Directed by Brenley Charkow
Set Designer Beckie Morris
Costume Designer Joanna Lee
Stage Manager Grace Batten
Lighting Designer Lyle Franklin
Assistant Stage Manager Molly Mück
The Company (in alphabetical order)
Peter Millard Helen Taylor
Sound Designer Allison Lynch
Flight Risk was developed and received its world premiere with Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary, AB in 2017. Flight Risk is produced by arrangement with Ian Arnold, Catalyst TCM Inc. www.catalysttcm.com
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Shauna Thompson
the cast
(in alphabetical order)
Peter Millard (Hank Dunfield)
Drayton Entertainment: Debut. Other theatre: 13 years as a member of George Luscombe’s Toronto Workshop. Productions including Hey Rube! and the Canadian and international hit about the Depression, Ten Lost Years; 35 Seasons as a member of the Shaw Festival Acting Ensemble including Widowers’ Houses, Floyd Collins, Petrified Forest, and You Never Can Tell; Waitress (Grand Theatre and Theatre Aquarius). Film/TV: Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro), Cross, Murdoch Mysteries, Designated Survivor, Getaway (Jason Biggs), Casey Walker’s 19th Century Canadian-noir, Ithaqua, and the SyFy hit series, Revival as Lester Majak.
Helen Taylor (Kathleen Shore)
Drayton Entertainment: Halfway There, Looking. Other theatre (selected): 12 seasons with the Shaw Festival, including Lulu, The Plough and the Stars, You Never Can Tell. Over 80 productions across Canada, including Much Ado/Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in High Park); Same Time, Next Year (Lighthouse Festival); God of Carnage (Theatre Calgary); Twelfth Night (Citadel Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Tarragon Theatre); Fire (Theatre Passe Muraille). TV/Film: recurring role on Reacher, Season 3, Painkiller, Murdoch Mysteries. Dora Award for her performance in Wrecked for Roseneath Theatre, which toured Toronto high schools. For four years Helen was the voice of Volvo for radio/TV ads.
Shauna Thompson (Sarah Baker)
Drayton Entertainment: Debut. Other theatre: Orphans for the Czar, Prodigal, Bad Roads (Crow’s Theatre); Flex (Obsidian Theatre); Man and Superman with Don Juan in Hell, Victory, The Devil’s Disciple (Shaw Festival); Three Sisters (Howland Company); Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects); Vierge (Factory Theatre). Film/TV: Tainted (Gearshift Films). Thank you to my loving family who supports me in everything I do! Shauna is a proud graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Social Media: @_shaunathompson.
the creative team
Brenley Charkow (Director)
Drayton Entertainment: Directorial debut. Other theatre (Select Directing): Anahita’s Republic (Factory Theatre); Seagulls, Look Up! (Shaw Festival); Girl in the Machine, Scorch, On the Other Side of the World, Almost Maine (Bustle & Beast); The Ballad of Peachtree Rose (WWPT); Blood: A Scientific Romance (The Maggie Tree); Sister Act (Storybook); A Bright Room Called Day (Studio Theatre); If We Were Birds (BLT). Assistant Director: The Devil’s Disciple (Shaw Festival); The Humans (Canadian Stage/Citadel); Mamma Mia! (Citadel). Voice Director: Over 30 titles with Penguin Random House Canada Audio. Brenley is the Artistic Producer of Bustle & Beast and holds an MFA in directing from the University of Alberta. Thanks to Alex for the opportunity! www.brenleycharkow.ca.
Beckie Morris (Set Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Million Dollar Quartet, Naked Radio, Doris and Ivy in the Home, The New Canadian Curling Club, Jonas & Barry in the Home. Other theatre: Appropriate (co-design The Coal Mine), Sweet Delilah Swim Club, Halfway There, Where You Are, On the Air, Prairie Nurse, I’ll be Back Before Midnight (Lighthouse Festival); Cinderella… if the Shoe Fits, Beneath Springhill, Lunenburg, The Gentleman Clothier, Little Women, They’re Found in Trees, Sugar Road, Miracle on 34th St, Stag & Doe, Queen Milli of Galt (Theatre Orangeville). Thank you as always to my beautiful and always supportive family! www.beckiemorrisdesigns.ca
Joanna Lee (Costume Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Doris and Ivy in the Home, Mary’s Wedding, Apprentice Stage Manager for A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. Other theatre: Stitcher for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish Productions). Joanna is the Wardrobe Coordinator. She is a graduate of Fanshawe College with an Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design and a Graduate Certificate in Technical Costume Studies. Joanna is also a graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnic University with a Bachelor of Design in Fashion and Technology. Much love to family and friends for all their support!
Lyle Franklin (Lighting Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Yesterday Once More, Country Roads: The Songs of John Denver, Over the River and Through the Woods. Merry & Bright, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Buying The Farm, Kings & Queens of Country, Out of Order, Office Hours, Hilda’s Yard, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, The Affections of May, Lend Me A Tenor, Too Many Cooks, The Love List, Perfect Wedding, Twelve Angry Men, Separate Beds, The Odd Couple, Funny Money, Boeing Boeing. Other theatre: The Last Enchanted Forest (Petrolia); Walking on Water (Fanshawe College); The Anger of Ernest and Ernestine (Lost & Found Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened... (Ryerson University). He is a graduate of Ryerson University. Lyle is pleased to be working on another lighting design with Drayton Entertainment.
Allison Lynch (Sound Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Fiddler on the Loose (performer). More than thirty productions across Canada as composer/sound designer, favorites including Forgiveness (Stratford Festival), A Christmas Carol, Steel Magnolias, The Scarlet Letter (Theatre Calgary), The Calgary Stampede SAM Centre documentary installation and the 2022 SOCAN Awards. As an actor Allison has appeared onstage at the Stratford Festival, NAC, Theatre Calgary, Citadel, Arts Club, Persephone, The Grand, Rainbow Stage, ATP, The Belfry, Vertigo Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit among others. www.allisonlynchmusic.com.
Grace Batten (Stage Manager)
Drayton Entertainment: Grease, Crazy For You, An Inspector Calls, Steel Magnolias, The New Canadian Curling Club. Other theatre (selected): Beneath Springhill, Same Time, Next Year, The 39 Steps, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Never Not Once, Where You Are; three years as Entertainment Technician for Carnival Cruise Lines. Since graduating from the University Of Windsor School Of Dramatic Art, Grace has worked at venues across North America, from Banff to Belize, on land and at sea. When she isn’t working, she can usually be found knitting or playing with random dogs. @woolngrace
Molly Mück (Assistant Stage Manager)
Drayton Entertainment: Shrek the Musical, The Full Monty, Merry & Bright, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Footloose, Peter Pan: The Panto, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Prom, The Crooner, Mamma Mia!. Other theatre: UpStart Festival (University of Waterloo). Molly is excited to be a part of Drayton Entertainment this season. Thanks to her friends and family for the support.
the author
Meg Braem (Playwright)
Meg Braem’s plays have been nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and won the Alberta Literary Award for Drama. Meg’s work has been presented at the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, The Belfry Theatre, Sage Theatre, The Maggie Tree, Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, Atomic Vaudeville, and Intrepid Theatre. Meg is a past writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the Calgary Public Library and member of the Citadel Theatre Playwrights’ Forum. Most recently, Meg’s play The Resurrectionists was produced by Larriken Entertainment and toured the Yukon. Meg Braem is an assistant professor at Mount Royal University.
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