2017 Skylight - House Programme

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SKYLIGHT

by David Hare #tcSkylight

Tony Award-Winning Musical Comedy

CRAZY FOR YOU

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The ideal song-anddance extravaganza!

April 18 to May 20

THE NEW GERSHWIN® MUSICAL

Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig Co-Conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent A Co-Production with The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton

Tickets start at $35 403-294-7447 theatrecalgary.com

#tcCrazyForYou Max Bell Theatre at Arts Commons

Welcome.

One of the reasons I love the theatre is because it is an act of collaborative imagination unlike any other. From the actors on stage, to the crew in the wings, to each person in the audience, everyone is gathered for one reason – to be part of telling a story. We engage in an act of sharing ideas and having a communal experience with one another, whether it’s among a few people or a thousand. But there’s a magical thing that happens when we remove the division between the proscenium and the audience, and bring ourselves into a smaller environment.

The relationship between the actors and the audience grows deeper and becomes more intimate. There is a current that passes through the room that lets us know unmistakably – on both sides of the stage – that we are in this together.

David Hare’s Skylight invites us into a deeply personal night between two former lovers. In a small, London apartment, a multi-layered world of emotions and big ideas unfolds. The artists in this production are eager to share this experience and their space with you. Welcome to tc UP CLOSE. SHARI WATTLING Interim Artistic Director It seems these days that when people approach the age of 50, they often embrace the idea of adventure and new experiences with renewed vigour and enthusiasm. Speaking from personal experience as I round the corner where 50 is lurking in the not-so-distant future, I must say that am I am no exception!

True, I have taken on new physical challenges, stretched my limits in terms accepting change and personal development, and yes – I have joined the masses of 40-something year-old women who have retreated to Costa Rica in search of enlightenment through yoga practice!

Theatre Calgary is no different. As our company nears its 50th anniversary season we are spreading our wings, taking chances and dipping our toes into new experiences. This is the spirit which has inspired us to explore 'big stories, intimate spaces' through tc UP CLOSE. This has been exciting and a little scary, but we know that taking risks are necessary if Theatre Calgary is to continue to grow and evolve as a company. We hope, just as I did upon returning from my two-week yoga adventure last fall, that we will come out of these new experiences with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility for the future.

Thank you for supporting our journey. We hope that you will continue to grow and evolve with us – embracing new changes with open minds and enthusiasm.

Namaste.

COLLEEN A. SMITH Executive Director

A friend of mine posted today, “It takes strong commitment and an honest desire by both parties to maintain relationships, no matter the type; it’s not a one-way street. Nor can one hurdle constant roadblocks.”

In response to the opening of Skylight, in his review in the New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote, “Mr. Hare wants us to know that morality is never purely instinctive, but a conscious choice, an act of will.”

How aware are we of our biases, our built in prejudices? How often do we pronounce our beliefs with such certainty? And how often, during our daily walk, will we challenge that certainty? And then, when we suspect a betrayal, and injustice done, how often do we retreat into those certainties for comfort only to find, in the end, they provide cold comfort indeed.

In an interview with the CBC, David Hare spoke about that period in history, in the 1980s, “when the world moved from the idea of common good and everyone contributing in that common good . . . we moved towards the glorification of competition, and the individual and enterprise.”

If, as David Hare says, “The only purpose of art is intimacy,” welcome to Skylight.

Up close and personal!

VALERIE PLANCHE Director

Theatre Calgary is a resident company of Arts Commons, operating out of the Max Bell Theatre. It is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, and operates within the jurisdiction of The Canadian Theatre Agreement. Theatre Calgary employs technicians under a collective agreement with the I.A.T.S.E.

Theatre Calgary gratefully acknowledges the support provided by the City of Calgary through Calgary Arts Development, the Government of Alberta through The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Council, Canadian Heritage and all corporate and private contributors.

FRONT COVER: ILLUSTR ATION BY PUNCH & JUDY INC, WITH A PHOTO BY DAVID COOPER.

Arts Commons Engineered Air Theatre

February 14 to 25, 2017

SKYLIGHT

by DAVID HARE THE CAST

Kyra Hollis Edward Sergeant Tom Sergeant

MYLA SOUTHWARD GEOFFREY SIMON BROWN DEAN PAUL GIBSON

SETTING A low-rent flat in Northwest London, 1997.

Director Set & Costume Design Lighting Design Original Music & Sound Design Voice & Dialect Coach Assistant Lighting Design

Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

VALERIE PLANCHE HANNE LOOSEN APRIL VICZKO CHAD BLAIN JANE MACFARLANE SARAH UWADIAE JUSTIN BORN CARISSA SAMS

Skylight has one 20-minute intermission.

Skylight is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH INC.

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT: DAVID HARE

by Jenna Turk, Artistic Associate

he formed his own film company called Greenpoint Films. Since 1970, David Hare has written more than 50 scripts across theatre, film, and television genres.

David Hare circa 2016 via Getty Images

Born in 1946 in St Leonards-on-the Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. After attending Cambridge, he formed his own troupe called The Portable Theatre Company in 1968. Comprised of other young graduates, The Portable Theatre Company aimed to wake up what they thought was an out-of-touch England with shocking works of theatrical creation. Hare wrote his first play when another writer failed to deliver them a script on-time. He started writing and hasn’t stopped.

He quickly became the Resident Dramatist at London’s Royal Court Theatre in the early ‘70s, then was named Associate Director of the National Theatre in London in the ‘80s where he not only premiered new plays of his own, but directed many others, and at the same time

His writing is a unique blend of the personal with the political. He may have begun his artistic career as a bit of a fire-starter, but his artistry has deepened as his life experiences have increased. However, Hare can’t help but be political, to create work that serves an agenda he believes in. For this, he credits having lived through Thatcherism.

His writing often critiques public institutions and society as a whole.

“’I never knew that, I never realised that, I never felt that’ is what you hear from the departing audience when their evening has been well spent. Because we think we know, but we don't.”

– David Hare

His work demands a certain amount of responsibility from the audience to pick a side and be accountable.

Some of his most successful plays include: Judas Kiss which highlights the injustices Oscar Wilde dealt with as a homosexual living in London in the late 1800s; The Blue Room which was adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde and explores the grotesque decadence of civilization; and Stuff Happens which was Hare’s response to the Iraq War.

story of the lives of three women (played by Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore) throughout three different time periods, who were influenced

by Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Hare’s 2008 screenplay for The Reader, inspired by the novel by Bernard Schlink, also journeys across time to reveal the devastating love affair between a young man and an older woman in post-war Germany.

His most popular films include 2002’s The Hours which was based on the novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham. It tells the

David continues to write for both stage and screen, and just last year he released his memoir, The Blue Touch Paper.

DAVID HARE SHINES A LIGHT Skylight is well-suited to be tc UP CLOSE’s inaugural production, as it is a show set in one room with a tidy cast of three, but rest assured it is by no means a “small play.” David Hare wrote Skylight as a reflection of the times he was living in: 1997, London. The government had just shifted power from the long-serving Conservative Party to the Labour Party led by Tony Blair. Things were changing: The economy was strong, there was a low level of unemployment, and with Princess Diana’s death emerged a kind of discomfort with the monarchy.

Listen close to Tom’s arguments for taking ownership of one’s life and

the merits of industry. But hear well Kyra’s defence of goodwill and the absolute necessity of self-sacrifice too. Director Valerie Planche reflects, “In the ‘80s something happened and it became a world of commerce and commitment to the pursuit of an economic ideal. The self-serving interests of the individual were born.” Skylight’s lovers reflect that change. Kyra who was raised in a well-to-do household now willingly struggles away as a teacher in one of London’s poorest districts, while living in an icebox. Meanwhile, Tom has pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become one of the most successful restauranteurs in

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London, but can’t manage his 18 year-old son. They have completely different ideologies: Kyra believes that it is up to the community (and herself included) to help those less fortunate, but Tom believes that it is up to the individual to help himself.

Inevitably neither of them can be accountable to each other.

“We are living through curious times and they demand curious art – in both senses of the word.”

– David Hare

Hare may have been writing about London in the ‘90s, but much of Skylight echoes just as powerfully today. For instance, Planche says, “As we look south of the border where rights are being taken away left right and center in the name of commerce, the personal and political arguments in this play are supremely resonant. How do we care for each other? How do we listen to each other when we are at such opposite poles?” Tough questions in 1997, and just as tough today in 2017. Lean in, and let’s try to come together.

EDITORIAL SOURCES from pages 12-15 Hare, David. The Blue Touch Paper. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Hare, David. “David Hare: Mere fact, mere fiction,” The Guardian, April 17, 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/apr/17/ david-hare-theatre-fact-fiction Wood, Gaby. “David Hare: 'a sense of guilt drove my life for so long,'” The Telegraph, August 28, 2015. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/playwrights/ david-hare-interview-sense-of-guilt-drove-my-life-for-so-long/

Special Thanks & Acknowledgements Ambrose University Niels Hagen University of Calgary

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GEOFFREY SIMON BROWN

Edward Sergeant FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Much Ado About Nothing. ELSEWHERE: Actor - The Tall Building, Handsome Alice; The Circle, Tyland, ATP; The Mousetrap, Vertigo; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Shakespeare Company/Lunchbox; Equivocation, Shakespeare Company; Air, This Is Our Youth, Major Matt Mason Collective. Playwright - The Circle, ATP, Tarragon; Little Red, Air, Control, Destroy, Major Matt Mason Collective. AWARDS: Recipient of Theatre Calgary's 2010 Stephen Hair Emerging Actor Award; Betty Mitchell Awards – Supporting Actor - Equivocation, Outstanding Script - The Circle; Tarragon Theatre RBC Emerging Playwright Award.

Geoffrey is a National Theatre School playwriting graduate and member of the Major Matt Mason Collective. He is also playwrightin-residence at Theatre Junction, where he is writing a play with an ensemble of Calgary teenagers.

DEAN PAUL GIBSON Tom Sergeant FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Actor – Major Barbara, Tosca Cafe, The Drowsy Chaperone, Vigil. Director – One Man, Two Guvnors, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 7 Stories. ELSEWHERE: Actor – Saint Joan, Arts Club; Jitters, Belfry; Falstaff, Bard on the Beach; The Drowsy Chaperone, MTC. Director – Xanadu, Arts Club; 39 Steps, Black Comedy/Marriage Proposal, The History Boys, It’s a Wonderful Life, The School for Scandal, A Flea in Her Ear, Arts Club; Toronto Mississippi, Theatre Aquarius/Vancouver Playhouse; True West, No Great Mischief, Noises Off, Vancouver Playhouse; The Boyfriend, Studio 58; King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Merry Wives, Pericles, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Bard on the Beach; Lend Me a Tenor, Good Night Desdemona – Good Morning Juliet, Gateway; Coup De Tat, WCT; Lettice and Loveage, Pacific Theatre. Dean has been seen on stage across the country and in various film and TV roles. AWARDS: Dean has been honoured with Jessie Richardson Awards for his acting and directing and is a graduate of Studio 58. Upcoming, Dean will be directing The Winter’s Tale for Bard on the Beach.

MYLA SOUTHWARD Kyra Hollis FOR THEATRE CALGARY: A Christmas Carol (2009 – 14), A Singular Man (FUSE ’09). ELSEWHERE: Richard III, As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare Company; The Lover, Scarlet Woman, Lunchbox; Summer of My Amazing Luck, Sage; The Hollow, Turn of the Screw, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Vertigo; Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Broadway West Theatre; Some Girl(s), Northern Light; Grace, MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas, Shadow Theatre; Fire, Citadel/Canadian Stage; The L Word, Back to Methuselah, Batboy, Jane Eyre, Edmonton Fringe. AWARDS: Myla is a Sterling Award, Betty Mitchell Award, AMPIA Award nominee, and a Betty Mitchell Award recipient. Thanks to Eric, Mr. Moo, and Mr. Magoo for all their love and support.

VALERIE PLANCHE

Director FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Director – Bad Jews. Actor - The Crucible, Liberation Days, Major Barbara, A Christmas Carol (1992 – 98, 2011), Much Ado About Nothing, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Amadeus. ELSEWHERE: Director – Bordertown Café, Torchlight; Body Awareness, Shadow Theatre; Blood: A Scientific Romance, Sage; Ruined, Ellipsis Tree Collective; Thy Neighbours Wife, Urban Curvz; The Duplex, Lunchbox; Macbeth, Shakespeare Company. FILM/ TELEVISION: Actor – Blackstone, Brokeback Mountain, Right Side of Wrong, In Cold Blood, Shanghai-Noon, The Jack Bull, Heartland, Terminal City, Tom Stone, Caitlin’s Way and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

AWARDS: Director – Betty Mitchell Award – Best Director – Bad Jews; Gina Wilkinson Prize – 2015; Acting – Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Little Elephants, Betty Mitchell Award for Communion and The Good Life, Betty Mitchell Award Nominations for Music for Contortionist, Elizabeth Rex, The Constant Wife, Perfect Pie.

HANNE LOOSEN

Set & Costume Design FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Costume Design - The Shoplifters.

ELSEWHERE: Cinderella, Magic Flute, Calgary Opera; Macbeth, Shakespeare Company; The Tall Building, Handsome Alice; Bea, Shakespeare’s Will, Sage; Grease, Lord of the Flies, Hana’s Suitcase, Storybook; Archiebaldo, Annie Davidson, Love Potion No. 9, Cowtown Opera; Children’s Corner, Cinderella, State Opera Berlin; New Scenes, Deutsche Oper Berlin; Z_wischenräume, Gauge Dance; Attila, Mariinsky Theatre; 3 Sisters, Stage Entertainment Amsterdam. Hanne obtained a BFA in costume design from Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, and a MFA in scenography from the Technical University in Berlin.

APRIL VICZKO

Lighting Design FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Set Design Adaptation – Fire (2004). ELSEWHERE: Costume Design – Drama: Pilot Episode, Ash Rizin, Butcher, The Valley, The Apology and Thinking of Yu, ATP; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Birdland Theatre (Dora Nomination); Blackbird and True Love Lies, Citadel; The Mousetrap, In the Heat of the Night, Vertigo; This Castle, Moonhorse Dance Theatre. Set & Costume Design – As You Like It, Citadel; Bea’s Niece, Tarragon; Stray, Workshop West. Production Design – When Girls Collide, Vertigo; Hello, Hello, Kill Your Television; Love of the Nightingale, UofC (selected for presentation at Costume at the Turn of the Century, Moscow). April has designed over 80 professional productions across Canada. She is President of the Board of the Associated Designers of Canada. In 2006, she shared the Siminovitch Protégé Prize. She is Chair and Associate Professor of Drama in The School of Creative and Performing Arts at the UofC.

“I believe love opens people up.”

– David Hare

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CHAD BLAIN Original Music & Sound Design Theatre Calgary debut. ELSEWHERE: After Jerusalem, Lunchbox; Bordertown Cafe, Scrooge, Torchlight; The Elves and The Shoemaker, Snow White, Sherlock Holmes, Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Loose Moose. FILM/TELEVISION: Sundowners, Racer-X, Spikes At Her Elbow, Breathe, SELFIES. Upcoming, Chad will create sound design and composition on The Three Musketeers, Hana's Suitcase, Love and Information, and Steel Magnolias. @Sintaxerrors

JANE MACFARLANE

Voice & Dialect Coach FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Over 40 productions in the past 15 years including: The Audience, 16 years of A Christmas Carol, The Light in the Piazza, Bad Jews, The Crucible, King Lear (Bard on the Beach co-pro), Liberation Days (WCT co-pro), One Man, Two Guvnors, The Mountaintop, Pride and Prejudice, Enron, To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Shakespeare by the Bow. ELSEWHERE: Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre co-pro), The Circle, Legend Has It, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Venus in Fur, Motherf*cker With the Hat, That Elusive Spark, Vincent in Brixton, The Syringa Tree, ATP; Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Shakespeare Company. Jane is the Voice and Dialect Consultant for the 2016-17 season at Vertigo Theatre. She has taught voice and text, and acting at York University, Harvard University, Southern Methodist University, Mount Royal University, UofC and UofA. Jane is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary.

JUSTIN BORN

Stage Manager FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Assistant Stage Manager - The Crucible, The Philadelphia Story (2015), The Great Gatsby. ELSEWHERE: The Hollow, Calamity Town, The Game’s Afoot, The Huron Bride, Vertigo; Venus in Fur, ATP; Jeremy de Bergerac, Maria Rasputin Presents, Forte; An Almost Perfect Thing, New West; The Diary of Anne Frank, Tuesday’s With Morrie, Queen Milli of Galt, The Road to Mecca, A Bright Particular Star, Mary’s Wedding, Fiddler on the Roof, Rosebud; The Canadian Badlands Passion Play (2010 – 2014). Production Services Coordinator for the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show.

CARISSA SAMS

Assistant Stage Manager FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Assistant Stage Manager – The Light in the Piazza, Bad Jews. Apprentice Stage Manager – Dear Johnny Deere, One Man, Two Guvnors, BOOM! (High Performance Rodeo). Stage Manager – Hamlet (Shakespeare by the Bow), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Park). Chaperone – Mary Poppins, A Christmas Carol (2012-16). ELSEWHERE: Apprentice Stage Manager – I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, The Haunting, In The Heat of the Night, Vertigo; The Surrogate, Lunchbox. Stage Manager – The Good Bride.

OUR TEAM LEADERSHIP

PRODUCTION

SHARI WATTLING, Interim Artistic Director

AMELIA MARIE NEWBERT, Production & Operations Manager

COLLEEN A. SMITH, Executive Director ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE KRISTEN DION, Director of Finance & Administration BRENT FALK, Accountant TAMMIE RIZZO, Accountant JOCELYN PHU, Executive Assistant, Government Relations Coordinator ARTISTIC

ADAM SCHRADER, Technical Director GRAHAM KINGSLEY, Assistant Technical Director CATHARINE CRUMB, Head of Lighting CHRIS JACKO, Head of Sound MICHELLE LATTA, Head of Wardrobe LILLIAN MESSER, Head of Props SCOTT MORRIS, Head Stage Carpenter

LESLEY MACMILLAN, Producer

STEVE PILON & ANDREW RAFUSE, Co-Head Scenic Carpenters

SUSAN MCNAIR REID, Company Manager

RON SIEGMUND, Wardrobe & Wig Master

JENNA TURK, Artistic Associate JANE MACFARLANE, Resident Voice Coach

FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF – MAX BELL THEATRE LEE BOOTH, Front of House Manager

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING

KIRSTIE GALLANT, Bar & Guest Services Coordinator

CHRISTOPHER LOACH, Director of Communications

NORMAN COOK, Front of House Volunteer & Guest Services Coordinator

LISA MACKAY, Director of Marketing & Audience Development

BARBARA BOOTH

TRYPHENA FRIC, Advertising & Promotions Manager

AMY BURKS

KRISTINE ASTOP, Audience Services & System Manager

NORMA HANSEN

SARAH LAMOUREUX, Digital Communications Manager

SIENNA HOLDEN

JENNIFER KINCH, Audience Services & System Administrator

JULIA MEEDER

LAURA KWAS

VIRGINIA REMPEL, Audience Services Supervisor

MITZI METZGER

ALIXE EDWARDS, Audience Services Associate

TAMSIN MILES

JAMIE TYMCHUK, Audience Services Associate

KIM SIMMONS

EMILY PARKHOUSE, Box Office Audience Services Associate

DEBORAH SYDORCHUK

EV BELL, Box Office Audience Services Associate

BUILDERS FOR SKYLIGHT SET

DEVELOPMENT

STEVE PILON, Co-Head Scenic Carpenter

TRISH MATHESON, Director of Development

ANDREW RAFUSE, Co-Head Scenic Carpenter

SHIRLEY YURCHI, Manager Individual & Planned Giving

PROPERTIES

RONALD PETERS, Business Development

LILLIAN MESSER, Head of Props

SARAH HUGHES, Senior Development Associate

CELINA BAHARALLY, Assistant Head of Props

JASMINE ASLAN, Development Associate, Events & Stewardship

PAINTERS

CIANI MUZA, Development & Office Coordinator ROSEMARIE JOHNSTON, Bingo Volunteer Coordinator LEARNING & ENGAGEMENT CHRIS STOCKTON, Senior Manager of Learning & Engagement JENNIFER TAYLOR, Learning & Engagement Apprentice

LOUIS BEAUDOIN, Head Scenic Artist WARDROBE KATIE KLINGVALL, Head of Wardrobe MICHELLE LATTA, Buyer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Leaders in our arts and cultural community BOARD EXECUTIVE CHADWICK NEWCOMBE, Chair Kahane Law Office

MARGO RANDLES, Vice Chair,

CATHERINE SAMUEL Partner, McCarthy Tetrault LLP

DR. NORMAN SCHACHAR, M.D. University of Calgary Department of Surgery

Chair Governance & Nominating Committee Active Community Volunteer

MAGGIE SCHOFIELD

MARY E. COMEAU, Secretary

ALI SHIVJI

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Managing Director, Optima Living

KELLY BERNAKEVITCH,

EDITH WENZEL

Vice President Audit & Finance Executive Vice President, MNP, LLP

President, International Results Group

KATHRYN HEATH, Chair Artistic Committee

Business Development Executive – National Accounts, Van Houtte Coffee Services

CRAIG D. SENYK, Chair Fundraising Committee Director of Portfolio Management, Mawer Investment Management Ltd.

RICHARD S. HANNAH, Chair HR Committee Vice President, Information Services, Gibson Energy

PAUL POLSON, Chair Facility Committee Vice President, Stuart Olson Construction

Executive Director, Calgary Downtown Association

TRECIA WRIGHT

WARD ZIMMER Partner, Deloitte

THEATRE CALGARY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION BOARD EXECUTIVE

BOARD MEMBERS

BRIAN HOOK, Chair

JOY ALFORD

Investment Advisor, BMO Nesbitt Burns

MICHELE BEITEL

CHADWICK NEWCOMBE, Vice Chair

President, Star Land Consulting Ltd.

Kahane Law Office

PETER EDWARDS

MARY E. COMEAU, Secretary

Vice President, Human Resources and Relations, Canadian Pacific

JIM FLOYD President, PowerOn Ltd.

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

BOARD MEMBERS IAN BEDDIS

BRUCE GRAHAM

Former Director & Branch Manager (Retired), Scotia McLeod Inc.

STEPHEN HAIR

ELLEN CHIDLEY

Artistic Consultant

Consultant

GORD HARRIS

GORD HARRIS

P. Eng., M&A Consultant

P. Eng., M&A Consultant

BARRY R. KENLEY Financial Services Agent, Euler Hermes Canada

TRICIA LEADBEATER Director, Wealth & Management,

TRICIA LEADBEATER Director Wealth Management,

DR. NORMAN SCHACHAR, M.D.

Richardson GMP

University of Calgary Department of Surgery

RIAZ MAMDANI CEO, Strategic Group

IAN McAULEY President, American Hotel Income Properties REIT LP

DOUG PAGE Director of Government Relations, TransCanada

JAMES READER Managing Director, Corporate Financial Services, ATB Financial

Richardson GMP

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