ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES Daryl Cloran Director At WCT: In a Blue Moon, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mary Poppins, Liberation Days, Peter and the Starcatcher, Closer Than Ever, Les Misérables, Boeing Boeing, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project), Betrayal, and Noises Off. Elsewhere: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Bard on the Beach); Tribes (Canadian Stage); Return (The Sarajevo Project), The Mill (Theatrefront); All For Love (National Arts Centre); Generous (Tarragon Theatre); Afterplay (Shaw Festival); The Last Five Years (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Time Stands Still (Theatre Aquarius); and This is How it Goes (Neptune Theatre). Other: Daryl has received the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director, the Toronto Emerging Theatre Artist Award, a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Director, and numerous Dora Award nominations. Daryl was also honoured as one of Kamloops Business Magazine’s Top 10 Under 40. Mishelle Cuttler Sound Designer At WCT: Debut Other: Mishelle is a composer and theatre artist currently based in New York City. She graduated from UBC with a BFA in Acting in 2011 and spent the next 5 years as a composer, sound designer, actor/musician and music director in Vancouver. She composed and performed in STATIONARY: a recession-era musical, which has seen three productions since its inception in 2012 – the most recent including a tour to Talk Is Free Theatre in Barrie, Ontario and an award-winning run at The Cultch in Vancouver. Her last project was as composer and music director for Pericles with A Company of Fools Theatre in Ottawa. In September of 2015 Mishelle moved to New York to pursue
her MFA in Musical Theatre Composition at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and looks forward to graduating in May 2017. Madison Henry Apprentice Stage Manger At WCT: In A Blue Moon, Habib’s Unforgettable All Night House Party, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight and Mary Poppins; Stage Manager for The WCT/WCT Young Company’s Bird Brain. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager for The Wizard of Oz (Project X Theatre); Stage Manager for Back to Beulah, Patience and The 15th Annual Director’s Festival, and Assistant Stage Manager for The Beaux Stratagem (Thompson Rivers University’s Actors Workshop Theatre). Other: Maddy is thrilled to begin another wonderful season at WCT! A very special thank you to Daryl for all of the opportunities he has provided to her as an apprentice; I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you. Congratulations on your new and welldeserved adventure – WCT and Kamloops will miss you!
As a child, Farren made his parents rent the “Rocky” movies so often that, much to his mother’s chagrin, the video store gave their life-size Rocky V display to Farren.
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