Citadel Theatre playbill - A Christmas Carol 2015

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Season 2015/16 Board of Governors

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ACADEMY

Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Chair Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Tom Redl, Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Marc de La Bruyère Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole Ralph B. MacMillan Sandy Mactaggart (Honourary) Jack McBain Arliss Miller Catrin Owen Aroon Sequeira Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Dr. Robert Westbury Sheila Witwicky Ex Officio Ralph Young

Bob Baker | Artistic Director penny ritco | executive Director

Board of Directors

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Sheila Witwicky President Catrin Owen Past President Dave Mowat Vice President Jane Halford Treasurer Julie Afanasiff Jane Batty Jeff Boadway Lesley Cormack Wendy Dupree Robert Fernandez Neil Gower Dave Hancock Sandra Haskins Richard Kirby Margot Ross-Graham Micki Ruth Peter Silverstone Micah Slavens Larry Staples

HonoUrary Directors Jack N. Agrios, Ken Bautista, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Christine Bishop, Dan Block, Guy Bridgeman, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Len Dolgoy, Allison Edwards, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, James Gillespie, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Becky Hole, Ted Hole, Mike House, Gary Killips, Stuart Lee, Beverlee Loat, Al Maurer, Ashif Mawji, Maureen McCaw, Lisa Miller, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Rob Reynolds, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, Gaurav Singhmar, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, Chief Justice A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa

BOOM Written, Directed & Performed by Rick Miller Sep 19 – Oct 11, 2015 Presented by

EVANGELINE Book, lyrics & music by Ted Dykstra Oct 31 – Nov 22, 2015 Presented by

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens Nov 28 – Dec 23, 2015 Presented by

The Songs Of Leonard Cohen Conceived & Directed by Tracey Power Jan 13 – 24, 2016

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

By Edward Albee Jan 23 – Feb 13, 2016

THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT Created & Performed by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn & Andrew Kushnir Feb 10 – 27, 2016

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

By Lewis Carroll Adapted for the stage by James Reaney Feb 27 – Mar 20, 2016 Presented by

OTHER DESERT CITIES

By Jon Robin Baitz Apr 9 – May 1, 2016

WEST SIDE STORY Conception & Choreography by Jerome Robbins Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Apr 23 – May 22, 2016 Presented by

ENCORE | Campaign Support VISIONARY

MENTOR

Maclab Enterprises

ATB Financial Bryan & Company LLP Capital Power Felesky Flynn LLP The Highbury Foundation Muriel Hole Richard & Erin Kirby Jack & Lorraine McBain Morgan Construction Rob & Beth Reynolds Chris & Dale Sheard Susan Wylie & Bruce Hagstrom

Gifts of $1,000,000 and above

FOUNDER

Gifts of $500,000 - $999,999 The Eldon & Anne Foote Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation

AMBASSADOR

Gifts of $250,000 - $499,999 Darren & Laurel Durstling

LEADER

Gifts of $100,000 - $249,999 David & Jan Bentley Dentons Ashif, Zainul, Kinza & Aariz Mawji Arliss Miller Al & Fran Olson The Shoctor Family

Gifts of $50,000 - $99,999

INITIATOR

Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999 J.G. Greenough Lisa & Marshall Sadd

DREAMER

Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Keith & Valerie Alessi Lorraine Bray & Jim Carter Susan & James Burns Butler Family Foundation Lesley Cormack

L. Neil Gower Q.C. Lisa Miller & Farrel Shadlyn Lewis & Lindsay Nakatsui Catrin Owen & John Sumner Aleda Patterson & Family Sir Francis Price & The Honourable Marguerite Trussler Tom & Corrie Redl The Sequeira Family Micah & Kristi Slavens Moira & Larry Staples The Summit Foundation Sheila Witwicky & Phil Beauchamp Ralph & Gay Young

FRIENDS

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Guy Bridgeman & Dianne Ross Don & Lorna Kramer Stuart & Sherry Lee Dave & Sandy Mowat Esther & Howard Starkman TELUS Charitable Giving Program Joseph & Nancy Thompson

| Annual Support Heinz Feldberg Lois Field The Honourable John C. R. French & Ruth Agrios Frank Gibson Anne Anfindsen Shirley Gifford Pamela Baadsgaard Isidor & Grace Gliener Diana Bacon Lilian Green Tommy & Ida Banks J.G. Greenough Luis & Alexis Baptista Tatsuyuki & Doris Maurice & Annette Hayashi Bastide Elizabeth, Rosalina, & Walter & Stella Baydala Cynthia Hicks David & Jan Bentley Ada Hole Barbara Blackley Muriel Hole Dr. Doug & Mary Bosko Chris Jager & Joyce Buchwald Jean Coutts Ronald Cavell Doris Kent Z. & M. Chrzanowski Ken & Jennifer Kouri Ruth Collins-Nakai Don & Lorna Kramer Marilyn Darwish Leo J. Krysa Family Marc de La Bruyère & Foundation Stacy Schiff Patricia Langan Allison & Glyn Edwards Valda Levin

25 years +

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E. Fay Plomp The Poole Family Sir Francis Price & The Hounourable Marguerite Trussler Helen Primrose Diana Purdy Rob & Beth Reynolds Ron & Carol Ritch Sol & Marilyn Rolingher Arnold & Grace Rumbold Marshall & Debby Shoctor Kayla Shoctor Brian Sproule Campbell & Rosalind Sydie Neil & Merle Taylor Allison Theman Susan Watson Paddy Webb Weir Family Fund Ralph & Gay Young 5

15 years + The Honourable Darlene Acton Dagny & Graeme Alston James Archibald & Heidi Christop Bob Baker & Tom Wood Fiona & Stephen Bamforth Bruce & Carol Bentley Beverley Boren E. Ross Bradley Norma Brekke David & Marlene Burnett Brent Christopherson John & Judith Cosco Delbert & Jane Dahl J. Susan Davis L.A. Dushenski Rod Eidem Rose Fowler Jean Fukushima Ghislaine Hebert Patsy Ho Cecil & Anne Hoffman Donna Holwaychuk In Memory of Dr. Kris Kristjanson Gail & Andrew Jarema Evelyn Jensen James & Maggie Laing Jack & Diane Latham Don & Gwen Lawrence Edward & Nikki Lazar Robert & Dawn Lemke Shirley MacArthur Jack & Lorraine McBain Douglas & Claire McConnell Hugh McPhail & Yolanda Van Wachem Maureen & Jim Moran Norbert & Patricia Morgenstern David Mundy Jennifer Oakes Fred & Helen Otto Richard Remund Henry & Helen Resta Charles & Marilyn Schroder Richard Sherbaniuk Sheila Sirdar Dale Somerville Eira Spaner Gerard Tertzakin Kathleen Tomyn David Verbicky Buddy Victor

Doug & Dorothy Warren Betty & Bill Young Dave Wilson & Diane Zinyk Wendy Kotow

PCL Constructors Inc. Leslie & Rick Penny Susan Priestner 5 years + Curtis & Sandra Prosko 10 years + Greg Alcorn Sheila Ringrose Gail Andrew Carol & Rae Allen Alan Rose & Jim & Helen Banks Judy Schroder Diana & Laurence Andriashek Ingrid Barlow Orla Ryan William & Carole Barton Becker Kay Savey Guy Bridgeman Terri & Gary Biasini Aroon Sequeira Jack Brown Lucille Birkett & Ellie Shuster Norman & Anne Burgess Randy Busby Sol & Shirley Sigurdson Angie Bogner Frank Calder Barbara & Gerry Sinn Robert & Maureen Braun Keith & Beverley Robert Crosbie James & Joan Carlson Spencer Dr.Elizabeth Dixon & Dr. Ben Macedo Lesley Cormack Larry & Moira Staples Grant Dunlop & Erika Marilyn Cree Tony Thai & Norheim Alvin Schrader Patrick & Luxie Crowe Francis & Muriel Maggie Thompson Roland Duquette Dunnigan Mary-Ann Trachimowich Douglas Duval Noella Fagnan Larry Trekofski Gail Faulkner Paul Greenwood Darcy & Marion Turner Robert Fleming Dan & Jill Hodges Peter Vana Betty & Mike Gibbins Robert & Laurel Hudson Gaie Goin Chris Vilcsak Elesavata Hymonyk Sarah Wylie Sheila Gynane Wolfgang & Elizabeth Robert Henderson Leon & Vonnie Zupan Kaminski Bill & Jana Holden Norman & Valerie 2 years + Ray & Elaine Hook Kneteman Martin & Anna Andrea Brenda & John Inglis Christine Kyriakides Bonnie Andriachuk & Erik & Franziska Ruth & George Lauf Darrel Ewaschuk Jacobsen Chris & Cecilie Lord Patricia Anholt Paula Jamison Douglas MacDougall Brad & Lori Armstrong Jean & Gerry Staring Teresa Mardon Fund Bonnie Austen - Royal Lepage Liz Kohle Jane Batty Ian & Linda McConnan Anita Kozyrskyj & Andrew & Barbara Belch Gordon & Agneta Kevin Hall Madhu & Sundri McKenzie Stuart & Sherry Lee Bhambhani Ove & Susan Minsos Mary Lister Anne Brereton Doug & Kathy Murray Myron & Maureen Emma Brinson Edna & Cal Nichols Liviniuk Angela Brown James & Beverley Mary Machum Linda Brownlee Orieux Estelle Marshall Jeremiah Burak Jean & Edward Posyniak Neil & Pamela Martin Brian & Barbara Burrows Aline Pratch Betty McMillan John Bylhouwer Penny Ritco Linda Medland Davis Martin Carroll Allan & Marianne Scott Gordon & Cathy Gordon & Janet Glenn & Margaret Moorhouse Clanachan Sharples Al Morrow Douglas Claybrook Elaine Solez Kevin Mott Karen Cox Elout Starreveld Kevin & Robyn Mott Kim & Rick Craig Delores Stefaniszyn Marie Muszynski Jillian Dal Bello Marianne & Kent Stewart Craig Neuman & Patricia Dawson John & Alana Tucker Leita Siever Marcella Dejong Henriette van Hees G. Douglas Oakley & Alison Dinwoodie Robert & Ann Weir Elizabeth McAfee Lorne & Edith Dixon Susan Wright Vital & Colleen Ouellette Brad Doucette Dr. Randall & Nancy Catrin Owen Julie-Ann Dron Yatscoff Kathy Packford Liz Edmunds

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We are proud to recognize our Premier Supporters; our partners in the creation of theatre at the Citadel Theatre/Robbins Academy.

The Hole Family • The John and Barbara Poole Family Fund the Eldon & Anne Foote Fund • The Robbins Foundation Canada The Joseph H. Shoctor fund

Government & Foundation Supporters

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor, 1922 – 2001

executive producer and founder, the citadel theatre

Joe’s vision brought professional theatre to Edmonton Joe’s dream built the Citadel Theatre Joe’s spirit continues to inspire the theatre we create today Joe’s legacy lives on through a generous gift to the Citadel from his estate

HENRY HOLE, 1884 – 1954 On the Citadel’s 30th Anniversary, a gift was made by the Company of Harry Hole, James F. Hole, Ralph K. Hole and Robert W. Hole on behalf of the Hole family — in honour of their late father, Henry Hole.

The Citadel Theatre is proud to honour Henry Hole’s integrity, compassion and leadership in the dedication of this complex to his memory.

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(In order of appearance) JAMES MacDONALD.................................................. Ebenezer Scrooge GLENN NELSON. . ........................................................ Ebenezer Scrooge (alternate) JOHN KIRKPATRICK................................................... Jacob Marley ASHLEY WRIGHT........................................................ Reverend Fish MARALYN RYAN......................................................... Mrs. Dilber ANDREW MacDONALD-SMITH. . ................................ Mr. Swidger BELINDA CORNISH. . ................................................... Mrs. Cratchit LILLA SOLYMOS......................................................... Tiny Tim JAMIE WILLIAMS. . ....................................................... Bob Cratchit NANCY McALEAR....................................................... Mrs. Blum ANNETTE LOISELLE.. .................................................. Mrs. Denham ASHLEY WRIGHT........................................................ Mr. Toll SHELDON BERGSTROM............................................ Mr. Rank PATRICK JOSEPH LUNDEEN.................................... Caleb Wilmer AARON HURSH........................................................... Fred Nancy McAlear/VIRGINIA BRIGGS....................... Ghost of Christmas Past KYLE McILWRAITH-BLACK. . ...................................... Youngest Scrooge KIPLING CRANTON. . ................................................... Edwin WALKER LEE............................................................... Toby ANDREA RANKIN........................................................ Fanny OSCAR DERKX............................................................ Young Scrooge SHELDON BERGSTROM............................................ Mr. Fezziwig NANCY McALEAR....................................................... Mrs. Fezziwig PATRICK JOSEPH LUNDEEN.................................... Will Tetterby PEG YOUNG................................................................ Granny Fezziwig JULIA GUY................................................................... Belle SHELDON BERGSTROM............................................ Ghost of Christmas Present SETH DEMBOWSKI. . ................................................... Ragged Caroler CAITLIN ANDERSON. . ................................................. Jenny Cratchit NOAH BAKER.............................................................. Philip Cratchit JULIETTE ESHLEMAN.. ............................................... Martha Cratchit SADIE RAIN BOWLING............................................... Belinda Cratchit CONOR MEADOWS.................................................... Peter Cratchit APRIL BANIGAN.......................................................... Alice ANDREW MacDONALD-SMITH. . ................................ Mr. Topper JULIA GUY................................................................... Emmeline PATRICK JOSEPH LUNDEEN.................................... George BYRON TREVOR MARTIN.......................................... Joseph ANNETTE LOISELLE.. .................................................. Tilly MAKAYLA SCHWARTZ............................................... Margaret OSCAR DERKX............................................................ Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come NANCY McALEAR....................................................... Laundress JOHN KIRKPATRICK................................................... Old Joe ANDREA RANKIN........................................................ Nora PRESLEY PEARSON................................................... Caleb’s Daughter NOAH BAKER.............................................................. Turkey Boy DECLAN BAKER.......................................................... Poulterer’s Apprentice LUC TELLIER............................................................... Mr. Denham REECE WOYCHESHYN.............................................. Trinket Seller GABRIELA HOLKO...................................................... Wealthy Twin LYNDSAY McLELLAND WILLIAMS. . .......................... Wealthy Twin ESMÉ BABIAK.. ............................................................ Spoiled Boy The townspeople, guests, carolers & ragamuffins are played by members of the ensemble.

The play is approximately 2 ½ hours with one intermission of twenty minutes.

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He has worked with every major theatre in Canada and a number in the United States. Mr. Wood has spent eight years with the Stratford Festival and six with the Shaw Festival. For the theatre he has written B-Movie, The play (five Dora Mavor Moore awards and the Chalmers Award for Best New Play) and Clap Trap, a farce, produced at Canadian Stage in Toronto and the National Arts Center in Ottawa. He has also adapted this production of A Christmas Carol (in its 16th season), Pride and Prejudice, a new version of Servant of Two Masters (set in the Klondike), a new version of Uncle Vanya (set in Alberta in 1928), and a new version of Peter Pan (set in the prairies during the depression). His production of Vanya debuted in America, starring William Hurt at the Artists Repertory Theatre for an extended run and rave reviews. Mr. Wood’s latest comedy, Make Mine Love, about movie-making in Hollywood, circa 1938, premiered during the 14/15 season at the Citadel. He has performed at the Citadel as James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (Sterling Award nomination), and John in Shining City (Sterling Award). Some of his directing credits at the Citadel include last season’s Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Romeo and Juliet, Doubt: a parable, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, The Sound of Music and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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No, the ghosts are not your usual haunts. Despite its ornate exterior the Chelsea, located centrally in New York, was not overly expensive and became “part art colony, part living museum.” The list of the famous who have stayed there, on the way up, on the way down – or just because they loved this place – would fill this entire program.

To list just a few: Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Miller and Gore Vidal. Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road there, Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey in its rooms, poet Dylan Thomas died of pneumonia, Charles R. Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend committed suicide in his room. In 1978, Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was found stabbed in her room. No wonder residents have told of ghosts wandering the halls.

For a while, one of the residents was Leonard Cohen.

In those years, Cohen was the young turk of Canadian poetry. He had grown up in the posh Westmount area of Montreal. In the early 50’s, he’d had enough of living amidst the gentry and moved to Montreal’s vibrant downtown area. By that time he had developed some of the personal eccentricities that were to mark the career that followed. Cohen didn’t like fancy hotels. He found them antiseptic and full of uninteresting people. The Chelsea and Leonard Cohen were made for each other.

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Some five or six years ago, actor/director/choreographer/playwright and all-around theatrical wiz Tracey Power was working with an idea she had for a piece with an accordion.

“It was very movement based – very much like a silent film,” she remembers. “I wondered what would happen if I took the story and put it to an artist’s music.” Like many, she was attracted to Cohen because of the poetic nature of his lyrics. “As I listened to his music, this story began to evolve.” She read about his life in the Chelsea and was fascinated by the idea of a vibrant hotel with engaging, talented people pouring in and out through the doors, meeting in the rooms and hallways. What were their lives like? What did they talk about? To her it was “...a world of mystery and surprise and high theatricality.”

“As I listened to his music,

this story began to evolve.”

For one thing, it is not about Cohen at all. Says Power, “I wanted to explore storytelling in a different manner – as he did with his words. I knew there were certain pillars that had to be there – but I found the rest by listening to all his music. There was a lot of running on the treadmill, trying to find the choreography in my mind. There were certain songs that just

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Vancouver Island’s Tracey Power started dance lessons when she was six and participated in a lot of sports. After high school, she had announced to her (very supportive) parents that she wanted to be a professional actress – which set off a flurry of activity. The family looked around for a suitable educational institution and settled on Tim Ryan’s Musical Theatre department at Grant MacEwan College (now University). Unfortunately the year had already mostly filled up but they piled everything she had into the family car and set off for Edmonton. The hope was that they wouldn’t have to turn the packed thing around and drive back. Ryan must have been impressed by her audition because she was accepted.

Today she remembers she “kinda” liked Edmonton but saw very little of it. “For two years, I lived in that big orange bubble on 149th and Stony Plain Road.” And when it was over, she stepped out into a world she really knew little about. But she stuck to it and the roles began to come. The one I remember best was her awesomely crabby Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Loud-mouthed, aggressive, temperamental Lucy Van Pelt was once described by American editor Chris Caldwell as, “The most terrifying character in the history of comic strips.” So, of course, the pert, pixieish, patient and adaptable Power was a natural

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By this time Power was dividing her time between Edmonton and Vancouver. During one long run in Vancouver, she began to write a piece for herself. She pushed into choreography and direction. Now at 38, she has an amazing catalogue of work behind her ranging from one-person shows (Living Shadows: A Story of Mary Pickford – seen here at the Fringe) to an adaptation of The Jungle Book.

Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, through the alchemy of the powerhouse duo of Power and Cohen (though they’ve never met) plucks the poet’s words out of their familiar musical contexts and forces audiences to hear them for the first time, weaving them into a loose original story. Not that Cohen’s doppelganger appears in the play. Or, maybe he does. Some have said that one or the other of the characters is really the poet.

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The central character is a tortured writer – no surprise here. Judging from the mound of paper on the stage – things are not going well. He is visited by a ghostly group of two men and three women. Will his relationship with them be resolved and will he relocate his muse and find his voice? We find ourselves in a dream – a fevered hallucination. Says the performer/playwright, “I wanted people to use their imaginations – to bring an open mind. I want each person’s experience to be different. People suddenly recognize a snatch of lyric and you can see them go ‘Oh gosh,’ because suddenly they have seen something no one else has. If you put the songs in another context their genius leaps out at you once again.”

In her auditions for the show, she asked actors if they had any special skills. She was determined that the performers would play their own instruments as well as sing and dance.

The 6 performers play, between them, accordion, banjo, violin, cello, guitars, keyboards, drums and a kazoo. “Freakishly talented,” enthused one critic.

Tracey turned to Vancouver musician/composer Steve Charles to weave Cohen’s songs into a new musical tapestry. “I told him I wanted it to sound like a circus.” The final product has been described as “extraordinary and surprising.” To paraphrase various critics, an uplifting “Hallelujah” rocks. “Tower of Song” is dazzling. “Famous Blue Raincoat” is immensely moving. The playful “I’m Your Man” will make you laugh.

Chelsea Hotel premiered in Vancouver in 2012 and has since played with great success in Calgary and Victoria (where the entire run sold out before Opening Night) – to reviews like, “Overwhelmingly inventive.” Says Power, “We played to 740 people at Theatre Calgary and I’ll never forget the experience. I’ve played to more than that many times before but this was a new piece of Canadian theatre and something that I had created. I believe there are so many Canadian stories out there to be told and there’s an audience for them.”

And what of Cohen – the Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist whose work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality and personal relationships? Well, as one critic remarked, “If you want a trip into Leonard’s Cohen’s brain – go see Chelsea Hotel.”

Tracey Power’s Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen previews in the Maclab Theatre on January 13.

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BIOS APRIL BANIGAN

Alice

April’s previous Citadel credits include Death of a Salesman and The Constant Wife (Citadel Theatre/MTC). Other credits include Age of Arousal (The Maggie Tree/Blarney Stone); The Red King’s Dream, The Last Train and Boston Marriage (Shadow Theatre); Piledriver! (Theatre Network); My One and Only (Sterling nomination), The Blue Light (Workshop West); Blood Oranges and Silence (Northern Light Theatre); and See How They Run (Mayfield Theatre). She has also performed in Never Swim Alone in Washington D.C. with her own company, Scarface Productions. Television credits include Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Street Justice, Mentors, Media Sense and the feature film A Louder Silence. April also runs elementary school theatre residencies with Concrete Theatre and teaches drama at the Foote Theatre School. Thank you to her beautiful boys, Sean, Jezec and Avram!

Sheldon Bergstrom

Mr. Rank/Mr. Fezziwig/Ghost of Christmas Present Sheldon’s previous Citadel credits include A Christmas Carol and Oliver!. Other credits include Rob Ford: The Musical (McCaig Regan Productions); All Shook Up (Globe Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Souris Valley Theatre); Hairspray, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Queens of Country, See How They Run, The Imaginary Invalid (Mayfield Theatre); The Producers, All Shook Up, Shady Business (Stage West); Seussical (Alberta Theatre Projects); Shrek The Musical, Some Enchanted Evening, It’s A Wonderful Life (RuBarb Productions); Elf, The Jungle Book (Neptune Theatre); All Shook Up (Theatre Northwest); My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver! (Drayton Entertainment); Kiss Me Kate, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Talk Is Free Theatre); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, The Tempest and Lend Me A Tenor (Persephone Theatre).

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BIOS Belinda Cornish

Mrs. Cratchit

Belinda is delighted to be rejoining A Christmas Carol this year.

Previously at the Citadel, Belinda appeared in Rock ‘n’ Roll (co-production with CanStage). Other select theatre credits include Coriolanus, As You Like It, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar (Sterling Award), Much Ado About Nothing and Titus Andronicus (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Whiplash Weekend, The Exquisite Hour, and Witness to a Conga (Teatro La Quindicina); Passion Play (Wildside Productions); Don’t Dress For Dinner, Boeing Boeing and The 39 Steps (Mayfield); Going to St. Ives (Atlas); and Macbeth (Theatre Calgary). She can also be seen in the sitcom Tiny Plastic Men, for which she received an AMPIA award. She is also a core company member of the Canadian Comedy Award-winning live improvised soap opera, DieNasty.

Oscar Derkx

Young Scrooge

Oscar is very excited to be returning to the Citadel to perform in A Christmas Carol. Previous acting credits include productions of The Hothouse Prince (Teatro La Quindicina); The Suburban Motel Series (Punctuate Theatre); The Antyssey (Concrete Theatre); The Violet Hour, Bloody Poetry, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Blood Wedding, and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Studio Theatre); Lobster Alice (Atlas Theatre); Macbeth (Theatre Prospero); Never, Never (Promise Productions); as well as Alphonse and The Fantasticks (TNT Theatre). He is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a BFA in Acting. He has also participated in script workshops with Catalyst Theatre, Blarney Productions, and the Citadel’s Playwright Forum. Coming up this spring, Oscar will be performing in Under Cover with Concrete Theatre.

Julia Guy

Belle/Emmeline

Julia is honoured to be a part of A Christmas Carol this year! She recently participated in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and couldn’t be happier to be back in Edmonton sharing her Christmas with the Citadel family.

Originally from Calgary, Julia is now based both in Vancouver and Alberta. Select credits include Arcadia (Citadel Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Calgary/National Arts Centre); William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead (The Shakespeare Company/Ground Zero/Hit & Myth); Othello, Twelfth Night (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Calgary’s Shakespeare by the Bow); Cymbeline, Fuddy Meers (Studio Theatre); and Whisper (Studio Theatre/Catalyst).

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BIOS Aaron Hursh

Fred

Based in Saskatoon, Aaron is an actor, director, producer and technician. Aaron’s previous Alberta credits include Septimus in Arcadia (Citadel Theatre) and Ash in Ash Rizin (ATP/Green Thumb).

Other theatre credits include Dying City, The December Man, Reasons to Be Pretty, and Lungs (Fire in the Hole Productions); Mesa and Salt-Water Moon (Station Arts Centre); The Full Monty and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Persephone Theatre); The Alchemist and The Selkie Wife (Dancing Sky Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Globe Theatre); King Lear (Theatre Naught); and The Pillowman (Wild Geese Equity Co-op, Vancouver). Aaron trained at the University of Saskatchewan and the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

John Kirkpatrick Jacob Marley/Old Joe

John’s Citadel credits include A Few Good Men (co-production with Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), As You Like It, Rock ‘n’ Roll (co-production with Canadian Stage Company), Julius Caesar, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Stones in His Pockets, Measure for Measure and Servant of Two Masters. Selected recent acting credits include Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour Lost, Alice Through The Looking-Glass, Christina: The Girl King (Stratford Festival); Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage); King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); The Leisure Society (Theatre Network); The Gift of the Coat, That Elusive Spark, The Age of Arousal (Alberta Theatre Projects); and Counsellor-at-Law (Theatre Calgary). John has a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta.

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Annette Loiselle

Mrs. Denham/Tilly

Citadel credits include Julius Caesar and directing Shelter, Unity 1918, and Vinegar Tom for Teens at the Turn. Annette is Festival Director for SkirtsAfire, HerArts Festival. She is also co-founder of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, with whom favourite roles include Beatrice (Sterling nomination), Kate, Portia (Merchant), Hermione, Rosalind, and Queen Elizabeth. She was one of three finalists for the Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award of Excellence in Shakespeare. Last year she was in Adult Entertainment and Criminal Genius for Punctuate Theatre and The Mothers for SkirtsAfire. Other credits include STRIKE! The Musical (Workshop West); The Passion of Mary (Writer, The Roxy); Rabbit Hole (ATP); The Last Train (Shadow Theatre) and Bloody Poetry (NLT, Sterling nomination). Annette is a graduate of the U of A’s BFA acting program. Love to Terry, Lili, Josie, Dez and Riles.

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BIOS Patrick Joseph Lundeen Caleb/Will

Patrick is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. He is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Common Ground, the organization behind the annual Found Festival. In 2014 he received the Enbridge Emerging Artist Award through Nextfest. Patrick is also an Associate Director of Outreach at the Citadel Theatre, facilitating the Student’s Club and Senior’s Club. Later this season he will be directing Pyretic Production’s The Other, as part of the Roxy Performance Series. Select theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel Theatre); Sia (Pyretic Productions); The Taming of the Shrew (Freewill Shakespeare); and his Sterling nominated performance in Kill Me Now (Workshop West). Huge thank you to his friends, family, and partner Lianna.

James MacDonald Ebenezer Scrooge

Citadel performances include A Christmas Carol (5 seasons), The Three Musketeers, Blackbird, Pride and Prejudice, Measure for Measure, Amadeus, Einstein’s Gift (Sterling Award), Wit, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men (Sterling Award). Directing credits include Venus in Fur, Clybourne Park, God of Carnage, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Julius Caesar, Fire, Shining City, Vimy (Sterling Award), Equus, Stones in his Pockets (Citadel); Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); The Old Ladies (Shaw Festival); Fire, As You Like It (Canadian Stage); and Miss Shakespeare (Escape Artists). James is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program, and was founding Artistic Director of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. He is an Artistic Associate at the Citadel, and the Program Director of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. James will be directing the Citadel’s upcoming production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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BIOS Andrew MacDonald-Smith Swidger/Topper

Andrew’s previous Citadel credits include Avenue Q, A Christmas Carol, One Man, Two Guvnors (Sterling Award), Mary Poppins (Sterling Award & Betty Mitchell Award) and The Pillowman.

Selected roles include Avenue Q on Broadway (The Golden Theatre); Hey Countess!, Whiplash Weekend, Pith!, The Infinite Shiver (co-writer), Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s (co-writer) and Witness to a Conga (Teatro la Quindicina); The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, and H.M.S. Pinafore (Edmonton Opera); Shear Madness, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Wizard of Oz (Mayfield); The Liars and The Best Brothers (Shadow Theatre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Calgary); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Vertigo Theatre); and Avenue Q (Jessie Award, The Arts Club). Film and television credits include The Man That Got Away and Tiny Plastic Men on Super Channel. @drewmacsmith

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Joseph

This is Byron’s Citadel debut! Byron is a graduate of the MacEwan Theatre Arts Program and holds his Masters in Musical Theatre Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Grindstone Theatre. His most recent acting credits include Bone Cage (Theatre YES); Sounds of the Movies, Cinderella, It’s a Wonderful Life (Capitol Theatre); and The Bombitty of Errors (Edmonton Actors Theatre). He has been nominated for a Sterling Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement in Theatre for Young Audiences for Pinocchio (Alberta Opera), as well as at the Mayors Celebration of the Arts for Outstanding Artistic Director. You can see Byron next in In the Next Room (Trunk Theatre) and every Friday night at the Backstage Theatre in the improvised musical, The 11 O’Clock Number. ​​​Merry Christmas!

Nancy McAlear

Mrs. Blum/Mrs. Fezziwig

This is Nancy’s fourth year with A Christmas Carol. She is a Sterling Award winning actor and has been nominated multiple times for both her acting and directing work. She was honoured to be shortlisted for the Gina Wilkinson Prize and is very excited to be participating in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program this season, assistant directing West Side Story. Recent acting credits include Assassins (Loose Ends Theatre); The Falstaff Project (Thou Art Here); as well as As You Like It and Coriolanus (Freewill Shakespeare Festival). Directing credits include Category E (Maggie Tree); The Lover (Bright Young Things); and Allure (Acme Theatre). Film and Television credits include Blackstone, A Map of the World; The Famous Jett Jackson, Stuart McLean’s Christmas Pageant, Sealed with a Kiss and Urban Legend.

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BIOS Glenn Nelson

Ebenezer Scrooge (Alternate) Glenn’s Citadel credits include One Man, Two Guvnors, Death of a Salesman, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Equus, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, King Lear, 1984 and To Kill a Mockingbird. Other theatre credits in Edmonton include Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and Comedy of Errors (Freewill Players); Little Elephants, The Odd Couple, Uncle Vanya, Fly Fishers Companion, Sexy Laundry, Harvest and Mistakes Were Made (Shadow Theatre, Sterling nomination); My One and Only (Workshop West); Metastasis (Northern Light Theatre); as well as Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Rumors, The Last Romance, and The Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes (Mayfield Theatre).

Andrea Rankin

Fanny/Nora

Andrea is delighted to be returning to this role. Previous acting credits include Ginger Rogers in Make Mine Love (Citadel); Cordelia in King Lear (Bard on the Beach/Theatre Calgary); Shakespeare’s Rebel (Bard on the Beach); MOTE (Blarney Productions); Desdemona in Othello (The Shakespeare Company); Luciana in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare by the Bow); Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth (Edmonton Opera); Spring Awakening (Scona Alumni Co.); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Pains of Youth, Blood Wedding, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Studio Theatre); as well as several award-winning short films and voice acting on the video game Mass Effect 3 (EA Games). Andrea holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta. Watch for her this spring in HAIR at The Mayfield Dinner Theatre. Many thanks to her ever supportive family and friends.

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BIOS Maralyn Ryan

Mrs. Dilber

Ms. Ryan returns to perform in her 15th year with this splendid production. Previous Citadel credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hamlet, The Aberhart Summer, Tête á Tête and Lend Me A Tenor.

Other credits include Wit (Globe Theatre); A Guide to Mourning (Alberta Theatre Projects); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatre Calgary); Homeward Bound (Grand Theatre/National Arts Centre); Master Class (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Joy and Shop at Sly Corner (Shaw Festival); Crackpot (Prairie Theatre Exchange/Belfry Theatre); Thirteen Hands (Canadian Stage/National Arts Centre); Hamlet (Freewill Players); Choke (Theatre Network); Private Lives (NLT); Seed Savers (Workshop West), Rabbit Hole (Persephone Theatre); and The Last Romance (Mayfield Theatre). She has earned three Sterling Awards and ten nominations. Love to her family and friends, and happy holidays to everyone!

Lilla Solymos

Tiny Tim

Lilla is eight years old, and thrilled to play Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol at the Citadel Theatre this year. She loves dancing, singing, reading, and performing. Lilla started acting at Foote Theatre School two years ago. She has been dancing for five years and has won awards at local and national competitions. She is now at Shelley’s Dance Company. She is an imaginative, playful, and artistic girl with a bright smile. When Lilla grows up, she would like to be a world-renowned dancer, actress, or maybe both.

Lilla wishes a very Merry Christmas to all her family, friends, and everyone at the Brander Gardens School!

Luc Tellier

Mr. Denham

Luc is thrilled to be sharing the holiday season with this amazing group of artists. Previously at the Citadel, Luc has been seen in Arcadia and The Sound of Music. Other select acting credits include The Hothouse Prince, The Nutcracker Unhinged (Teatro la Quindicina); MOTE (Blarney Productions); The Maggie-Now Trilogy (Workshop West); The Barber of Seville (Edmonton Opera); King Lear, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Freewill Shakespeare Festival). Luc was recently the Head Drama Instructor at Horizon Stage and has spent his past two summers as a Supervisor at Artstrek, Theatre Alberta’s summer intensive for teens. He has been a participant in The Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and has also trained at MacEwan University (Theatre Arts) and The Broadway Theatre Project.

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BIOS Jamie Williams

Bob Cratchit

Earlier this year, Jamie had the privilege of participating for a second time in the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, performing the role of Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia.

Jamie was also a participant in 2014 and performed the role of Friar Laurence in the program’s successful production of Romeo and Juliet. Since then, Jamie has performed in Hilda’s Yard (Upper Canada Playhouse) and Real Estate (Port Stanley Festival Theatre).

Presently Jamie is at work on his first play It’s Your Funeral. It is a great pleasure to be back at the Citadel and to be involved in this beloved production of A Christmas Carol. The best of the season to all!

Ashley Wright

Mr. Toll/Reverend Fish

Selected theatre credits include A Christmas Carol, August: Osage County, The Three Musketeers (Citadel); As You Like It, Coriolanus (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Floyd Collins (Patrick Street Productions); Les Miserables (Princess of Wales); Other People’s Money, Hosanna (MTC); The Merry Wives of Windsor, King John (Bard on the Beach); The Red Priest, The Black Rider, The Fall, Slavs (Tarragon); Of Mice and Men, As You Like It, Omnium Gatherum, Fernando Krapp Wrote Me a Letter (Canadian Stage); and The Trials of Ezra Pound (Stratford). Film and television credits include Copper, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Flash of Genius, Mayday, Ultra, Princess, Missing and Solitaire. Ashley is currently an MFA candidate in directing at the University of Alberta.

Upcoming: Merry Wives of Windsor and Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach).

Peg Young

Granny Fezziwig

Peg is very happy to be working once more in A Christmas Carol; it is the highlight of her year. In the past she has been the child supervisor for several Citadel shows, most recently for Evangeline.

This summer, she appeared in Death Comes to Auntie Norma at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. She loves working with the wonderful cast and crew of A Christmas Carol. The best of the season to everyone!

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BIOS Bob Baker

Director

Since returning to his hometown of Edmonton 16 years ago, Bob Baker as Artistic Director has rejuvenated and expanded the Citadel Theatre. Programming season after season of worldclass theatrical productions, Mr. Baker has ushered in an era of growth. Mr. Baker was instrumental in the creation of the Robbins Academy, incorporating four programs to build Canada’s most comprehensive centre for creative development in professional theatre. Mr. Baker was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for exceptional service, excellence and community involvement; a University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award; is a member of Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame; and is a recipient of a PACE award from the Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical Institutes; and has received numerous awards for his directorial work. He was the Artistic Director during the successful turnaround of both the Phoenix Theatre in Edmonton (1982-87) and the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto (1990-98). So far this season, Mr. Baker has directed the epic Canadian musical, Evangeline. This spring, he will direct the Citadel’s production of West Side Story.

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BIOS Wayne Paquette

Associate Director

For the Citadel, Wayne has directed Blackbird, co-directed The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, and assistant directed The Wizard of Oz, The Glass Menagerie and Doubt: a parable. Wayne is the Artistic Director of Blarney Productions and an Artistic Associate with Shadow Theatre, as well as an associate member of the Robbins Academy here at the Citadel Theatre. Most recently, Wayne directed a full season for Blarney, including Full Frontal Diva, MOTE, A Steady Rain, as well as four fringe shows: Bonnie & Clyde, Love Letters, A Slow Air, and Dark Vanilla Jungle.

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Don Horsburgh

Music Director

Recently Don has been the Music Director for Evangeline, Avenue Q, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Penelopiad, Next to Normal, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women, Hunchback (Citadel Theatre); The Threepenny Opera (Stratford Festival); Hairspray, White Christmas, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Winnipeg); Guys and Dolls (MTC, Theatre Calgary); Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Once On This Island (Canadian Stage); The Sound of Music and Aspects of Love (North American tours). Don has also provided original music for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Penelopiad, August: Osage County, Pride and Prejudice, Blithe Spirit, and The Constant Wife. He is the recipient of five Dora Awards, a Betty Mitchel Award, and three Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards.

Leslie Frankish Set & Costume Designer

Leslie began her career as a Set & Costume Designer in 1980 for the Citadel Youth Theatre. Recent Citadel designs include Arcadia, Private Lives, Pride and Prejudice, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Sterling Award), Oliver!, The Constant Wife, Blithe Spirit, Measure for Measure, and Present Laughter. Resident designer positions include Phoenix Theatre and Shaw Festival where her designs included Pygmalion, Misalliance and Heartbreak House.

Other credits include Angels in America I & II, Singer, Into the Woods (Canadian Stage Company); Hard Times, Lilies (National Arts Centre); La Bête (Theatre Calgary); A Little Night Music, The Caretaker (Vancouver Playhouse); and The Homecoming (Stratford Festival). Leslie was also the Senior Production Designer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. For pictures of these and other productions, visit www.lesliefrankish.com

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BIOS Robert Thomson

Lighting Designer

Robert Thomson is widely recognized as one of Canada’s most prolific and versatile lighting designers for theatre, opera and dance. Citadel credits include Private Lives, August: Osage County, Wizard of Oz, Macbeth, Oliver! and Peter Pan. He served twelve seasons as Resident Lighting Designer at The National Ballet of Canada, twenty-four seasons at the Shaw Festival and thirteen seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He has worked with a diverse range of Canadian and international companies, including the National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, MTC, Globe Theatre, The Belfry Theatre, Segal Theatre and Centaur Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, ABT and Stuttgart Ballet. His award-winning design for Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung has been seen around the world. His acclaimed designs have garnered a Sterling Award, four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and the prestigious Siminovitch Prize.

Michael Becker

Sound Designer (1954-2011) Becker loved Christmas, loved the magic of it. All the more fitting that he was asked to be a part of and to create the score for the Citadel’s production of A Christmas Carol. He was ever so thrilled and proud with its return year after year. Becker had a kinship with the theme of A Christmas Carol. He was compelled to help those in need. Every year he gave generously to the Salvation Army, an organization that once gave him food and shelter for a night in his early teens. For 35 years Becker composed music and designed sound for theatre, radio dramas and film. Becker is with us all tonight, a shining star. “Merry Christmas, everyone.”

Linda Rubin

Original Choreography

Linda is excited to return to the Citadel for the sixteenth season of A Christmas Carol. Previous Citadel credits include Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some of her choreographic credits include The Edmonton Opera, Opera Nuova, Studio Theatre, Theatre Network, Workshop West Theatre, L’UniThéâtre and other theatres in western Canada. Linda is engaged in rehearsal direction and mentoring productions for dance and theatre companies. Ms. Rubin is a Professor Emerita, University of Alberta, where she taught dance and stage movement in the BFA in Acting professional actors’ training program. Linda has been a core faculty artist engaged in the dance and movement training for The Citadel’s Robbins Academy Young Companies.

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BIOS Laura Krewski

Choreographer

Laura’s recent credits include Spamalot and As You Like It (Citadel Theatre); Next to Normal (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary); Enron (National Arts Centre); Chicago and Footloose (Mayfield); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Belfry Theatre and Vancouver Arts Club); Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore (Edmonton Opera); and new musicals RICH and Rapa Nui (Manitoba Theatre for Young People). Laura has also choreographed the original musicals Vigilante, Nevermore, Frankenstein, and Hunchback for Catalyst Theatre. She teaches for the Orchesis Dance Group at the University of Alberta, the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Later this season, Laura will be choreographing West Side Story here at the Citadel.

Doug Mertz

Dialect Coach

Doug is happy to be back for the seventh year coaching dialects for this show. He has coached dialects for more than 40 shows in the US and Canada as well as for Theatre Alberta, Rapid Fire Theatre and the Foote Theatre School. Besides teaching and coaching dialects, he is also an actor who will be seen later this season in Or the Whale, adapted and directed by Christopher Bullough, at the University of Alberta’s Studio Theatre. Doug is the Director of Education and Outreach here at the Citadel.

Michelle Chan

Stage Manager

Michelle’s previous Citadel credits include Avenue Q, Venus in Fur, One Man, Two Guvnors, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Clybourne Park, Make Mine Love, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Private Lives, A Few Good Men, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women: the Musical, August: Osage County, The Forbidden Phoenix, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Blackbird, The Wizard of Oz, and The Pillowman. Assistant stage manager credits at the Citadel include Oliver!, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sound of Music, Grease, Hamlet, and Cabaret.

Other favourite credits include Mothership Down (Paper Tiger Productions); Afterplay (Blarney Productions); Evelyn Strange and Cocktails at Pam’s (Teatro la Quindicina).

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BIOS Candice Charney Assistant Stage Manager

Candice is excited to be back for A Christmas Carol. Previous Citadel credits include Assistant Stage Managing The Sound of Music, Hunchback, Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, The Jungle Book, Half Life, and The Pillowman. She has also been the Apprentice Stage Manager on Peter Pan, I Am My Own Wife, Blithe Spirit and Frozen. Other recent credits include Stage Managing Catalyst Theatre’s New York run of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe as well as Free Will Players’ Coriolanus.

Kerry Johnson Assistant Stage Manager

Originally from Winnipeg, Kerry has been working as a Stage Manager in Edmonton for the past ten years. Last season at the Citadel, Kerry returned for her fifth year on A Christmas Carol, as well as working as the Assistant Stage Manager for Arcadia.

Some favourite SM and ASM credits include The Penelopiad, The Forbidden Phoenix, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz and Noises Off (Citadel Theatre); Beowulf the King (Workshop West); The Ecstatics (Northern Light Theatre); Mary Poppins (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Liberation Days (Theatre Calgary); and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Alberta Theatre Projects).

Kerry is a graduate of the BFA Stage Management program at the U of A and the Theatre Arts Program at Grant MacEwan University.

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Apprentice Stage Manager

Lore is a graduate from the BFA Stage Management program at the U of A. Originally from Kelowna BC, Lore has enjoyed the amazing theatre being created here in Edmonton. Recent credits include Assistant Stage Manager for Blood Wedding (Studio Theatre); Motifs 2014/2015 (Orchesis Dance Group); as well as Inspector General and Wonderful Town (Citadel Young Company).

She has also had the joy of being Stage Manager for The Graduate (New Vintage Theatre); Theatre on the Move (Kaleido Arts Festival); and Tribes (Studio Theatre). Lore is looking forward to continuing her passion for theatre in such a great environment and hopes that you enjoy the show!

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Guest Services Supervisors Brian Dooley Cody Carver Director, Play Development Victoria deJong ADMINISTRATION Doug Mertz Jessica Glover Director, Education & Marianne Bouthillier Mark Harding Outreach Associate Executive Courtney Lair Director Don Horsburgh Jacob Liska Resident Music Director Peni Christopher Jim Maher Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Wayne Paquette Brittany Molner Company Manager Academy Associate Virginia Potkins Diana Stevenson FACILITY Manager, Guest Services Louis Barron Foote Theatre School Representatives Director Patrick Lundeen Rebekah Andrews Maintenance Education Outreach Sam Banigan Associate Melissa Budinski Bill Daniels Colleen Bunyan Young Company Janitorial Instructors Michaela Chiste Bee Clean Services Carol Dreger Arielle Ballance Security Caitlin Hart Amber Borotsik Josephine Hendrick Shannon Boyle Alberta Crowd Carly Neis Management Dave Horak Jules Pepin Heather Inglis Building Porter Chris Powell Doug Mertz William Cardle Mark Sinongco Kate Ryan Tara Gale Valerie Smart Kim Mattice-Wanat Dustyn Tennessen FINANCE FTS Instructors Michael Vetsch Pat Bradley April Banigan Director of Finance MARKETING & Mhairi Berg Daniel Jee COMMUNICATIONS Adam Blocka Accounts Payable/ Ken Davis Ashley Butler Receivable Director, Marketing Tracy Carroll Crystal Johnston & Communications Ellen Chorley Payroll Accountant Brent Felzien Matt Graham Video Editor/Designer GUEST SERVICES Crystal Hanson Finlay Brady Hughes Kimberlee Stadelmann Kristen Manager, Communications Director/ Sally Hunt – Robbins Academy/ Sales and Guest Services Citadel Social Binaifer Kapadia Media Josh Wickard Annette Loiselle Kristen Hiemstra Patron Services Manager Graphic Designer Patrick Lundeen Sarah Farnsworth Barb Mah Neil LeGrandeur Assistant Patron Services Manager, Media Relations Lianna Makuch Manager & Beyond the Stage Conni Massing Theresa Hovdestad Mel MacDonald Matt Schuurman House Manager Administrator, Marketing Liana Shannon John Markey & Fund Development Jennifer Spencer Rentals Manager Debbie Theuss Eileen Sproule Laurel Carter Manager, Mark Vetsch Corporate Relations Asst. Rentals Manager

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Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry

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Scenic Carpenter

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