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Author
Stefano Massini is a renowned novelist and playwright, the first Italian author to receive a Tony Award. He regularly contributes to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, and he served as artistic consultant at Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa. His works, including The Lehman Trilogy, have been translated into 30 languages, and his plays have been performed in more theatres around the world than those of any other living Italian writer – produced as far as Iran and Korea, and staged by directors such as Luca Ronconi and Sam Mendes. Other select works: Intractable Woman, Ladies Football Club and 7 Minutes. He won many Italian and foreign awards, including the Premio Vittorio Tondelli, the Premio Ubu, the Tony Award, the Drama Guild Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. The Lehman Trilogy won the Selezione Campiello Prize, the Super Mondello Prize, the De Sica Prize, the Prix Médicis Essai and the Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. He recently finished a multi-part play about the history of the atomic bomb, Manhattan Project. His rewrite based on Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will debut this year.
Stage Adaptation
Ben Power is a writer for theatre and the screen. For the last 12 years he has worked at the National Theatre as associate director and deputy artistic director and was responsible for the temporary theatre The Shed. Work for the screen includes Munich: The Edge of War and The Hollow Crown (BAFTA nominations for Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series). Work for the stage includes adaptations of DH Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons, Euripides’ Medea and Ibsen’s Emperor & Galilean, all for the National; A Tender Thing for the RSC and Complicite’s A Disappearing Number (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards). He was associate director of Headlong where he adapted Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Marlowe’s Faustus. He is currently creating a television series for Working Title and is published by Faber & Faber.
Director
ROYAL MTC Director: 2 Pianos 4 Hands.
OTHER THEATRE Directed 130+ productions across Canada/abroad, mostly original Canadian and plays by Shakespeare, Shaw, Chekhov and Shepard; several in Winnipeg including: Seesaw, Kindness (MTYP); The League of Nathans (PTE/WJT); Pals – performer/co-writer w/ Diane Flacks (WJT). Recent acting: Athabasca – co-writer w/ David S. Craig; I Call myself Princess by Jani Lauzon (Native Earth & Globe).
TV Many roles for CBC and others, including: Homefires, Sidestreet and Sibs – an MOW co-written w/ Diane Flacks adapted from their play.
TRAINING/TEACHING Trained at RADA (London, UK). Taught acting/directing/play creation at many theatre schools including NTS, U of A, TMU (fmr. Ryerson) and GBC. Directed 20+ theatre school plays.
ET CETERA Co-writer/co-performer: 2 Pianos 4 Hands (w/ Ted Dykstra); Sibs, Care and Pals (w/ Diane Flacks); Athabasca (w/ David S. Craig); solo shows: Soft Pedaling and Letters from Lehrer. Non-fiction works: Text and Context, The Operative Word; and Two of the Best in the Neighbourhood, an Anectdotal History of 2 Pianos 4 Hands – both published by Scirocco/JG Shillingford Press. Won many Dora and Chalmers Playwriting Awards.
Set & Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal), Into the Woods, The Runner (with Human Cargo), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, A Christmas Carol, Hand to God, Million Dollar Quartet, Seminar (with Mirvish), Hirsch, Venus in Fur, God of Carnage (with VP), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC).
OTHER THEATRE Selected: Hadrian and Louis Riel (COC); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Physicists, Hirsch, The Three Musketeers (Stratford); The Shadow of a Doubt, An Octoroon, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Russian Play (Shaw); Art, August: Osage County, Idomeneus, Orlando (Soulpepper); King Lear, Stuff Happens (NAC); Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre & Shaw).
ET CETERA Awards: Gillian is the recipient of the 2021 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, the 2018 Viriginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design and she has been awarded four Doras.
Lighting & Video Designer
ROYAL MTC (selected) Lighting & Video Designer: The Mountaintop, Vietgone, Venus in Fur. Video Designer: Network. Lighting Designer: 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
Original Compositions & Sound Designer
ROYAL MTC among men (with TPM), Burning Mom, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Trouble in Mind, Orlando. 2022/23 National Mentorship Program.
TRAINING B.Mus (Jazz Performance) Brandon University, School of Music.
ET CETERA Ashley Au (she/they) is a Winnipeg-based bassist, composer, sound artist, arranger and queer creative. A multifaceted musician, Ashley specializes in the upright and electric basses – performing, touring and recording extensively. As a composer and sound artist, Ashley’s work can be found behind various theatre and dance productions in the city. Current and past projects include work with Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson; composer/trumpeter Chuck Copanace; and Polaris Prize-nominated hip-hop outfit Super Duty Tough Work. Ashley is the Artistic Director of Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival and programs the Pride Winnipeg Festival. She recently scored her first opera, Inertia (libretto by Christene Brown), commissioned by Loose Tea Music Theatre (TO).
Dialect Coach
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Stratford Festival (20 seasons); The Lehman Trilogy, Maanomaa My Brother, Fairview, London Road, The Syringa Tree, Rock ’n’ Roll (CS); Fall On Your Knees (NAC/CS/Neptune/Grand); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Cloud Nine, The Lord of the Rings, The Producers (Mirvish); War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (RNT/Mirvish); Matilda The Musical (RSC/Mirvish); Shaw Festival; Romeo and Juliet (NAC); Oroonoko, Chair (Theatre for a New Audience, New York).
TV Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount); Hudson & Rex; Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation (Lifetime); Good Sam (CBS); Cross, Reacher (Amazon); Republic of Doyle (CBC).
TRAINING/TEACHING Teaching: National Theatre School, Head of Voice; Birmingham Conservatory, Stratford Festival. Training: MA Voice, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Acting BA, Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Apprentice Director
OTHER THEATRE Actor: Charlie: Son of Man (Echo Productions); Mercury Man (Hamilton & Winnipeg Fringe); The Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare 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). Director: Speed Dating (Alumnae Theatre).
FILM/TV Holiday Hotline, Hannukah on Rye (Hallmark); The Spencer Sisters (CTV); Ponysitters Club (Cineflix/Netflix).
TRAINING/TEACHING Graduate of Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and George Brown Theatre School. Cora teaches acting at The Winnipeg Actors Academy and leads acting workshops for MTYP and The Travelling Stage.
ET CETERA Over the last two years Cora has travelled to remote communities in the Northwest Territories to facilitate arts education and direct theatrical performances in schools. Cora can’t be more grateful to have had this opportunity to learn about directing at the professional level and hopes she, too, can direct a show such as The Lehman Trilogy one day.
Assistant Lighting & Video Designer
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Lighting Designer: The Mountaintop.
OTHER THEATRE Assistant Set & Props Design: Casey and Diana, Women of the Fur Trade (Stratford). Assistant Costume Design: Murder on the Orient Express (Vertigo Theatre); Company (MacEwan University). Co-design: Pro Series II: Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy (U of C). Design: Wagonstage (U of C). Costume Design: Horse Girls (U of C). Assistant Lighting & Projection Design: Formations (U of C).
TRAINING Graduate of University of Calgary’s Drama program and Mentee through the ADC.
ET CETERA The services of Katriona Dunn were made possible through the Associated Designers of Canada Mentorship Program funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development.
Apprentice Lighting & Video Designer
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Lighting Designer: The Mountaintop. Assistant Lighting Designer: among men (with TPM).
OTHER THEATRE Lighting Designer: From Up Here (U of W). Costume Designer: Stupid Fucking Bird (U of W). Stage Management: Scenes from Love and Information (U of W). Assistant Lighting & Set Designer: The Prom (Dry Cold). Upcoming: Stage Management for Something Rotten! (MTYP); Lighting & Costume Design for Miss Shakespeare (WST).
TRAINING BA Hons. in Theatre and Film from the University of Winnipeg, with specializations in Design, Stage Management & Production, and Directing.
ET CETERA Anika would like to thank Creative Manitoba for this opportunity. She also thanks her family, friends and teachers at the University of Winnipeg for their endless support.
Language Consultant
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Yaga.
OTHER THEATRE Over 100 productions across Canada including Newsies, Mamma Mia!, The Sound of Music, Driving Miss Daisy, Kinky Boots, The Prom, Mary’s Wedding (Drayton); Once (Thousand Islands); Revolutionary Women in Jazz, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Glengarry Glen Ross, Faith Healer, Travesties, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper); Into the Woods (TiFT); Blackout, Take the Moment, The Light in the Piazza, Craigslist Cantata (Musical Stage); You Dance (National Ballet); A Man A Fish (Persephone); Musical of Musicals (Mirvish); i think i can, Blue Planet (YPT); The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar, Into the Woods, The Tempest (Hart House); Soldier On (UK Toronto Tour); Pan Am Games. Upcoming: Menopause the Musical 2 (Shaggypup); Goblin:Macbeth (Northan Industries).
Assistant Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Assistant Stage Manager: The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, The Runner. Apprentice Stage Manager: The Cottage, A Doll’s House, Sense and Sensibility. Apprentice Costumer: Sarah Ballenden.
OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: Snow White, Frozen River, Tiny Treasures (MTYP); The Magic Flute (The Little Opera Company); The Prom (Dry Cold Productions). Assistant Stage Manager: The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); Bad Parent, VOICE (PTE). Apprentice Stage Manager: Ghost Light (PTE). Costumer: Mary’s Wedding (TPM). Props and Set Coordinator: Much Ado About Nothing, The Player King, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet (SIR).
TRAINING University of Winnipeg Theatre and Film.
ET CETERA Thanks and love to Mom, Dad, Raya and Felix.
Apprentice Stage Manager
OTHER THEATRE Glad to Be Here (TBTR); Space Girl (PTE); Antigone (Sick + Twisted/AA Battery); Much Ado About Nothing (SIR); Cet été qui chantait, Inédit (Théâtre Cercle Molière).
TRAINING Graduate of the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Enjoy the Show!
Emanuel Lehman
ROYAL MTC Falstaff, The Sisters Rosensweig, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (with NAC), Proposals (with Mirvish), A Streetcar Named Desire (with Citadel), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (with WJT/Saidye Bronfman), The Rainmaker (with VP), Proof (with Citadel), Good People.
OTHER THEATRE Antipodes at Coal Mine and numerous appearances at Soulpepper – most recently August: Osage County. Other appearances at CS, Tarragon, Factory, Neptune, Citadel, NAC, VP, Globe, Blyth and PTE.
FILM/TV Selected: Priscilla (dir. Sofia Coppola); Maps to the Stars (dir. David Cronenberg); Molly’s Game (dir. Aaron Sorkin). Recent recurring roles on Fargo, Heartland and The Hardy Boys.
TRAINING Alumnus of U of M’s Black Hole Theatre and a BFA from the U of A.
ET CETERA Ari made his professional debut here at MTC in 1987 and his film debut in Guy Maddin’s Archangel (1990). He is thrilled to be back home amongst so many friends and family.
Mayer Lehman
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE The Lehman Trilogy, Sunday Father, Written on Water (CS); The Effect (Coal Mine); King Lear/Queen Goneril, Betrayal, A Christmas Carol, Twelve Angry Men, Speed-the-Plow, Waiting for Godot (Soulpepper); Oslo (Studio 180/Mirvish); Sextet, The Waiting Room, Generous (Tarragon); King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford); Way to Heaven, Angels in America (WJT); The League of Nathans (PTE); Romeo and Juliet (Citadel).
FILM/TV Suits, Murdoch Mysteries, American Woman, Titans, Kim’s Convenience.
TRAINING Graduate of National Theatre School (1994).
ET CETERA Jordan would like to thank his wife Shannon, and his sons Sammy and Avi, for their love and support.
Henry Lehman
ROYAL MTC Bang Bang (Evie Award), Network, Trouble in Mind, King Lear, Scorched, My Name is Asher Lev (with Segal – META Award).
OTHER THEATRE Prayer for the French Republic (Segal); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Incident at Vichy (Soulpepper – Dora Award); Oslo, Disgraced (Mirvish); Angels in America (year-long run), Intimate Apparel, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (Canadian Stage); Wit (Jessie nomination – VP); Belle (NAC/Factory); Amadeus, Possible Worlds (TIFT/Munich); Superior Donuts (Coal Mine). Playwriting: The Trial of William Shakespeare; Cringeworthy (Siminovitch nomination); This Hotel (Dora nomination).
FILM/TV Little Bird, The Porter, Rich Kid, Suits, Burden of Truth, Never Been Chris’d, Murdoch Mysteries, Cardinal, Flashpoint.
ET CETERA This performance is dedicated to my late sister Kathryn. Love to Chloe Babette! Audition Coaching at alexpochgoldin.com