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BY DANIEL MacIVOR

DIRECTED BY BRENDAN HEALY STARRING MICHAEL DUFAYS, CARA GEE, TYSON JAMES AND DAVID STORCH DRAMATURGY BY IRIS TURCOTT SET & COSTUMES BY JULIE FOX LIGHTING BY KIMBERLY PURTELL SOUND & MUSIC BY RICHARD FEREN CHOREOGRAPHY HIROSHI MIYAMOTO HEAD OF PRODUCTION CHARISSA WILCOX TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ADRIEN WHAN STAGE MANAGER LAURA BAXTER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ALISTAIR NEWTON DIALECT COACH ERIC ARMSTRONG JAPANESE TRANSLATION MEIKO OTAWA CHAMBER TECHNICIAN KATHERINE SMITH APPRENTICE LIGHTING DESIGNER TANISHA TAITT DESIGN ASSISTANT JOANNA YU PROPS ASSISTANT CARE ROBERTSON CUTTER GEOFF HUGHES MILLINER KAZ MAXINE CHAMBER TECHNICIAN KATHERINE SMITH RUNNING CREW MATT ARMOUR HEAD CARPENTER KATHERINE SMITH CREW COLE ALVIS, MATT ARMOUR, WILLIAM AST, SUZIE BALOGH, PAULA BURROWS, THE SHANE & LINDY FUN FACTORY, KAI MASAOKA, ELIZABETH MCDERMOTT, SHANNA MILLER, ALEX TIGCHELAAR, JILL TOMAC GRAPHIC DESIGN JONATHAN KITCHEN, JAKCREATIVE.COM PHOTOGRAPHY TANJA-TIZIANA, DOUBLECROSSED.CA THANK YOU DAVID YEE, MIEKO OUCHI, MARCIE JANUSKA, NORIKO YOKOI, KENZO KIMURA, THE CANADIAN EMBASSY IN TOKYO, STRATFORD FESTIVAL, MIKE LEDERMUELLER, WILL SUTTON, AND THE CANADA COUNCIL

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Omoitsutsu Was it because Nureba ya hito no I fell asleep thinking of love Mietsuramu That he appeared to me?

Yume to shiriseba Had I known it was a dream Samezaramashi wo I would never have awakened — Ono no Komachi (c. 825 – c. 900) Japanese waka poetess

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In Western literature and art, and indeed in Western thought in general, there has been a long-standing tradition of identifying love with death. Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Iseult, Anthony and Cleopatra and Freud’s association of Eros and Thanatos are just a few examples that spring to mind. In Japanese literary traditions, love has been associated with dreams. The Buddhist implication behind this is clear.

At the heart of Buddhist philosophy is an acknowledgment of the transience of experience and the lack of permanence in human affairs. Of course, such transience is believed to underlie all worldly existence, but Japanese poets grounded much of their understanding of ephemerality in their treatment of love.

Love is indeed one of the more evanescent, fickle and mysterious of human emotions. Its power over us is singular. Love engulfs us; surprises us; abandons us. Love elevates us. Love tortures us. It moves us. It halts us. We are slaves to love. We are masters of love. But how do we know that love is not some elaborate trickery - the result of psychological projection, our fear of being alone, centuries of tradition, and a lifetime of socialization by Celine Dion songs, Meg Ryan movies and TV commercials? And if love is an illusion, why does it feel so real? Should we just ignore our hearts and give up on love? Or, is there anything to gain from surrendering to the spell of love and succumbing to its reverie?

It is these questions that Daniel MacIvor tackles with Arigato, Tokyo. A true man of the theatre, MacIvor has turned to classical Japanese Noh theatre to frame his exploration. Noh theatre is a form that dates back to the 14th century. Many of its characters are masked. Its plays are structured around chanting and employ a codified system of physical gestures. The actors’ movements are slow, the language is poetic, and the overall tone is trance inducing. Plots are usually drawn from legend and classical literature. The most impressive Noh plays are cautionary tales about romantic attachment.

Like love, great art creates a sense of expansiveness and eternity. It launches a search for understanding that is inexhaustible. Like an elaborate seduction, beneath each and every perceptible meaning lie others. Like a love affair, it always carries a seemingly infinite potential of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities. With Arigato, Tokyo, MacIvor invites us into a world filled with ambiguity, mystery and beauty. He gives us space to contemplate what it means to have a heart. He allows us to see beyond the waking dream that is love. He shows us that it is both the truth of love and the lie of love that completes our humanity.

Enjoy the show!

Brendan Healy, Artistic Director

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BIOGRAPHIES DANIEL MACIVOR – PLAYWRIGHT Daniel has written numerous award-winning plays including A Beautiful View, Communion, The Best Brothers, and Bingo!, and his work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Here Lies Henry, Monster, Cul-de-sac, and This Is What Happens Next. Daniel received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for his collection of plays I Still Love You and he was awarded the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre. He is also the recipient of an Obie Award and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It. He is currently playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre and Factory Theatre Toronto. With Factory and Necessary Angel Theatre he is currently developing a new solo play Who Killed Spalding Gray? and his play His Greatness is being translated into French by Michel Tremblay. Daniel divides his time between Toronto and Avondale, Nova Scotia.

BRENDAN HEALY – DIRECTOR Originally from Montreal, Brendan began his career as an actor, appearing most-notably in Peter Hinton’s production of Greg MacArthur’s Girls! Girls!

Girls!, presented at the 2001 TransAmériques Festival. It was at that festival that Brendan met Richard Maxwell, whose company, the New York City Players, is considered to be one of the most influential alternative the-

atre companies currently operating in Manhattan. That meeting led Brendan to New York where he interned under Mr. Maxwell and where he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to directing. Since relocating to Toronto over a decade ago, Brendan has established himself as a central figure in the city’s theatre scene and his work has been presented across the country. Notable productions include: Jean Genet’s The Maids, Nina Arsenault’s The Silicone Diaries, Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies and Wallace Shawn’s A Thought in Three Parts.

Brendan is a graduate of the National Theatre School’s Directing Program and he has trained extensively with one of the pioneers of the American avant-garde Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. His productions have garnered multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards and he is a recipient of the Ken McDougall and the Pauline McGibbon awards for directing. Brendan was the associate artist at Crow’s Theatre before becoming the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times and he is a regular instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada.

MICHAEL DUFAYS – YORI TOSHI Michael Dufays is a Graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (NYC) where he developed his love for acting and stage combat. Since then, Michael’s stage career has taken him from coast to coast, including touring with the award

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winning company, Red Sky Performance, in Raven stole the Sun, and touring Europe and the UK with the award- winning, Corpus Dance Projects.

Favourite roles include: Kyoketei, in Duel of Ages, originating the role of Horne, and playing SunWuKong, in Forbidden Phoenix (LKTYP and Gateway Theatre, BC), and Bill, in The Voice of the Turtle (The Classic Theatre Festival, Perth), which earned him a nomination for “Best Actor” with the Capital Critics Circle award jury. Favourite film credits include: Foster in, Shaolin Delivery Boy (Zed Channel/CBC), Clockwatcher in A Day At The Office (Bravo Channel/ CBC), and Det. Dumbo in Heroic Bloodshed (RiotAct) - receiving a nomination at the Action on Film Festival in L.A for “Breakout Male Action Star.” Michael has had the privilege of Assistant Fight Directing at the Stratford Festival for two seasons, is a Certified Instructor with FDC, and is a co-founder of RiotACT, a multi award winning Action creation team of fighters and filmmakers (www.riotact.ca).

Michael would like to personally thank Iris Turcott and Daniel MacIvor for this incredible opportunity to create a role in his play. Love to Brendan and the cast, to Casey and Dano, and thanks to mom for putting up with...you know... xo CARA GEE – NUSHI TOSHI Most recently, Cara performed in the remount of The Penelopiad (Nightwood, Dora—Best Ensemble).

Other theatre credits include Settlers, The Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination, 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls, Dead Wrestlers,

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and Family Story (Birdtown and Swanville); Ally & Kev (SummerWorks); The Real World? (Tarragon); The Rez Sisters (Factory); The Jones Boy (surface/underground); Stitch (SummerWorks-Spotlight Award); Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel); Spirit Horse (Roseneath Theatre); Flowers (Rose City Theatre Festival); and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Resurgence). Film and TV credits include Running Wolf (Narrow Path) and King (Showcase). Cara has a BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor.

TYSON JAMES – ETTA WAKI Tyson is thrilled to be making his main stage debut at Buddies! It’s been an honour and a privilege to bring Daniel MacIvor’s latest work to life with such an amazing team of artists. Tyson is a Ryerson University Acting Program graduate and is proud to have made his way through Buddies incredible Youth Program. There, he premiered his own work ‘speak’ under the direction of Evalyn Parry which went on to become ‘discharge’ in Toronto’s Fringe Festival, which included long time collaborator Paul Charbonneau. He is also a cast member of the well-received Queer Bathroom Monologues by Sheila Cavanagh and will be appearing in a second show later this season in Alistair Newton’s Of a Monstrous Child, making its debut at Buddies this May. Thank you Brendan for this incredible opportunity. Your confidence in me has been the greatest gift. To my mom: Your unconditional love has made all my dreams a reality. I love you. To the friends I call my family: All of this is because of you. You give me the

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strength to be exactly who I am meant to be. Thank you Daniel for this extraordinary story and thank you to Buddies in Bad Times for being such a magical place to grow up in. I’d like to dedicate this performance to my dear friend Hamish who took his own life in 2008.

DAVID STORCH – CARL DEWER Buddies debut. Recent work elsewhere includes: In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play, Misanthrope (Tarragon); Mr Marmalade (Outside the March at Summerworks); Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (Native Earth); A Month in the Country, Antigone, Travesties (Soulpepper). His recent work as director includes The Hours That Remain (New Harlem Productions / Saskatchewan Native Theatre); Robin Hood, Metamorphoses (Globe Theatre); Speed-thePlow, Glengarry Glen Ross (Soulpepper); Restoration (York University); The Palace of the End, A Number, Omnium Gatherum (Canadian Stage).

JULIE FOX – SET & COSTUME DESIGN For Buddies: The Maids, Blasted, Breakfast. Elsewhere: Someone Else, Seeds, I, Claudia, The Country (Crow’s Theatre); The Best Brothers, The Little Years, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Stratford Festival); Endgame, The Long Valley, A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper); The Patient Hour, Faust, The Designated Mourner, The Cryptogram (Tarragon); Cosmonaut (Canadian Stage); Geometry in Venice (Segal Centre); Frozen (Citadel); The Eco Show, Insomnia (Necessary Angel); On the Side of the Road, Little Red River

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(Theatre Junction); Possible Worlds (Theatre Passe Muraille). Opera: A Synonym for Love (Volcano/Classical Music Consort). Dance: Still Here (adelheid), Shudder (Susanna Hood), Bas-Reliefs (Chartier Danse). Training: National Theatre School. Awards: Cooper Award in Costume Design; three Dora Awards for Set Design; Sterling Award nomination (set design). Teaching: National Theatre School KIMBERLY PURTELL – LIGHTING DESIGN Previously for Buddies, Kimberly designed the lights for The Maids, Blasted, and Agokwe.

Most recent credits include Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata (Acting Up Stage/ Factory Theatre); Little One and Other People’s Children (Tarragon Theatre); Clybourne Park and The Normal Heart (Studio 180); Loveloss (Dancemakers); Svadba (Edmonton Opera); This Is What Happens Next (Necessary Angel/ATP); The Penelopiad (Nightwood); Someone Else (Crow’s Theatre); Rigoletto (Opera Hamilton); Proud (Proud Productions); Speed The Plow (Soulpepper); You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Stratford Festival). She is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award and three Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

RICHARD FEREN – SOUND & MUSIC Richard has been creating soundscores and music for Canadian theatre, dance, and film since 1992. Companies include Buddies In Bad Times (The Maids,

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Blasted, Silicone Diaries); Canadian Stage (THIS, The Test); Crow’s Theatre (Seeds, Eternal Hydra); da da kamera (Cul-de-Sac, In On It, Monster, Here Lies Henry); Mirvish productions (Terminus, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding); Necessary Angel (This Is What Happens Next, Half-Life, Insomnia, The Eco Show); the Shaw Festival (When the Rain Stops Falling); Soulpepper (Endgame, White Biting Dog, Fronteras Americanas, A Raisin in the Sun, The Chairs, Uncle Vanya, Endgame); Theatrefront (The Mill); 2B Theatre (Revisited); and VideoCabaret.

He has also composed music scores for films by Daniel MacIvor, Robert Lepage, Valerie Buhagiar, and others.

Richard has won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Siminovitch Prize.

HIROSHI MIYAMOTO – CHOREOGRAPHER “He moves in his own sphere, with a delicious air of the unattainable”(Oberon’s Grove, NY) “deep inward-looking power in his dance”(The Hindu, India), Hiroshi Miyamoto has performed nationally and internationally in the numerous choreographies in diverse styles including in his own choreographies. He is originally from Japan.

After completing his bachelor of law degree from Hosei University in Tokyo, he moved to Canada to study dance.

He was a student in the Performance Training Program at Main Dance in Vancouver, B.C. in 1995/1996, and a scholarship student of the Merce Cunningham Studio in Manhattan, N.Y.

in 1998/2000. His first full length contemporary dance work Mango Cherry Mix (2009) in collaboration with Navtej Johar has been chosen as one the three best dance works of 2009 by Timeout Magazine, Delhi. In Canada, his choreographies have been seen at Canasian Dance Festival, fFIDA, Harbourfront Centre, Kinetic Cohesion Provincial Dance Festival, Red, SooRyu Dance Festival, 8:08 Series, in the productions of Green Tea Collective and 3M Dances Collective in Toronto, MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels), Studio 303, and Tangente LAURA BAXTER – STAGE MANAGER Obaaberima, The Maids, The Silicone Diaries, Breakfast, Neon Nightz (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); The Public Servant, The Story, More Fine Girls, Happy Days, All That Fall, And Up They Flew (Theatre Columbus); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale (Canadian Stage Shakespeare in High Park); Dirt, Jitters (Soulpepper); Speaking in Tongues, Festen (The Company Theatre); Clybourne Park (Studio 180 Theatre); A Sleigh Ride Christmas Carol, Everyone, The Story, Macbeth (Caravan Farm Theatre); The New Electric Ballroom (MacKenzieRo); Reconciliation (Cabaret Company); Schoolhouse (Festival Players of PE County); Toronto the Good, The Real McCoy (Factory Theatre). For my Dad.

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ALISTAIR NEWTON – ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Alistair Newton is a Toronto based playwright, director of theatre and opera, founding Artistic Director of Ecce Homo Theatre and current Apprentice Artistic Director at Buddies in Bad Times. Alistair is also a journalist and published author, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab, former Apprentice Director for the Ensemble Studio of the Canadian Opera Company and holds a BFA from the University of Victoria. Recent work includes director/dramaturge for Bella: The Color of Love by Teresa Tova and Mary Kerr (Philadelphia Theatre Company, a commission for the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts), and director for the Canadian premiere of Edmund White’s Terre Haute for the 2012 SummerWorks Festival. Currently, Alistair is developing That Fitful Strain of Melancholy (or Edie didn’t fall) with playwright Jamie Ebbs. Alistair’s latest play Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical opens May 16th as the final production of Buddies 2012/13 Season.

ERIC ARMSTRONG – DIALECT COACH Eric Armstrong is a Dialect Coach for Film and Theatre, and is the Graduate Program Director (MFA) at York University’s Department of Theatre, where he teaches voice, speech, dialects, and Shakespeare text to students in the BFA and MFA acting programs. Recent

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theatre coaching credits include Blasted at Buddies in Bad Times, Blue/ Orange for Theatre Kingston, Another Africa: Shine Your Eye for Volcano/ Canadian Stage, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message... at Canadian Stage, Master Harold and the Boys for the Thousand Islands Playhouse, and Eternal Hydra for Crow’s Theatre. Projects in feature film include working with Michelle Williams and Sarah Silverman on Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz and coaching Isabelle Fuhrman in The Orphan.

TANISHA TAITT – APPRENTICE LIGHTING DESIGNER An actor/songwriter/ director/singer and newbie playwright, Tanisha harbors a deep love for the magic of light. She is pleased to be back at Buddies after serving as Apprentice Lighting Designer on last season’s The Maids and Nightwood Theatre’s The Penelopiad.

Most recently, Tanisha directed the Young People’s Theatre production of The Power Of Harriet T! and appeared at SummerWorks in her playwriting debut, Violent Be Violet. She co-directed YPT’s Would You Say The Name Of This Play?(NGGRFG), was Assistant Director of Soulpepper’s Faith Healer, and was the 2009/10 Apprentice Director for Obsidian Theatre. Known by her peers for marrying altruism with art, she has been twice nominated for a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for her commitment to artistic excellence and social justice. Tanisha is thankful to Brendan for being so welcoming and to her brilliant mentor, Kimberly. Next on the horizon -- directing the musical Bare for Toronto Youth Theatre.

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Obaaberima

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DANIEL MACIVOR

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BRENDAN HEALY

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OF A MONSTROUS CHILD: A GAGA MUSICAL WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

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BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM Buddies’ Artist Residency Program is a unique program in the country devoted to the nurturing and development of queer voices through the creation of original performance works. Resident artists are offered space and time in the theatre along with dramaturgical, technical, production, and administrative support.

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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

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

LISAJ LANDER

MANAGER OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

MARK AIKMAN

RHUBARB FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

LAURA NANNI

YOUNG CREATORS UNIT DIRECTOR

APPRENTICE TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

ALISTAIR NEWTON* TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

ADRIEN WHAN

CHAMBER TECHNICIAN

KATHERINE SMITH

CABARET TECHNICIAN

JAZZ KAMAL

FINANCE MANAGER

CYNTHIA MURDY

BOX OFFICE/FOH MANAGER

BARRY HIGGINS

ASST. BOX OFFICE/ FOH MANAGER

CARA VANDERMEY

EVALYN PARRY

BAR MANAGER

YOUTH PROGRAM COORDINATOR

ASSISTANT BAR MANAGER

CHY RYAN SPAIN

MAT MUIR

PATRICIA WILSON

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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) BOX OFFICE PERSONNEL

THOM BRYCE WILSON HO EVELYN SHALLER-AUSLANDER KATHERINE BELYEA TERRY BUSEY FRANNY MCCABE BENNETT NICK MACINNES JADE CAMPBELL SCOTT DARCY STOOP 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

BOARD OF DIRECTORS DEREK BILLSMAN (PRESIDENT) RUSSELL MATHEW (TREASURER) JOE SIEGFRIED (SECRETARY) J. PAUL HALFERTY (PAST PRESIDENT)

ELLEN RAY HENNESSY MARY BREEN DIANA KHONG DAVID SALAK

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 PAUL HAINS JIM LAWRENCE & DAVID SALAK

LEGACY CIRCLE ED CABELL & ROY FORESTER RUSSELL MATHEW & SCOTT FERGUSON JIM ROBERTSON & JIM SCOTT

BENEFACTORS LESLIE BALL

RUSSELL MATHEW & SCOTT FERGUSON

MICHAEL BOYUK

KEN MOFFATT

MARK GERMAN

DEAN ODORICO

BRENDAN HEALY

MARK PEACOK

SARAH HUNTER

SALLY WALKER

LISAJ LANDER & RUTHANN TUCKER

HAROLD WU & LAWRENCE BENNETT

MONTHLY DONORS KEN AUCOIN & GERALD CROWELL

RICHARD MCLELLAN

MICHEL BEAUVAIS

MITSUKO SADA

DEREK BILLSMAN

DAVID SALAK & JIM LAWRENCE

MARY BREEN

JOE SIEGFRIED & BRAD DOUGHERTY

ED CABELL & ROY FORRESTER CATHY GORDON PAUL HALFERTY DIANA KHONG LISAJ LANDER & RUTHANN TUCKER

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CHAMPIONS ED CABELL & ROY FORRESTER

JOE SIEGFRIED & BRAD DOUGHERTY

JASON CHURCHILL

BRIAN TERRY

DEREK BILLSMAN

ROBERT WALLACE

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FRIENDS & PARTNERS PETER ARCHER

RAYMOND HELKIO

JOEL ROTSTEIN

KEN AUCOIN & GERALD CROWELL

KATHERYN HELLERMCROBERTS

JUDITH RUDAKOFF & MYLES WARREN

JOHN AUSTIN & CHRIS LORWAY

JONATHAN HEPPNER

MITSUKO SADA

MICHEL BEAUVAIS

SUSAN HOICKA

BRIAN SAMBOURNE

JOHN W HUGHES

JAMES SCOTT

THE GREEN TEAM

LIONEL TONA

FLARE

ANDREW VAIL

JON KAPLAN

BILJANA VASILEVSKA

LAWRENCE CAMPBELL

ALNOOR KARMALI & DOUG ARCAND

LORNE WINSOR

NAOMI CAMPBELL

DIANA KHONG

THE CHARLIE AND LULE FRANKLIN FUND AT THE CALGARY FOUNDATION

ANONYMOUS

NORMA BLISS MARY BREEN STEPHEN BROWN BLAIR CAINS

OLIVIA CHOW DON CLARKE JERRY DOIRON CATHY GORDON GEORGE GRANT PAUL HALFERTY BEVERLY HARRIS CHRISTINE HARRISON PAUL HARTWICK

BRIAN MCBURNEY RICHARD MCLELLAN MARC MICHELL CARLA MORSE JOSEPH MULDER PAULINE PELLETIER KEN POPERT CHRIS REYNOLDS GRANT REYNOLDS MARC RICHARD

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.

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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

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We are proud to sponsor Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 2012/13 season.

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