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As You Like It

By William

Shakespeare

Adapted by Daryl Cloran PART OF

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Every Brilliant Thing

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With Jonny Donahoe

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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR I am so thrilled to welcome you to the theatre and to share these wonderful plays with you. With the new year upon us and the wintery winds outside, there is no better place to be than in the theatre, nestled together sharing in the act of storytelling.

Perhaps one of the most famous speeches in Shakespeare’s canon is the Seven Ages of Man from As You Like It. The melancholic Jaques equates our journey in life to that of an actor, and the metaphor resonates profoundly.

All the world’s a stage, Kelly Thornton

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

From infancy to childhood, lover to soldier, judge to elder, towards the inevitable end, Shakespeare paints an exquisite picture of life’s passage.

It is so fascinating to pair this wonderful adaptation of As You Like It, a comedy about love set to the incredible music of the Beatles, with the life-affirming Every Brilliant Thing. In Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s heartfelt play, the story begins with a seven-year-old’s solution to his mother’s profound sadness and grows to span his lifetime. By making lists of everything that is beautiful in this world, the son’s efforts remind us of the myriad treasures that make life worth living. Every Brilliant Thing is truly a testament to the human spirit and a joyous celebration of what it is to be alive.

I hope you enjoy these powerful plays, and thank you so much for joining me.

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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 Theatre district • New York, NY CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Centaur Centaur Theatre Company • Montreal, QC Citadel The Citadel Theatre • Edmonton, AB COC Canadian Opera Company • Toronto, ON CS Canadian Stage • 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 HGJT Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company • Toronto, ON Mirvish Mirvish Productions • Toronto, ON Moving Target Moving Target Theatre Company • Winnipeg, MB 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 • Winnipeg, MB Sarasvàti Sarasvàti Productions • Winnipeg, MB Segal The Segal Centre for Performing Arts • Montreal, QC Shaw Shaw Festival • Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON SIR Shakespeare in the Ruins • 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 TiFT Talk is Free Theatre • Barrie, ON 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 WCT Western Canada Theatre • Kamloops, BC WJT Winnipeg Jewish Theatre WSO Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra WST Winnipeg Studio Theatre YPT Young People’s Theatre • Toronto, ON zone41 zone41 theatre • Winnipeg, MB

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CELEBRATING THE WORK OF

William

Shakespeare APRIL 23, 1564 – APRIL 23, 1616

WHO WAS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE? Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre and is known to be one of the greatest poets and playwrights in English history. His works include 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a collection of other poems. Some of his most well-known works include Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and Henry V. FAMILY William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 to John Shakespeare, a leather merchant and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress in the town of Stratfordupon-Avon. He had two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund.

Before Shakespeare's birth, his father became a successful merchant and held official positions as alderman and bailiff, an office resembling a mayor. However, records indicate John's fortunes declined sometime in the late 1570s.

On November 28, 1582 in Worcester, Canterbury Province, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. They had

three children, Susanna (1583) and twins Hamnet and Judith (1585). In 1592, Shakespeare left his family and went to London and began his acting career.

Hamnet later died of unknown causes at age 11.

EDUCATION Though there aren’t many records of Shakespeare’s childhood education, scholars have said that he most likely attended the King’s New School, in Stratford, which taught reading, writing and the classics. He was pulled out of school early, as his family couldn’t afford it.

THE KING’S MEN It is said that the 1590s were Shakespeare’s best years of writing plays and sonnets. Through the years, he progressed in this field and worked as an actor, a teacher and a playwright.

In London, he become a founding member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a company of actors, which later became the King’s Men, after the crowning of King James I in 1603. Many of his famous tragedies such as Macbeth and King Lear were written during his time in the company.

The King’s Men were considered to be the most important troupe of its time and included Shakespeare as its leading dramatist. Some of his earliest plays were performed at The Theatre, one of the first public theatres in England.

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FEATURED WORK IN SHAKESPEAREFEST PLAYS

THEATRE Shakespeare was not only a playwright, but a sharer in the Lord Chamberlain’s company and a partner in the Blackfriars and Globe theatres. The Globe is most commonly associated with the performance of Shakespeare’s plays. Located on the south bank of the Thames, the Globe was built by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1599. It became their main performance space until a fire destroyed it on June 29, 1613. As one of the shareholders of the Blackfriars Theatre, Shakespeare shared in the company as dramatist, actor, patented member and housekeeper.

III 12th NIGHT – a musical As You Like It Awaken Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Hamlet I, Malvolio King Lear Macbeth Measure For Measure O(phelia) Opera by the Pint – the Bard Edition Othello Queen Lear is Dead Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare in the Pub Shakespeare’s Villains Shakespeare’s Will Shakespeare’s Women – and Their Men SHYLOCK The Taming of the Shrew Upstart Crow WILL’S WORDS: A Personal Journey

SHAKESPEARE’S RELEVANCE TODAY Shakespeare’s legacy continues to this day, as topics such as love, treachery and bravery still resonate with audiences.

His works have been translated into 100 languages, and his plays have been studied more than any other writing in the English language. They have been a source of inspiration for other dramatists, composers and writers including Dickens, Goethe and Tchaikovsky. january/february 2020

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READINGS The Comedy of Errors Elizabeth Rex: a staged reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

FILMS All is True Julius Caesar Looking for Richard sources: shakespeare.org.uk, biographyonline.net, britannica.com

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The Master Playwright Festival Celebrates 20 Years!

ShakespeareFest marks the final edition of the festival, and we’d like to thank our partner companies, our loyal sponsors and over 190,000 enthusiastic patrons who have supported the festival over the years.

We are excited to celebrate our largest festival ever with everyone.

In 2001, Royal MTC chose to honour Samuel Beckett at its first annual Master Playwright Festival. The Master Playwright Festival has given opportunities for both professional and emerging artists from a variety of organizations and independent companies to produce work under the umbrella of a larger festival. It has also provided patrons with an opportunity to thoroughly immerse themselves in the work of a playwright who may not have a regular home on Winnipeg stages.

The inaugural event involved 15 Beckett works by 10 local companies in eight venues. Since then, Royal MTC has presented the works of 19 master playwrights: Samuel Beckett (2001), Bertolt Brecht (2002), Harold Pinter (2003), Edward Albee (2004),

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Michel Tremblay (2005), Eugene O’Neill (2006), Tom Stoppard (2007), David Mamet (2008), Arthur Miller (2009), Caryl Churchill (2010), August Strindberg (2011), George Bernard Shaw (2012), Stephen Sondheim (2013), Anton Chekhov (2014), Noël Coward (2015), Alan Ayckbourn (2016), Agatha Christie (2017), John Patrick Shanley (2018) and Henrik Ibsen (2019).

Look back at the playwrights featured by local companies and Royal MTC during the past 20 years. Celebrate the final year of the festival by checking out as many plays as possible!

Share your favourite festival memories with us on social media by tagging @mtcwinnipeg and using #ShakespeareFest.

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Winnipeg fans on airport observation deck.

The beatles in winnipeg, 1964 Here’s a trivia question for you: where was the first place the four Beatles set foot in Canada? Answer: Winnipeg International Airport, at 2:05pm, Tuesday, August 18, 1964. It was only for about 25 minutes, but enough time to make history and assert Winnipeg’s place in Beatles lore.

Although intended as a routine refuelling stop, word leaked out that the Beatles were onboard a flight from London to San Francisco to begin their first full North American tour the following day.

Since first appearing on these shores on the Ed Sullivan television show on February 9, the Liverpool quartet had taken the world by storm. Their first feature film, A Hard Day’s Night, was still playing in a Winnipeg theatre.

“Around noon I got a call from the public relations director for Air Canada who was a good friend of mine,” recalls CJAY TV personality Bob Burns, host of the popular Teen Dance Party. “‘Get out to the airport for the interview of your life,’ he told me.” By the time Burns arrived, radio stations CKY and CKRC had announced the imminent arrival of 10

the Fab Four and hundreds of teenagers descended on the airport. Traffic was blocked and the parking lot jammed.

“We want the Beatles,” the predominantly female crowd, by now numbering a thousand, chanted. As the Pan American Lockheed Elektra, dubbed “Jet Clipper Beatles,” taxied to a halt they unleashed a deafening roar.

With no plans to disembark on what was merely a brief stopover, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, noticing the pandemonium on the observation deck, prevailed upon his charges to make a brief appearance.

Stairs were wheeled up to the plane and the Fab Four emerged from the plane waving to the hysterical throng.

“Hello, Winnipeg!” shouted a beaming Paul McCartney, first down the stairs.

A gang of reporters quickly swarmed in, microphones thrust in his face. “It’s a luverly welcome,” McCartney chirped.

Among the rabble was Burns who, after exchanging pleasantries with McCartney, managed to snag John Lennon with an introduction, “Bob Burns from CJAY Television.” “That’s not my fault,” snapped the cheeky Beatle. Undaunted, Burns

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AS YOU LIKE IT pressed on. “You must be glad to stretch your legs.” “Amongst other things,” quipped Lennon.

“He had a smart-aleck answer for everything,” Burns later recalled. Burns took pride in being the first Canadian media personality to interview the famed Liverpudlians. Burns found Ringo Starr the most gregarious. “He seemed more mature than the others,” he noted.

Other reporters managed to glean a few words from various Beatles.

Minutes later, waving one last time, the four ducked inside the plane. But not before Ringo suggested that the group might return to Winnipeg following their North American tour.

Among the mob of squealing teens jostling for sight of their heroes was 14-year-old Diane Clear. “Oh, I wish they had stayed longer,” she gushed to a reporter. “They are so cute.”

CKRC receptionist Sharon McRae was fortunate to shake hands with George Harrison and receive a kiss on the hand from Ringo. “George and Ringo were very polite and nice,” recalled McRae. She was besieged by a horde of gushing Beatlemaniacs.

it was,” reflected Decker. “I just figured I could make it up those steps and I no sooner thought of it and I was gone.

The crowd roared when they saw me go. I got right up the stairs before the Mounties grabbed me.”

His impulsive move amused the Beatles.

“Just as they were wrestling with me I caught a glimpse of the Beatles through the door and they were chuckling.”

Released by authorities, Decker became the object of instant adulation. “Kids crowded around me, touching me and crying. The girls thought there was some kind of magic about me just because I’d got so close to them.”

Dozens of dazed teens remained behind after the plane was long gone. “It was a little embarrassing having to tell kids to stop kissing the runway,” commented RCMP Sgt. E. G. Varndell. Others sat on the grass weeping. “We’ve never seen anything like this before,” Varndell continued, “and I hope we won’t see it again.”

Written by John Einarson, author, broadcaster and music historian

Seventeen-year-old Silver Heights Collegiate student Bruce Decker, a member of rock band The Deverons, was on his way to the beach when he and his friends made a hasty detour upon hearing the news on the radio.

“We couldn’t see anything from the observation platform so we sneaked down to the ramp,” Decker related years later. “It was fascinating to see the Beatles in person here in Winnipeg.”

The Beatles in Winnipeg waving to crowd.

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shakespeare in Pop Culture Over the last 400+ years, Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted countless times.

Despite his reputation now for being an example of high culture, Shakespeare’s plays were, in his day, popular entertainment. It probably shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that his plays have proved to be excellent source material for artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers for centuries.

The gritty TV series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) started out as a loose adaptation of Hamlet set in a California outlaw motorcycle club.

After the first season, though, the show went in another direction.

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix played street hustlers in My Own Private Idaho (1991), Gus Van Sant’s updated take on Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1.

Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess won a World Fantasy Award for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the 14th issue of Gaiman’s celebrated comic book series Sandman (1989-1996). The next year, the rules were changed to exclude comics.

Elizabeth Siddal, the model for Sir John Everett Millais’ 1851-52 painting Ophelia, had to spend so much time in a bathtub while Millais painted her that she caught a severe cold. Her father sued Millais for £50.

It’s hard to believe now, but Claire Danes was probably a bigger star than Leonardo DiCaprio when they co-starred in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet in 1996, the year before Titanic was released. Dismissed by many as Shakespeare for the MTV generation, Luhrmann’s film was the first of a wave of youth-oriented Shakespeare films in the 90s and 00s.

There’s a long history of pop music borrowing from Romeo and Juliet, from Madonna to Justin Bieber. The most popular recent retelling is probably Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” (2009).

Kenneth Branagh directed and/or starred in a range of adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, including Henry V (1989), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2005), As You Like It (2006) and All is True (2018). Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993) mixed Hollywood stars like Denzel Washington and Michael Keaton with British actors like Emma Thompson and Imelda Staunton.

A traitor for an uncle, a dead king for a father, two bumbling fools for friends – Hamlet? Nope, it’s The Lion King (1994).

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THEATRE

As You Like It

By William Shakespeare

Adapted and Directed by Daryl Cloran Conceived by Daryl Cloran and Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival January 9 – February 1, 2020 previews January 7 & 8

Music Director................................................................................Ben Elliott Choreographer / Fight Director...................Jonathan Hawley Purvis Set Designer..............................................................................Pam Johnson Costume Designer...........................................................Carmen Alatorre Lighting Designer.......................................................................Gerald King Sound Designer..................................................................... Peter McBoyle Creative Consultant............................................................... Rick Boynton Assistant Director..........................................................Kayvon Khoshkam Assistant Set Designer...........................................Ksenia Broda-Milian† Assistant Lighting Designer........................................ Evan Wohlgemut Stage Manager................................................................. Wayne Paquette Assistant Stage Manager.................................................. Leslie Watson† Apprentice Stage Manager.................................Zoë Leclerc-Kennedy Clearance & Music Consulting............John Ciccone, Copyright Music & Visuals As You Like It is performed with one intermission.

Production photography by Dylan Hewlett.

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Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is proud to call Manitoba home. Royal MTC is located in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 land, the traditional territory of the Ininew, Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are thankful for the benefits sharing this land has afforded us, and we are committed to the responsibilities of the Treaty. Hiy Hiy, Miigwetch, Wopida and Maarsii. *Position funded through the Jean Murray - Moray Sinclair Theatre Apprenticeship Program †Past Jean Murray - Moray Sinclair Scholarship award winner

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As You Like It THE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Rosalind....................................................................................Lindsey Angell Forest Lord / 2nd Brother.......................................Benjamin Camenzuli Jaques / Le Beau................................................................Sarah Constible Corin / Duke’s Attendant................................................ Sharon Crandall Phoebe...........................................................................................Emily Dallas Forest Lord / William / Hymen............................................ Oscar Derkx Charles the Wrestler / Amiens..........................................Austin Eckert Duke Senior / Duke Frederick........................................ Paul Essiembre Orlando..............................................................................................Jeff Irving Touchstone.......................................................................Kayvon Khoshkam Audrey......................................................................................Jenny McKillop Celia........................................................................................Jameela McNeil Adam / Sir Oliver Martext................................................Robb Paterson Oliver / Forest Lord............................................................Justin Stadnyk† Silvius.......................................................................................Farren Timoteo MUSICIANS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Drums.............................................................................Benjamin Camenzuli Guitar............................................................................................ Oscar Derkx Bass Guitar................................................................................Austin Eckert Piano........................................................................................Justin Stadnyk† Other Instruments............................................................................ Ensemble

SYNOPSIS – Our version of As You Like It is set in 1960s Kitsilano, home to Vancouver’s counterculture. We start at a wrestling match, much like Vancouver’s All-Star Wrestling of the 60s. Then our lovers escape to the Okanagan, standing in for Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden. As You Like It is a story about love in many forms – from romantic love to the love of a father and daughter, to the belief that to get what we want in life, all we need is to love and respect each other. We’re telling this story “with a little help from our friends”, the Beatles. Orlando’s love letters become love songs. Amiens and the Lords sing as they refine their philosophy about life and love. The Fab Four’s songwriting evolution is perfect for the story – early songs are naïve and youthful, which is where the lovers start when they run to the forest. But as we meet the thinkers in the forest, we transition to the Beatles’ later, more spiritual and philosophical, songwriting. Shakespeare, Vancouver, the 1960s and the Beatles: a perfect combination. excerpted with permission from director’s notes by daryl cloran

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As You Like It MUSICAL NUMBERS PRESHOW

Money (That’s What I Want) 1............................Duke Frederick and All ACT 1

We Can Work It Out 2....................................................Celia and Rosalind She Loves You 3................................................................................Touchstone I Want To Hold Your Hand 4.................................. Rosalind and Orlando Help! 2.............................................................. Rosalind, Celia, Touchstone, ................................................................. Orlando, Adam and Duke Senior I Saw Her Standing There 3..................................................................Silvius While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5................................................... Amiens I Am the Walrus2...................................................................................Jaques The Fool On The Hill 2.........................................................................Jaques Let It Be2......................................................................................... Forest Lord Do You Want To Know a Secret 2.................................................. Orlando Eight Days a Week 2..........................................................................Rosalind And I Love Her 2.................................................................................. Orlando Eight Days a Week 2 / I Want to Hold Your Hand 4................Rosalind ......................................................................................................... and Orlando ACT 2

When I’m Sixty-Four 2........................................Touchstone and Audrey You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away 2.................... Rosalind and Celia Love Me Do6.............................................................................................Silvius Something 5............................................................................................ Phoebe Can’t Buy Me Love 2...............................................Orlando and Rosalind Got to Get You into My Life 2.......................Rosalind, Phoebe, Silvius, ...................................................................................Touchstone and Audrey Helter Skelter 2..............................................................................Touchstone Good Day Sunshine 2........................................................Celia and Oliver Here Comes the Sun5...................................................................................All Across the Universe 2............................................................ Hymen and All All You Need Is Love 2...................................................................................All 1

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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Courtesy of Round Hill Music, LP.

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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Courtesy of UPL Communications Inc.

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AS YOU LIKE IT ET CETERA Thank you to Daryl Cloran and

Lindsey Angell

Ben Elliott for the opportunity to bash away on the drums to the songs of one of my favourite bands “8 shows a week.”

Thank you to the Talent House, my family, and my wonderful fiancée Kaley for their support.

Rosalind

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Macbeth, Love's Labour's

Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice (Bard on the Beach); Liberation Days (TC); Butcher (Prime Cuts Collective); Iceland (Dirt Road Productions); Venus in Fur, It's a Wonderful Life, Becky's New Car (Arts Club); Mortified, How to Survive an Apocalypse, The Romeo Initiative (Touchstone Theatre).

TV A Novel Romance (Hallmark); SGU Stargate Universe (MGM).

TRAINING Studio 58.

ET CETERA Jessie Richardson Award for Iceland by Nicolas Billon. Four Jessie Nominations and one Betty Mitchell Nomination. Recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for English Theatre. For my Jove, my Beaux and my Kyle.

Benjamin Camenzuli Forest Lord / 2nd Brother

Sarah Constible Jaques / Le Beau

ROYAL MTC Selected: Di and Viv and Rose, Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), Sarah Ballenden, The Fighting Days, The Penelopiad, The 39 Steps, Bleeding Hearts, After Miss Julie.

OTHER THEATRE Selected: Timon of Athens, Richard III, Henry V (SIR); Dragonfly, Reservations, Beautiful Man (TPM); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Segal); Strawberries in January, The Swearing Jar, Godspell (PTE); Am I Not King? (zone41).

FILM/TV The Stone Angel, High Life, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Less Than Kind, Flag Day. ET CETERA Sarah is a member of the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir.

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Once (Mirvish, Neptune,

Citadel); Grease (Irregular Entertainment); Jukebox Hero (Annerin Theatricals); Ring of Fire (Thousand Islands Playhouse); South Pacific (Oklahoma City Rep); A Man of No Importance (Garner Theatre Productions).

TRAINING BM in Music Theatre from Oklahoma City University.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Sharon Crandall

Emily Dallas

Corin / Duke’s Attendant

Phoebe

ROYAL MTC Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE As You Like It, Lysistrata (Bard on the Beach); In the Heights (Arts Club); Shit, The Enemy (Firehall); Satellite(s) (Solo Collective); Shrek The Musical, Legally Blonde, The Music Man (Theatre Under the Stars); Fiddler on the Roof (Gateway).

FILM/TV The Package, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix); Christmas on Holly Lane; Til Ex Do Us Part; When We Rise; The Game of Love; The Marine 5: Battleground (WWE).

TRAINING/TEACHING Training: Completed the Arts Club Actors Intensive. Currently training with Andrew McIlroy at McIlroy and Associates. Teaching: Private coach in acting and singing.

ET CETERA Mad props to Melissa, Shannon, Rachel, Andrew, James and Adam. Eternal love to Lucas and Sam. dacostatalent.com/ sharon-crandall. @sharoncrandall

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Once (Citadel), A

Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Stage West); As You Like It (TC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (No Name Collective); Angels in America, Bernarda Alba (Pace).

TRAINING Graduate of MRU’s theatre performance program. BFA, musical theatre, Pace University.

ET CETERA Emily is also a playwright and composer. Love to her endlessly supportive family.

Oscar Derkx Forest Lord / William / Hymen

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Peter and the

Starcatcher, Once, A Christmas Carol (Citadel); Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Shakespeare's R&J (Kill Your Television); Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); The Hothouse Prince (Teatro la Quindicina); Featuring Loretta, Criminal Genius (Punctuate Theatre).

FILM Film: #Roxy, LoST. Voice: Anthem, Star Wars: Battlefront III, Future Card Buddyfight Ace. TRAINING BFA: Acting, University of Alberta.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Austin Eckert Charles the Wrestler / Amiens

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Bard on the Beach, Royal

& McPherson Theatres, Atomic Vaudeville, The Belfry, Arts Club, PuSh/Frank Theatre, Western Canada Theatre, Mayfield.

TV Supernatural, The Magicians, The Flash, Colony, Narcoleap, Snowpiercer, Project Blue Book, Batwoman.

TRAINING/TEACHING Austin is an associate teaching artist at Bard on the Beach and is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts.

ET CETERA @austingeckert.

Brothers (PTE); Romeo and Juliet (Citadel); The Normal Heart, The Overwhelming, Stuff Happens (Studio 180); L’Emmerdeur, Le Dîner de cons, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Art (Théâtre français de Toronto); Othello (ATF); Tillsonburg (CS); Zadie’s Shoes, Oui (Factory); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Centaur).

FILM/TV More than 90 film and television appearances and extensive work in documentary narration, animation and commercial voice-overs.

Jeff Irving Orlando

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Cyrano, Man and

Paul Essiembre Duke Senior / Duke Frederick

ROYAL MTC Actor: A Doll’s House, Part 2 (with Mirvish), Sense and Sensibility, A Christmas Carol, Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), Sarah Ballenden, The Audience (with Mirvish), Unnecessary Farce, Things We Do For Love, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Heart of Robin Hood (with Mirvish), Other People’s Money, A Few Good Men (with Citadel). Director: Witness for the Prosecution (Royal MTC/MBA).

Fight Director: Morning After Grace, Kill Me Now, Sarah Ballenden.

OTHER THEATRE Four seasons at the Stratford Festival, including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Comedy of Errors, The Odyssey, The Duchess of Malfi, Don Juan, Macbeth, Othello, Amadeus. Elsewhere: The Bridges of Madison County, A Little Night Music (Dry Cold); Butcher, The Best

Superman, Oh! What a Lovely War, Androcles and the Lion, Sweeney Todd, The Light in the Piazza, Trifles, Maria Severa, Hotel Peccadillo, Happy End, Ah, Wilderness! (Shaw); Around the World in 80 Days, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Globe); Alice the Magnet, Grimly Handsome (Theatre Animal); Tom at the Farm (Buddies); The December Man (L'homme de décembre) (Citadel/CS); Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare (Theatre 20); Romeo and Juliet (CS); Fury, Seeds (Blyth); Eigengrau, The Big Game (Red One Theatre); Mary’s Wedding, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Golden Apple Theatre); For Pops (DRI Collective); Viv’s Socks (Theatre By Grams).

TV Saving Hope, Haven, Beauty and the Beast, Rookie Blue.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Kayvon Khoshkam

Jenny McKillop

Touchstone / Assistant Director

Audrey

ROYAL MTC Shakespeare in Love (with

Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Othello, Pericles, Taming

of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice (Bard on the Beach); Adventure of a Black Girl in Search of God, The December Man, Twelfth Night, carried away on the crest of a wave (NAC); Chelsea Hotel (Firehall Arts Centre). Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Theatre and The Pull Festival (Vancouver).

FILM/TV iZombie, Supernatural (CW); The Wedding Belle, Four Summer Weddings (Hallmark); Emily Owens M.D. (CBS).

TRAINING Canadian College of Performing Arts.

ET CETERA Kayvon has five Jessie Richardson Award nominations.

ROYAL MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Pith, Marvelous Pilgrims,

A Lesson in Brio (Teatro la Quindicina); Mary Poppins (Globe Theatre); A New Brain (Plain Jane Theatre); The Real Inspector Hound (Bright Young Things); Outside Mullingar (Shadow Theatre); Airswimming (Praise Doris Productions); The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet (River City Shakespeare); Legoland (Blarney Productions).

FILM/TV The Little Deputy (Trevor Anderson Films); Tiny Plastic Men (Mosaic Entertainment); Anthem (voice-over work – BioWare).

TRAINING BFA in Acting from University of Alberta; Graduate of Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts Program.

ET CETERA Jenny has received Elizabeth Sterling Haynes nominations for her work in Pith, Marvelous Pilgrims and Airswimming.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Jameela McNeil Celia

ROYAL MTC The Color Purple (with

Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Sister Act, All Shook Up,

Soul Sistas (Mayfield); A Christmas Carol (Carter-Ryan); Sleeping Beauty (Capitol); John Ware Reimagined (Workshop West).

TRAINING Graduate of MacEwan’s Theatre Arts Program.

ET CETERA Jameela is an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nominee. Thanks to my family for your love and support.

Robb Paterson Adam / Sir Oliver Martext

ROYAL MTC This is Robb’s 86th production at Royal MTC. Director: (selected) The Cottage, Next to Normal, Our Town, Guys and Dolls (with Citadel/TC), Trying, My Fair Lady, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, White Christmas, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Woman in Black, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Retreat from Moscow, Steel Magnolias, Fully Committed. Actor: (selected) Clarence, Uncle Billy in It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Reverend Peters in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (with Citadel), Billy Bishop, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol – The Musical and many others.

OTHER THEATRE Director: Men’s Room (Crow’s Theatre); Crazy for You, 42nd Street, Big The Musical, The King and I,

two productions of Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow); Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, Seussical the Musical, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (MTYP); Oliver! (Centaur); The Affections of May (Sudbury Theatre Centre). Recent acting: Prairie Nurse, The Birds and the Bees (PTE); Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors (Rainbow).

ET CETERA Robb was the Associate Artistic Director at Royal MTC from 2003 to 2015. Love to Heather, Alex and Tara.

Justin Stadnyk Oliver / Forest Lord

ROYAL MTC Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Fiddler on the Roof, The Wave.

OTHER THEATRE Kinky Boots (Mirvish); Falsettos (WJT); Pal Joey, Into the Woods (TiFT); Saturday Night Fever (National Tour); Hairspray, Camelot, The Mikado (Drayton); Rock Legends, Footloose (Chemainus); Mamma Mia!, Legally Blonde, Blood Brothers (TA); Anne of Green Gables, Ring of Fire, The Full Monty (Charlottetown); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rent (Rainbow); Robin Hood, Cinderella (Ross Petty).

TV King of the Camp (YTV).

ET CETERA Thank you for continuing to support the arts! Say hi to Justin @j_stadnyk. justinstadnyk.com

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AS YOU LIKE IT Farren Timoteo Silvius

ROYAL MTC Made in Italy (a WCT Production), Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Peter and the Starcatcher, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Make Mine Love, Spamalot (Citadel); Forever Plaid, Little Shop of Horrors, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Footloose (Mayfield); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (WCT); The Light in the Piazza (TC); As You Like It, Coriolanus (Freewill Shakespeare).

TRAINING Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts Program.

ET CETERA Farren is the Artistic Director of Alberta Musical Theatre Company, a company for which he has created several musical adaptations of classic fairy tales for children. He has been honoured by the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards on many occasions, most recently for his performance in Made in Italy, and was a recipient of a Broadwayworld.com award for his performance in Forever Plaid. In 2015, Farren was included in Avenue Magazine’s list of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40, celebrating the city’s most promising young leaders.

William Shakespeare Playwright

all major languages. Scholars have written thousands of books and articles about his plots, characters, themes and language.

He is the most widely quoted author in history, and his plays have probably been performed more times than those of any other dramatist. Shakespeare’s plays include comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It), histories (Richard III) and tragedies (Hamlet and Macbeth). His other works include Othello, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Twelfth Night and more than 150 sonnets.

Daryl Cloran Adaptor / Director

ROYAL MTC Made in Italy (a WCT production), Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), The Last Five Years.

OTHER THEATRE Artistic Director of the Citadel Theatre. Former Artistic Director of Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops) and Theatrefront (Toronto). Directing includes: UBUNTU: The Cape Town Project (Citadel/PTE); As You Like It (Bard on the Beach); Liberation Days (TC/WCT); Mary Poppins (Persephone/WCT); Tribes (CS); And All For Love (NAC); Generous (Tarragon); Afterplay (Shaw); and RETURN: The Sarajevo Project (Theatrefront).

ET CETERA Daryl has been awarded the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director and a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Director (Halifax).

English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Ben Elliott Music Director

ROYAL MTC Actor: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE Actor: As You Like It, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors (Bard on the Beach); Chelsea Hotel (Firehall Arts Centre); Good People, Other Desert Cities (Arts Club).

TRAINING Graduate of Studio 58.

ET CETERA Ben is an Artistic Associate of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver where you can catch him on stage in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Ben is an Evie Award recipient, a Jessie Richardson award winner and eight-time nominee. He also wants to thank his wife for visiting while he’s in Winnipeg.

Jonathan Hawley Purvis Choreographer / Fight Director ROYAL MTC Shakespeare in Love (with

Citadel).

OTHER THEATRE As You Like It, Macbeth,

The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in Love (Bard on the Beach); Crazy for You, West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, Spamalot, The Penelopiad, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Musketeers (Citadel); Antony and Cleopatra, The Three Musketeers, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (St. Lawrence Shakespeare); Cymbeline’s Reign (Shakespeare in the Ruff); I Am For You (Concrete Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (Chemainus); The Pirates of Penzance, Little Shop of Horrors

(Thousand Islands Playhouse); Beauty and the Beast (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (TC); Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel/YPT/MTYP).

FILM/TV Project Blue Book, Fortunate Son, Knuckleball, The Northlander, Painkillers, Pet Heroes, Le Rêve de Champlain.

TRAINING/TEACHING Graduate of the Mount Royal College Theatre Program, two-time participant of the Banff/Citadel Professional Training Program. Five-time faculty member of the Banff/Citadel Professional Training Program.

ET CETERA Jonathan would like to thank his wife and family for their endless love and support.

Pam Johnson Set Designer

ROYAL MTC The Rainmaker (with VP); The Perfect Ganesh (with VP); Homeward Bound (with VP).

OTHER THEATRE Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Playhouse, Shaw Festival, Arts Club, Pacific Opera, Belfry Theatre, The Globe, Vancouver Opera, and so many more.

TRAINING/TEACHING I graduated from Studio 58, 40 years ago as an actor. I soon fell into design and taught design at the Studio for 29 years.

ET CETERA Without the love and support of family, I would be lost. All we need is love! Peace.

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THE ART OF

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AS YOU LIKE IT Carmen Alatorre

Peter McBoyle

Costume Designer

Sound Designer

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Stickboy (Vancouver

Opera); Peter and the Starcatcher, Mustard (Arts Club); Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well (Bard on the Beach); Cinderella (Globe Theatre).

TV Breakdown Artist: The Man in the High Castle.

TRAINING/TEACHING MFA Theatre Design, UBC; Costume Design Adjunct Professor, UBC. ET CETERA Three Jessie Richardson Awards and seven nominations. carmenalatorre.com

Gerald King Lighting Designer

ROYAL MTC Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), God of Carnage (with VP), The Rainmaker (with VP).

OTHER THEATRE Beauty and the Beast (Arts Club); The Merry Widow, Dead Man Walking, Otello (Vancouver Opera); The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in Love (Bard on the Beach); carried away on the crest of a wave (NAC); Crazy For You, Ubuntu (Citadel); King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing (TC).

ROYAL MTC The Color Purple (with Citadel), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (with Mirvish), Medea (with Mirvish), Orpheus Descending (with Mirvish).

OTHER THEATRE Most of the major Canadian theatres and in US cities such as New York, Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta. Selected credits include: Billy Elliot the Musical, Little Shop of Horrors (Stratford); Come Fly Away (Broadway, Las Vegas, National Tour); Barrymore (Stratford/Tour/ Broadway/Toronto); Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can, West Side Story, Legally Blonde (National Tours).

TRAINING/TEACHING Bachelor of Music and Masters in Music Media and Technology from McGill. Previous faculty member at Ryerson University and Humber College.

ET CETERA Member of ADC (Associated Designers of Canada) and IATSE 829 (United Scenic Artists). Thanks to Meghan, Ella and Beatrice for their unending support.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Ksenia Broda-Milian Assistant Set Designer

ROYAL MTC Assistant Set & Costume Designer: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel). Design Apprentice: The Seagull, Cabaret, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily. Scenic Art Assistant 2013-14.

OTHER THEATRE Recent set, costume, and/or lighting designs: It's a Wonderful Life, Bang Bang (Magnus); Mrs. Warren's Profession (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Becoming Dr. Ruth, After Jerusalem (WJT); Pippin (WST/ViC); Lucas Is Lonely (Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers); Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Ring of Fire (Rainbow); Armstrong's War (WCT).

Assistant Lighting Designer: Strike!

(Rainbow).

TRAINING/TEACHING Training: Banff

Centre, Ghost River, Creative Manitoba; BAH University of Winnipeg, MFA University of Alberta. Teaching: University of Winnipeg (interim instructor and TA), MTYP, Rainbow Stage Conference, Theatre Alberta's Artstrek.

ET CETERA Upcoming: Assistant Costume Designer of Spamalot at the Stratford Festival. Grateful for the support from the Kingfisher Foundation, my interprovincial friends and my parents (love you!). Member of Associated Designers of Canada. broda-milian.com

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AS YOU LIKE IT Evan Wohlgemut

Leslie Watson

Assistant Lighting Designer

Assistant Stage Manager

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE A Midsummer Night’s

Dream, Arcadia, Middletown, Fragile Things (U of W).

TRAINING Enrolled in the University of Winnipeg Production program.

ET CETERA Special thanks to Allison Loat, Adam Parboosingh and Chris Coyne for their continual support.

Wayne Paquette Stage Manager

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Fortune Falls, Nevermore

(Catalyst Theatre); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Odd Couple, The Weir (Shadow Theatre); Hamlet, Love's Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet (Free Will Players); Shining City, Death of a Salesman, Doubt, The Glass Menagerie, Frozen (Citadel).

TRAINING Graduate of the University of Alberta.

ET CETERA Wayne is the Artistic Director of the Sterling Award-winning Blarney Productions (based in Edmonton) and the Artistic Coordinator at The Citadel Theatre.

ROYAL MTC Stage Manager: 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: 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).

OTHER THEATRE Over 50 productions at theatres around Winnipeg, 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 – @updogboutiquewinnipeg.

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AS YOU LIKE IT Zoë Leclerc-Kennedy

CITADEL THEATRE

Apprentice Stage Manager ROYAL MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: Fun Home, Heisenberg, Shakespeare in Love, Sarah Ballenden, Bittergirl: The Musical. Props: Bang Bang, Di and Viv and Rose, Outside Mullingar, Black Coffee, Hand to God, My Name is Asher Lev. OTHER THEATRE Apprentice Stage Manager: A Charlie Brown Double Bill (MTYP); Falstaff (MB Opera). Head of Props at Watermark Theatre in PEI, summer 2019; Props Apprentice for the 2018/19 season at the Grand Theatre in London, ON; Prop Builder Practicum at the Banff Centre, summer 2018; Props Coordinator for Baby Box, Two Indians and The Seduction Theory (Sarasvàti).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg with a BA (Hons), specialization in Theatre Production and Stage Management.

Founded in 1965, the Citadel Theatre is recognized and respected as a national centre of excellence in production, creative development and audience engagement – the artistic and cultural heart of our community. Located in downtown Edmonton, the Citadel Theatre is one of North America’s largest not-forprofit theatres. Core programming in the 2019/20 season features a Mainstage Season of six productions, plus our High-Wire series of alternative work, our annual production of A Christmas Carol, and our House Series of cabaret, comedy and concerts. The Citadel also offers robust theatre training for professionals and aspirants of all ages, and a New Play Development program dedicated to the creation of innovative new work. This plethora of activity takes place in our architectural award-winning facility which has five performance spaces, production shops and classrooms, and is also home to Catalyst Theatre and Rapid Fire Theatre.

Daryl Cloran, Artistic Director / Chantell Ghosh, Executive Director

The Winnipeg Foundation

BARD ON THE BEACH

Production Sponsor The Winnipeg Foundation is For Good.

Forever. It helps people give back to our shared community by connecting generous donors with Causes they care about For Good. As an endowment-based public foundation, gifts are pooled and invested and the annual earnings are granted back to the community Forever.

The Foundation strives to be a catalyst for strengthening community well-being, now and for future generations by promoting philanthropy, creating partnerships and supporting diverse charitable organizations. Founded in 1921, The Winnipeg Foundation is proud to be Canada’s first community foundation.

Celebrating its 31st Season from June 10 to September 21, 2020, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival is Western Canada's largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare Festival. In a magnificent setting on the waterfront in Vancouver's Vanier Park, Bard offers Shakespeare plays, related dramas and special events in two modern performance tents. Says Bard Artistic Director Christopher Gaze: “Our 31st Season is designed to entertain and inspire theatre lovers of all kinds, with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Paradise Lost.

There’s something for all, from dedicated Shakespeare fans to those who are just discovering theatre.” Full details at bardonthebeach.org.

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Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood. This retelling of The Tempest sees Felix, Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg theatre festival, unceremoniously fired from his position. To enact revenge on his accusers, he gets a job at the prison under an alias where he finally hopes to stage his version of The Tempest.

FICTION ATWOOD Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn. A modern retelling of King Lear, this novel follows retired media tycoon Henry Dunbar as he is sent to a sanatorium at the behest of his two wicked daughters. There, he attempts to escape with the help of an alcoholic comedian in the hopes of reinstating himself as head of the company.

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IN CONCERT

APR 17 -19

CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL JULLIAN PELLICANO, CONDUCTOR

The Tony Award-winning romantic comedy musical comes to life with the WSO! Featuring dancers from the RWB School Dance Ensemble and a talented cast of actors, our concert version has all the fun, razzmatazz and memorable Gershwin tunes including ‘I Got Rhythm’, ‘Nice Work if you Can Get it’ and ‘Embraceable You’.

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BLACK & WHITE BALL

All you need is love

Shakespeare may have written about love, but the Beatles made us sing about it! On Saturday, November 2, more than 550 guests joined us for the Black & White Ball: IMAGINE, in support of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.

On behalf of the artists supported by the funds raised, we’re deeply grateful to all the guests, sponsors, corporate table purchasers, donors and volunteers for creating another unforgettable evening.

Your generous contributions support our many programs and productions while ensuring that live theatre continues to thrive in our community. Special thanks to our incredible Premier Sponsor RBC – your commitment to the arts, to Winnipeg, and to building vibrant communities is inspiring.

In addition to fantastic food and spectacular auction items, guests were wowed with a special performance by Those Guys and danced the night away to a Beatles-infused set list thanks to The Big City All Star Band.

Please join us for another spectacular Black & White Ball on Saturday, November 7, 2020. Reserve your corporate table or individual tickets early so you don’t miss the party of the year!

Email blackandwhite@royalmtc.ca.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO Big City All Star Band Those Guys Chris Coyne Givergy Our generous auction donors Our incredibly hard-working volunteers

COMMITTEE Tiffany Johnson-Sheldon – Co-Chair Jodee Stewart – Co-Chair Peggy Alto Liz Baines Albiana Bugujevci Alana Chernecki Barb Christie Patty Christie Aynsley Cockshott Paulo Fernandes Kathryn Gompf Kelly Johnston Jason Kasper Elsebeth Kriening Debora Mazur Brad McCabe Linda McGarva-Cohen Aideen Nash Rhonda Plett Bronya Rae-Pemberton Jenny-Lou Ryan Lynda Tjaden Claire Workman

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

BY STEVEN SCHIPPER

“What people want today is service, meaning they want their stories when they want them and where they want them, on their schedule. They don’t want to have to go to the movies or a theatre at eight o’clock, and have to be in a certain place at a certain time in order to experience a certain story. …And I think that…long form television, now that the medium has made binging possible, is revealing depths of character, depths of humanity no medium has ever delivered in history.” – robert mckee He’s right, of course, this great champion of storytelling. I know because I, too, binge. I watched Breaking Bad on Netflix without ever having to pull on snowboots, drive for miles or pay for parking. My monthly Netflix subscription is a fraction of the cost of a theatre ticket. Most importantly, I come to know the characters in these shows intimately, over many hours, as I share the dramatic rise and fall of their fortunes: their heartwrenching decisions, their hard-won victories. My life becomes intertwined with theirs.

So where does that leave the theatre, this time-honoured art form that you and I love? Well, that character on our computer monitor or flatscreen TV is merely a digital simulacrum who cannot feel our presence (or Heimlich us when we choke alone on our microwave popcorn). Theatre is a communal act between living people who believe that a shared experience of great stories 38

builds an evolved citizenry and, by extension, a civilized society.

At its best, theatre brings us together to perform a ritual, something ancient and ceremonial. That’s why I believe Every Brilliant Thing is so important: it elevates audience participation from a cheap-and-cheerful gimmick to an almost sacramental validation of the life force we share. Death looms over this play and we in the audience, by speaking the prescribed words and touching the offered props, keep at bay the dark forces that threaten us all.

Our laughter and our tears become, in effect, secular prayers for our collective salvation.

Long after the 17th episode of Downton Abbey has faded from our memories, we will remember what we and our neighbours did today in this undarkened theatre, and how our actions and our faith in the unshakeable power of theatre helped to save a man’s life.

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING Michael Torontow in Every Brilliant Thing at Talk is Free Theatre. PHOTO BY SCOTT COOPER

The Power of Gratitude It is Saturday morning on a cold winter day. As you sit at your kitchen table sipping coffee and looking out at the softly falling snowflakes, you cannot stop thinking. Your mind wanders, meandering from thought to thought.

It jumps from the memory of an irritating conversation you had with your co-worker on Friday, to the smile of your cute granddaughter at the Christmas tree as she anxiously opened her presents. Here’s the thing: you can choose how you focus your thoughts.

You can sit at the table for hours and suffocate your mind with all the grudges, the envies, the frustrations and the pain people have caused. Or, you can choose to add vanilla to your freshly brewed morning coffee by remembering and appreciating all the goodness you have in your life. If you choose the latter, the 40

chances are you will be a much happier and healthier person. In fact, studies have shown that people who consciously count their blessings tend to be happier and less depressed.

Dr. Robert A. Emmons1 of the University of California, Davis and Dr. Michael E. McCullough1 of the University of Miami have studied gratitude for several years.

In one study, they asked people to write a few sentences each week, focusing on particular topics. The first group was asked to write about things they were thankful for that had occurred during the week. The second group wrote about daily irritations or things that had displeased them. The third group wrote about events that had affected them with no emphasis on the events being positive or negative. After 10 weeks,

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING people who had written about gratitude were more optimistic and felt better about their lives. Surprisingly, people in this group also exercised more and made fewer visits to physicians than those who focused on sources of aggravation.

In another study, Dr. Joel Wong2 and his team at Indiana University Bloomington worked with people who were receiving counselling. They found that participants who were asked to write gratitude letters reported significantly better mental health four weeks and 12 weeks after their writing exercise ended, compared to those who wrote about negative experiences or those who only received counselling. This suggests that gratitude writing can be beneficial not just for healthy, well-adjusted individuals, but also for those who struggle with mental health concerns. This study also showed that gratitude bolsters our mental health by unshackling us from toxic emotions, as only the people who used fewer negative emotion words in their gratitude letters (and not those who used more positive emotion words) reported better mental health.

Sometimes we get so absorbed in our consumer culture era that we think we can just buy happiness. The reality is that “happiness” comes in many different forms, and it often offers us its best versions for free – versions that last for a long time and do not require constant upgrades. The key is to learn to see them. Whenever we remind ourselves of all the good things we have in our lives – the good friends, our health, people we love – and we are thankful for them, then we are one step forward in helping our mental health. You may not have everything – nobody does. But when we focus on the good fortunes we do have, january/february 2020

or when we express our gratitude to someone whom we had never properly thanked for their kindness, we become mentally healthier.

Gratitude helps even if you don’t share it. Studies have shown that when people do not send their gratitude letters to their intended recipients, they still enjoy the benefits of experiencing thankfulness. Like any good habit, making gratitude and thankfulness a regular part of your life takes time and requires practice. The power of being thankful is not gained overnight. But, whether it is a thank you note to a person who had a positive impact in your life, thinking about something nice someone has done for you, or keeping a gratitude journal, these habits will all make you happier and help polish your mental health.

Written by: Mandana Modirrousta MD PhD FRCPC Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology; Neuropsychiatrist; Director of the Neuromodulation and Neuropsychiatry Unit at St. Boniface Hospital.

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Emmons RA and McCullough ME. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003

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Wong YJ, et al. Psychother Res. 2018

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Kelly Thornton, Artistic Director • Camilla Holland, Executive Director PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH TALK

IS FREE THEATRE

Every Brilliant Thing

By Duncan Macmillan With Jonny Donahoe

January 23 – February 8, 2020 preview January 22

Director.................................................................Steven Schipper, cm, om Production Designer................................................................. Joe Pagnan Stage Manager.................................................................... Alana Freistadt Apprentice Stage Manager..................................................Karen Sewell THE CAST

Performer............................................................................ Michael Torontow Every Brilliant Thing is performed without an intermission.

EVERY BRILLIANT THING was first produced by Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre, on June 28, 2013 at Ludlow Fringe Festival. The play had its North American premiere at Barrow Street Theatre, New York, on December 6, 2014, where it was presented by Barrow Street Theatre and Jean Doumanian Productions.

EVERY BRILLIANT THING is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Special thanks: Dr. Michael Eleff.

Production photography by Dylan Hewlett.

Managing your mental health can be challenging. If you need help, or know someone in distress, please call Klinic Crisis Line at 1-888-322-3019 Toll-Free 24/7 or visit klinic.mb.ca.

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is proud to call Manitoba home. Royal MTC is located in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 land, the traditional territory of the Ininew, Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are thankful for the benefits sharing this land has afforded us, and we are committed to the responsibilities of the Treaty. Hiy Hiy, Miigwetch, Wopida and Maarsii.

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING Michael Torontow

Duncan Macmillan

Performer

Playwright

ROYAL MTC Bittergirl: The Musical, Black

Coffee.

OTHER THEATRE Kronborg: The

Hamlet Rock Musical, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown); Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown, Grand, Arts Club, US Tour); Every Brilliant Thing, Sweeney Todd, Candide, The Music Man, Floyd Collins (TiFT); The Light in the Piazza (TC, Acting Up); Dirty Dancing, Hairspray (Mirvish); several leading roles across Canada.

TV Mr. T in Lost & Found Music Studios (Family/Netflix); Hannibal, Reign, Conviction, Remedy. Other credits include: Air Canada in-flight safety video; several national commercials.

TRAINING BA in Theatre from U of O; Yoriko Tanno, Lenard Whiting, Elaine Overholt (voice training); Pro Actors Lab. ET CETERA Love to Matej, family, friends, and the Talent House. michaeltorontow.com

Plays include: People, Places and Things (2015-2017, National Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); 1984, adapted from George Orwell (2013-2017, Headlong/ Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, West End, Broadway, international tours, co-adapted/co-directed with Rob Icke); Every Brilliant Thing (2013-2017, Paines Plough/Pentabus Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, UK and international tours, HBO); City of Glass, adapted from Paul Auster (2017, 59 Productions, HOME, and Lyric Hammersmith); 2071, co-written with Chris Rapley (2014-2015, The Royal Court/ Hamburg Schauspielhaus); The Forbidden Zone (2014-2016, Salzburg Festival and Schaubühne Berlin); Wunschloses Unglück, adapted from Peter Handke (2014, Burgtheater Vienna); Reise Durch Die Nacht, adapted from Friederike Mayröcker (2012-2014, Schauspiel Köln, Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen); Lungs (2011-2016, Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres/ Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); and Monster (2006, Royal Exchange Theatre).

SYNOPSIS – When a young boy's mother ends up in the hospital, he starts a list – of everything worth living for – to cheer her up. Although his mother doesn’t pay much attention to the list, he’s undaunted. With boyish exuberance, he adds to the list in the hopes of making a difference. As he matures and faces his own challenges, the growing list inspires him to find meaning in everyday life. Along the way, we meet the people in his life – his dad, the family vet, the school guidance counsellor and his first love – who are part of his story and, sometimes, the list. Eventually he realizes how the list impacted his life, although not in the way he originally intended.

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING Steven Schipper, cm, om

Joe Pagnan Production Designer

Director

ROYAL MTC Artistic Director Emeritus; Artistic Director 1989-2019; Associate Artistic Director 1987-1989; selected directing credits: Billy Elliot the Musical, The Glass Menagerie, Gone With the Wind, The Drowsy Chaperone, Fiddler on the Roof, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (with NAC).

OTHER THEATRE Stratford, Shaw, Centaur, Segal, Mirvish, Theatre Plus (Toronto), Toronto Free, YPT, Persephone, PTE, WJT, TC, VP, Rubicon Theatre (Ventura, CA).

TRAINING McGill, Bishop’s, National Theatre School of Canada.

ET CETERA In 2007, Steven received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Winnipeg. In 2012, he was appointed to the Order of Canada and was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2015, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Manitoba. Since retiring from Royal MTC in May 2019, Steven has been serving as Executive Artistic Director, Performing Arts, City of Brampton.

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Pal Joey, Amadeus,

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Curious Voyage (TiFT); Beauty and the Beast, Shrek: The Musical (Globe Theatre); Theory (Tarragon); Shout!, Bed and Breakfast (Magnus Theatre); Creature (Frog in Hand); Venus’ Daughter (Obsidian); Grand Hotel, Senza Luce, My Bonnie Lass, Crazy for You (Sheridan Theatre). Joe has been the resident designer for Talk is Free Theatre since 2015.

TRAINING Graduate of the Ryerson Theatre School, additional training with D.A.M.U., Prague; Universität Weimar and Rimini Protokoll, Berlin. Member of Associated Designers of Canada.

ET CETERA Joe has been nominated for the 2017 Pauline McGibbon Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award, and has won multiple Broadway World Awards, Now Magazine and MyEntertainment Critics choice, as well as the F. Joseph Anderson Award. More about him can be found at joepagnan.ca.

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING Alana Freistadt

Karen Sewell

Stage Manager

Apprentice Stage Manager

ROYAL MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Cinderella, Disney's

Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit, Shrek The Musical, Us, Disney's The Little Mermaid, G-Ram, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Secret Mask, The Hound of the Baskervilles, All Shook Up (Globe Theatre); For Art's Sake, Jabber, Home is a Beautiful Word, Art, The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh (Persephone); Every Brilliant Thing (Burnt Thicket Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing, Candide (TiFT); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (Station Arts Centre); Monty Python's Spamalot, Mama's Country Record Collection, Tales of Ti-Jean, Jewel (Stephenville Theatre Festival).

TRAINING Graduate of Sheridan College, Technical Production for Theatre and Live Events.

ET CETERA For Grandma Bernice and Grandpa Arnie.

ROYAL MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

Backstage Running Crew: Vietgone, Made in Italy (A WCT production), John. Karen also worked as the Production Associate for Royal MTC and Volunteer Manager for the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.

OTHER THEATRE In Dreams, Mum (Agassiz Theatre); Primrose School District 109 (PTE).

TRAINING U of W Department of Theatre and Film – Stage and Production Management.

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SUPPORTERS Lisa Koss & Alex Vecherya Jacki & Sheldon Koven Lorraine Kraichy‡ Jonathan & Cara Kroft Leonard & Helen La Rue Teena Laird Barbara Latocki Pam Lawrence Bryen Lebar & Patricia Sauder‡ Bob Leggett Kathy & Saul Leibl Tim & Kate Letkemann‡ Carol & Clifford Levi Teresa Lopata & Bruce Wagg Nora Losey Maylene & Israel Ludwig Carole Lupkowski Tom Lussier Enid Lyons Dr. Shelley Mahoney Tamara Mares Elaine & Neil Margolis Agatha Massey Cheryl & Eric Matheson Linda Matheson Roxana Mazur Bob & Betty McCamis J. McCleary John & Carolynne McLure Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Barry McNabb‡ Mario Mendizabal Susie Miclash Jim & Karren Middagh Andrew & Pat Miles Don Munro Lillian Neaman* Robert Nickel Iris Noiseux Helen Norrie Sheila Norrie Tom Nowicki Joanne Olchowecki S. Joy Ooto R. Ooto Cynthia Orris Theresa Oye – in memory of Diane Stefanson Beverly Pavlek B. Peterson & S. Slonosky Funseekers Ladies Travel Rick Pinchin Bill Podolsky Carolyn Porhownik Brett & Nancy Porth Jocelyne Prefontaine Linda & Michael Radcliffe W. John Rae Dr. R. & Audrey Ramchandar Angeline Ramkissoon Diane Ramsey Linda Ratynski

Cheryl Reid Shelley Rennie Laurel & Brian Repski Mr. & Mrs. William Reynolds Mr. Louis Ricciuto Henry & Sheila Riendeau Jean Riggall Marilyn Robbins Renee Roseman Mary Anne Rosenbloom D. Ross & Rita Romsa-Ross Olga A. Runnalls‡ Elizabeth & Laurence Russin – in memory of Patrick Brown Sandra Sadler Shona Scappaticci‡ Hans & Gabriele Schneider Werner & Mary Schulz Ms. Faye Scott Jim & Susan Shaw Blake Shiaro Dr. & Mrs. A.M. Shojania Debbie Shymko Meera Sinha Jennifer Skelly & Family‡ Donald Smith Lillian Smith Peter & Geri Spencer Adrienne Stach Lisa & Daniel Stiver Heidi Struck‡ Tom & Shirley Strutt Lorne Sunley Aurora Tetrault Robert & Catherine Thiessen Sharon Timson‡ Malcolm & Shirley Tinsley Margaret Tobin Terry Tully Irvin & Toby Vinsky Helmut & Gwen Waedt Bob & Sherry Ward Veralyn Warkentin Peter & Joan Washchyshyn Walter & Shirley Watts Lois & Henry Wedel Tamara & John Wells Al & Pat Wherrett‡ C. E. Wilmot Leslie Wilson Dorcas & Kirk Windsor Reed & Arla Winstone Dennis & Janet Woodford Grant & Sheila Woods Adele & Arthur Wortzman Raymond & Louise Wyant Brad Zander‡ Ken & Pat Zealand Gary Zimak Olga & Roman Zubach 21 Anonymous

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

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SPONSOR The Asper Foundation The Gail Asper Family Foundation Assiniboine Credit Union Banville & Jones Wine Co Bell MTS Birchwood Lexus BMO Financial Group Canada Life CN C&T Rentals Culligan Water Dycom Direct Mail Services Esdale Printing Co. Ltd. Fillmore Riley LLP Freeman Audio Visual Canada Friesens Corporation Gardewine/Winnipeg Moving & Storage The Gates on Roblin Glitter & Glue The Great Canadian Travel Group HUB International Lawton Partners MacDon Industries Ltd. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries McDiarmid Flowers McNally Robinson Booksellers MMP Architects Patent 5 Pinnacle Pizza Hotline PwC RBC Convention Centre RBC Royal Bank RE/MAX Relish New Brand Experience Sleeman Breweries Ltd. Stantec Consulting Ltd. Stewart-Renouf Group – Scotia Wealth Management Subway Franchise World Headquarters, LLC TD Bank Group University of Manitoba Wawanesa Insurance Winnipeg Richardson International Airport The Winnipeg Foundation The Winnipeg Free Press

†Current Royal MTC staff

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ACT LIKE A STAR! Everyone at the theatre is part of the show. Yes, even you.

You want to be a star, don’t you?

These tips will make you a stand-out performer (in a good way)!

Scents and Sensibility

Many theatre lovers experience adverse medical reactions from scented products. Please consider others before using scented products.

Park Your Mobile Device

We know something interesting is happening on social media. It always is. But your neighbours want to watch the play. Please turn off all mobile devices.

The Sound of Silence

Our theatre has great acoustics. So when you’re talking during the show, everyone can hear you. Your neighbours, the ushers and even the actors.

We want you to talk about the show but at intermission or after the final bows.

We’re always happy to see you at the theatre. Thank you for coming!

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

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

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

$1,200-2,999 Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance & Risk Management Astroid Management Ltd. Deloitte Foundation Canada Fillmore Riley LLP Manitoba Blue Cross Manitoba's Credit Unions Maple Leaf Construction Ltd., Blake Fitzpatrick Maxim Truck & Trailer Mile Road Productions Inc. (Laurie Lam† & Larry Desrochers) PRA Inc. Regal Tours Safeway & Sobeys

CORPORATE COMPANY CIRCLE $600-1,199 Party Stuff/U-Rent-It Premier Printing Ltd.

$300-599 MCW/AGE Consulting Professional Engineers Mid West Packaging Limited

$150-299 Funseekers Ladies Travel Intergroup Consultants Ltd. 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 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 John* & Nicola Guttormson Ahava Halpern & Frank Lavitt Linda Hamilton & Grange Morrow Gary Hannaford* & Cathy Rushton Ted & Gail Hechter 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 Mark & Gloria Mancini 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 Gina & John* C. Petersmeyer Drs. Bill Pope & Elizabeth Tippett-Pope

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

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 Joan Stephens Suzanne Ullyot Lionel & Lorraine Wiens Richard L. Yaffe* & John A. Statham Brenda Zaporzan§ 2 Anonymous

TRIBUTE GIFTS In honour of Len Cariou's birthday Diane Caughlin In memory of Emily Nett Roy & Marcie Silber

ENDOWMENT – STEVEN SCHIPPER FUND Many thanks to the generosity of our Endowment Fund donors who gave a gift or fulfilled a pledge payment between Sep 1, 2018 and Nov 15, 2019. 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 Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Volunteer Corps of Ushers The Leigh & Liam Murphy Family Fund Henriette Ricou & Jure Manfreda

$25,000-49,999 J.K. May Investments Ltd. Elizabeth Marr & Nick Slonosky Cam & Carole Osler

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

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SUPPORTERS $10,000-24,999 The Bowles Family Gus* & Diane Campbell James Cohen & Linda McGarva-Cohen Neil & Carol Duboff John F. (Jack) Fraser* Bryan Klein & Susan Halprin The Estate of Gordon P. Linney Virginia Martin & the late Robert Martin Norma Anne Padilla L. Blair Philpott & Tom Kynman Terracon Development Ltd. Wearing Williams Limited

$5,000-9,999 Doneta Brotchie, CM* & Harry Brotchie Margaret Caie Helene Dyck Gayle Fischer Gail Hechter Susan & Keith Knox John Maguire & Susan Collison Gina O'Connor & John C. Petersmeyer* Jim & Jannice Tennant Faye Warren Dr. Dorothy Y. Young

$2,500-4,999 Pam & Andrew Cooke Hyman & Esther Dashevsky* Irene Miller & the late Claire Miller Ruth Simkin Anonymous

$1,000-2,499 Joan & Edward Alexander Jack Armstrong & Doris Quinn Don & Cheryl Breakey David* & Barb Christie Jan* & Kevin Coates Agnes & John K. Collins Kerry Dangerfield*

Bob & Alison Darling Dorothy Davidson Roberta Dyck Ernest & Ruth Epp Michael & Lynn Evans Gregory & Heather Hammond John Kearsey Gerry Matte & Lydia Surasky-Matte Vera Moroz Paul & Elaine Neelon Jean & Lisa Neron Margaret Redmond & Greg Gillis Bill Rennie Marc & Sherri Rittinger Pat & Michelle Rowan Al* & Virginia Snyder Bill & Laurie* Speers Miss Debbie Spracklin Joan Stephens – in memory of Melanie Sexton Margaret & Paul Wright Richard L. Yaffe* & John A. Statham 2 Anonymous

$500-999 Marge & Ted Avent Peggy Bainard Acheson – in memory of Judy Acheson Nelma Fetterman Christine Fleetwood Chris Freeman Patrick Green & Shayla Harapiak Green Linda Hamilton & Grange Morrow Evelyn Hecht Martha Henry Shawn Hughes* & Bruno Koehn Jordan Janisse & Teresa Cooper Jason Kasper* Mr. & Mrs. Fred Kisil Barbara Latocki Anthony & Joyce McWha Estelle Meyers Marlene Milne Rena & Reno Molinari Marcel & Louise Mollot Cam Mackie & Doris Mae Oulton

Edna Poulter Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Jim & Susan Shaw Howie & Sue Simpson Gabor Vamos & Brenda Silver

UP TO $499 Helen M. Arkos Joan Blight Laura Butler Lawrence Cherniack Helene Dyck Brenda & Michael Evans Paulo Fernandes* Katherine Fox* Susan* & Ab Freig Sandy Gousseau* Garth & Abigail Grieder John* & Nicola Guttormson Yude Henteleff Dr. James & Muriel Jamieson Donna & Dave* Lalama Nancy Latocki F. Lemieux Anne & Keith Love Peggy Barker Sagan Morrow* Keith Powls Lawrence Prout* & Lisa Gardewine Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Katie Inverarity– in memory of Melanie Sexton Bryce & Jenna Simes Kevin Hines & Shelly Smith-Hines Brian Stein – in memory of Judith Hendry Ross & Bette-Jayne Taylor Helga Van Iderstine* Mitch & Rosemary Vodrey Judy & Michael Wakefield Elaine Walker R. & A. Winstone Debbie & Sheldon Wiseman Graham & Vicki Young 5 Anonymous

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS BLACK & WHITE BALL PREMIER SPONSOR

PLATINUM SPONSOR

SILENT AUCTION SPONSOR

COCKTAIL RECEPTION SPONSOR

BIRCHWOOD LEXUS

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BRONZE SPONSOR

STEWART-RENOUF SCOTIA WEALTH MANAGEMENT

DESIGN SPONSOR

CAPITAL ASSISTANCE

SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

WINNIPEG FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL

MASTER PLAYWRIGHT FESTIVAL

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BEHIND THE SCENES Front of House

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Adrianne Breyfogle, Front of House Manager, John Hirsch Mainstage Kim Cossette, Front of House Manager, Tom Hendry Warehouse Front of House Staff: Jennifer Brisson, Shaylene Cote, Rylen de Vries, Nick Fletcher, Elfie Harvey, Teresa Horosko, Marissa Kellett, Breanne Korban, Daniel MacPherson, Kimmy Martin, Graeme Olson, Kat Petrash, Kaitlyn Schuster, Dyonssalynn Stoll, Rita Vande Vyvere

Honorary Members

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

David Christie, Chair John Guttormson, Chair-Elect Heather Clarke, Treasurer / Organizational Performance Chair Katherine Fox, Secretary Jason Kasper, Resource Development Chair Sandy Gousseau, Audience Development Chair Laurie A. Speers, Governance & Strategic Planning Chair Trustees

Jan Coates Paulo Fernandes Susan Freig Shawn Hughes David Kroft Advisory Council

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

Maintenance

Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent Marketing & Communications

David Lalama Andrea Lochhead Linda Mcgarva-Cohen Sagan Morrow Derek Rolstone

Josh Thiem Jeremy Trickett Helga D. Van Iderstine Claire Workman Richard L. Yaffe

Charron Hamilton Gary Hannaford, FCA Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Gordon Keatch Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews Jim McLandress 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

STAFF

Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Kathleen Cerrer, Publicist & Online Media Coordinator Katie Inverarity, Director of Marketing & Communications Desiree La Vallee, Ticketing Application Specialist Savannah Lillies, Publications Coordinator Thomas Urish, Sales Manager Paint

Susan Groff, Head Scenic Artist Carla Schroeder, Head Scenic Artist Melissa Smigelski, Scenic Artist Production

Claire Bourdin, Assistant Production Manager Christine Corthey, Production Associate Chris Coyne, Technical Director, John Hirsch Mainstage Ian Kirk, Assistant Technical Director Rick MacPherson, Technical Director, Tom Hendry Warehouse Russell Martin, Director of Production Properties

Kari Hagness, Head of Properties Jamie Plummer, Properties Builder Lawrence Van Went, Master Builder Stage Crew

Accounting/Finance

Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Gary Plouffe, House Stage Hand Claude Robert, Head Electrician Chris Thomson, Head Carpenter Michael Wright, Head of Sound

Sharon Burden, Payroll Administrator Yvonne O’Connor, Accounts Payable Administrator Shelley Stroski, Controller Administration

Brian Adolph, IT Manager Elena Anciro, Education & Community Engagement Manager Devan Graham, Director of Human Resources Camilla Holland, Executive Director Daphne MacMillan, Administrative Assistant Kathrin Moncaster, Senior Developer & Systems Administrator

Tom Hendry Warehouse

Artistic

Thora Lamont, Cutter Lorraine O’Leary, Head of Wardrobe / Cutter Jackie Van Winkle, Head Buyer & Accessories Coordinator

Chris Brett, Head of Sound Rick MacPherson, Technical Director Jacqueline Robertson, Acting Head Electrician Rudy Wall, Head Carpenter Wardrobe

Jenn Bahniuk, Artistic Coordinator Casey Challes, Assistant to the Producer Audrey Dwyer, Associate Artistic Director Jeff Kennedy, Literary Coordinator Laurie Lam, Producer Kelly Thornton, Artistic Director Box Office

Wigs

Beverly Covert, Wigs & Makeup Supervisor Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival & Master Playwright Festival

Sheena Baird, Director of Patron Services Olaoluwa Fayokun, Patron Services Coordinator Julie Gregorchuk, Box Office Manager Box Office Representatives: Rizaina Almario, Sharon Bunn, Anika Dowsett, Meaghan Fletcher, Melissa Langdon, Robyn Pooley, Joshua Robertson, Katie Schmidt, Katie Spring, Lilian Talabis

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

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

Carpentry (John Hirsch Mainstage)

Louis Gagné, Layout Carpenter Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Acting Master Carpenter Development

Michael Joyal, Development Data Manager Melissa Novecosky, Associate Director of Development Chris Turyk, Development Manager

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BEHIND THE SCENES ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF As You Like It

Carolyn Bradshaw, Seamstress Jacko Garcia, Casual Props Builder Penny Hanford, Seamstress Amanda Isaak, First Hand Shauna Jones, Scenic Painter Van Maclean, Carpenter Barbara Mackenzie, Cutter Kevin McAllister, Drafter Kayla McSwain, Dresser Farrah Okolita, Scenic Painter Adrianna Oliphant, Wigs Assistant Steph Porrior, Scenic Painter Andrea Von Wichert, Scenic Painter Joy Willis, Seamstress Amy Sanders, Scenic Painter Jim Sutherland, Casual Props Builder Zane Kirk, Hairstylist c/o Urban Crush Salon

Every Brilliant Thing

Jacko Garcia, Casual Props Builder Jim Sutherland, Casual Props Builder

MAINSTAGE BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS We've been working to improve your experience at the theatre. Here’s the update: • New seat cushions (yes!): the first 10 rows were completed this summer and we'll continue until the whole auditorium is done.

• The bathroom in the northwest corner of the building is now gender inclusive, which means all are welcome. It's also wheelchair-friendly.

• We have new hearing-assistance devices. You can get a headset from one of our friendly volunteers as you enter the lobby from the Box Office.

• Water! Well, this isn’t new but a reminder that we have a water fountain near the Rorie Street entrance and water jugs on every bar. You can also bring in your own water bottle as long as you promise not to squirt your fellow patrons!

INDIVIDUAL GIVING Michael Torontow in Every Brilliant Thing at Talk is Free Theatre. PHOTO BY SCOTT COOPER

Thank YOU for being Brilliant! “...in order to live in the present, we have to be able to imagine a future that will be better than the past” – every brilliant thing What is ‘number one’ on Royal MTC’s list of brilliant things? … YOU! Each season we can present bigger and bolder works, because of you. Your donations help bring incredible and innovative stories to life on stage.

Thanks to every donor, subscriber and patron, our season has been full of breathtaking and transformative moments. Together, we reflected on who has the right to tell stories in Bang, Bang; we shared in the joyful noise when Celie was reunited with her family in The Color Purple; and we were brimming with holiday spirit while we witnessed Mary and Arthur fall in love in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

What a feast for the senses this season has been, and it’s not over! Your donations make sure our future is bigger and brighter than our past, so thank you for being BRILLIANT! For information about donating and donor benefits, please contact Chris Turyk, Development Manager, at 204 954 6412 or cturyk@royalmtc.ca.

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