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Playwright
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
TPM The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (Premiere); Wine and Little Breads (Carol Shields Festival of New Works staged reading at PTE).
OTHER THEATRE The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (Station Arts Centre); Wine and Little Breads – short version (Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre).
ET CETERA Awards: Herman Voaden National Playwrighting Competition Honourable Mention (Wine and Little Breads). Fiction: The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Murder in Gutenthal, The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst, Armin’s Shorts and Grandmother, Laughing. Tatsea, set in Canada’s subarctic, was awarded the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.
Director
ROYAL MTC King Lear (assistant director), Shakespeare’s Dog (actor, with NAC).
TPM Artistic Director from 2005 to 2021. Selected acting: Ce Weekend La, Short Shots, I Do…Do You?. Selected directing: Age of Arousal, Monster Trilogy, John and Beatrice, Beautiful Man, Proud, Dragonfly.
OTHER THEATRE Selected: The Norbals, Zaidie’s Shoes, Prairie Nurse (director) (PTE); Dolphin Talk, Mirror Game, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (MTYP); Our Country’s Good (director) (U of W).
FILM Ardith won a Blizzard Award for her performance in Jeff Erbach’s prairie gothic feature film The Nature of Nicholas.
TRAINING BA hons (4yr) in Theatre U of W.
ET CETERA Ardith and Andraea Sartison were the creators of Chautauqua: The Interlake Trail (TPM) which was awarded the Manitoba Arts Council’s Connecting Creative Communities prize in 2019.
Set Designer
ROYAL MTC Recent and favourites: The Comeback, The Mountaintop, Clue (with Grand), Burning Mom, The Three Musketeers, The Color Purple (with Citadel), The Cottage, Sarah Ballenden, Black Coffee, Billy Elliot the Musical, Harvey, August: Osage County, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (with NAC), M. Butterfly (with NAC).
TPM Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliette, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, Proud.
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 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.
Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC Costume Designer: among men (with TPM). Set & Props Designer: Mix Tapes From My Mom (regional tour). Assistant Costume Designer: The Three Musketeers.
TPM Costume Designer: among men (with Royal MTC), End of the Line (with Walk & Talk). Set & Costume Designer: Red Earth* (with One Trunk).
OTHER THEATRE Costume Designer: RENT (Rainbow); Twelfth Night (SIR); Narrow Bridge, Bar Mitzvah Boy (WJT); Awaken (SIR/zone41). Set, Props & Costume Designer: Fame (WST); Hamlet, Timon of Athens (SIR); Glad to Be Here, Edward II (TBTR); The Cherry Orchard (TBTR & Echo Theatre); Bike and Circuses (Green Kids). Set & Props Designer: Year of Magical Thinking (PTE); The Dark Lady** (SIR/Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Plé (MTYP).
ET CETERA *Evie Award for Outstanding Production Design. ** SATAward nomination for Production Excellence.
Lighting Designer
ROYAL MTC (selected) Lighting & Video Designer: The Lehman Trilogy, The Mountaintop, Vietgone, Venus in Fur. Video Designer: Network (with Citadel). 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.
TPM Hugh has designed lighting, video and sets for 28 productions with Theatre Projects Manitoba since 2006.
OTHER THEATRE He collaborates with choreographers, visual artists and dance and theatre companies worldwide.
ET CETERA Hugh’s photographic work resides in private collections and has been published worldwide. He 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 The Lehman Trilogy, among men (with TPM), Burning Mom, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Trouble in Mind, Orlando. 2022/23 National Mentorship Program.
TPM among men (with Royal MTC).
OTHER THEATRE The Year of Magical Thinking (PTE).
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 for the last 15 years. Current and past projects include work with Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson; composer/trumpeter Chuck Copenace; and Polaris Prize-nominated hip-hop outfit Super Duty Tough Work. As a composer, Ashley has had work commissioned and performed nationally and internationally. She has most recently had work premiere at the Senate of Canada in Ottawa as well as had work exhibited in London, UK. She is the Artistic Director for Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival.
Fight Director
ROYAL MTC Fight Director (selected): 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.
TPM Director/co-creator: In Time.
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.
Intimacy Director
TPM First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Choreographer & Intimacy Director: Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White (COC); Every Little Nookie (Stratford). Intimacy Director: Richard II (Stratford). Assistant Director & Intimacy Director: Queen Goneril (Soulpepper).
FILM/TV Intimacy Coordinator: When Stars Align (Lifetime); We Three Queens (OutTV); Really Happy Someday (Spindle Films); Sworn Justice: Taken Before Christmas (Black Entertainment Television).
TEACHING Assistant Professor in the Theatre and Film department at the University of Winnipeg.
Voice & Dialect Coach
ROYAL MTC Coaching: among men (with TPM), Trouble in Mind, The Rez Sisters, Jane Eyre. Acting: Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III.
TPM Coaching: among men (with Royal MTC), Iceland, Mary’s Wedding.
OTHER THEATRE Coaching: The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Richard III (SIR); Little Thing, Big Thing (PTE); Shrek (Rainbow). Acting: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Little Women, Urinetown (Dry Cold); Hamlet (Bunchback’d Toads); Passion (Red Hen Productions); Annie (Rainbow); The Odyssey (SIR); Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure (Tom-Tom Theatre).
FILM/TV Coaching: The Porter, Esther, Incident in a Ghostland. Acting: The Spencer Sisters, Love in the Alps, Burden of Truth, Nobody.
TRAINING/TEACHING MFA in Acting with a Voice Specialization from York University. Tom regularly teaches courses on voice and performance for the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA I’m so glad to be back at Royal MTC and TPM supporting another fantastic group of artists!
Assistant Lighting Designer
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Lighting & Video Designer: The Lehman Trilogy. Apprentice Lighting Designer: The Mountaintop. Assistant Lighting Designer: among men (with TPM).
TPM Assistant Lighting Designer: among men (with Royal MTC).
OTHER THEATRE Lighting Designer: Miss Shakespeare (WST); From Up Here (U of W). Costume Designer: Miss Shakespeare (WST); Liars at a Funeral (Magnus); Stupid Fucking Bird (U of W). Stage Management: Something Rotten! (MTYP); Scenes from Love and Information (U of W). Assistant Lighting & Set Designer: The Prom (Dry Cold).
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 her friends, family and mentors for their endless support.
Apprentice Director
OTHER THEATRE The Naked Mennonite, The Mennonite Fairytale (Real Live Entertainment).
ET CETERA Alan is thrilled to be in the “big city” and will have many stories to share when(/if) he returns to Steinbach.
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Stage Manager: 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!
Apprentice Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: The Piano Teacher, Trouble in Mind. Child Supervisor: The Comeback, The Sound of Music.
TPM Stage Manager: Climate & Main.
OTHER THEATRE The River, Pool (No Water) (Stage Manager – Winnipeg Fringe Festival). For U of W: 365 Days/365 Plays, Alunsina’s Love (Stage Manager), Love of the Nightingale, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Assistant Stage Manager), Frankenstein (Production Assistant), Time and the Conways (Sound Designer), Everybody (Set Designer), Concord Floral (Wardrobe Coordinator). 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!
Yasch Siemens
ROYAL MTC Clue (with Grand), 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).
TPM White Rabbit / Red Rabbit.
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, The 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 performer / producer with the musical improv collective Outside Joke.
Pug Peters / Male Caller
ROYAL MTC Sense and Sensibility, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, The Hound of the Baskervilles (tour).
TPM First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE The Hound of the Baskervilles (PTE); The House at Pooh Corner, Dib and Dob and the Journey Home (MTYP).
FILM I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight.
TRAINING University of Winnipeg Acting Honours.
ET CETERA Love to Ky, family, friends and all the pals in the Winnipeg theatre community.
Sadie Nickel
ROYAL MTC Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (with Segal), Into the Woods. 2022/23 National Mentorship Program.
OTHER THEATRE Miss Shakespeare (WST); Merrily We Roll Along (Dry Cold); Tuck Everlasting (Opera NUOVA); People, Places and Things, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Arcadia (U of W).
TRAINING BAH Acting University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA She is a proud recipient of the Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship. She first began working on The Recipe in an early workshop in 2021. Rhea is thrilled to be a part of this world premiere and finally share it with an audience. Thank you, Ardith, Armin and Suzie, our wonderful cast, and my friends and family for your love and support.
Oata Needarp
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Munschtopia (PTE); Five East (workshop) (Sick + Twisted); Shakespeare Fest’s HAMLET (Bunchback’d Toads); The View From Here, The Shorts (Sarasvàti); A Fine Line (PTE New Works Festival), Her Wings (Buried Seeds Productions); Time and The Conways, Concord Floral, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (U of W).
TRAINING Graduate from the University of Winnipeg Acting Honours Program.
ET CETERA Amanda is a fat queer interdisciplinary artist based on Treaty One Territory. They are absolutely honoured to bring a plus size character to life on this stage. All the love and thanks always to family, friends, M & I, and their knees for not giving out.