Ovation Vol. 20 No. 3

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Vol 20 No 3 | jan/feb 2013

Adapted by

Niki Landau based on the novel by

Margaret Mitchell

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Message from the Artistic Director

Winston Churchill said that history is written by victors.

in America. Each becomes the target of Sondheim’s trademark black humour, social criticism and even his

At MTC, we think history is

pity. These are not the vic-

actually written by whoever

tors, though they may have

tells the best story. In the case

succeeded in their bloody

of the American Civil War, the

missions, but Sondheim has

victorious North had Stephen

enough humanity to try to

Crane’s Red Badge of Courage,

understand their failings and

a soldier’s story told with such

the failure of the society that

authenticity that many assumed it to be autobiographi-

bred them.

cal, though Crane was born

Like Sondheim, playwright

after the war. The defeated

Niki Landau sees clearly the

South had Margaret Mitchell

moral complexity of Margaret

who, like Crane, sat at the feet of civil war veterans

Mitchell’s characters, as well as the racism and

(in her case, Confederate) and spun their recol-

sexism that still held Mitchell’s South hostage.

lections into fictional gold. Though Red Badge

Landau nimbly slices through the stereotypes,

of Courage hasn’t been out of print since it was

and takes us through the ravages of war into the

published, it was Margaret Mitchell’s historical

love quadrangle that drives the story of Gone With

romance Gone With the Wind that really captured

the Wind. At its centre, we find Scarlett O’Hara,

the world’s imagination. Of course, neither novel

who’s selfish, manipulative, and utterly charming.

argues for one army or ideology over another;

We can’t help but admire the frank common

instead, both offer a scathing and unromantic

sense that makes her rebel against social expecta-

portrait of war, while celebrating the essential

tions, the thirst for financial security that helps

resilience of the human spirit. Yet for millions of

banish her post-war poverty, and the fierce

people the world over, the central image of the

independence that fuels her survival yet makes

American Civil War is Mitchell’s Atlanta burning,

her wary of romantic entanglement. Landau and

rather than Crane’s muddy battlefield. Perhaps

Mitchell conspire to make us care about Scarlett,

the pen really is mightier than the sword.

just as Sondheim makes us care about his

But is it mightier than the gun? As we try to recover from another school shooting, a dozen or so American presidential shooters are taking the

assassins. In the end, we sit at the feet of these master storytellers and listen spellbound to tales of those who lose everything and yet win our hearts.

stage at the Warehouse in Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated musical Assassins. Each of Sondheim’s assassins is attempting to create history with an

Yours always,

act of violence, to make their mark on a world that has failed them. Each is trying to create his or her own twisted “red badge of courage” – a wound on the body of the most powerful person Jan/Feb 2013

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Theatre Abbreviation Legend

Arts Club Arts Club Theatre Company, Vancouver BC

ATF Atlantic Theatre Festival, Wolfville NS

ATP Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary AB

BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC Bard on the Beach Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Vancouver BC

Belfry The Belfry Theatre, Victoria BC

Blyth Blyth Theatre Festival, Blyth ON

Broadway New York Theatre District

CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Centaur Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal QC

Citadel The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton AB

COC Canadian Opera Company, Toronto ON

CS The Canadian Stage Company, Toronto ON

Dora Dora Mavor Moore Award, Toronto ON

Drayton Drayton Entertainment, Ontario

Dry Cold Dry Cold Productions, Winnipeg MB

Factory Factory Theatre, Toronto ON

GCTC The Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa ON

Grand The Grand Theatre, London ON

Mirvish Mirvish Productions, Toronto ON

MTYP Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Winnipeg MB

NAC National Arts Centre, Ottawa ON Necessary Angel Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Toronto ON

Neptune Neptune Theatre, Halifax NS

NFB National Film Board of Canada

NTS National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal QC

Persephone Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon SK

PTAM Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB

PTE Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg MB

Rainbow Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg MB

RNT Royal National Theatre, London, England

Royal Alex The Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto ON

RSC Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England

RWB Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Segal The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal QC

Shaw Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake ON

SIR Shakespeare in the Ruins, Winnipeg MB

SNAC St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg MB

Soulpepper Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto ON

Stratford Stratford Festival, Stratford ON

SummerWorks SummerWorks Theatre Festival, Toronto ON

TA Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton ON

Tarragon Tarragon Theatre, Toronto ON

TBTR Theatre By the River, Winnipeg MB

TC Theatre Calgary, Calgary AB

TNB Theatre New Brunswick, Fredericton NB

Toronto Free Toronto Free Theatre, Toronto ON

TPM Theatre Projects Manitoba, Winnipeg MB

TSO Toronto Symphony Orchestra

U of M University of Manitoba

U of T University of Toronto

U of W University of Winnipeg

VP Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Vancouver BC

West End Theatre District, London, England

WJT Winnipeg Jewish Theatre

WSO Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

YPT Young People’s Theatre, Toronto ON MTC gratefully acknowledges the support of all corporate and individual donors and foundations, and the assistance of:

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council

With the generous support of the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 154 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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Margaret Mitchell at the typewriter on which she wrote Gone With the Wind.

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by John Wiley, Jr.

many Southern states threatened to secede from the Union.

Barely 75 years after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was torn asunder by the bloodiest war in its history. The South was an agricultural-based economy with slavery as its foundation; the North was more industrialized. After England ended slavery in 1834, calls for its abolition in America became louder. Claiming slavery was a states’ rights issue,

When Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president in the fall of 1860, Democrat-favouring South Carolina made good on its threat. Eventually, 11 states broke away and formed the Confederate States of America. War was declared in April 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Unionoccupied Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the next four years, more than 625,000 soldiers on both sides were killed and another 500,000 wounded. Overwhelmed by

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Gone with the Wind superior numbers, the South finally surrendered in 1865, with slavery abolished and its economy in shambles.

Within days of the war’s end, Lincoln was assassinated. A harsh period of Reconstruction followed, and the occupation of the former Confederate states by Union troops stirred up bitterness that lasted for generations. The memories of those who lived through this terrible period remained fresh, even into the 1930s, when Gone With the Wind was published. Most Southerners embraced the novel as a long-overdue telling of the war’s story from their point of view, while the love saga of Scarlett and Rhett and the book’s theme of survival captured the attention of Northern readers as well as millions around the world who could relate to the rising war fever in Europe and Asia.

Margaret Mitchell: The Woman Behind the Book Author Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1900 – just 35 years after the American Civil War ended. The daughter of an attorney and a prominent suffragist, she spent many Sunday afternoons on the “bony knees of veterans and the fat slippery laps of great aunts” listening to tales of people who had lived through the most traumatic era in American history. Mitchell was also a voracious reader and began writing at an early age, completing short stories and even a novella as a teenager.

When Mitchell was a freshman at Smith College in Massachusetts, her mother died in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19. The young woman returned home to care for her father and, during a short, ill-fated first marriage, became a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper. In 1925, she married John R. Marsh – the best man at her first wedding – and continued writing fiction in her spare time.

In the fall of 1926, she began work on a novel about the Civil War. It was not a story of battles and troop movements, but a look at how the conflict affected those on the home front, with a headstrong young protagonist who struggled to appear ladylike while underneath beat the heart of a selfish girl who wanted things her way.

In April 1935, an editor from The Macmillan Company in New York visited Atlanta on a bookscouting trip. Before he left the city for his next stop, he persuaded Mitchell to let him see her manuscript. He and other early readers knew immediately it was a winner, and Mitchell signed a contract in early August. She spent the next six

months editing and cutting the massive pile of pages. When it was released, Gone With the Wind was an instant success and Mitchell was overwhelmed by public attention. She was besieged by autograph seekers – one even approached her at a funeral – and those determined to win a role in the upcoming film version of her novel.

“Alas where has my quiet peaceful life gone?” she wrote to dramatist Sidney Howard, who was writing the screenplay for the movie, which would star Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

After the Second World War, the story generated renewed fervour as millions of people in devastated Europe and Asia related to Scarlett’s trials and tribulations. On August 11, 1949, a drunk driver in a speeding automobile struck Mitchell while she was crossing the street with her husband to see a movie. She died five days later, and was buried in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.

John Wiley, Jr. is the co-author of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood; the publisher/editor of The Scarlett Letter, a quarterly publication for Gone With the Wind fans and collectors; and owner of the largest private collection of Mitchell’s novel – more than 800 copies from around the world.

DID YOU KNOW? To a great extent, “Taps” and “Amazing Grace” made up the musical soundtrack of the American Civil War, and the two melodies would have been inescapable in the South during that era.

In July of 1862, Union General Daniel Butterfield arranged “Taps” in its present form to replace a previous French bugle call used to signal “lights out.”

The same month, it was played as part of the funeral service for a fallen soldier, and then was quickly adopted by both the Union and Confederate armies.

The music for “Amazing Grace” was first published in 1829 under the title “New Britain” and, a few years later, William Walker published John Newton’s lyrics along with the familiar tune. When the Civil War started, soldiers were issued hymnals including the song to take into battle with them, and its popularity spread. The words seem to have universal resonance but the slaves of the South must have found the lyrics especially poignant since they were written by a reformed slave trader.

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Curtain Calls Niki Landau

Playwright’s Notes

by Niki Landau

The initial spark for Gone With the

Wind occurred in 1907, when Margaret Mitchell was just six years old. Enrolled in the first grade but stubbornly refusing to go, Margaret held her ground until her imposing mother, May Belle Mitchell, hitched the horse and buggy and drove Margaret out on the road to Jonesboro. Pointing to the ruins of the antebellum mansions, the dismal remnants of the pre-Civil War South, May Belle stressed her point to her young daughter: One day your world will explode, and you’d better have a weapon to help you survive. For May Belle, a staunch suffragist, the proper weapon for a woman was education. For Margaret, haunted equally by her mother’s disapproval and the image of those crumbling houses, each one certainly containing a bevy of fading, useless Southern belles, the only weapon was a typewriter.

Fast forward to 2009, many years after the novel made Margaret Mitchell a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a very wealthy woman, Gone With the Wind and its theme of survival caught up with me.

George W. Bush had just left office, and the world seemed on the verge of economic collapse. My husband and I, managing a new house and baby, had just seen our savings disappear into thin air.

Certainly, the world was exploding for many that year, as news reports rolled in, detailing corruption, financial meltdowns and rising unemployment. In August of that year, I was on the phone with Laurie Lam, producer at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, discussing many things and nothing in particular, and somehow, by the end of the conversation, I had landed a job.

The idea came about the way most ideas do, by accident, and I suddenly found myself sitting in coffee shops, asking: “Why? Why do a stage

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Gone with the Wind adaptation of Gone With the Wind?” As I pondered this question, and the various challenges of adapting this novel, strangers routinely interrupted me. Approaching my table, they would point to the novel and start a conversation. Sometimes, they would invite themselves to sit down. The adaptation was strictly confidential at that point, and I was at pains to hide what I was doing, but that didn’t seem to matter. These people didn’t want to hear about me. They wanted to talk. They wanted to talk about how they felt about the book: about Scarlett O’Hara and her fascinating mix of loathsomeness, strength and charm; about the stormy love affair with Rhett Butler; about the importance and ravages of the Civil War; but mostly, they wanted to talk about the first time they read the book and how the story had changed them, how it had connected with them at that particular point in their lives.

These conversations made me think about the novel’s peculiar magic. Margaret Mitchell may have written a story for the 1920s Jazz Age reader, sick of war and bent on rebellion, but the novel came out in the 1930s, and took on a life of its own. Men and women starving in the Great Depression felt the story was written for them.

Soldiers facing the horrors of the Second World War carried the novel into battle. The Nazis banned the book, fearing its intense individualism, and the liberated French were heartened by the spirit of its protagonist, who rises from the ashes after a devastating war. Political prisoners in crowded cells in 1970s Ethiopia were smuggled individual chapters of the book on scraps of cigarette rolling papers. All these people, not to mention millions upon millions of teenage girls everywhere – who found a new hope in that famous opening line: “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm…” – all eventually found their way to Gone With the Wind and found it meaningful.

Here we are in 2013, and the theme of survival resonates in yet another way. What looked like the end of the world as we knew it in 2009 now looks like a long, hard road to recovery.

Rhett Butler, our dashing anti-hero, echoes our modern cynicism when he says (without much regret) that civilizations come and go, but Scarlett O’Hara, in all her glorious imperfection, represents our strength, our hope and our determination to carry on. After all, tomorrow is another day...

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Her husband’s gone off to war. With nothing but third-hand news of his exploits, Penelope is left to run the kingdom while dealing with a bratty teenager and a raft of aggressive suitors who are trying to jump the queue. Now, Penelope tells her side of the story.

Steven Schipper, Artistic Director

Camilla Holland, General Manager

Presents

Adapted by

Niki Landau Based on the Novel by

Margaret Mitchell January 10 – February 2, 2013

Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Choreographer Composer Dialect Designer & Coach Dramaturg Fight Director Firearms Coordinator Assistant Director Associate Set Designer Assistant Lighting Designer Apprentice Director Research Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager Child Supervisor

Steven Schipper John Lee Beatty Judith Bowden Michael J. Whitfield John Bent Jr. Tracey Flye Danny Carroll Shannon Vickers Joanna Falck Jacqueline Loewen Dave Brown Robb Paterson Kari Hagness Randy Zyla Harder Heidi Malazdrewich Nellwyn Lampert Evan R. Klassen Melissa Novecosky Leslie Sidley Matthew LagacĂŠ Adeline Sokulski

MTC would like to thank The Richardson Foundation for its support of the production of Gone With the Wind.

MTC thanks David Mirvish for his contribution towards the development of Gone With the Wind.

Special Thanks: Nan Bases, Dr. Michael Eleff, Linda Intaschi, Michael Levine, Desiree Proveau, Kelly Robinson, Mike Symak (Mid-Canada Fasteners & Tools)

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The Cast (in alphabetical order)

Suellen O’Hara/Belle Watling/Kitty Bonnell/Orderly Kate Besworth

Mammy Miche Braden

Ashley Wilkes Daniel Briere

Mrs. Merriweather/Guest Terri Cherniack

Melanie Hamilton Wilkes Sarah Constible Charles Hamilton/Confederate Soldier/Shady Man/Sergeant Christopher Darroch

Carreen/Maybelle Merriweather/Emmie Slattery/ Jennifer Dzialoszynski

Newspaper Boy/New Orleans Dancer

Ellen O’Hara/Mrs. Meade/Mrs. Henry/Prostitute Tracey Ferencz

Young Scarlett/Bonnie Chloë Galenzoski*

Scarlett O’Hara Bethany Jillard

Jonas Wilkerson/Tony Fontaine/Confederate Soldier/ Tom Keenan

Union Soldier/Customer

India Wilkes/Fanny/Mrs. Ashhurst Laura Lussier

Rhett Butler Tom McCamus

Frank Kennedy Rob McLaughlin

Stuart Tarleton/Confederate Soldier/Union Soldier/ Ryan James Miller Wounded Man/Shady Man/Mourner/New Orleans Dancer

Young Scarlett/Bonnie Meaghan Moloney*

John Wilkes/Dr. Meade/Union Soldier/Mourner Stephen Russell

Big Sam E.B. Smith

Miss Pittypat/Mourner/New Orleans Dancer Miriam Smith

Gerald O’Hara William Vickers

Brent Tarleton/Confederate Soldier/Wounded Man/ Jeremy Walmsley Captain Jaffery/Mourner/New Orleans Dancer/Customer *ChloË Galenzoski and Meaghan Moloney will alternate in The role of Young Scarlett/Bonnie.

setting

Georgia, between 1861 and 1873.

Gone With the Wind runs under 3 hours, including one full intermission and a second short break (during which the lobby bars will not be open).

MTC wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the development of this project: Kate Besworth, John Bourgeois, Simon Bracken, Skye Brandon, Evan Buliung, Richard Clarkin, Burgandy Code, Julia Course, Frank Cox-O’Connell, Christopher Darroch, Audrey Dwyer, Greg Ellwand, Michelle Fisk, Ashleigh Hendry, Marci T. House, Cara Hunter, Bethany Jillard, Matt Kippen, Amy Lee, Mary Long, Tom McCamus, Peter Mooney, Anthony D. Palmer, Chick Reid, Jackie Richardson, Michael Rubenfeld, Mike Shara, Nicole Underhay, William Vickers, Lisa Waines & Tim Ziegler Jan/Feb 2013

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ARTISTS OTHER THEATRE The Game of Love and Chance (Odys-

Kate Besworth Suellen O’Hara/Belle Watling/ Kitty Bonnell/Orderly

sey Theatre); The Mail Order Bride (Blyth); Kindness (MTYP); Lebensraum (WJT); The Safe Word, Kayak, Foto (SummerWorks); Courageous (New Stages).

TV Rookie Blue, Murdoch Mysteries, The Bridge.

TRAINING National Theatre School of Canada, Mount

Royal College.

ET CETERA Daniel would like to thank Katie, Denis

MTC First appearance.

and Debra for all their love and support.

OTHER THEATRE Phyllis in The Railway Children

(Marquis Entertainment/Mirvish); Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story (YPT/Roseneath Theatre); Macduff in Macbeth (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Emily Webb in Our Town (Mercury Theatre).

Upcoming: Thomasina in Arcadia (Shaw).

Terri Cherniack Mrs. Merriweather/Guest

TRAINING Graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.

MTC First appearance.

MTC Romeo and Juliet, Calendar Girls (with Mirvish), Strong Poison, The Price, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, The Dresser, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Philadelphia Story (with TC), King Lear, The Crucible, Season’s Greetings, Homeward Bound, Dancing at Lughnasa (with NAC), The Miracle Worker, The Heidi Chronicles (with Mirvish), The Attic, The Pearls & Three Fine Girls, None is Too Many (with WJT), Waiting for the Parade.

OTHER THEATRE Lead/Music Director for The Devil’s

OTHER THEATRE Has performed major roles at theatres

Miche Braden Mammy

Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith (2012 Montreal Jazz Festival/St. Luke’s Theater, NYC/Penguin Rep NYS, Lucille Lortel & Drama Desk Nominations); Lead/Music Director for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Wilma Theater, PA/Penguin Rep NYS/Emerson’s Bar & Grill Toronto); Music Director/Ensemble for The People’s Temple (Berkeley Rep, CA/Guthrie Theater, MN).

TV Law & Order: SVU, Stella (Comedy Central).

TRAINING Protégé of: the Original Motown Funk

Brothers, Harold McKinney (jazz master), Joe Brancato (director), Dr. Mildred J. Dobey (mother).

across the country from Vancouver to Halifax. At other theatres in Winnipeg: The Swearing Jar, The Savannah Disputation, Glorious, Having Hope at Home, Copenhagen, Love and Anger, All Fall Down, The Fighting Days (PTE); Social Security, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Crossing Delancey, A Shayna Maidel (WJT); Cruel and Unusual Punishment, The Colour of Vowels (TPM).

TRAINING Terri is a graduate of the U of W, the U of M and the National Theatre School of Canada.

Sarah Constible Melanie Hamilton Wilkes

ET CETERA Recordings: Gardenia’s for Lady Day, At the

Crossroads (James Carter), Diva Out of Bounds (Miche Braden, iTunes). Thank you for the opportunity to work with this great cast in a greater theatre in the greatest country.

MTC First appearance.

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Daniel Briere

MTC The Fighting Days, The 39 Steps, After Miss Julie, Bleeding Hearts, The Threepenny Opera (with SIR).

Upcoming: The Penelopiad.

Ashley Wilkes

OTHER THEATRE Henry V, Henry IV, The Merry Wives

of Windsor, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, The Tempest, The Odyssey (SIR); Dionysus in Stony Mountain, The Monster Trilogy, Murder Ballads, Between Then and Now (TPM); The Edible Woman, Godspell, Unity (1918), The Swearing Jar, Strawberries in January (PTE).

ARTISTS FILM/TV Euphoria, The Stone Angel, Less Than Kind, House Party, High Life, The Many Trials of One Jane Doe, The Haunting in Connecticut, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.

Tracey Ferencz Ellen O’Hara/Mrs. Meade/ Mrs. Henry/Prostitute

Christopher Darroch Charles Hamilton/ Confederate Soldier/ Shady Man/Sergeant

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Calendar Girls (Moonpath Productions);

Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Driftwood Theatre); A Man of No Importance (Acting Up Stage Company); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Brampton Theatre); Treasure Island (Stage West); nine seasons with Dufflebag Theatre.

FILM/TV Lets and Go (Wanted Studios).

MTC A Penny for the Guy, Ethan Claymore’s Christmas (tour).

OTHER THEATRE Whispering Pines, The List (GCTC);

A Streetcar Named Desire, Enchanted April (TC); The Tempest, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Overcoat (CS); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Rough); Death and the Maiden, A Man for All Seasons (Globe); Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Grace (ATP); 10 seasons with the Shaw Festival.

FILM/TV Silent Witness (TNT), King (Showcase), Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure (Disney), Widow on the Hill (Lifetime).

ET CETERA Dora Award nomination for Much Ado

About Nothing, Betty Mitchell Award nomination for A Streetcar Named Desire.

TRAINING George Brown College graduate.

Chloë Galenzoski

ET CETERA Thank you to Niki and Steven for taking

Young Scarlett/Bonnie

me along on this incredible journey, and to all my friends, family and my wife for their ongoing support.

Jennifer Dzialoszynski Carreen/Maybelle Merriweather/Emmie Slattery/Newspaper Boy/ New Orleans Dancer

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Chloë has taken acting classes at

MTYP and has been in school productions.

ET CETERA Chloë is in Grade 2 in French Immersion.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE August: Osage County (Citadel); Half

Other activities include Tae Kwon Do, Brownies and swimming. Chloë also enjoys spending time with her brother and sister.

an Hour, Harvey (Shaw); Kindertransport (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Hana’s Suitcase (Grand).

Bethany Jillard

FILM/TV Stunt performances: XIII: The Series (Show-

Scarlett O’Hara

case), Orphan (Warner Bros.), Aaron Stone seasons 1 and 2 (Shaftesbury); Child Wild (Stardust).

TRAINING/TEACHING Graduate of Ryerson Theatre School. Jennifer is also a fight director and instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat.

ET CETERA Jennifer received a Dora nomination for

her performance in Kindertransport.

For a full list of theatre abbreviations, please Refer to legend on page 4

MTC Miss Julie in After Miss Julie.

OTHER THEATRE Hero in Much Ado About Nothing,

Catherine in Henry V, Lady Anne in Richard III, Young Kate/Tanya in The Little Years, Cecile in Dangerous Liaisons, Ensemble in Peter Pan (Stratford); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Theatre PANIK); Mia in That Face (Nightwood Theatre); Brooke in How It Works (Tarragon); Adele in A Man of No Importance (Acting Jan/Feb 2013

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ARTISTS Up Stage Company); four seasons with Driftwood Theatre, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

Tom McCamus

FILM/TV If I Were You (Paragraph), Rookie Blue (ABC/

Rhett Butler

Global), Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (TMN/ Shaftsbury), Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftsbury).

ET CETERA Thank you to MTC and the entire GWTW

team for this wild, wonderful adventure!

Tom Keenan Jonas Wilkerson/Tony Fontaine/Confederate Soldier/Union Soldier/ Customer MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Christmas Carol, The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes.

OTHER THEATRE Way to Heaven (WJT); Three Sisters

(zone41 theatre/TPM); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (TPM); Henry IV, Romeo and Juliet (SIR); The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure (Tom-Tom Theatre); Beneath the Banyan Tree, Kindness, The Skinny Lie (MTYP); Munschapalooza (PTE); Strike! – The Musical (Danny Schur).

MTC The Innocent Eye Test (with Mirvish), Dancing at

Lughnasa (with NAC), Amadeus.

OTHER THEATRE Twelve years with the Stratford Festival, including The Matchmaker, Cymbeline, Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, Three Sisters, Richard III, Waiting for Godot, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Camelot. Other recent credits: The Unanswered Question (NAC); Thom Payne (Tarragon); Mathilde (Nightwood); Misery (CS); Hamlet, Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero (Necessary Angel).

FILM/TV The Samaritan, Cairo Time, Shake Hands with

the Devil, Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story, The Nature of Nicholas, Mutant X (season 1), Possible Worlds, The Sweet Hereafter, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, I Love a Man in Uniform.

Rob McLaughlin

FILM/TV Zooey and Adam (Bedbugs Films), Men with

Frank Kennedy

Brooms (CBC), Less Than Kind (HBO Canada), House Party (Comedy Network), Something Beneath (RHI Entertainment), The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (CBS).

Laura Lussier

MTC The Shunning, The Seafarer, Pride and Prejudice.

India Wilkes/Fanny/ Mrs. Ashhurst

OTHER THEATRE The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello,

Assistant to the Director: Fiddler on the Roof.

MTC A Christmas Carol, The Tempest.

The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It (SIR); Grand-Guignol On The Prairie (Echo Theatre); The Universal Wolf (No Sugar Added Productions); Blue Kettle (ChurchillFest 2010).

OTHER THEATRE The Disappeared (Théâtre Vice Versa

FILM/TV Capote, Nobody, Something Beneath (movie

Theatre); Boeing Boeing, Le mariage forcé, Il était une deuxième fois (Le Cercle Molière); MbTV, Québec City, The Mirror, The Triumph of Love (Foolish Wit Inc.); Company (Dry Cold); Einstein’s Gift (WJT).

of the week).

Ryan James Miller Stuart Tarleton/ Confederate Soldier/ Union Soldier/Wounded Man/ Shady Man/Mourner/ New Orleans Dancer

FILM/TV Host of the French travel TV show Viens voir ici! (TVA); Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (Space).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg Department of

Theatre and Film.

ET CETERA Check out Laura’s website at www.lauralussier.com. You can also watch her on TV every Saturday at 11:30 am CT, as she travels across Canada on TVA’s Viens voir ici! Many thanks to friends and family!

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MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Prior in Angels in America (WJT); member of sketch comedy troupe Hot Thespian Action.

ARTISTS FILM/TV My Awkward Sexual Adventure (julijette

inc.), Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure (Universal), CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival 2012, Winnipeg Comedy Festival 2013.

TRAINING University of Winnipeg theatre performance degree.

ET CETERA Ryan has been nominated for two Canadian Comedy Awards. He would like to thank his inspiring and supportive friends and family. Love you, Babe.

so happy to be working for MTC on this production, and would like to thank the cast and crew for all the fun during the run.

Stephen Russell John Wilkes/Dr. Meade/ Union Soldier/Mourner

Meaghan Moloney

MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Long Day’s Journey Into

Young Scarlett/Bonnie

Night, Henry IV, Hamlet, An Inspector Calls, Medea (1992).

OTHER THEATRE King Lear (New York and across Canada); 30 seasons with the Stratford Festival.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Annie (Rainbow).

TRAINING Four years dance training with the Dance Centre (Winnipeg).

FILM/TV Pontius Pilate in The Gospel of John; Family of Cops and several other cop shows.

ET CETERA Stephen began his acting career as a recipient of MTC’s Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship.

ET CETERA Meaghan would like to thank all of her teachers for all their training along the way. She is

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E.B. Smith

William Vickers

Big Sam

Gerald O’Hara

MTC First appearance.

MTC Life After Hockey (tour).

OTHER THEATRE Dorset in Richard III, Guiderius

OTHER THEATRE Twenty-four-year member of the

in Cymbeline (Stratford); Seyton in Macbeth, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Macduff in Macbeth (First Folio Theatre); King in King Hedley II – Cleveland Scene, Best Production of 2007, Moustique in Dream on Monkey Mountain, Junior in Before It Hits Home (Karamu House Theatre).

Other credits include work at the Cleveland Play House, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Theater Wit in Chicago, as well as two seasons at the Great Lakes Theater Festival.

Shaw Festival Acting Ensemble. Productions at Shaw include: Doctor’s Dilemma, Devil’s Disciple, Heartbreak House, Man and Superman, Millionairess, Fanny’s First Play. Performances with Theatre Calgary, the Globe Theatre, Neptune, Citadel, Theatre North West, Theatre London, Theatre PANIK, National Arts Centre, BeMe Theatre (Munich, Germany) and three seasons with the Stratford Festival.

TRAINING Graduate of Bishops University and the

National Theatre School of Canada.

FILM/TV The Beast (Sony); Ask Gilby, Maybe By Then,

Thunder Bay (PBS).

Jeremy Walmsley

TRAINING Studied acting at Ohio University and the

Brent Tarleton/Confederate Soldier/Wounded Man/ Captain Jaffery/Mourner/ New Orleans Dancer/ Customer

Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre.

ET CETERA E.B. dedicates his work to his parents and

grandmother, and to the memory of his Papa, who will always be in the front row.

Miriam Smith

MTC First appearance.

Miss Pittypat/Mourner/ New Orleans Dancer

OTHER THEATRE Angels in America (WJT); Footloose

MTC August: Osage County, Steel Magnolias, Strong

Poison, Our Town, The Real Thing, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing.

OTHER THEATRE Bingo!, Burnin’ Love, Moonlight and

Magnolias, How It Works, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Molly’s Veil (PTE); The Father, Broken Glass, Einstein’s Gift (WJT); Urinetown, Assassins (Dry Cold); The Elmwood Visitation (TPM); The Relapse, A Little of Wot You Fancy, The Millionairess, The Miser, Nothing Sacred (VP); Hay Fever, The Importance of Being Earnest (ACT).

FILM/TV Psych, Imperfect Justice, The L Word,

(Rainbow); Altar Boyz (PTE); Velocity (Persephone); Spring Awakening, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Miss Saigon, Aida (Broadway Live Broadway).

FILM/TV Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (Space, Comedy Network), Less Than Kind (HBO), Deserted Cities (Buffalo Gal).

TRAINING Graduate of the Academy of Acting for

Theatre and Film.

ET CETERA Jeremy would like to thank his wonderful

friends and his amazing family for their undying support.

Margaret Mitchell Author

Amreeka, Holiday Switch, Falcon Beach, Agent Cody Banks, The X-Files.

Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1900, just 35 years after the American Civil War ended. In 1922, she became a reporter for the Atlanta

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ARTISTS Journal while writing fiction in her spare time, including drafts of a novel about a young female protagonist’s desperate survival of the Civil War.

TRAINING McGill, Bishops, National Theatre School

In April 1935, an editor persuaded Mitchell to let him see her manuscript. When it was released, Gone With the Wind was an instant success, setting sales records and winning Oscars with its star-studded film adaptation. Mitchell never published again. On August 11, 1949, she was struck by a drunk driver while crossing the street with her husband. She is buried in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.

The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes, an award-winning play that tours Manitoba high schools. He has directed an allfemale Les Miz at Balmoral Hall, and directed members of the Aboriginal Arts Mentorship & Training Program at MTYP in the 2011 Fringe production Little Red Riding Hood. In 2007 Steven received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Winnipeg, and in 2012, was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.

Niki Landau Playwright

of Canada.

ET CETERA In 2000, Steven conceived and directed

John Lee Beatty Set Designer

MTC Actor: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Mating Dance of the Werewolf (with Rubicon).

OTHER THEATRE Playwright: The Corpse Bride (Theatre

PANIK/Ashkenaz Festival); Territories (Theatre PANIK/SummerWorks/Theatre Passe Muraille); co-writer of The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether with Robert Ross Parker (Centaur). Actor: Other People’s Children (Theatre PANIK/Tarragon); Little Tongues (Blood Projects); House of Many Tongues (Tarragon); Problem Child (BeMe Theatre, Munich); Apple, Criminal Genius, Reading Hebron (Factory); The Comedy of Errors (CS); After the Orchard (NAC); If We Are Women (Persephone); Kindertransport (PTE/Persephone).

TRAINING MFA in Theatre (York).

ET CETERA SummerWorks Prize 2005, Dora nomination:

Outstanding New Play for Territories. Niki would like to thank her family and dedicate this play to Sy Landau.

MTC Doubt, A Parable (with TC), Proposals (with Mirvish).

OTHER THEATRE Good People, The Color Purple, How

the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Morning’s at Seven, Proof, The Little Foxes, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Anna Christie, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Most Happy Fella, Penn and Teller, Burn This, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, Crimes of the Heart (Broadway); Sylvia, Substance of Fire, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Road to Mecca, A Life in the Theatre (Off Broadway); 32 seasons at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Circle Rep; 20 seasons at City Center Encores!. Credits also at major regional theatres and in film, opera and TV. TRAINING John is a graduate of Brown University and

the Yale School of Drama.

ET CETERA Recipient of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk

Steven Schipper

and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and is also a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Director

Judith Bowden Costume Designer

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MTC Over 35 productions, including: Romeo and Juliet, The Drowsy Chaperone, Strong Poison, Fiddler on the Roof, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, the world premieres of Maureen Hunter’s Atlantis, Mark Stein’s Mating Dance of the Werewolf and Olaf Pyttlik’s The Wave, and the Canadian premieres of Quills, Proposals and Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

MTC Costume Designer: Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice. Set & Costume Designer: Strong Poison, Proof (with Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Theatres across the country and the

OTHER THEATRE Eleven seasons with the Shaw

Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California.

Festival, including recently: My Fair Lady (Costumes);

Jan/Feb 2013

ARTISTS An Ideal Husband, Sunday in the Park with George, Belle Moral (Set & Costumes). Recently, as Costume Designer: My Fair Lady, The Music Man (Arena Stage, Washington DC); Faith Healer (Soulpepper).

Recently, as Set & Costume Designer: Nativity (NAC); La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) (Pacific Opera Victoria); Top Girls (Soulpepper); Cloud 9 (Mirvish). Judith’s designs have also been seen at Canadian Stage, PTE, Alberta Theatre Projects, Tarragon, Theatre Calgary and the Grand Theatre.

OTHER THEATRE Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Arena

Stage, Washington DC); The Trojan Women, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Fuente Ovejuna, There Reigns Love, King Lear (Stratford); The Spitfire Grill (Grand); A Doll’s House (Globe); She Loves Me (Shaw); The Magic Flute (Banff Centre); Wozzeck (COC); Faust (San Diego Opera); Sleeping Beauty (RWB); Romeo and Juliet (Finnish National Ballet).

TEACHING Michael is currently teaching at the University of Victoria and has taught as a guest instructor at Carnegie Mellon University and Canada’s National Theatre School.

Michael J. Whitfield

ET CETERA Michael is a member of the Associated

Lighting Designer

Designers of Canada.

John Bent Jr. Sound Designer MTC Selected: Romeo and Juliet, Strong Poison, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Glengarry Glen Ross, Fiddler on the Roof, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, The Clean House (with TC), The Dresser, The Winslow Boy (with TA), Evita, Dracula (with TC), The Wave, Camelot (with TC/Citadel), Proposals (with Mirvish).

MTC More than 30 shows since ‘98, including Miracle on South Division Street, Next to Normal, The 39 Steps, The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), The Boys in the Photograph

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ARTISTS (with Mirvish), The Syringa Tree, Fiddler on the Roof, Over the Tavern, The Rocky Horror Show (with CS), Evita (with TC), Camelot (with TC/Citadel), King Lear, Wit. OTHER THEATRE The Shadowy Waters (Eternal Rose

Theatre); The Diary of Anne Frank (Segal/Neptune); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Keely and Du, The Heart as It Lived, Grace (ATP); Lion in the Streets (Sage Theatre); Some Assembly Required (Northern Light Theatre).

ET CETERA Two Betty Mitchell Awards (Grace, Lion in

the Streets). Member of IATSE Local 63 and the Eclub.

Founding member of Eternal Rose Theatre.

OTHER THEATRE (Selected) Composer: Lenin’s

Embalmers, Death of a Salesman, Lebensraum, Einstein’s Gift (WJT); Having Hope at Home (PTE). Music Director: Company, Nine (Dry Cold).

TRAINING Bach. of Music Composition (U of M),

Master of Education (U of M).

ET CETERA Danny is thrilled to have this opportunity

to work with this talented cast and crew on this exciting world premiere. Hugs to Laura, Lindsay, Hilary and Dot. www.dannycarroll.ca

Shannon Vickers Dialect Designer & Coach

Tracey Flye Choreographer

MTC Director: The 39 Steps. Choreography/Staging:

MTC August: Osage County, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Top Girls, Steel Magnolias.

The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC). Choreographer/ Assistant Director: The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Fiddler on the Roof. Actor: Cabaret.

Upcoming: directing The Penelopiad at the Tom Hendry Warehouse.

OTHER THEATRE Voice/Text/Dialect Coaching: DAI

OTHER THEATRE Director: We Will Rock You remount

TRAINING/TEACHING Shannon earned an MFA in Theatre Voice Pedagogy at the University of Alberta.

She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg and is a certified Associate Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork.

(Mirvish); Snow White, The Wizard of Oz (Ross Petty Productions); Hairspray (Rainbow); Evita (Neptune); Victor/Victoria, Forever Plaid (Stage West Calgary).

Associate Director: We Will Rock You (South Africa/ New Zealand/Asia tour). Resident Director: War Horse (National Theatre/Mirvish). Staging: King of Thieves (Stratford). Choreography: Kiss Me Kate, Evita, West Side Story (Stratford); As You Like It (CS); Cabaret (Segal). Associate Choreographer: Peggy Sue Got Married (West End). Assistant Choreographer: Mamma Mia! (Toronto/US tour).

(Enough) (WJT); Village Wooing (zone41 theatre); Bingo! (PTE); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (TPM); The Merry Wives of Windsor (SIR); Fen (Saràsvati Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CS).

Joanna Falck Dramaturg

TEACHING Tracey has held an Assistant Professorship in the BFA program at the University of Alberta.

ET CETERA Tracey’s directing/choreography/performing

MTC First engagement.

credits span more than 130 productions.

OTHER THEATRE Seventh season as the Shaw Festival’s

Danny Carroll Composer

MTC (Selected) Romeo and Juliet, The Shunning, It’s a

Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Pride and Prejudice, Over the Tavern, The Retreat from Moscow, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Trying.

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Literary Manager. Previously, Literary Manager of Tarragon Theatre. As a freelance dramaturg: fuGen Asian Canadian Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Arts Club (Vancouver), Banff Playwrights’ Colony, University of Regina, Native Earth Performing Arts, The Cabaret Company/Buddies in Bad Times, Canadian Stage Company and SummerWorks.

TRAINING/TEACHING Has taught at York University and the University of Alberta; was a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

ET CETERA Dedicated to my mother, who first intro-

duced me to this story.

ARTISTS

Jacqueline Loewen

Kari Hagness

Fight Director

Associate Set Designer

MTC Fight Director: August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Actor: Top Girls.

OTHER THEATRE Selected fight directing: Tosca, Carmen

(Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); All Restaurant Fires Are Arson (PTE).

TEACHING Jacqueline has taught stage combat at MTYP and PTE, and assistant taught at the U of W. ET CETERA Jacqueline is very pleased to be working

with both MTC and such fine performers.

MTC Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Sizwe Banshee is Dead, The Zoo Story, The Day Jake Made ‘Er Rain, The Adventures of Robin Hood.

OTHER THEATRE Chicago, The Odd Couple, The Producers,

Gypsy, The Mousetrap (MTC/MBA); Little Red Riding Hood (The Urban Indigenous Theatre Company/ Winnipeg Fringe 2011).

FILM/TV SCTV, Joy Castle (Props departments).

TRAINING Graduate of the National Theatre School.

ET CETERA Kari has been MTC’s Head of Properties

since 1986. She is a member of the Society of Properties Artisan Managers.

Robb Paterson Randy Zyla Harder

Assistant Director

Assistant Lighting Designer

MTC Directing credits include: Miracle on South Division Street, Next to Normal, The Fighting Days, The Shunning, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bleeding Hearts, Pride and Prejudice, Our Town, Trying, My Fair Lady, The Retreat from Moscow.

Acting credits include: True West, Little Shop of Horrors, Hamlet, Billy Bishop Goes to War, A Christmas Carol – The Musical.

OTHER THEATRE Directing credits include: The

Immigrant, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (WJT); Beauty and the Beast (2005, 2009), Peter Pan, The King and I, Crazy for You, 42nd Street (Rainbow); Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, Seussical the Musical, Pippi Longstocking (MTYP). Acting credits include roles at PTE, Centaur, Rainbow, WJT, Neptune, Vancouver Playhouse.

ET CETERA Robb has appeared in more than 150 productions in Canada over the past 31 years. He dedicates this show to his daughter Tara Paterson, whose essay about seeing a play at MTYP as a child inspired her social justice work, which in turn resulted in her being awarded one of Canada’s 11 Rhodes Scholarships for 2013.

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE The Mousetrap (MTC/MBA); Return

of the Dead, Saute, Pudya (Nafro Dance); As You Like It (University of Winnipeg); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello (SIR); Talk, Speed-the-Plow, Cherry Docs (WJT); No Idling (Young Lungs); A Way In (Natasha Torres-Garner Dance).

TRAINING Randy is a graduate of the University of

Winnipeg Department of Theatre.

ET CETERA Randy currently works as the Head of

Lighting at the Tom Hendry Warehouse.

Heidi Malazdrewich Apprentice Director

MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Romeo and Juliet.

OTHER THEATRE Director: Perfect Pie, Essay, SEXXXY

2010 (University of Calgary); The Princess and the Pea (Little Opera Company); The Apiarist (Whole Hearted Productions); The Darling Family (Winnipeg

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ARTISTS Fringe). Actor: Arcadia, Boston Marriage (Theatre Incarnate); Three There (addpunctuation theatre); Max and Mirabelle (The Cat’s Pajamas Productions).

Evan R. Klassen Stage Manager

TRAINING/TEACHING MFA in Directing (University

of Calgary), BA (Hons.) Theatre (University of Winnipeg). Heidi teaches theatre at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg.

Nellwyn Lampert

MTC God of Carnage (with VP), Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), Jitters, Fiddler on the Roof, The Real Thing, The Innocent Eye Test (with Mirvish), Humble Boy, Evita (with TC).

Research Assistant

OTHER THEATRE Recent credits (selected): Rigoletto, MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Director/Playwright: Old Town

(Play Ground). Assistant Director: The Provok’d Wife, The Kokoschka Project (Theatre @ York). Assistant Stage Manager: The Corpse Bride, Territories (Theatre PANIK).

TRAINING Nellwyn is a recent graduate of York Uni-

versity’s Creative Ensemble theatre program.

Et cetera Nellwyn is currently writing The Memory

Project (In Utero).

Candide, Il Trovatore, Transit of Venus, La Bohème (Manitoba Opera); Annie, Footloose (Rainbow); Little Women (Dry Cold); The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP); Much Ado About Nothing (TC); Bordertown Café (PTE); Country Legends (Drayton); three seasons with the Shaw Festival.

ET CETERA Evan is a grateful recipient of the Jean

Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship Fund. Between his calling of automation cues, he can be found studying Arts and Cultural Management at Grant MacEwan University.

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ARTISTS

Melissa Novecosky

Leslie Sidley

Assistant Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

MTC Next to Normal, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Jitters, Our Town, What Lies Before Us, The Real Thing, The Tempest.

OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: The Swearing Jar

(PTE), 500 Words (Green Thumb Theatre); (re)birth: e.e. cummings in song (Soulpepper); Lawrence and Holloman (PTE/Persephone); Driving Miss Daisy (Stirling Festival Theatre); A Boy Called Newfoundland (Theatre Smash). Assistant Stage Manager: Footloose, Annie (Rainbow); The Price, White Biting Dog (Soulpepper); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (National Ballet of Canada); Burnin’ Love (PTE). Assistant Production Stage Manager: Banff Summer Arts Festival 2007. Apprentice Stage Manager: The Entertainer, Play, Orchestra, Play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Little Foxes (Shaw); Otello (Manitoba Opera).

TRAINING Melissa is a graduate of the technical

production program at NTS.

MTC The Melville Boys (tour), Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, Wingfield On Ice (tour), White Christmas, Looking Back – West, Bad Dates (tour), Pride and Prejudice, Fiddler on the Roof, Educating Rita (tour), Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Annie, Footloose, Hairspray, Cats,

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rent, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, The Full Monty, The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); The Swearing Jar, Till It Hurts, Glorious!, Moonlight and Magnolias, Chimera, Wingfield On Ice, Marion Bridge, Copenhagen (PTE); Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SIR); The Forbidden Phoenix (MTYP).

TRAINING Graduate of the Theatre Arts – Technical

Production program at Sheridan College, member of CAEA. ET CETERA Love to Sean.

Matthew Lagacé

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Apprentice Stage Manager

MTC Romeo and Juliet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC), The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes.

OTHER THEATRE The Daughter of the Regiment

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(Manitoba Opera); Altar Boyz (PTE/Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Little Women, Sweeney Todd (Dry Cold); A Stripped-Down Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor (SIR); HeadSpace, Escape from Happiness, Motifs and Repetitions (Black Hole Theatre Company); Cabaret (Crosswalk Players).

TRAINING Matthew is a graduate of the University of Manitoba Theatre Program/Black Hole Theatre Company.

ET CETERA I would like to thank all my friends and

family who have supported me in everything I have done. Upcoming: Aida (Manitoba Opera). 2010 recipient of both the MTC Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship and the Naomi Levin Theatre Scholarship.

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MTC’s new partnership with the Winnipeg Public Library will help immerse you in the world of the play. With events and resources to prepare you before seeing a show or to enrich your experience after the production, Play on Words is designed with you in mind! Check out what we have in store for Gone With the Wind:

From Page to Stage

Further Reading…

Join us for a series of free noon-hour presentations in the Carol Shields Auditorium at the Millennium Library.

All of these Tuesday sessions run from 12 – 1 pm and are a great way to connect with the story.

Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

January 8 | Niki Landau, playwright of Gone With the Wind, will discuss adapting the novel.

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor

January 15 | The two lead actors, Bethany Jillard (Scarlett O’Hara) and Tom McCamus (Rhett Butler) will talk about playing these iconic roles.

January 22 | Members of MTC’s Wardrobe department will share the details of creating the beautiful costumes seen on stage.

Bring your lunch and enter to win our great giveaways – tickets to see Gone With the Wind, a copy of the novel, and more!

Sweeping fictional sagas

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Left pregnant and penniless on the streets of London, Amber St. Clare uses her wits and beauty to climb to the high position of Charles II’s favorite mistress.

Frequently compared to Gone With the Wind, this is the other bestseller of the 1940s.

The other side of Tara

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe One of the great polemical novels of American literature, this galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done and, as Gone With the Wind notes, became “second only to the Bible” for many abolitionists.

Red River by Lalita Tademy The Civil War

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust Left: Just one of Scarlett’s many dresses.

Right, top to bottom: Niki Landau, Bethany Jillard and Tom McCamus.

As the Confederacy crumbled, the prerogatives of whiteness and the protections of “ladyhood” began to dissolve (as Scarlett discovers).

Echoes today

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr.

Stay warm this winter!

The Millennium Library can be accessed by the indoor Skywalk system.

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This account of a pop culture phenomenon tells how Mitchell’s book was groomed for success in the 1930s, and the savvy measures taken since then by the author and her estate to ensure its longevity.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

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Final Bow

“Season’s end comes with a rush” To m H e n d ry 1 929 – 20 1 2

Once in a while, an artist comes along who finds a rare balance.

Without sacrificing creative excellence, spontaneity and enthusiasm, they embody thoughtful contemplation, strategic planning, and mathematic precision. The left and right brain work in concert, and this balanced visionary becomes the axis others turn around: they are the centre of great works.

Tom Hendry lived this rare balance. Born in 1929 here in Winnipeg, he was a playwright and arts strategist, an actor and an accountant. Tom was our co-founder; the man who, alongside his good friend John Hirsch, built the regional theatre model that echoes across Canada. His death on December 2 is a loss not only for Judith, his beloved wife of 49 years, and his children Thomas, Christopher and Ashleigh, but for all of Canada, a country where he ”literally reshaped the landscape of theatre,” according to Artistic Director Steven Schipper.

A child of the Depression, Tom studied accountancy at the University of Manitoba, financing his education with writing and acting gigs at CBC. In 1952 he joined a small puppet company led by a recent Hungarian immigrant, John Hirsch.

Though the two men were from vastly different worlds, they were pulled together by their love of art and a shared vision for a professional theatre company in Winnipeg. In 1957, while Tom was still practicing as a chartered accountant, he and John founded Theatre 77, which merged with Winnipeg Little Theatre one year later to form MTC, the country’s first regional theatre.

Even as he ran the gauntlet of raising funds, contracting artists, finding plays and developing an audience, Tom would insist the spotlight shine on those around him. Theatre icon Gordon Pinsent, who performed in MTC’s inaugural season, recalls, “The gentleman who always seems to come up short on appreciation and recognition… is Winnipeg’s Tom Hendry. As a fledgling producer, he should have had a follow spot of his own.”

Tom guided MTC through its first five years, even as he continued to write and took on the role of Executive Producer for Rainbow Stage for three years. When he left MTC in 1963, it was to continue shaping Canadian theatre from other vantage points: as the Stratford Festival’s first literary manager in 1969; as the writer of the 1970 Ontario Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal

Final Bow winning play Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass; as the co-founder of the Toronto Free Theatre in 1971 and the Banff Playwrights Colony in 1974.

The ringing of a cell phone during a performance can be quite distracting for both actors onstage and audience members. did you know texting and vibrating phones can be equally disruptive?

“Tom was a force of nature, passionate, energetic, creative, and full of wit and good humour,” says playwright and director Ken Gass. “His influence on the alternate theatre scene in Canada, the well-being of playwrights, not to mention the huge accomplishment of MTC, was enormous.”

in an effort to eliminate cell phone disruptions during performances, the royal manitoba theatre centre will make a donation to the actors’ fund of canada for every cell phone-free performance.

In 1995, Tom was recognized for the mighty institutions he had founded, the provocative plays he had written and his lasting impact on Canadian theatre by being inducted into the Order of Canada. His championship of Canadian theatre continued as an advisor to the Toronto Arts Council, a Board Member of Playwrights Canada Press and an active member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, which he helped found.

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“I feel so lucky and so privileged to have met and worked with Tom on the Board of Playwrights Canada Press over these past six years,” says playwright Mieko Ouchi. “He was a kind and gentle mentor, a sharp wit and a powerful advocate for writers and artists across the country. I will miss him greatly.”

48 shows this season without a

In Tom’s departure, MTC has lost a parent; a vital presence who reminded us where we came from and why we’re here. We are left with warm memories of long conversations, laughter from his bawdy jokes and inspiration from the words he poured himself into. The following are excerpts from his notes in the final program of the 1962/63 season – his last with MTC as General Manager.

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… we know that in the years to come, more and more talented young Canadians will speak from all our stages and all the world’s stages, telling us what we’re like, what’s wrong with us, what’s right with us, and most important of all, letting us know what our own voice sounds like, our own face looks like. This will be a great day when it comes and we’re very proud to have worked with you here at MTC during the five years when we proved conclusively that Manitoba – and by extension all of Canada – wants a Theatre that is nobody else’s but our own.”

GreG ellwand in StronG PoiSon (2009/10). Photo by bruce Monk.

“Season’s end comes always with a rush… we’ve only one real complaint; like Oliver Twist, please sir, we’d like some more.

If you use your cell phone at IntermIssIon, to please remember e turn It off befor re-enterIng the theatre.

Setting the Stage

Sondheim and when Sondheim brought his mentor a school project, Hammerstein pronounced it “the worst thing he’d ever read” and the two spent the rest of the day dissecting the piece. In Sondheim’s words, “in that afternoon, I learned more about songwriting and the musical theatre than most people learn in a lifetime.”

Stephen Sondheim

While Sondheim pursued formal education in music at Williams College, Hammerstein continued to tutor him, having him write scripts and scores for four musicals. After college, Sondheim moved to New York to study with composer Milton Babbit.

Photo by Jerry Jackson

by Matthew TenBruggencate No one has successfully bent (or broken) more of Broadway’s rules than Stephen Sondheim.

Though he learned his craft at the elbow of a traditional master, Sondheim’s work broke the American musical mould with complex unresolved plots, wildly shifting scores and morally ambiguous characters. His musicals – Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Assassins – live in the jarring, shades-of-grey, “real world” of his audiences.

In short, Sondheim ushered in the modern musical.

Born in 1930 in New York, Stephen Joshua Sondheim’s childhood was darkened by his parents’ stormy marriage, their divorce in 1940 and a terrible relationship with his mother when she won custody and moved him to rural Pennsylvania. His good fortune was to make friends with the boy next door: James Hammerstein, whose father was in the middle of completing Oklahoma!. Oscar Hammerstein took the teenage Sondheim under his wing, fostering a love of musical theatre while also providing a surrogate father figure. One day,

His early struggles auditioning songs and writing television scripts paid off in 1957 when he landed the job as lyricist for the Arthur Laurents/Jerome Robbins collaboration West Side Story. The musical’s frenetic dancing and tumultuous score stunned audiences, with one critic writing, “the radioactive fallout from West Side Story must still be descending on Broadway this morning.” The same team came together for Gypsy in 1959, with Broadway belter Ethel Merman’s star power casting extra light on Sondheim‘s lyrics.

Sondheim’s following work continued to push the envelope: Company (1970), which largely dispensed with linear plot in its bittersweet look at marriage; Pacific Overtures (1976), which combined traditional Asian theatre with the American musical; and Sweeney Todd (1979), which placed a psychopath and his murderous accomplice in the lead roles.

In the 1980s, Sondheim collaborated with a new partner, director and playwright James Levine, on two more optimistic, less provocative pieces: Sunday in the Park with George (1984) and Into the Woods (1987), with the former taking the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Some critics objected to these gentler pieces as strongly as they had to his former works. Where had the provocateur gone?

Sondheim’s response came a few years later.

Assassinating the American Dream Assassins opened in 1990 during the first American invasion of Iraq. Drawing from popular musical

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his Assassins traditions throughout American history and sung by nine people who tried (four successfully) to shoot the President, Assassins is the dark incarnation of the American dream. The cheery carnival atmosphere, the laugh-out-loud book and the show’s central theme of pursuing one’s desires could all appear in a traditional Broadway hit: Aim for what you want a lot -Everybody gets a shot.

Everybody's got the right to their dreams.

But this chorus line is filled with villains, murderers and psychotics – each as much a product of American political culture as their targets. New York Times critic Frank Rich commented on the “real guts” Sondheim and collaborator John Weidman had to debut the show “during the relatively jingoistic time of war in which … some may regard such sentiments as incendiary.” A 2004 remount,

just three years after 9/11 and during another war in Iraq, had an even greater impact on audiences who arrived “off-balance at the start and [were] willing to go with it,” according to Weidman.

Assassins is, among many things, an invitation to shake off complacency and examine the flaws of the American experiment that excludes and alienates so many. Before Sondheim, a musical with such lofty intellectual aims and musical complexity would have been unthinkable. Now it’s simply the standard, as a new generation of lyricists, composers and writers – and Sondheim himself – continue to raise the bar.

Matthew TenBruggencate is a local actor, director and Creative Communications student who blogs at automattictransmission.blogspot.com.

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Lee Harvey Oswald

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme

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Steven Schipper, Artistic Director

Camilla Holland, General Manager

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Stephen Sondheim john Weidman

music and lyrics by book by

charles Gilbert, Jr. Playwrights Horizons, Inc. – New York City

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Produced Assassins Off-Broadway in 1990

January 17 – February 2, 2013

Director Adam Brazier

Music Director Reza Jacobs Original Set & Props Designer Beth Kates

Costume Designer Erika Connor

Lighting Designer Gareth Crew

Production Dramaturg Stefan Dzeparoski

Assistant Director Assistant Music Director Production Manager

Stage Manager Production Assistant

Linda Garneau James Smith Justin Stadnyk Carolyn Mykytyshyn Airyn Lancaster

The Cast (in alphabetical order)

Sam Byck

John Wilkes Booth

Giuseppe Zangara

Leon Czolgosz

Sara Jane Moore

Proprietor Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme

Graham Abbey Shane Carty Kevin Dennis Alex Fiddes Melody A. Johnson Joe Matheson Janet Porter

Charles Guiteau Emma Goldman John Hinckley

Ensemble

Ensemble

Balladeer

Steve Ross Whitney Ross-Barris Christopher Stanton Jonathan Tan Alicia Toner Geoffrey Tyler

Musicians

Band Leader/Keyboard 1 James Smith Bass Nenad Zdjelar Percussion Rob Siwik

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First Broadway Production, 2004 Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director

Assassins is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre Internation (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 www.MTIShows.com The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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Graham Abbey

Kevin Dennis

Sam Byck

Giuseppe Zangara

MTC Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Proposals (with Mirvish).

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Selected: Cymbeline, Elektra, As You

and Juliet (Neptune); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Theatre Collingwood); A Christmas Carol, Step Right Up! (Theatre Orangeville); A Year with Frog and Toad (YPT); As You Like It (Citadel); Hair, The Beard of Avon (CS); Gypsy, Happy End, Three Men on a Horse, Floyd Collins (Shaw).

Like It, Macbeth, Henry V, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest (Stratford); Enron (TC); The School for Scandal, The Molière Comedies (Chicago Shakespeare).

FILM/TV Series regular on The Border (CBC), recurring roles on Degrassi, Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries, Covert Affairs. Recent guest star on Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Bomb Girls, Lost Girl. Films include Take This Waltz and Defendor.

ET CETERA Graham has two Dora Award nomina-

OTHER THEATRE Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, Romeo

TV Warehouse 13, Mayday!, Flashpoint, Murdoch

Mysteries, A Christmas Visitor, Queer as Folk, Emily of New Moon.

TRAINING 2010 Citadel/Banff Centre Professional

Theatre Program.

ET CETERA Thanks to MTC, BirdLand Theatre and

tions and a Dora Award.

Shane Carty

Talk Is Free Theatre for making this happen! Love to my Flin Flon darling, Adrienne.

John Wilkes Booth

Alex Fiddes Leon Czolgosz

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Seven seasons at the Stratford

Festival, including Much Ado About Nothing, The Duchess of Malfi, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Brothers Karamazov and many others; Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/TC); Sweeney Todd, This is How It Goes (Neptune); Les Misérables, The Red Priest, You Can’t Take It With You, Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Hay Fever (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Sweeney Todd, A Year with Frog and Toad (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Mikado, Sticks and Stones (NAC); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (St. Lawrence Shakespeare); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Touchmark); Einstein’s Gift, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby (Grand); Treasure Island (TNB); Romeo and Juliet (Resurgence); A Christmas Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Western Canada Theatre).

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is

Free Theatre); Why We Tortured Him (Hammertheatre); One Step Forward (Talk Is Free Theatre); Honk! Jr. (GADZ Productions); Guns and Roses (Alumnae Theatre).

TV/RADIO Covert Affairs (USA Network), Afghanada

(CBC Radio), The 99 (Endemol UK).

TRAINING Sheridan College graduate in the music

theatre performance program.

ET CETERA Also an active musician, Alex has

music directed productions of Metamorphoses and Amadeus (Sheridan College) and has a love for sound engineering, songwriting and – of course – playing the didgeridoo.

TRAINING Queen’s University, Stratford Festival

Conservatory.

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Melody A. Johnson

Janet Porter

Sara Jane Moore

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme

MTC in the next room or the vibrator play (with Tarragon), The Glass Menagerie.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Little Mercy’s First Murder – Dora

TV Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Sea, many staged readings, producer of Out at Sea – SummerWorks 2012 (Actors Repertory Company); Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (BirdLand Theatre); Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre); Elora Gorge (The Room/SummerWorks 2011); Orson’s Shadow (Pilot Group); The Swearing Jar (6am Tango/Toronto Fringe 2008); Metamorphoses, Mary’s Wedding (Theatre and Company); Amadeus, Communicating Doors (Magnus Theatre); How the Other Half Loves (Sunshine Festival); Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Showboat Festival); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth (Driftwood Theatre).

TEACHING/TRAINING Melody is an alumna of the Toronto Second City mainstage where she has also directed three award-winning revues.

FILM/TV Credits include: Degrassi: The Next Generation, Who is Clark Rockefeller?, Rookie Blue, Murdoch Mysteries, The Listener, King, Mayday, Sundays at Tiffany’s.

ET CETERA Melody’s other writing credits include An

TRAINING Graduate of George Brown Theatre School.

Awkward Evening with Martin & Johnson (co-written with Bob Martin).

ET CETERA Janet has recently taken on the role of

Award, It’s All True, Well, co-creator of Mimi or A Poisoner’s Comedy (Tarragon); self-penned Miss Caledonia (Tarragon, Victoria Playhouse, Blyth, The Grand and upcoming: tour at NAC in Ottawa, Neptune in Halifax); I Think I Can (YPT/NAC); Trout Stanley (Factory Theatre); 7 Stories, Habeus Corpus (CS); Blithe Spirit (Soulpepper); Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Stratford); Our Town (Two Planks and a Passion Theatre); The Seven Lears, Swollen Tongues, The Piper (Necessary Angel).

OTHER THEATRE The City, Family Stories: Belgrade, The

Artistic Producer for Actors Repertory Company, a company she’s been a member of for 10 years.

Joe Matheson Proprietor

Steve Ross Charles Guiteau

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Recent: von Trapp in The Sound of

Music (Persephone); Knuckles in Jersey Boys (Toronto); Starbuck in Moby Dick, Cowell in The Music Man (Stratford); Conklin in Ragtime (US tour); Ozzie in On the Town, Henry in Counsellor at Law (Shaw); John in Italian Funerals (Drayton); Matt in Could You Wait...?

(Theatre Orangeville); Narrator in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Grand); performances at many regional theatres throughout Canada and the US. FILM/TV Sworn to Silence, Really Me, The Warden, The State Within, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy.

ET CETERA Writing Credits: Could You Wait...? (Book/

Original Lyrics); Hank Williams LIVE – 1952; Sketching Sunshine: An Evening (and Morning) with Stephen Leacock. Upcoming: Sketching Sunshine at Theatre Orangeville (world premiere). Proud Equity Member.

Je t’aime, Darlin’.

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MTC Guys and Dolls (TC/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE The Full Monty (Rainbow); Guys

and Dolls, Assassins, Emily (Talk Is Free Theatre); A New Brain (Acting Up Stage Company); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, West Side Story (Citadel); For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, The Foursome (New Stages); The Producers (Neptune); A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP/Citadel); Seussical, Sylvia, Jesus Christ Superstar (TA); Indian Ink, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd (CS); Sideshow of the Damned (Damned Co-op); Three Sisters (ATF); The Producers (Mirvish); nine seasons with the Stratford Festival.

FILM Ice Princess (Disney).

ET CETERA Returning for a 10th season at Stratford in

The Who’s Tommy and Fiddler on the Roof.

ARTISTS

Whitney Ross-Barris

Christopher Stanton

Emma Goldman

John Hinckley

MTC First appearance.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Candida (Burning Passions Theatre);

OTHER THEATRE The Swearing Jar (PTE); Ajax & Little

Hungry (Public Energy); Gorey Story (The Thistle Project); Hello Again (Hello Again Collective); Lake Nora Arms (Theatre & Company); The Cavan Blazers (4th Line Theatre).

ET CETERA Whitney Ross-Barris is a Toronto-based

jazz vocalist and has recently released her first album, Everybody’s Here. The album features some of her own compositions as well as a number of longlost songs by her late grandfather, writer-broadcaster Alex Barris. She is also a full-time mum to her 21-month-old son, Coen. Coen appeared in the 2011 production of Assassins but was uncredited as he was still just a fetus at that point.

Iliad (Harbourfront Centre World Stage); Have I None (Sheep No Wool Theatre Company); Nohayquiensepa (Aluna/Corporacion Bogotà); New Electric Ballroom (MacKenzieRo); A Quiet Place (Single Threat Productions).

TV Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Bomb Girls (Shaw/

Global), LA Complex (MuchMusic/CW), Everything Must Go (BravoFact).

ET CETERA With seven past nominations for his

performance and sound design work, Chris won the 2011 Dora Mavor Moore Award for his performance in New Electric Ballroom. Along with Brendan Gall and Geoffrey Pounsett, Chris is Artistic Director of indie performance company The Room.

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Jonathan Tan

Geoffrey Tyler

Ensemble

Balladeer

MTC First appearance.

MTC Sir Sagramore in Camelot (with TC/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Roland in Present Laughter, The

OTHER THEATRE Bert Barrie in 42nd Street (Stratford);

Crane in The Admirable Crichton, My Fair Lady (Shaw); Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre); The Princess and the Handmaiden (YPT); A New Brain (Acting Up Stage Company); Miss Saigon (Drayton); Forever Plaid (Port Stanley Festival Theatre).

TV Voice of Lee Ping on Teletoon’s animated series

Detentionaire (Nelvana).

TRAINING Graduate of Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance program and Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music.

ET CETERA Jonathan is thrilled to be reunited with

the Assassins family in his first appearance at MTC. Outside theatre, Jonathan teaches, takes photos, plays a few other instruments and conducts wild but well-intentioned experiments in the kitchen.

Thanks to his infinitely-patient family, ever-inspiring colleagues and the unforgettable Amabile Choirs of London, Ontario.

Alicia Toner

Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre); Woody in Toy Story: The Musical (Disney); The Overcoat, Sweeney Todd (CS); Cat in the Hat in Seussical the Musical, Snail in A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP); The Producers (Mirvish); Tom Shaw in Ned Durango, Sam in Sitting Pretty, Ren in Footloose (Canadian pemieres); The Who’s Tommy (original Canadian and West End companies); Napoleon (world premiere Canadian company).

FILM/TV Mulroney: The Opera (Rombus Media); Disney’s The Music Man, starring Matthew Broderick (Buena Vista Pictures); various and sundry TV commercials.

ET CETERA Geoffrey is also a figure skating performance coach as well as director/choreographer in partnership with Kurt Browning and has worked extensively on such shows as Stars on Ice and Celebration on Ice in the last few years.

Stephen Sondheim Music & Lyrics

Ensemble

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Ring of Fire, Anne of Green Gables

(Charlottetown Festival); Poodle Skirts to Platform Shoes (TA); Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre); The Tale of Ivan vs. Ivan (European tour), Great Expectations, Nina in Dear World (Talk Is Free Theatre); Cabaret, Broadway Gold II, Scrooge: The Musical (Rose Theatre); The Buddy Holly Story (Mayfield, Stage West).

TV Nothing Personal (Discovery).

ET CETERA In her spare time, Alicia is also a Bikram

yoga teacher in Toronto. Love and thanks to family, friends and MC for continued love and support.

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Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential and accomplished composer/lyricists in Broadway history, was born in New York City. As a teenager he met Oscar Hammerstein II, who became his mentor.

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His works have accumulated more than 60 individual and collaborative Tony Awards. “Sooner or Later” from the film Dick Tracy won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Song. Mr. Sondheim received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Sunday in the Park with George.

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John Weidman is a frequent collaborator with Stephen Sondheim, having written the book for Pacific Overtures (Tony nominations, Best Book and Best Musical), Assassins and Road Show. He co-authored the new book for Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony Award-winning revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, and wrote the book for Big (Tony nominations, Best Book).

With director/choreographer Susan Stroman, he co-created the musical Contact (Tony nomination, Best Book), which won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical.

Since 1986 he has written for Sesame Street, receiving 11 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children’s Program. Weidman was President of the Dramatists’ Guild of America from 1999 to 2009. He lives in New York City with his wife, Lila, and their two children, Laura and Jonathan.

Adam Brazier Director

MTC Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (with CS) – Dora Award, Best Actor in a Musical; Jamie in The Last Five Years.

OTHER THEATRE Selected: Aldolpho in The Drowsy

Chaperone (TC); Butch in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (BirdLand Theatre); Giorgio in Passion (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Kaffee in A Few Good Men (Neptune); Khasshogi in We Will Rock You (Mirvish); originated role of Walter Hartwright in The Woman in White, played Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods (Broadway); originated role of Dr. Barnardo in The Likes of Us (Sydmonton Festival/West End); title role in Pal Joey, Freddy in Pygmalion (Shaw); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Theatre by the Bay); originated role of Sky in Mamma Mia! (Mirvish/US tour).

ET CETERA Adam is a founding artist and currently

serves as Artistic Director of Theatre 20, a collective dedicated to fostering new Canadian musicals and re-imagining existing repertoire from the international canon. Adam directed the inaugural Theatre 20 production of Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare by Winnipeg’s Joseph Aragon.

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MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Reza’s credits include sound design

and composition for the Shaw Festival, Factory Theatre, Volcano Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, Acting Up Stage Company, the Luminato Festival and Harbourfront’s World Stage Festival. As Music Director, he has won Dora Awards for Caroline, or Change (Acting Up Stage Company, Best Music Direction & Best Musical 2012) and Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/ Talk Is Free Theatre, Best Musical 2010). He is also the resident Canadian Music Director for Andrea Martin’s one-woman show, Everything Must Go. ET CETERA Reza is an award-winning composer,

lyricist, sound designer and music director, known for his versatility in style and genre. Currently, he is teaming up with Andrew Kushnir to write a new musical, commissioned by the Belfry Theatre and Acting Up Stage Company.

Beth Kates Original Set & Props Designer

MTC HARDSELL, Bigger Than Jesus.

OTHER THEATRE Projection: Ragtime (Shaw); The

Wizard of Oz, Snow White (Ross Petty Productions); Backyardigans (Koba). Set/lighting/costume/projection: MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus, HARDSELL (WYRD Productions); DarkStar Requiem, Shelter, Get Stuffed (Tapestry New Opera); Such Creatures, Yichud/ Seclusion (Theatre Passe Muraille); Set: Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare (Theatre 20); Shadow Cutter (GCTC); Lighting: Brimful of Asha (Tarragon); Madonna Painter (Factory Theatre).

TEACHING Masterclasses in Projection Design.

ET CETERA Beth is the co-creative director, with

husband Ben Chaisson, of Playground Studios, a design firm dedicated to creating beautiful productions. Their award-winning interactive installation, The ToyBox, was showcased in the lobby of Toronto’s city hall. Their greatest production, their son Aaron, was born April 2012. Upcoming: Synesthesia Project, co-created with Steven McCarthy, Anita Majumdar’s Same Same But Different. www.bethkates.com www.playgroundstudios.org

ARTISTS

Erika Connor

Gareth Crew

Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

MTC The Rocky Horror Show (with CS).

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Aladdin, Snow White, Cinderella,

OTHER THEATRE Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine

Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood, Peter Pan (Ross Petty Productions); The Odd Couple, Fool for Love, The Dumb Waiter, The Zoo Story (Soulpepper); Blood Claat, Tequila Vampire Matinee (Theatre Passe Muraille); Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (Crow’s Theatre); Peer Gynt (George Brown College); Little Shop of Horrors (CS); Guys and Dolls (Talk Is Free Theatre); The Overwhelming (Studio 180).

TRAINING BFA, University of Regina.

Show, Madhouse Variations – Dora Award nominee for Outstanding Lighting Design (Eldritch Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Theatre Sheridan); Gruesome Playground Injuries (BirdLand Theatre); Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre); various shows including Do You Turn Somersaults?, No Way to Treat a Lady, Dani Girl, Great Expectations, Parkdale Peter Pan (Talk Is Free Theatre); The Rocky Horror Show, Rent, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Fallen Rock Productions).

TRAINING Graduate of Ryerson Theatre School’s

Tech Production Program, five seasons as a Lighting Design Assistant at the Stratford Festival.

ET CETERA Gareth is a member of the Associated

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ARTISTS ET CETERA Linda is currently en route to achieving

Stefan Dzeparoski Production Dramaturg

her master’s degree in dance studies at York University, and is looking forward to another season at the Shaw Festival.

James Smith Assistant Music Director/ Band Leader

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Director: Gruesome Playground

Injuries by Rajiv Joseph (BirdLand Theatre); Roberto Zucco by Bernard Marie Koltes, After the Fall by Arthur Miller (Studio Theatre); Anime by Keith Wyatt (Lucid Productions); Creation of the World and Other Businesses by Arthur Miller (System Theatre).

Assistant Director: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Daniel Brooks (Necessary Angel).

Upcoming directing: Fortune and Men’s Eyes by John Herbert, Dreams of Flying, Dreams of Falling by Adam Rapp (BirdLand Theatre). In development: DELETE. TRAINING Training: MFA Theatre Directing – University

of Alberta, MA Theatre Studies – University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. Teaching: University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Ryerson Theatre School.

ET CETERA Stefan is a Sterling Award-nominated

director. www.stefandzeparoski.com www.vimeo.com/stefandzeparoski

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Intern musical director for My Fair

Lady and Maria Severa, substitute conductor for The Admirable Crichton, associate composer/musical arranger for On the Rocks, assistant sound designer for Ragtime (Shaw). Musical Director for Guys and Dolls, Great Expectations (Talk Is Free Theatre); Living With Henry (Next Stage); Canada in Love (Smile Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Fallen Rock). Second keyboard and accordion for Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre 2010 and 2011 productions).

TRAINING James is a graduate of Queen’s University’s

bachelor of music program, where he specialized in piano and composition.

ET CETERA James would like to thank his parents for

Linda Garneau Assistant Director

the 10 years of piano lessons. This one is for you guys.

Justin Stadnyk Production Manager

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Most recently: Bloodless: The Trial of

Burke and Hare (Theatre 20); Trouble in Tahiti (Shaw); Sweeney Todd (Sheridan); The Wizard of Oz, Dance Legends (Drayton). Other credits: Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre); A Chorus Line, The Pajama Game (Randolph Theatre); Do You Turn Somersaults? (Talk Is Free Theatre). Artistic Director of the Helix Dance Project, currently in its ninth season – works include Rain, Unearth, Integration and Verb.atim.

FILM/TV Opening Ceremony for the Pan Am Games (Guadalajara), Juno and Gemini Awards, Shawn Desman (“Shiver”), Triple Sensation, Stars on Ice (national tours).

TEACHING Guest choreographer and teacher abroad.

On faculty at Ryerson University and Metro Movement.

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MTC Actor: Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Fiddler on the Roof, The Wave.

OTHER THEATRE Actor: Anne of Green Gables, The Full

Monty (Charlottetown Festival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rent, Good News, Fame (Rainbow); Robin Hood, Cinderella (Elgin Theatre); A Little Night Music, Wonderful Town (Shaw); Glorious, Anne of Green Gables (Stage West Mississauga); Canadian Explosion (Stage West Calgary); Camelot, The Mikado (Drayton); Blood Brothers (TA); Emily (Talk Is Free Theatre).

TV YTV’s King of the Camp.

ET CETERA Justin is excited to be working with the

crew at MTC again, but in a different capacity this time. In any light, it’s always nice to return home.

Artistic Producer: Zorana Kydd BirdLand Theatre is an Award winning company based in Toronto. Over last ten years BirdLand Theatre produced many Canadian premieres focusing primarily on the younger award winning playwrights such as Pulitzer Prize nominee Rajiv Joseph, Tony Award nominee Stephan Adly Guirgis, Drama Desk Award recipient Martin McDonagh and some of the established composer such as Stephen Sondheim and writers including Arthur Miller and Terence McNally. Productions of BirdLand Theatre were included in the seasons of The Canadian Stage Company as part of their 20th Anniversary Season.

Birdland Theatre is a recipient of six Dora Mavor Moore Awards – one in 2010 for Assassins by Stephen Sondheim for the Outstanding Production of a Musical and five Dora Awards for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot including Outstanding Production. www.birdlandtheatre.com

Talk Is Free Theatre is an artist-driven, award winning theatre company based in Barrie, Ontario. The company was founded in 2003 by Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak and has produced sixty productions concentrating largely on new and neglected work, with a special priority on production and development of new and off centre musical theatre.

Some of the produced Canadian musicals include: Harvest Moon Rising, Colette: The Colours of Love, Emily (two productions), Variations on a Nervous Breakdown (World Premiere), Playground (World Premiere) and Napoleon (In Concert). Other notable productions include the highly acclaimed Canadian premiere of Anyone Can Whistle (In Concert), world premiere of the American musical Dani Girl, first Canadian regional production of Kiss of the Spider Woman and two previous sold out runs of Assassins in both Barrie and Toronto.

TIFT also toured its productions. In 2010 the company toured to Serbia, England and Russia with The Tale of Ivan vs. Ivan and was part of the 2008 Annual International Bulgakov Festival of Creativity in Kiev, Ukraine with excerpts from its production of Moliere or League of Hypocrites. Canadian musical Emily, twice produced by TIFT, was a selection finalist at the prestigious Festival of New Musicals of the National Alliance of Musical Theater (NAMT) in New York in 2010 as was Dani Girl in 2011, previously produced by TIFT and revived in 2012.

More information is available at www.tift.ca

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Carolyn Mykytyshyn

Music Theatre International

Stage Manager

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: Bloodless: The Trial of

Burke and Hare, 2011 Concert Series (Theatre 20); No Way to Treat a Lady, Dani Girl, Great Expectations (Talk Is Free Theatre); Assassins (BirdLand Theatre/Talk Is Free Theatre). Assistant Stage Manager: The Royal Comedians (Soulpepper); The Wizard of Oz (Ross Petty Productions); The Railway Children (Marquis Entertainment); The Toxic Avenger (Dancap Productions).

Apprentice Stage Manager: We Will Rock You (Mirvish); The December Man (L’homme de decembre), The Story of My Life (CS).

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide.

TRAINING Carolyn is a graduate of York University’s

Theatre Production and Design program.

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Elegance Sophistication Style Romance On Saturday, November 3, 2012, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre presented its 30th annual Black & White Gala Ball in the historic Fort Garry Hotel Grand Ballroom. More than 400 guests enjoyed a delectable dinner and were swept off their feet by The Danny Kramer Event Band at this SOLD-OUT event. The Grand Ballroom was a perfect backdrop for an evening of southern romance, inspired by the grand parties in Gone With the Wind.

We sincerely thank our community of sponsors, donors, volunteers and guests for making this evening so memorable. Your generous contributions will support the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s varied programs while ensuring that live theatre continues to thrive in our community. We are truly grateful to our exclusive event sponsor, RBC Wealth Management, RBC Dominion Securities and RBC Royal Bank, for their generous support.

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“I’ll think of it all tomorrow. After all… tomorrow is another day.”

– Scarlett, Gone With the Wind Playwright Niki Landau’s remarkable world premiere adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prizewinning Gone With the Wind covers 12 years of love and war, as well as the destruction and rebuilding of a society. At the end of Act One, a hungry and desperate Scarlett O’Hara cries out, “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again” and throughout the rest of the play she strives to rebuild the parts of her life, her home and her culture that have been destroyed.

moves the story along through seamless scene changes. The set is really a complex machine with two independent revolves, three automated pallets as well as scenery that flies in from above. As a device to suggest the Southern theme, Beatty used shutters as a prominent feature of the set.

MTC carpenters and painters prepared 5,780 wooden slats to create the shutters. An incredible prop, built entirely in-house, is a horse-drawn cart: wireless and remote-controlled.

To produce and build a play of this magnitude – to do justice to this sweeping story – was a task of enormous proportions. We wanted the story onstage to accurately reflect a panoramic view of the times portrayed, from the opulence of the antebellum South to its abject devastation and then the guarded optimism of the Reconstruction era. This world premiere of Gone With the Wind is a tribute to our family of creative individuals who worked so hard to make the production a reality.

This large-scale production is also a tribute to our passionate donor family, whose support of our Annual Fund helps MTC fulfill its mandate to present such exciting and innovative work.

Your gifts help create the majesty you see on our stages.

To capture the changes in fashion, our wardrobe and wig staff were also put to the test in the months leading up to opening night. There are about 200 costumes featured in the production.

Scarlett herself has 17 costume changes and her wardrobe alone needed to reflect the changing styles from hoop skirts to the bustles of the postwar era. There are also nearly 30 wigs in the play, not counting beards, mustaches or sideburns.

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Laura Enns, Touring & Production Coordinator Ian Kirk, Assistant Technical Director Rick MacPherson, Technical Director, Tom Hendry Theatre Russell Martin, Production Manager Rob Ring, Assistant Production Manager Benjamin Ross, Technical Director, John Hirsch Theatre

TRUSTEES David Atkins Derrick Coupland Sandy Gousseau John Guttormson Shawn Hughes John Kearsey Brenda Kriss Jeff Lamothe Lynda Taylor Judy Wakefield Michelle Weinberg Richard L. Yaffe Brenda Zaporzan

Advisory Council Gerry Couture, Chair Gail Asper Morley Blankstein Doneta Brotchie Angus Campbell Hy Dashevsky Glen Dyrda, FCA John F. Fraser Jean Giguere Charron Hamilton Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Gordon Keatch Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews Claire W. Miller Jeffrey Morton, FCA Hon. Jack Murta Lillian Neaman Shelley Nimchonok James Pappas John Petersmeyer Lawrence Prout Jeff Quinton Patricia Rabson Margaret Redmond Susan Skinner Al Snyder Maureen Watchorn

Artistic Jeff Kennedy, Literary Coordinator Laurie Lam, Producer Robb Paterson, Associate Artistic Director Steven Schipper, CM, Artistic Director Casey Shapira, Literary Apprentice* Melinda Tallin, Artistic Coordinator

Box Office Laurie Fletcher, Patron Services Office Manager Melanie Sexton, Ticketing Services Director Jennifer Skelly, Tessitura Application Coordinator Box Office Representatives: Katie Adamson, Sheena Baird, Andrea Gallagher, Airyn Lancaster, Jason Neufeld, Robyn Pooley, Victoria Popp, Jessica Ross

Carpentry Louis Gagné, Layout Carpenter Ray Galinaitis, Carpenter Christian Hadley, Carpenter Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Scenic Carpenter Chris Thomson, Carpenter

Doug Antoine, Stage Crew John Bent Jr., Head of sound Laurie Carpenter, Dresser Ray Galinaitis, Stage Crew Hart Greenberg, Head Carpenter Shane Gowler, Stage Crew Anna Holden-Riches, Dresser Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Paul McWhinney, Stage Crew Claude Robert, Head Electrician John Tomiuk, House Stage Hand Angela Vaags, Dresser Brenda Zachanowich, Dresser

Tom Hendry Warehouse Randy Harder, Head Electrician Rick MacPherson, Technical Director Alison Nutt, Head Carpenter Michael Wright, Head of Sound

Tom Hendry Warehouse Front-of-House Kim Cossette, Front-of-House Manager Assisted by: Scott Tweedy Jamie Chapman, Cristin Sinclair, Stephanie Urbanski, Chelsea Zacharias

Development Kristine Betker, Director of Fund Development Garth Johnson, Major, individual & planned Giving Officer Michael Joyal, Development Assistant Stephanie Lambert, Special & Donor Events Coordinator Tele-funding representatives: Kelsey Johnson, Jessy Ross, Sandra Rubin

John Hirsch Mainstage Front-of-House Deborah Gay-de Vries, Front-of-House Manager Assisted by: Sheena Baird, Jonny Hall Jamie Chapman, Kim Cossette, Rylen de Vries, Caroline Graham, Elfie Harvey, Kelsey Johnson, Sherri Kostecki, Robyn Milligan, Rachel Neal, Jessica Olson, Kayla Parke-Wilson, Amariah Peterson, Angela Rajfur, Jennifer Schmidt, Cristin Sinclair, Kevin Stroski, Stephanie Urbanski, Rita Vande Vyvere, Phyllis Van Drunen, Kira Watson, Chelsea Zacharias, Derek Zorniak

Paint

Jan/Feb 2013

Stage Crew

Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Doowah Design, Design Bruce Monk, Photographer Brent Phillips, Director of Marketing & Communications Mark Saunders, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Teri Stevens, Publicist & online media coordinator

Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent

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Heather Lee Brereton, Assistant Artisan Larry Demedash, Senior Properties Builder Michael Duggan, Assistant Artisan/Props Runner Kari Hagness, Head of Properties Cari Simpson, Assistant Artisan James Sutherland, Properties Builder

Communications

Maintenance

*Position funded through the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Appreticeship Program

Properties

Susan Groff, Head Scenic Artist Lawrence Van Went, Scenic Artist Assisted by: Kim Hamin, Eric Starke, Tiffany Taylor

Wardrobe Carolyn Bradshaw, Sewer Amanda Isaak, First Hand Norma LaChance, Cutter Thora Lamont, acting head of wardrobe/cutter Barb Mackenzie, Sewer Lorraine O’Leary, Head of Wardrobe Lois Powne, First Hand Yvonne Rempel, Sewer Kelly Ruth, Breakdown/Accessories Hollis Spevack, Sewer Angela Vaags, Sewer Jackie Van Winkle, Buyer/Accessories Iris Wood, Sewer

Wigs Beverly Covert, Wigs & Makeup Supervisor Teddi Peddle, Wig Stylist & Show runner Scarlett’s wig created by Sharon Ryman

Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival & Master Playwright Festival Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer

Honorary Staff Zaz Bajon, General Manager Emeritus

Open HOuse 2013 Wednesday, February 6th | 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Wesley Hall at UWinnipeg, 515 Portage Ave.

Join faculty, staff and students to learn more about the various programs, services and activities for grades 9-12.

Contact us today for more info or to arrange a tour!

204.786.9221 | uwinnipeg.ca/collegiate Entrance scholarships and bursaries are available.