Director Max Reimer
Set Designer Doug Paraschuk
Costume Designer Alex Amini
Stage Manager Naomi Esau
Lighting Designer Siobhán Sleath
Assistant Stage Manager Lyrie Murad
The Company (in alphabetical order)
Terry Barna
Lee MacDougall
Randy Hughson
Brad Rudy
Jacob James
Amelia Sargisson
Roy Lewis
Maggie Walters
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the cast
(in alphabetical order)
Terry Barna (Speed)
Drayton Entertainment: Buying the Farm, Backstage Pass, Twelve Angry Men, The Birds & The Bees, The Love List, Bedtime Stories, Shear Madness. Escaping from Corporate Canada in 2001, Terry has performed in, or directed, almost 70 stage productions throughout Ontario, Alberta, Cape Breton, and as far away as the Bahamas, since then. You may remember him from his two years co-hosting daytime on RogersTV, CTV’s Stock & Awe, or two seasons of CityTV’s Meet the Family, for which he received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination. As always, much love to Lynne. Enjoy the show!
Randy Hughson (Oscar Madison)
Drayton Entertainment: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Misery, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: The Panto, A Few Good Men, Driving Miss Daisy. 9 seasons at the Blyth Festival. 13 seasons at the Stratford Festival. Randy has played leading roles at theatres across Canada, including Canadian Stage, Tarragon, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, National Arts Centre, Necessary Angel, Crow’s, Soulpepper, Citadel, Mirvish, The Arts Club, Neptune, Theatre Calgary, Centaur Theatre and the Segal Centre. He has been nominated for 9 Doras, 3 Edmonton Sterlings, 2 Vancouver Jessies and 2 Broadway Worlds, a Calgary Betty Mitchell and Gemini and has won one of each, as well as 2 Doras. He has worked extensively in film, TV, and radio.
Jacob James (Roy)
Drayton Entertainment: Beautiful The Carole King Musical, Billy Bishop Goes to War, 12 Angry Men, Sound of Music, Annie, Out of Order, Look No Hans, Office Hours, 39 Steps (assistant director). Other: Seven seasons at The Stratford Festival, four seasons with Thousand Islands Playhouse and Videocabaret. Theatre Kingston, Theatre Aquarius, Globe Regina, Neptune Theatre, Charlottetown Festival, Ships Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, NY Shakespeare Exchange, Tweed and Co., Dreamco, and more. TV/film/voice: Mayday, Fireman Sam, The Stranger Experiment, Cuckoo in the Clock. Graduate of National Theatre School, Birmingham Conservatory, Second City Conservatory. Upcoming: Million Dollar Quartet, All is Calm.
Roy Lewis (Vinnie)
Drayton Entertainment: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Misery, An Inspector Calls, Death of a Salesman. Roy Lewis is a poet, playwright, director and actor. He is a Founding Member of the Obsidian Theatre Company and a sixteen season veteran of the Stratford Festival Company acting company. On stage he has played Morocco in The Merchant of Venice, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Cyclops in The Odyssey, Claudius in Hamlet, The Stage Manager in Our Town, Abel Magwitch in Great Expectations, Prospero in The Tempest, Mr. Potter in It’s A Wonderful Life, Charley in Death of a Salesman and Camillo in The Winter’s Tale. Roy has directed 10 plays, which include: Moments With You and I See the Crimson Wave: The Nat Love Story and had their premieres at the Here For Now Theatre and Talk Is Free Theatre.
Lee MacDougall (Felix Ungar)
Drayton Entertainment: Performer: Jesus Christ Superstar, Rock of Ages, Sound of Music, ‘Art’, Rocky, Twelve Angry Men, Footloose, Brigadoon, On Golden Pond, The Odd Couple, The Foursome, Wild Guys. Director: Buying the Farm, All Shook Up. Other theatre (selected): Performer: Nick/Doug in Come From Away (Broadway/Toronto/Washington D.C./ Seattle/La Jolla Playhouse); The Louder We Get (Theatre Calgary); The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Harry in Mamma Mia!, Smokey in Damn Yankees (Mirvish); Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, and theatres across Canada. Director: Rope’s End (Blyth Festival); Glory Days (Theatre Aquarius); The Producers, Joseph…, Beauty and the Beast (Stage West). Playwright: High Life, The Gingko Tree.
Brad Rudy (Murray)
Drayton Entertainment (selected): Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet, General Waverly in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Bob in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Walter Hobbs in ELF, Juror #10 in Twelve Angry Men. Other theatre: Ted Narracott in War Horse (Mirvish/ Toronto); Padre in A Pack of Thieves, Ray in Sugar Road, Frank in Educating Rita (Lighthouse Festival); Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Pierre in The Father, Gabe in Dinner With Friends (Theatre Aquarius); over 60 productions/26 seasons (Stratford Festival) favourite roles including Bill Sikes, The Common Man Sergeant of Police, Dick Deadeye, Rochfort, Laertes. Founding member of Alternative Theatre Works in Stratford. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
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Amelia Sargisson (Gwendolyn Pigeon)
Drayton Entertainment: Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. Other theatre: Paradise Lost, Comedy of Errors, The Front Page, Othello, Hamlet 911 (Stratford); The Last Wife (RMTC); Casey and Diana (WCT); Red Velvet — Dora Nomination, The Watershed (Crow’s); Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear (Canadian Stage); The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel); La Bête, Amadeus (TIFT); All I Want For Christmas, The 39 Steps — META Nomination, The Madonna Painter (Centaur); The Wolves — META Recipient, If We Were Birds — META Nomination, down from heaven — Cartes Premières Best Actress (Imago). Video Games: Nora in Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Don’t Nod) — New York Game Awards Nomination.
Maggie Walters (Cecily Pigeon)
Drayton Entertainment: Upcoming: Mary Debenham in Murder On The Orient Express. Other theatre: Company (Talk Is Free); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Trouble In Mind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of The Shrew (The Old Globe, San Diego); Mother Courage, Measure for Measure (Darlene Shiley Theatre); A Midsummer NIght’s Dream (MyShakespeare); Broadway: Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter To Broadway (Richard Jay-Alexander Theatre). Training: Juilliard, University Of San Diego. Thanks to all my pals and my fam for being the best a kid could ask for. SWD ad 4.75x3.75 DRAYTON print.pdf
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THE creative team Max Reimer (Director)
Drayton Entertainment: Halfway There, The Men’s Foursome, Office Hours, Sister Act, Art, Anne of Green Gables, Billy Bishop, West Side Story, Patsy Cline, Drowsy Chaperone, Joseph… Dreamcoat. Other theatre: Over 200 plays at over 30 theatres including The Drowsy Chaperone (NAC/Citadel/Vancouver Playhouse); Gunmetal Blues (Globe/Aquarius/ Vancouver Playhouse/Markham). Former Artistic Director: Huron Country Playhouse, Theatre Aquarius, Vancouver Playhouse, Manitoba Theatre for Young People (Interim). Former GM: Drayton Entertainment. Best Director Awards: Calgary Theatre Critics’, Vancouver Ovation, Jesse Richardson. Ontario Lt Governors Award – Business in the Arts; Canada Council John Hobday Award – 1st Business/Arts Mentor.
Doug Paraschuk (Set Designer)*
Drayton Entertainment (selected): Return to Grace, 42nd Street, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Misery, The Sound of Soul, The Full Monty, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Crazy For You, An Inspector Calls, Kiss Me, Kate, Jersey Boys, Fiddler on the Roof, American Son, The Music Man, South Pacific, Dial M for Murder. Over 30 productions for the Stratford Festival. Director of Design and Associate Director for the UAE Golden Jubilee Celebration (2021) Expo, Dubai. Designer for Stephen Fry’s Mythos (Shaw Festival, Edinburgh Festival, English National Tour). Director of Design for the Calgary Stampede Grandstand show (2014-23). Director of Design for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics opening, medals, and closing ceremonies. Director of Design for the opening and closing ceremonies for the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. For over 35 years, Doug has designed for television, theatre, film, opera, ballet, and touring productions and has created hundreds of productions in Canada, the United States, Asia, and Europe.
Alex Amini (Costume Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Over the River and Through the Woods, Dear Jack, Dear Louise. Other theatre: Kelly v Kelly, Caroline Or Change, The Wild Party (Dora Nominee), Grey Gardens (Dora Nominee), Onegin, Next To Normal (Dora Nominee) (Musical Stage Company); To Life, Gloria: A Life, The Jazz Singer and Brighton Beach Memoirs (The Harold Green Jewish Theatre). As always, thanks to Carmen forever and always.
Siobhán Sleath (Lighting Designer)*
Drayton Entertainment: Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, Halfway There, Steel Magnolias, The Sweet Delilah Swim Club, Sexy Laundry, The Ladies Foursome, The Men’s Foursome, It Runs in the Family, Unnecessary Farce. Other theatre: Othello (Stratford Festival); Witness for the Prosecution, Horse and His Boy, Wilde Tales (Shaw Festival); The Importance of Being Earnest, Heist, In Seven Days, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Grand Theatre); The Hobbit (Adirondack Theatre Festival); Ring of Fire, Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Ann (Arkansas Rep Theater); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Alberta Theatre Projects). For more information: www.siobhansleathdesign.com.
Naomi Esau (Stage Manager)
Drayton Entertainment: Misery. Stage Management Credits include: Bring It On, The Musical (Globe Theatre); Blithe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Go, Theatre Calgary); Beautiful Man, All Good Things Must Begin, The F Word, and Men Express Their Feelings (Downstage); Peril In The Alps (Vertigo Theatre); A Doll’s House (ASM) (Arts Club); Go For Gold Audrey Pham (Lunchbox); And For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Rosebud Theatre). Naomi is thrilled to be working with Drayton Entertainment. She currently lives in Calgary, AB where she is also an actor, musician, seamstress, and baker of many cupcakes.
Lyrie Murad (Assistant Stage Manager)
Drayton Entertainment (Stage Manager): 42nd Street, White Christmas, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Kiss Me, Kate, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, (Performer): Fiddler on the Roof. Other theatre: Burning Mom (Arts Club); Footloose (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats/Theatre Sheridan); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (TUTS Vancouver); Lyrie is so thrilled to be a part of this production and working with this incredibly talented cast and crew. A big thank you to her family and friends for their constant love and support. Enjoy the show! @lyriemurad.
*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.
the author Neil Simon American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (1927-2018) is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in theatre history. In addition to Lost In Yonkers, which won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, his plays and musicals include Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple (female version), Broadway Bound, Rumors, Jake’s Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, London Suite, Proposals, Hotel Suite, The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Oscar and Felix, and Rose’s Dilemma.
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