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Playwright
Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays include Indecent (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award nomination, the Lortel Prize, OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot’n’Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession and A Civil War Christmas. Her newest play premiered on Broadway in April 2024. In June 2020, she founded Paula Vogel’s Bard at the Gate, a curated virtual reading series designed to become a widely accessible platform for powerful, overlooked plays by BIPOC, female, LGBTQIA+ and disabled artists. Lifetime achievement awards include: American Theatre Hall of Fame Award, the Obie Award, and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. She is honoured to have awards dedicated to emerging playwrights in her name: The American College Theatre Festival’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and the Paula Vogel Award given annually by the Vineyard Theatre. She was the 2019 inaugural UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Playwright-in-Residence. Her plays are published in six volumes by TCG Press and her memoir will be published by Penguin Press. She teaches playwriting workshops throughout the United States and abroad. paulavogelplaywright.com
Director
ROYAL MTC Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal), Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Into the Woods, Orlando, All is Bright, Bang Bang (with Belfry).
OTHER THEATRE Eighteen years as Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre – credits include Unholy, The Penelopiad, Between the Sheets, The List, That Face, The Danish Play (NAC, Aveny-Teatret, Copenhagen; Magnetic North); Bear With Me, Mathilde and China Doll. Elsewhere: Vigil (TiFT); The Comedy of Errors (CS); This Hotel (Passe Muraille); and nine seasons of Nightwood’s Lawyer Show staging Shakespeare’s comedies and Broadway musicals.
TEACHING Associate Director of the Directing Program at National Theatre School 2010-2013.
ET CETERA Kelly is Royal MTC’s Artistic Director. She’s been honoured with the Pauline McGibbon Award, the YWCA Woman of Distinction, a Harold Award, Dora and Evie Award nominations. She thanks her incredible family for their love and support.
Vocal Director and Music Liaison
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
TRAINING/TEACHING Bachelor of Music (Performance) from Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music. A recent alumna of the Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble (Assistant Music Director 2017-2022 and Vocal Director 2022-2025). Teaching: Voice/Ukulele Instructor at The Winnipeg Conservatory of Music.
ET CETERA Grace is also a local singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist performing in the folk trio Casati. She is beyond thrilled to be making her Royal MTC debut as part of this beautiful production. Thank you to the love of my life Jesse, and to my friends and family for always being there for me. gracehrabi.com
Choreographer
TRAINING/TEACHING Maples Collegiate (Dance Department Director), The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School (Teacher & Choreographer), Shelley Shearer School of Dance (Teacher & Choreographer), Manitoba Association of Dance Educators (President). The School of Contemporary Dancers and the University of Winnipeg (BHons, BEd), Dance Arts Institute, The National Ballet School (Irene Dowd and Peggy Baker), Limón Dance Foundation (Limón4Kids).
Set Designer
OTHER THEATRE Job (Broadway); Cymbeline (Stratford); Fireflies, Intimate Apparel, Flying Lovers of Vibetsk (Northlight, Chicago); Dion, A Rock Opera (Coalmine); Guys & Dolls (Arts Club); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Flint Rep); Rasheeda Speaking (Jeff Award Nomination – Shattered Globe Chicago); Shirley Valentine, The Extinction Therapist (TA); Shakespeare’s Will (Indiana Rep); A Raisin in the Sun, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Constellations (American Players Theatre); Gently Sinking (Prague Quadrennial); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Elf the Musical, Hair (Grand); Body Politic, A Few Brittle Leaves (Buddies); Billy Bishop Goes To War, The Drowning Girls (Globe).
FILM/TV Assistant Costume Designer for Station Eleven (HBO Max) and Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV).
ET CETERA Scott is a proud member of IATSE Local ADC659.
Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC Costume Designer: Little Women, The Play That Goes Wrong (with Citadel/TC), The Comeback, The Piano Teacher, Calpurnia (with NAC/Black Theatre Workshop); Tiny Plays, Big Ideas; Bang Bang (with Belfry), Last Train to Nibroc (Regional Tour). 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 (selected) Lighting & Video Designer: The Lehman Trilogy, The Mountaintop, Vietgone, Venus in Fur. Video Designer: Network (with Citadel). Lighting Designer: Little Women, The Recipe (with TPM), among men (with TPM), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal), The Secret to Good Tea, Into the Woods, New, Orlando, Women of the Fur Trade, Fun Home, The Color Purple (with Citadel), Kill Me Now (with NAC), Seminar (with Mirvish), Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing and many other productions since the ‘80s.
OTHER THEATRE Hugh collaborates with choreographers, visual artists and dance and theatre companies worldwide.
ET CETERA Hugh enjoys working beyond the constraints of traditional lighting design using various forms of interactive media, video and photography. His photographic work resides in private collections and has been published worldwide. Hugh is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and L’Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec. www.pellucid.me.
Sound Designer
ROYAL MTC Sound Designer: The Piano Teacher. Actor: Waitress, 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. Assistant Director: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal). 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); A Little Night Music (Shaw); Saturday Night Fever (National Tour); Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rainbow).
FILM/TV Woman with the Red Lipstick (Lifetime); King of the Camp (YTV).
ET CETERA Justin will be directing the musical Dogfight for Dry Cold later this year. @j_stadnyk. justinstadnyk.com
Intimacy Director
ROYAL MTC Actor: Non-Machinable (2022 Pimootayowin: A Festival of New Work); 2021/22 National Mentorship Program.
OTHER THEATRE Intimacy Direction: Assistance, Just Friends (Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival). Acting: Bastard (Out From Under The Rug/PTE); Twelfth Night (ViC).
TRAINING Bachelor of Arts Honours in Theatre and Film Acting from the University of Winnipeg; The Village Conservatory for Music Theatre; Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC).
ET CETERA Thank you to my wonderful friends and family for all of your love and support throughout the years!
Fight Director
ROYAL MTC Fight Director (selected): Waitress, The Recipe (with TPM), The Mountaintop, Clue (with Grand), 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.
Yiddish Cultural Consultant
TRAINING/TEACHING Dr. Itay Zutra teaches Jewish studies at the University of Manitoba. Prior to his arrival in Winnipeg, he studied Yiddish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University in New York.
Accent Coach
ROYAL MTC Little Women, The Lehman Trilogy, Network, Trouble in Mind, Bang Bang (Evie Award), King Lear, Scorched, My Name is Asher Lev (META Award).
OTHER THEATRE The Lehman Trilogy (TC); Prayer for the French Republic (Segal); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Dybbuk, Incident at Vichy (Soulpepper – Dora Award); Oslo, Disgraced (Mirvish); Angels in America, Intimate Apparel, Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (Canadian Stage); Wit (VP); Belle (NAC); Amadeus, Possible Worlds (TIFT/Munich); Superior Donuts (Coal Mine). Playwriting: The Trial of William Shakespeare, This Hotel, Cringeworthy (Siminovitch nomination).
FILM/TV Little Bird, The Porter, Suits, The Fast Runner, Never Been Chris’d, Murdoch Mysteries, Cardinal, Flashpoint.
ET CETERA Alex is Playwright in Residence at WJT. Love to Chloe Babette! Acting/Audition Coaching: alexpochgoldin.com
Assistant Director
ROYAL MTC The Lehman Trilogy.
OTHER THEATRE Actor: Charlie: Son of Man (Echo Productions); The Duchess of Malfi (Shake-speare BASH’d); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, High Fidelity (Hart House Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Flea in Her Ear, The Penelopiad (George Brown Theatre School).
FILM/TV Actor: Hannukah on the Rocks, Holiday Hotline, Hannukah on Rye (Hallmark); The Spencer Sisters (CTV).
TRAINING/TEACHING Graduate of Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and George Brown Theatre School. Cora is an acting instructor at The Winnipeg Actors Academy and Manitoba Theatre for Young People, where she also coordinates the drama outreach program.
ET CETERA Cora couldn’t be more grateful to have been part of the creation of this show and to Royal MTC for providing this opportunity.
Apprentice Costume Designer
OTHER THEATRE Costume Designer: Oh, the Humanity and Other Good Intentions, The Secret in the Wings (U of W). Costume Assistant: all U of W shows 2022-24.
FILM/TV Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Le Monde de Gabrielle Roy, Little Bird.
TRAINING Graduate of University of Winnipeg faculty of Theatre and Film specializing in theatre design, member of IATSE 856.
ET CETERA Amelia would like to thank her mentors, friends and family for their support and encouragement.
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Stage Manager: The Recipe (with TPM), Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. Assistant Stage Manager: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal), The Sound of Music (with Citadel), Into the Woods, Network (with Citadel), Calpurnia (with NAC/BTW), Bang Bang (with Belfry). Apprentice Stage Manager: Buying the Farm (tour), Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Vietgone (with fu-GEN/Hope and Hell), The Humans. Assistant Production Manager (2017/18, 2020/21, 2021/22 seasons).
OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: Mary Poppins, The Hockey Sweater (Rainbow); The Outside Inn (PTE). ASM: Volare (PTE). Various credits with Hudson Village Theatre, Manitoba Opera, Geordie Productions and A Company of Fools.
TRAINING Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada – Production Program (2017).
ET CETERA Special thanks to my MTC family, my parents, Ilana, Jenna, Brooklyne, Liam and Matt!
Assistant Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC The Secret to Good Tea, The Three Musketeers, The Rez Sisters, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Orpheus Descending (with Mirvish), A Christmas Carol, Trying.
OTHER THEATRE Stratford Festival (18 seasons), Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Mirvish Productions, Grand Theatre, Globe Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Stirling Festival, Neptune Theatre, Factory Theatre and Theatre Orangeville.
ET CETERA Angela would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support.
Apprentice Stage Manager
OTHER THEATRE A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP); Rocking Horse Winner (MB Underground Opera); Carmen, Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North, Così fan tutte (MB Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen (COC); The Magic Flute (The Little Opera Company).
TRAINING B.A. in Theatre Production and Stage Management from the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Special thanks to Pops for giving me my wild imagination and creativity. Sending love to the whole family for all the support.
The Ingenue, Avram
ROYAL MTC Mix Tapes From My Mom (Regional Tour).
OTHER THEATRE The Little Mermaid, Strike! (Rainbow); Merrily We Roll Along, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Dry Cold); Fame, Reefer Madness, American Idiot (WST); Breaking Up With Me (JHG Creative); South Pacific (WSO).
FILM Bed Rest (Prime).
TRAINING University of Manitoba Faculty of Music.
ET CETERA Josh would like to thank his family for the endless amount of support.
The Elder, Vera
ROYAL MTC Actor: The Comeback, Into the Woods, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Black Coffee, The Heidi Chronicles, Mrs. Klein, Les Belles-Soeurs. Director: Romeo and Juliet (‘94), Things We Do For Love.
OTHER THEATRE Acted in or directed over 75 productions. Selected credits – Actor: Becoming Dr. Ruth, Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 (WJT); The Birds and the Bees (PTE); Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods (Dry Cold); Spring Awakening (WST); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Neptune). Director: Tuesdays with Morrie, Falsettos, Death of a Salesman, Speed-the-Plow (WJT); Dieu de Carnage (TCM); Company, The Secret Garden (Dry Cold).
FILM/TV Over 35 Manitoba productions.
TRAINING/TEACHING National Theatre School of Canada; U of W. Theatre educator and acting coach for over 30 years.
ET CETERA Mariam is honoured to be a part of the Indecent company, telling this courageous story of love and tolerance. For my family.
The Middle, Mendel
ROYAL MTC The Three Musketeers, Black Coffee, Million Dollar Quartet, The Secret Annex, The Seagull, Ed’s Garage, A Few Good Men (with Citadel), Romeo and Juliet, Our Town.
OTHER THEATRE As You Like It, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (SIR); Shiksa (WJT); Three Sisters, The Miser of Middlegate (TPM); Hand to God, Lunenburg, Bang Bang, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Magnus Theatre).
ET CETERA Love to Katrina, Aviva and Joren.
The Middle, Halina
ROYAL MTC Lydia in Pride and Prejudice.
OTHER THEATRE Appropriate (Coal Mine Theatre); You and I, James and the Giant Peach, Cinderella, The Invisible Girl, Hana’s Suitcase (YPT); 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Bar Mitzvah Boy, November (WJT); Of Mice and Morro and Jasp (MTYP); Morro and Jasp 9-5 (Factory); Here to Hear (Carousel Players); Weather the Weather (Theatre Columbus); 20 years performing as one half of the Dora and Canadian Comedy Award-winning clown duo Morro and Jasp.
FILM/TV Tuner (Elevation Pictures); Hey Lady (CBC).
ET CETERA Amy is a grateful recipient of the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship. Thanks to my amazing parents for teaching me to love theatre from such a young age in this very place. For my daughters, Sadie and Pearl, and for Matt.
The Ingenue, Chana
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Selected: Courage Now (Firehall/vAct); Disclosure (Vancouver Fringe); One of a Kind (Vancouver International Children’s Festival); East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Replacement); The Rocky Horror Show, Cerulean Blue, TomorrowLove (Studio 58); The Fantasticks (Stage 43); Into the Woods (Royal City Musical Theatre).
FILM Love & Jane (Hallmark).
TRAINING Graduate of Studio 58, with honours.
ET CETERA Katherine is filled with gratitude to be making her Royal MTC debut in a show that is close to her heart. Special thanks to Kelly, the entire cast and crew, and to her mom for the endless love and support.
The Elder, Otto
OTHER THEATRE Dov Mickelson is an actor, writer and teacher based in Toronto. He toured across Canada and the UK with their award-winning productions of The House of Pootsie Plunket, Blue Orphan and Frankenstein. Dov has written and performed at The Rubarb Festival, Hatch, The Red Cabaret and Lab Cab. Selected theatre: Indecent (Studio 180/Mirvish/Segal); Munschtime (YPT); Hogtown (Hogtown Collective); Bingo (Factory); The Wizard of Oz (Globe); Amadeus (CS/Citadel); The Jones Boy (Surface/Underground); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CS); Trials of John Demjanjuk (Asylum); The Amorous Servant (Pleiades); Dying to be Sick (Pleiades/NAC); Gladstone Variations (Resurgence); Like the First Time (One Little Goat); Winslows of Derryvore, Right Road to Pontypool (4th line).
FILM/TV Dov was in the award-winning short film Found Objects (Old World films); and has appeared in the Baroness Von Sketch Show, Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Finding Christmas (Hallmark); Fairyland (Nickelodeon); and The Associates (CTV).
The Stage Manager, Lemml
Nelly Friedman, Violin
OTHER THEATRE Strike! The Musical (Rainbow); The Hockey Sweater (MTYP/WSO); Lost and Foundling, Sapphire Butterfly Blue (Summer Studio at MTYP); Urinetown: The Musical, Something Rotten! (MTCO at MTYP).
TRAINING Classical violin (Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster of the WSO). Musical Theatre classes (RWB and MTYP). Co-concertmaster (Youth Symphony Orchestra). Student (Rosamunde Summer Music Academy).
ET CETERA I Saw What You Did There award for Strike! The Musical. First place in the senior division of the Winnipeg Youth Orchestra Scholarship Competition. Shiloh would like to thank all of her family, friends and teachers for their support and encouragement.
Mayer Balsam, Clarinet
OTHER THEATRE City Workers in Love, Bachelor Farmers of the Apocalypse (Winnipeg Fringe Festival); She Loves Me (Dry Cold); RWB Orchestra; WSO.
FILM/TV The Outside Chance of Maxmillian Glick, The Saddest Music in the World, The Lonesome Pine Specials (PBS). Recording credits: From Ship to Shore, Crossing Selkirk Ave, Dancing on Water (FINJAN); Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra (FINJAN/WSO); Transylvania Ave (Black Sea Station); Ingenue (kd lang); Big Circumstance (Bruce Cockburn); Citizen Alien (Leaf Rapids).
TRAINING Studied with Ted Oien, former Principal Clarinet WSO and John Moses (Aspen Music Festival).
ET CETERA Myron has been specializing in Klezmer music for over 40 years. He co-founded FINJAN and Black Sea Station, and recently co-founded The Mayors of Sambor with his brother Victor Schultz. Other current projects: The Two Myrons with accordionist Myron Kurjewicz; The Clarinet Summit with Naoum Goman. During the day Myron can be found running the family manufacturing business. He is thrilled to be working with the incredible cast and production team for Indecent.
Mira Godowsky, Accordion
ET CETERA Orit (pronounced O’reet) Shimoni is an international singer and songwriter and has been a world-travelling troubadour for almost two decades. Travelling with her songs and her instruments (guitar and accordion), the former teacher and academic has dedicated her life to using music and storytelling as a way to bring people together, find common ground with diverse audiences and inspire. Her most recent (and 12th) album, “Winnipeg”, has been nominated for Best Solo Act in the Canadian Folk Music Awards. This is her theatre debut.