JULIEN ARNOLD
Bob Cratchit
Last season at the Citadel, Julien appeared as Bottom/Pyramus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sterling Award), as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and as the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show. Other Citadel Theatre credits include Beauty and the Beast, The Drowsy Chaperone (co-production with the National Arts Centre), The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Einstein’s Gift, Servant of Two Masters, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2007) and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other Edmonton theatre credits include The Scent of Compulsion, Mother of the Year, Happy Toes and The Ambassador’s Wives for Teatro La Quindicina; Spelling Bee for Mayfield Dinner Theatre; Forsooth My Lovely for Acme Theatre; Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp for Workshop West Theatre; Alias Godot for Theatre Network and As You Like It and Richard III for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. Julien is an artistic associate of Teatro La Quindicina and also the Artistic Director of a new company, Atlas Theatre, which operates out of the Lower Hall of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Old Strathcona.
APRIL BANIGAN
Alice
April is delighted to be returning to A Christmas Carol, a show that is very dear to her heart. Last season at the Citadel, April appeared in Death of a Salesman. Selected theatre credits include The Constant Wife for the Citadel Theatre/MTC; The Red King’s Dream, The Last Train and Boston Marriage for Shadow Theatre; Piledriver! for Theatre Network; My One And Only (Sterling nomination) and The Blue Light for Workshop West; Blood Oranges and Silence for Northern Light Theatre; See How They Run for the Mayfield Theatre and she performed Never Swim Alone in Washington D.C. with her own company, Scarface Productions. Television credits include Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Street Justice; Mentors; Media Sense; as well as the upcoming feature film War Reporter. April runs elementary school theatre residencies with Concrete Theatre and can next be seen in The Maggie Tree/Blarney Stone’s production of Age Of Arousal. Thank you to her beautiful boys, Sean, Jezec and Avram!
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