as for BÀ NỘI by Khoa Lê.

Geneviève was the recipient of the CALQ Studio in New York grant in 2015.

Carol-Anne Bourgon Sicard Set Design

A graduate of the École Supérieure de théâtre, CarolAnne Bourgon Sicard works primarily as a set designer and assistant director. Passionate about exploring different spaces, she develops her practice both for the stage and for public spaces. Among her achievements, she has designed artistic installations in the heart of Montreal for Atomic 3 and co-founded Le Pictographe, an urban and social design collective established in 2017. For the stage, she has contributed to more than thirty productions as a designer, collaborating with numerous artists and companies, including Catherine Vidal (Possessions, Abraham Lincoln va au théâtre, Au sommet de la montagne), Théâtre à l’eau froide (Ah, ta yeule l’obscurité!, Les Coleman Millaire-Fortin-Campbell).

She has also collaborated for over ten years with UBU compagnie de création, working as an assistant director alongside Denis Marleau (Terrasses, Le traitement de la nuit, Les dix commandements de Dorothy Dix, SOIFS Matériaux).

Paul Chambers

Lighting Design

Pas Fout’ Mind (Quat’Sous), Rue Duplessis: Ma petite noirceur (Duceppe), L’Amour ou rien (Le Trident, Espace GO, MAYDAY), Three Women of Swatow (Centaur), A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Centaur, Théatre La Licorne), Ricki (Scapegoat Carnival), Le Mont Analogue (Espace GO), Cabaret Noir (MAYDAY), L’ombre de Marie Brassard (NAC & Rideau Vert), PHOSPHOS (FTA, Rhubarb Festival, M.A.I.), Phoenix, Candide (Montréal Complètement Cirque).

Contemporary Dance designs for Maria Kefirova, Clara Furey, Ellen Furey, Lara Kramer Dance, Katie Ward, Thierry Huard, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Amanda Acorn, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, PME-ART, Emmanuel Jouthe, Sasha Kleinplatz, Benjamin Kamino, Parts+Labour_Danse. 2022 Prix de la Danse de Montreal for his career as a collaborator and designer in dance, 2022 and 2025 META recipient for outstanding lighting design. Paul is a professor at Concordia University since 2015, a lighting design coach at The National Theatre School of Canada since 2018, a guest instructor at UQAM in 2025 & the National Circus School in 2026.

Antoine Berthiaume

Music & Sound Design

Montreal-based guitarist, improviser, composer and producer Antoine Berthiaume is known for his innovative approach to the guitar, combining elements of jazz, folk, classical and experimental music.

He has released numerous albums, both solo and in collaboration with other artists. He can be found on Ambiances Magnétiques, Audiogram, Vos Records (Japan), Incus Records (England) and Starkland (USA).

A prolific composer, his music, hailed for its subtlety, emotional depth and inventiveness, never ceases to renew itself and to amaze, which for several years has led him to develop fruitful collaborations with creators of contemporary dance, theatre, circus and cinema.

Berthiaume holds a Master's degree in contemporary composition as well as a PhD in digital music from the Université de Montréal.

His research and creations are supported by the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. He has performed in various festivals and concert halls around the world.

Trevor Barrette Stage Manager Trevor Barrette (he/him) is a Montréal-based theatre maker, director, stage manager, and META-nominated writer/composer and producer. For Centaur Theatre, he has performed in Beverley Cooper’s Innocence Lost, produced his original musical Captain Aurora at the Wildside Festival, and stage managed alterNatives, Sakura, and Strawberries in January. Stage management opportunities this past year brought him to Quebec City (Porte Parole’s The Assembly), Rimouski (Youtheatre’s J’ai Jamais), and Toronto (Segal Centre/Mirvish’s Kimberly Akimbo). This summer, he is directing Daniel MacIvor’s The Best Brothers for Born on a Raft Theatre, Kristen Da Silva’s The Rules of Playing Risk at Hudson Village Theatre, and and Mark Crawford's Bed and Breakfast for Watermark Theatre in PEI. He currently serves on the board of directors of Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal.

Ava Bishop

Assistant Stage Manager

Ava Bishop (she/her) is an Equity Stage Manager based in Montréal. She is eager to work on engaging and innovative theatre pieces throughout Canada, and is proud to be a part of the rich Montréal theatre scene.

She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Production Design and Technical Arts program.

Selected SM/ASM Credits: Cult Play (Neptune Theatre/Imago Theatre), Max and Aaron Write a Musical (Segal Centre/Trevor Barrette), Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty) (Theatre Ouest End), Scorpio Moon (Imago Theatre), Strawberries in January (Centaur Theatre), Three Women of Swatow (Centaur Theatre), POTUS (Segal Centre), Sky Dancers (A’nó:wara Dance Theatre), Sapientia (Scapegoat Carnivale), Counter Offence (Teesri Duniya Theatre), Wildfire (Talisman Theatre), Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (Segal Centre).

Robert Montcalm

Fight Director

Theatre: Three Women of Swatow, Thy Woman’s Weeds, All I Want for Christmas, MOB (Centaur), Clue: On Stage, Fifteen Dogs, What’s in a Name, Bad Jews (Segal Centre), Moonlight and Magnolias (Theatre Lac Brôme), Metropolitan Operas, Love and Human Remains (Witchboy Theatre), Twelfth Night (Repercussion), Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of (Urban Ink/BTW), Robin Hood (Geordie).

Training/Experience: over a decade of experience as a stunt performer and certified fight instructor with Fight Directors Canada. He has worked on over 60 video games in the last twelve years. Robert would like to thank Jean-François Gagnon for all of the invaluable training he has received!

Jordana Natale

Associate Lighting Designer Jordana (Jo) is a lighting designer from Orangeville, Ontario. Jo graduated from the Production Design and Technical Arts Program at The National Theatre School of Canada in 2023. She has spent the last few years in Montréal working as a lighting designer for dance, theatre, and music, both independently and in association or collaboration with Paul Chambers.

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Gabriella Levy * Scott Leydon Amanda Lickers * Andrew Lister * Pauline Little * Gurit Lotan* Rian Lussier* Christopher Lyle* Ronaldo Lyrio* Karen Macdonald* Gwen Mackay-Smith Glenna Macleod Navneet Mahay * Frank Maiore * Gregory Makowski* Sharon Malone * Kathleen Manchur * Fouad Mansour * Silvia Marcello* Helene Marcogliese * Akwiratékha’ Martin* M Martin * Sara Masciotra-Milstein * Dian Masse Laurent Massé* Ina Matthews John Mayfield * Carrie Mazoff * Ian Mccance * Katherine Mcclintock * Ghyslaine Mcclure * Mary Mccomber * Nathan Mcdonald * Barb & Jerry Mcgovern * Mary J Mclaughlin * Alexander MacSween, In memory of George Wall Tracey Ann Mearns* Robin Melanson* Ginette Menard * Margie Mendell * Pamela Mercer-Walsh* Bryan Mihok * Thomas Miller * Haleema Mini Emily Minor* Pilar Monayar* Catherine Moore * Alan Mora* Alexandre Morin Selena Motta Lopez* Melvin Musqua* * Theatre of Tomorrow Donors ** Event Supporters

Caroline Nabozniak * Zaid Naji * Beth Nanton * Mihaela Neagu* Alain Neemeh * Aurélie-An Nguyen * Madelynn Nickles * Andrei Nicolicioiu * Donna Noonan* Natasha Nuhanovic * Mark Oberski * Jonathan O’Connor* Berk Ocagisen* Martinien Okete Moke * Pinar Orbay Sandra Otto Amanda Overend * Adrian Palidis * Betty Palik * Tyler Palmer Justin Panasci * Carrie Patton* Billy Paulo-Desmarais* Marianna Pavukova * Jean Pelletier * Louise Pelletier* Mathieu Pelletier Theodore Perkins Melanie Perreault * David Peters* Robert Petrera * Katherine Phillips Kitiya Phouthonesy Martine Piche * Rosetta Pilozzi * Kristi Pineda * Eugene Plawutsky * Danielle Poirier * Mary Poland Carol Powel Smith * Sharon Pratt * Douglas Price * Rami Raad**

SEE OUR COMPLETE LIST OF DONORS ON OUR WEBSITE Join our Director’s Circle by making your tax-deductible donation today!

Centaur Theatre Company is a registered Canadian charity, No. 118842111RR0001

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR DONORS Centaur gratefully acknowledges our Director’s Circle of donors who make so much possible through their generosity. Your generous support allows us to continue to be a beacon of excellence, relevance, and diversity.

Charles Rahi Anastasia Torchia* Harry Rajchgot* Bruce Torrey * Penny Rankin * Irma Treska * Lucy Ravinsky Peter Tully & Nicole Brunet Michael Renard * Juliette Valcke * Haley Renault* Raphael Vargas * Chandler Richards * Anna Varpakhovskaia * Dina Rochdi * Danielle Vazan ** Nadia Rona, Elite Productions Giovanna Veneziano Cheryl Roscoe Ricardo Vergel Loo * Estrela Rosoninha * Chloé Vilmont * Joy Ross-Jones Pavel Vodov * Marc-Etienne Rousseau * Brent Walker* Lucie Rousseau * James Walker Reid Egor Rubetc* Brendan Walsh * Enid Sarrazin* Cathy Watt * Thalia Savard * Shannon Webb * Eloi Savoie * Reginald Weiser* Monique Savoie** Deborah Weissberg Sabrina Scully* Dakota Wellman * Natalie Sears* Todd Willis * David Sewell * Maxwell Wiltzer * Perry Shearwood Janice Winslow Patrick Shield * Paul Wittes * Igor Shihman * Dov Wittes * Vitaliy Shkuratov * Sigrid Wodtke * Paul Simard* Martin Wong * Megan Siow, In Honour Of Yin Han & Karen Siow And Nann Yearow * Haleema Mini Bogdana Yordanova * Peter Sladowski & Susanne Koltai In Memory of Inès Zaouche * Marinette Sladowski* Kateryna Zaporozhets * Andrew Sofin* Ruth Zimerman * Gabrielle Soskin Stelios Zyglidopoulos * Jennifer Southam * Cheryl Stephenson Martha Stewart * Émile Stone* Selsey Stribling* Ron Sullivan * Tariq Suleman Carmen Sylvain * Katherine Szabo Shatine Tachdjian* Beverlea Tallant Gillian Taylor * SEE OUR COMPLETE LIST OF DONORS ON OUR WEBSITE Audrey Thériault * Join our Director’s Circle by making your tax-deductible donation today!

Brian Thompson * Lily Thukral * Tim Tokarsky* Tavia Tolleson Roumy Toneva * * Theatre of Tomorrow Donors ** Event Supporters

Centaur Theatre Company is a registered Canadian charity, No. 118842111RR0001

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CENTAUR Centaur Theatre gratefully acknowledges the following corporations and foundations, whose generous support allows us to continue to be a beacon of excellence, relevance, and diversity.

JOIN OUR GROUP OF GENEROUS SUPPORTERS!

Argonauts ($5,000 - $9,999)

There are a number of ways to link your organization to Centaur – a recognizable brand synonymous with excellence and diversity – including tax-deductible donations, production sponsorships, program partnerships, naming rights, and patronage at our annual Gala.

Caisse Desjardins de Brossard Execaire Aviation*** The Hay Foundation The Kent Group, RBC Dominion Securities Inc.** KPMG*** The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation** Miriam Roland Norton Rose Fulbright* Nova Steel Inc. Lawerence P. Cannon** Ratuos ULC RBC Corporate Client Group* Redemac Inc***

For more information, contact: Haleema Mini, Director of Development haleema@centaurtheatre.com • 514 288-1229 #235

2025/2026 Sponsors Subscription Campaign Sponsor Hydro-Québec

Theatre of Tomorrow Sponsor Canada Life

Music Series Sponsor The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation

Production Partner (Stone and Bone Spectacular) Manuvie

Production Partner (Kisses Deep) National Bank

Partner

Graces ($2,500 - $4,999) Dollarama, Patrick Bui*** Fasken*** Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvédère Fondation Sandra & Alain Bouchard** The Hylcan Foundation** The John Dobson Foundation*** The Marvin A. Drimer Foundation Stikeman Elliott LLP / S.E.N.C.R.L., s.r.l.* The Velan Foundation

Bonaparte

Transportation Partner Via Rail

Titans ($25,000+) BMO Financial Group** The Cole Foundation* The Côté Sharp Family Foundation

Olympians ($10,000 - $24,999) The Azrieli Foundation** The Birks Family Foundation Caisse de la Culture*** Fednav Ltd. Fondation J. Armand Bombardier The Peacock Family Foundation The Rossy Foundation**** Zeller Family Foundationn*

* Indigenous Artist Residency Donors ** Theatre of Tomorrow Donors *** Event Supporters **** Youth Accessibility Program Donors

Muses ($1,000 - $2,499) Aliments Luda Foods André Albert Morin, MNA for Acadie* Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP* Canderel Management Inc. Claudine & Stephen Bronfman Foundation** Ian Lafreniere, Minister Responsible for Relations with First Nations and Inuit* The Irving Ludmer Family Foundation** MacKinnon, Bennett & Company Inc. Marsh and McLennan Shared Services Canada Limited Mathieu Lacombe, Minister of Culture and Communications* McCarthy Tétreault Foundation* PIMCO Canada Corp.

R. Howard Webster Foundation*

Fates ($500 - $999) Elizabeth Prass MNA D'Arcy-McGee*** Les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens*** Kruger Inc. Manon Massé, MNA for Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jaques Manulife Wealth Inc. Mr. Thierry Jabbour* Mercer Canada Ltd. TD Asset Management* The Valerie Pasztor Foundation

Centaur Theatre would like to thank the following members of the National Assembly of Quebec for their generous support of the Indigenous Artist Residency program:

Franz Benjamin MNA for Viau

Mathieu Lacombe Minister of Culture and Communications Minister responsible for the Outaouais Region

Ian Lafrenière Minister of Public Security Minister Responsible for Relations with the First Nations and the Inuit Minister Responsible for the Nord-du-Québec Region

Manon Massé MNA for Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jaques

André Albert Morin MNA for Acadie

Elizabeth Prass MNA D'Arcy-McGee***

*** Event Supporters

Music Series

with Sarah Segal-Lazar

PET LION

LION 4.24 + 25

post show

Eda Holmes

Artistic & Executive Director

ADMINISTRATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR

Susan Da Sie, CFA CHAIR EMERITUS

Michael Baratta, CPA, CA Deputy Business Unit Leader, Quebec, Audit, Partner, KPMG LLP DIRECTORS

Dr. Patricia A. Baker Chief Executive Director, Waterford Consulting PB Inc.

Jérôme Bichut, CFA Partner, Boyden

Anthony G. Czaharyn, MD CM

Micaela Fernandez Box Office & Sales Manager Louna Fezoui Development Assistant Rebecca Gibian Associate Artist Victoria Hall Assistant Box Office & Sales Manager Kimberly Hönig Marketing & Communications Coordinator Olivia Kearvell-Jobin Assistant Box Office Manager Scott Leydon Artistic & Executive Associate Sajida Masih Accounting Assistant Charlie McKendy Head of Maintenance Haleema Mini Director of Development Layne Shutt Front of House Manager

PRODUCTION Daniel Barkley Head Scenic Painter Sonya Bayer Head of Wardrobe Peter Cerone Audio & Video Engineer Mary Hayes Scenic Painter Howard Mendelsohn Production Director Liana Rose Mundy Technical Director Michael Tonus Head Technician C2 Zachary Weibel Head Technician C1

FOR THIS PRODUCTION Silvia Galeone VP – Canadian Insurance Operations, Manulife Financial

Christine Maydossian Director, Government Relations, Leliken Relations conseils

Adela Nitu Vice-President, Finance & Administration, Altex Inc.

Richard Pan Group Chief Financial Officer, American Iron & Metal

Sofia Ruggiero Guillaume Saliah Partner, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin

Norma Tombari Principal, Norma Tombari Consulting

FOUNDERS Herbert C. Auerbach Founding Chairman

Maurice Podbrey Founding Artistic & Executive Director

Anne-Sophie Boucher Wardrobe Maintenance Mélanie Turcotte Costume Textile Artist Shopdogs Inc. Scenic Construction

CREW Joshua Abdul-Auguste Léandre Cholette Thomas Cloutier-Guay Katrin Dodd Scarlet Fountain Antoine Goudreau Benoit Isabelle Briauna James

Tristan Mak Carmen Mancuso Caroline Nowacki Des Cendres Rivière Jackson Thompson Z Vinheiras Lia Wright

SPECIAL THANKS Segal Centre, JML Toiles, Murphco, tuck tape, Youtheatre, Festival TransAmériques, Rosemarie Sabor, Brian Dooley, Quinn Dooley, Bevin Dooley, Mara Lazaris, Stephanie McKenna, Adam Capriolo, David Noel, Thomas Vallières, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Brittany Drisdelle, Peter Gibian, Gwendolyn Owens, John Robinson, Orange Noyée

TALISMAN THEATRE Lyne Paquette Executive and Artistic Director Lily Koslow Communications and Development Ambassador Yirun Liu IT Consulting Sylvie Lavoie Bookkeeper