Angels in America, Endgame, Fronteras Americanas, White Biting Dog, Raisin In
The Sun, Uncle Vanya. (Soulpepper Theatre); Terminus, My Mother's Lesbian ...
cast Richard Feren - Composer and Sound Designer
Richard has composed music and sound designs for Canadian theatre, dance and film since 1992. Canadian Stage credits include: THIS, The Test (with The Company Theatre), and Blue/Orange. Other credits include: Angels in America, Endgame, Fronteras Americanas, White Biting Dog, Raisin In The Sun, Uncle Vanya (Soulpepper Theatre); Terminus, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish Productions); Culde-sac, In on It, You Are Here, Monster, Here Lies Henry (da da kamera); This Is What Happens Next, Half-Life, Insomnia, The Eco Show (Necessary Angel); Arigato, Tokyo, The Maids, Blasted, Silicone Diaries (Buddies in Bad Times). He has won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Siminovitch Prize.
Cameron Davis - Projection Designer
Canadian Stage credits include: (projection designer) Cruel and Tender, Rock ‘n’ Roll; (projection coordinator) Red, Another Africa, ART. Other credits include: (projection designer) Beyond the Farmshow (Blyth Festival); Feng Yi Ting (Luminato Festival, Spoleto Festival USA/Lincoln Center Festival); Chile con Carne (Alameda Theatre Company); Every Letter Counts (Factory Theatre); CRASH (Theatre Passe Murialle); Swimmer (68) (Hopscotch Collective); (video designer) Dance Marathon (bluemouthinc); And Up They Flew (Theatre Columbus); The Corpse Bride, My Name is Rachel Corrie (Theatre Panik). Cameron also teaches projection at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Kate Corbett
Ryan Cunningham
Grace Lynn Kung
Francois Klanfer
Sarah Berthiaume
Nadine Desrochers
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Marcie Januska - Stage Manager
This is Marcie’s Canadian Stage debut. She moved to Toronto last year, after 15 years as a stage manager in Calgary. Recent credits include: Civility and This is What Happens Next (Halifax, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto) with Necessary Angel; Antigone: Dead People (Small Wooden Shoe); Who Killed Snow White (Nightwood Theatre); Nohkom/Valley of Coal (Signal Theatre). Some Calgary theatre credits include: The Clockmaker, The Gift of the Coat, Heartbreaker, The Last Dog of War, Communion, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre, East of Berlin (ATP); Rope, Black Coffee, Blood Relations (Vertigo Theatre); and many others at Lunchbox Theatre, Ground Zero Theatre, Theatre Calgary and Theatre Junction. Marcie just spent her sixth summer administering the Opera as Theatre program at The Banff Centre.
Maureen Callaghan - Assistant Stage Manager
Maureen works in both stage management and education, and is happy to be with Canadian Stage for the first time. Recent theatre credits include: The Belle of Bonavista Bay, With Cruel Times in Between and The Sinking of the S.S. Ethie (Gros Morne Theatre Festival); Yankee Tavern and My Fair Lady –The High School Project (The Grand Theatre, London); War of the Worlds (The Art of Time Ensemble); Semele (The Canadian Opera Company); The Auction (Westben Arts Festival Theatre); The Neverending Story (Roseneath Theatre/ YPT) and Cosi Fan Tutti (The Banff Centre). Maureen is also one of the resident concert managers for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Ted Witzel
Gillian Gallow
Bonnie Beecher
Richard Feren
Cameron Davis
Marcie Januska
Maureen Callaghan
Eric Armstrong
Eric Armstrong - Dialect Designer
Eric is an dialect designer and accent coach for theatre, film and television. Credits for Canadian Stage include: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message..., Habeus Corpus, Another Africa (with Volcano). Elsewhere: Eternal Hydra (Crows); Arigato Tokyo, Blasted (Buddies); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Adeona Productions); Pride and Prejudice (Geva Theatre); Mary Stuart, A Christmas Carol, Translations (SoulPepper); Just Stopped By to See the Man (Steppenwolf). Film & television coaching highlights: Take This Waltz (Sarah Silverman, Michelle Williams); The Orphan (Isabelle Fuhrman); Lost Girl, Normal (Tom Wilkinson). Eric is the Graduate Program Director at York University’s Dept. of Theatre, where he teaches voice, speech, accents and text.
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Kate Corbett - Kate
Sarah Berthiaume - Playwright
Kate trained at Ryerson University’s Theatre program. Upon graduation, she landed the lead role on Family Biz, a comedy TV series for YTV and France 2. She continued her study at the Canadian Film Centre Actors Conservatory. Theatre credits include: Rocking the Cradle (Tarragon); Salt Water Moon (Bacclieu Players). Film and TV credits include: Satisfaction, Republic of Doyle, InSecurity, Call me Fitz, LA Complex, Final View (Bravo!Fact), How Eunice Got Her Baby. She played supporting roles in two features that premiered at TIFF 2013: Empire of Dirt and The Animal Project. Recently, Kate wrote and starred in The Tunnel, a short film which premiered as Canadian content at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Kate is very happy to be a part of the English translation premiere of Yukonstyle.
Sarah Berthiaume graduated as an actor from the Lionel-Groulx Theatre Program in 2007. Sarah is a writer and actor. The first play she wrote, Le déluge après (The Flood Thereafter), was awarded the Égrégore prize in 2006 and selected by the SACD for a public reading at the prestigious Festival d’Avignon. It was then staged in 2008 at the Rubrique Theatre in Jonquière. The English translation by Nadine Desrochers was produced in October 2011 by Talisman Theatre at La Chapelle, in Montreal. Sarah has written numerous other plays, including Disparitions, Villes Mortes, P@ndora, and Yukonstyle. She was most recently a part of the iShow, a multimedia piece presented as part of Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto.
Ryan Cunningham - Garin
Nadine Desrochers - Translator
Ryan is Metis (Cree/Scottish) from Edmonton and is thrilled to be making his Canadian Stage debut with Yukonstyle. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts, the co-curator/producer of The RUBABOO Arts Festival and board member of IPAA (Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance). Ryan is a founding member of The Agkowe Collective. For stage: King Lear, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (National Arts Centre); Annie Mae’s Movement, Death of a Chief (Native Earth Performing Arts); Urinetown: The Musical, Vimy (Firehall Arts Centre); Next Year’s Man of Steel (Shadow Theatre). Ryan can be seen right now on Blackstone (APTN) s.3. Other film & TV: Mixed Blessings, Earth: Final Contact, Blue Murder, Spinning out of Control, Sirr Parker, Hiding, Mentors, I Think I Do.
Nadine is a professor, dramaturg, and translator from Montreal. From 2001 to 2006, she worked at the Centre des auteurs dramatiques, overseeing translations in French, English, and Spanish. Her translation credits include Marilyn Perreault’s Rock, Paper, Jackknife…, Suzie Bastien’s The Medea Effect, Isabelle Hubert’s Gulnara’s Dress and Scenes from a Tree, a children’s production by Des mots d’la dynamite. Nadine also translated Heather Hermant’s ribcage: this wide passage to French. She has translated four plays by Sarah Berthiaume, two of which (The Flood Thereafter and Yukonstyle) are part of Canadian Stage’s 2013.2014 season. She is currently working on the translation of the play Billy (The Days of Howling) by Fabien Cloutier (nominated for a Governor General’s Award), to be produced by Talisman Theatre in 2014.
Grace Lynn Kung - Yuko
Ted Witzel - Director
Grace is a Gemini Award nominee based in Canada and the UK. Canadian Stage credits: Blue Rivers by Judith Thompson. Film and TV credits: Slings & Arrows, Being Erica, InSecurity, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Away From Her, Cubicle Warriors, Hypercube, House Party, Degrassi, The Listener, P2, Stir of Echoes, Plague City, Open House, Lost & Delirious. Voice: Mother Up (US); China Rises, Shoe Sniffer (UK); Ubisoft video games. Theatre credits include: Kim’s Convenience, La Ronde (Soulpepper); a nanking winter (Nightwood); Heat Lightening (Native Earth); Paper Series (fu-GEN); Problem Child (Canadian Rep). Grace is a two-time recipient of the Jean Gascon Award for Acting, the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama’s Chancellor Trophy, holds two Certificates of Distinction in Speech and Drama from Trinity College in London and is a Gemini Award nominee for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.
Francois Klanfer - Pops
Born almost a century ago to a Cro-Magnon tribe in truffle country, Francois Klanfer has been making a spectacle of himself ever since the age of twelve when he was the obnoxious brat killed off in the third act of the Koenig Players’ Macbeth in Toronto. After being educated in and around Boston, Klanfer returned to Toronto to begin a long career as a successful debtor. His credits include 15 seasons with George Luscombe’s Toronto Workshop Productions, three at Stratford and one each at the Charlottetown and Shaw festivals. Yukonstyle is a kind of return for Francois. He appeared with Center Stage (remember Center Stage?) at the St. Lawrence Center in 1972 in The Trial and Twelfth Night and had a small part in Touch of the Poet.
Taedon Witztl doesn’t live here anymore. A Toronto-based theatre creator, and artistic director and founder of the red light district, Ted spent the last two years in the inaugural cohort of York University/ Canadian Stage’s MFA in Stage Direction. This past summer, Ted directed The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare in High Park. When not in Toronto, Ted also works in Germany, where he has assisted directors including Robert Carsen, Johanna Schall, and Armin Petras at theatres in Stuttgart, Ingolstadt, Bad Hersfeld, Baden-Baden and Berlin. Up next, Ted will direct Bertolt Brecht’s the RESiSTiBLE rise of artuo Ui for the red light district in November. Thanks to Canadian Stage, BMO, and York University for the last two years. it’s been a trip.
Gillian Gallow - Set and Costume Designer
Gillian has designed at theatres across Canada. Design credits include: The Three Musketeers (costumes, The Stratford Festival); King Lear and Thirsty (set/costumes, NAC); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (costumes, Theatre Calgary/MTC); God of Carnage (set/costumes, MTC/Vancouver Playhouse); Dust (costumes, ATP/Human Cargo); Night (set/costumes, Human Cargo/NAC); Calendar Girls (set/costumes, The Grand Theatre); Appetite (Volcano/TPM); The Mill (set, Theatrefront); Awake and Sing! (costumes, Soulpepper); Pride and Prejudice and Cinderella (costumes, The Grand Theatre). Upcoming: Venus in Fur and Hirsch (MTC); Mary Poppins (Citadel/Theatre Calgary) and The Red Priest (ATP). Gillian is the recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
Bonnie Beecher - Lighting Designer
Bonnie has designed lights for over 200 productions for theatre, opera and dance. Her work has been seen across Canada and internationally. Canadian companies include Stratford, Shaw, Canadian Opera, National Ballet of Canada, Opera Atelier, Factory, Tarragon and The National Arts Centre. International companies include The Dutch National Ballet, New Zealand Opera, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Bonnie has also created lights for six works’ premieres for The Stuttgart Ballet in Germany and over twenty world premieres for The Kevin O’Day Ballett in Mannheim Germany. Bonnie has received 13 Dora nominations and has won the award twice.
