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jJ FSC ---- (204) 957-4900 -==- WWW.ESDALEPRINTING.COM The opportunity to work with David and Irene and lhe entire cast and crew has been a pleasure. It's been great working with Bob and Paul on the new arrangements. and watching the musical continue to evolve. It takes lots of patience from everyone, a relaxed rehearsal environment. and a strong belief in the process Not a day went by that I didn't feel that. thanks to a wonderful creative team of artists. I'm so glad Wmnipeg Studio Theatre took the leap to present this 'Wedding' and here's to many more productions ahead. Mazel Tov .. . Welcome 10 the Circle .. . and Le 's Celebrate Diversity!
Yours,
Kayla Gordon Artistic Director - WST
We originally wrote My Mother's Lesbian Jewish W;ccan Wedding as a way for us to spend time together. II's basically just a show we performed at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival about our family and we figured only a few people would see it, not even our families who are portraye In the stories. Instead, it got p'lcked up by Mirvlsh productions, played to almost 70.000 people across North America and has had a life ever since. We now spend all our time together as co-wnter/performers - and we are so grateful every lime we get to share these stories.
Even though Canada legalized same-sex marriage In 2005, homophobia IS still very present in this country - and we live above a country where this basic ciVIl right is still being debated. Despite MMLJWWs success, we sincerely hope that eventually a musical about two women failing in love and getting married will not _ seem like such a big deal.
II's been a rue pleasure to work with everyone 1lere in Winnipeg (and to stay wiih Jolie and her furry family!) - Kayla, Brenda. Paul and the incredible cast, crew, stage managers, band and design team have taught us new things about our show every day - and Ihis is the debut of Bob Fosler's beautiful new orchestra Lawton tions! Finally. we're thrilled to bring the show to the prairies for the first time. where I I I David used to live, and later toured often as a singer/songwriter. and where our Partners www.lawtonpartners.ca story tonight begins.
10th Floor - 305 Broadway Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3J7 Thank you for coming out and for supporting original. Canadian heatre. David Hein and Irene Sankoff "Kayla Gordon - Producer/Director Brenda Gorlick - Choreographer Paul De Gurse - Musical Director Bob Foster -Music Supervisor and Orchestrations Brian Perchaluk - Set Desi gner 1. My Mother's Lesbian Jewisll Wiccan Wedding Larry IsacoH - Lighti ng Designer 2. 10,000 Feet Sheena Sanderson - Stage Manager Rosebush Brett Mikulik - Assistant Stage Manager 3. 4. Ottawa Alex Espinosa - Costume Designer 5. Wiccan 101 Amy Wood -Assistant Costu me Designer Afraid Stephanie Sy - Assistant Directo r 6. Ri ck MacPherson - Production Manager 7. Oh! My Mom's a Lesbian Jorrel Camuyong - Production AssistanV 8. My Friend Jane 9. Hello Mother 1 Sound Operator Cindy Burke - Properties Coordinato r 10. We Love Winter 11 . Garth's Lament Greg Wood - Head of Sound We Love Winter Reprise Randy Harder - Lighting Board Operator 12. 13. The Birds and The Bees Ali son Null - Master Carpenter 14. Feelings Are Important Larry Van Went - Scenic Painter 15. Double Dale Greg Klassen - Publicity and Marketi ng 16. Romance 101 Rya n Segal - Graphic Artist and Assistant to the Producer 17 . Hello Mother 2 18. A Short History of Gay Marriage Leila Dance - Program Designer 19. Claire Comes Out Again 20. Five Mothers 21 . Saskatchewan 22. Porta Potty tAS1 23. You and Me 24. A Toast to My Moms
"John Bluethner -Garth Jeff Gordon - Drums Ka mi Desilets - Michelle Jessica Rodewald - Bass rRosemary Doyle - Jane Kris Ulrich - Gui tar/Mandolin SeWn - Otlawa and Saskatoon 1990 0 the present. "'David Hein - David Paul De Gurse - Pianist My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding is performed wi th no intermission. "Adam Hurtig - Sam
"Annabel Kers haw - Claire My. Mother's Le~bian Jewish Wtccan Wedding was produced by Mirvish Jaclyn Kurceba - Becki Prod~ctl?ns, Toronto In 2010 and in the USA was originally presented in New York Scott Peterson - Young David CIty In the 2010 ew York Musical theatre Festival! Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Irene Sankoff - Irene Executive Director & Producer. Stephanie Sy - Penny Photography, videotaping or other video or audio recording of this . Appears Courtesy of Canadian Actors ' Equity Association. production Is strIctly prohibIted. Rosemary Doyle tAS1 Rosemary Doyle comes directly from pla ying Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at her own venue, the Red Sandcastle Theatre, in Toronto. Although Martha was "a blast to play," Rosemary admits it David Hein is lovely to be re tu rning to th e beautifully functional couple of Claire David is an award-wi nning singer/songwriter who has toured North and Jane in My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding. Rosemary America , played numerous festivals, and released 4 CD 's. He holds originated the role of Jane in the break-out Toronto Fringe Festival a BFA in theatre from York University. In 2009, he and Irene Sankoff 2009 production and the subsequent. celebra ted Mirvish Productions wrote, produced, and starred in MMLJWW, which won "Outstanding ru n. New Musical~ and "Best Book" in the New York Mu sical Theatre Festival and was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award and John Bluethner Weston New Musical Award . MMLJWW has now played to over John is a graduate of York University's MFA program in theatre. Since 65,000 people and wi ll continue to appear in theatres across North then he has performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stage America this year. David and Irene are outspoken advocates for West and Theatre Calgary. John is also no stranger to the stage at same-sex marriage. Vi sit them online at www.mmljww.co m or the My MTC, the Wi nnipeg Fringe Festival and at the National Arts Centre Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding facebook group. where he has performed in both Fren ch and English. He has numerous appearances with Le Cercle Moliere including last season's Irene Sankoff hit Le Ri'vnanl and he also played Gustav opposite his wife Susanna Irene co-wrote MMLJWWwith Da vid Hein and originated the roles of Portnoy in Creditors in last year's Master Playwright Festival. Film 'Irene' and 'Michelle' for MMLJWW in NYC, Rochester an d Toronto, and TV appearances include Th e Lool out (2007), Less Than Kind fo r which she received a Broadway World nomination for Best (2010) and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009). Featured Ensemble. She holds an Acting MFA from th e New School For Drama. Favorite roles: Amy Sweeney in Zero Hour: The Last Hour Scott Peterson of Flight 11, one of the Top 10 History Channel prowams ,?f all ti n:e, Sco tt Peterson is very excited to be working wi th such a great cast Constance in Goodnight Desdemona. " Good Mornmg Juliet, Denise and crew on MMLJWW. He wa s recently seen at Winnipeg Fringe in Problem Child, and all 12 characters in the one-woman show, Festival 2011 in I Love You, Because (It's Who You Kn ow Moving at the Speed of Life. David and Irene are now working on Productions). He also performed the role of Friedrich In The Sound their next musical , Come From Away. of Music (Rainbow Stage) in 2007. He would like to thank his friends and fam ily for their unrelenting support. Annabel Kershaw Annabel 's career has spanned several decades and ma ny parts of Stephanie Sy Canada. She is happy to add Winnipeg to her li st of citie , having Stephanie has always aspired to appear in a musical about longed to work here for many years. Last seen at the Vancouver Jewish Wicca n lesbians, and now her dream is finally coming true. Playhouse in La Cage Aux Folies (Dec., 2011 ), she has also . Some of her fa vourite credits include: Avenue Q (District Theatre appeared in numerous Arts Club Theatre (Vancouver) productl?ns Collective), Romeo & Juliet (MTC), Velocity (Persephone Theatre). including My Fair Lady, Evita, Dinner With Friends and The Th mg Miss Saigon (Rainbow Stage), Faust (us): a fantasy (U of W), Zanna About Men. She has earned two Jessie Richard son Awa rd s, for her Don't! (Stage16), and 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee lead performance in Aunt Dan and Lemon and more recently in The (WST/Stage16). Look for her this summer as Rusty in Rainbow Elephant Man. Fil m and TV appearances incl ude Married Life with Stage's producti on of Foolloose. The power of love to her family, Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan, The Ciient List. The L Word and Jeremy, and Celine. Jumanji. Annabel trained at Vancouver's Studio 58 and is.a prou d member of the Canadian Actors' Equity Associatio n. She IS also a certified Yoga instructor. Kami Desilets Kami is a Winnipeg-based periormer wearin g many hats on and off stage. Acting, singin g danci ng choreography, direc ti ng . writing , costumi ng - there 's nothing she won't do for her I~ ve ~ f t h eatr~ . ~ost recently she has been working on Joseph Ara gon s third Illuminati Director - Kayla Gordon mu si cal for Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2012, and choreography for Kayla began her career in musical theatre with Sundog Productions Ri sing Star Academy of Arts. Ka mi is thrilled to make her first and soon moved on to periorm in many shows at Rainbow Stage, appearance with Winnipeg Studio Theatre in this fu n-fi lled show. including Funny Girl, Kisme t. Fiddler On The Roof and many others . Her directorial credits include hit musicals such as The 25th Annual Adam Hurtig Putnam Spelling Bee, The Producers (MTC Lawyer show), Little Shop This is Adam's first ti me working wi th Winni peg Studio Th eatre and he Of Horrors (PTE All-Dentist Musical). Hersteria (Wpg Fringe 2011 is thrilled to be a part of such an amazi ng company. Some of Adam's and more recently Spring Awakening (WST) and Altar Boyz (PTEI favourite past cred its include Th e Christmas Heart (Lifetime Ne twork ), WST). Kayla also teaches Acting and Musical Theatre at the The Don Cherry Story 2 and Rogue Cop (20 11 Fringe Festival). Look University of Winnipeg. fo r Ada m this year in the musical Fresher (WST ) in th is year's Winnipeg Fringe Festival! C horeographer - Brenda Gorlick Brenda has been involved in the periorming arts world fo r more than Jaclyn Kurceba 30 years as a performer, choreographer, director and coach. She is Jaclyn is a graduate of Tile Univers ity of Winnipeg theatre program currently th e Associate Artistic Director of Winnipeg Studio Theatre and has been pe rforming all her li fe . She began sin ging at an early and Director of its training arm . StudioWorks . Her stunning age with years of cl assicallraining. However, m us i c ~1 theatre ~ a s choreography has earned her rave reviews in such productions as always been her real passion. Jacl yn has appeared In productIons Urinetown (Persephone Theatre). Brenda's most recent works in clude throughout Australia and Canada . Recent works incl ude Hair:' A Tribal Salome (Manitoba Opera), Spring Awakening (WST) and Altar Bayz Rock Musical (Un iversity of Win nipeg), Trailer Park The MusIcal (Look (WST/PTE). Le ft Productions) and Avenue Q (District Th eatre Collective). Jacl yn is extremely excited and proud to be involved in the Winnipeg debut of Musical Director - Paul De Gurse MMLJ VVW. Paul's recent theatre credits include Avenue Q (District Theatre Collecti ve ). Zanna Don't! (Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2011 with Stage 16), an d Title of Show at Winnipeg Fringe Festival 2010 ~------(pocket Frock Productions). He also recently appea red in the 201 1 RAI N BOW Winnipeg Jazz Festival with the Paul De Gu rse Quartet. He has a Bachelor of Jazz Studies fro m the Universi ty of Manitoba . Look for RESOURCE him at the 2012 Win nipeg Jazz Festival with the Lucas Sader Quintet. C E N T R E
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