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2010/2011 Theatre Season

Board of Governors Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Chair Arliss Miller Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole C. Ralph Loder Ralph B. MacMillan Dr. Sandy Mactaggart Jack McBain Barbara Poole Tom Redl Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Ralph Young Ex Officio Dr. Robert Westbury

Board of Directors Ralph Young President Chris Sheard Past President Aroon Sequeira Treasurer Christine Bishop Guy Bridgeman Allison Edwards James Gillespie Ted Hole Al Maurer Lisa Miller Catrin Owen Tom Redl Rob Reynolds Gaurav Singhmar Larry Staples

Honorary Directors Jack N. Agrios, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Dan Block, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Marc de La Bruyère, Len Dolgoy, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Gary Killips, Beverlee Loat, Maureen McCaw, Eva McGregor, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ray B. Phipps, Barbara Poole, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, Chief Justice A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Bill Weir, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa

BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR Written and composed by John Gray in Collaboration with Eric Peterson September 18 - October 10/10

INTIMATE APPAREL

By Lynn Nottage October 2 - 24/10

STUDIES IN MOTION

By Kevin Kerr October 30 - November 14/10

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens November 27 - December 23/10

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

By Tracy Letts January 29 - February 20/11

ANOTHER HOME INVASION

By Joan MacLeod February 12 - March 6/11

HUNCHBACK

Conceived by Jonathan Christenson & Bretta Gerecke Adapted from Victor Hugo’s Novel March 5 - 27/11

RICK: THE RICK HANSEN STORY

By Dennis Foon April 2 - 17/11

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

A new adaptation by Tom Wood Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas April 2 - 24/11

TRUE LOVE LIES

By Brad Fraser April 23 - May 15/11

LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL Book by Allan Knee Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein Music by Jason Howland April 30 - May 22/11

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ELECTRONIC DEVICES No doubt we have all been distracted by a cell phone, pager or watch alarm ringing or lighting up when attending the theatre.

For every performance which is unmarred by one of these distractions, we will donate $5 to the Actors’ Fund of Canada.

ALLERGY ALERT For the safety of those with allergies, please refrain from the use of perfumes or scented products before coming to the theatre.

H E A R I N G A D VA N C E M E N T H E A D S E T S We offer headsets to patrons with hearing difficulties. Ask the usher at the door of the theatre. These are provided free of charge. You will be asked to leave your driver’s license as a deposit until the headset is returned at the end of the performance.

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L AT E S E AT I N G We endeavor to minimize the distraction for our patrons and the actors when seating latecomers. If you arrive late for a performance, you will be seated at the first appropriate moment in the play in designated latecomer seating. You are welcome to move to your assigned seat at intermission. If you must leave the theatre during a performance you will not be allowed to return to your seat until intermission.

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PREMIER SUPPORTERS We are proud to recognize our Premier Supporters,

our partners in the creation of theatre at The Citadel.

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

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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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When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, the homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. This 2008 Pulitzer and Tony Award winning drama is laced with corrosive humour so darkly delicious and ghastly that you’ll be squirming in your seat even as you are doubled over laughing.

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LYNN NOTTAGE Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined has also received an OBIE, the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre).

It premiered in London at the Almeida Theatre in April 2010, and will tour several US regional theatres in 2010-2011. Her play By The Way, Meet Vera Stark will premiere at Second Stage Theatre during its 2010-2011 season. Other plays include Intimate Apparel (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play; Roundabout Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, South Coast Repertory); Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award; Playwrights Horizons, London’s Tricycle Theatre); Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers and POOF! Nottage is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” the National Black Theatre Festival’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, as well as fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for the Arts.

Her most recent publications include: Ruined (TCG), Intimate Apparel and Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine: Two Plays (TCG) and Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays (TCG). She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, an alumna of New Dramatists and a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she is a visiting lecturer. www.lynnnottage.net

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Intimate Apparel premiered in 2003 at Center Stage, Baltimore’s largest

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Intimate Apparel is presented by the Citadel Theatre and produced by Obsidian Theatre Company (Toronto). Obsidian Theatre produced the Canadian premiere of the play at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theatre in 2008, and due to popular demand remounted it with the original cast earlier this year before coming to Edmonton. The play has been heralded as “compelling and richly layered” by the Globe and Mail and “perfect in every way… you simply have to see it” by the Toronto Star.

Written by Brooklyn playwright Lynn Nottage, this historic piece is set during a time of change for America. An influx of immigrants from the world over has turned early 1900s New York into a multicultural and multilingual city, filled with a diverse population of classes, races and religions, all chasing the American dream.

Esther Mills, the seamstress and central character of the play, is fortunate to be surrounded by this diversity, in part due to her incredible talents in crafting intimate apparel. Her closest acquaintances are a black prostitute, a white upper-class matron and an Orthodox Jewish textile merchant, people that, anywhere else in the world, she would never have had the chance to meet. These fully textured characters populate a richly detailed world for Esther, as we follow her pursuits and dreams, and her desires for independence and romance.

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t’s difficult to imagine more disparate theatrical works than the two you’ll be seeing on the Citadel mainstage in the next months.

The first one, opening in October, is Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre’s visually stunning production of the life and times of one Eadweard Muybridge, who can be credited with inventing the motion picture some 13 years years before Edison patented his Kinetoscope.

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean To begin, consider Eadweard Muybridge. (And yes, that is the correct spelling. He was born Edward James Muggeridge in England but changed it in later life.) Muybridge was a brilliant and colourful figure but, like his sometime contemporary, Nikola Tesla, he has been, more or less, confined to history’s dustbin.

Actually, you probably know Muybridge’s work. He’s the one who photographed a galloping horse in 1878 so his rich patron could win a bet. He set up a series of still cameras to prove that a racehorse’s flying feet occasionally left the ground completely. But if you run the stills together, like those old comic books where you flipped the pages, the drawings seem to move. The technique forms the basis of Disney’s hand animation and Neo’s ability to dodge bullets in The Matrix. The same technique was employed in such recent films as Takers and Leonard DiCaprio’s summer hit, Inception. There are few books of photographic or movie history that have not featured Muybridge’s famous study, Sallie “From the beginning, Gardner at a Gallop.

the visual media is at the Muybridge lived a most colourful life, which service of the story,” included striding up to the man who was having says young.

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spot. (He was found innocent – the jury deciding it was a “justifiable homicide.”) He turned his back on his own son, proclaiming he was the bastard son of his wife’s liaison (he wasn’t), and packed the poor kid off to an orphanage.

Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre’s production Studies in Motion is a brilliant marriage of theatre and electronics. The company’s mandate is to “look to the past to define or uncover the present. We are fascinated by the role of technology in our lives, especially how it extends to replace our physical senses.”

Observes company co-artistic director Jonathan Young, “In our shows, the characters are often pioneers in one way or another. These are all characters who give their lives or become obsessed with trying to change our world. We add really modern elements like choreography and music, which may seem anachronistic, but they are a dialogue between past and present.”

The idea for Studies in Motion came from Electric Company Theatre’s resident playwright, Kevin Kerr. “He was fascinated by the story hidden behind the body of scientific work. The power of the images. The visual poetry. It all took place in Victorian times when Muybridge photographed men and women performing daily actions in the nude. All of this existed behind a curtain of science but was fuelled by passion and murder.”

After the script had been written and tried out, the composer, the choreographer and the designer closely collaborated with the writer (and director Kim Collier) to further develop the story. The addition of what might be called multi-media has been the death of many a dramatic presentation, absorbing actors into visual razzle dazzle. But that charge has seldom

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean been levelled at the Electric Theatre Company. “From the beginning, the visual media is at the service of the story,” says Young. “This is a story about a man who is obsessed with the photographic image and stopping time. The images support the physicality on stage. Bodies create photographic images. Occasionally the photography will absorb the bodies on stage.

Part of Collier’s genius is the interweaving of the elements so they support each other.”

Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge, is part of the challenging Rice Theatre season but is staged on the larger Shoctor stage because of the space and technical demands of the production. It opens on October 30th.

And then on January 29th, we leap more than a century, and across a huge chasm of theatrical intent, to meet the modern Weston family undergoing a spectacular meltdown during a sweltering late summer in Osage County, Oklahoma. Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County is a flamboyant and sensationally entertaining “...I think one of the reasons dysfunctional family drama. the play is funny is because it presents

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august: OSAGE COUNTY Steppenwolf Theatre and had written a couple of semi-successful Off-Broadway pot boilers Bug/Killer Joe and Man From Nebraska, which was nominated for a Pulitzer, but showed little of the white hot creative powers that would drive August: Osage County into such rarified heights.

Letts’ three charged acts are packed with enough revelations to power several soap operas.

The plot is much too complex to go into here but addiction, cancer, infidelity, divorce, sexual abuse and incest bubble to the surface of this toxic family brew.

Critics have suggested this one play has put him up there with playwrights who have created indelible theatrical (and often autobiographical) families for the stage – Tennessee Williams (The Wingfields of The Glass Menagerie), Arthur Miller (The Lomans of Death of a Salesman) and Eugene O’Neill (The Tyrones of Long Day’s Journey Into Night). They are all rather grim stories of doomed families coping with dashed dreams and false promises.

To those lofty plays, Letts has added another ingredient – laughter. “I think that humour sometimes is the only way to get you through these things. I think one of the reasons the play is funny is because it presents people on stage that audiences can recognize in themselves.”

As for Eugene O’Neill, Letts acknowledges his debt to him, but goes on, “O’Neill was a great American writer for theatre and he wrote great masterworks that I doubt seriously that I will ever approach. But he was not very funny and sitting through four and a half hours of a not very funny Eugene O’Neill is a daunting thought.”

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean August: Osage County is also a chance for the playwright (and theatre in general) to stretch a bit. “Theatre has been contracting and contracting for so long in terms of drama,” he says.

“Casts have gotten smaller, sets have gotten smaller and I thought, damn it, at some point I’ve got to breathe deeply again and start to push the canvas a little bit.” (August... has a cast of 13.)

The play is somewhat “It’s natural to pull on your own autobiographical. In the experiences when writing but, at one 1970’s, Letts’ grandfather point, you allow yourself the right committed suicide, leaving to spin off into fantasy. ...”

behind a wife who slowly spiralled into a pattern of substance abuse that would eventually kill her. “The story has haunted me all my adult life,” admits the author but, autobiography is always tricky. “It’s natural to pull on your own experiences when writing but, at one point, you allow yourself the right to spin off into fantasy. To tell the truth, there is little in this play now that has a relationship to my life.”

Hollywood is now well along in planning a movie with Letts adapting his own play. A few years back he took a meeting with Warren Beatty and his wife Annette Benning at New York’s posh Carlyle Hotel. Beatty wanted to let the playwright know that he had decided against producing his play for the movies. It is now in the able hands of uberproducer Harvey Weinstein (Shakespeare in Love/Gangs of New York). Allowed Letts, “I try to maintain my cynicism on one hand while taking their money with the other.”

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From the moment I read Intimate Apparel it was clear that Obsidian was meant to produce it.

Here was a play that caught my imagination in such a way, that I simply could not let it go. Here was a play that spoke more about human needs and desires than race. Here was a play that brought to life a story that was both universal and timeless. Intimate Apparel is, in many ways, a simple story but one that touches the heart. I am thrilled to have the chance to share it with you.

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LISA BERRY

Mayme

Lisa is thrilled to be making her debut appearance at the Citadel reprising the role of Mayme and working again with Phil Akin from Obsidian Theatre Company, whom she worked with at Canadian Stage in the original and remount productions of Intimate Apparel.

Recent theatre credits include Mrs. Muller in Doubt, a parable for Neptune Theatre/Globe Theatre; Tituba in The Crucible for Shaw Festival and Anemone in The Odyssey for Stratford Festival. Other favourite credits include La Marquise De Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses for Annex Theatre; Miss Stacey in Anne of Green Gables for Bathurst St. Theatre and Mabel Washington in the European Tour of Fame the Musical for UTC. Recent television credits include guest starring roles in ‘Da Kink in My Hair for Global; Regenesis for TMN; Degrassi: the Next Generation for CTV and Booky’s Crush for CBC, as well as appearances on the finale of Canadian Idol for CTV, the 2008 Gemini Awards for E! and the feature film Saw V for Lionsgate. Lisa can also be seen in the made for television movies Gospel of Deceit for Lifetime; the upcoming Lost Girl for Showcase and Being Erica for CBC. Special thanks to Sandie and Yanich at NLM, her friends, family and Dion for all their love and continued support.

RAVEN DAUDA

Esther

Raven is thoroughly thrilled and completely honored to be making her Citadel debut with Intimate Apparel. Other notable works include Miss Julie: Freedom Summer for Canadian Stage Company/Vancouver Playhouse (Dora Mavor Moore Award); Doubt: a parable for Canadian Stage Company (Dora Mavor Moore Nomination); Wild Dogs for Nightwood Theatre/Canadian Stage Company; First Hand Woman for Fire Up Productions/Montreal Fringe Festival; Twilight Café for Theatre Archipelago and ‘Da Kink In My Hair for Mirvish Productions.

Television and film credits include starring and guest starring roles in The Bridge for CTV/CBS; Across The River To Motor City for City TV; Crash & Burn for Showcase; ‘Da Kink In My Hair for Global; 11th Hour for CTV and Soul Food for Showtime. Other notable works include Knights Of The South Bronx for Fox/A&E; Riding The Bus With My Sister for CBS; The Rules Of Engagement for ABC and The Natalie Cole Story for NBC. Raven thanks God, her family and all of the ancestors for their continual love, support, grace, wisdom and guidance. “I shine because of you.”

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KEVIN HANCHARD

George

Kevin is pleased to be making his Citadel Theatre debut in Intimate Apparel. Kevin has had the privilege of working on numerous stages from coast to coast in some truly exciting pieces. Select theatre credits include Featuring Loretta, Apple and The Real McCoy for Factory Theatre; Intimate Apparel and Consecrated Ground for Obsidian Theatre; Miss Julie: Freedom Summer (Dora nomination), The Comedy of Errors, Blue/Orange and Angels in America for Canadian Stage; Coma Unplugged for Great Canadian Theatre Co.; Riot, The Gospel at Colonus and The Member Of The Wedding for Neptune Theatre and numerous roles over two seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Film and television credits include Blue Mountain State; High Chicago; Harvard Medical School; The Listener; Naturally Sadie; Take The Lead; Metropia; Jasper Texas and The Eleventh Hour. Upcoming for Kevin is Top Dog/Underdog for Obsidian Theatre/Shaw Festival.

ALEX POCH-GOLDIN

Mr. Marks

Alex last appeared at the Citadel as the crazed Nihad in Scorched.

Selected theatre credits include Intimate Apparel for Obsidian and Canadian Stage; Democracy, Remnants and Scorched for the Tarragon (followed by a national tour); Criminal Genius and Belle for the Factory and NAC; Bully for Strange Momentum (Dora Nomination); King Lear, Quills and Broadway Bound at MTC; Wit for Canadian Stage/ Vancouver Playhouse (Jessie Nomination); The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, Six Degrees of Separation and Angels in America for Canadian Stage (year long run directed by Bob Baker) and Our Country’s Good, A Shayna Maidel and Biloxi Blues for Centaur Theatre. Playwriting credits include The Right Road To Pontypool for 4th Line Theatre; Cringeworthy and This Hotel for Passe Muraille/Planet 88 (both nominated for Dora Awards for outstanding play) and Jim and Shorty for Planet 88/Factory Theatre. Alex also wrote the book and libretto for an original opera entitled The Shadow for Tapestry New Opera produced in 2009. His film and television credits include guest starring roles in The Kennedy’s; Flashpoint; Living In Your Car; Murdoch Mysteries Features; The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard; Cinderella Man; Traitor and recurring roles on Nero Wolfe and This is Wonderland. Alex is currently working on a musical/dance adaptation of The House of Mirth with James Kudelka as well as Internazionale for Cahoots Theatre, and The Bad Luck Bank Robbers for 4th Line Theatre (OAC/Canada Council Residency). Alex dedicates his performance to his late father.

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SATORI SHAKOOR

Mrs. Dickson

Satori Shakoor is a veteran of live performance: an actor, singer and standup comedienne. Satori was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female for her one-woman show, Who She Wasn’t; she was nominated for two Gemini Awards for Best Writing and Best Performance in a Television Comedy for Thick and Thin (CBC); received a 2007 Harold Award for Excellence in Theatre and was a recipient of the 2007 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Ensemble Cast for ‘Da Kink In My Hair. Selected television, film and theatre credits include The Hurricane; Harlem Duet; El Paso; Boy Gets Girl; The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God; Menopause The Musical! and the world premiere of Two Point, Oh, which received the 2010 Wilde Award for Best New Script. Satori recorded and toured as one of the Brides of Funkenstein, as well as George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic. She has worked with numerous multiple Grammy winners including David Foster, Sly Stone, Irene Cara and the late Luther Vandross. Satori was an opening act for Joan Rivers; a semi-regular at The Improvisation; a regular at The Comedy Store; has appeared on BET’s Comic View and was a headlining act at Yuk Yuk’s in Toronto. Satori is blessed to be part of such a wonderful cast and team, she is thrilled to perform for the first time at the Citadel and proud to be a founding member of Obsidian Theatre Company.

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CARLY STREET

Mrs. Van Buren

Since her graduation from The National Theatre School of Canada, Carly has appeared in over 50 film, television, theatre and radio productions. She has been seen onstage in Toronto at Canadian Stage Company, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Shakespeare-in-the-Rough, Buddies in Bad Times and with Mirvish Productions. Other engagements include productions with Theatre Calgary, Grand Theatre in London, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Atlantic Theatre Festival, Resurgence Theatre Company, Drayton Entertainment, Segal Centre for the Arts and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Carly has two Best Actress nominations for her stage roles in Into the Woods and the World Premiere of The Lord of the Rings. In 2009, she had the honour of being granted an Alien of Extraordinary Ability Green Card for the United States, and in May of this year, Carly became a resident of New York City.

PHILIP AKIN

Director

Mr. Akin’s selected directing credits include Toronto the Good and El Paso for Factory Theatre; Black Medea, Intimate Apparel, Born Ready and Pusha Man for Obsidian Theatre; Shaw Festival Reading Series: Topdog/Underdog for Suzan-Lori Parks; Brown Balls for Fu-Gen Theatre Pot Luck Festival and Hip Hop: Who Stole the Soul for 3D Atomic producing at Summerworks. His acting credits include Othello and Of Mice and Men for Stratford Festival; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Birdland Theatre and the television series Flashpoint. Mr. Akin is the artistic director of Obsidian Theatre Company.

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TAMARA MARIE KUCHERAN Set & Costume Designer

Tamara is thrilled to be part of bringing Intimate Apparel to the Citadel Theatre. Tamara has designed sets and costumes for theatre companies across Canada. Most recently, Tamara designed the costumes for The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Other recent design credits include Glorious for Prairie Theatre Exchange (costumes); Intimate Apparel for Canadian Stage/Obsidian Theatre Co.; Yellowman for Nightwood Theatre/ Obsidian Theatre Co.; Late and Black Medea for Obsidian Theatre Company; The Drawer Boy for Theatre Passe Muraille and for the Drayton Festival; Peter Hinton’s Fanny Kemble for the Stratford Festival; Lullaby for Dark Horse Theatre; Amadeus (set) and The Mystery of Irma Vep (costume) for Theatre Aquarius; Two Weeks, Twice a Year for The Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People and Unity, 1918 for The Great Canadian Theatre Company. Awards include a Dora Award (Toronto) for Outstanding Costume Design for Intimate Apparel; Dora nominations for Costume Design for Black Medea and Set Design for The Teenage Girl Diaries and the Ian and Molly Lindsay Young Design Fellow. Tamara and her husband, Dan, await the imminent birth of their first child in Stratford, ON. Tamara is a graduate of the University of Victoria and the National Theatre School of Canada.

RENÉE BRODE

Lighting Designer

Renée has designed lighting for shows in Canada and internationally.

Recently she has designed Romeo and Juliet for Neptune Theatre; Anne, Buddy and Hairspray for the Charlottetown Festival; The Wizard of Oz and Legends for the Grand Theatre; Doubt, a parable and Half Life for Theatre Aquarius; Intimate Apparel for Obsidian Theatre/ Canadian Stage Company and Cosí Fan Tutte for Canadian Opera Company Ensemble. She has also designed with Globe Theatre, Opera Ontario, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Lighthouse Festival, Canadian Opera Company and Stratford Festival. Recent touring designs have taken her to Venezuela and Japan. Renee graduated from York University with a BFA in Theatre Design. She is a member of Associated Designers of Canada.

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TODD CHARLTON

Sound Designer

Mr. Charlton has designed sound for hundreds of shows over the past 20 years. He counts himself lucky to have worked with so many great people along the way. He just finished his 13th season at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, designing As You Like It, The Winters Tale and Dangerous Liaisons. He has also just finished his 7th season as Resident Sound Designer at the Blyth Festival. Some career highlights include Richard Rose’s Scorched and Inexpressible Island; Peter Hinton’s The Swanne trilogy at Stratford; Martha Henry’s Elizabeth Rex and Of Mice and Men and just about all of the new Canadian work produced at Blyth. Mr. Charlton is also the sound instructor at Humber College in Toronto, and is actively involved designing and instructing at Sheridan College in Oakville. He has been nominated for four Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Sound Design. Todd is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and lives happily in Stratford with his wife Melissa, and his 3 boys, Harper, Jack and Devlin.

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Intimate Apparel

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Assistant Set & Costume Designer Laura’s theatre credits include assistant costume designer of Kiss Me Kate and assistant designer of West Side Story, Music Man and To Kill A Mockingbird for Stratford Festival; costume designer of Orson’s Shadow and The Scene for Pilot Group; associate costume designer of The Mill, parts 1 and 2 for Theatrefront (Dora Award - Outstanding Costume Design); wardrobe co-ordinator of Antigone for Soulpepper Theatre; production designer of The Great Gatsby (adapted and directed by David Rotenberg); set designer of the 2009 Siminovitch Prize award ceremony; set designer for Gorey Story for Thistle Project; set designer for Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Classical Theatre Project and cutter for Snow White, Cinderella and Robin Hood for Ross Petty Productions. Her film credits include costume designer of 11:43 for Dark Phoenix Pictures; costume designer of Travelling Medicine Show: Apocolypse for Amnon Buchbinder; period costume and textile consultant Red Riding Hood for Warner Bros and set dresser Christmas Dreams for CBC. Laura has a BFA from York University, theatre production and design program.

MICHAEL SINCLAIR

Stage Manager

This is Michael’s fifth visit to the Citadel, the last time was with Rock ‘n’ Roll a co-production with Canadian Stage. Some other credits include Fire (co-production with the Citadel and Canadian Stage), Glorious and A Little Night Music for Canadian Stage; The Sound of Music, A Couple of Blaguards, and ‘da kink in my Hair for Mirvish Productions; Intimate Apparel, Consecrated Ground, The Piano Lesson and The Polished Hoe for Obsidian Theatre Company; Hana’s Suitcase tour for Green Thumb Theatre, Vancouver/Geordie Productions, Montreal and the Citadel Theatre; Our Town and The Time of Your Life for Soulpepper Theatre Company and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God for Marquis Entertainment/Mirvish Productions/ Obsidian Theatre Company/Nightwood Theatre. Upcoming for Michael is Ruined for Obsidian Theatre. Michael has also spent two seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and did shows at the Grand (London), Theatre New Brunswick and Factory Theatre among others.

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This is the first time Andrea has been at the Citadel. Recent theatre credits include stage manager of Jitters for Soulpepper; Legends for the Grand Theatre; Refugee Hotel for Alameda Theatre; The Middle Place for project: Humanity; Pobby & Dingan for LKTYP and Toronto the Good for Factory Theatre. Her assistant stage manager credits include Intimate Apparel for Obsidian/Canadian Stage and Doc, Civil Elegies, Of the Fields, Lately and A Raisin in the Sun for Soulpepper. Andrea has also worked for AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival, Marquis Entertainment, Mirvish Productions, Nightwood Theatre, Opera Ontario, Resurgence, Ross Petty Productions, ShakespeareWorks, Stratford Festival, Tapestry New Opera, Tarragon, Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille and Toronto Operetta Theatre. Upcoming for Andrea is assistant stage manager of Beauty & the Beast for Ross Petty/Marquis; stage manager of The Big League for LKTYP and The Hobbit for the Grand Theatre.

Originally from Edmonton, Andrea is thrilled to finally return home to work on the Citadel stage.

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Experience Story Vision, Concept Research, Design, Cast Other information we gather sets out our game plan for the run of the show. Do the shirts get ironed, or purposefully rumpled? Block, Blueprint, Pattern Does the badge of honour go on the left or right lapel? How Build, Rehearse exactly are we going to get the blood out of that dress?

Integrate We get as far as we can on paper and then it’s “tech dress”. This is the first time all the elements come together on the stage.

Share Now we also take on the duties of ‘Dresser’. Dressers pre-set costumes Story for quick changes, assist with those changes and then track costume Experience pieces from where they were doffed to where they will next be donned.

During Previews we continue to adjust, reconfigure and generally “tweak” until we have come as close as we can to the ideal of the original vision. From Opening on, our job is to maintain design concept while facilitating the needs of the costume pieces themselves and the actors who wear them. We clean, repair, refurbish and re-set for every show, so that each experience is ready to be shared as if for the first time.

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Obsidian is Canada’s leading culturally diverse theatre company. Our threefold mission is to produce plays, to develop playwrights and to train emerging theatre professionals.

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Obsidian Founding Members: Awaovieyi Agie, Ardon Bess, David Collins, Roy Lewis, Yanna McIntosh, Diane Roberts, Kim Roberts, Sandi Ross, Djanet Sears, Satori Shakoor, Tricia Williams, Alison Sealy-Smith, Philip Akin-Artistic Director

Special Thanks to: Canadian Stage Company and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for their generous support of Obsidian Theatre and the Intimate Apparel production.

staff ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES

James MacDonald Director, Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program Brian Dooley Director, New Play Development Geoffrey Brumlik Director, Audience Outreach Doug Mertz Director, FTS & Young Companies Don Horsburgh Resident Musical Director Wayne Paquette Academy Associate Hannah Whittaker Academy Coordinator Diana Boratynec Manager, Foote Theatre School Young Company Instructors Ryland Alexander Shannon Boyle Jackie Herbst Thrasso Petras Linda Rubin Ryan Sigurdson FTS Instructors Tara Brodin Ashley Butler Melissa Cabral Julie Golosky Jennifer Goodman Crystal Hanson Brad Heintzman Binaifer Kapadia Meghan Koshman Barbara Mah Daniela Masellis Doug Mertz Anna Paquin Kate Ryan Liana Shannon Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule Angela Zacher

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Cheryl L. Hoover Director

Bill Heron Technical Director Michelle Chan Resident Stage Manager Patrick Fraser Assistant Technical Director Kyla Maki Administrative Assistant Brian Maxwell Head of Audio Owen Hutchinson Assistant Head of Audio Michael Becker Audio Les Myhr Head of Scenic Carpentry Peter Locock Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry Sheila Cleasby Head of Electrics Scott George Lafluer Assistant Head of Electrics Kate Bagnall Electrics Michelle Dias Head Scenic Artist Chantel Fortin Scenic Painter Jim Meers Head of Props Charlotte Hunt Assistant Head of Props Marc Anderson Head Stage Carpenter Andrew Hill Assistant Head Carpenter Dan Beggs Stage Carpenter Patsy Thomas Head of Wardrobe Kayla Fulton Assistant Head of Wardrobe Ava Diehl First Hand Lorraine Price Head of Wardrobe Running Barb Becker Wardrobe Maintenance Michael Devanney Wigs & Makeup

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