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brought to this work has inspired me every day. This time-travelling adventure of the heart has challenged all of us to reach beyond the limits to make magic on stage.

Orlando is a beautiful journey of a poetic soul searching for who they are amidst the burden of what society dictates them to be. The young boy with the sword slashing through the air is looking for someone or something to make him feel whole. The woman who is reduced to her attributes, and dictated by roles and responsibilities imposed upon her gender, seeks freedom and a desire to truly be seen. For me this play investigates boundlessness. Through Orlando’s transcendence of time and gender, Woolf asks us to dissolve the rigidity that limits us. Written nearly 100 years ago, this piece continues to resonate, as we make meaning of our lives today. This journey towards the self is universal, as we live many lives, experience many loves, and seek understanding and acceptance of who we truly are.

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Playwright’s Notes BY SARAH RUHL In 1927, Virginia Woolf wrote in a letter: “Yesterday morning I was in despair...

I couldn’t screw a word from me; and at last dropped my head in my hands: dipped my pen in the ink, and wrote these words, as if automatically, on a clean sheet: Orlando: A Biography. No sooner had I done this than my body was flooded with rapture and my brain with ideas. I wrote rapidly... But listen; suppose Orlando turns out to be Vita.”

Vita Sackville-West was, along with Leonard Woolf, one of Woolf’s great loves. Orlando became a fictional, fantastical, pseudo-biographical conglomerate of the many lives of Vita Sackville-West, who was also a poet,

cross-dresser, aristocrat, and consummate gardener (her estate was given to her family by Queen Elizabeth, and was then taken away from Vita in her lifetime because of her gender). “All these ancestors and centuries of silver and gold have bred a perfect body,” Woolf said of Vita. Woolf wrote the book more quickly than any of her others, “at the top of her speed,” and in higher spirits. She wrote to Vita, “It’s all about you and the lusts of your mind.”

She was determined to break out of the rigid form of the novel saying, “I will never write a novel again,” and Orlando will be “truthful but fantastic.” Orlando is then part novel, part fabulation, part biography, part theatrical escapade, part poetry, and full of complex private messages to Vita, leading Vita’s son to call it “the longest love-letter in the English language.”

SYNOPSIS – Orlando, a charismatic nobleman with shapely legs, embarks on a lifetime of adventures. His journey begins as a young man in the Elizabethan age. Often at a loss for words, he struggles to write a poem about an oak tree. Orlando becomes the Queen’s object of affection, but his attention wanders and he becomes engaged to Euphrosyne, one of the ladies of the court.

During the Great Frost, Orlando meets Sasha, a Russian Princess and they escape to London (goodbye, Euphrosyne). Sasha melts – and then breaks – Orlando’s heart.

Then comes the thaw and the 17th century. Orlando returns to the country where he is pursued by the Archduchess of Romania. He flees to Constantinople. After a raucous evening and late-night encounter with a Spanish dancer, Orlando sleeps for seven days and awakes as a woman.

Orlando sails back to England in the 18th century, where she discovers the penalties and privileges of being a woman. She revisits her poem and becomes reacquainted with the Archduchess, who returns as the Archduke. Finding herself in the 19th century, Orlando submits to the spirit of the age and takes a husband, Marmaduke.

Orlando’s story ends in the 20th century where the past collides with the present.

She finally finishes The Oak Tree as the first stroke of midnight sounds.

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Worlds of Orlando and Vita When Virginia Woolf penned Orlando, she wrote the titular character to represent English author and garden designer Vita Sackville-West. The following table outlines the world of the play in relation to the life of Vita.

WORLD OF ORLANDO

WORLD OF VITA SACKVILLE-WEST

Orlando becomes a member of Queen Elizabeth I’s Royal Court and is gifted land and a house by the Queen.

Knole House is presented as a gift to Vita’s ancestor, Thomas Sackville, from Queen Elizabeth I.

Orlando meets and begins a relationship with Princess Sasha of Russia.

Vita has a relationship with Violet Trefusis.

Most of their love affair is conducted in the French countryside.

Orlando catches Princess Sasha sitting on the knee of a Russian Sea Captain. Sasha departs London soon after.

Vita and Violet’s affair ends. Vita accuses Violet of cheating. Violet had promised to never sleep with her spouse while with Vita, but Vita’s husband reveals Violet had chosen to sleep with him. Vita believes him.

Orlando meets and is courted by the Archduchess/Archduke.

Vita begins a courtship with her suitor, Lord Henry Lascelles. The courtship ends as Vita finds Lord Henry boring.

Orlando falls asleep as a man and wakes up as a woman.

Following her relationship with Violet Trefusis where she cross-dressed and used the name Julian, Vita begins dressing in androgynous clothes on a permanent basis.

The limitations of her gender are revealed to Orlando when she is faced with a lawsuit denying her the right to property because she is a woman.

Vita’s uncle inherits the family home after her father dies. Vita should have inherited the property, but cannot as she is a woman.

Orlando marries Marmaduke in order to conform to the ‘spirit of the age.’ Marmaduke’s feminine understanding complements Orlando’s masculine independence.

Vita marries Harold Nicolson. Her marriage is used as a guise for her relationships with women.

Orlando, now age 36, completes her poem The Oak Tree.

Vita turns 36; her relationship with Virginia Woolf ends. Her poem The Land is published.

CHART SOURCE: STUDY GUIDE FROM SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY’S 2015 PRODUCTION OF ORLANDO

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When Vita Met Virginia

BY EMMA WELHAM, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG *Trigger warning: mentions of suicide and abuse*

Vita Sackville-West

Virginia Woolf

“And instantly the usual exciting devices enter my mind: a biography beginning in the year 1500 and continuing to the present day, called Orlando: Vita; only with a change about from one sex to the other” – virginia woolf’s diary entry, oct 5, 1927 The year was 1922. In London, in December, Vita Sackville-West meets Virginia Woolf at a dinner party. Vita, age 30, is a best-selling author. Virginia, age 40, is relatively unknown. Nevertheless, Vita knows of Virginia’s work and greatly admires her. The morning after the party, Vita writes to her husband about how much she adores Virginia and Virginia writes in her journal about the impact Vita had made on her. The two begin to bond over their respective childhoods and become friends, then lovers.

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Violet, Vita had begun to dress as a boy named Julian. She adopted this persona both as an expression of self, and because of the danger she would be in should she be found to be in a relationship with a woman. Meanwhile, Virginia was part of The Bloomsbury Group: a collection of artists, writers, intellectuals and philosophers who, according to Dorothy Parker, “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”. Virginia was aware of Vita’s past relationships and admired that Vita pursued relationships with women.

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ORLANDO their relationship reached heights not achieved before or after their affair.

Virginia writes Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando. Vita publishes her epic poem The Land, and her novel Seducers in Ecuador, amongst others.

Vita supports Virginia and helps her begin healing from the trauma and abuse she endured in childhood. With Vita, Virginia is able to have her first satisfying erotic relationship, and when the two travel to France, Virginia even purchases a mirror noting that thanks to Vita she can look at herself for the first time in her life.

In 1927, Virginia has the idea to write Orlando. The story flows quickly for Virginia and she says that the process of writing it is like taking a writer’s holiday. Vita and her life are embedded through-out the novel (to read about some of them, see the chart on page 7), and Vita falls in love with the character of Orlando, telling Virginia that she has discovered a new form of narcissism.

When Orlando is published it is an immediate success. It helps give Virginia the same notoriety Vita had, and gives Virginia a piece of Vita that is forever hers.

And then, the relationship ends. Though the two remain on good terms, they have disagreements over political issues, and Virginia is bothered by the fact that Vita has continued to have relations with other people during their relationship. Not to mention, both Virginia and Vita are married throughout their time together. Though, it should be noted that neither husband has objected to the relationship. Leonard, Virginia’s husband, saw the effect Vita had on Virginia, and Harold, Vita’s husband, dated other men and enjoyed an open relationship with Vita. november/december 2021

So, the two women go their separate ways but remain friends. When Virginia later dies by suicide, Leonard writes to Vita because he doesn’t want Vita to hear about the death from the papers. Years after Virginia’s death, Vita writes to her husband that she believes that she might have been able to save Virginia.

And through all this the story of Orlando lives on, and in 1998, American playwright Sarah Ruhl adapts it for The Piven Theatre Workshop in Illinois.

Sarah’s adaption is based in story book theatre, a kind of ensemble based, narrative theatre. Sarah grew up admiring the works of Virginia, and this admiration is evident in her adaption.

For instance, Sarah also states that she uses narration in the piece because “Woolf’s language is so much better than any of her imitators could ever be”, and much of the text found in the play comes directly from the novel. Sarah’s adaption was re-worked in 2010 for a New York premiere, and that is the version being presented by Royal MTC. Enjoy.

A photo of Vita Sackville-West from the novel Orlando at the present time, at the time of the novel’s publication.

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Orlando and Gender: A Twenty-First Century View

BY JOSEPHINE KEARNS, GENDER CONSULTANT *Please note that this section contains spoilers for Orlando* “The change seemed to have been accomplished painlessly and completely and in such a way that Orlando herself showed no surprise at it.”

When Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, she created a character who magically and unexpectedly changed genders halfway through life. Yet she had little sense of how such a story might land in the twenty-first century.

The world’s first gender clinic, in Berlin, was less than a decade old; it would be several decades more before the word transgender would be coined.

Today transgender rights are part of a worldwide conversation, and it is not difficult to draw parallels between Orlando and modern experiences of transness. It is likely that many of our trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit audience members – as well as some of our many TNB2S artists working on the show – see bits of themselves in Orlando.

Yet Orlando isn’t trans. The experience of waking up one day, unsurprised to have transformed, is an allegory – not how gender actually works. So it’s important we take care in drawing parallels.

What about Vita Sackville-West, on whom Orlando was based? We know she referred to herself as a crossdresser, but the available language in 1928 differed from today’s. In a modern context it’s easy to imagine Vita identifying as a trans man, as non-binary, as 10

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a butch woman, or more. Ultimately, of course, we cannot know.

But Orlando does shed light on the differences between walking in the world as a man versus as a woman, and many of those differences are just as present today. It is still considered unbecoming in a man to weep; women are still largely expected to be “obedient, chaste, and scented” through “tedious discipline.”

And Orlando reacts with surprise when the Captain touches her, or when her servants begin discussing her childbearing abilities. For women’s bodies are still today touched and discussed in ways that men’s are not.

We can also say that while Orlando is not a trans story, it is absolutely a queer story. Orlando falls in love with Sasha without knowing her gender; the Archduke falls in love with Orlando knowing he’s a man, then continues his advances when Orlando proves to be a woman; and we know Orlando “became the adored of many women and some men.” And, yes, Orlando – a character inspired by Virginia Woolf’s queer, cross-dressing lover – changes genders.

And when she does change genders, Orlando finds immediate acceptance among everyone she knows. Even today, a hundred years later, it is only within queer communities that such acceptance can be expected. We hope such acceptance is one of the many lessons the world can take from Orlando today. november/december 2021

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Orlando

By Virginia Woolf Adapted by Sarah Ruhl November 25 – December 18, 2021 preview November 24

Director.................................................................................... Kelly Thornton Set Designer.................................................................................Linda Beech Costume Designer..................................................................Leanne Foley Lighting Designer...............................................................Hugh Conacher Sound Designer...............................................................................Ashley Au Video Designer..................................................................Carla Hernandez Choreographer.........................................................Marie-Josée Chartier Intimacy Director................................................................. Audrey Dwyer† Fight Director...................................................................... Jacquie Loewen Gender Consultant.............................................................Jamie Dunsdon Gender Consultant........................................................ Josephine Kearns Gender Consultant............................................................. Albert McLeod Gender Consultant.................................................................Liam Zarrillo† Production Dramaturg..................................................... Emma Welham† Assistant Director.............................................................Melissa Langdon Assistant Set Designer......................................................... Kate George‡ Vocal Arrangement, Russian Sea Song.........................Paul De Gurse Stage Manager..................................................................... Leslie Watson§ Assistant Stage Manager............................................................. Ali Fulmyk Apprentice Stage Manager....................................... Samantha Desiree THE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Chorus #4............................................................................... Simon Bracken† Chorus #2.......................................................................................Ivy Charles† Chorus #3..................................................................................Breton Lalama Orlando...................................................................... Em Siobhan McCourt Chorus #1....................................................................................Simon Miron† Sasha.............................................................Sophie Smith-Dostmohamed ORLANDO was commissioned by Joyce Piven and was first produced at the Piven Theater Workshop, directed by Joyce Piven.

It was subsequently produced at the Actors’ Gang in Los Angeles, produced by Tim Robbins, and directed by Joyce Piven.

It was produced in New York at Classic Stage Company, produced by Brian Kulick, directed by Rebecca Taichman.

Special thanks: Aaron Frost, University of Winnipeg, Jack & John at Muzeen & Blythe. production sponsor Production photography by Dylan Hewlett. *Position funded through the Jean Murray - Moray Sinclair Theatre Apprenticeship Program †Past Jean Murray - Moray Sinclair Scholarship award recipient ‡Position funded through the Kingfisher Foundation §Past Naomi Levin Theatre Scholarship award winner

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ORLANDO Simon Bracken

Ivy Charles (she/her)

Chorus #4

Chorus #2

ROYAL MTC Romeo and Juliet.

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Highlights include:

OTHER THEATRE Urinetown, Antony and

The Secret Garden (YPT); Romeo and Juliet (SIR); Tick (Carousel Players); Breathing Corpses (Coal Mine Theatre); Richard III (Shakespeare in the Ruff); The Matchmaker, Cymbeline (Stratford); The Particulars (Winnipeg Fringe/ Edmonton Fringe/SummerWorks/The Theatre Centre/La Cité/Off-Broadway); What We’re Thinking About When We’re Thinking About Lying On The Ground (Buddies in Bad Times/Rhubarb Festival).

FILM/TV Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man (upcoming) (VitalOnly Films); Raspberry (Miclo Productions); Flush (Thunderbox Productions); The Transporter (HBO).

TRAINING University of Manitoba, National Theatre School of Canada.

ET CETERA Deep regard, fondness and gratitude for Chris Johnson, 1944-2021.

Cleopatra, Cabaret (Studio 58); East Van Panto: Pinocchio (Theatre Replacements).

FILM Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime); Reframed (Electric Company Theatre).

TRAINING Graduate of Studio 58.

ET CETERA Ivy was the Head Coordinator of Studio 58’s Diversity Committee from 2019-2020, the Head Facilitator from 2018-2019 and the winner of the Hnatyshyn Grant for English theatre in 2019.

Breton Lalama (he + they)

Chorus #3

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Highlights include: Actor:

Fully Committed, Pleasureville (Neptune); Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Wintergarden Theatre); Hair (National Tour – Broadway World Award for Best Featured Performer in a Touring Production). Playwright: LAST SHOW ON EARTH!™ (Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell); you wake up on stage (Alberta Theatre Projects Playwrights Unit).

FILM/TV O’Keeffe in Slasher (Shudder); JR in Y: The Last Man (Hulu/FX); Bishop in Henry G20 (Luminato); Banu in Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor (Crave); Pretty Hard Cases (CBC/NBC).

ET CETERA This one is for all of you.

Welcome back. @bretonlikethecrackers

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ORLANDO Em Siobhan McCourt

(he/him and she/her)

Orlando ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Sense and Sensibility

(Citadel); Fiddle Cat (Kompany Family Theatre); Bone Cage (Theatre Yes); Bright Lights Cold Water (Toy Guns Dance Theatre). Other credits include playing the violin for Vigilante (Catalyst/Citadel); and Calvin Berger (Three Form Theatre).

FILM/TV Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix); Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Home Again, Bunker Burger (Shorts); Cor Values (Amazon Prime US).

TRAINING Em has trained with Armstrong Acting Studios in Toronto.

ET CETERA Em is a Nonbinary, Genderfluid actor, producer, and actor-combatant based in Toronto. Huge thanks to Kelly and Royal MTC for the opportunity to embody Orlando and for supporting Nonbinary representation in theatre.

Twitter/Instagram: @emsmccourt

Simon Miron (he/they)

Chorus #1

ROYAL MTC Director: The (Post) Mistress.

Assistant Director: The Cottage. Actor: The Dresser.

OTHER THEATRE Director: Pippin, American Idiot (ViC/WST); Freestyle Fantastique, Songs for a New World (White Rabbit Productions); The Last 48 (ArtLaunch); 7 Stories (TBTR); The Last Five Years (Winnipeg Fringe). Acting: The Winter’s Tale (SIR); The House at Pooh Corner, James and the Giant Peach, Honk!

(MTYP); L’article 23 et sa suite, Le Boucher,

Le Père, Heyderabad (TCM); Little Shop of Horrors, South Pacific, Les Misérables, The Little Mermaid, The Producers (Rainbow); Blithe Spirit (Echo Theatre); Sunday in the Park with George (GalleryWorks).

TRAINING/TEACHING Founding member of the Village Conservatory for Music Theatre (ViC). Simon holds a Masters from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, trained with Peter Hinton at the Stratford Festival and is a graduate of the theatre arts program at MacEwan University.

ET CETERA Simon is a francophone Métis artist who self identifies as two spirited and enjoys creating multidisciplinary art through collaboration and self-exploration.

Sophie SmithDostmohamed (she/they)

Sasha ROYAL MTC The New Canadian Curling Club, A Thousand Splendid Suns (postponed due to COVID-19).

OTHER THEATRE Selected acting credits include: The Snail and the Whale (MTYP/ Tall Stories); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Arcadia (U of W); Bastard. (OFUR); Animosity (Downside Up Productions); Here Together (Autonomous Productions). Assistant Directing: Like Mother Like Daughter (Why Not Theatre Co/FemFest). Sophie is the Associate Artistic Director at Shakespeare in the Ruins, and is a Co-Founder and Collaborator of Out From Under the Rug Collective (currently in residence at PTE).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg Honours Acting; mentorship with Haysam Kadri through Royal MTC, mentorship with Ann Hodges through Creative Manitoba.

ET CETERA Sophie is a queer artist who’s eternally grateful to believe in choosing Big Love, all the time. She extends that love to her dearest friends, who know exactly who they are. Instagram: @sophiesmithdost

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ORLANDO Virginia Woolf

Sarah Ruhl

Author

Playwright

Virginia Woolf was an English author, feminist, essayist, publisher and critic, considered as one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century along with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Her parents were Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), who was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer, and Julia Prinsep Duckworth (1846–1895), a renowned beauty.

According to Woolf’s memoirs, her most vivid childhood memories were not of London but of St. Ives in Cornwall, where the family spent every summer until 1895.

This place inspired her to write one of her masterpieces, To the Lighthouse.

Virginia’s most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” In some of her novels she moves away from the use of plot and structure to employ stream-of-consciousness to emphasise the psychological aspects of her characters.

Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist and professor.

Her plays include The Oldest Boy, Dear Elizabeth, Stage Kiss, In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play (Pen American Award, Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play); Melancholy Play; Demeter in the City (nine NAACP Image Award nominations); Scenes From Court Life; How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally, and translated into 14 languages.

Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN Center Award for mid-career playwrights, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award and a Lilly award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006.

She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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ORLANDO Kelly Thornton (she/her)

Director

ROYAL MTC All is Bright, Bang Bang (with

Belfry).

OTHER THEATRE Eighteen years as Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre in Toronto, where she directed Unholy, Refuge, Free Outgoing, The Penelopiad, Between the Sheets, The Happy Woman; as well as The List, That Face and Wild Dogs (all in association with CS); The Danish Play (NAC, Aveny-Teatret, Copenhagen; Magnetic North Theatre Festival); Bear With Me (Magnetic North); Finding Regina (Globe); Mathilde and China Doll. Other select credits include: Vigil (TiFT); The Comedy of Errors (CS); This Hotel (Theatre Passe Muraille); and nine seasons of Nightwood’s

Lawyer Show, staging Shakespeare’s comedies and Broadway musicals.

TEACHING Associate Director of the Directing Program at the National Theatre School of Canada 2010-2013. Guest Instructor at the University of Toronto Graduate Centre for Drama, and at Sheridan College and Theatre Erindale (U of T) Theatre and Drama Studies Program.

ET CETERA Kelly is Royal MTC’s Artistic Director and has been honoured with the Pauline McGibbon Award, multiple Dora Mavor Moore and Evie Award nominations, a Harold Award, as well as being named a YWCA Woman of Distinction. She wishes to thank her incredible family for all their love and support.

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ORLANDO Linda Beech (she/her)

Set Designer

ROYAL MTC Tiny Plays, Big Ideas; Women of the Fur Trade, Heisenberg.

OTHER THEATRE A Short History of Crazy Bone, Beautiful Man, Iceland (TPM); The Good, The Bad and the Munsch, Munschtopia, The Paperbag Princess (PTE); Tribes, Another Way Home, Intimate Apparel (WJT).

TRAINING Honours Degree in Sculpture/ Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design and in Theatre at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Interned at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Theatre and also Design for Dance.

ET CETERA Linda has worked as a visual artist and theatre professional across Canada for a number of years. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council among others. Linda is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Thanks to Orlando for helping me see the greeny, green of the grass and so much more.

Leanne Foley (she/her)

Costume Designer*

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE The Age of Arousal,

The Monster Trilogy, How to Kill Yourself with a Screwdriver (TPM); Assassins (Dry Cold); Odyssey: the islands, The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It (SIR); A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP / Citadel);

RICH, Honk, Seussical the Musical, Pipi Longstocking, Silver Wing, The Big League (MTYP); Death of a Salesman, Speed the Plow, Lebensraum, Einstein’s Gift, Via Dolorosa (WJT).

FILM The Nature of Nicholas (Jeff Erbach); Re-Order (Sean Garrity).

ET CETERA After an absence of 12 years, Leanne is thrilled to be back in the theatre and working with this amazing team of artists in bringing to life Orlando’s extraordinary journey through time. She couldn’t have arrived here without James and Ethan.

Leanne is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. *includes costume prop pieces.

Hugh Conacher (he/him)

Lighting Designer

ROYAL MTC Select credits include: The Mountaintop, Vietgone (Lighting & Video Designer); All is Bright, Women of the Fur Trade, Fun Home, The Color Purple (with Citadel), Kill Me Now (with NAC), Seminar (with Mirvish), Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (Lighting Designer) and many other productions since the ‘80s.

OTHER THEATRE Hugh has collaborated with choreographers, visual artists and dance and theatre companies worldwide.

ET CETERA Hugh enjoys working beyond the constraints of traditional lighting design using various forms of interactive media, video and photography. His photographic work resides in private collections and has been published worldwide. Hugh is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and L’Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec. www.pellucid.me.

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ORLANDO awareness to unheard voices through her filmmaking. www.linktr.ee/carlaeher.

Designing alongside these truly talented creatives has been a great pleasure.

Gracias!

Ashley Au (she/they)

Sound Designer

Marie-Josée Chartier

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

TRAINING B.Mus (Jazz Performance)

Brandon University, School of Music.

ET CETERA Ashley Au (she/they) is a Winnipeg-based bassist, composer, sound artist, arranger, and queer creative. A multifaceted musician, Ashley specializes in the upright and electric basses—performing, touring and recording extensively.

As a composer and sound artist, Ashley’s work can be found behind various theatre and dance productions in the city. Current and past projects include work with Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson; folk roots songstress Carly Dow; internationally-acclaimed Americana tastemaker Scott Nolan; composer/trumpeter Chuck Copanace; Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers; and Polaris Prize-nominated hip-hop outfit Super Duty Tough Work.

Ashley is the Artistic Director of Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival. She is currently scoring her first opera, Inertia (libretto by Christene Brown), commissioned by Loose Tea Music Theatre (TO), set to debut in 2023.

Carla Hernandez (she/her)

Video Designer

ROYAL MTC Tiny Plays, Big Ideas.

FILM Filmmaker: Queer Fear.

ET CETERA Carla is a passionate storyteller from Treaty No.1 Territory. As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ and Latinx community, she is driven to bringing support and

(she/her)

Choreographer ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Le Dire De Di, Exercice

de L’Oubli (Théâtre Français de Toronto); The (Post) Mistress (TfT/Pleiades); Alphonse, Charlotte: a tri-coloured play with music (Theaturtle); Director/ Choreographer for Opera, Multi-Media (Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal ECM+, Gryphon Trio, Queen of Puddings, Arraymusic, Tapestry Opera).

FILM/TV Documentaries on Marie-Josée Chartier as choreographer and performer on CBC, Bravo!, Radio-Canada, ARTV, Festival de Films sur l’Art de Montréal and with URGE Collective on Adrienne Clarkson Presents (CBC).

TRAINING Dance and voice training in Montréal (Pointépiénu, Nouvelle Aire), Toronto (various), USA (New York, Jacob’s Pillow).

ET CETERA Chartier created over 30 choreographic works for various dance artists and companies presented in Canada and internationally. Recipient of: Jacqueline Lemieux Prize, K.M. Hunter Award for Achievement in Dance, Soulpepper Multi-Disciplinary Award, nine Dora Mavor Moore nominations and recipient of three Dora Awards. Guest teacher in Canada and abroad in dance, voice and movement, composition. Artistic Director of Chartier Danse.

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ORLANDO Audrey Dwyer (she/her/hers)

Intimacy Director

ROYAL MTC Director: The Mountaintop, Women of the Fur Trade. Intimacy Director: Fun Home. Consulting Director: Bang Bang (with Belfry). Actor: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (with Mirvish), Good People, Medea (with Mirvish), The Crucible.

Dramaturg: Tiny Plays, Big Ideas.

OTHER THEATRE Director: Blink (U of W); Prairie Nurse (Lighthouse Theatre); Calpurnia (Nightwood Theatre/Sulong Theatre); The Apology (Rabiayshna Productions). Dramaturgy at Factory, CS, Volcano Theatre, Roseneath Theatre, YPT, Second City, Studio 180, Obsidian Theatre, Anandam Dance Theatre, Nightwood Theatre and Tarragon.

TRAINING National Theatre School of

Canada.

ET CETERA Audrey is Royal MTC’s Associate Artistic Director and is a multi-disciplinary artist with over 20 years of experience working as an actor, director, playwright, teacher, artistic director, facilitator and mentor. She won the Cayle Chernin Award for Theatre in 2015. She has been nominated for four Dora Awards and has won three.

She has been nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for Direction twice.

She was the Artistic Director of Cow Over Moon Children’s Theatre. She was the Urjo Kareda Artist in Residence and the Assistant Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre. She has been commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre to write The Generations. She was a recipient of CBC’s Creative Relief Fund for her television series called The Gordons.

“Because the arts forge human connection and ignite unforeseen possibilities within all of us.”

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ORLANDO Jacquie Loewen

Josephine Kearns (she/her)

Fight Director

Gender Consultant

ROYAL MTC Fight Director (selected): Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), Vietgone (with fu-GEN/ Hope and Hell), Hand to God, Unnecessary Farce, Private Lives, Gone With the Wind, August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Actor: Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Top Girls.

OTHER THEATRE Fight Director (selected): Macbeth (Bard on the Beach); Indigenous Playwrights New Works Workshop (PTC – Vancouver); Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow); The Flood Thereafter (CS); Don Giovanni (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); Prairie Nurse (PTE).

TEACHING U of Winnipeg, U of Manitoba, Trinity Western, Simon Fraser University, Kansas State University.

ET CETERA Jacqueline was a founding member of the Canadian Comedy Awardnominated sketch group Hot Thespian Action. She is directing the first show of Manitoba Opera’s 2021/22 season, and is currently developing a theatre-for-one show with Theatre Projects Manitoba.

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Shaw Festival Theatre

(ON); MCC (NY); Delaware Theatre Co.; Seattle Rep; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Kansas City Rep; Fifth Ave. Theatre (WA); TimeLine Theatre (IL); Village Theatre (WA); development of Stu for Silverton, Other World, Interstate, MISS STEP. TEACHING Nearly 200 gender inclusivity trainings for schools, hospitals, theatres, and more. Josephine is also the gender consultant for Actors’ Equity Association USA and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Albert McLeod Gender Consultant

Albert McLeod is a Status Indian with ancestry from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Métis community of Norway House in northern Manitoba. He has over 30 years of experience as a human rights activist and is one of the directors of the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba.

Albert began his Two-Spirit advocacy in Winnipeg in 1986 and became an HIV/ AIDS activist in 1987. He was the director of the Manitoba Aboriginal AIDS Task Force from 1991 to 2001. In 2018, Albert received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Winnipeg.

Albert lives in Winnipeg, where he works as a consultant specializing in Indigenous peoples, cultural reclamation, and cross-cultural training. albertmcleod.com

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ORLANDO Liam Zarrillo Gender Consultant

inviting her to join this incredible team, and much love to her family and friends for their unending encouragement.

Melissa Langdon (she/they) ROYAL MTC Playwright/Performer: The

Show (Tiny Plays, Big Ideas). Apprentice Director: Kill Me Now (with NAC).

OTHER THEATRE Playwright: Winnipeg Stories: The Green Building (PTE).

Performer: Othello (Beau Theatre Co.); Boundary Ave, TASTE (One Trunk Theatre). Director: Village Ax (TPM).

TRAINING B.A. Hons. Directing – Dept. of Theatre & Film (University of Winnipeg).

ET CETERA Liam is a member of the Prairie Theatre Exchange and Manitoba Association of Playwrights-supported Emerging Playwrights Unit.

Emma Welham (she/her)

Production Dramaturg ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Director: To: Morrow

(Sarasvàti). Assistant Director: Meet Me at Dawn (TBTR). Co-Director/Actor: Inhibition Exhibition (ViC). Actor: House at Pooh Corner (MTYP); Arcadia, Love’s Labour’s Lost (U of W); To Kill a Lizard (Sarasvàti); Student Body (Beau Theatre Co.); School of Rock (WST).

TRAINING Creative Manitoba Mentorship with Krista Jackson, University of Winnipeg (BAH Peformance), The Village Conservatory for Music Theatre.

ET CETERA Emma is the recipient of multiple Jean Murray-Moray Sinclair scholarships and is grateful to Royal MTC for their continued support of her development as an artist. Many thanks to Kelly for

Assistant Director

ROYAL MTC Apprentice Artistic Director*.

2020/21 National Mentorship Program.

Artistic Coordinator: Tiny Plays, Big Ideas.

OTHER THEATRE Voice (PTE); Spelling 2-5-5 (MTYP); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Obsidian/ Nightwood Theatre); Hamlet (SIR); Blink (One Trunk/W&T); Home 2.0, The Game, New Beginnings (Sarasvàti); O(phelia) (ShakespeareFest); Animosity (Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival); Time and the Conways, Concord Floral, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (U of W).

FILM GRIEF (Kaiju Productions); Harmonize (Prairie Kid Productions); Macbeth (SIR/ Blackfriar).

TRAINING Graduate: The University of Winnipeg Honours Acting.

ET CETERA Dora Award: Outstanding Production and Toronto Theatre Critics’ Choice Award: Outstanding Production of a Play (School Girls), Bethia Henry Memorial Scholarship in Theatre and Drama, Reg Skene Emerging Artist Award. *Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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ORLANDO Kate George Assistant Set Designer

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Blink, 365 Plays/365 Days,

People, Places and Things, Love’s Labour’s Lost (U of W).

TRAINING Currently studying at the University of Winnipeg for a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Theatre and Film Design.

ET CETERA A huge thank you to my family, Royal MTC and everyone else who has supported me up until now.

Leslie Watson (she/her)

Stage Manager

ROYAL MTC Stage Manager: The Mountaintop, The Color Purple (with Citadel), A Doll’s House, Part 2 (with Mirvish), Once (with Grand), Kill Me Now (with NAC), Black Coffee, My Name Is Asher Lev (with Segal), Myth of the Ostrich, Late Company, Cabaret, Venus in Fur, The Melville Boys (tour), Wingfield on Ice (tour), Looking Back – West, Bad Dates (tour). Assistant Stage Manager: As You Like It (with Citadel), Billy Elliot the Musical, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, Pride and Prejudice, Fiddler on the Roof, Educating Rita (tour), Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel). Show Manager: Tiny Plays, Big Ideas. Talent Coordinator: All is Bright.

OTHER THEATRE Over 50 productions at theatres around Winnipeg and Canada, including Rainbow Stage, Prairie Theatre

Exchange, Shakespeare in the Ruins, Manitoba Theatre for Young People and Winnipeg Jewish Theatre.

TRAINING Graduate of Sheridan College and member of CAEA. ET CETERA Leslie owns and operates Updog Boutique, with the support and love of her husband, Sean, and her dog, Murtaugh – updogboutique.com.

Ali Fulmyk (they/them)

Assistant Stage Manager ROYAL MTC Fun Home, Buying The Farm (tour with Magnus Theatre), Morning After Grace, Kill Me Now (with NAC), Seminar (with Mirvish), The Woman in Black, Private Lives, Jane Eyre, Other People’s Money.

OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: Twelfth Night (The Keep Theatre/The ViC) Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (The Keep Theatre); Charlie Brown: A Double Bill (MTYP); Tribes, Another Way Home (WJT); Reefer Madness, American Idiot (WST). Assistant Stage Manager: Post-Democracy, The Third Colour, Happy Place, Prairie Nurse (PTE); Sister Act (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); Sister Act (Drayton); R&H’s Cinderella, Beauty & The Beast, Shrek: The Musical, Sister Act (Rainbow).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Film, with a Theatre Honours degree.

ET CETERA “It’s chaos, be kind.” – Michelle McNamara

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Apprentice Stage Manager ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Production and Tour

Coordinator: Seven Visions Digital School Tour (Sarasvàti). Associate Producer / Sound Design: Othello (MPF/Echo Theatre). Stage Manager / PA: FemFest 2019 and 2020 (Sarasvàti). Stage Manager: People, Places, and Things (U of W).

Other credits: Middletown, Arcadia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (U of W).

Director: Animosity (DownsideUp); The Student Body Project, Women of Manhattan (Beau Theatre). Associate Company Member of Winnipeg Independent Theatre (WIT). Artistic Producer / Founder of Beau Theatre Co. TRAINING University of Winnipeg Bachelor of Arts Honours, Stage Management, Production, and Design.

ET CETERA Special thanks to Melissa Novecosky and Creative Manitoba for an amazing mentorship 2020/21. Many thanks to Janelle Rainville for the opportunity to be a part of the SMarts Conference 2021. As always, couldn’t do it without my partner Matt, and cat, Zella.

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“That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on the other.” – orlando Over the past two years so many things have changed for all of us, but one thing that has remained constant is the support of our community! Our amazing donors have sheltered us through this period and allowed us to keep telling incredible stories.

Because of donors we’ve been able to: • Create four brand-new digital productions that captivated audiences and provided meaningful work to our artists, production departments and staff.

• Provide affirming and deeply affecting mentorship for young artists through the National Mentorship Program.

• Launch seven new plays by Indigenous playwrights through the Pimootayowin Creators Circle.

• And, of course, bring theatre back to the stage for you to enjoy with Orlando!

Now it’s even easier to make an ongoing impact through our monthly giving program – The Drama Club! You’ll gain the benefits of your cumulative annual donation right away, plus exclusive benefits for monthly donors! For example, if you commit to a monthly donation of $25, you’ll receive all the benefits from the $300 giving level.

For information about donating and a full list of donor benefits, please contact Chris Turyk, Development Manager, at 204 954 6412 or cturyk@royalmtc.ca

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SUPPORTERS Many thanks to our donors who made a gift between Jun 1, 2020 and Oct 15, 2021.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $10,000+ Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD* & Michael Paterson Ben & Shari Diamond Kingfisher Foundation Linda McGarva-Cohen & James Cohen Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Deborah Gray June & Bob Jackson Memorial Fund for the Performing Arts – The Winnipeg Foundation Bernie & Rhonda Plett Hartley & Heather Richardson Jim & Leney Richardson

$6,500-9,999 David Christianson & Vera Steinberger Elizabeth Marr & Nick Slonosky Leslie John Taylor Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation

$4,000-6,499 Pauline Braun – in memory of Duane Braun‡ David & Lianne Carefoot Sylvia Flam Ms. Sophie Gaska Sara Gray Rita Gunn & Gregory Mason Grace Man Leigh Murphy – in memory of Liam Murphy‡ The Jim & Janice Tennant Foundation Dr. Marcel Van Woensel

$2,000-3,999 Dianne J. Beaven Craig McIntosh & Lorraine Beck Fund Todd & Judy Bourcier Dr. Lorne Bellan & Dr. Bonnie Cham David* & Barb Christie Kerry Dangerfield*‡ Tony* & Jennifer Fletcher‡ John F. (Jack) Fraser§ John* & Nicola Guttormson‡ Ahava Halpern & Frank Lavitt‡ Linda Hamilton & Grange Morrow‡ Camilla Holland† & Colin Viebrock‡

Houston Family of Bradwardine Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Andrew & Wendy Jensen Derek & Mary Johannson David & Diane Johnston Myron & Marion Klysh Dr. P. Kmet & Mr. B. Roslycky Serena Helen Kraayeveld Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Donna & Dave* Lalama Laurie Lam & Larry Desrochers Jeff Neufeld & Katrina Lee-Kwen Barry§ & Carol McArton Jim* & Penny McLandress‡ Vivienne Nickerson Scott Penner Mr. & Mrs. Lawrie & Fran Pollard Drs. Bill Pope & Elizabeth Tippett Pope Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Sanford & Deborah Riley Maitland & Pat Sundmark Kelly Thornton† & Josep Seras-Gubert‡ Jeremy Trickett* & Brandon Barnes Trickett Helga Van Iderstine Scott & Sonya Wright Fund Dr. Dorothy Y. Young Anonymous

$1,200-1,999 Edward* & Jaime Acuna‡ John Borger Cathie & Brian Bowerman Sheldon & Penny Bowles Doneta Brotchie, CM* & Harry Brotchie‡ Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Brent Trepel Chambers Family*‡ Haderra & Mark Chisick Heather Clarke* Jan* & Kevin Coates Ken & Lynn Cooper Andrew Drinnan†‡ Helene Dyck John Ekins Lawrence & Brenda Ellerby Katherine Fox*‡ Jack Fraser Susan* & Ab Freig‡ Sandy Gousseau*‡ Blair & Amanda Graham Sharon Hamilton‡ Vivian Hilder-Skwark & David Skwark – in memory of Mike Skwark‡ Shawn Hughes* & Bruno Koehn‡ Aileen Hunt & George Lamont Katie Inverarity†‡ Hon. William Johnston

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Karen Klym & Roger Suss David* & Ellen Kroft‡ Katarina Kupca‡ J. Lamothe‡ Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro Andrea Lochhead* Reginald & Judy Low Edward & Harriet Lyons Family Foundation Dr. Douglas MacEwan Mark & Gloria Mancini‡ Virginia Martin & the late Robert Martin Kathy Menzies Grant Mitchell & Cat Lambeth Jeffrey* & Mary Morton Melissa Novecosky†‡ Dr. H. Nyhof & Jo-Anne Lutz Linda & Wayne Paquin M. Plett-Lyle K. Heather Power & Harold Klause‡ Lawrence Prout* & Lisa Gardewine‡ Margaret Redmond* & Greg Gillis‡ Iris Reimer Loren & Nancy Remillard Mrs. Shirley Richardson Sudhir Sandhu* Marlis Schroeder Ms. Janice Shute Jeff Sisler & Cathy Rippin-Sisler Logan Family Fund Ken & Susan* Skinner Kevin Hines & Shelly Smith-Hines‡ Bill & Laurie* Speers Joan Stephens – in memory of Annice Stephens‡ Shelley† & Mark Stroski‡ Sasha & Josh Thiem*‡ Geeta* & Michael Tucker Rick & Claire* Workman Richard L. Yaffe & John A. Statham Nicole Zajac 2 Anonymous

COMPANY CIRCLE $600-1,199 Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Elizabeth Adkins Margaret & Jim Astwood Norma & Glenn Baldwin Peggy Barker & Ron McKinnon Wayne Billing Mrs. Tara Clark Pam & Andrew Cooke J. Dawson Ernest & Ruth Epp Paulo Fernandes‡ Mr. Gary Giesbrecht ‡Monthly donors

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SUPPORTERS Barbara Hamilton Gordon Hannon Gregg & Mary Hanson Gail Hechter N & L Holliday Jurgen & Glenda Kannwischer Laurence Katz & Zoë Kogan Ian Kirk‡ Peter Klippenstein Belinda Knopf Donna L. Korban & Family The Honourable Guy J. Kroft & Hester Kroft* Josee Lavoie Dr. G. H. Lawler Kerrie Halprin & Richard Leipsic John & Roberta Lewis Pat & Jim Ludwig Brian & Christie Lysack Mr. G. Markham Campbell & Lorraine McIntyre Terri & Jim McKerchar‡ Greg & Gloria McLaren Marilyn & Robert Menzies Tracey Novak D. & G. Nytepchuk Kris Olafson‡ Richard & Bonnie Olfert Cameron & Carole Osler Cam Mackie & Doris Mae Oulton Donna Plant Beth Pollard Ann Pound-Holl David & Joan Rew Henriette Ricou & Jure Manfreda Barbara Scheuneman Shinewald Family Albert Skiba Carol & Ron Slater Fund – Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Deborah Spracklin Shayne & Kathryn Taback Georgia Taillieu Dr. Peter Triggs‡ Vicki Verville‡ Murray & Nancy Wiegand Margaret Wollner Darcy & Brenda§ Zaporzan Anonymous

$250-599 Robert Adamson Brian Adolph†‡ Dawn Andersen D. T. Anderson Wayne & Lee Anderson Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Dennis & Elaine Schultz Sheena Baird†‡ Larry Beeston & Anna Sikora

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Kayla Gordon & Art Maister Mintie Grienke Karen H. Guenther Sharon Hamilton‡ Barbara Harrison Kathryn & Wayne Harrison Frank & Sue Hechter Rodney Hick & Tracey Jackson Dennis & Betty-lynn Hodgkinson Jennie Hogan Sarah & Richard Holland Michael & Crystal Hollas‡ Ms. Kathleen Hughes Therasa Hunt Robert Hykawy Dr. James C. & Muriel Jamieson Sylvia Jansen Margaret Jeffries Gerald Jewers – in memory of Claire Jewers Dr. Danielle & Mr. Brendan Roddy Lisa Johnston‡ James Tam & Katherine Jordan Marilyn & Sheldon Joyal Joyal Felines Sheryl Kapitz & Aaron London Gerard Kennedy & Jane Hilderman Robert Kennedy & Claudette Leclerc Peter Kidd & Caryn Douglas Peter Kingsley Betty Klassen Shan Dickson & Andrea Kneale Julie Ann Kniskern Denise & David Koss Carol Campbell & Andy Krentz Brenda & Trevor Kriss‡ Howard & Jane Kroeger Kerry & Janet Kruger Randie & Jan Kushnier Richard Lambert Desiree Lavallee†‡ John & Heather Lea Helen Leeds Tim Preston & Dave Ling Chris Loepp Linda & Ray Loewen Pat & Jim Ludwig Tom Lussier Peter & Maureen Macdonald Diamond Gallery Neil & Elaine Margolis Gerry Matte & Lydia Surasky-Matte John & Carolynne McLure Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Barry McNabb‡ Donald G. McNabb Brian Macri & Nancy McQuade Barb Melnychuk Albert & Judith Metcalfe‡ Jim & Karren Middagh Carolyn Garlich & Peter Miller

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SUPPORTERS Gloria Moodrey Margaret & Fred Mooibroek Sagan Morrow*‡ Cathy Moser & Jeff Itzkow Suzanne & Kenneth Munroe Tracey Novak Marie Ohta Joanne Olchowecki Kristen H. Pachet Jeff Palamar Murray Palay & Ivy Kopstein Myron Pawlowsky & Susan Boulter Maryam & Izzy Peltz Fund – Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Jo-Anne & Harvey Peltz Fred Goeke & Layna Penner Linda & Rob Pettit Rick Pinchin Jocelyn Pitsch Keith Powls Jocelyne Prefontaine Ms. Judith Putter John & Marilyn Rae Carole Rankin‡ Dr. Martin Reed & Joy Cooper Brad Regehr & Nalini Reddy* Vance & Bev Rehill Cheryl Reid Joy Reimer Jean Riggall Andrea & Michael Robertson‡ Gary & Heather Robson Gail MacAulay & Kevin Rollason Jay & Andria Ross Michael T. Ruta Eduard Ryabinov Cathy & Paul Samyn Harald & Vicki Schulz Ms. Faye Scott Gary & Darcia Senft Jewish Foundation of Manitoba – in memory of Sybil Shack for the benefit of MTC Diane Shapiro Kumar Sharma Louise Shaw Shayna & Merrill Shulman Ms. Judy Nichol & Dr. Jim Skinner Mrs. Lorraine Smith Marlene Stern Nancy Streuber Eleanor Suderman Mary Ann Supleve Mr. & Mrs. Paul Swart Karen Tereck – Welcome to Winnipeg Inc. Leah R. Janzen & Ian R. Thomson Jen & Kevin Tomanek B. Baydock & W. Tretiak Grant Tweed Mrs. Heather Tymoschuk

Dr. & Mrs. M. B. Vodrey Stirling Walkes The Gordon family Donald Wardrop Colleen Webb Mary Agnes Welch Lionel & Lorraine Wiens Kathy Gough & Tim Wildman Catherine Wilkie Leslie Wilson Dennis & Gustine Wilton Klaus Wolf Klaus & Dorit Wrogemann Raymond & Louise Wyant Landice Yestrau Olga & Roman Zubach 14 Anonymous

$150-249 Nancy & Bob Adkins Elena Anciro‡ Elizabeth Atkinson Peter Attwood Nadine Audet Rose Aziman Michel & Danita Aziza Richard & Nancy Ball Richard Bartlinski June Bartman Karen & John Bate James & Dawn-Lynne Bedford Susan & George Benias Trish Bergal Keevin & Faren Bernstein Trust Beta Edwin M. Bethune Marjorie Blankstein CM, OM, LLD Joan Blight Helga & Gerhard Bock John & Marilyn Bourbonnais Morva Bowman & Alan Pollard Barry Bradley Robert Briercliffe Debby & Bob Brown Brian Brown Ken & Denise Brown Terry Bruneau Sean & Melanie Bueckert Giles Bugailiskis & Margo Foxford Ken England & Gerri Burge John Burrows Gerald & Carmen Butler Enid Butler Gus* & Diane Campbell Dr. Lloyd & Marian Campbell Robin Campbell Ms. Sherry Cannon Ken & Elizabeth Carroll Douglas Chapman Mrs. Patricia Charad Lorraine Chatel

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

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Hilda Cherry Shelley Chochinov Art & Donna Chow Katherine Cobor & Gordon Steindel A son’s Tribute to Berdie & Irvin Cohen – Flow Through Fund Agnes & John K. Collins Donna Collins Diane Connelly Graham & Linda Connor Sarah Corley Greg Cox Ray & Brenda Crabbe Roy & Marie Craig Drs. Kristen Creek & Josh Manusow J. Dale G. L. Damphousse Darryl & Shelley Day Doug De Graff Sheila Domke & Stephen Ross Tom Dooley Sheila Down Jacqueline F. Drever John & Ada Ducas Neil & Mary Ann Dueck Craig & Claudette Dunn David & Barbara Ediger‡ Greg Edmond & Irene Groot-Koerkamp John Edwards & Wendy Stelko Charlotte Enns Marion Fellinger Kate & Tim Fennell Nelma Fetterman Jo-Anne Findlay Doug & Pat Finkbeiner Ms. Eleanor Finlay Gayle Fischer Beverley & Ronald John Fitzpatrick Lawrence Foster‡ Gloria & Rick Gallant Frank Filbert & Linda Garwood-Filbert Juanita Giesbrecht Patti & Rick Gilhuly Bill & Sharon Glanville Alicyn Goodman‡ Michele Goossen‡ John & Margaret Graham Moira Graham M. Gray Derryl Hall Gregory & Heather Hammond Bruce & Judy Harris Joanne Harris Carol Harvey Teresa A. Hay Ken & Ruth Hayes Sandra Hebert Evelyn & Larry Hecht Mary Heindle Mr. Kyle Hendin

†Current Royal MTC staff

‡Monthly donors

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SUPPORTERS Coral Hetherington David & Mary Hickling Ted & Cathy Hlynsky Rob & Jen Hochkievich‡ John & Lenore Hodge Mary Hodge Ann Hodges Kathryn Hofley Barbara Holliday K & A Horne Carol & Ian Hughes Catherine Hunter Jeremy Hutsebaut Mrs. Kadri Irwin G. C. Irwin-Kilfoyle Marlis & David Jacobson Lynne Jentsch Mr. Tim Jones Brian & Renee Kaplan S. Kasian April & Diamond Kassum Dr. Arvind & Nancy Kati Joan Kennedy Brenda Keyser & Peter Murdock John King & Rochelle Yanofsky Paul & Tamara Kochan Grant Kolodie William Kops Lisa Koss & Alex Vecherya Jacki & Sheldon Koven Lorraine Kraichy‡ Sarah Kredentser & David Lowen Paula Kristjanson Hasiuk Gene & Janet Lacroix Teena Laird Lisa & Ted Landrum Barbara Latocki Bryen Lebar & Patricia Sauder‡ Ian & Nicki LeGrand Tim & Kate Letkemann‡ Stephanie Levene Paige Lewis Stan & Susan Lipnowski Dr. Karen Lischka Linda Loewen Teresa Lopata & Bruce Wagg Jean Lothian Sarah Luby Maylene & Israel Ludwig Janis Lumsden Joanna Lynch Darlene Malazdrewich Ms. Judith Marchand Elaine & Neil Margolis Agatha Massey Cheryl & Eric Matheson Linda Matheson Shirley Matile Roxana Mazur Bob & Betty McCamis Barbara McCandless

Marie McCarthy Colleen McKenty Dr. Liz McKenzie Catarina Mello Schultz Barb Melnychuk Mario Mendizabal Loretta Merriam Susie Miclash Ms. Gail Mireau Dr. & Mrs. M. Mollot Allison Moore Mr. Ron Morgan Ryan & Ewa Morphy Kathy Mulder Don Munro Marika Nerbas Anita Neville Tom Nowicki Mr. Warren Oliver Linda Olson Mark O’Rourke Cynthia Orris Conrad Padilla James & Georgina Palmquist Paulette Pappel Sonya & Derek Penner Brian Perchaluk – in memory of Sue Groff Donald & Elaine Peters Denise Plett Dave Plummer & Debra Schweyer David Poggemiller Freda Powell Jocelyne Prefontaine Heather Pullan & Tom Frohlinger Dr. R. & Audrey Ramchandar Diane Ramsey Linda Ratynski Mr. & Mrs. William Reynolds Louis Ricciuto‡ Estate of Margaret Ritchie Jan Roberts Roslyn Roberts Linda Robinson Denise Robitaille Renee Roseman Dora Rosenbaum Mary Anne Rosenbloom Barbara Ryan Sandra Sadler Sandy Sager Jonas & Susan Sammons Lorna & Ivor Schledewitz Colleen & Bertram Schneider M. & S. Schumann Ray & Leanna Senez Lynn Shead Blake Shiaro Margot Sim Dr. Ruth Simkin Elinor Simons

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

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Linda Simpson Jennifer Skelly & Family Ms. Sandra Slattery Jack & Sabrina Slessor Gloria Smythe Elaine Mordoch Karen Stach June Steiner Darlene Stepanik Kim Stephens Donni & Diana Stern Frits & Joan Stevens Heidi Struck‡ Tom & Shirley Strutt Lorne Sunley Mr. Greg Swintak Heather & Donald Talocka Ross & Bette-Jayne Taylor Lois Tessier Sharon Timson‡ Karen Tjaden Alex Todd Jonathan Toews Liana Toews D & L Toews CindyTolpa Elaine Tolpa Jen & Kevin Tomanek Terry & Cathy Tully Eric Turner Chris Turyk† & Bryce Weedmark‡ Arlene Van Ruiten Maria A. Versace C & J Vukelic Helmut & Gwen Waedt Carrie Wai Gordon Walkty Jane & Don Walters‡ Paul & Laura Walton Robert & Sherilyn Ward Peter & Joan Washchyshyn Lois & Henry Wedel Al & Pat Wherrett‡ John T. & Justina Wiens Theresa Wiktorski Deanna Wilks Grant & Sheila Woods Martina Wuersch & Craig Wray Raymond & Louise Wyant Allan & Alice Young 22 Anonymous

†Current Royal MTC staff

‡Monthly donors

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SUPPORTERS SPONSOR Air Canada The Asper Foundation The Gail Asper Family Foundation Assiniboine Credit Union Bell MTS Birchwood Lexus BMO Financial Group Bonaventure Travel Canada Life Culligan Water Deloitte Dycom Direct Mail Services Esdale Printing Co. Ltd. Fairmont Winnipeg Fillmore Riley LLP Friesens Corporation The Gates on Roblin HUB International IG Wealth Management Jones & Co Wine Merchants Lawton Partners Manitoba Bar Association Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries McDiarmid Flowers McNally Robinson Booksellers RBC Foundation RE/MAX Red River Co-operative Ltd. Relish New Brand Experience Stantec Consulting Ltd. Taylor McCaffrey LLP Torque Brewing TD Bank Group Wawanesa Insurance The Winnipeg Foundation

CORPORATE DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $25,000+ Johnston Group Inc. Richardson Foundation

$5,000-9,999 Cambrian Credit Union The Albert D. Cohen Family Fund PwC

$3,000-4,999 Terracon Development Ltd.

$1,200-2,999 Astroid Management Ltd. Domo Gasoline Corporation Ltd., Kate M. Everett, President

Maple Leaf Construction Ltd., Blake Fitzpatrick Maxim Truck & Trailer Pollard Banknote Limited PRA Inc. Qualico

CORPORATE COMPANY CIRCLE $600-1,199 Mid West Packaging Limited Premier Printing Ltd. Red River Co-operative Ltd.

$300-599 Acuity HR Solutions Diamond Gallery MCW/AGE Consulting Professional Engineers

$150-299 Funseekers Ladies Travel Gautron Management Services Inc. Patill/St. James Insurance

FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE Wayne & Lee Anderson Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD* Zdzislaw (Zaz) Bajon & Patricia Hunter Marjorie & Morley§ Blankstein Duane§ & Pauline Braun Doneta Brotchie, CM* & Harry Brotchie Ken Brown David & Lianne Carefoot Len & Heather Cariou Terri Cherniack & Steven Schipper, CM, OM Jennifer Cheslock & George Buri David Christianson & Vera Steinberger David* & Barb Christie Gerry & Chris Couture Hugh B. Cowan Kerry Dangerfield* Laurie Lam & Larry Desrochers Glen* & Joan Dyrda Robert & Florence Eastwood Don & Elfie Elias Bill§ & Gayle Fischer Anthony* & Jennifer Fletcher Jack Fraser James Gibbs§ Sandy* & Rheal Gousseau Rita Gunn & Greg Mason John* & Nicola Guttormson

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

Ahava Halpern & Frank Lavitt Linda Hamilton & Grange Morrow Gary Hannaford* & Cathy Rushton Ted§ & Gail Hechter Elaine Heinicke§ June§ & Bob Jackson Fund for the Performing Arts Maureen E. Jay Andrew & Wendy Jensen David & Diane Johnston Dr. Leonard & Hope§ Kahane Janis Kaminsky Jason Kasper John Kearsey Gordon & Anne Keatch§ Rob Kennedy & Claudette Leclerc Serena Helen Kraayeveld Leona J. MacDonald Cheryl Johannson§ & Michael Mainman Mark & Gloria Mancini Virginia Martin Peggy Barker & Ron McKinnon Jim* & Penny McLandress Barb Melnychuk Bob & Pat Migliore Jeffrey Morton* Ken & Sharon Mould Dr. Liam Murphy§ Robb & Heather Paterson Chris Pearce Scott Penner Gina & John* C. Petersmeyer Drs. Bill Pope & Elizabeth Tippett-Pope K. Heather Power & Harold Klause Margaret Redmond* & Greg Gillis Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Joan D. Richardson Michelle Rowan Sharon Ryman Susan Skinner* Kevin Hines & Shelly Smith-Hines Bill & Laurie* Speers Deborah Spracklin Joan Stephens Joanne Tait Suzanne Ullyot Lionel & Lorraine Wiens Margaret§ & Alfred Wikjord Richard L. Yaffe* & John A. Statham Brenda Zaporzan§ 2 Anonymous

†Current Royal MTC staff ‡Monthly donors If you have remembered Royal MTC in your will, please let us know.

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SUPPORTERS George Sigurdson Margaret§ & Alfred Wikjord

TRIBUTE GIFTS

$5,000-9,999

In memory of Sue Groff Brian Perchaluk John Tomiuk In honour of Hannah Zoe Schaeffer’s Bat Mitzvah In memory of Mrs. Frances Settler Sheera Waisman In memory of John Tomiuk Ann Hodges Charles E. Porter (A mentor and proficient stagehand) Robert Smith Karen Swain

ENDOWMENT – STEVEN SCHIPPER FUND Many thanks to the generosity of our Endowment Fund donors who gave a gift or fulfilled a pledge payment between Jun 1, 2020 and Oct 15, 2021. Amounts are cumulative. $5,000,000+ Government of Canada/ Gouvernement du Canada Canadian Heritage/Patrimoine canadien

$250,000-499,999 Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD* & Michael Paterson

$100,000-249,999 Marjorie Blankstein CM, OM, LLD & Morley§ Blankstein Manitoba Theatre Centre Volunteer Corps of Ushers The Leigh & Liam Murphy Family Fund

$25,000-49,999 Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Cam & Carole Osler Terracon Development Ltd.

$10,000-24,999 Susan & Keith Knox Norma Anne Padilla L. Blair Philpott & Tom Kynman Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope

Margaret Caie Pam & Andrew Cooke Helene Dyck Gail Hechter Gina O’Connor & John C. Petersmeyer* Jim & Jan Tennant Dr. Dorothy Y. Young

$2,500-4,999 Sheila & David Brodovsky Rita & Don Campbell Ron & Carol Chapman Hyman & Esther Dashevsky* Michael & Lynn Evans Brent & Debbie Gilbert David & Ewhenia Gnutel Peter & Maureen Macdonald Irene Miller & the late Claire Miller Anonymous

$1,000-2,499 Joan & Edward Alexander Jack Armstrong & Doris Quinn David & Pamela Bolton Jan* & Kevin Coates Bob & Alison Darling DGH Engineering Ltd. Roberta Dyck Brenda & Michael Evans Christine Fleetwood Christine Freeman Dr. Jeremy & Maureen Gordon Teresa A. Hay Martha Henry Jordan Janisse & Teresa Cooper Carol Campbell & Andy Krentz Donna & Dave* Lalama Barbara Main Peggy Barker & Ron McKinnon Estelle Meyers Marlene Milne Jean & Lisa Neron Myron Pawlowsky & Susan Boulter Bill Rennie Marc & Sherri Rittinger Jim & Susan Shaw Beverley Vane & Bill Shepherd Howie & Sue Simpson Deborah Spracklin Rick & Claire* Workman Anonymous

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

$500-999 Marge & Ted Avent Ron & Joan Boyd Nan Carson Katherine Cobor & Gordon Steindel Evelyn Hecht Shawn Hughes* & Bruno Koehn Lynne Jentsch Mr. & Mrs. Fred Kisil Claude, Suzanne & Bernadette Lagacé – in memory of Matthew Lagacé Barbara Latocki Anthony & Joyce McWha Marcel & Louise Mollot Cam Mackie & Doris Mae Oulton Edna Poulter Sandra Sadler Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Gabor Vamos & Brenda Silver 2 Anonymous

UP TO $499 Helen M. Arkos John Burrows Mr. & Mrs. Gary W. E. Firth Abigail Grieder Nancy Latocki F. Lemieux Dr. Shelley Mahoney Barry§ & Carol McArton Bob & Pat Migliore Charlotte Murrell Theresa Oye Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Henry & Sheila Riendeau Bryce & Jenna Simes Lorne Sunley 5 Anonymous

MANY THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS!

†Current Royal MTC staff ‡Monthly donors If you have remembered Royal MTC in your will, please let us know.

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS CORE FUNDERS

SEASON PARTNERS

TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE SEASON SPONSOR

EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTION SUPPORTER

JOHN HIRSCH MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION SPONSORS

TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE PRODUCTION SPONSOR

OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR

JOHN HIRSCH MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

DESIGN & DIRECTOR ASSISTANT PROGRAM

KINGFISHER FOUNDATION

NATIONAL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

PIMOOTAYOWIN CREATORS CIRCLE

THE BRIDGE: A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

REGIONAL TOUR

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS BLACK & WHITE BALL VACATION PRIZE SPONSOR

SPONSORS

LAWYERS PLAY

TRAVEL PARTNERS

DESIGN SPONSOR

CAPITAL ASSISTANCE

SEASON MEDIA SPONSOR

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

WINNIPEG FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL

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BEHIND THE SCENES Marketing & Communications

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ksenia Broda-Milian, Education Enrichment Manager Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Katie Inverarity, Director of Marketing & Communications Desiree La Vallee, Ticketing Application Specialist Savannah Lillies, Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Honorary Members

Her Honour, Lt. Governor Janice C. Filmon The Honourable Heather Stefanson, Premier of Manitoba His Worship, Mayor Brian Bowman Executive Officers

John Guttormson, Chair Laurie Speers, Chair-Elect Heather Clarke, Treasurer / Organizational Performance Chair Katherine Fox, Secretary Jeremy Trickett, Governance & Strategic Planning Chair Trustees

Ed Acuna Markus Chambers Jan Coates Susan Freig Shawn Hughes Advisory Council

David Christie, Chair Gail Asper Doneta Brotchie, CM Angus Campbell Gerry Couture Kerry Dangerfield Hy Dashevsky Glen Dyrda, FCA Anthony C. Fletcher John F. Fraser Jean Giguere

David Kroft David Lalama Andrea Lochhead Linda McGarva Cohen Nalini Reddy

Loren Remillard Sudhir Sandhu Josh Thiem Geeta Tucker Claire Workman

Charron Hamilton Gary Hannaford, FCA Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews Jim McLandress Jeffrey Morton, FCA Hon. Jack Murta Lillian Neaman

Shelley Nimchonok John Petersmeyer Lawrence Prout Jeff Quinton Patricia Rabson Margaret Redmond Susan Skinner Al Snyder Maureen Watchorn

Properties

Zoë Leclerc-Kennedy, Props Builder/Buyer Jamie Plummer, Head of Props Lawrence Van Went, Master Builder (on leave) Stage Crew

Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Gary Plouffe, Head of Sound Claude Robert, Head Electrician Chris Thomson, Head Carpenter Tom Hendry Warehouse

Chris Brett, Head of Sound Jacqueline Robertson, Head Electrician Wardrobe

Thora Lamont, Head of Wardrobe Jackie Van Winkle, Head Buyer & Accessories Coordinator

Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer Tori Popp, Festival Manager Honorary Staff

Administration

Brian Adolph, IT Manager Natalie Bell, Director of Human Resources Camilla Holland, Executive Director Kathrin Moncaster, Senior Developer & Systems Administrator Artistic

Audrey Dwyer, Associate Artistic Director Melissa Langdon, Apprentice Artistic Director Isabelle Ly, Producer Ian Ross, Program Director, Pimootayowin Creators Circle Kelly Thornton, Artistic Director Kim Wheeler, Curator, The Bridge Box Office

Sheena Baird, Director of Patron Services Meaghan Fletcher, Patron Services Coordinator​ Box Office Representatives: Sharon Bunn, Jorgia Doucet, Chelsea Howgate, Melissa Langdon, Namjoo Park, Robyn Pooley, Katie Schmidt, Danielle Sinclair, Jordan Skelly, Katie Spring, Lilian Talabis Carpentry (John Hirsch Mainstage)

Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Scenic Carpenter Development

Lisa Hunt, Special & Donor Events Coordinator Michael Joyal, Development Data Manager Melissa Novecosky, Director of Development Chris Turyk, Development Manager Samantha Harrison, Front of House Manager Front of House Staff: Jennifer Brisson, Kim Cossette, Shay Cote, Rylen de Vries, Nick Fletcher, Teresa Horosko, Breanne Korban, Kimmy Martin, Graeme Olson, Kaitlyn Schuster

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Christine Corthey, Production Associate Chris Coyne, Technical Director, John Hirsch Mainstage Zahra Larche, Assistant Production Manager Russell Martin, Director of Production

Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival

Sherry Allard-Harber, Payroll Administrator Yvonne O’Connor, Accounts Payable Administrator Shelley Stroski, Controller

Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent

Production

Beverley Covert, Head of Wigs/Make-Up

Accounting/Finance

Maintenance

Carla Schroeder, Head Scenic Artist

WIGS

STAFF

Front of House

Paint

Zaz Bajon, General Manager Emeritus Steven Schipper, CM, OM, Artistic Director Emeritus

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF Orlando

Brenda Belmonte, Milliner & Dresser Joe Bennaroch, Stage Hand Colin Braun, Stage Hand Jenna Brown, Video Programmer Jane Buttner, Scenic Painter Tim Clark, Stage Hand Kim Crossley, Cutter Denise Dela Cruz, Props Practicum Student John Durica, Stage Hand Lloyd Fox, Stage Hand Ray Galinaitis, Carpenter Jacko Garcia, Props Builder Christian Hadley, Scenic Painter Penny Hanford, Seamstress James Hogan, Stage Hand Ian Kirk, Stage Hand Gary Koshinsky, Stage Hand Michael Larocque, Hair Stylist for Em Siobhan McCourt Heather Lee Brereton, Props Builder Karen Luchak, Seamstress Barbara Mackenzie, Seamstress Dan Neil, Stage Hand Frank Palmer, Stage Hand Lattisha Penniston, Hair Stylist Stephanie Poirror, Scenic Painter Andrew Sanger, Stage Hand Johnny Schur, Stage Hand Evan Stillwater, Cutter Craig Strong, Stage Hand Evan Volghamut, Stage Hand Joy Willis, Seamstress

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