2003/2004 The Libation Bearers Aeschylus / Tony Harrison Heinar Piller The Golden Ass Apuleius / Company Cameron-Lewis & Frid The Vic Leanna Brodie Rebecca Brown Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen / Christina Calvit Patrick Young Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë / Johanson Ralph Small

2004/2005 The Play’s the Thing Skinner, Durang, Frayn Paul Brown Alarum Within: theatre poems Kimmy Beach / Company Ralph Small Unity (1918) Kevin Kerr Patrick Young Women Beware Women Thomas Middleton Sue Miner Love’s Labour’s Lost William Shakespeare Heinar Piller

2005/2006 Picnic at Hanging Rock Lady Lindsay / Shamas Laurence Follows The Immigrant Years Barry Broadfoot / Company Alex Fallis Thirteen Hands Carol Shields / Chris Dawes Ron Cameron-Lewis Constant Players & The Dispute Marivaux / Watson & Lester Mimi Mekler The Country Wife William Wycherley Patrick Young

2006/2007 Radium Girls D. W. Gregory Ralph Small Canadian Kings of Repertoire Michael V.Taylor / Company Ron Cameron-Lewis Waiting for the Parade John Murrell Lezlie Wade The Maid’s Tragedy Beaumont & Fletcher Patrick Young A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Thomas Middleton Rod Ceballos

2007/2008 David Copperfield Dickens / Thomas Hischak Mimi Mekler Women of the Klondike Frances Backhouse / Company Marc Richard That Summer David French Patrick Young Pillars of Society Henrik Ibsen Heinar Piller The Trojan Women & Lysistrata Ellen McLaughlin versions Catherine McNally

2008/2009 A New Life Elmer Rice Scot Denton Murderous Women Frank Jones / Company Marc Richard Bonjour, Là, Bonjour Michel Tremblay Terry Tweed The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare Mimi Mekler The Taming of the Tamer John Fletcher Patrick Young

2009/2010 Widows Ariel Dorfman Bill Lane Don’t Drink the Water Brenda Lee Burke / Company Marc Richard & Suzanne Bennett Andromache Jean Racine / Richard Wilbur Patrick Young String of Pearls & The Spot Michele Lowe / Steven Dietz Ralph Small The Clandestine Marriage Garrick & Colman Peter Van Wart

2010/2011 Jane Eyre Brontë/Robert Johanson Scot Denton Child of Survivors Bernice Eisenstein/Company Ralph Small Witches & Bitches Shakespeare & Friends Kelly Straughan The Women Clare Boothe Luce Terry Tweed The Winter’s Tale William Shakespeare Mimi Mekler

This program is available in larger print. From the Dean and Vice Principal Academic, Theatre Erindale Production History University of Toronto Mississauga … Year Title Author Director ______I am delighted to welcome you to the 20th season of Theatre Erindale, with a 1993/1994 The Farm Show Theatre Passe Muraille Patrick Young focus on the theme of "The Power of Performance." My congratulations to the Pericles, Prince of Tyre William Shakespeare Mimi Mekler students, staff and faculty of the UTM-Sheridan Theatre and Drama Studies Program for providing superlative theatrical productions to the Mississauga 1994/1995 1837: The Farmers' Revolt Theatre Passe Muraille Terry Tweed community. Our program combines professional dramatic training with a broad Lion in the Streets Judith Thompson Katherine Kaszas The Scams of Scapin Molière Mimi Mekler academic perspective, and attracts extremely talented students across The Relapse John Vanbrugh Patrick Young and internationally. As a member of the audience tonight, whether you are a Theatre Erindale Patron or a single ticket purchaser, you are in for a real treat. 1995/1996 Six War Years Barry Broadfoot / Company Cameron & Frid I know that you’ll find this evening at the theatre a testament to the power of The Rimers of Eldritch Lanford Wilson Jim Millan Les Belles-Soeurs Michel Trem Mimi Mekler plays to stimulate us intellectually and move us emotionally, often generating The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur Patrick Young new insights and new understandings of life's possibilities. - Amy Mullin 1996/1997 Story Theatre Paul Sills / Grimm Brothers Mimi Mekler The Gut Girls Sarah Daniels Katherine Kaszas From the Artistic Director … 7 Stories Morris Panych Patrick Young Mycenae (from The Greeks) John Barton, et al Simon Johnston Our twentieth birthday and twenty-first year! We’re very excited! And to celebrate, we have both an exceptional season and some super innovations in 1997/1998 A Harvest Yet to Reap Savage&Wheeler / Company Mimi Mekler store for you! The Hot L Baltimore Lanford Wilson David Ferry Vital Signs Jane Martin Patrick Young So what’s new? How about two new matinees? How about double the padding Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Greg Peterson and brand new upholstery on our auditorium chairs? And how about a new system of donor recognition to say thanks to our special contributors – the 1998/1999 Lovers in Dangerous Times Shakespeare & Friends Ron Cameron Fen Caryl Churchill Brian Richmond “Friends of Theatre Erindale”? The Women Clare Boothe Luce Patricia Hamilton

And what a season! We’re feeling these twenty-year-old muscles, so this year The Hypochondriac Molière / Alan Drury Patrick Young our theme is “The Power of Performance”! Every play reveals something new 1999/2000 The Millennium Project Dennis Hayes & Company Dennis Hayes about the potential for live entertainment to enrich and transform the lives of Pride’s Crossing Tina Howe Brian Richmond the people it involves. We’ll start with the Victorian magic and melodrama of Lysistrata Aristophanes / Rudall Vinetta Strombergs Charles Dickens, move on to the meta-theatrical heartbreak and hope of Hard Times Charles Dickens / Jeffreys Christina James disaster in Halifax, continue into the hilarious Shakespearean dreamworld of 2000/2001 Love’s Fire Bogosian, Finn, Guare, Ralph Small Anne Marie MacDonald, sail through the South Seas for the dramatic founding Kushner, Norman, Shange, Wasserstein of Australia, and circle back to Broadway to live with young hopefuls who Once Upon Our Time Dennis Hayes & Company Dennis Hayes refuse to be depressed by the Depression! The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare Ron Cameron En Pièces Détachées Michel Tremblay Duncan McIntosh Our annual collective adaptation is always an adventure – a work-in-progress All’s Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare Mimi Mekler for which our actors-in-training are not only performing together for the first 2001/2002 Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet Duncan McIntosh time but creating the play themselves! For 1917: The , it’s a and Top Girls Caryl Churchill and Zaib Shaikh particular pleasure to welcome back one of our early grads, Meredith Scott, to The Loyalist Project Ron Cameron & Company Ron Cameron the director’s chair. We also welcome Marc Richard on movement, Anthony The Children’s Hour Lillian Hellman Jane Carnwath Bastianon on music, and first-time guest Stage Manager Jan Munroe. The Beaux’ Stratagem George Farquhar Mimi Mekler The Man of Mode George Etherege Patrick Young After twenty years, graduates of the Sheridan-UTM Theatre and Drama Studies Program are seen on CBC and at Second City and Soulpepper, running theatre 2002/2003 The Aberhart Summer Conni Massing / Alan Powe Katherine Kaszas Brass Buttons & Silver Horseshoes Linda Granfield / Company Mimi Mekler companies across the country, writing award-winning plays, and mentoring the Les Liaisons Dangereuses Christopher Hampton Patrick Young next generation of young performers. And it was your participation that helped Les Belles-Soeurs Michel Tremblay Vinetta Strombergs them to get there. Thank you. See you at the theatre! ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore John Ford Greg Peterson

Sincerely, Theatre and Drama Studies From the Director … FACULTY & STAFF 2011/2012

Bruce Barton ...... Drama Studies 1917: The Halifax Explosion Anthony Bastianon & Denise Oucharek ...... Singing, Music Direction Roger Beck ...... Professor Emeritus, UTM There was so much I did not know when we began this process. Until I picked Suzanne Bennett ...... Tutorials up the books we’ve used to create this show I (like many Canadians, I suspect) Steph Berntson ...... Drama Studies Kevin Bowers ...... Guest Associate Director did not truly understand the devastation that befell Halifax on December 6, Sarah Jane Burton ...... Movement & Dance; Choreographer 1917. I did not know, for example, that the Halifax Explosion was the largest Ron Cameron-Lewis ...... Styles; Professor Emeritus, Sheridan man-made explosion in history until the creation of the atomic bomb. I did not Nancy Copeland (Executive Producer, UTM Coordinator) ...... Drama Studies Alan Corrigan ...... Drama Studies know that Robert Oppenheimer studied the explosion in order to create the Cary DiPietro ...... Drama Studies bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nor did I fully understand why Teodoro Dragonieri ...... Character Mask Halifax, a city I know well, looks so different when one travels from the South Laurence Follows ...... Tutorials, Acting Technique, Styles Christine Franch ...... Program Support Officer, Sheridan Visual & Performing Arts End to the North. Merrylee Greenan ...... Assistant to the Chair, UTM English & Drama Dennis Hayes ...... Stagecraft As a company, we have been struck by the details of the explosion and the Aida Jordao ...... Drama Studies catastrophe left in its aftermath. Nearly two thousand people died, and many Robert Kennedy ...... Styles Sasha Kovacs ...... Drama Studies more were left homeless and severely injured. The recovery and rebuilding Daniel Levinson ...... Stage Combat; Fight Director & Guest Director would take years, but within minutes of the blast hundreds of survivors had Joanne Massingham (Head of Wardrobe) ...... Stagecraft, Production; Costumer dropped everything to take part in the relief efforts. But on a more minute Debra McKay ...... Theatre Organization, Stage Management Catherine McNally ...... Tutorials, Styles level, we have also been struck by the individual stories of survivors. These Mimi Mekler ...... Mask, Clown are stories of great courage, perseverance and loss. Our goal in creating this Jan Munroe, Julia Gaunt Rannala, Jennifer Schamehorn, Tom Schweitzer, Barbara McLean Wright ...... show has been to bring these captivating stories to life while trying to convey ...... Stage Managers Denise Norman ...... Voice and Text, Tutorials the scope of the disaster; a challenge in any case, and especially while creating Chantal Panning ...... Box Office the piece as we go. The result is a show that touches on both the historical and Heinar Piller ...... Guest Director the personal aspects of the Halifax Explosion, and one that we sincerely hope Martin Revermann ...... Drama Studies Alysse Rich ...... Drama Studies you enjoy very much. Marc Richard ...... Movement & Dance Dianne Robertson ...... Undergraduate Advisor, UTM English & Drama Bradley Rogers ...... Drama Studies Ed Sahely ...... Improvisation Meredith Scott ...... Voice & Text; Guest Director Sarah Scroggie (Head of Properties & Scenic Art) ...... Stagecraft, Production Dimitry Senyshyn ...... Drama Studies Jim Smagata (Technical Director, Erindale Studio Theatre) ...... Stagecraft, Production; Lighting Design Ralph Small ...... Tutorials, Styles Lawrence Switzky ...... Drama Studies Holger Syme ...... Drama Studies Joseph Taylor (Acting Technical Director, MiST) ...... Production Angela Thomas ...... Guest Costumer Peter Urbanek (Manager of Theatre Operations) ...... Stagecraft, Production; Set Design Peter Van Wart ...... Tutorials; Guest Director Patrick Young (Artistic Director, Sheridan Coordinator) ...... Scene Study, Professional Practice

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Rosemary Dunsmore, Bill Lane, Diana Leblanc, Andy McKim, Sue Miner, Diana Reis ...... Guest Artists Catherine Knights (Chair), Roger Beck, Tracey Geobey, Paula Gonsalves, Katherine Kaszas, Heinar Piller, Jenny Salisbury, Neil Silcox, Nicole St. Martin, Kelly Straughan, Matt White ..... Advisory Committee Michael Rubinoff ...... Associate Dean, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Sheridan Holger Syme ...... Chair, Department of English and Drama, UTM Ronni Rosenberg ...... Dean, Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design, Sheridan Amy Mullin ...... Dean and Vice Principal Academic, UTM

About the Sources …

We owe the materials for this collective adaptation to the generosity of NIMBUS PUBLISHING and its Rights  Friends of Theatre Erindale  Manager Dan Soucoup. Our heartfelt thanks to the following generous individuals and organizations Nimbus Publishing is the largest English-language publisher who are committed to supporting education in the arts and the future stars of Canadian east of Toronto. Nimbus produces more than thirty new titles a theatre. Their donations sponsor student scholarships, production materials and year on a range of subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces – children’s picture books equipment, capital projects, and guest artists. and fiction, literary non-fiction, social and cultural history, nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues. Nimbus – as its website proudly declares – Angels ($5000 plus) Roger & Janet Beck “publishes the best books on , New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nancy Copeland and Zaib Shaikh Newfoundland”. The Estate of Arthur L. Fernie Barry Green Nimbus also does distribution for numerous Atlantic publishers, making the company Associates of the University of Toronto Mississauga the biggest book distributor on the east coast of Canada. In 2005, Nimbus introduced a new fiction imprint called Vagrant Press. And in 2008, the company committed to VIPs ($1000 - $4999) Kevin Smith “green paper practices” for environmentally friendly publishing. Boosters ($500 - $999) Thom & Wendy Séguin Patrick Young

Nimbus acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Fans ($200 - $499) Ron & Lloyd Cameron-Lewis Gordon & Nadia Murphy Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Tourism, Culture Patrons ($50 - $199) Christopher Carlton John C. Dunning and Heritage. Elaine Eerkes Janet Fear Mary Hill Jack A. Frost Ltd. Nimbus is the “go-to” publisher for virtually everything about the Halifax Explosion. In Vic & Hilda Kushnir Robert & Audrey Lang addition to our direct sources for this show (Mary Ann Monnon’s Miracles and Jack McCaffrey Ken McMullen Mysteries and Janet Kitz and Joan Payzant’s December 1917), the catalogue includes Barbara Michasiw Denise Norman Kitz’ Shattered City, Michael J. Bird’s The Town That Died, Blair Beed’s 1917 Halifax Alice Piotrowski Catherine Rubincam Explosion, and Steven Laffoley’s Death Ship of Halifax Harbour – among many others Peter Silcox Diane Sprules on contemporary and historical Halifax sights and sites. Leslie Thomson Joe & Lisa Veit Ian & Shirley Young You can reach Nimbus Publishing at www.nimbus.ns.ca . Donors ($25 - $49) Mary & Ed Bajus Valerie Dobson JANET KITZ is one of the foremost authorities on the Halifax Explosion, which she Fraser McKee Judith Nettleton has been researching since 1980. Born in Scotland, she moved to Halifax in 1971 and Cheryl Sloan Betty Anne Smith became a research associate of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which has mounted two exhibits of her work. She is the author of bestseller Shattered City: the Contact Tara Verma, Coordinator, UTM Office of Advancement ([email protected] Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery (adapted into a CBC TV Movie), of 905-828-5214) or Jennifer Deighton, Manager, Sheridan Office of Advancement Survivors: Children of the Halifax Explosion, and of Point Pleasant Park: An Illustrated ([email protected] 905-845-9430 ext. 4032). History. She holds an honorary doctorate of letters from St. Mary’s University.  

JOAN PAYZANT is a long-time resident of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, across the Special Thanks to harbour from Halifax. She is the author of Like a Weaver’s Shuttle, We Love to Ride the Ferry, and the popular children’s book about the Explosion, Who’s a Scaredy-cat! University of Guelph Theatre Department Theatre Sheridan, Theatre Orangeville MARY ANN MONNON is a graduate of the Sydney City Hospital and Acadia Ken Simard (S + L Technologies, Kitchener) University, a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, a two-term Vice Woodside and Curtis families for their costume donation President Atlantic of the Canadian Authors’ Association, and three-term President of the Robert & Beverley Rhodes for their costume loan Nova Scotia branch. She is the author of an award-winning book for children as well as volumes of collected memories of Canadian troops in the Netherlands and of the RCAF Lou Massey + Spencer Smith - U of T Drama Centre (the latter with her late husband). Her own father survived the explosion. Terra Cotta Design Christopher Clifford

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Josh Wiles Hailey Gillis Hannah Jack Zenia Czobit Zenia Czobit Tavia Pereira Tavia Pereira Ben Hayward Owen Fawcett Fawcett Owen Sarah Robbins Ali Richardson Ali Richardson Megan Janssen Jonathan Walls Paul Falkowski Paul Falkowski Marcus Haccius Haccius Marcus Andrew Di Rosa Di Rosa Andrew Fraser Woodside Karyn Mcgibbon Mcgibbon Karyn Carolyn Nettleton THE COMPANY Lindsey Middleton Middleton Lindsey Cassondra Padfield Michael Esposito II Michael Esposito Alyssandria Messina Alyssandria Messina Set by Peter Urbanek Urbanek Peter by Set (in alphabetical order) order) alphabetical (in Elizabeth Stuart-Morris Stuart-Morris Elizabeth Adapted by the Company Movement by Marc Richard Richard Marc by Movement ptain ...... Owen Owen ptain ...... Fawcett Costumes by Angela Thomas Thomas Angela by Costumes Lighting by James W. Smagata W. Smagata by James Lighting Stage Management by Jan Munroe* Munroe* Jan by Management Stage under the direction of Meredith Scott Scott Meredith of direction the under Music Direction by AnthonyMusic Bastianon Direction ...... Hailey and Janet Kitz and Joan Payzant’s Payzant’s and Joan Kitz and Janet from Mary Annfrom Monnon’s 1917: The Halifax Explosion ...... Grace Smith Dramaturgy Dramaturgy Movement and Dance Ca and Dance Movement Music Captain Assistant Stage Managers...... Managers...... Assistant Stage Direction and Design... The play takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917 and after. There will be one 15-minute intermission. MEREDITH SCOTT (Director) Meredith is delighted to be directing her first production for Please turn cell phones, pagers and watch alarms completely off. Theatre Erindale, where she was once a student. A teacher, Photographs and recordings are strictly prohibited. director and voice coach, she currently teaches Voice and Text We regret that, out of consideration for both the audience and the performers, for the Theatre and Drama Studies program at Sheridan latecomers and re-entries are not permitted. College and the University of Toronto. In the past, she has run the Theatre School at the Atlantic Theatre Festival, taught at the University of * Courtesy of Canadian Actors' Equity Association Alberta, Randolph Academy of Performing Arts and served as Director of the Produced by special arrangement with Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, NS

Foote Theatre School at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. Previous directing FOR 1917: THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION and assistant directing credits include Blithe Spirit (Theatre Fanshawe), Oliver!(Assistant Director, Grand Theatre), Macbeth (Assistant Director, ATF), Lighting Operator ...... Esther Brown Grace (London Fringe) and various productions for the Theatre School at the Sound Operator ...... Andrew McGowan Atlantic Theatre Festival. Voice and Dialect Coaching credits include A Set Crew ...... Kaityln Alexander, Angelica Appleman, Madeleine Brown, Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Frozen, Blithe Spirit, I Am my Own Wife, ...... Kate Cattell-Daniels, Hannah Leigh Ehman, Equus, Vimy, The Constant Wife and Oliver! (Citadel Theatre), What the Butler ...... Jaimie Casson Henderson, Victor Pokinko Saw (University of Alberta), Peter Pan, Fiddler on the Roof (Grand Theatre). Properties & Paint Crew ...... Roberto Esteves, Paige Falardeau, Meredith is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies program, as well as ...... Courtney Keir, Tomas Ketchum, Jovan Kocic, Jaime Hernande Lujan, the MA Voice Studies program at London’s Central School of Speech and ...... Kelsey Murphy, Brian Postalian, Nicholas Potter, Brittany Rodriques, Chris Tribuzio Drama. Wardrobe Crew ...... Corri Hordjik, Tasha Ramondino, ...... Aaron Schaefer, Samuel Thomas Turner, PATRICK YOUNG (Artistic Director) graduated in English from Victoria ...... Hannah Vanden Boomen, Zachary Zulauf College, University of Toronto, trained in Theatre on a graduate scholarship at Make-up and Hair Consultant ...... Samantha Miller-Vidal Indiana University, and was soon a well-known actor across Canada. His Poster Design ...... Jim Smagata Toronto credits included the record-breaking hits Flicks, The Relapse, and the Front of House Crew Chief ...... Chiamaka Ugwu original production of Automatic Pilot, as well as Chinchilla and the last national tour of Spring Thaw. Elsewhere the range included Misalliance and FOR THEATRE ERINDALE Threepenny Opera in Boston, Uncle Vanya and Tobacco Road in Indiana, Windsor in Charlottetown, Dames at Sea in , Hay Fever across BC Artistic Director ...... Patrick Young and Scapin across Ontario, plus guest starring on such TV series as The Great Executive Producer ...... Nancy Copeland Detective and Night Heat. During the 1980s, he branched into playwriting, Manager of Theatre Operations ...... Peter Urbanek directing, and teaching. He is the author of the award-winning biographical Technical Director ...... James W. Smagata plays "Winnie" (also filmed for television), Aimee!, and Abigail, or The Gold Head of Wardrobe ...... Joanne Massingham Medal, plus numerous industrial shows. He has held the posts of Artistic Head of Properties and Scenic Art ...... Sarah Scroggie Director of Dalhousie Theatre Productions in Halifax, Director/Dramaturg of Stage Carpenter ...... Joseph Taylor the Music Theatre Writers' Colony at the Muskoka Festival, and Associate Production Assistants ...... Kylah Thomson, Hannah Drew, Director/Playwright in Residence at the Lighthouse Festival Theatre. Teaching ...... Julio Ospina, Tyler Hunt, Gevvy Sidhu includes Waterloo, Dalhousie, George Brown, Humber, and Gaya College in Business Manager ...... Rob Eberts Malaysia. He is the founding Artistic Director of Theatre Erindale and the Box Office Manager ...... Chantal Panning founding Sheridan Coordinator of the Theatre and Drama Studies Program Box Office Staff ...... Grace Barakat, Madena Aziz, Sumanpreet Kaur (which is now in its twenty-first year). For Theatre Erindale he has directed Public Relations ...... Nicolle Wahl fifteen plays and designed or adapted several more; for Theatre Sheridan two; Program ...... Merrylee Greenan and his numerous credits elsewhere include the second production of Midnight Company Photographs ...... Alison Dias Madness, the World Première of The Growing Season, and more new play Brochure, Season Poster and Program Cover Design ...... Alison Dias workshops than he can count.

The Cast . . . Stage Management…

ZENIA CZOBIT, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies JAN MUNROE (Stage Manager) Home Town: Mississauga, ON For Theatre Erindale: Assistant Stage Jan is thrilled to be a part of Theatre Erindale. She has stage Manager - Witches and Bitches; Front of House Manager - Jane Eyre; managed for years for industrial/trade shows and musicals, both Wardrobe Crew - Andromache; Set Crew - Widows & Don’t Drink the Water locally and touring Canada & the U.S. Originally a graduate of Other Companies: Darque - Beauty and the Beast; Mongo - High School Theatre Sheridan’s Technical Theatre program, Jan has Musical (Theatre Graydon) Favourite Saying: "We are all in the gutter, but welcomed the opportunity to work with such talented students some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde and the Creative Team. It has been amazing to see the research and imagination that has gone into bringing text to life. The Halifax Explosion was a horrific ANDREW Di ROSA, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies event. We have been blessed with this experience. Enjoy. Home Town: Pickering, ON Other Training: Voice Training and improvisation workshop For Theatre Erindale: Lighting Technician - A Winter’s Tale; Set Crew - Jane Eyre; Props Crew - Clandestine Marriage; BAILEY GREEN, 2nd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Box Crew - Andromache For Erindale Fringe: Robert - Landslide; Writer - Home Town: , PQ Other Training: Professional Landslide Other Companies: Gaston - Beauty and the Beast (Unionville Theatre Acting Degree - CEGEP John Abbott College For Theatre Company); Danny Zuko - Grease (Markham Youth Theatre); Laurie - Other Companies: Second Woman - The Tin Can People Little Women (Steppin Out Productions) Favourite Saying: “We gotta get out (Janus Productions); Tzeitel - Fiddler on the Roof (JAC while we’re young, cause tramps like us baby we were born to run” Professional Theatre Dept.) Favourite Saying: "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the MICHAEL ESPOSITO II, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the Home Town: London, ON Other Companies: Male Vocalist - Start Me Up! hide of a rhinoceros.” - Ethel Barrymore

(Canada’s Wonderland); Baby John - West Side Story (Grand Theatre);

Snoopy - You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (MTS Studio Production); MEGAN O’KELLY, 2nd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Howard -Inherit the Wind (Fountainhead Theatre); Balladeer - Assassins Home Town: Oakville, ON Other Training: Preforming Arts (London Fringe Festival) Favourite Saying: "For beautiful eyes, look for the Preparation, Sheridan College For Other Companies: Gilmer good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, - Godspell (Sheridan Prep); Audrey - Little Shop of Horrors; walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn Mabel Washington - Fame (Appleby College) Favourite Saying: "Every little moment has a meaning all its own.”- PAUL FALKOWSKI, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Sanford Meisner Home Town: Oakville, ON Other Training: Astral Media For Theatre Erindale: Wardrobe Crew Chief - The Winter’s Tale; Assistant Stage Manager - A Child of Survivors Other Companies: Scarecrow - The Wiz (Trinity Live Arts) Favourite Saying: "Journey beyond!"

OWEN FAWCETT, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies Home Town: Sudbury, ON Other Training: Sudbury Secondary School’s Performing Arts Program For Theatre Erindale: Gaoler, Bear, Shepherd - The Winter’s Tale; Assistant Stage Manager - Jane Eyre; Wardrobe Crew - String of Pearls; Set Crew - Widows; Set Crew - Don’t Drink the Water For Erindale Fringe: Victor - Thursday’s Child; David - Faith; Other Companies: Tom Collins - Rent; Bill - Never Swim Alone (Sudbury Secondary School); Bottom - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Salamander Theatre) Favourite Saying: “How do I know what to say? The words are written down for me in a script.” - Sir Ian Mckellan

ELIZABETH STUART-MORRIS, 3rd Year -Theatre and Drama Studies HAILEY GILLIS, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Home Town: Scarborough, ON Other Training: Metro Movement, Coysh Home Town: Grimsby, ON Other Training: Theatre Aquarius Performing School of Dance, Shakespeare School in Stratford, Soulpepper’s Studio 51 Arts Program, Armstrong Acting Studio; Triple Sensation; The Dance Center youth program For Theatre Erindale: Assistant Stage Manager - Witches (Hamilton) For Theatre Erindale: Assistant Stage Manager - A Winter’s and Bitches; Sound Operator - Jane Eyre; Set Crew - Clandestine Tale; Shepherdess - A Winter’s Tale; Lady - A Winter’s Tale For Erindale Marriage; Set Crew - String of Pearls; Set Crew - Andromache; Wardrobe Fringe: Co-Director - BASH; Lighting Operator - Erindale Fringe 2010; Other Crew - Don't Drink the Water For Erindale Fringe: Ann Cassidy - Companies: Top 6 Competitor - Triple Sensation (CBC); Rizzo - Grease Landslide; Stage Manager, Co-Director - Bash: A Gaggle of Saints; Stage (Theatre Aquarius); Wanda - Wanda’s World (World Premier) (Armstrong Manager - Faith Other Companies: Stage Manager - Love, Virtually Acting Studio); ) Favourite Saying: "Team Player of the Stars" (Toronto Fringe Festival 2011); Mother, Mover - Marriuccia; Beth - The Bad Day (Paprika Festival 2008) Favourite Saying: “love the art in myself, not MARCUS HACCIUS, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies yourself in the art.” - Constantin Stanislavsky Home Town: Shipka, ON Other Training: Beal Musical Theatre For Theatre Erindale: Sound Operator - The Winter’s Tale; Set Crew Chief - Witches and JONATHAN WALLS, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Bitches; Running Crew - Andromache Other Companies: Detainee - You Home Town: Mississauga, ON For Theatre Erindale: Set Crew Chief - A Should Have Stayed Home (Praxis Theatre); Troop -In the Trenches (Sawshack Winter’s Tale; Set Crew Chief - Witches and Bitches; Set Crew Chief - The Productions); Narrator - Into the Woods (Beal Musical Theatre) Favourite Women; Properties Crew Chief - Jane Eyre; Properties Crew Chief - A Child Saying: “Inspector Clay is dead. murdered. and somebody’s responsible!” of Survivors; Other Companies: Pentheus - The Bacchae (The People’s Studio); Tristan - Piece (UofT Drama Festival); Three - Even Better Living BEN HAYWARD, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies (Fly By Night) Favourite Saying: "’Reality’ is a word with many meanings" Home Town: Mississauga, ON Other Training: Factory Theatre Young - Peter Brook Playwrights Unit For Theatre Erindale: Front of House - The Women; Wardrobe Crew Chief - A Child of Survivors Other Companies: Writer, JOSHUA WILES, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Performer - Pathetic ; Writer - Faith (U of T Drama Fest); Writer, Performer - Home Town: Belleville, ON For Theatre Erindale: Bard - The Winter’s Think Tank (Toronto Fringe Festival) Favourite Saying: “I’m not gonna call Tale; Props Crew Chief - Witches and Bitches; Set Crew Chief - Jane Eyre Endgame a Christmas story, but it is seasonal.” - Mark Crimmins Other Companies: Jared - Love, Virtually (Working Title Theatre); Dionysus The Bacchae (The People’s Studio); Jacob Mercer - Salt Water Moon (QCHS HANNAH JACK, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Alumni Company) An - Forgive Us Our Trespasses (U of T Drama Fest) Josh Home Town: Fergus, ON For Theatre Erindale: Props - A Winter’s Tale; - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] (JJP Productions) Assistant Stage Manager - A Child of Survivors; Wardrobe Crew - Andromache; Set Crew - Don't Drink the Water; Set Crew - Widows For Favourite Saying: "An ounce of behaviour is worth a pound of words." - Erindale Fringe: Ruth - Thursday’s Child Other Companies: Various - The Sanford Meisner Second City Presents: Teen Troupe (The Second City) Favourite Saying:

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” - Iris Murdoch FRASER WOODSIDE, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Home Town: Toronto, ON For Erindale Fringe: Forgive Us Our Trespasses; Director - A Gaggle of Saints; Landslide Other Companies: MEGAN JANSSEN, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Tevye - Fiddler on the Roof (UCC); Prince John - A Musical called Robin Home Town: Hamilton, ON Other Training: Theatre Aquarius Student Hood; Stone - City of Angels (TYT) Favourite Saying: "There is nothing like Summer Theatre For Theatre Erindale: Front of House - Witches and the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell Bitches; Assistant Stage Manager - Jane Eyre For Erindale Fringe: Emma - ourselves" - Laura Moncur Open Book Other Companies: Dance Instructor - Fame (Theatre Ancaster); Patty - Grease (Theatre Aquarius) Favourite Saying: “we are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” - Winston Churchill

KARYN MCGIBBON, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies CASSONDRA PADFIELD, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies Home Town: Aurora, ON Other Training: Somerville Dance Academy; The Home Town: Waterloo, ON Other Training: Performing Arts Preparation at Piano Studio, Newmarket; Aurora Performing Arts Group; Shakespeare and Sheridan College For Theatre Erindale: Lady, Sheppardess - The Winter’s Company For Theatre Erindale: Assistant Stage Manager - The Winter’s Tale; Props - The Women; Front of House - A Child of Survivors; Wardrobe - Tale; Wardrobe Crew Chief - Jane Eyre; Wardrobe Crew - String of Pearls; Clandestine Marriage For Theatre Sheridan: Stacey - The Musical For Props Crew - Don’t Drink the Water; Props Crew - Widows For Erindale Erindale Fringe: Sue – Bash Favourite Saying: "Everyone is a little bit Fringe: Stage Manager - Thursday’s Child; Running Crew - The Russian crazy, it’s just that some get caught." Play Other Companies: Alice - Alice in Wonderland; Juliet - Drop Dead Juliet (Aurora High School); Granny - Into the Woods (Aurora Performing TAVIA PEREIRA, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies Arts Group) Home Town: Whitby, ON Other Training: Royal Conservatory of Music, Grade 7 Voice For Theatre Erindale: Wardrobe Crew Chief - The Women; ALYSSANDRA MESSINA, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies Props Crew Chief - A Child of Survivors; Props Crew Chief - Jane Eyre For Home Town: Toronto, ON For Theatre Erindale: Wardrobe Crew - Witches Other Companies: Ela Delahay - Charley’s Aunt (On Stage Uxbridge); and Bitches; Props Crew Chief - A Child of Survivors; Props Crew Chief - Holly Fitch - Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun (Borelians); Ensemble - Departures Jane Eyre; Wardrobe Crew - Andromache; Set Crew - Widows Other and Arrivals (Durham Shoestring Performers) Favourite Saying: "Four of Companies: Lola - Damn Yankees; Mary Magdalene - Jesus Christ Superstar you Glen Coco! You go Glen Coco!" (St. Michael’s College Schools) Favourite Saying: “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re ALI RICHARDSON, 3rd Year - Theatre and Drama Studies wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never walk up Home Town: Halifax, NS Other Training: DaPoPo Theatre Co., Zuppa and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” Theatre Co., Canadian Improv Games For Theatre Erindale: Assistant Stage Manager - A Child of Survivors; Wardrobe Crew - Widows; Set Crew - LINDSEY MIDDLETON, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies Clandestine Marriage; Set Crew - Andromache; For Erindale Fringe: Home Town: Ridgeway, ON Other Training: Unraku Puppetry Studio, Donna, Writer - Thursday’s Child; Director - Pathetic; Co-Director- Faith Gypsy Theatre Academy, Fort Erie For Theatre Erindale: Miss Other Companies: The F Word, The Vagina Monologues (360 Productions); Trimmerback - The Women For Erindale Fringe: Zelda - Angel’s Trumpet; Hello Sailor! (DaPoPo Theatre); Intern Producer - Homage (2b Theatre Stage Manager - The Russian Play; Jessica - Forgive us our Trespasses; For Company) Favourite Saying: “Speak your truth, quietly and clearly, and Other Companies: Van's Sister - Dog Sees God (Fly By Night); Peter Pan - listen to others - they too have their story.” - Max Ehrmann Peter Pan (Gypsy Theatre); Singer - One Song Glory (Acting Up Stage) Favourite Saying: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, SARAH ROBBINS, 3rd Year- Theatre and Drama Studies but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” Home Town: Oakville, ON Other Training: English Major For Theatre Erindale: Wardrobe Crew Chief - The Winter’s Tale; Lighting Operator - CAROLYN NETTLETON, 3rd Year, Theatre and Drama Studies Child of Survivors; Set Crew - Andromache, String of Pearls, The Clandestine Home Town: Toronto, ON Other Training: Etobicoke School of the Arts, Marriage, Wardrobe Crew - Widows Other Companies: Stage Manager - Toronto Youth Music Theatre Company, Stratford Shakespeare School, Landslide (U of T Drama Festival); Director - Elevator Play; Dotty Otley - Theatre Ontario Youth Courses For Theatre Erindale: Lighting Operator - Noises Off! (Iroquois Ridge Drama); Trish/Chorus - The Last Supper (Sears Jane Eyre; Wardrobe Crew - The Clandestine Marriage; Props Crew - Drama Festival) Favourite Saying: “Sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool Widows; Props Crew - Don’t Drink the Water; For Other Companies: hand.” Cosette - Les Miserables (Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts); Lady Larken - Once Upon a Mattress (Toronto Youth Music Theatre Company); Chorus - Urinetown (Etobicoke School of the Arts) Favourite Saying: "Those who dream by day are congnizant of many things that escape those who dream by night." - Edgar Allan Poe