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Original Screenwriter
Jonathan Lynn has directed 10 feature films including the cult classic Clue (he also wrote the screenplay), Nuns on the Run (also written by him), My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman, Sgt. Bilko, Greedy, Trial and Error, The Whole Nine Yards, The Fighting Temptations and most recently, Wild Target. His first produced screenplay was The Internecine Project (1974). For television, Jonathan’s writing credits include dozens of episodes of various comedy series but he is best known for the phenomenally successful, multi-award-winning BBC series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, co-written and created with Antony Jay. His numerous awards include the BAFTA Writers Award, Writers Guild (twice), Broadcasting Press Guild (twice), NAACP Image Award, Environmental Media Award, Ace Award – Best Comedy Series on US cable, and a special award from the Campaign For Freedom of Information. Lynn received an MA in Law from Cambridge University and now lives in New York, describing himself as a recovering lawyer.
Writer
Sandy Rustin is an actress and award-winning playwright named by American Theatre Magazine as one of the “Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2022/23 season.” Her stage adaptation of the film Clue is one of the most-produced plays in the US, with over 3,000 productions worldwide. Her original comedy, The Cottage, premiered on Broadway in July 2023 at The Hayes Theatre (Jason Alexander, director). Other works include: the concert adaptations of Dear World and I Married An Angel for New York City Center Encores!, Mattel’s American Girl Live, The Suffragette’s Murder (upcoming premiere), Rated P for Parenthood (Off Broadway/ABC-TV), Houston (New American Musical Award), Always Something There for Primary Wave Music, and many others. Sandy serves on the Board of Camp Kesem, helping children through a parent’s cancer diagnosis. She lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband and two sons. sandyrustin.com, Instagram: @sandyrustin_
Additional Material
Hunter Foster is an Artistic Associate at the Bucks County Playhouse where he directed: Clue: On Stage (World Premiere), Guys and Dolls, Company, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Buddy Holly Story (2016, 2017), National Pastime, The Rocky Horror Show (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017), Summer of ’42, and It’s a Wonderful Life. As a writer, he co-wrote the stage adaptation of the movie Clue, and has written the books to two Off-Broadway musicals: Jasper in Deadland and Summer of ’42 (Outer Critic Award nomination for best new Off-Broadway musical). As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Bridges of Madison County, Hands on a Hardbody, Million Dollar Quartet, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors (Tony Award nomination), Urinetown, Les Miserables, Footloose, Grease and King David. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BFA in Musical Theatre).
Eric Price has written the lyrics and book to the musicals The Violet Hour, Radioactive, Presto Change-o, Around the World, Hello Out There, The Sixth Borough and additional material for the stage adaptation of the film Clue. His work has been produced at theatres in New York, around the US and in Europe. Production experience includes work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Menier Chocolate Factory, Barrington Stage, Symphony Space, Merkin Recital Hall, Minetta Lane Theatre, Audible.com, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below (including solo show), Birdland, the Ravinia Festival and more. Eric’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma was commissioned in 2015 and has had over 150 productions around the world. Eric was also the long-time assistant to 21-time Tony Award-winning director/producer Hal Prince and worked with him over the course of 12 years on the development of new musicals
Original Music
Michael Holland is a multi-talented artist with work across the entire musical spectrum. His orchestration and vocal arrangement work can be heard on the 2011 Godspell revival cast recording (co-producer). As a composer and lyricist he has written Horizon Line (Theatre Latté Da, Minneapolis), Hurricane (NYMF) and Believe in Me… a Bigfoot Musical (fringeNYC). He has written incidental music for various theatre companies including Playwrights Horizons, The Alley Theatre, The Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Juilliard and NYU Tisch. As a performer/arranger/music director he created the multi-award-winning alt-cabaret favourite Gashole! (2001-2013). His orchestrations include Emma! A Pop Musical (Stageworks), Disco Party and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Playscripts). Recordings include four solo CDs of original music, as well as the world premiere of Another Day in the Modern World on The Maury Yeston Songbook (ps classics).
Director
ROYAL MTC Three Tall Women, Of Mice and Men (with Citadel), Closer, To Kill A Mockingbird (with Citadel), Vinci (with NAC).
OTHER THEATRE Highlights: Barber of Seville (Florida Grand Opera/Vancouver Opera). Cabaret, Prom Queen (Grand); Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Lost – A Memoir (TC); Twelfth Night (Bard on the Beach); S.S. Tenacity (Shaw); Trials of Ezra Pound (Stratford).
TRAINING Masters Degree – Direction – University of British Columbia.
ET CETERA Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal. Dennis was the Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre for seven seasons and at Theatre Calgary for 11 seasons. Dennis recently wrote TOWARD BEAUTY: Reigniting a creative life on the Camino de Santiago, which follows his 830 km walk across Spain (amazon.ca).
Set & Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC Recent and favourites: Burning Mom, The Three Musketeers, The Color Purple (with Citadel), The Cottage, John, The Humans, Once (with Grand), Sarah Ballenden, Black Coffee, Billy Elliot the Musical, Harvey, August: Osage County, The Lonesome West, Patience, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (with NAC), M. Butterfly (with NAC).
OTHER THEATRE Brian’s work has been featured at theatres across the country, including two seasons each at the Shaw and Stratford festivals. Selected recent credits include: La Cantatrice chauve et La Leçon (Théâtre Cercle Molière); The Whipping Man (WJT); The Hockey Sweater and The Little Mermaid (Rainbow); Post Democracy (PTE).
TRAINING Graduate of U of W and NTS.
ET CETERA Recipient of Gemini, Jessie Richardson, Prix Rideau and Evie Awards.
Lighting Designer
ROYAL MTC One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC), The Innocent Eye Test (with Mirvish), The Night of the Iguana (with Rubicon), A Streetcar Named Desire (with Citadel), To Kill a Mockingbird (with Citadel), Billy Bishop Goes to War (with Grand/NAC/Chris Wooten), Of Mice and Men (with Citadel), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (with CS/TC/VP), The Philadelphia Story (with TC), The Monument (with CS/Necessary Angel), Dancing at Lughnasa (with NAC), Hedda Gabler, Medea.
OTHER THEATRE Mahabharata (Barbican); Blithe Spirit, Playboy of the Western World, The Clearing, Gem of the Ocean, Everybody, Desire Under the Elms, White Christmas (Shaw); La Traviata (Opéra de Montréal); Fidelio (Pacific Opera).
ET CETERA Kevin has created lighting designs across Canada and internationally. He is the Director of Lighting Design at the Shaw Festival and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada/IATSE 659.
Intimacy Director
ROYAL MTC (selected) Actor: The Three Musketeers, Sense and Sensibility, Kill Me Now (with NAC), Hand to God, Late Company, The Seagull, A Christmas Story, August: Osage County, Top Girls, Steel Magnolias, Humble Boy, Of Mice and Men, Angels in America, Les Belles-Soeurs, Our Country’s Good. Intimacy Director: Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Into the Woods, New.
OTHER THEATRE Afterlight (The Keep/Walk&Talk/Rainbow); The Outside Inn (upcoming at PTE); The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow).
TRAINING Studio 58, Michael Langham Directing Program (Stratford). Certified Intimacy Director (ICC and IDC).
FILM/TV Recent projects include Little Bird, Written in the Stars, Dark Harvest, Ordinary Angels, Acting Good, Run; Intimacy Coordinator for The Porter, SkyMed, Wintertide, El Toro, Alter Boys, Little Bird and Don’t Even.
ET CETERA sharonbajer.com
Fight Director
ROYAL MTC Fight Director (selected): Yaga, Into the Woods, The Rez Sisters, Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (with Arts Club/Citadel), Vietgone (with fu-GEN/Hope and Hell), Hand to God, Private Lives, Gone With the Wind, August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Actor: The Three Musketeers, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Top Girls.
OTHER THEATRE Fight Director (selected): Macbeth (Bard on the Beach); Indigenous Playwrights New Works Workshop (PTC – Vancouver); Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow); The Flood Thereafter (CS); Don Giovanni (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); Prairie Nurse (PTE).
TEACHING U of Winnipeg, U of Manitoba, Trinity Western, Simon Fraser University, Kansas State University.
ET CETERA Jacqueline was a founding member of the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated sketch group Hot Thespian Action.
Apprentice Director
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Directing highlights include Brother Henrick, The Hockey Sweater, A Flicker of Light on a Winter Night (MTYP/WSO); and Sapphire Butterfly Blue (MTYP Summer Studio). Acting highlights include Maple Route (Theatre Incarnate); Lies of a Promiscuous Woman, Macabre Tales (Winnipeg Fringe); and puppetry for Home for the Holidays with Al Simmons (MTYP).
FILM/TV Acting: Mr. Pow, Hindsight (pilot), (YerStroy Transmedia). On-set mental health support for underage cast: Blood (Netflix). Makeup and special effects: Don’t Waste a Precious Minute (Electric Monk Media). Voice work in hundreds of commercials for TV and radio.
TEACHING 23 years of teaching in schools and programs across Manitoba including at MTYP where she is currently the Assistant Director of Theatre School.
ET CETERA Thanks to Anika and Vern for helping me to get a clue. Love to Sean.
Apprentice Set & Costume Designer
OTHER THEATRE Scenic Designer: From Up Here (U of W). Design Assistant: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Dry Cold); Twelfth Night (SIR).
TRAINING Julia graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Design for Theatre and Film at University of Winnipeg, was a part of the inaugural year of The Village Conservatory and is in the 2023/24 Creative Manitoba Mentorship Program.
ET CETERA Julia has received the V. Beatrice Shaw Scholarship and had annually obtained the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship throughout her university education.
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC (selected) Stage Manager: Into the Woods, New, Calpurnia (with NAC/BTW), Vietgone (with fu-GEN/Hope and Hell), Hand to God. Assistant Stage Manager: Burning Mom, The Mountaintop, The Color Purple (with Citadel), A Christmas Carol, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (with Citadel), Chimerica. 2022/23 National Mentorship Program.
OTHER THEATRE (selected) The Wizard of Oz (2022), Mamma Mia! (Rainbow Stage); Space Girl, The War Being Waged (PTE); The Winter’s Tale/Le conte d’hiver (SIR/TCM); MTYP’s Midwinter Mosey (MTYP); The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (WJT); Meet Me at Dawn (TBTR).
TRAINING B.A. (Hons) in Theatre Production and Stage Management at the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Enjoy the show!
Assistant Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: Yaga, Into the Woods, Network, The Rez Sisters, Orlando.
OTHER THEATRE SM: Castor et Pollux, Mansplaining Division (MUO); Looking Glass, Season Launch 22/23 (WCD); Apprentice SM: The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow). Apprentice Lighting Designer: Narrow Bridge (WJT). Production & Tour Coordinator: Seven Visions digital school tour (Sarasvàti). Associate Producer/Sound Design: Othello (Echo). SM/Production Assistant: FemFest 2019 & 2020 (Sarasvàti). Associate Company Member of Winnipeg Independent Theatre (WIT). Artistic Founder of Beau Theatre Co. Performer Services Manager with the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.
TRAINING U of W Bachelor of Arts Honours – Stage Management, Production and Design. Creative Manitoba Mentorship in Stage Management 2020/21. Mentorship funded by Associated Designers of Canada in Lighting Design 2022/23.
ET CETERA As always, couldn’t do it without my partner, Matt, and cat, Zella.
Apprentice Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Burning Mom, Assassinating Thomson (tour).
OTHER THEATRE Apprenticeships: RENT, The Hockey Sweater: A Musical, MA-BUHAY! Filipinos Singing for Their Lives – A New Musical (Rainbow); La Cenerentola (MB Opera). Stage Manager: Shrek Jr: The Musical (MTYP); Belt Fest 2 (Belt Fest/UNIT Productions); Othello (Beau/Raven/Echo); Agency (Sarasvàti); Stephen Hopwood Is Not Dead (Pengwin Production); True Blue (Cagey Productions).
FILM Second Wardrobe Assistant: Alter Boys (Farpoint Films).
TRAINING Graduate of University of Winnipeg – Bachelor of Arts in Production and Stage Management in Theatre and Film Production; Creative Manitoba Mentorship with Kathryn Ball. Quantum Arts Film & TV Acting with Ray Strachan.
ET CETERA Thanks to my family, friends and mentors for their ongoing support.
Mrs. Peacock
Mrs. White
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Come From Away: You Are Here (Gander Arts and Culture Centre); Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Royal Alexandra, Broadway); As You Like It (Stratford); Tartuffe, The Sound of Music, Enron (NAC).
FILM/TV Film: Come From Away (Apple TV+); You Are Here: A Come From Away Story (The Movie Network). TV: Son of a Critch (CBC, The CW); Surreal Estate (Syfy); Republic of Doyle (CBC).
Unexpected Cop / Backup Cop; Understudy: The Cook / Singing Telegram Girl, Mrs. White, Miss Scarlet
OTHER THEATRE UnCovered: The Music of ABBA (Musical Stage Co.); April Fools (Segal); Frankenstein: A Living Comic Book (Kidoons/Geordie/Segal); Rumour Has It (Port Hope); Last Night at The Gayety (Centaur); Antigone, Wind in the Willows (Two Planks and a Passion); Robin Hood (Festival Antigonish); Ed & Ed’s New B&B, Neddy Norris Night (Gros Morne Theatre Festival).
FILM/TV Painkiller (Netflix); Fatal Vows (Investigation Discovery); Jane Krakowski: Get Happy (CBC/Just For Laughs).
TRAINING Graduate of Dawson College’s Professional Theatre Program, and of Randolph College of the Performing Arts.
ET CETERA Musical Stage Company Banks Prize Winner 2021/2022. Love to Goose for his constant support.
Motorist / Backup Cop / Newscaster; Understudy: Wadsworth, Colonel Mustard, Mr. Boddy / Chief of Police
OTHER THEATRE RENT, The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); The Velveteen Rabbit (MTYP); End of the Line (Walk&Talk); School of Rock (WST).
TV The Spencer Sisters (CTV); SkyMed (Paramount+); Tales from the Loop (Amazon Prime).
TRAINING The Village Conservatory, Theatre and Film BA from the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Kamal would like to thank his mother, father and granny for their never-ending support, as well as his brother Zach for playing The Simpsons Clue board game for endless hours as kids.
Colonel Mustard
OTHER THEATRE Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, Freedom Cabaret: The Spirit and Legacy of Black Music, Freedom 2.0: Black Music that Shaped the Dream of America (Stratford); Harlem Duet, Hamlet, Orphan Song (Tarragon); The Father, Marjorie Prime (Coalmine Theatre); Ghost Quartet, Shape of Home: Songs in Search of Al Purdy (Crow’s Theatre).
TV Station Eleven (Paramount/HBO Max); The Expanse (Amazon Prime).
ET CETERA Beau has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Male Performance, New Play (TYA) Beneath Springhill (Creator); Musical Direction Shape of Home (Co-Creator); Two Toronto Critics Awards; Calgary Critics Award; and is a KM Hunter Award Finalist. Beau has toured extensively throughout Canada, the US and Europe as a recording artist and performer. He has three solo albums under his name, available on iTunes and other streaming platforms. beaudixon.com
Mr. Boddy / Chief of Police; Understudy: Mr. Green, Professor Plum, Motorist
ROYAL MTC Cliff Bradshaw in Cabaret.
OTHER THEATRE A Few Good Men, Buying the Farm, The War Show, Marathon of Hope, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton); The Bluff (Orangeville); George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life (WCT); Salt-Water Moon (Guild Festival Theatre); As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Robert Ross in The Wars, Chariots of Fire (Grand); My Night with Reg (Studio 180/Mirvish); Jitters (Soulpepper); Gilbert Blythe in Anne & Gilbert (NAC); Albert Narracott in War Horse (Mirvish).
FILM/TV Macy Murdoch, Most Dangerous Game, Reign, Murdoch Mysteries, Mayday, Flashpoint.
TRAINING Alex is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Wadsworth
OTHER THEATRE The Breathing Hole (NAC); Grand Ghosts (Grand); Jane Eyre, The Silver Arrow, Crazy for You, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, One Man Two Guvnors, Measure for Measure, A Christmas Carol (Citadel); Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Free Will Players); 6.0 Heap and Pebble, 4th Graders Present…, Fat Pig (Northern Light Theatre); 10\12, Passion Play, The Realistic Joneses (Wild Side Productions); Buddy, Little One, Let the Light of Day Through (Theatre Network); Joy Ride, Black Horse (Caravan Farm Theatre).
FILM/TV Tiny Plastic Men Seasons 1-4 (Super Channel); Caution May Contain Nuts (APTN); Blind Ambition: The Wop May Story.
TRAINING Jesse has a BFA from the University of Alberta.
ET CETERA Look for Jesse in A Christmas Carol at the Citadel Theatre and Women of the Fur Trade at NAC\Native Earth.
Mr. Green
ROYAL MTC Yaga, All is Bright, Women of the Fur Trade, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Nine Dragons (with Gateway/Vertigo), Sarah Ballenden, Hand to God, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC).
OTHER THEATRE Selected: The Golem’s Mighty Swing, After Jerusalem (WJT); Chicago (Pizza Party Productions); Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play (District Theatre); Outside Joke: The Improvised Musical, Outside Joke: Big Dickens Energy (Outside Joke/PTE); The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley, The Dishwashers (PTE); Le Jardin (Cercle Molière); The Winter’s Tale/Le Conte d’Hiver (SIR/Cercle Molière); Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra (SIR); The Snail and the Whale, House at Pooh Corner, The Hobbit, Liars (MTYP).
FILM/TV Sniper: Rogue Mission, Tales from the Loop, Channel Zero, The Pinkertons, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.
TRAINING University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Toby is a founding member of the musical improv company Outside Joke.
Miss Scarlet
ROYAL MTC Trouble in Mind (with Citadel), Network (with Citadel).
OTHER THEATRE Perfect Wedding (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Cabaret, Venus, Assistance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTS); Hamlet (SIR); Torn Through Time (MTYP); Home 2.0, New Beginnings, Shattered (Sarasvàti); Marat/Sade, Nothing Sacred, After Magritte, Titus Andronicus (Black Hole Theatre).
FILM/TV Christmas Commission, Made for Each Other, Love in Design, Journey Back to Christmas (Hallmark); Don’t Even (Bell Media/Crave); The Elizabeth Thomas Story (Lifetime); Channel Zero (Syfy).
TRAINING Graduate of the NTS Acting Program 2022. U of M – Black Hole Theatre Graduate of 2018.
ET CETERA Love always to my family xoxo! Special shoutout to Ms. Bays, Happy Retirement! <3
The Cook / Singing Telegram Girl / Backup Cop; Understudy: Yvette, Mrs. Peacock, Unexpected Cop
ROYAL MTC Into the Woods, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Private Lives, The Seagull, Ed’s Garage, Top Girls, Camelot (with Citadel/TC).
OTHER THEATRE Selected theatre in Edmonton: Shoe! (Vault: Theatre of Invention); A Year of Winter (Shadow); Frankenstein (Catalyst); Three Mysterious Women (StageLab Festival, U of A). Selected theatre in Winnipeg: A Short History of Crazy Bone, John and Beatrice, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (TPM); Shiksa (WJT); Village Wooing (zone41); Passion (Red Hen); Fefu and Her Friends, Eden (Sarasvàti); Awaken, a new play by Tracy Penner, featuring Tracy as Paulina (zone41/SIR).
FILM/TV The Elizabeth Thomas Story, Psycho Killer, Spencer Sisters, Somebody’s Someone, The Grudge, Scopophobia.
TRAINING Graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta.
Professor Plum
ROYAL MTC Barnum (with Grand, 1985).
OTHER THEATRE Lead role in Slava’s Snowshow (World Tour including Broadway and London’s West End – the show received a Tony Nomination and Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience); The Neverending Story (YPT/NYU Skirball Center); The Overcoat (World Tour including London’s Barbican); Cirque du Soleil; Stratford.
FILM/TV Gooby in Gooby; Tah Dah!, featuring Derek Scott; The Tracey Fragments; The State Within (BBC); Just For Laughs.
ET CETERA Derek also founded the Brisbane International Comedy Bananza in Australia which was the subject of a one-hour documentary, Telemebanana. Derek has performed his solo work in over 40 countries, from Brazil to Bahrain, from Australia to Ethiopia, from Las Vegas to North Korea (yes, NORTH Korea). Hi (my grandson) Archer! derekscott.ca
Yvette / Backup Cop
OTHER THEATRE Insert Clown Here (Parlous Theatre); King Henry Five (Driftwood).
TRAINING Rosalie is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
ET CETERA Rosalie is a stand-up comedian, sketch performer and actor in Toronto, and is so happy to be HERE! Can’t wait to share this show with whomever you are.