BIOS Wayne Paquette Assistant 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. Much love to Denise.
doug mertz Dialect Coach Doug has taught and coached dialects for more than 40 shows in the US and Canada as well as for the University of Alberta, Theatre Alberta, Rapid Fire Theatre and the Foote Theatre School. He has coached dialects for numerous shows here at the Citadel, most recently for One Man, Two Guvnors, Mary Poppins, and seven years of A Christmas Carol. Doug is also an actor who is currently appearing 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 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Christmas Carol, 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). Big thanks to Al, Sang-Sang and Lore!
66 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 2015/16