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the arts, One of the most enduring tales in as a special one-week event and our part of this country is the story of became an instant hit, with many the Donnelly family, who settled in audience members returning for a locally. nearby Lucan in the 1800s. Growing second (or third) time. The requests up in London, we have all been to bring the show back have been exposed to one version or another constant—and so, it gives us great about the tragic, violent feud and pleasure to present this production, ultimate destruction of this family of once again, for an extended stay. immigrants from Ireland. This ver- It appears that some stories never, sion, by Jonathan Christenson, takes ever, ever die. We return to this the legend to new heights, employing production for a second consideration contemporary music to set the story of these boys and their mother. What on fire. The facts (and speculations) we will ponder anew? Where will our are laid bare, the debate rages on, and allegiance lie this time? Let the music the ghosts return. play and the conversation begin again: We presented this production in my welcome to the dreadfully delightful very first year here two years ago. It world of Vigilante. comes to us from the imaginative team at Catalyst Theatre based in dennis garnhum Each year, through various donations Edmonton, Alberta. It was presented artistic director and sponsorships, we are committed to helping our local communities. We would like to acknowledge the history of the traditional territory in which the Grand Theatre operates. We We’re proud to be the 2018/2019 season would also like to respect the longstanding relationships of the three local First Nations groups of this land and sponsor of the Grand Theatre. place in Southwestern Ontario. The three First Nations communities closest in proximity to the Grand are the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation (part of the Anishinaabe), the Oneida Nation of the Thames (part of the Haudenosaunee) and the Munsee-Delaware Nation (part of the Leni-Lunaape).

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started 2015 Premiere commissioned by the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton) developed in collaboration London with Canada’s National Arts Centre (888) 327-5777 selectpath.ca Vigilante is 2 hours plus a 15-minute intermission. Grand Gala CREATIVE TEAM Director JONATHAN CHRISTENSON Choreographer LAURA KREWSKI* Orchestration & Vocal Arrangements JONATHAN CHRISTENSON 2019 Music Producer & Additional Orchestrations MATTHEW SKOPYK Sound Designer WADE STAPLES SAVE Music Director (Band) MATTHEW SKOPYK Music Director (Singers) JONATHAN CHRISTENSON THE Production Dramaturg SARAH GARTON STANLEY Date Original Voice, Speech & Text Director BETTY MOULTON Costume, Hair & Make Up Designer NARDA McCARROLL Lighting Designer BETH KATES June 13 Set Concept & Realization JONATHAN CHRISTENSON & JAMES ROBERT BOUDREAU 2019 Dialect Coach DOUG MERTZ SPRIET STAGE production team Production Manager BROOKLYNE ALEXANDER Stage Manager JOHN RAYMOND* Assistant Stage Manager MOLLY PEARSON* Sound Operator MICHAEL CARON Set Consultant – Scenic Paint & Finishes MARISSA KOCHANSKI Consulting Scenic Carpenter CHRIS HAYES I HAVE A Associate to the Lighting Designer JEFF PRYBUS Set built by CITADEL THEATRE SHOPS, IATSE LOCAL 210 Costumes built by UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA COSTUME DEPARTMENT Wigs by SAMANTHA RUMBALL Hair Styling by LLOYD G. BELL DREAM Make Up by MICHAEL DEVANNEY honouring louise pitre * Appears with Permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association

Catalyst Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (pact) and engages, in support of under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Actors’ Equity Association (caea). Make a Difference Youth Programs and the High School Project Catalyst also acknowledges the support of Keyano Theatre (Fort McMurray) for hosting the 2014 workshop production of Vigilante; Bob Baker and Penny Ritco, the Department of Drama (University of Alberta), James Tickets Tables Robert Boudreau, Betty Moulton, Jenny Erb, Jonathan Purvis, Morgan Gies, Nathan Setterlund, Megan Koshka, ea. Kevin Green, Jennifer Goodman, Brenda McNicol, The Edmonton Opera, Lucas Meeuse, Allison Lynch, Flo $250 $2500 Schultz, Candice Charney and Eva Cairns. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. To book your tickets or to enquire about PRESENTED BY Sponsorship Opportunities please contact: [email protected] CATALYST THEATRE Artistic Director JONATHAN CHRISTENSON Resident Designer BRETTA GERECKE Associate Managing Director LANA MICHELLE HUGHES Company & Production Manager BROOKLYNE ALEXANDER Fund Development Coordinator GLENDA DENNIS Bookkeeping ROSS & SYLVESTRE LLP

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SECOND ACT ABOUT CATALYST THEATRE Catalyst Theatre creates original productions that have been presented at more than 85 theatres throughout Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Australia and the United States. Under the leadership of writer, composer and director Jonathan Christenson and with the ongoing collaboration of Resident Designer Bretta Gerecke, these productions have included The House of Pootsie Plunket, The Blue Orphan, Frankenstein, Nevermore — The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Hunchback and Fortune Falls. The company is also the recip- ient of more than 120 local, national and international awards & nominations including three Lortel Award nominations (Outstanding Musical, Choreography and Costume Design) for the NOW Off- Broadway production ofNevermore — The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. Catalyst’s creative and administrative home is the 700-seat Maclab Theatre in the heart of 60% Edmonton’s downtown Arts District. SOLD Catalyst Theatre | 9828 101A Avenue NW | Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3C6 www.catalysttheatre.ca | Tel: 780 431 1750 You can also follow Catalyst on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

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Vigilante is inspired by the story of James and Johannah Donnelly, Irish immigrants who settled in Canada in the mid-nineteenth century. Their story has attracted many writers and historians over the years, but the facts remain elusive. What actually happened is sometimes sketchy or contradictory. There have been as many different versions of their tale as there have been writers who have told it. While it’s tempting to want to establish exactly what happened to the historical Donnellys, I wonder if it’s ever really possible, in the end, to know the full truth of anyone’s story? An event experienced by twenty different people will have as many different variations. Who’s to say which one is the truth? It’s been said that history is told by the victors, a reminder that what we call “history” is vulnerable to the biases of those who present it as fact. One thing that seems certain is that we’ll likely never know exactly what the Donnellys did, or what was done to them, or why it happened, or what they were actually like as people. The Donnellys of Vigilante are unapologetically imaginary. Their story is closer to a dream of what might have happened than a representation of the historical Donnellys — a “what if,” inspired by the fragments of historical fact that we have at our disposal: what if there were such a thing as ghosts? And what if those ghosts could speak? The story they might tell would be as much a love story as it would be a story of hate, a story told by those who have never had the chance to speak — the imaginary ghosts of the Donnelly boys themselves. As someone who is interested in exploring larger-than-life characters whose individual stories become collective ones that invite us to reflect upon who we are and the world we live in, I see the Donnellys as tragic antiheroes in a particularly modern myth. In an age when the politics of anger are on the rise, when vigilantism is re-surfacing as a viable alternative to the perceived failures of our judiciary systems, and acts of terror are increasingly normalized all over the world, Proud to support the their story feels ripe for retelling and full of fresh meaning and relevance nearly two Accessing the Arts program. hundred years after it first happened. jonathan christenson We’re working together with the Grand Theatre to help create a future we can all look forward to.

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4972-0818 Here in 2019, we continue to keep the Donnellys alive through new creative reinterpretations and reimaginings, like Christenson’s Vigilante. So popular are the Donnellys that the stories are too numer- ous to name them all. There are books like Ray Fazakas’ The Donnelly Album (1977), which serves as an archival record of the family’s life in Lucan, while Thomas Kelley provides us with fictional accounts in The Black Donnellys (1954) and The Vengeance of the Black Donnellys (1962). There have been other plays too, such as James Reaney’s The Donnelly Trilogy (1974–75) and Ted Johns’ The Death of the Donnellys (1980), as well as a 2017 film titled Black Donnellys, and a 2007 nbc television series of the same name, which took inspiration from the real-life Donnellys to tell the story of an Irish-American family in present day New York, navigating the world OPPOSITE: WILL DONNELLY, 1874 (RAY FAZAKAS COLLECTION); JENNY DONNELLY. THIS PAGE: of organized crime. MICHAEL DONNELLY; THE DONNELLY HOMESTEAD (BOTH E. JEAN HODGINS). COURTESY LUCAN AREA Though the Donnellys were laid to rest over HERITAGE & DONNELLY MUSEUM. a hundred years ago, their story is anything but dead and buried. Instead, we continue to THE DONNELLYS wonder, imagine, and create around the mys- tery and mythology inspired by this Southern A SOUTHERN ONTARIO SAGA Ontario family of Irish immigrants. meghan o’hara When the Donnelly family was massacred, These are questions to which we will likely education and outreach coordinator they left behind a mystery—even with the never find answers—the facts are simply lost historical facts we have available to us in in the passing of time. However, it is these 2019, it’s impossible to know all of the details blank spaces in history that are utterly capti- of the Donnellys’ lives in Ontario. vating for future generations. Mysteries are opportunities: to theorize, to speculate, and Were the Donnellys truly hated by others to imagine. Historical fiction draws inspi- in Biddulph County? Were they actually ration from history, but is not necessarily a responsible for vandalizing and attacking factual re-telling of the past. Instead, writers competing stagecoach companies, as was use this imaginative genre to fictionalize claimed? Did they really commit a series of events that might have taken place during crimes against their fellow townspeople? a real period of time, or to re-interpret a Or, were these stories created or imagined to historical event, using artistic liberty to tell justify, or even stoke the fire of, an existing the story from a perspective. Reimagining dislike for the family? How much did polit- our histories in this way sparks our creativ- ical and religious differences brought over ity, allowing us to think of humanity’s past in from Ireland influence how they were viewed new and inventive ways — it keeps histories by others? alive. My life here is GUEST ARTISTS

Jan Alexandra Smith Johannah Donnelly for the grand theatre: A Christmas Carol, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, High School Project Evita (Director/Choreographer); A Christmas Carol, The Dining Room. select theatre credits: Much and Ado About Nothing (Director, Shakespeare Co.); Vigilante (Catalyst calm Theatre); The Hollow (Director, Vertigo Theatre); Mamma Mia!, Alice Through The Looking Glass (Charlottetown Festival); Seussical jan alexandra (Director/Choreographer, St. Lawerence College); As You Like It, Titus and so is my smith Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park/CanStage); The Mountaintop, contented God of Carnage (Director, Theatre Calgary); Lost (Theatre Calgary); Forests (Tarragon); Shakespeare’s Will (Citadel Theatre); Mrs. Warren’s investment plan Profession (Shaw Festival); Les Misérables (Royal Alexandra). Brooklyne Alexander Production Manager Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Brooklyne is a Production It's a state of being that others can only envy; nothing much rattles you. Manager as well as an Administrator and Producer who has worked Same goes with your investments and retirement savings. Steady and across the country and now balances her time between Winnipeg and Edmonton. While in Winnipeg, Brooklyne has worked for Rainbow consistent. What this describes is the relationship Libro Owners - our brooklyne Stage, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, True North Sports and customers - have with Libro Coaches; caring investment experts who alexander Entertainment, One Trunk Theatre, Moving Target Theatre, Sick proactively keep you on track even when markets are uncertain. Is your + Twisted Theatre, as well as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. investment plan tailored to your life? Prior to moving to Winnipeg, she worked for Catalyst Theatre as the Assistant Producer, and couldn’t be happier to be back with the incredible team at Catalyst in her new position. Brooklyne is a grad- Talk to a Libro Investment Coach for a no-obligation second opinion uate of the National Theatre School’s Production and Technical Arts on your investment portfolio. Program (previously the Production Program) and is an experienced visual artist. Michael Caron Sound Operator michael caron SPECIAL GIC OFFER! theatre credits (selected): A Bright Room Called Day (Studio Theatre); live mixer Breaking Up is Hard to Do and Beauty and the Beast * (Rainbow Stage); sound designer, Dead Centre of Town (Catch the 40 months Keys Productions, annual). other: Hailing from Saskatchewan, 3.10% Michael is a sound designer, audio technician and composer. He has been professionally involved with theatre and live performance audio since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s bfa in libro.ca/invest • 1-800-361-8222 Technical Theatre program. Michael is very pleased to be returning to Catalyst’s production of Vigilante. *Rate subject to change. RSP, RIF and TFSA eligible. Non-redeemable. Jonathan Christenson Director, Book, Music, and Lyrics Jonathan is a director, writer and composer who has spearheaded the creation of 22 original Canadian productions. He has directed at more than 85 theatres across Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Australia and the United States, including in London’s West End and New York’s Broadway district. His work has been recognized with jonathan nearly 60 British, Canadian and American awards and nominations, christenson including a Lucille Lortel nomination for the Outstanding Musical of New York’s 2015 Off-Broadway season. In his role as artistic director of Catalyst Theatre, he’s been instrumental in the creation of a 150- seat black box theatre in Edmonton (the company’s home from 1996 to 2015), in creating an international presenting series which hosted the work of artists from across Canada, Russia, Germany, South Africa, Scotland, Ireland and England, and in curating a multi-disciplinary performance series that brought together more than fifty Edmonton- based artists from theatre, music, visual art, dance, and the media arts. Jonathan was also named one of “Alberta’s Fifty Most Influential taylor cochrane People” by Venture Magazine, was chosen as one of Alberta’s one hundred most significant theatre artists of the past one hundred years by Alberta Playwrights Network, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Siminovitch Prize in Directing. Taylor Cochrane Computer Programming, Keyboards, Banjo, and Bass At 15, Taylor Cochrane released his first full-length record entitled Awesome Like A Possum. The album was nothing to write home about but it was the beginning of Cochrane’s passionate addiction to writing music. Years later, 36?, one of Cochrane’s most prolific ongoing musi- cal endeavours, released the record Where Do We Go From Here? The album received critical acclaim and brought home the band a Western Canadian Music Award for Rock Recording of the Year. That same year, 36? was awarded third place in The Peak Performance Project, an Alberta wide musical development competition. Cochrane is cur- rently working on new records under 36? and Jason Famous. His work on Vigilante marks the beginning of his hands-on experience with long time passion of musical theatre. The Pulitzer Prize and Sarah Garton Stanley Production Dramaturg Tony Award-winning theatre credits: Maker, observer, experimenter, and conver- august drama, recently adapted sationalist, Sarah is the Associate Artistic Director of nac English for the screen with Denzel Washington and Theatre; recent directing projects: Out The Window (Luminato); We wilson’s fences Viola Davis. Keep Coming Back (Factory Theatre, Toronto, English Theatre Berlin, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre); Bunny (Tarragon + Stratford); Awkward and Embarrassing Conversations About Difference (Neworld); Kill Me Now (rmtc/nac); Helen Lawrence (CanStage, Arts sarah garton stanley Club, bam, Kammerspiele etc.,); co-creator and creative Catalyst SpiderWebShow and foldA. other: Sarah is working with Catalyst on their newest creation: The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Leah Grandmont Violin theatre credits: East Coast Kitchen Party, Scotland Sings, Women of Country, The VPP Jamboree, Fiddler on the Loose 2 (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia); Ghost: The Musical (Drayton Entertainment). Leah appeared on America’s Got Talent as a member of Stacey Kay’s band, and toured across Canada, Germany, and Scotland as a member of leah grandmont the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Leah began studying the violin at age 3 and recently completed her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance at Wilfrid Laurier University. Kris Joseph Daniel Donnelly/Ensemble Kris lives in Edmonton but has performed across the country. credits include: Oliver, Creation, A Christmas Carol, Mother Courage, Macbeth (Canada’s National Arts Centre); The Three Musketeers, Little Women (Citadel Theatre); Runcible Riddle (Catch The Keys); Much Ado About Nothing (Thou Art Here); Equivocation kris joseph (Persephone Theatre); Whispering Pines, Facts and Zadie’s Shoes (Great Canadian Theatre Company); The Turn of The Screw (Screwdriver Collective); The Pillowman (Vision Theatre); and Doubt (Gladstone Productions). He is finishing a double Masters degree, and will soon “A MASTERPIECE” variety be insufferable at parties. Laura Krewski Choreographer choreography credits: Frankenstein, Nevermore, Hunchback, and Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre); Mamma Mia, West Side Story, Shakespeare in Love, Spamalot (Citadel Theatre); Next to Normal laura krewski (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary); Enron (nac); Chicago, Jesus Starring Christ Super Star and Footloose (The Mayfield);Home is a Beautiful March 19 to April 6 Ordena Stephens-Thompson and Word I Think I’m Fallin’, and Spelling Bee (Belfry Theatre). She also Nigel Shawn Williams created The Yellow Wallpaper for the Chinook Series. Awards include Spriet Stage the ywca Woman of Distinction, four Sterlings, a Betty Mitchell and Directed by a Lucille Lortel nomination for work on Nevermore. Upcoming is The

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Set Designer Astrid Janson, Costume Designer Rachel Forbes, Lighting Designer Jason Hand, Sound Designer Verne Good. Beth Kates Lighting Designer for the grand theatre: Silence. theatre credits (selected): 1837, Mr. New Years Eve, The Last Donnelly Standing, Ipperwash, SEEDS (Blyth Festival); MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus (Wyrd); Brimful of Asha (WhyNot Theatre/Soulpepper); Ragtime, Alice in Wonderland, Pygmalion (Shaw Festival). other: Co-Creator (with Neil Christensen) Bury The Wren: a VR/AR/Carbon Reality perfor- beth kates mance; Transmissions by filmmaker Lisa Jackson;O’wet by Quelemia Sparrow; Between Breaths with Jillian Keiley. Beth is an Award winning Set, Lighting, & Projection Designer, Digital Dramaturg, mfa Candidate (Drama/CompSci)- University of Calgary & mom to Aaron; bethkates.com & playgroundstudios.ca David Leyshon James Donnelly, Fight Director/Captain for the grand theatre: A Christmas Carol. selected the- atre: Fiddler of the Roof, My Fair Lady (Port Hope); One For The Pot (Drayton); It’s A Wonderful Life (Theatre Aquarius); Art, Billy Bishop david leyshon (Theatre Northwest); The Comedy of Errors, The Importance of Being Earnest (Neptune Theatre); A Few Good Men (Citadel/RMTC); The 39 Steps (Globe Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Citadel Theatre); An Ideal Husband (Theatre Calgary); MMLJWW (Mirvish); Hamlet, The Taming of The Shrew (Stratford Festival); seven seasons with the Shaw Festival. selected film and tv: Murdoch Mysteries. other: University of Regina (bfa); Part time instructor at Sheridan College. Narda McCarroll Costume Designer Narda is a set, costumes and lighting designer currently based in narda mccarroll Calgary. THEATRE CREDITS (SELECTED): Bronte: The Word Without (Stratford Festival); The Penelopiad, Julius Caesar, Vimy (Citadel Theatre); To the Light, Glory, The Circle, Mary’s Wedding (Alberta Theatre Projects); Turn of the Screw, Sweeney Todd (Vertigo Theatre); The Drowning Girls (Bent out of Shape National Tour). Narda designed the costumes for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton for 16 seasons. She also designed the costumes for the feature film Cut Bank. Narda’s website is narda.ca. eric morin Eric Morin Robert Donnelly, Ensemble Eric is beyond excited to be reviving the role of Robert Donnelly in this daring and heartfelt production. Eric Morin is a multi-disci- plinary artist who was raised in London on. He is a graduate of the Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Training Program (2011/12), earned his bfa at Ryerson University and attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. This February, Eric was appointed as one of the Artistic Associates of the Artillery Collective: an indepen- dent theatre company dedicated to producing provocative work www.theARTilleryCollective.com. Feels good to be home. John Raymond Stage Manager for catalyst theatre: Vigilante, Blue Orphan, Sticky Shoes, Lease the Luxury. Frankenstein, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Hunchback, The Soul Collector, Elephant Wake, and Songs for Sinners & Saints and has previously toured Catalyst Own the Lifestyle. Theatre productions to Toronto, Ottawa, London, Saskatoon, Vancouver, New York City, and London, England. other: Over a carson nattrass thirty-year career he has also worked for Centaur Theatre, Canadian Stage, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Citadel Theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts and Edmonton Opera. John is a Full Professor in the University of Alberta’s Drama Production where he leads Canada’s only specialized bfa in Stage Management. Molly Pearson Assistant Stage Manager theatre credits (selected): Last Chance Leduc (Snowflake Productions); Shakespeare’s R&J (Kill Your Television); Bello molly pearson (Concrete Theatre/l’Unitheatre); A Comedy of Errors and The Merchant of Venice (The Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Made In Italy (The Citadel Theatre); Bust (Theatre Network); The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux (Northern Light Theatre/l’UniTheatre); Children of God, A Christmas Carol, and Peter and the Starcatcher (The Citadel Theatre). John Raymond Stage Manager for catalyst theatre: Vigilante, Blue Orphan, Sticky Shoes, Frankenstein, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death john raymond of Edgar Allan Poe, Hunchback, The Soul Collector, Elephant Wake, and Songs for Sinners & Saints and has previously toured Catalyst Theatre productions to Toronto, Ottawa, London, Saskatoon, Vancouver, New York City, and London, England. other: Over a thirty-year career he has also worked for Centaur Theatre, Canadian Stage, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Citadel Theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts and Edmonton Opera. John is a Full Professor in the University of Alberta’s Drama Production where he leads Canada’s only specialized bfa in Stage Management. earl pereira Earl Pereira Guitar, Mandolin, Tin Whistle Earl Pereira is best known as one of the most successful musicians to come from Saskatchewan as a current member of his band The Steadies and former band Wide Mouth Mason. Pereira is a 3-Time juno nominee, 9-Time wcma winner, and has toured the world hav- ing opened for icon acts such as The Rolling Stones. Pereira starred in a 3-person play in 2018, Naked Tourist Sacred Mountain and in the major motion picture The Recruit starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell. Matthew Skopyk Scott Walters Tommy Donnelly, Ensemble Music Producer and Additional Orchestrations theatre credits: Mary Poppins (Arts Club Theatre); Evil Dead: The theatre credits (selected): Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Musical; We Will Rock You (Mirvish); Alice Through the Looking Glass Juliet, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, (Citadel/nac). other: Scott is jubilant to rejoin Catalyst’s Vigilante, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Othello (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); at the gorgeous Grand Theatre, in London! Scott’s favourite role to Once (Citadel Theatre); The Humans (Citadel Theatre/Canadian date has been the role as a new dad of his baby girl. He loves his fam- Stages); Shakespeare in Love (Citadel Theatre/ Royal Manitoba ily for their continued love and support, throughout it all. Grateful matthew skopyk Theatre Centre); Romeo & Juliet (Kill Your Television); Vigilante, scott walters for the love of his life and wife, Sara! Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre/Citadel Theatre/ Persephone Theatre/ National Arts Centre/The Grand Theatre); Playing With Fire: The Theo Benjamin Wardle Michael Donnelly, Ensemble Fleury Story (Citadel Theatre/Persephone Theatre/ Alberta Theatre theatre credits (selected): Smile Off Your Face (Best Projects/ Neptune Theatre/Centaur Theatre); ENRON (National Arts Production-Summerworks Festival); Fair Verona (Lost&Gone); Centre); Whisper (Studio Theatre/Catalyst Theatre). Vigilante, The Soul Collector (Catalyst Theatre); West Side Story (Citadel); Peter and The Starcatcher (Arts Club); Cabaret, Chicago Kurtis Schultz Percussion (Mayfield); Andrew and Andrea, Mavra, La Tragedie de Carmen Kurtis Schultz is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and dj from (Assistant Director - lto); That Summer (Theatre Northwest); Romeo Edmonton, Alberta. He has been involved in a variety of groups and and Juliet, James and The Giant Peach (ProjectX). other: Benjamin is kurtis schultz projects for more than 20 years. After completing the jazz perfor- benjamin wardle so ready to be back at the Grand with the Donnellys! mance diploma at MacEwan University, he spent one year performing in the University of Alberta Big Band. Following this, he decided to Scott White Guitar dive head first into music production and audio engineering. He cur- For almost his entire life Scott has wanted to be in the band. He took rently plays full time in the international touring band, The Steadies. piano lessons as a small child but his music didn’t take off until he Splitting his time between these endeavors, Kurtis has found a way to received a guitar for Christmas at age 11. Scott plays guitar in several devote himself to creativity and music, constantly pushing forward groups in Calgary, most notably in 36?, which will be releasing their and looking for new opportunities to share his art with others. second full length album in early 2019. Eric Wigston Johnny Donnelly, Ensemble wade staples Wade Staples Sound Designer scott white for catalyst theatre (selected): The Blue Orphan, Frankenstein, theatre credits (selected): The Soul Collector (Catalyst); The Carmen Angel, Nevermore, Hunchback, The Soul Collector, Vigilante. Secret Garden, Mary and Max, Twelfth Night, One Man, Two Guvnors, A other: Wade holds diplomas in Music, Recording, and Theatre Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Touch Me: Songs for a (dis)connected Production from MacEwan University, where he has been an instruc- Age (tc UP CLOSE w/Forte Musical Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (The tor and sound designer for the Theatre Production program for the Shakespeare Company); Jeremy de Bergerac (Forte); Evil Dead: The past twenty-five years. A former board member of the Associated Musical (Hit and Myth Productions); Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Designers of Canada, Wade has designed and toured numerous Carol (Citadel); Spring Awakening (Artist Collective Theatre); Lest We productions across Canada, the United States, Australia, and Europe. Forget, That Men May Fly (Lunchbox); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shear He is also a director of a production company offering services in Madness (Mayfield). other: Eric is absolutely thrilled to be joining theatrical design, consulting, rentals and sales, and production man- eric wigston the Donnelly clan. He is a theatre artist based in Alberta. He would agement. Wade was honored to be selected in 2017 to serve as a juror like to thank his family for all of their support and his adventure for the 2019 adc Canadian Exhibition to be held during the Prague partner, Emma, for everything. Quadrennial of Design 2019. IRISH EMIGRATION TO CANADA

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581 Wonderland Rd. S (519) 472.3470 channers.com

Mon – Thurs 9am – 6pm Fri 9am – 8pm Sat 9am – 5:30pm Sunday 12pm - 5pm