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DAVID LEYSHON
Lt. Jack Ross, USMC
David was last seen at The Citadel in The Three Musketeers and Little Women as a proud participant in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. Other theatre credits include Perfect Wedding for Drayton; Rope for Vertigo Theatre; The 39 Steps for Globe Theatre; The Wizard of Oz for Alberta Theatre Projects; Shady Business for Stage West Calgary; Guys and Dolls for Chemainus Theatre; This Could Be Love for Lunchbox Theatre; Evelyn Strange for Vertigo Theatre; My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding for Mirvish; An Ideal Husband and The Fantasticks for Theatre Calgary; Little Shop of Horrors for Persephone Theatre; Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew and All’s Well That Ends Well for Stratford Festival; A Christmas Carol for The Grand Theatre; seven seasons with The Shaw Festival, including roles in The Importance of Being Earnest, The Cassilis Engagement, Major Barbara, Misalliance and High Society; Blood Brothers for Theatre Aquarius and Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V and Twelfth Night for Shakespeare in the Park. In the new year, David will head to Halifax to appear as Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest.
ARNE MacPHERSON Capt. Isaac Whitaker, USN
Arne MacPherson was born in Saskatchewan and grew up in Edmonton. He received his BFA (Acting) from the U. of A. in 1985, and moved to Winnipeg in 1991. For the past twenty years, he has made his living as a theatre artist almost exclusively in Winnipeg, working as an actor, director, and teacher. Among many other roles, he performed at The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre the title role in Shakespeare’s Dog, which also had a run at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Last season he appeared at MTC with Seana McKenna in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and with Martha Henry in August: Osage County. In his time, he has played many parts for Shakespeare In the Ruins, including Hamlet, Richard III, Mercutio and Malvolio. His work has also been seen at Prairie Theatre Exchange, Theatre Projects Manitoba, and the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. Recently he was a co-creator and performer in a devised dance/theatre piece with Canadian and Icelandic artists, which was shown in Reykjavik and Winnipeg. Arne’s last appearance in Edmonton was at the Fringe in 2005, in Candy From A Baby by his partner Deb Patterson, performed with his children Gislina and Solmund.
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