Shaw Festival 2018 Annual Report

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“A festival that is actively using adventurous programming and its many avenues of outreach to simultaneously bring in new audiences and satisfy the festival faithful.�

A M ER ICA N T H E AT R E

Clockwise from top left: Kelly Wong as Napoleon in The Man of Destiny; Neil Barclay as the Director in Stage Kiss; Jacqueline Thair in Oh What a Lovely War; Patrick Galligan in Henry V; Jani Lauzon as Charlie in The Orchard (After Chekhov); Jay Turvey as Hermann Preysing in Grand Hotel; Marla McLean in Oh What a Lovely War; Kristopher Bowman as Sir Henry Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles; Yanna McIntosh as the Baroness in The Baroness and the Pig.

THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW

by C.S. Lewis, adapted for the stage by Michael O’Brien, directed by Tim Carroll, set designed by Douglas Paraschuk, costumes designed by Jennifer Goodman, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte, projections designed by Cameron Davis, music direction and original music by Claudio Vena, movement and puppetry direction by Alexis Milligan.

Deborah Hay as Jadis, the White Witch.

“Director Tim Carroll rarely lets the show stray...coupled with a veteran cast playing in a unique sandbox, this may be the strongest children’s show the company has ever done.” niagar a falls review

CHAIR’S REPORT

I noted at last season’s AGM that talking about financial surpluses was a tradition I could really get to enjoy. I was right — but am pre-empting myself!

2018 made large strides on our strategic objectives, increasing connectivity to audiences and communities and increasing the number of tickets sold.

Importantly, 28% of all tickets were sold to new patrons! I’m also particularly proud of our dramatic increase in education activities. Over 1500 education events served almost 50,000 people, nearly doubling 2017’s participation. Of particular note is the terrific job the Shaw Guild does in supporting these events!

On the artistic side, TC continues to engage us in his explorations of theatre, its role in provoking our discussions, and how its variety can connect with each of us. According to our survey results, for 90% of us, it works really well.

The season showcased both the technical wizardry we are known for and the beauty of simple, creative concepts brilliantly executed. Our wonderful production of Magician’s Nephew welcomed over 32,000 young people and families. Grand Hotel, the Mythos Trilogy and Hound of the Baskervilles brought in many of our new patrons.

At the Royal George, Stage Kiss and Of Marriage and Men almost sold out their entire runs, while O’Flaherty, VC and Oh What a Lovely War were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. We reconfigured the Jackie Maxwell Theatre to present our most challenging work with Baroness and the Pig, The Orchard (after Chekhov) and our WWI era drama involving the telling of Henry V. Henry V was a personal favourite and reinforced for me how the framework within which a play is set can dramatically reshape its relevance and power. We again sold out our run of A Christmas Carol, solidifying what has become an instant holiday tradition and generating increased activity for local businesses.

These artistic successes come from our remarkable repertory ensemble and the craftspeople, artisans and artsworkers who support them. Thank you all!

All of this also resulted in significant financial success; important in ensuring Shaw’s sustainability. We eliminated, with the help of our 2015 Heritage Canada grant, our capital maintenance and improvement deficit, and repaid our outstanding operating loan. Our next challenge is to establish a prudent level of working capital to make us less dependent on bank financing.

I want to thank my colleagues on our Board for all of the work, leadership and guidance they have shown. I want to thank our donors, partners and patrons for their exceptional dedication and support, and their ability to adapt to the changes we are putting before them. I particularly want to thank our staff, especially our two Tims, for another amazing year and for ensuring our theatre lives up to its charitable mission to excite, inspire, provoke and delight audiences.

Thank you for everything you do to ensure the ongoing success of The Shaw. I am delighted you are on this journey with us! peter jewett

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

I am excited by this season’s results. Hard not to be.

Audience attendance was up significantly. More than a thousand new members came on board.

Contributed revenues increased again in both quantity and size of gifts. More than 70,000 new buyers found us and, if our excellent early 2019 sales results are any indicator, loved what they saw and want to see more. The company made major strides in its work on inclusion and diversity, including indigenous recognition at all of our entrances and in our show welcomes and saw our first (of what I hope to be many) new play by a South Asian Canadian. Our sell out run in 2017 of A Christmas Carol was repeated in 2018, prompting us to try adding another holiday show in 2019.

Our Montreal tour of Master Harold …and the Boys at the top of the year and partnership with Crow’s Theatre’s to remount our 2017 production of Middletown in Toronto in Nov/Dec both made ‘best of the year’ lists in those cities. We almost doubled the number of education and outreach events that we ran. We increased total annual revenues by $1.38 Million over last year. We received $2.6 Million in new gifts and grants to our Endowment Foundation. Perhaps most satisfying to me personally, we finished the work of erasing, installing and paying off the last of the $10 Million in historic operating deficits and deferred capital work that were outstanding when I arrived here in 2015, with many thanks again to Heritage Canada for the $2.77 Million matching grant they gave to us in 2016 to get us started.

Oh — and, even after all of that, we posted a surplus of $537K! Average 2018 ticket prices remained almost unchanged from 2017, continuing our intention to ensure affordable family programming, reasonable entry level ticket options and subsidized student pricing. 2019 begins a program that more than doubles the number of our lowest cost ($25– $40) tickets available to the public, as well as rethinking the way in which we fill our houses to ensure the best possible experience for all of our patrons and a new, expanded Season Pass Plus that increases benefits for our most engaged members.

2019 continues to offer another expanded season with 13 productions programmed across three theatres, plus even more workshops, events and secret theatre surprises. I am particularly excited by our Man and Superman marathons and Kate Hennig’s adaptation of Cyrano; it was our famous 1982 production of the play that I credit with starting my own interest in theatre as a career and in the Shaw Festival itself.

I am excited to see the theatre in a place of significantly increased stability and in our audience’s clear enthusiasm for TC’s call for a more human, more connected theatre.

I want to thank our staff and artists, our board and our Guild for all of their work in helping produce our 2018 season and all of you for helping us generate these terrific results!!

See you soon and all my very best, tim jennings

“With foggy scenes played upon craggy rocks of the moors, one can’t help be swept away into this superbly executed whodunnit.” broadway world

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by R. Hamilton Wright and David Pichette, directed by Craig Hall, designed by Dana Osborne, lighting designed by Alan Brodie, projections designed by Jamie Nesbitt, original music and sound designed

by John Gzowski, puppetry directed by Alexis Milligan and Mike Petersen, fight direction by John Stead.

Ric Reid as Dr Watson and Damien Atkins as Holmes.

HENRY V

by William Shakespeare, directed by Kevin Bennett and Tim Carroll, designed by Camellia Koo, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte.

Kristopher Bowman, Graeme Somerville, Cameron Grant and Ric Reid.

“It would be hard to overstate the amount of love, and care, and attention to detail that the entire crew, directors, and actors have lavished on this marvelous production.� buffalo rising

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S REPORT

My favourite number this year was 47,391. That is how many people engaged with our education department, and it represents more or less a twofold increase on the year before. It means thousands of young people had a human experience before or after The Magician’s Nephew; it means thousands had the chance to meet us and glimpse what we do; and it gives real meaning to the phrase ‘Two-Way Theatre.’

Those of you who saw the show will recall that the young people in the audience really did contribute to the stage action. Not only did they make the sounds of rain, and put on crowns to portray the frozen Kings and Queens of Charn; they also, before the show, told the cast (in their roles as Dream Detectives) their dreams, and each night some of these were related to the whole audience as the show began.

At the other end of the season, in every sense, came Henry V. There, we asked members of the audience to write down stories of their family and war. These were read out by Ric Reid at the top of Act Two. Every time, without fail, the air grew thick as breaths were held and tears blinked back.

These are two examples of why I think engagement matters. I am so proud of our education department, not only for having achieved such numbers but for having given every group they dealt with a wonderful experience.

And I am proud of the acting ensemble, for being open and brave enough not only to engage with their audience, but for allowing those moments of connection to land and have an effect on the rest of the performance. My ideal theatre is one where each show is different every night. I felt that 2018 was a big step in that direction.

Of course, engagement takes many forms. As an audience, we are engaged whenever a play draws us in and gets us breathing together. I was very proud of the way that shows as diverse as The Baroness and the Pig and The Hound of the Baskervilles did that: with very different stories, and using very different theatrical languages, both held their audiences spellbound. The Orchard and Oh What A Lovely War, meanwhile, shed light on important corners of Canadian history, while O’Flaherty, VC and Of Marriage and Men brought Shaw’s energy and mischief roaring onto the stage. And then there were the two biggest sellers, Grand Hotel and Mythos. Each show had a huge cast, but only one had a lot of people on stage. I loved the style and edge of Grand Hotel, and I was proud and humbled to be part of Stephen Fry’s telling of Mythos.

Perhaps as important as anything this year was the number of letters I received, and the incredible diversity of opinion contained in them. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that every single show was one person’s favourite and another’s turkey. Luckily, as you will read elsewhere, the overall response to every production was overwhelmingly positive. Nonetheless, those letters are important, both as an encouraging sign that our audience is ready to engage with us, and as a lesson for me to bear in mind as I plan future seasons. What it tells me is this: since the wide range of work that I am passionate about will never make everyone happy, a successful season might be best defined as one that gets everyone talking. We seem to have done that in 2018, and I am pretty sure this year will be no different. tim carroll

The Shaw wishes to acknowledge and honour the land upon which we gather as the historic and traditional territory of First Nations peoples. In particular, we recognize and thank the Neutral Nation, the Mississauga and the Haudenosaunee for their stewardship of these lands over millennia. We also wish to thank all of the First Nations peoples in Canada and the indigenous peoples of the United States for their ongoing and important roles in the caretaking of the lands beneath our feet, wherever we travel on Turtle Island.

EXECUTIVE TEAM TIM CARROLL, Artistic Director • TIM JENNINGS, Executive Director

BOARD OF GOVERNORS PETER E.S. JEWETT, Chair • SHAUNEEN E. BRUDER, Vice Chair • KRISTIAN O. KNIBUTAT, Treasurer • KENNETH P. FRIEDMAN, Secretary • CHARLES E. BALBACH • SHEILA BROWN • ALBERTA G. CEFIS • PAT DARTE, Lord Mayor, Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake (ex officio) • VIVIEN DZAU • LYLE HALL • ROBERT TIMOTHY JOHNSON • COLLEEN JOHNSTON • IAN M.H. JOSEPH • SHARON LEVITE • EUGENE J. LUNDRIGAN • KEVIN J. PATTERSON • TIMOTHY R. PRICE • JULIAN RANCE, President, Shaw Guild (ex officio) • CORINNE FOSTER RICE • ROBIN RIDESIC • JAIME WATT

SENIOR MANAGEMENT NATALIE ACKERS, Producer • JULIE ALLEN-SARGENT, Controller • AARON BOYD, Senior Manager, Ticketing and Analytics • WES BROWN, Senior Manager, Group and On-site Sales • JEFF CUMMINGS, Planning Director • JANE DAGG, Director, Donor Relations • SARAH FABIANI, Information Technology Director • DON FINLAYSON, Production Director • DIANNE GIBBS, Director, Human Resources • EDA HOLMES / KATE HENNIG, Associate Artistic Directors • LAURA HUGHES, Senior Manager of Communications • NATHALIE IVANYBECCHETTI, Senior Marketing and Brand Manager • KEVIN LAMOTTE, Lighting Design Director • CINDY MEWHINNEY, Director of Advancement • SUZANNE MERRIAM, Senior Manager, Education • CHUCK MEWETT, Senior Manager, Audience Services and Facilities • JIM MEZON / K ATE HENNIG, Academy Directors, Acting • ALISON PEDDIE, Production Stage Manager • MARION RAWSON, Associate Director, Development • ROY REEVES, Director of Finance and Administration • PAUL SPORTELLI, Music Director • VALERIE TAYLOR, Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales

“Fascinating characters and evocative designs make for an engaging theatrical outing that befits the high standards one comes to expect from the Shaw Festival.� broadway world

GRAND HOTEL

by Luther Davis, directed by Eda Holmes, music direction by Paul Sportelli, choreography by Parker Esse, designed by Judith Bowden, lighting designed by Kevin Fraser, sound designed by John Lott.

Vanessa Sears as Flaemmchen with members of the ensemble.

“Hinton’s lively yet trenchant staging utilized a cast of ten, all of whom excelled at performing the material with the right blend of period sincerity and acerbic undertone.”

The hudson review

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR book by Joan Littlewood, Theatre Workshop and Charles Chilton, research by Gerry Raff les, directed by Peter Hinton, music direction by Paul Sportelli, designed by Teresa Przybylski, lighting designed by Bonnie Beecher, projections designed by Howard J. Davis, movement direction by Alexis Milligan.

Jenny L. Wright, Kiera Sangster and Kristi Frank.

ENSEMBLE

David Adams • Shawn Ahmed • Damien Atkins • David Ball • Neil Barclay • Kyle Blair • Kristopher Bowman • Andrew Broderick • Fiona Byrne • Kyla Cook • Julia Course • Ryan Cunningham • James Daly • Starr Domingue • Kristi Frank • Stephen Fry • Rong Fu • Patrick Galligan • Élodie Gillett • Cameron Grant • Martin Happer • Deborah Hay • Jeff Irving • Patty Jamieson • Claire Jullien • Krystal Kiran • Madelyn Kriese • Jani Lauzon • Andrew Lawrie • Allan Louis • Emily Lukasik • Yanna McIntosh • Marla McLean • Patrick McManus • Jeff Meadows • Natasha Mumba • Matt Nethersole • Sarena Parmar • Gray Powell • PJ Prudat • Kimberley Rampersad • David Andrew Reid • Ric Reid • Tara Rosling • Ben Sanders • Kiera Sangster • Vanessa Sears • Travis Seetoo • André Sills • Gabriella Sundar Singh • Pamela Sinha • Graeme Somerville • Jeremiah Sparks • Steven Sutcliffe • Sanjay Talwar • Jonathan Tan • Jacqueline Thair • Michael Therriault • Jay Turvey • Kelly Wong • Jenny L. Wright DIRECTORS Philip Akin • Molly Atkinson • Kevin Bennett • Tim Carroll • Selma Dimitrijevic • Craig Hall • Peter Hinton • Eda Holmes • Ravi Jain • Kimberley Rampersad • Anita Rochon MUSIC DIRECTORS / COMPOSERS / SOUND DESIGNERS Ryan deSouza • John Gzowski • John Lott • Thomas Ryder Payne • Debashis Sinha • Paul Sportelli • Claudio Vena CHOREOGRAPHY / MOVEMENT / PUPPETRY / FIGHT DIRECTION Parker Esse • Élodie Gillett • Alexis Milligan • Valerie Moore • Mike Petersen • John Stead DRAMATURG Guillermo Verdecchia DESIGNERS Judith Bowden • Gillian Gallow • Jennifer Goodman • Peter Hartwell • Camellia Koo • Tamara Marie Kucheran • Sue LePage • Christine Lohre • Steve Lucas • Dana Osborne • Douglas Paraschuk • Teresa Przybylski LIGHTING DESIGNERS Bonnie Beecher • Alan Brodie • André du Toit • Kevin Fraser • Louise Guinand • Mikael Kangas • Kevin Lamotte • Steve Lucas PROJECTION DESIGNER Nick Bottomley • Cameron Davis • Howard J. Davis • Jamie Nesbitt STAGE MANAGERS Sara Allison • Beatrice Campbell • Bradley Dunn • Kate Hennigar • Ashley Ireland • Amy Jewell • Diane Konkin • Meredith Macdonald • Leigh McClymont • Annie McWhinnie • Alison Peddie • Théa Pel • Andrea Schurman • Ken James Stewart • Allan Teichman • Dora Tomassi

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EMERITI Jackie Maxwell • Christopher Newton • Paxton Whitehead

IN MEMORIAM William M. Clarkson • Laurence A. Levite • Cindy Maude • Jonah

McIntosh • Sean Mulcáhy • George F. Philips, Jr • Calvin Rand • David Westlake

SELECTED 2018 STATISTICS

VENUE

NUMBER OF PERFORMANCES

ATTENDANCE

%

Festival Theatre

244

150,749

73

Royal George Theatre

278

65,806

79

Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre

141

22,064

60

Secret Theatre/Other Theatre

41

4,046

100

Tours/Outside Venues

51

8,656

86

Total Season

755

251,321

74

Education / Outreach events 1,554

47,391

N/A

SOURCES OF REVENUE (in thousands)

Earned Revenues

12 Months 2018 % (audited)

$ 18,809

62

12 Months 2017 % (unaudited)

$17,009

59

Fundraising

8,241 27

8,665 30

Government grants

2,420 8

2,668 9

Amortization of Captial Contributions Total Revenue

PRIVATE SECTOR FUNDRAISING REVENUE (in thousands)

Donations and Sponsorships Memberships Special events, in-kind donations & other Foundation distributions Total private sector Fundraising Revenue

784

3

532

2

$ 30,254

100

$28,874

101

12 Months 2018 % (audited)

$ 4,316

52

1,424 17

12 Months 2017 % (unaudited)

$3,712

43

1,366 16

865

11

879

10

1,636

20

2,708

31

$ 8,241

100

$8,665 100

“The language is thrilling, so too are Fry’s interjections of personal meaning and contemporary relevance.” Buffalo News “What most impressed me was Fry’s capacity to keep his audience enthralled as he tells stories within stories within stories.” Toronto Star

MYTHOS

by Stephen Fry, directed by Tim Carroll, set designed by Douglas Paraschuk, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte, projections designed by Nick Bottomley, original music by Paul Sportelli.

Stephen Fry as Himself.

OF MARRIAGE AND MEN

by Bernard Shaw, directed by Philip Akin, set and lighting designed by Steve Lucas, costumes designed by Tamara Marie Kucheran.

Krystal Kiran as She, David Adams as Her Husband and Shawn Ahmed as He in How He Lied to Her Husband.

“The actors find the farce and the fun in this piece, which director Philip Akin matches with breakneck delivery. Their collective effort is a delight.� cleveland jewish news

PROFESSIONAL AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: THE SLAIGHT FAMILY ACADEMY Now entering its second decade, programs are offered through The Slaight Family Academy, all designed to inform, enrich and deepen The Shaw experience.

Professionally, Shaw, through the Academy, provides in-season training for members of the company as well as apprenticeships for young actors, designers, directors, technicians and stage managers. Before the season begins we program a two-week Intensive led by Associate Artistic Director Kate Hennig along with senior company members and visiting experts, designed to give young actors an immersion into the techniques of classical, ensemble theatre as well as an introduction into the political, social and cultural history of our namesake’s era and to help them create the bonds that make our ensemble so expert in their work.

The Neil Munro Intern Directors Project, named for our late Associate Director, is designed to showcase the work of our two intern directors, as they direct a one-act play that is then designed, rehearsed and presented for audiences of company members, specially invited artistic directors and other theatre professionals and members of the Governors Council. Dozens of young directors from across the country apply each year to intern with us, and many of our graduates are now enjoying successful careers as freelance directors and artistic directors. This showcase has been produced for many years and is unique in Canada. This program is generously funded by an anonymous donor.

For our audiences we offer a range of programs, amplified by a significant investment in supporting Tim Carroll’s call for “…a more human, more connected theatre”. Throughout the performance season these activities include the Shaw seminars, teachers’ days, speakers’ series, backstage tours, workshops, lectures, public readings and pre- and post-show discussions (“Continue the Conversation”) with members of the acting ensemble and with the Guild.

For visiting school, university and special-interest groups, we supplement the performances they attend with tours, workshops and discussions, and we offer drama school classes for 8 to 18-yearolds as well as adults.

This activity is made possible by the generous support of The Slaight Family Foundation. The Slaight family has had a profound impact on The Shaw for decades, through their individual and collective generosity and leadership, and in 2009 the Academy was renamed in their honour. Their support is two-fold: as well as a generous annual grant for operations, the Foundation is building a large endowment as a legacy gift. The endowment is growing rapidly thanks in part to matching funding from the Canadian government — ensuring the future sustainability of the Academy and its many programs. We are so proud to announce that in 2018 the Slaight Family generously decided to continue funding of the Academy for another decade, contributing $5 Million over the next 10 years (2019–2028) to support this amazing series of programs In addition to the Slaight Family gifts, The Shaw enjoys significant support for this important aspect of our work from the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation, the RBC Foundation and the RBC Emerging Artists Project, Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life, The Jeffrey Marshall Fund for Student Engagement and Niagara Airbus as well as the two Christopher Newton Internships, generously sponsored by Marilyn and Charlie Baillie.

CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION (in thousands)

As at Dec 31 2018 (audited)

As at Dec 31 2017 (audited)

Cash and cash equivalents

$930

$2,879

Accounts receivable

1,596

1,055

936

1,143

20,945

19,965

$24,407

$25,042

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

1,204

1,208

Deferred revenue

3,809

4.137

Deferred contributions

2,571

2,170

793

1,571

Deferred capital contributions

16,840

17,299

Total liabilities

25,217 26,385

aſſetſ

Other assets Capital assets (net)

liabilities and net assets

Long term debt

net assets Accumulated surplus / (deficit) from operations

(810)

(1,343)­­

Total net assets

(810)

(1,343)­­

$24,407

$25,042

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS (in thousands)

Year End Dec 31 12 Months

Year End Nov 30 12 Months

Year End Dec 31 13 Months

2018 (audited)

2017 (unaudited)

2017 (audited)

earned revenue

$ 18,809 $17,009 $17,194

contributed revenue Fundraising

8,241 8,665 9,325

Grants

2,420 2,668 2,668

Amortization of deferred capital contributions

784

532

522

11,445

11,865

total revenue

30,254 28,874 29,709

12,515

expenses Production and artistic

14,851

15,387

16,037

Marketing and sales

4,573

4,346

4,902

Facilities

1,828 1,763 1,902

Ancillary

1,314 1,171 1,130

Administration

3,904 3,384 3,712

Fundraising

1,955 1,735 1,779

Amortization of capital assets

1,199

862

936

93

162

201

Operating loan interest total expenses revenues over expenses

29,717 28,810 30,599 $537

$64 $(890)

BASIS OF PRESENTATION The Theatre follows the deferral method of accounting for contributions, which include donations, foundation distributions and government grants. Grants, bequests and donations related to specific events or programs are recorded in the accounts when received or receivable if the amount to be received can be reasonably estimated and collection is reasonably assured. Unrestricted contributions are recognized as revenue when initially recorded in the accounts. Externally restricted contributions are deferred when initially recognized in the accounts and recognized as revenue in the year in which the donor has stipulated.

SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

The Endowment Foundation was formed in 2003 under the chairmanship of Anthony R. Graham, a Past Chair of the Shaw Festival Theatre, Canada. It is a separately incorporated entity in Canada.

The Foundation is a registered charitable foundation with the charities division of the Canada Revenue Agency whose objects are to receive, hold and maintain one (1) or more funds and to transfer from time to time all or part of the income therefrom and the capital thereof (unless endowed by the contributor) for the benefit of the Shaw Festival Theatre, Canada.

The Foundation’s funds are used for the long-term support of the Shaw Festival. They are invested by a portfolio manager, Letko Brosseau and Associates Inc, whose performance is monitored by the Investment Committee of the Foundation’s Board. A portion of the net income earned each year provides The Shaw with a reliable source of revenue for operations, and fosters initiatives such as new play development and education programs. As the endowment grows, it is becoming a significant source of revenue through both prudent investment and continuing contributions from donors who appreciate that a healthy endowment is a sign of fiscal responsibility.

The Endowed Fund includes donor contributions, contributions from the Canadian Cultural Investment Fund of Heritage Canada, and contributions from the Ontario Arts Fund. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through their matching program, as well as many generous individuals and the Province of Ontario. It also holds the Andy Pringle Creative Reserve, a pair of funds (both endowed and restricted) honouring former Board Chair Andy Pringle, and designed to allow the Shaw’s Executive team more opportunity to take risks and build capacity through strategic investment.

Though the list of donors is significant, we wish (in particular) to acknowledge the extremely generous gifts of Tim and Frances Price and Marilyn and Charles Baillie to the endowment.

Gifts to the Endowment Foundation can be received from both Canadian and American donors.

SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

ANTHONY R. GR AHAM, Chair • LORNE R. BARCLAY, Vice Chair • TIM JENNINGS, Secretary (ex officio) • ROY REEVES, Treasurer (ex officio) • WILLIAM J. SAUNDERSON, Chair, Investment Committee • RICHARD D. FALCONER • THOMAS R. HYDE • COLLEEN JOHNSTON • PETER E. NESBITT • ANDREW M. PRINGLE • BRUCE WINTER

The Shaw Festival Foundation (USA) is a separate United States 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit incorporated under the laws of New York State, which facilitates contributions to both the Shaw Festival Endowment Foundation and the Shaw Festival Theatre, Canada from U.S. taxpayers.

SHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION (USA)

JAMES M. WADSWORTH, President • VICTOR A. RICE, Vice President • THOMAS R. HYDE, Treasurer • RONALD H. LUCZAK, Secretary • JAMES F. BROWN

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION As of December 31 (in thousands) Unaudited

2018

2017

$156

$75

383

85

Other assets

1,184

850

1,723 1,010

assets Cash and cash equivalents Amounts receivable

Investments at fair value

24,914

25,991

$26,637

$27,001

$19

$17

liabilities and net assets Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

fund balances

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS As of December 31 (in thousands) Unaudited

19 17 26,618 26,984 $26,637 $27,001

2018

2017

Grants and donations

$2,683

$2,137

Investment income

(1,957)

2,526

revenue

726 4,663

expenses Administration

242 226

Excess of revenue before grants

484

4,437

850

1,995

(366)

$2,442

gr ants Shaw Festival Theatre, Canada Excess of revenue over expenses for the year

SHAW IN OUR COMMUNITY / SHAW ON TOUR The Shaw Festival has a long history of taking its productions to other venues, starting as early as 1967 — Canada’s centennial year — when at the end of the sixth season Major Barbara travelled to Montreal and Winnipeg.

In the current era, we have divided our work outside our theatres in Niagara-on-the-Lake as belonging to one of two types of work. Shaw on Tour — our work going out to other professional theatre colleagues and co-producers — and Shaw in the Community — performances in venues and locations that bring theatre directly into community spaces like hospitals, elderly-care facilities and shelters, as well as pop-up events and secret theatre happenings for our own Niagara communities.

In 2018, a run of our 2016 hit play Master Harold...and the Boys travelled to Montreal’s Centaur Theatre and Buffalo’s 710 Main St Theatre in partnership with Obsidian Theatre (Toronto).

Middletown, the darling of our 2017 season, was remounted in Toronto at Crow’s Theatre, in partnership with them, to tremendous success.

O’Flaherty, VC toured into community venues and Legion halls in Niagara throughout the summer. Secret Theatre events occurred all over town, many themed to the anniversary of WW1, and an audience composed of local migrant farm workers and their families joined us at The Magician’s Nephew and Grand Hotel. Added to this were run out trips to Florida, Cleveland and New York with artists reading and showcasing work from the season. All of these generated parternships and goodwill that are going to have lasting and repeatable impact on our future.

NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT Since the introduction of playwrights into the Shaw Company and new work into our programming, our audiences have shown their enthusiasm for a wide range of plays, translations and adaptations. Past successes include Belle Moral: A Natural History by Ann-Marie MacDonald, which premiered in 2005 and Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea in a new version by Erin Shields, who won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for English Language Drama.

In 2018 we offered three new works to our audiences including a new adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew by Michael O’Brien, the Mythos trilogy by Stephen Fry and The Orchard (After Chekhov) by Sarena Parmar, as well commissioning new revisions of Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac by Kate Hennig, C.S. Lewis’ Horse and His Boy by Anna Chatterton and partnering with Ravi Jain and Why Not Theatre to create a new multi production adaptation of the South Aisan epic, the Mahabharata.

To bring these new works to the stage involves a process of readings, workshops and design, sometimes over several seasons. Both The Shaw and our Canadian writers are eligible for funding from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council in the form of special grants, and the annual support we receive from both these agencies reflects in part our commitment to advancing the theatrical canon.

We are also grateful for special funding received from individual donors who want to support this important work, and who are delighted to be a part of our new play development process.

“Confidently and assuredly a Canadian play — a mosaic of culture and attitude, remembrance and loss, with its own vivid sense of time and place.” capital critics circle

THE ORCHARD (AFTER CHEKHOV)

by Sarena Parmar, directed by Ravi Jain, designed by Camellia Koo, lighting designed by André du Toit, original music and sound designed by Debashis Sinha, dramaturgy

by Guillermo Verdecchia, fight direction by John Stead.

David Adams as Kesur, Jeff Meadows as Michael, Shawn Ahmed as Peter, Sanjay Talwar as Gurjit, Pamela Sinha as Loveleen, Krystal Kiran as Barminder and Sarena Parmar as Annie.

“Put Stage Kiss on your list: Already, with just its second opening of the season, the Shaw Festival has a strong contender for best comedy of the summer.” the Globe and Mail

STAGE KISS

by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Anita Rochon, designed by Gillian Gallow, lighting designed by Louise Guinand, original music and sound designed by Thomas Ryder Payne, movement directed by Élodie Gillett, fight direction by John Stead.

Fiona Byrne as She and Martin Happer as He.

STAFF EXECUTIVE TEAM Artistic Director TIM CARROLL Executive Director TIM JENNINGS Executive Assistant JANET HANNA

CREATIVE MANAGEMENT Associate Artistic Director KATE HENNIG Planning Director JEFF CUMMINGS Producer NATALIE ACKERS Music Director PAUL SPORTELLI Company Manager BARRY BURNS Interim Company Manager NIKI POIRIER Publications Co-ordinator JEAN GERMAN Intern MICHELLE MOHAMMED Associate Music Director/ Conductor/Company Pianist RYAN DESOUZA

THE SLAIGHT FAMILY ACADEMY Academy Director, Acting KATE HENNIG Voice and Dialect Associates EDDA SHARPE SARAH SHIPPOBOTHAM Voice and Dialect Coach JEFFREY SIMLETT ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE VICTORIA HEART Singing Coaches CAROL BAGGOTT-FORTE EILEEN SMITH Movement Coaches ESIE MENSAH ALEXIS MILLIGAN Senior Manager, Education SUZANNE MERRIAM Education Co-ordinator MEGAN GILCHRIST Intern Directors DIANA DONNELLY TAWIAH BEN MCCARTHY Music Intern PATRICK BOWMAN

PRODUCTION Production Director DON FINLAYSON Technical Directors MARK CALLAN ANRITA PETRAROIA JASON WOODGATE Production Administrator MARGARET FERENCZ PRODUCTION BUYERS DAN GALLO NICOLE JAMES

Design Lighting Design Director KEVIN LAMOTTE Assistant Lighting Designers NICK ANDISON

First Hands AUDREY-JOY BERGSMA PILLING CHRISTINE GROSSKURTH DARLENE HENDRY ANDREA MACKENZIE

Festival Electrician BRENT TOMLINSON

Royal George Lunchtime Operator BILL TALBOT

Apprentice Stage Managers KATE HENNIGAR KEN JAMES STEWART

Sewers TIINA ADAMS STACEY BONAR REBECCA BOYD CASEY BROWN CAROL FARNAN MICHELLE GADULA FRANCINE GAUVREAU ERIN HUITEMA NANCY KAPODISTRIAS ALIS KILICOGLU CARLA LONG DARLENE NASZADOS BRONWYN PEL BOBBI PIDDUCK ELAINE REDDING ROWAN REIMER KATHY SCOZZAFAVA MIA VAASJO KATHLEEN VAN DYKE MICHELLE WARREN VERONICA WATKINS MADISON WATSON

Properties

Scenic Art

MIKAEL KANGAS CHRIS MALKOWSKI NICHOLAS VINCENT DESIGN ASSISTANTS HANNE LOOSEN CHRISTINE URQUHART Assistant Projection Designer LAURA WARREN

Stage Management Production Stage Manager ALISON PEDDIE Stage Managers BEATRICE CAMPBELL DIANE KONKIN MEREDITH MACDONALD ANDREA SCHURMAN ALLAN TEICHMAN DORA TOMASSI Assistant Stage Managers BRADLEY DUNN ASHLEY IRELAND AMY JEWELL LEIGH MCCLYMONT ANNIE MCWHINNIE THÉA PEL

Head of Properties WAYNE REIERSON Props Co-ordinator TAMMY FENNER Buyer BRENT HICKEY Driver DAN GALLO Builders JEFF BINGLEY ANNA-MARIE BAUMGART ROB BROPHY MARTINA ERSKINE MATT LECKIE ALEXA MACKENZIE JENNA PURNELL JENNIFER STEVENS BUNNY TURNBULL

Wardrobe Head of Wardrobe JASON BENDIG

Head of Scenic Art GWYNETH STARK Scenic Artists PAULA ENGSTROM ANDREA HARRINGTON REBECCA LEE JANA SIMMS

Scenic Construction

Video Technician TREVOR HUGHES 2nd Royal George/Studio Operator/Swing MELANIE THIVIERGE Festival Deck Electricians JASON CHESWORTH ROBIN FARMER SHAWN GILBERT 1st Spot Operator/Deck Electrician JEAN ST ONGE 2nd Spot Operator BRIAN SKELTON Festival Changeover Electricians BRYAN OSMAN PAUL TOYNE

Stage Crew Head Stage Carpenter DAVID EDWARDS Festival Stage Carpenter ARCHIE MACKENZIE Royal George Stage Carpenter KEVIN WATSON Studio Stage Carpenter JEFF BINGLEY Royal George Swing Stage Supervisor DAVID SCHILZ Studio Swing Stage Supervisor FOLKERT BERGSMA

Assistant Head of Scenic

Royal George Lunchtime Supervisor JEREMY KLASSEN

Construction PAUL JENKINS Trades CHRYSTINE ANDERSON GEORGE GALANIS MICHAEL HASLEHURST TOM HURST KIRK NORTH MIKE PALMIERI DAVID WESTLAKE Shop Administrator SHANNON ENGEMANN

Wardrobe Co-ordinator KENDRA COOPER

Construction Electrics

Buyer MAUREEN GURNEY

Studio Electrician JOHN MARSHALL

Head of Scenic Construction LESSLIE TUNMER

Associate Head of Wardrobe JANET ELLIS

Wardrobe Apprentices HALEY HELM JOANNE PACINDA

Royal George Electrician PAUL MCMANIS

Head of Construction Electrics JOHN VANIDOUR Construction Electrician ANTHONY BLASCHUK, JR

Audio

Festival Flyperson TOM POLCI Festival Properties Runner JOY BEELEY Royal George Properties Runners PETER GRACIE MARTIN WOODYARD Studio Properties Runner JOE BONAR Festival Stage Trades FRANK ZALOKAR

Changeover Crew Festival Changeover Supervisor KEVIN MCGUIRE Festival Changeover Flyperson ROB MAZZA Festival Changeover Hands CARM SACCO PAUL TIMMERMAN AARON WILLICK

Milliner MARGIE BERGGREN MILLINER ASSISTANT KATHRYN URBANEK

Head of Audio WALTER LAWRENCE

Bijoux/Decoration MICHELLE HARRISSON

Royal George Audio Operator JULIAN MAINPRIZE

Royal George Changeover Supervisor ROB GRINDLAY

Boots/Shoes SADIE DUCROIX KAREN BEAMES

Studio Audio Operator ETHAN RISING

Royal George Changeover Trade PAUL CZARTOWSKI

2nd Royal George and Studio Operator JOEY BALDUCCHI

Royal George Changeover Hand ROLF LIEDTKE

Dyer JEAN RUMNEY

Festival Audio Operator FRED GABRSEK

Cutters TRULY CARMICHAEL RAMONA CRAWFORD MORGAN MACKINTOSH AVRIL STEVENSON

1st Festival rf Technician/3rd Royal George Audio Operator COREY MACFADYEN

Wardrobe Running

2nd Festival rf Technician JAMES MASSWOHL

Festival Wardrobe Supervisor JOANNE BLASCHUK

Tailor CHERYL HUGHES

Electrics

Royal George Wardrobe Supervisor KATY NAGY

Head of Electrics JOHN BOBREL

Head of Wardrobe Running MARGARET MOLOKACH

Studio Wardrobe Supervisor PAM GALLOP

Co-ordinator, Gift Processing ANTOINETTE MOORE

2nd Royal George Wardrobe SUPERVISOR MICHELLE GADULA

Co-ordinator, Corporate Partnerships TINA SCHMIDT

2nd Studio Wardrobe Supervisor STACEY BONAR

Administrative Assistant PIPPA BARWELL

3rd Royal George Wardrobe Supervisor KATHLEEN VAN DYKE

Supervisors, Membership Services JEFF MACKAY MATT RATELLE

Festival Wardrobe Attendants CAROLINE DELAVAULT SADIE DUCROIX CHRISTINA GALANIS DOT WARD Royal George Wardrobe Attendant ELAINE REDDING Studio Wardrobe Attendant BOBBI PIDDUCK

Wigs and Make-up

Intern KATY LITTLEJOHN Membership Staff ELIZABETH ABRAHIM JENIFER BASSIL TERESA COSTELLO THERESA FEOR DANIEL LIZZOTTI SHELLEY MCBAIN ANNE WILSON

Head of Wigs and Make-up LORNA HENDERSON

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Festival Wigs Supervisor FLORENCE LEWIS

Director ROY REEVES

Royal George Wigs Supervisor LORENA GHIRARDI

Controller JULIE ALLEN-SARGENT

Studio Wigs Supervisor SHERRY NASMITH-JONES

Payroll Co-ordinator RICK FOKKENS

2nd Festival Wigs Supervisor JOE PAONESSA

Senior Accountant CATHY CONDINA

2nd Royal George Wigs Supervisor CHRISTINE SMITH

Accounts Payable Clerks MONICA BUDD TRISH FEDOROWICH

2nd Studio Wigs Supervisor CINDY EMERY

Finance Assistant JAYME SWANWICK

3rd Royal George Wigs Supervisor NANCY BOON Festival Wigs Attendants ROXANNE DIFRANCESCO LIN MCCOY

MANAGEMENT Human Resources Director DIANNE GIBBS

Housing

Audience Services and Facilities

Senior Officer, Individual Gifts & Legacy Giving KIMBERLEY WHITE Senior Major Gifts Officer SHELLEY KUZMA Manager, Governors Council CHRISTINE PELLERIN Manager, Membership Services TIM CZABAN Stewardship Officers CATHARINE CARR JULIANNA COLE HEATHER SARGESON-CALLARA Associate, Donor Relations RENATA DIFILIPPO Co-ordinator, Data and Reporting COLLEEN MONFILS

Supervisor PAUL RODGERS

Information Technology

Managers, Front-of-House CHRIS ANDRONEY LAURA CAHILL RYAN HULL GREG MCARTHUR GEORGINA PIOVESANA MURIEL TRIANO

Head of Maintenance/Security GREIG HUNTER

Associate Director MARION RAWSON

Distribution

Manager, Food and Beverage JULIANNA UGUCCIONI

Maintenance LARRY BENNETT

Director, Donor Relations JANE DAGG

Maintenance/Events Crew NEIL SMITH GROUNDS CREW TYLER LEYLAND

Co-ordinator MARGARET CUMMING

Head of Housekeeping CHERYL CAIRNS

DEVELOPMENT

Housekeeping Staff PAMELA BRAZEAU MARIE DUMOULIN WENDY JARRY JOANNE JONES LORI-ANN MCALLISTER PAT MCAULAY NELLA MULLEN CARMELLA SAPIENZA DONNA SMITH JUDY SOBIERAJ MAINTENANCE LEAD HAND DAVID MCCARTHY MAINTENANCE CREW HEAD ANDY LOUTER

Senior Manager CHUCK MEWETT

Co-ordinator MARGARET CATHERWOOD

Director of Advancement CINDY MEWHINNEY

SARAH MCDOUGALL JENNIFER MCLAREN F. PAQUITA MUNDAY STERLING PENTAL ADRIANNA POLITO JOANNE PRIESTMAN MELANIA RADELICKI ROSS RINGLER KATHERINE ROBERT JESSICA SCHRYER JIM SMIRNIS ELEANOR SNIDER PAUL SNIDER KEITH SUTHERLAND MELANIE THOMPSON OLIVIA TRIVIERI JEANETTE WARD

Front-of-House/Food and Beverage Staff DENNIS ALBERT JON BALD JEANNIE BERG LAUREN BOWMAN LEA BOWMAN OWEN BROWN WILLIAM CROTHERS DAVID DIFRANCESCO SUSAN DYER BEVERLY EDWARDSON DARCY ELLISON CATHERINE ENS WENDY FRASER GAIL HEWITT JULIA HILL SHARON JEAN CONNOR KING DARREN KLASSEN GARY KRAUSE ANTHONY KUCHAR ANNE MARIE LENC VERA LENC ISAAC LILLIE MARY MATHEWS AMANDA MCDONNELL

Production Photographer DAVID COOPER Photographer EMILY COOPER

Sales Senior Manager, Ticketing and Analytics AARON BOYD Box Office Manager KELLY MCNEELY Assistant Managers, Sales and Box Office CARI GOSNELL RYAN HULL Co-ordinator, Staffing and Reporting SARAH RODGERS Co-ordinator, Sales Technology SHANNA TAILLON BOX OFFICE STAFF BEV BURGER ANDREA COLE GENY COLICCHIO-QUINN ELISA DAVIS BENNETT FERGUSON SUSANNE HESLOP JOY LAMBERT COURTNEY O’DONOGHUE JOEL RENNER NICHOLAS SIDLAR ANDREW STADTMULLER ANTONETTA TREMONTE Senior Manager, Group and On-site Sales WES BROWN

Green Room Kitchen Manager ALISON KICUL

Director SARAH FABIANI

Staff HANNAH ANDERSON SARAH JONES ERIKA LOFFELMANN DANNI MORRISON-FUHRMANN

Senior Developer MIKE FARR

Retail

Database Analyst VIKTOR STREMLER Network Administrator JOHN CHRISTIAN

Reception Supervisor LEEANNE PRICE Database-Maintenance Receptionists SUSAN ASHUKIAN MAUREEN BUTLER JOAN CHAMBERS

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND SALES Director VALERIE TAYLOR Senior Marketing and Brand Manager NATHALIE IVANYBECCHETTI Direct Marketing Co-ordinator MARY CLARE LAMON Graphic Designer SARAH DOWSE

Communications Senior Manager LAURA HUGHES Co-ordinator JENNIFFER ANAND Digital Engagement Specialist ALYSSA LEPP

Manager, Retail Sales and Shaw Express MATT WEAVER Staff MARCUS ANDREWS PIPPA BARWELL MARK FRIESEN JENNIFER PALABAY DANA PERESSOTTI STACY ROBERTSON CHELSEA TOTTEN

Special Ticketing Senior Manager ALLISON COCHRAN Assistant Co-ordinator JANE MCINTYRE Assistant JULIE JONES

House Programmes PUNCH & JUDY INC

Theatre Chiropractor/rmt DR BREANNE SCHULTZ

Shaw Librarian

NANCY BUTLER

Resident Scholar

LEONARD CONOLLY

Artistic Directors Emeriti JACKIE MAXWELL CHRISTOPHER NEWTON PAXTON WHITEHEAD

THE BARONESS AND THE PIG

by Michael Mackenzie, directed by Selma Dimitrjevic, designed by Camellia Koo, lighting designed by Kevin Lamotte, original music and sound designed by John Gzowski.

Yanna McIntosh as the Baroness and Julia Course as Emily.

“After digesting this production for a few days, I found myself thinking: Hold on, that was absolutely brilliant.� the globe and mail

O’FLAHERTY V.C.

by Bernard Shaw, directed by Kimberley Rampersad, designed

by Sue LePage, lighting designed

by Mikael Kangas, music direction by Patrick Bowman.

Ben Sanders as O’Flaherty and Patrick McManus as General Sir Pearce Madigan.

“This year’s lunchtime show serves up just the right mixture of serious and silly. Kimberley Rampersad’s charming production revives the tradition of filling the 11:30 am slot with a short play by the festival’s namesake playwright.”

Toronto Star

2018 DONORS *Shaw Company/ Ensemble member

+ Board Alumni

++ Board Member

The Shaw Festival cannot maintain our stature as one of the last, great repertory ensemble theatre companies in the English world without the support of thousands of generous donors. We receive grants and gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations and all levels of government. These contributions, from both Canada and the US, support our work in our multiple theatres, in the community and around the world, as well as securing our future through gifts to our Endowment Foundation.

We are grateful to all our donors, and welcome gifts of any size. While we cannot list everyone who contributed in the 2018 season, we acknowledge here our most generous contributors.

CUMULATIVE GIVING Thank you to the following individuals and family foundations who have given $250,000 or more in cumulative donations to the Shaw Festival: The 1916 Foundation • Marilyn & Charles+ Baillie • Estate of Mona M. Campbell • Estate of Valerie Delacorte • Val Fleming+ • Nona Heaslip+ • Tim++ & Frances Price • The Slaight Family Foundation • Donald+ & Elaine+ Triggs • Carol Walker and Estate of John Greenhill Walker

$1 MILLION+

$750,000+ Anonymous Buffalo Donors • Carol & David+ Appel • Estate of Walter Carsen • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation • The John R. Oishei Foundation • William++ and Meredith Saunderson • Shaw Festival Guild • 1 anonymous gift $500,000+ Estate of Bram & Bluma Appel • Rennie & Bill+ Humphries • Colleen++ & Brian Johnston •

Diane & James King • Nancy and John McFadyen • The John R. Oishei Foundation • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle • Corinne++ & Victor++ Rice • The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation • 1 anonymous gift $250,000+ Charles Balbach++ • James F. Brown++ • Michael Eagen & Michele Darling+ • Mr & Mrs Anthony++ R. Graham • Corinne Hansen • Mary E. Hill • Mr Richard M. Ivey • Don & Gundy+ Jackson • Michael & Sonja+ Koerner • George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation • Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation • Bernard Ostry+, oc • Barbara Palk+ & John Warwick+ • Peter M. Partridge • Ada W. Slaight+ • Allan Slaight+ • Liz Tory+ • Maureen+ & Wayne Squibb • Jim++ & Michal+ Wadsworth (Carlos & Elizabeth Heath Foundation, Mulroy Family Foundation, Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation) • Estate of Gerald Yanke • 1 anonymous gift

We also recognize the following corporations for their cumulative donations: $1 MILLION+ Bell Canada • CIBC • Honda Canada Inc. • HSBC • RBC • Scotiabank • Sun Life Financial • TD Bank Group

ENDOWMENT & ESTATE GIFTS Marilyn & Charles+ Baillie • Estate of William Clarkson • Doralee & Lawrence Garfinkel • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde • Cynthia & Malcolm+ Macdonald • Mary I. McLeod Foundation • H & R Mida Charitable Foundation • Estate of Muriel O’Mulvenny • Estate of Elizabeth Rank • Estate of Angela Roland • Ruth & Charles Schwartz • The Slaight Family Foundation • Estate of Helen Allen Stacey • 2 anonymous gifts ANDY PRINGLE CREATIVE RESERVE Tim++ & Frances Price Risk Fund

• R. James & Patsy Anderson • Shauneen++ & Michael Bruder • Anthony & Shari Fell • Colleen++ & Brian Johnston • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle • Gary & Donna Slaight • Jaime Watt++ & Paul Ferguson • Libby & Chuck Winograd

IN SUPPORT OF THE 2018 SEASON MAJOR & SPECIAL GIFTS $250,000+ Gabriel Pascal Memorial Fund • The Slaight Family Foundation • 1 anonymous gift $100,000+ Nona Heaslip+ • Colleen++ & Brian Johnston • Corinne++ & Victor++ Rice $50,000+ ARTISTS CIRCLE James F. Brown++ • Val Fleming+ • Mary E. Hill • Dr Christopher & Mrs Jeanne

Jennings • Diane & James King • 1 anonymous gift $25,000+ PRODUCERS CIRCLE Richard & Mona Alonzo • Carol & David+ Appel • Gail+ & Mark Appel •

Charles Balbach++ • Wendy & Bruce Gitelman • Corinne Hansen • Mr & Mrs C.L. Hunt • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde • Kristian++ & Anita Knibutat • Mrs Susan Lee • Mona+ & Harvey Levenstein • The Jasmine & Kevin++ Patterson Family Foundation • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle • Dr Reza Rastegar, Elissa Rastegar & Mrs Sheryl Armstrong Rastegar • William++ & Meredith Saunderson • Nancy Smith+ • Philip Terranova & Audrey Allen • Jaime Watt++ and Paul Ferguson • 1 anonymous gift GOVERNORS COUNCIL ANNUAL DONORS HONORARY LIFE MEMBER Ada W. Slaight+ DRESS CIRCLE ($15,000+) Patricia & Barrie Barootes • Sheila Brown++ & Doug Guzman • Robin Campbell & Peter Jewett++ • Truly Carmichael* & Tim Jennings*++ • Alberta G. Cefis++ • Mike Grey • Nathan & Marilyn Hayward • Oliver Kent & Martine Jaworski • R. Susan MacIntyre • Jim Meekison+ & Carolyn Keystone • Lois Murray & Linda Murray • Esther & Sam Sarick • Diane P. Stampfler • Dorothy Strelsin Foundation • Jim++ & Michal+ Wadsworth • Barbara+ & Colin Watson • 1 anonymous gift FOUNDERS CIRCLE ($10,000+) Eric Baker Family Foundation • Evelyn Bateman • Shauneen++ & Michael

Bruder • Tim Carroll*++ & Alexis Milligan* • William Chapman • Vivien Dzau++ & Daniel MacIntosh • Michael Eagen & Michele Darling+ • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • Wayne & Isabel Fox • Kenneth++ & Amy Friedman • Marlene & Darryl Fry • Dr Bob Gaines & Toni Burke • Judy Goetz Sanger+ • John & Judith Grant • In memory of Charles J. Hahn • Lyle Hall++ • Elizabeth Heersink • Rennie & Bill+ Humphries • Rebecca & Ian++ Joseph • Kingfisher Foundation • Betty & Jamie Knight • Mr & Mrs Charles F. Kreiner Jr. • Janet & Sidney Lindsay • Eugene Lundrigan++ & Tracey Remkes • Nancy & John McFadyen • Petrina & Peter++ Nesbitt • Margaret A. Riggin • J & L Rogers Charitable Foundation • Dr Frederick Ross & Mrs Nancy Gosewich Ross • Evelyn M. Spielmann • Carol Walker • M & N Walker Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation • 1 anonymous gift BENEFACTOR ($6000+) Virginia Atkin & Keith Ambachtsheer • Richard & Diane Armstrong • Scott & Ruth

Aspinall • James Baillie & Elizabeth Kocmur • Marilyn & Charles+ Baillie • Lee & Barbara Bentley • Edward & Nancy Berkhout • Jim Bertram & Bonnie Foster • Nani & Austin Beutel • Peter & Suzanne Bland • Doug & Valerie Brenneman • Thomas Burrows • John+ & Pattie Cleghorn • Serge & Giulia Delannoy • Mr James Duhaime & Dr Heather Hannah • Andrew Fleming+ & Roger Keglevich • Dan Hagler & Family • Sally Harmer • Sandra McKee Hind-Smith • Mr Richard M. Ivey • Omar & Leslie Khan • Lori Labatt • Naomi & Dave Lee • Cynthia & Malcolm+ Macdonald • Robert+ & Margaret MacLellan • Dr & Mrs Mario Malizia • Richard McCoy+ • Noel D. Mowat • Bill & Lee Nelson • Peter Partridge & Poppy Gilliam • David & Daphne Pfaff • Marilyn Pilkington & Wayne Shaw • The Pottruff Family Foundation • Margaret Rieger • Drs. Jolie Ringash & Glen Bandiera • Mr & Mrs Paul Rowcliffe • Frank & Susan Saraka • James & Marguerite Schellentrager • Stuart & Wendy Smith • Maureen+ & Wayne Squibb • Ken Stowe & Nita Farmer • Elizabeth Terry • Liz Tory+ • Tom & Carmela Vert • Paul Warun • Gregg+ & Joan Watkins • Jeanne & William Watson • Dr Richard & Mrs Marion Wilkinson • Stefa & Les Williams • 2 anonymous gifts LEADING PATRON ($3500+) Robert C. Anderson • Callie Archer • Dr Charles & Mrs Susanne Armitage • Lynne & Tony Ashworth • Mr & Mrs Gregory+ James Aziz • Ed & Connie Babcock • Peter & Marilyn Balan • Barberian Steak House Family • Laurie Barrett • David & Faith Bell • Ronald D. Besse+ • Edward & Caryn Chatten • Jeffrey Chessum • Rosemary Chew • Jean & Joe Chorostecki • David & Valerie Christie • John+ & Lynn+ Clappison • Hazel Claxton+ & Jude Robinson • Cathy & Gary+ Comerford • Marion Cross • Jane Dagg* & Peter Hartwell* • Margaret Davidson • Patricia G. Debrusk • Marilyn Dickinson • John & Patricia Dimitrieff • Sydney Duder • Sarah* & Tom Fabiani • Mrs Margaret Fairman • Mario Ferrara & Annabel Kennedy • Donald & Cathy Fogel • Carol & Burke Fossee • Mark & Frannie Gallien • Nancy & Graham

Garton • John Geller • Robert H. Gibson & F. H. Gibson • Fred & Charleen Gorbet • Art Grierson • In Memory of Charles J. (Jack) Hahn: Perelandra Fund • Dr Susan E.H. Hall • Mike & Cindy Hansen • Laurie & Douglas Harley • Douglas+ & Colleen Hunter • Jacob & Inge Iliohan • Oliver Jakob & Bettina Buss • David & Joanne Jones • Douglas Kahn • Ellen & Nick Kammer • Ursula Keller • Dr Gordon Kirke • Mira & Saul Koschitzky • Jean Lam & Paul Ostrander • Joanne Lang • Victor C. Laughlin, MD Memorial Foundation Trust • Esther Lee • Lorraine Lee & Michael O’Bee • Larry Lubin • Sharmini Mahadevan & Diana Dimmer • Rita & Charles Maimbourg • Jefferson & Sally Mappin • Prof Frederick Marker & Anne Dupre • Dennis & Bernadette Martin • Gail Martin & John Kaloyanides • Anthony B. & Mary+ S. Martino • Hon Margaret McCain • Sandra & Dennis McCarthy • Janet+ & Bruce McKelvey • Dr Donna McRitchie & Dr Shaf Keshavjee • Cindy* & Derek Mewhinney • Claudia & Gerry Morelli • Paul & Karen Munninghoff • Blake Murray & Nancy Riley • J. A. Newey • David Pakrul & Sandra Onufryk • Barbara Palk+ & John Warwick+ • Joyce & Roy* Reeves • Pinky+ & Bill Regan • Rick & Pegi Reininger • Sam & Robin++ Ridesic • Joy Rogers • Harry & Anne Rusling • Lori Russell • Susan & Peter Salomonsson • Mr & Mrs Michael S. Schwenger • Rick & Jari Searns • Doug & Cheryl Seaver • Craig E. Smith & Kelly A. Lee • Wendy & Wayne Smith • Dr Diane M. Soubly • Marc St-Onge+ & Kellie Saunders • Gerald & Margaret Sutton • Adele & Michael Swartz • Lois Tatelman • Donald+ & Elaine+ Triggs • Ian Waldron & Tim Redmann • Barbara Palk & John Warwick • Mr Justice David Watt • Thomas & Sasha Weisz • Mark & Marilyn Wheaton • Chris & Lorayne Winn • Bruce++ & Susan Winter • Ron & Kay Woodfine - Just Christmas • Bob & Joan Wright • Terry+ & Brenda Yates • 4 anonymous gifts PATRON ($2000+) Urve & Lewis Abbott • Judith M. Adam & Marc Zwelling • Jerome Andersen & June Hajjar • Elaine Anderson • Diane Arsenault & Gwyer Moore • Ms Heather Bacon • Nancy Bailey • Aubrey+ & Marsha Baillie • Janet & Roy Baldwin • Richard J. Balfour • Mona Bandeen • Mr Bradford H. Banks • Lorne++ & Rosemary Barclay • Michael Barnstijn & Louise MacCallum • Robert & Loretta Barone • Dr Brian & Jenifer* Bassil • Paul & Sue Baston • Roland H. & Mary Bauer • Bob & Marilyn Beach • Elizabeth Bedford-Jones • Dr Thomas H. Beechy • Michel & Doreen Bell • Ken & Peggy Bell • Robert Berckmans & Joanne Heritz • Dr David H. Bergen & Deborah Kehler • Greg+ & Karen Berti • Lynn Bevan • Patricia Bigelow • Elisabetta Bigsby • Stacey Lynn Bilotta • Colin & Sandy Black • John & Nancy Bligh • David & Marion Bogert • Barbara Gage Bolton • Nancy Bongard+ • Ronald James Boone • The Rev Dr Catherine G. Borchert • Joan & Larry Bourk • Walter M. Bowen & Lisa Balfour Bowen • Mr Peter Bracken & Ms Margaret Mitchell • Helen & Bob Bradfield • Michael & Kate Bradie • Ann-Louise Branscombe Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation • Bernard & Annette Braude • Mary & Tony Brebner • rITA & Charles Bronfman • Mr & Mrs Bruce R. Brown • Dr & Mrs Margot Burnell • Bob & Lynn Burt • Dr & Mrs+ John L. Butsch • Mark Callan* & Marion Rawson* • Douglas & Maureen Cameron • Patrick & Vanda Carbone • Rob & Arlene+ Carson • Joan Chilcott & the late Ernest Chilcott • Roger & Susan Christensen • Robert & Karen Christmann • Kathie & Bill Clark • William+ & Elisabeth Clarkson • Earlaine Collins • Glenna & Derek Collins • William Constantine & Margaret Wellington • Drs. Charlie & Diana Cook • Harry M. Core • Dr George Corella & James Frackenpohl • Katherine Robb Corlett • Catherine Cornell & Declan Lane • Dr Lesley S. Corrin • Cathy & Paul Cotton • John & Ruth Crow • Al Cummings • Elizabeth T. Daly+ • B. H. Davidson, M.D. • David & Linda Dayler • Michael+ & Honor de Pencier • George & Kathy Dembroski • Amanda Demers & Brian Collins • Mr Patrick Devine • Dr Delf Dodge & Mr Timothy Dodson • Britt & Nancy Doherty • Ken & Ginny Douglas • Vicky Downes • Robert Dunigan & Robert McDonald • Peter & Suzanne Durant • Paula & Thomas Elsinghorst • Bill & Barb Etherington • Donald G. Evans • George A. Fierheller, C.M. • Andy Filardo & Beth Profit • Tina Filoromo • Russell C. & Carol N. Finch • Don Finlayson* • James R. Fleck & Dr Sandra Zakarow • Mr David Flora • Gary & Valerie Foerster • Ron Folkes • JE & Michele Fordyce • Patricia & Robert Forsythe • Jim & Mary Lou Fullerton • Richard Furnstahl & Teresa Stankiewicz • Rev Ivars Gaide & Rev Dr Anita Gaide • Marian Galligan • Angeline Galotta • Dianne Gibbs* • Hope & Libby Gibson • Robert Gibson • Robert & Ann Gillespie • Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson • Dr Alexander Gluskin & Ms Shauna Sexsmith • John & Susan Goddard • Vaughn & Lauren Goettler • David Gooding & William Martin Jean • Mr Richard Gotlib and Ms Virginia Kairys • Suzanne Gouvernet • Jacques Thibault & Ruth M. Gover • Mr & Mrs Anthony++ R. Graham • In Memory of Bernice Graham • Ruth & Sarah Grandoni • David & Sharon Graper • Roe Green • Rob Haines U. E. • Annette Hamm & Daniel Smith • Donald Harrington • Chris & Michelle Hatch and Family • Doris Hausser • Ms Maggie Hayes • Dr & Mrs Gerald Heasman • Roberta Heath • Pamela+ & Robert Heilman • Hon Paul & Mrs Sandra Hellyer • Lauri & Jean Hiivala • Anne T. & Thomas C. Hilbert • Marion F. Hill • In Memory of Pauline Hinch • April & Norbert Hoeller • Mary E. Hofstetter & R. David Riggs • Christopher Hoile & Howard Clarke • Ann Holcomb & Rene Bertschi • Richard & Susan Horner • Dr & Mrs C.E.M. Horning • Sheila Hosking & Carol Mae Maidens • Susan A. Howard • John J. & Maureen O. Hurley • Henry N.R. Jackman+ • Roberta Jacobs-Meadway & Jay Meadway • George & Zoya Jenks • Tim++ & Lisa Johnson • Dr David & Glenda Jones • Lorraine Kaake • Patrick & Barbara Keenan

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

by Charles Dickens, directed by Molly Atkinson, adapted and originally directed by Tim Carroll, designed by Christine Lohre, lighting designed

by Kevin Lamotte, original music and original music direction by Paul Sportelli, music direction by Ryan deSouza, movement and puppetry

by Alexis Milligan.

Michael Therriault as Scrooge.

“Brilliant. Presented with beauty and lavish warmth. Therriault’s Scrooge is the most intricate and perfectly comic I’ve ever seen.” oakville news

CORPORATE DONORS THEATRE SPONSORS Paradigm Capital Inc. PRODUCTION SPONSORS BMO Financial Group • CIBC • Hummel Properties • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

• The Shaw Guild • TD Bank Group • Vintage Hotels PROGRAM SUPPORTERS BeauChapeau Hap Shop • Critelli’s Fine Furniture • Delta Air Lines • Great-West

Life, London Life and Canada Life • The Guarantee Company of North America • Hodgson Russ LLP • IBM • Niagara Airbus • Niagara Falls Bridge Commission • Pratt & Whitney Canada • RBC Emerging Artists Project • Riverview Cellars Estate Winery • Scotiabank • Sun Life Financial • Trafalgar Tours MEDIA AND PRODUCT SPONSORS Balzac’s Coffee Roasters • Foregrounds Media Inc. • Hummel Properties •

Peller Estates Winery & Restaurant • Trius Winery & Restaurant • Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery & Distillery • Writers Tears Irish Whiskey, Walsh Whiskey Distillery EVENT SPONSORS The Boston Consulting Group, Shaw Social • KPMG, Shaw Social PERFORMANCE HOSTS & BUSINESS MEMBERS Designer Fabric Outlet LTD • Irish Design • Old Town Goodies •

Procor Limited • Simpson’s Pharmacy, Virgil & Simpson’s Apothecary, Niagara-on-the-Lake • The Woodbridge Company Limited GOVERNMENT Canada Council for the Arts • Government of Canada • Government of Ontario • Ontario Arts Council • Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake VOLUNTEERS COMMITTEES Thanks to all of our volunteers — without their support many of our programs and events would not be possible.

THE SHAW GUILD Julian Rance++, President • Arlene Carson+, Past President SHAW BOXING EVENING Robert C. Olsen+, Chair SHAW SHIVAREE Patrizia Trapasso, Chair SHAW SOCIAL Robin Ridesic++, Co-Chair • Rob Cameron, Co-Chair FESTIVAL FILM SERIES Stephen Levy • Carol Walker

Clockwise from top left: Cameron Grant as the Hostess in Henry V; Stephen Sutcliffe as Uncle Andrew in The Magician’s Nephew; Emily Lukasik as a Telephone Operator in Grand Hotel; Gray Powell as King Henry V in Henry V; Patty Jamieson as Raffaela in Grand Hotel; Kyle Blair as Aslan in The Magician’s Nephew; Natasha Mumba in Henry V; Tara Rosling as Mrs O’Flaherty in Grand Hotel; Matt Nethersole as Fledge in The Magician’s Nephew.

Festival Theatre: The Magician’s Nephew • Grand Hotel • Mythos: A Trilogy • The Hound of the Baskervilles Royal George Theatre: Stage Kiss • Of Marriage and Men: A Comedy Double-Bill • O’Flahery V.C. • Oh What a Lovely War • A Christmas Carol Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre: The Orchard (After Chekhov) • The Baroness and the Pig • Henry V

The ensemble in Oh What a Lovely War. Annual Report design by Scott McKowen and Grace Stallard; photography by David Cooper and Emily Cooper.