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WELCOME I’ve been a fan of Zorana Sadiq’s for a very long time.

Over the years, I have enjoyed watching her skillfully portray other people, other characters, and masterfully interpret others’ stories. And, in all these avenues, she excels.

With MixTape, we get the pleasure of seeing Zorana tell her own story up close and personal. I first heard of this show through our mutual friend, Shira who tipped me off: she told me I had to see it, and that I would want it to come to the Grand. Shira was right.

I am so proud to have Zorana with us, guided by the many talents at Crow’s

Theatre in Toronto where this production originated.

Here she is: a multi-talented, big hearted, hilariously funny, passionate artist. It’s a thrill to have her join us at the Grand and share with us the many sounds, expressions, and insights that have made her the delightful human that she is.

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT We are thrilled to welcome you back to the Grand Theatre, where we operate on the traditional lands of the Attawandaron (also known as Neutral) peoples and territories associated with various treaties of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, and Lunaapewak. The Attawandaron peoples once settled this region alongside the Algonquin and Haudenosaunee peoples and used this land as their traditional beaver hunting grounds.

In London, our treaties include the 1796 London Township Treaty and the 1822 Longwoods Treaty. The London Township Treaty was a regional treaty signed by diplomats representing all parties living on the land, which today we know as southwestern Ontario. The Longwoods Treaty was signed by representatives of the Crown and the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and covers approximately 580,000 acres in the area.

Locally, there are three First Nations Communities. They are the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, the Oneida Nation of the Thames, and the Munsee Delaware Nation. We would also like to recognize the growing Indigenous urban population, comprised of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.

We value the significant historical and contemporary contributions of local and regional First Nations, and all of the Original Peoples of Turtle Island (also known as North America), and acknowledge the traditional lands upon which we operate.

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A CROW'S THEATRE PRODUCTION

Written and Performed by Zorana Sadiq Directed by Chris Abraham

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM Playwright and Performer ZOR ANA SADIQ Director CHRIS ABR AHAM Sound Designer and Live Sound Operator THOMAS RYDER PAYNE Set and Props Design JULIE FOX Lighting Design ARUN SRINIVASAN Assistant Director CHERISSA RICHARDS Stage Manager SAR AH MILLER Running time is approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Crow’s Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre (PACT) and the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). We engage under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists, most of whom are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA).

ALL PHOTOS OF ZORANA SADIQ BY ALEKSANDAR ANTONIJEVIC

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GUEST ARTISTS Zorana Sadiq Playwright and Performer Zorana Sadiq is an award-winning Toronto-based actor and classical musician. A multidisciplinary artist of Pakistani descent, Sadiq’s work is wide-ranging. Her work spans different types of performance from theatre, verbatim theatre, and television to chamber music, modern opera and new music.

Sadiq recently guest-hosted Tempo on CBC Music.

Recent appearances include: Into the Woods (STC), Wildfire (Factory TheatreDora Mavor Moore for Outstanding Production) Towards Youth (Crow’s Theatre), CHILD-ISH (Summerworks Lab), Eleven Moons (Boston Musica Viva) Helen’s Necklace (Canadian Rep Theatre), The Enchanted Loom (Cahoots Theatre), Bend it Like Beckham (Starvox), Sultans of the Street (Young People’s Theatre- Dora Mavor Moore for Best Ensemble), Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Theatre 180- online), All the Little Animals I Have Eaten (Nightwood Theatre-online), as well as appearances with Necessary Angel Theatre, Soulpepper’s Global Cabaret, Vancouver’s Turningpoint Ensemble, Soundstreams Canada, The Tanglewood Music Centre, Bad New Days, Banff Summer Arts Festival, Calgary Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Boston Musica Viva.

For Television: Strays, In the Dark, Designated Survivor, Kim's Convenience, The Mulroneys, Burnt Toast.

Also active as an arts educator, Sadiq has been a guest vocal coach and lecturer at the high school and university level. She has taught at the Regent Park School of Music for the better part of two decades, where she began the Park Songbook project for young classical pianists and singers.

Passionate about New Music, Sadiq has premiered the works of numerous contemporary composers including Jeffrey Ryan, Sebastian Currier and Shirish Korde. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Centre, the Banff Summer Festival and the Aspen Music Festival and holds a Master of Music from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music from McGill University.

MixTape was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards including Outstanding Performance and will appear on CBC’s Play Me podcast next season. Sadiq is the recipient of a Creative Development grant from the Canada Council and a Creative Residency grant from the Ontario Arts Council and was named one of 2019’s Top Ten Theatre Artists in NOW Magazine.

GUEST ARTISTS

chris abraham

Thomas ryder payne

Chris Abraham Director

Artistic and General Director, Chris Abraham has been the driving force of Crow’s Theatre since the 2008.09 season. He has successfully led the company through two major milestones: the 25th and 35th Anniversaries of the company; as well as building Streetcar Crowsnest, a pioneering, state-of-the-art facility with three venues in the East End of Toronto, including the newly built Nada Ristich Studio Gallery on Dundas Street East. This season, Chris launched the 2022.23 Crow’s season with his production of Uncle Vanya and will tour Crow’s Theatre productions of MixTape, and Cli Cardinal’s As You Like It. Chris is also developing a television adaptation of Stars: Together (based on the hit Crow’s stage production) with Sienna Films/ CBC. Chris’s artistic practice spans the spectrum of solo work, documentary, highly lauded Stratford and Shaw productions, hybrid music theatre concerts, opera, and filmmaking. At Crow’s, he has directed numerous award-winning plays including Julius Caesar, Stars: Together, The Wedding Party, True Crime, Boy in the Moon, The Assembly, The Watershed, The Seagull, Winners & Losers, Someone Else, Eternal Hydra, and I, Claudia.

In 2003, Chris directed the film adaptation of Kristen Thomson’s award-winning hit I, Claudia for which he won a Gemini Award. A graduate of the National Theatre School’s renowned directing program, Chris later served as co-director of the program from 2006 to 2010. In 2013, Chris was awarded the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for Directing. Next spring, Chris will be directing Much Ado About Nothing at the Stratford Festival.

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Thomas Ryder Payne Sound Designer Thomas Ryder Payne is a composer and sound designer for theatre, dance, and film. Select past work includes designs for Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Mirvish Productions, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Young People’s Theatre, Crow’s Theatre, Modern Times Stage Company, Aluna Theatre, Buddies in Bad Time Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and many others.

Thomas has received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and 25 nominations.

Julie Fox Set and Props Design

Julie Fox has been a production designer for theatre, dance, and opera in Canada for over 20 years. Crow’s Theatre credits: MixTape, A&R Angels, The Watershed, Seeds, The Seagull, Someone Else, I, Claudia. Other theatre credits include Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Electric Company, Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Why Not Theatre, Necessary Angel, Volcano, Centaur, National Arts Centre, Segal Centre, Citadel, Theatre Junction, and Manitoba Theatre Centre.

She has received four Dora Awards for outstanding set design, the Virginia Cooper Award for costume design, and has been nominated for Sterling and Meta awards. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where she also teaches.

GUEST ARTISTS

arun srinivasan

cherissa richards

Arun Srinivasan Lighting Designer

Arun has worked extensively in the performing arts. He trained at York University earning a Specialized Honours B.F.A. Dance collaborators have included Robert Desrosiers, Peter Chin, Danny Grossman, COBA, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Tiger Princess Dance Projects, The National Ballet School and ProArteDanza. He has been the resident designer for Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre since 2002.

Theatre credits include The Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, The Globe Theatre, fu-GEN, Cahoots Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. His career has garnered him nine Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for outstanding lighting design in both the theatre and dance categories. Arun has had the privilege of teaching lighting design at York University, Ryerson University, University of Waterloo, and mentorship at The National Theatre School.

Productions have taken him to Ukraine, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China, and across North America. Current projects include Much Ado About Nothing for Stratford and Red Velvet for Crow’s Theatre.

Cherissa Richards Assistant Director

Cherissa began directing after many years as an actor in the industry. She started this directing journey six years ago with The Power of Harriet T at Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Since then, Cherissa has assisted many incredible directors along her path and has pursued directing apprentice programs at Bard on the Beach, Shaw Festival, and Stratford Festival. Cherissa has directed several shows in Winnipeg–at

sarah miller Sarasvàti Theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, and Theatre by the River. In 2021, Cherissa completed a directing residency at The National Theatre School of Canada and was one of the directing fellows in WhyNot Theatre’s This Gen Directing cohort. Cherissa is the proud recipient of the 2021 Crow’s Theatre RBC Rising Star Emerging Director Award and is honoured to have joined this amazing team on MixTape in her Crow’s directing residency. You can catch Cherissa’s next directing work at Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and at Bard on the Beach in 2022.

Sarah Miller Stage Manager

Sarah Miller is a Toronto-based freelance stage manager for live theatre and events.

She’s worked with arts organizations across the country including City of Toronto Cultural Events, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more.

Select credits include: I Send You This Cadmium Red (Art of Time Ensemble); A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Capitol Theatre); What Makes a Man (Canadian Stage/Necessary Angel); Bang Bang, The Crackwalker, Morro and Jasp: 9 to 5, Twisted (Factory Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish); Lil’ Red Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions); Sisters, Innocence Lost, Of Human Bondage, Spoon River, A Christmas Carol, Hosanna, The Heidi Chronicles, Angels in America, The Aleph (Soulpepper Theatre); Orestes, Yaga (Tarragon Theatre); The De Chardin Project (Theatre Passe Muraille); Towards Youth (Project Humanity/ Crow’s Theatre). Sarah is a mentor and instructor of Stage Management and has worked with students at Toronto Metropolitan University and Humber College.

PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTES I began writing MixTape as a sort of catalogue – a way to lay out examples of my obsession with sounds the way one lays out found shells and stones to dry in the sunlight. We do that, I think, in an attempt to preserve some uncommon beauty we witness with these underwater objects. And to share with our loved ones: “Look what I saw on my trip.”

Of course, the pearly shell becomes cloudy, and the vibrant red stones dull to a rust when we take them out of context. This was a worry: that I wouldn’t be able to explain, to really make clear, how beautiful and affecting sound has been for me in my life.

Why, exactly, did I want you all to know what I saw on “my trip?” I suppose it was my deep conviction that you all had similar collections of your own. Of songs plucked out on a guitar, of meals, conversations, books, of rare birds sighted, of moments of choreography your body has never shaken off, of races you ran 30 years ago that still make you feel airborne in remembering them...things you made and did that in turn, made you.

But this show was about the sounds and songs I had tangled with.

The experience was personal.

And so, I started letting little bits of my life into the story, stingily at first. I really had thought I might just write an abstract theatre piece about sound! But life is the messy, wild place where the creativity happens. I was lucky to have the gentle encouragement of Chris Abraham who kept holding me to the idea of the mixtape as a personal reflection, not a playlist made by an algorithm. We joked when making this play that the show’s real title should be I, MixTape.

It has been a great source of solace and clarity for me to be a musician and to both listen and sing.

I think it’s what makes us most distinctly human, the making of art. And while “beauty” is a word that we often use when speaking about it, I think that the word “resonance,” might be even more seminal to what makes the creative act and pieces of art so important. To recognize oneself in another’s work – from a Salman Toor painting to a Willie Nelson song to a But the task was daunting. Talking about Mozart aria – to feel that electric buzz art can be academic, can reduce emotions inside you and say, “I saw that on my to black marks on a page. I’ve always been trip too.” a bit grumpy when it comes to descriptions of art, truth be told. At museums, I avoid the small plaques, leering at the zor ana sadiq painting from their spot, bottom right, with the dates and details that someone has decided are important.

"I think it’s what makes us most distinctly human, the making of art."

Book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin Music by Matthew Sklar Lyrics by Chad Beguelin Based upon the New Line Cinema film written by David Berenbaum Directed by Dennis Garnhum

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Judith Walker Susan Wallace & James Reaney Beth-Anne & Alex Wasko Tracey Watters & Cam Pettinger Susan Waugh Alice Wehlau Denise & Ronald Wexler* Judy & Gerry Wheaton Margaret & Mark Whitley^ Faye & Rod Willis Cheryl & Mark Willison Joe Wilson Pam & Paul Wilton Ailene Wittstein Katie Wright* Sharon Wright-Evans Elizabeth Yurkiw Beverley Zaifman 7 Anonymous Donors

ENDOWMENTS & GIFTS THROUGH the LONDON COMMUNITY Foundation The Barbara and John Cronyn Fund • The Grant & Lily Hopcroft Fund • The Larry & Susan Agranove Family Fund • The Megan Holliday Memorial Fund • The Verna D. Davis Endowment for the Arts • The William and Katharine Kostuk Family Fund

In Memoriam Thank you to those who gave in memory of Shirley Brown and Mary Loncke, cherished friends of the Grand who are dearly missed.

PROSCENIUM SOCIETY We are deeply grateful to the compassionate individuals who have made the important and thoughtful decision to make a planned gift to the Grand Theatre. We honour them through their membership in the Proscenium Society.

Barbara Belbeck Lynn Davis Cathy & James Dunlop Dr. Nicole le Riche & Dr. John Howard E.J. Lamb Mary & Roger Lilliman

Susan Nickle Diane & Gary Alan Price Glenda Robinson Judy White Michael Wojtak Karen Killeen

Membership to the Proscenium Society is available to those who have chosen to make a planned gift in one or more of the following ways: • Bequests (donations through your will) • Listed Securites • Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation • Charitable Remainder Trust and gifts of Residual Interest • Charitable Gift Annuities • Life Insurance Policies, RRSP, RRIF

We remember the following members of the Grand Theatre family who have made a bequest to the theatre. Their legacy will help ensure that the Grand continues to flourish.

Hazel E. Bell • Marista Ateena Brooks (Mikolaski) • Robert Crawford • Buck A. M. Cuddy • Theresa Cutler • Helen Ann Day • Walter R. (Wally) Duffield • Innis Hammond • Barbara Horne • Beryl Ivey • Elizabeth Ann Jones • Myrtle McCallum • Douglas McCullough • Mary Eleanor Miller • Maureen Elizabeth Ryan • Joseph Samuels • Donald Smith • Doris Spence • Elizabeth Stratton

We would also like to thank the members of our community who have welcomed visiting artists into their homes as Artist Housing Partners for this season: Becca Beith • Ross & Cathy Burgar • Maria Calleja • Bonnie Delanghe • Jill Ellis-Worthington • Christine Hoover • Denise Jung • Beith Leibovitz • Janet McAllister • Cam Quinn • Patricia Reilly • Wendy Sanderson-Culley • Anita & Amit Shah • Allan Stichbury • Aaron Swan • Mark Uhre • Peter & Jan Vogel • Bob Ward & Susan Yerema • Megan Watson • Doug & Connie Weir

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The past two years have impacted many businesses and industries in our city. Please take note of and support the Grand Theatre Dining Partners listed below. Try out a new dining experience before or after your performance!

PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS RESTAURANT RANGE

DINING STYLE

PRICE

Armouries Grille 325 Dundas Street, London 519-640-5030 www.marriott.com/yxudl

Premium Casual

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The Church Key Bistro Pub 476 Richmond Street 519-936-0960 thechurchkey.ca

Casual Fine Dining

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Che Resto Bar 225 Dundas Street 519-601-7999 cherestobar.ca

Casual Dining

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Fellini Koolini’s 155 Albert Street 519-642-2300 fellinikoolinis.com

Casual Fine Dining

$$$

RESTAURANT

DINING STYLE

PRICE RANGE

Garlic’s of London 481 Richmond Street 519-432-4092 garlicsoflondon.com

Upscale Rustic Cuisine

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Gnosh Dining & Cocktails 125 Dundas Place 519-601-8050 gnoshdining.com

Casual Fine Dining

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Grace Restaurant 215 Dundas Street (at Clarence) 226-667-4822 gracelondon.ca

Farm-to-Table Fine Dining

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Joe Kool’s 595 Richmond Street 519-663-5665 joekools.ca

Casual

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Marienbad Restaurant 122 Carling Street 519-679-9940 marienbad.ca

Casual Fine Dining

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Michael’s on the Thames 1 York Street 519-672-0111 michaelsonthethames.com

Casual Fine Dining

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Moxie’s Grill & Bar 441 Richmond Street 519-936-0745 moxies.com

Premium Casual

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Toboggan Brewing Company 585 Richmond Street 519-433-2337 tobogganbrewing.com

Brew Pub

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Villa Cornelia Restaurant 142 Kent Street 226-234-6267 villacorneliarestaurant.com

Continental Fine Dining

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Winks Eatery 551 Richmond Street (on Albert) 519-936-5079 winkseatery.com

Casual Dining Pub

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