4 STARS “Musketeers deliver a swashbuckling good time” – Free Press [read review]
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Stage Adaptation
Catherine Bush lives in Abingdon, VA where she is Barter Theatre’s resident playwright. Plays produced at Barter: The Other Side of the Mountain, The Quiltmaker, Comin’ Up A Storm, Wooden Snowflakes, Tradin’ Paint, Where Trouble Sleeps, The Road to Appomattox, Walking Across Egypt, The Controversial Rescue of Fatty the Pig, The Three Musketeers, Winter Wheat (book & lyrics), Ghost, Ghost, Come Out Tonight, Great Expectations, Dracula, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Kentucky Spring (book), and It’s a Wonderful Life. Other produced plays: The Executioner’s Sons, unhINGEd, The Frankenstein Summer, A Jarful of Fireflies, and Just a Kiss, a 2007 Steinberg Award finalist. Catherine has also written 25 plays for the Barter Players, whose work serves the younger members of Barter’s audience.
Original Author
Alexandre was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterets, France. His grandmother Marie-Cesette Dumas was an enslaved Haitian woman. Alexandre’s father Thomas-Alexandre served in Napoleon’s army where he became a general and made history as the highest-ranking Black officer in Europe. His mother ensured that he got a thorough education, and in 1822 he began pursuing writing as a career. He took advantage of the newspaper industry by writing serial stories. Each day, a new chapter or story would appear, allowing him to write bite-sized pieces, while he reflected on the social issues of the day. His stories addressed the stigma against divorce, illegitimate children, racial conflicts and other social justice issues. Alexandre wrote approximately 300 essays, plays, serial novels and travelogues, but is best known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. He’s also known for The Man in the Iron Mask, one of the stories included in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years, a sequel to The Three Musketeers.
Director
ROYAL MTC John, Venus in Fur.
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Director: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Dry Cold); R2 – The Last Concert of Richard II (zone41/ Royal Canoe); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (Station Arts Centre); Richard III, Othello (SIR); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika (WJT); Three Sisters (zone41/TPM); Winter’s Tale (Tom Tom Theatre); Story of a Sinking Man (Theatre Dirigible); The Universal Wolf (No Sugar Added Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Concord Floral, Twelfth Night, Seven Doors, The Possibilities, As You Like It, Faust(us), Pericles, King Lear, La La La Dispute (U of W).
TEACHING Christopher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA This and everything is for Erin and Oliver.
Fight Director
ROYAL MTC Venus in Fur, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, Oleanna, Macbeth, Burn This, Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Noises Off, Burn This, The Miracle Worker, The Lonesome West, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Boys in the Photograph, Wait until Dark, The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
OTHER THEATRE PTE, MTYP, TPM, MB Opera, Rainbow Stage, RWB and Théâtre Cercle Molière. Rick was co-founder and associate artistic director of TPM.
FILM/TV 35 years of over 200 credits as a stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director, stunt driver and stunt performer.
TEACHING 35 years teaching Acting, Stage Combat, Filmmaking, Mime and Improvisation at the U of W Department of Theatre and Film.
ET CETERA Rick is excited to be back at Royal MTC working with his good friend Christopher Brauer, as we welcome our audience back in the building post pandemic. As always, Rick would like to give a big thank you shout out to his wife Jan who, as he is quick to point out, holds his universe together.
Set Designer
ROYAL MTC Recent and favourites: The Color Purple (with Citadel), The Cottage, John, Humans, Once (with Grand), Sarah Ballenden, Black Coffee, Billy Elliot the Musical, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, A Christmas Story, Harvey, August: Osage County, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), 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: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (TPM); La Cantatrice chauve et La Leçon (Théâtre Cercle Molière); The Whipping Man (WJT); The Hockey Sweater (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 New.
OTHER THEATRE Off-Broadway: A Four-Letter Word (Classic Stage Company); Richard III, King Lear, Macbeth (New York Classical Theatre); Orpheus (Next Wave Festival). Select regional: All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, I Am William (Stratford); Jukebox Hero (Mirvish); Measure for Measure (CS); Theory (Tarragon); The Nether, Between Riverside & Crazy (Coal Mine); The New Canadian Curling Club (Blyth); Amadeus, The Gamblers (TiFT); Could I Have This Dance? (Rebecca Cohn Auditorium); The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Kimberly Akimbo (SouthernRep); Coriolanus, Henry V (New Orleans Shakespeare Festival).
FILM/TV Save Me, For the Record (CBC Gem).
TRAINING University of Missouri – Kansas City (MFA), Concordia University (BFA).
ET CETERA michellebohndesign.com
Lighting Designer
ROYAL MTC Over 60 productions since 1995, including Tiny Plays, Big Ideas, The Cottage, John, Sense and Sensibility, A Christmas Carol (2017, 2005), Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), Black Coffee, The Audience (with Mirvish), Billy Elliot the Musical, Next to Normal, Red (with Belfry), Top Girls.
OTHER THEATRE Scott has designed lighting for opera, dance and theatre companies in Winnipeg and across Canada. Most recently he designed La Cenerentola for Manitoba Opera. Scott is also the Lighting Director for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and teaches Lighting Design at The University of Winnipeg.
TRAINING Scott is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson Theatre School) and is a member of ADC659.
ET CETERA Special thanks to Karen, Sean and Alex for their love and support.
Sound Designer
ROYAL MTC Performer: All is Bright. Sound Designer: The Rez Sisters, Women of the Fur Trade.
OTHER THEATRE Sound Designer: Théâtre sans animaux, Le boucher, Plus (+) que toi (TCM); The Flats, What To Do With Albert (PTE/TCM); Flesh + Machine (Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers).
FILM/TV Voice Actor: Supa Strikas, Canot Cocasse, Wolf Joe, La Brigade.
TRAINING Beauty school dropout; as a musician, mostly a mix of self-taught and private lessons.
ET CETERA Multi-instrumentalist, composer and award-winning singer-songwriter, Daniel Roy has been contributing to Manitoba’s artistic community for nearly three decades. His skill and versatility allow him to work across all genres of music. He divides his time between performing and recording with different artists, album production, artistic direction, and sound design for theatre and television. Daniel would like to thank the following musicians for their music recordings in this production: Greg Hay, Andrew Littleford, Murray Pulver, Quintin Bart, Ariane Jean and Lindsey Bart.
Choreographer
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Choreographer: Ballet in the Park (Various); RWB Ballet Ball (Various).
FILM/TV Director/Choreographer: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (JP Media Works/RWB). Performer: Fourth Period Burnout (CBC Short Docs).
TRAINING/TEACHING Nicole is the Principal of the Recreational Division at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet. She is also a member of the RWB School Professional Division artistic faculty and has received many notable awards for her original choreography. Nicole is a graduate of RWB’s Teacher Training Program and holds Licentiate qualifications with Cecchetti Canada.
ET CETERA Nicole is thrilled to be working with Royal MTC and very grateful to Christopher and everyone on the creative team for this incredible opportunity.
Assistant Director
ROYAL MTC Director: The Show (Tiny Plays, Big Ideas). 2020/21 National Mentorship Program.
OTHER THEATRE Director: O(phelia) (ShakespeareFest); Bastard (FemFest/Out From Under The Rug). Apprentice Director: Becoming Dr. Ruth (WJT). Actor: Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors (ShakespeareFest); Time and the Conways, Concord Floral, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (U of W).
FILM I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight (Mongrel Media); Before Anything You Say (Darkling Productions).
ET CETERA Matthew is a founding member of Out From Under The Rug. Love to Melissa, Sophie and Omar, my closest friends and collaborators.
Assistant Costume Designer
ROYAL MTC First behind-the-scenes engagement.
OTHER THEATRE Costume Designer: Awaken (SIR/zone41); Bar Mitzvah Boy (WJT); Stage Frights (Fete Jockey). Set and Costume Designer: Bike and Circuses, Wild Wild Wilderness, Unplugged, Ebb & Flo (Green Kids Inc.); Glad to Be Here, Meet Me at Dawn, Constellations, Edward II, Cock, Bull, The Cherry Orchard (TBTR); Hamlet, Timon of Athens (SIR); Red Earth (One Trunk/TPM). Set Designer: Plé (MTYP).
ET CETERA Daina was awarded a 2018 Evie for Outstanding Design for her part in the production design of Red Earth (One Trunk/TPM).
Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC Selected: The Rez Sisters, The Cottage, Heisenberg, A Christmas Carol, Sarah Ballenden, Chimerica (with CS), A Christmas Story, Next to Normal, The Shunning, Steel Magnolias, It’s a Wonderful Life, Bleeding Hearts, Pride and Prejudice, Fiddler on the Roof, Our Town, The Tempest.
OTHER THEATRE Selected: The Devil’s Disciple, Desire Under the Elms (Shaw); The War Being Waged, The Third Colour, Happy Place (PTE); Pippin (ViC/WST); Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow); The 39 Steps (Harbourfront, PEI); Spelling Bee (Grand); James and the Giant Peach (MTYP); The Rick Hansen Story (MTYP/2010 Olympics/ Citadel); Molière, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (ATP); Bump (Ship’s Company Theatre); The Addams Family (Dry Cold).
FILM/TV Bring It On: Cheer or Die (Universal); Winnipeg Comedy Fest (Frantic Films); Burden of Truth (CBC TV series).
Assistant Stage Manager
ROYAL MTC 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, the Grand Theatre, the 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
ROYAL MTC Calpurnia.
OTHER THEATRE The Velveteen Rabbit (MTYP); The Marriage of Figaro (MUO); Dance Spectrum (RWB school); In Time (TPM); Trigger Warning: Cassandra (Sick + Twisted); Shakespeare’s Will (SIR); Narrow Bridge (WJT); The Golem’s Mighty Swing (WJT/OTM); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Dry Cold); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arcadia (U of W).
TEACHING Graduate of the University of Winnipeg’s Theatre and Film Program with Honours in Stage Management.
ET CETERA Ridge is thrilled to be back working with Royal MTC this season. He would like to thank all his friends, family and “Lovey” for their support and of course, the fabulous folks at Royal MTC for this amazing opportunity!
OTHER THEATRE Performance: The Improvised Musical, The War Being Waged (PTE); Laurier (TNB/Confederation Centre of the Arts). Select dance: Confluence (Raven Spirit Dance); AFTERGLOW (Rayannah); Actualize, Calibrations of Flux (Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers); Rite of Spring (WSO). Stage Manager: Reflections (Moving Roots); Verge (Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers); Inertial Response (Alex Winters); Family Portrait (Alexandra Elliott Dance); All You Can Eat/The Top (Gearshifting Performance Works).
FILM Screendance: Cišєt (ACC/WSDC); Three Sisters (TPM/Daniel Jordan); Wind and Water (TPM); The__Place (CBC Arts); Best of You (Rayannah).
TRAINING BAH Contemporary Dance (U of W/School of Contemporary Dancers); BA Stage Management (U of W).
ET CETERA Thank you to the stage manager/production community for generously sharing their skills.
Cardinal Richelieu / Innkeeper / Mob #1
ROYAL MTC (selected) Actor: 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.
OTHER THEATRE The Outside Inn (Premiere – Festival Antigonish); The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); coming up Afterlight (Premiere – The Keep and Walk&Talk).
TRAINING Studio 58, Michael Langham Directing Program (Stratford). Certified Intimacy Director and Coordinator with Intimacy Coordinators Canada and Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (New York).
FILM/TV Recent projects include Dark Harvest, Ordinary Angels, Acting Good, Little Bird, Run; Intimacy Coordinator for The Porter, Skymed, Wintertide, El Toro and Alter Boys.
ET CETERA sharonbajer.com
Athos
ROYAL MTC Assistant Director: Private Lives.
OTHER THEATRE Rodrigo is an actor, theatre director and the Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Ruins (SIR). Selected acting credits include The Player King (SIR); A Dance to the End of the World (PTE); Sea Wall (TBTR); and Hamlet (Bravura/Snakeskin). Selected directing include Hamlet (SIR); Love’s Labour’s Lost (U of W); Bull, Cock, Lungs (TBTR); The Front Page (Stratford, Assistant Director). Rodrigo spent four seasons at the Stratford Festival, acting in dozens of productions.
FILM/TV Snowkissed, Blood, Intersection, Naval Gazing, Dark Harvest.
TRAINING Birmingham Conservatory (Stratford); MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA (UK); BA (Honours) from the University of Winnipeg; Michael Langham Workshop (Stratford).
ET CETERA You should come see PANDORA this January/February, a co-production between SIR and PTE! Visit shakespeareintheruins.com.
King Louis / Mob #6 / Lord Buckingham / Beggar / Drunk / Lemieux / Spy #4
ROYAL MTC Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, A Doll’s House, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Clever Little Lies, The Woman in Black, Private Lives, Good People, Brief Encounter, Looking Back – West.
OTHER THEATRE Eric has performed with various theatres including PTE, MTYP, TPM, SIR, WJT and the Vancouver Playhouse.
FILM/TV Spencer Sisters, SkyMed, Forever Christmas, Burden of Truth, Break My Heart 1000 Times, All the Light We Cannot See, The Pinkertons, Cashing in.
TRAINING Eric holds a BA from the University of Winnipeg and an MFA from York University.
Planchet / Criminal / Guard #3 / Patron / Fisherman #2 / Guest #5 / Soldier #3 / Citizen
ROYAL MTC Buying the Farm (Regional Tour with Magnus), Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), 23.5 Hours, Alice Through the Looking-Glass.
OTHER THEATRE Selected: The Birds and the Bees, The December Man (PTE); Another Way Home (WJT); Danny, King of the Basement, Peter Pan, Night Light (MTYP).
FILM/TV Selected: Nobody (Universal); Wayne (YouTube Original); Stand! The Musical (Frantic Films); The Pinkertons (Pink Pictures); You’re Killing me, Susana (Arcadia Pictures); Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, four seasons of Channel Zero (SYFY); Wrong Turn 4 (20th Century Fox); BUNKS (Disney).
TRAINING Bachelor of Arts Honours in Theatre and Film Acting from the University of Winnipeg.
ET CETERA Tristan is a proud member of Skene Stunts with nearly 50 credits in film and television. As always, love to Mom, Dad, Anthony, Petty and Peeps.
Rochefort / Patron #3 / Cahusac / Sailor #2 / Spy #2
ROYAL MTC 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 Richard III, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (SIR); Shiksa (WJT); Three Sisters, The Miser of Middlegate (TPM); Lunenburg, Bang Bang, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Magnus Theatre).
ET CETERA Love to Katrina, Aviva and Joren.
D’Artagnan
ROYAL MTC Apprentice Artistic Director*; Assistant Director: Orlando; 2020/21 National Mentorship Program; Artistic Coordinator: Tiny Plays, Big Ideas.
OTHER THEATRE Voice (PTE); Spelling 2-5-5 (MTYP); School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play (Obsidian/Nightwood Theatre); Hamlet (SIR); Blink (One Trunk/W&T); Home 2.0, The Game, New Beginnings (Sarasvàti); O(phelia) (ShakespeareFest); Animosity (Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival); Time and the Conways, Concord Floral, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (U of W).
FILM Macbeth (SIR/Blackfriar).
ET CETERA Dora Award: Outstanding Production and Toronto Theatre Critics’ Choice Award: Outstanding Production of a Play (School Girls), Bethia Henry Memorial Scholarship in Theatre and Drama, Reg Skene Emerging Artist Award. Love to M, M, I and OFUR.
*Supported by the Manitoba Arts Council.
Jussac / Felton / Patron / Braddock / Guest #4 / Soldier #2
ROYAL MTC Actor: Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Top Girls. Fight Director (selected): 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.
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.
Aramis
ROYAL MTC Fight Director: New. Assistant Fight Director: The Rez Sisters. Actor: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, A Christmas Carol, Alice Through the Looking-Glass.
OTHER THEATRE Actor: A Chorus Line, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Little Shop of Horrors, Les Misérables, The Producers (Rainbow); Another Way Home (WJT); A Little Night Music, The Addams Family (Dry Cold); Reefer Madness, American Idiot, Heathers: The Musical, Avenue Q (WST); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (The Keep Theatre).
FILM Actor: Spencer Sisters (Bell Media); Polarized (Enlightenment Productions); Hannukah on Rye, Christmas by Starlight, Merry and Bright (Hallmark).
TRAINING Bachelor’s in Vocal Performance from the U of M, Opera NUOVA, Rainbow Stage Training Intensive.
ET CETERA Darren dedicates this performance to his late father, Gary.
Kitty / Abbess / Mob #3 / Patron #2 / Guest #3
ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Much Ado About Nothing – 2022, Timon of Athens – 2018 (SIR); Torn Through Time – 2019 (MTYP); Romeo & Juliet – 2020 (Pocket Frock Productions Shakespeare Fest); Quest – 2019 (Meraki Theatre Productions).
FILM I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight – 2020.
TRAINING University of Winnipeg Bachelor of Arts Honours in Theatre and Film Performance.
ET CETERA Wishing everyone a warm and happy winter!
Milady de Winter / Mystery Woman
ROYAL MTC John.
OTHER THEATRE Lady Sunrise, acquiesce (Factory); Dinner with the Duchess (Next Stage Festival); Kim’s Convenience, Cowboy Versus Samurai (Soulpepper); Urinetown: The Musical (Firehall Arts Centre); The King and I (Gateway Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts Club/Belfry); Flower Drum Song, Red Letters, A…My Name is Alice (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre).
TV Robyn Hood (upcoming, Global); Star Trek (CBS); Good Witch (Hallmark); Slasher-Solstice (Netflix); Motive (CTV); Carter (Bravo); Killjoys (Syfy); Hudson and Rex (Citytv); Shadowhunters (Freeform).
TRAINING Graduate from Capilano University in musical theatre.
ET CETERA Rosie and the cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, received a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Ensemble (Arts Club/Belfry).
Constance Bonacieux / Mob #7
ROYAL MTC Orlando, The New Canadian Curling Club, A Thousand Splendid Suns (postponed, COVID-19).
OTHER THEATRE Selected acting: Bastard. (OFUR/PTE); Much Ado About Nothing (SIR); The Snail and the Whale (MTYP/Tall Stories); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Arcadia (U of W); Animosity (Downside Up Productions). Assistant Directing: Like Mother Like Daughter (Why Not Theatre/FemFest). Co-Founder and Collaborator of Out From Under the Rug Collective (PTE’s company in residence 2020-22).
TRAINING UW Honours Degree in Performance; Royal MTC mentorship – Haysam Kadri; Creative Manitoba mentorship – Ann Hodges.
ET CETERA Sophie is a queer artist who believes in choosing Big Love, All the Time. She extends that love to her dearest friends, who know exactly who they are (xx). See Sophie next in PTE’s Space Girl. Website: sophiesmithdostmohamed.com Instagram: @sophiesmithdost
Queen Anne / Mob #2 / Barmaid
OTHER THEATRE The Comedy of Errors (TBTR); Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), King Lear, Blithe Spirit (U of W); Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar (7 Ages Productions); Why They Go in Groups, Strandead, Bedhead (Winnipeg Fringe Festival).
FILM/TV Burden of Truth (CBC); Violent Night (Universal); A House on Fire (Lifetime); Menorca (Farpoint Films); Channel Zero: No End House (Syfy); Night Hunter (Arise/Buffalo Gals); Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (Space); Cashing In (APTN).
TRAINING Graduate of the University of Winnipeg with an Honours Degree in Theatre.
ET CETERA Krystle is so grateful to be making her Royal MTC debut among friends in such a beautiful show and would like to thank her family for always being so supportive of her in every way.
Monsieur Bonacieux / Bicarat / Mob #5 / Painter / Patron / Fisherman #1 / Spy #1 / Herald / Guard #2
ROYAL MTC Calpurnia, The Mountaintop, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Romeo and Juliet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC).
OTHER THEATRE Director: The Velveteen Rabbit (MTYP). Actor: The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow); The Tempest (Citadel); *Deserter, Remember the Night (Moving Target); Hedda Noir (Theatre NorthWest); *The Whipping Man (WJT); Romeo and Juliet (SIR); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Black Hole Theatre). *Evie Award.
TRAINING Black Hole Theatre Company; Banff Centre for The Arts.
ET CETERA Look for Ray in The Porter, on CBC/BET. Ray is also co-host of the Ray & Benny Talk Sports podcast. You can find it on YouTube and on your preferred podcast platforms. @raybennysports on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. To Chris Johnson.
Porthos
OTHER THEATRE Richard III, The Miser, Phaedra’s Love, All My Pretty Chickens, Coriolanus, Tempest, Napoli Milionaria!, Twelfth Night, A School for Scandal, Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny, Dido: Queen of Carthage, As You Like It, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Stratford); Towards Youth: a play on radical hope (Crow’s Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It (CS).
FILM/TV TITANS (HBO); february: a love story, Above Ground Floor (Sudden Spark Collective).
TRAINING/TEACHING Emilio is an alumnus of York University’s Acting Conservatory (2014) and The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre (2015/16).
ET CETERA Follow me on instagram @emiliovieira and @suddensparkcollective.
Monsieur de Treville / Soldier #1 / Sailor #1 / Guest #1 / Spy #3
ROYAL MTC Actor: All is Bright, The Cottage, A Doll’s House, Once (with Grand), Kill Me Now (with NAC), Black Coffee, Hand to God, Billy Elliot the Musical, Late Company, Harvey, Miracle on South Division Street, August: Osage County. Assistant Director: Morning After Grace.
OTHER THEATRE Actor: The Wedding Party, Butcher (PTE); Strike! The Musical, Beauty and the Beast, The Producers (Rainbow); The Jungle Book, Jabber, The Big League (MTYP); Another Way Home (WJT); Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare (White Rabbit Productions). Director: Mr. Burns (DTC); various productions with Celebrations Dinner Theatre and Winnipeg Fringe.
FILM/TV Actor: Champions, Dark Harvest, Breakthrough, Night Hunter, A Dog’s Purpose.
ET CETERA Much love to Heather and the boys.
Standby: Rochefort & Others / Monsieur de Treville & Others
ROYAL MTC Fight Director: The Wave, Orpheus Descending.
OTHER THEATRE Romeo and Juliet – 2003 (SIR); Noble Savage, Savage Noble (TPM).
FILM/TV The Don Cherry Story, Exorcism of Molly Hartley, Channel Zero seasons 2, 3 and 4, Timecut.
TRAINING/TEACHING A student of the U of W Theatre Honours program. Robert has taught stage fighting for MTYP, PTE and workshops for U of M School of Music Opera students. As well as Fight Direction for SIR and Manitoba Opera.
ET CETERA Robert has also worked on numerous film and TV projects as a stunt person and would like to thank the Skene family for all the opportunities, support and friendship over the years.
Standby: King Louis & Others / Planchet & Others / Monsieur Bonacieux & Others
OTHER THEATRE Hair – 2007 (Winnipeg Fringe Festival); Faust – 2009, Diary of Anne Frank – 2010 (U of W); So you think you can be a Musical Theatre Idol 2: Skid Row (White Rabbit Productions).
FILM/TV Film: Nobody – 2021, Violent Night – 2022 (Universal Studios); Fractured – 2019 (Netflix). TV: Safehaven – 2023 (Tubi); Less than Kind – 2008 (HBO Canada).
TRAINING Honours degree in Theatre and Film University of Winnipeg; extensive stunt training from the Skene Stunts Team; extensive training in Muay Thai and boxing.
ET CETERA I am very thankful for the opportunities that I earn along this path in life. It’s important to smell all of the roses that appear along the way. OSSSS!!
Standby: Kitty & Others / Queen Anne & Others / Jussac & Others
ROYAL MTC Actor: The History of Manitoba…in 45 Minutes. Director: A Piece of Me (Tiny Plays, Big Ideas).
OTHER THEATRE (Selected) Actor: Plé (MTYP); The Miser of Middlegate (TPM). Director: Can You Hear Me Now, Loud and Clear (100 Decibels). Assistant Director: Tribes (WJT).
FILM/TV (Selected) Actor: The Secret Ingredient, Percy vs Goliath, A Dream of Christmas. Stunts: Champions, Sniper: Rogue Mission, Violent Night.
TEACHING Shannon teaches Mime & Improv. and Stage Combat at the U of W.
ET CETERA Shannon is a founder/creator of the three-time Canadian Comedy Award-nominated sketch comedy troupe Hot Thespian Action and Deaf mime troupe 100 Decibels. She would like to thank Ross and Beckett for their undying support, love and random dance breaks when mommy needs it.
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