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Playwright
Dorothy Dittrich is an award-winning playwright, composer, sound designer, and musical director. Her most recent play, The Piano Teacher, is the recipient of the Governor General’s award for English-language drama. An Arts Club Theatre Silver Commission, it went on to win the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script. Dorothy’s other plays include The Dissociates, Lesser Demons, Two Part Invention and If the Moon Falls. Her musical When We Were Singing has been produced across Canada from The Belfry, to Buddies in Bad Times, the National Arts Centre and in the US. It was workshopped at the Manhattan Theatre Company in New York City. Dorothy’s work – including sound design and musical direction – has garnered her a number of Jessie Awards and nominations including two Dora Mavor Moore nominations for When We Were Singing. She is the proud recipient of the Sydney J. Risk Prize for Emerging Playwright. A graduate of Simon Fraser University, Dorothy has a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies. Originally a Vancouver resident, Dorothy has recently moved to Vancouver Island where she continues to write and play music.
Director
ROYAL MTC Director: The (Post) Mistress. Assistant Director: The Cottage. Actor: Orlando, The Dresser.
OTHER THEATRE Director: Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North (MB Opera); The Seat Next to the King, Whatever Happens After, Freestyle Fantastique, Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years (Winnipeg Fringe); Pippin (ViC/WST); American Idiot, Young Frankenstein (WST); The Last 48 (ArtLaunch); Lucky Stiff (MDA); 7 Stories (TBTR);
TRAINING/TEACHING Founding member of the Village Conservatory for Music Theatre (ViC). Simon holds a Masters from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, trained with Peter Hinton at the Stratford Festival and is a graduate of the theatre arts program at MacEwan University.
ET CETERA Simon is a francophone Métis artist who self identifies as two spirited. They enjoy creating multidisciplinary art through collaboration and self-exploration.
Set Designer
ROYAL MTC Costume Designer: Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. Assistant Set Designer: Calpurnia (with NAC/Black Theatre Workshop), The (Post) Mistress, Women of the Fur Trade, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.
OTHER THEATRE Dogtown (Yukon Arts Centre); Frozen River (MTYP); Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale / Le conte d’hiver (SIR/TCM); Lawrence and Holloman, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Guild Hall – Whitehorse, YT).
TRAINING Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Practicum program (2019).
ET CETERA Shauna is an associate member of the ADC (Associated Designers of Canada).
Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC Costume Designer: Calpurnia (with NAC/Black Theatre Workshop); Tiny Plays, Big Ideas; Bang Bang (with Belfry); Last Train to Nibroc. Associate Costume Designer: Into the Woods. Apprentice Costume Designer: Billy Elliot the Musical. 2020/21 National Mentorship Program.
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Costume Designer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Grand Ghost (Grand); Snow White, Spelling 2-5-5 (MTYP); Volare, Space Girl, Voice (PTE); Plé (Plé Collective presented by MTYP); Women of the Fur Trade (Vault Projects); Mary’s Wedding, Iceland (TPM). Production Designer: The Player King (SIR); The Game, Two Indians (Sarasvàti). Assistant Costume Designer: Othello, The Neverending Story, The Rocky Horror Show, Romeo and Juliet (Stratford).
TRAINING University of Winnipeg.
Lighting Designer
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Feast, By Grand Central Station, Ghost Light (PTE); A Wrinkle in Time (Stratford); Castor et Pollux (Manitoba Underground Opera); Angle Mort (Stéphanie Morin-Robert Performance Society/TCM); Pandora (SIR/PTE); Chase Scenes (Ming Hon/Adults Only Video); Empreinte(s) (TCM/Compagnie La Muse/Compagnie du Jour); Making Treaty 4 (MT4 Collective, Globe Theatre); Exciting Consequences (Adults Only Video/PTE).
TRAINING Holds a BFA in Video from the University of Manitoba.
ET CETERA jaymez sits on the board of IATSE Local ADC659, serving as the Central Regional Representative. He was Co-Awarded the Winnipeg Theatre Awards for Outstanding Design in 2018 (Deserter – Moving Target) and 2019 (Red Earth – One Trunk).
Sound Designer
ROYAL MTC Assistant Director: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal). Actor: The Sound of Music (with Citadel), Into the Woods, As You Like It (with Citadel), Matilda the Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Fiddler on the Roof, The Wave. 2023/24 National Mentorship Program.
OTHER THEATRE Sound Designer: Great Expectations, Red Fightin’ Blue, Redemption (TIFT); Narrow Bridge, After Jerusalem, Bar Mitzvah Boy (WJT). Actor: Kinky Boots (Mirvish); The Prom, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Dry Cold); Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Falsettos (WJT); Pal Joey, Into the Woods (TIFT); A Little Night Music, Wonderful Town (Shaw); Saturday Night Fever (National Tour); Kinky Boots, Hairspray (Drayton); Mamma Mia!, Legally Blonde (TA); Anne of Green Gables, Ring of Fire (Charlottetown); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rainbow); Robin Hood, Cinderella (Ross Petty).
FILM/TV Who Was I That Night (Lifetime); King of the Camp (YTV).
ET CETERA Say hi and read more @j_stadnyk. justinstadnyk.com
Assistant Director / Piano Coach
ROYAL MTC Actor: Trouble in Mind (with Citadel). Apprentice Director: New.
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Actor: Seekers of Atlantis (Canada Council/MAP); Whatever Happens After? (Naked Theatre); Knock Knock Ginger (One Trunk Theatre); Seasons of Love (ViC); The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Hedda Gabler (Drama Studio London). Musical Director: The Selfish Giant (DSL); Little Women (Genesis). Director: Once Upon a Mattress (Genesis).
FILM (selected) Canada in Focus (Coelement); Inhibition Exhibition (ViC); A Winter Getaway (Hallmark).
TRAINING/TEACHING Alumna of Drama Studio London and the ViC; Bachelor of Philosophy (Carleton University/Collège Universitaire Dominicain). Jodi is a co-founder of Genesis School of Dance, where she heads up the musical theatre program.
ET CETERA Jodi is also a pianist, writer, choreographer, singer and dancer. Much love to my family, friends and wonderful piano teachers over the years (Sr. Josephine ❤️ ). ICXC
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Burning Mom, Women of the Fur Trade, John, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, The Humans, Outside Mullingar, Million Dollar Quartet, Unnecessary Farce, The Devil’s Music, The Glass Menagerie, The Penelopiad, The Fighting Days, The 39 Steps, The Syringa Tree and more.
OTHER THEATRE Escaped Alone (Full of Days Collective); Awaken (SIR/zone41). Other theatres include PTE, Manitoba Opera, MTYP and Royal MTC co-productions with the Citadel, Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse, Royal Alex, Saidye Bronfman.
Apprentice Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: Trouble in Mind. Child Supervisor: The Sound of Music.
OTHER THEATRE Pool (No Water) (Stage Manager – Winnipeg Fringe Festival). Climate & Main (Stage Manager – TPM). For U of W: Concord Floral (Wardrobe Coordinator), Frankenstein (Production Assistant), Time and the Conways (Sound Designer), Love of the Nightingale, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Assistant Stage Manager), Everybody (Set Designer), 365 Days/365 Plays, Alunsina’s Love (Stage Manager). FAME the Musical (Design Mentee – WST).
TRAINING University of Winnipeg Bachelor of Arts – Stage Management & Production. SMArts Conference 2023.
ET CETERA All my love to my family and friends!
Erin
ROYAL MTC The Penelopiad, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Last Train to Nibroc (Regional Tour).
OTHER THEATRE Tiny Treasures, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (MTYP); Red Earth, I Dream of Diesel (One Trunk Theatre/TPM); Mission Potluck, 204FM, Hamlet as Told on the Streets (One Trunk Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (TBTR); Way to Heaven, One of Ours (WJT); Munscha Meeya, Munschtopia (PTE).
FILM/TV Little Bird (Crave, APTN); Orphan: First Kill (Paramount); The Return (Strata Studios); Channel Zero (SYFY); The Pinkertons (Pink Pictures); Stand! The Musical (Frantic Films).
TRAINING BA Honors degree from the U of W department of Theatre and Film.
Tom
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE The Paper Bag Princess (PTE); How to Live Forever (Hypothetical Projects); Hedda Reimagined (Vault Projects); This Land Floods (TPM); The Young Creators Unit (MTYP).
TV Heartland Homicides, Sunshine Slayings, Alter Boys (Farpoint).
TRAINING Chris is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg’s acting honours program.
ET CETERA Chris is beyond grateful to be a part of this production. Chris would like to shoutout his family and close friends who have always given him their love and support.
Elaine
ROYAL MTC Private Lives.
OTHER THEATRE None of This Is Happening (TPM); The Winter’s Tale (SIR); Que Faire d’Albert/What To Do With Albert (Cercle Molière/PTE); Outside Joke’s A Christmas Carol: Bigger Dickens Energy (PTE).
TV Le Monde de Gabrielle Roy (CBC); Less Than Kind (Citytv).
TRAINING Graduate of the Acting Honours program at the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Jane is a member of the musical improv company Outside Joke, the sketch comedy troupe Hot Thespian Action, and the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir. Forever grateful to her parents...for making her take piano lessons.