CAST

Craig McCue ENSEMBLE

Craig is pleased as punch to be performing in his first Lawyer Show and returning to the stage after a lengthy hiatus. Before entering the world of law, Craig earned his Bachelor of Performing Arts from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. Some of his favourite past shows include Hamlet, Richard III, The Lion in Winter and Anything Goes. Last Spring, Craig transitioned out of private practice and has been having an absolute ball with the Student Program Manager role at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt ever since. Outside of work, you can find Craig cruising thrift stores, at a music festival or at home annoying the neighbours with his excessive drumming.

Craig is proudly sponsored by Superstar Sponsor Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Breanna Moffitt ENSEMBLE

Breanna Moffitt graduated from the Allard School of Law at UBC in 2020. She is Legal Counsel at the Health Employers Association of BC. Breanna is a big fan of musical theatre and was the co-director of the UBC Law Revue in 2019 and 2020.

Mandana Namazi ROSIE |ACTING COACH

Mandana has been in over a half dozen Lawyer Show productions, last appearing in the “before times” as Hope Harcourt in Urinetown. Mandana has been performing in musicals and plays for over 20 years across the Province and in Washington State. Mandana has directed several shows, and will be directing one of her favorite plays, Crossing Delancey, next year for North Van Community Players. Thank you for supporting live theatre!

Keira Neufeld-Heinrichs ENSEMBLE | ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER | DANCE CAPTAIN

Kiera grew up dancing on the prairies. She has been a dance teacher for 15 years, both in Saskatchewan and Vancouver, for all ages and nearly all disciplines, and she especially loves teaching ballet. She is honoured to be included in the fabulous ensemble for Mamma Mia! 2023 and hopes the performance inspires us all to dance, sing, and laugh more often!

Jennine Punzalan LISA | ENSEMBLE

Jennine Punzalan is a second-year litigation associate at Bennett Jones LLP. She is also a Board Director and Mentorship Committee Co-Chair of the Federation of Asian-Canadian Lawyers (BC Branch). Jennine attended law school at UBC and Dalhousie, and clerked at the Federal Court in Ottawa. In fact, she has performed an ABBA song for the Federal Court judges. To obtain the video evidence, you will have to be highly persuasive to the right people. In high school, Jennine was a theatre kid, with notable roles such as the Baker’s Wife from Into The Woods and Maisie from The Boy Friend. She continues to be a massive musical theatre geek and appreciates the opportunity to indulge her interest through her first ever Lawyer Show!

Jennine is proudly sponsored by Superstar Sponsor Bennett Jones LLP

STAY FOR OUR RECEPTION!

After every evening performance, we hold an exclusive post-show reception featuring hors d’oeuvres and a fantastic silent auction! We will be holding the reception right here at the Waterfront!

Felicia Slogoski ENSEMBLE

Felicia Slogoski just finished her first year of law school at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, after graduating with a BA in Political Science with Distinction from UBC and completing a graduate program at Columbia University. Originally from Regina (Go Riders!), Felicia has called North Vancouver home for fifteen years. Currently, Felicia is a volunteer for the Law Students Legal Advice Program and sits on the Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grant Committee. Prior to law school, Felicia managed a legal advocacy program in the Downtown Eastside and worked in international environmentalism, including being a Canadian delegate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Future career goals include: getting a job, preferably a paying job. You will be able to spot Felicia on the Mamma Mia stage at the bar. Cheers!

Linda Sum

DONNA SHERIDAN

Linda is absolutely eftychisménos to be in the Greek Islands for her 10th appearance in The Lawyer Show. Previous roles include Pennywise (Urinetown), Trix (Drowsy Chaperone) Motormouth Maybelle (Hairspray) Paulette (Legally Blonde), Domina (Forum), and Jenny Southstreet (Guys and Dolls). She has also appeared in many community productions, including The Music Man, The King and I, The Forbidden Phoenix, Heathers the Musical, The Wedding Singer, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Theory of Everything and Flower Drum Song. She is currently on the boards of Touchstone Theatre and Richmond Gateway Theatre. Linda works as a DEI consultant and harassment investigator. This performance is dedicated to her own funny little girls.

Celia Taylor ENSEMBLE

Celia Taylor is currently completing her articles at the Community Legal Assistance Society. She holds a JD from the University of Victoria and a double honours degree in Theatre Studies and Classics from McGill. She can usually be found theatre-ing when she is not lawyering: she is the founder and artistic director of Edmonton-based theatre company Empress of Blandings Productions; she is currently sitting on the board of directors of Realwheels Theatre in Vancouver; and her play Civis Sum will be mounted by Hapax Theatre in Victoria as their summer mainstage show this July.

Ilana Teicher ENSEMBLE

Ilana has been singing and dancing, in one form or another, formally and informally, for most of her life. This is her second Lawyer Show, after being in the ensemble for Legally Blonde. As a huge fan of ABBA, disco, and 70s music in general, she is excited to be invited to the party that is Mamma Mia!

Vista Threthewey SOPHIE SHERIDAN

Vista is an adjudicator for the Review Division of WorksafeBC. This is Vista’s 7th Lawyer Show and she is thrilled to be playing Sophie Sheridan. In past productions she has played Vibrata in A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, a Hot Box Girl in Guys and Dolls, Vivienne in Legally Blonde, Dynamite Kamilah in Hairspray, and Sandy in Grease. Vista is thankful to be part of such a joyful musical with the spirited cast and crew of the 2023 Lawyer Show. She sends a huge amount of gratitude to her family for their support and patience. Enjoy the show and please continue to support live theatre and the arts.

Una Urosevic ENSEMBLE

Una practices civil litigation and completed a trial during the rehearsal period for Mamma Mia! Before becoming a lawyer, Una earned a science degree and worked as a researcher. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, bicycling, skiing, listening to podcasts, and reading non-fiction.

Roger Watts

HARRY BRIGHT

Roger is thrilled to be appearing in his eleventh (!) Lawyer Show production. His previous outings include the roles of Danny Zuko (Grease), Edna Turnblad (Hairspray), Lawrence Jamieson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Sky Masterson (Guys And Dolls) and Orlando (As You Like It). Roger has also appeared in stage renditions of Spider’s Web at Metro Theatre and The Mousetrap at West Van Theatre, as well as motion picture and TV productions such as Miracle and Untold Stories of the E/R. (He’s even been know to practise insurance litigation as a partner at Lindsay LLP from time to time.) But it’s great to be back on stage!

Roselle Wu

EMSEMBLE

Roselle is a partner at Harper Grey LLP. Her practice is focused on estate litigation, commercial litigation, insolvency, and real estate disputes. She is CoChair of Harper Grey’s Commercial Litigation group and their Insolvency and Restructuring group. Prior to attending law school, Roselle trained as a classical pianist and competed at the regional, national and international levels. At the age of 13, she performed as a soloist with the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra. Years later, as part of Harper Grey’s 100th Anniversary celebrations in 2007, Roselle performed as a soloist with the West Coast Symphony (playing Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto). While in law school, Roselle was in the Green College Players’ production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Patrick Aldous DRUMS

Patrick is currently the Senior Vice President of Nettwerk Music Group, Canada’s largest independent record label. Prior to joining Nettwerk in 2021, Patrick spent 21 years in private practice, most recently as a partner at Chandler Fogden Aldous Law Corporation where his practice focused almost entirely on the music business. Before attending law school at UBC, Patrick was a professional musician, having earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Patrick is a member of Battle of the Bar Bands veterans Mr. Fancy Education (four out of five members of which are in band for this production of Mamma Mia). This is Patrick’s first Lawyer Show, and while it has been some time since Patrick played for a musical theatre production, his wife is quite possibly the world’s biggest ABBA fan. So, he is very familiar with these songs. He dedicates his performances to his wife Janele (the other member of Mr. Fancy Education).

D. Michael Bain, K.C BASS GUITAR

Inspired, in part, by ABBA bassist Rutger Gunnarsson, Michael started playing bass guitar in 1979. After a hugely successful run as a failed professional bass player, he became a lawyer in the late 1900s and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2020. His Majesty King Charles III currently recognizes Michael as both King’s Counsel and King’s Bassist. This is Michael’s fourth in-person lawyer show and he has previously appeared in Spamalot!, Grease and Hairspray. When not practising bass (which is quite often) he is practising employment law at HHBG Lawyers in Vancouver. He is the editor of The Advocate, a magazine circulated to all lawyers in British Columbia (whether they want it or not). Michael spends much of Mamma Mia! playing with his G-string. Here we go again!

Doran Chandler KEYBOARDS

Doran Chandler is an entertainment lawyer at the firm Chandler Fogden Lyman whose practice focuses on providing services for the entertainment industry, including development, production and distribution of television, film and new media projects. In his life before law, Doran toured in a ’90s folk-rock band and has been a regular performer at the CBA’s annual ‘Battle of the Bar Bands’. Doran lives in Vancouver with his wife, 3 sons, 2 cats, beagle and an assortment of kids’ pet fish, bugs, frogs and lizards.

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Cappone D’Angelo GUITAR

Cappone D’Angelo is a technology lawyer and multi-instrumentalist. As a freelance guitarist and saxophonist, Cappone has performed and recorded in genres ranging from dub/reggae/ska/afrobeat (with Victoria-based Dadawah and Jambo Salama), to avant-garde noise and metal (currently with Vancouver’s Mr Bungle tribute Dead Goon), to contemporary choral music (with Nettwerk recording artists Aliqua). Cappone holds degrees in music (composition and theory) and law from the University of Victoria, has studied and worked as an audio engineer at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and designs and builds guitar effects and amplifiers.

Mark Slay PERCUSSION

Mark is glad to be back doing percussion in The Lawyer Show. For Urinetown he wishes he had an extra set of hands, but he is up to the challenge of playing such instruments as the triangle, woodblock, cowbell and mark tree! He can still be found drumming and singing in classic rock lawyer bands at various Battle of the Bar Bands shows. In his spare time he is a partner at North Shore Law practicing family and estate litigation and is still the only lawyer to quote Bruce Springsteen in the Court of Appeal.