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BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS
QUEER PRIDE 2012 JUNE 8 – JULY 1 PRODUCTION MANAGER
CHARISSA WILCOX LIGHTING DESIGNER
ADRIEN WHAN CHAMBER TECHNICIAN
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FEEL THE LOVE Queer Pride is an unstoppable celebration of love and acceptance, where our community unites to rejoice in everything we are and all that we can be. It is in this spirit that we offer you Queer Pride 2012 – a community focused festival of queer comedy, theatre, art, music, and parties. We welcome all of you who crave adventures beyond the expected, artists who refuse to conform, and communities who will not allow themselves to be silenced. On our stage, you will find a stellar line-up of Toronto’s most exciting queer entertainers, while Buddies After Hours offers up some of the most outrageous clubbing in the village. So come catch a show and dance until last call. Come queer, come straight. Come as you are and feel the love at Buddies.
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THANK YOU Creative Trust: Working Capital for the Arts is a new six-year sustainability program to support and strengthen twenty-five of Toronto’s most exciting and innovative music, theatre and dance companies. It exists to serve the mid-size performing arts sector – companies with budgets between $400,000 and $4 million – by improving their long-term artistic and financial viability. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is proud to have been chosen as a participating company and to acknowledge and thank Working Capital for the Arts’ generous donors: • Department of Canadian Heritage • Ontario Trillium Foundation • Ontario Arts Council • George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation • Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce • John McKellar Charitable Foundation • RBC Foundation • Brascan • Frances and Tim Price • The Harbinger Foundation • The McLean Foundation • Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Culture • City of Toronto Economic Development Sector Initiatives Program
• BMO Financial Group • Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation • Brimstone Holdings • Margaret Marshall • Sandra and Jim Pitblado • The Ed Mirvish Family Foundation • The K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation • The Geoffrey B. Scott Memorial Flowthrough fund, part of the portfolio of the Toronto Community Foundation • and other generous individual donors and members of the Creative Trust Board of Directors and Advisory Council
For more information please visit creativetrust.ca
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SUPPORTING COMMUNITY Each season, Buddies in Bad Times challenges and inspires audiences by presenting innovative and cutting-edge queer artistic programming. Your support is critical for us to carry on celebrating all that the queer community has to offer. Make a difference. Take a stand to empower queer youth and queer expression. Join Buddies and make your tax-deductible donation today. To donate, please visit our website
buddiesinbadtimes.com/donate or call lisaj at
416-975-9130 ext. 23 Jamie Ebbs & cassy walker, Young Creators Unit Photo: Tanja-Tiziana, doublecrossed.ca
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8
SATURDAY, JUNE 9
FRIDAY JUNE 1
JOY– THE REUNION 10:30PM
BUDDIES AFTER HOURS 10:30PM
O MANADA
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JUNE 20 JUNE 21 PRIDECAB PRIDECAB8PM 8PM
FIRE(CROTCH) SALE! 8PM
STRIP SPELL BEE 11PM
FRIDAY JUNE 2
WORK IT! 10
ICONOCLASM 8PM
THURSDAY, JUNE 28
FRIDAY, JUNE 29
SATURD JUNE 3
PAUL HUTCHESON’S PRIDE PACKAGE II 8PM
BITCH SALAD GIVES BACK 8PM
HOMO NIGH CANADA 8PM
BUDDIES AFTER HOURS 10:30PM
BUDDIES AF HOURS 10:30
THE MONSTROUS BALL 10:30PM
DAR
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CLUB CABARET / MUSIC COMEDY THEATRE
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SATURDAY, JUNE 16
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GENDERQUEER 2PM
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SUNDAY, JUNE 17 FREE FREE JANE JANE8PM 8PM
BUDDIES AFTER HOURS 10:30PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 23 AIRSHIP 8:30PM
BUDDIES AFTER HOURS 10:30PM
SUNDAY, JULY 1
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BUDDIES AFTER HOURS 10:00PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK 8PM FREAKS AND GEEKS 8PM
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BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE
2012/13 Season
SEASON PASSES NOW ON SALE PURCHASE BEFORE JULY 1 AND RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL TICKET VOUCHER
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BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS
BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS
Obaaberima
ARIGATO, TOKYO
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY
BY
TAWIAH M’CARTHY
DANIEL MACIVOR
DIRECTED BY
DIRECTED BY
EVALYN PARRY
BRENDAN HEALY
LIVE MUSIC BY
MAR 16 – APR 14, 2013
KOBENA AQUAA-HARRISON
SEPT 15 – OCT 7, 2012 BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PROUDLY WELCOMES BACK A STUDIO 180 THEATRE PRODUCTION
THE NORMAL HEART BY
LARRY KRAMER DIRECTED BY
JOEL GREENBERG
OCT 19 – NOV 18, 2012 BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS
THE 34TH RHUBARB FESTIVAL Raw. Radical. Performance. FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
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BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PROUDLY WELCOMES A CABARET COMPANY PRODUCTION
A FEW BRITTLE LEAVES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
SKY GILBERT
APR 24 – MAY 5, 2013 ECCE HOMO THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS
OF A MONSTROUS CHILD: A GAGA MUSICAL WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
ALISTAIR NEWTON
MAY 14 – 26, 2013
FEB 20 – MAR 3, 2013
FOR TICKETS AND PASSES CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT 416-975-8555 OR VISIT BUDDIESINBADTIMES.COM
Tawiah M’carthy, Obaaberima
Photo: Tanja-Tiziana, doublecrossed.ca
LAURA NANNI
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ESTABLISHED 1979
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being” – Oscar Wilde MISSION STATEMENT Buddies in Bad Times Theatre strives to fulfill the role of the leading alternative facility-based theatre in Toronto. We are committed to work that challenges the boundaries of theatrical and social convention. As a company we celebrate difference and question assumptions. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is committed to theatrical excellence which it strives for through its play development programs, strong volunteer base, youth-mentorship initiatives and ever increasing wealth of queer Canadian talent.
THE COMPANY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
BRENDAN HEALY GENERAL MANAGER
SHAWN DAUDLIN HEAD OF PRODUCTION
CHARISSA WILCOX PRODUCER
YOUTH PROGRAM COORDINATOR
CHY RYAN SPAIN APPRENTICE TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
ALISTAIR NEWTON* TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
ADRIEN WHAN
ERIKA HENNEBURY (ON MATERNITY LEAVE)
CHAMBER TECHNICIAN
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
CABARET TECHNICIAN
KATHERINE SMITH
LISAJ LANDER
JAZZ KAMAL
MANAGER OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
FINANCE MANAGER
MARK AIKMAN
BOX OFFICE/FOH MANAGER
RHUBARB FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
BARRY HIGGINS
LAURA NANNI
CYNTHIA MURDY
YOUNG CREATORS UNIT DIRECTOR
ASST. BOX OFFICE MANAGER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
EVALYN PARRY
JENNA HARRIS
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MANDATE Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a not-for-profit, professional theatre company dedicated to the promotion of Queer Canadian Culture. We are dedicated to producing, developing, and supporting queer theatrical works that speak to one, or both, of the following criteria: 1. QUEER, referring to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered identity, encapsulates the core of our organization. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a queer-run organization committed to representing the LGBT community by supporting its artists, and by telling its stories. 2. QUEER, referring to anything different or outside of the norm, represents the nature of artistic work presented at 12 Alexander Street. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is dedicated to work that is different, outside the mainstream, challenging in both content and form. (This second definition of Queer is not LGBT-specific) BAR MANAGER
PAUL HILL
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOX OFFICE PERSONNEL
DEREK BILLSMAN (PRESIDENT) RUSSELL MATHEW (TREASURER) JOE SIEGFRIED (SECRETARY) J. PAUL HALFERTY
THOM BRYCE WILSON HO EVELYN SHALLER-AUSLANDER KATHERINE BELYEA LINDSAY BREMNER
ELLEN RAY HENNESSY MARY BREEN DIANA KHONG DAVID SALAK
ASSISTANT BAR MANAGER
PATRICIA WILSON
BAR PERSONNEL
VICTORIA GARGARELLA MICHAEL MACKID GLENN DWYER Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT), the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), is a participating member of the Creative Trust, and engages under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement (CTA), professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA). *courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts
(PAST PRESIDENT)
THE ALEXANDER STREET THEATRE PROJECT BOARD OF DIRECTORS CATHY GORDON (PRESIDENT) RUSSELL MATHEW (TREASURER) J. PAUL HALFERTY KRISTYN WONG-TAM
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THANK YOU Buddies gratefully acknowledges the following members of the Buddies family for leading the way
THE DIRECTORS CIRCLE VISIONARIES
LEGACY CIRCLE
CHRISTINE ARMSTRONG & IRFHAN RAWJI JIM LAWRENCE & DAVID SALAK PAUL HAINS
ED CABELL & ROY FORRESTER RUSSELL MATHEW & SCOTT FERGUSON
BENEFACTORS BRENDAN HEALY DEAN ODORICO DEREK BILLSMAN ED CABELL & ROY FORRESTER GAVIN CRAWFORD HAROLD WU & LAWRENCE BENNETT JIM TENNYSON JOE SIEGFRIED & BRAD DOUGHERTY
MONTHLY DONORS BRENDAN HEALY CATHY GORDON CHRIS ROWLINSON DAVID SALAK DEREK BILLSMAN DIANA KHONG ED CABELL & ROY FORRESTER JERRY DOIRON JOE SIEGFRIED & BRAD DOUGHERTY KEN AUCOIN & GERALD CROWELL
JONAS GEISEN & GREGORY KIM LIONEL TONA LISAJ LANDER & RUTHANN TUCKER MARK A GERMAN MICHAEL BOYUK RUSSELL MATHEW & SCOTT FERGUSON WILLIAM HODGE & ROBERT WYLIE
LISAJ LANDER & RUTHANN TUCKER MARY BREEN MICHEL BEAUVAIS MITSUKO SADA PAUL HALFERTY RICHARD BINGHAM RICHARD MCLELLAN SARAH HUNTER WILLIAM HODGE & ROBERT WYLIE
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CHAMPIONS ANDREW JOHNSTON JASON CHURCHILL MAT & MITZ NIGE GOUGH SHINE ON FOUNDATION
FRIENDS & PARTNERS ADRIEN ISHAK ALNOOR KARMALI & DOUG ARCAND BETTY CARLYLE BRIAN MCBURNEY CATHY GORDON CHRIS ROWLINSON DANIEL D MOSES DARREN GOBERT DIANA KHONG DOUG KERR & MICHAEL WENT FEAZ RAHIM HEATHER RAMSAY IAN WALDRON & TIM REDMANN JAMES J ROBERTSON & JAMES SCOTT JEFF EVANS JERRY DOIRON JOHN AUSTIN JON KAPLAN JONATHAN HEPPNER JOSEPH MULDER
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RICHARD BINGHAM VASKO KOCOVSKI
KAREN LEBLANC KATHERINE SMITH KEN AUCOIN & GERALD CROWELL KEN POPPERT MALLORY GILBERT MARC MICHELL MARY BREEN MICHEL BEAUVAIS MITSUKO SADA NAOMI CAMPBELL PAUL HALFERTY PAUL HARTWICK PAUL KLEIN RAYMOND HELKIO RICHARD MCLELLAN SARAH HUNTER STEPHEN BROWN STEVEN LICO DR. THOMAS H BEECHY VAL K LEM WARREN SORENSEN WILLIAM C WECKESSER
Make a difference. Take a stand to empower queer youth and queer expression at Buddies. Join Buddies and make your tax-deductible donation today. To donate, please visit out website buddiesinbadtimes.com/donate or call lisaj at 416-975-9130 ext. 23. Thank you to all of the SUPPORTERS and VOLUNTEERS who give so generously to Buddies each season. We couldn’t do it without you.
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OUR AMAZING PARTNERS We are sincerely grateful to our corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies for believing in us and the work we do FESTIVAL SPONSOR QUEER MEDIA PARTNER
BUDDIES AFTER HOURS SPONSOR
LEAD CORPORATE SPONSOR MAINSTAGE MEDIA SPONSOR
CORPORATE SPONSORS
PUBLIC AGENCIES
FOUNDATIONS
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Proud to support Queer Pride 2012 We’re working together with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre to make a difference in our communities.
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