Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Dramatic Arts presented innovative theatre experiences online for the 2020-21 season.
2020-21 DART EVENTS
IBPOC Theatre grad fair – May 3, 2021
Calling all IBPOC recent theatre graduates, students graduating this year and those entering their final year of study! You’re invited to an (online) IBPOC Theatre Grad Fair from 1:00-3:00 pm EDT on May 3! You will have the chance to meet with other IBPOC students from across the country and hear from experienced IBPOC artists on the transition from post-secondary theatre education to the professional realm.
Register directly on the IBPOC Theatre Grad Fair Eventbrite page, or visit the website for more information about this event including participating artists and academic institutions.
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Department of Dramatic Arts Presents
ONE ACTS FESTIVAL 2021:
Myth and Marriage
The Barely Wives Club, directed by Michael Cicchini, and
The M Word, directed by Matthew Martin.
The festival is the final presentation for student directors enrolled in the third-year Directing II (DART3P54) course. All plays are created, produced and performed by DART students under the direction of Gyllian Raby and features cast members from first and second year.
Festival Performance Dates. presented on Zoom:
April 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2021
The performance is free to view, but registration is required. Book your viewing spot on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel through Brock University Tickets.
Recent events
Department of Dramatic Arts Presents:
Ouroboros – an original sandbox theatre presentation
A presentation by the DART 4F56 (Advanced Studies in Theatre)/DART 4P97 (Collaborative Stage Production) graduating students’ ensemble for Spring 2021. All productions are created, produced and performed by DART students under the direction of a guest director.
April 16 to 18, 2021
Guest Instructor: Lisa Marie DiLiberto of Theatre Direct
The play will be streamed on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) YouTube channel on:
April 17 @ 2pm (Preview)
April 17 @ 7:30pm (Opening)
April 18 @ 2pm
April 18 @ 2pm
Spring Mainstage Production:
fever/dream
by Sheila Callaghan
April 7-11, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.
View the Fever/Dream program on the website.
Sheila Callaghan’s Fever/Dream is a rollercoaster ride of lyrical absurdity with a soupcon of parody and the surreal.
Seizing on real anxieties of plunging stock markets and corporate mayhem Sheila Callaghan, the author of Netflix’ series Shameless, chronicles the fortunes of the Basil Family Dynasty in this wildly modernized adaptation of the Renaissance Spanish classic Life’s a Dream.
A radical social experiment begins when eccentric billionaire Bill Basil abdicates control of his business conglomerate to his feral, estranged son. Segismundo emerges from incarceration in the Customer Service dungeon yearning for his day of power. Meanwhile, other contenders for the corporate Presidency plot a takeover. The coldest-hearted businesswoman in the world is thwarted by a vengeful bike messenger who, in turn, is distracted by the discovery of her dead-beat dad. The rules that govern the world of corporate finance are permanently derailed as Love teaches everyone a little civilization, to the tune of Yellow Brick Road.
Fever/Dream adapted by Sheila Callaghan from the Spanish Golden Age classic by Calderon de la Barca, from Life’s A Dream.
Directed by Gyllian Raby with Dillon Bernier and Samantha Rideout, Assistant Directors. Scenic design by David Vivian, costumes by Roberta Doylend, lighting design by Chris Malkowski, sound and projections design, videography and post production by James McCoy, choreography by Rachel Romanoski, and stage management by Diego Blanco and Alyssa Ruddock.
Show Run: April 7-11, 2021 (new time!)
7:30 p.m.
Presented on the MIWSFPA YouTube Channel.
Reservations to view the Fever/Dream performance of your choice will be made available at brocku.universitytickets.com
There is no charge for reservations, but numbers are limited. Please book your ticket early.
Where: created at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines with content from the performance spaces of students and artists in Canada, streamed to the MIWSFPA YouTube Channel.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Gyllian Raby
Assistant Director, Dramaturgy and Drama and Education Outreach: Dillon Bernier*
Assistant Director and Choreography: Samantha Rideout*
Scenic Design: David Vivian
Sound and Projections Design, Videographer and Post Production: James McCoy
Lighting Design: Chris Malkowski
Costume Design and Head of Wardrobe: Roberta Doylend
Choreographer: Rachel Romanoski
Stage Manager: Diego Blanco*
Assistant Stage Manager: Alyssa Ruddock*
CAST:
Segis, the feral son of C.E.O. Bill Basil – Luca d’Amico*
Rose, a spy; the disguised daughter of Fred Clotaldo and ex-lover of Aston Martin – Violet Brown*
Claire, Rose’s best friend and a deeply gifted office worker – Joanna Tran*
Bill Basil, CEO of Basil Enterprises (tops the Forbes 500 global business charts) – Matt Martin*
Fred Clotaldo, Bill’s loyal office manager; Rose’s estranged father – Taj-Alexander Crozier*
Aston Martin, a charmer whose real name is Reginald– Peter Herbert*
Stella Strong, a spectacular icon of business power and perfection – Emily Clegg*
Sparky, a Corporate Associate Intern – Yasmine Agocs*
Pixie, a Corporate Associate Intern – Jane Smith*
Daisy, a Corporate Associate Intern – Bianca Taylor*
Mick, a Security Guard / Chris, an Accountant – Lucas Irving*
Sergei, a Security Guard / Phil, an Accountant – Jonah Pace*
PRODUCTION:
Production Manager: Brian Cumberland
Production Coordinator: Jordine De Guzman
Technical Director: Gavin Fearon
Assistant Technical Director: Alex Sykes*
Wardrobe Assistant: Julian Corlett*
Cobbler: Avery Delaney*
Properties Coordinator: Frances Johnson
Head of Stage Construction: Ed Harris
Theatre Technician: Dawn Crysler
Stage Management Supervisor: Carolyn Mackenzie
* DART student
** with permission of Canadian Actor’s Equity Association
The Act of Creation: A panel discussion
March 29, 2021 – 7 to 8:45 p.m.
Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and Faculty of Humanities, hosted by Danielle Wilson, Associate Professor of Theatre at Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.
Join us for an online discussion with Canadian theatre artists, Kate Hennig (Shaw Festival), Nikki Shaffeeulah (Theatre and Community Artist), Kaitlyn Riordan (Shakespeare in the Ruff), and Jani Lauzon (Stratford Festival, National Theatre School) about being multi-faceted theatre artists and sustaining a career in the arts.
These artists will be interviewed by DART students Genevieve Batista, Holly Hebert, Heidi Nickel and Joanna Tran.
This online event can be viewed on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel, no registration required.
About the panelists:
Kate Hennig is an actor, playwright, teaching artist, and director. Kate has played Stratford, Shaw, Broadway, the RSC, the NAC, Nightwood, Nightswimming, Summerworks, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, and more. Kate was the 2015 recipient of the Christopher Plummer Foundation Award for Excellence in Classical Theatre. Other accolades include the Carol Bolt Award, two Dora Awards, three Betty Mitchell awards, a Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award, a Genie nomination, and making the short-list for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Kate is the Director of Artist Development at the Shaw Festival. www.katehennig.com
Jani Lauzon is a multidisciplinary artist of Métis ancestry. She is a nine-time Dora nominated actor/director/writer, a three time Juno-nominated singer/songwriter, an award-winning screen actress, a Gemini Award winning puppeteer and a Toronto Theatre Critics award-winning director. Her company Paper Canoe Projects produces her own work including the award-winning Prophecy Fog as well as I Call myself Princess and A Side of Dreams. Jani began her career as an artist educator at the Claude Watson School for the Arts: Junior campus in the 1980s. She honed her skills as AD/Principal of The Centre for Indigenous Theatre and has worked extensively developing a pedagogy of actors training based on interdisciplinary training and circular communication. She was co-founder of Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, a Native women’s theatre collective and is currently the Associate Director English Acting at the National Theatre School of Canada. for the 2020-2021 school year.
Kaitlyn Riordan was born in Montreal, studied in England (at The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts), lived in NYC, and now calls Toronto home. She’s a four time Dora nominated actress and also a playwright and the co-Artistic Director of critically acclaimed Shakespeare in the Ruff. Her play, Portia’s Julius Caesar, premiered there in the summer of 2018 and had its second production at Hart House Theatre in the fall of 2019. With Ruff, she has performed in The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth: Walking Shadows, Cymbeline’s Reign, and Two Gents. Recent acting credits: After the Fire (The Theatre Centre), Maggie & Pierre, Linda Griffith’s one woman show about the Trudeaus (Thousand Islands Playhouse, The Tarragon Theatre, The Grand Theatre), Noises Off! (The Segal Centre), Mockingbird (Next Stage Festival), The Merchant of Venice & Blithe Spirit (Stratford Festival).
Nikki Shaffeeullah is a theatre-maker, director, writer, facilitator, equity worker, and community-engaged artist. Her work has included serving as Artistic Director of The AMY Project (2015-2019); Editor-in-Chief of alt.theatre: cultural diversity and the stage (2012-2016); Assistant Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre (2015-2017); and as a founding member of Confluence Arts Collective. She is currently part of Why Not Theatre’s ThisGen Fellowship, Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip playwrights’ unit, and the Theatre Centre’s Explorations Residency program. As a facilitator and consultant Nikki supports grassroots groups, non-profits, and public institutions to uphold equity and accountability in all aspects of their work. Nikki holds an MFA from the University of Alberta and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators. A queer Indo-Guyanese settler born and living in Tkaronto, Nikki believes art should disrupt the status quo, centre the margins, engage with the ancient, dream of the future, and be for everyone.
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Rise Up: A monologue workshop exploring policing, incarceration, and the resilient spirit of the Black experience in Canada
March 27, 2021 from 11 am – 1 pm
What does resistance look like? How is reform different from abolition? Are either attainable in our lifetime, and if so, how? What role does theatre (and do we as theatre makers) play in developing empathy for the beautiful struggles of IBPOC folks? How can we come together as students and as a community through the exploration of monologues and open conversation?
This two-hour workshop explores these questions through active work on theatrical monologues about policing and incarceration, and dialogue with Saleh Waziruddin, an executive member of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association.
The workshop is open to Brock students and recent graduates, and members of the Niagara community under the age of 30. No previous theatrical experience is required, though active and open-hearted participation will be expected. Please reach out to Karen Fricker (Associate Professor of Theatre, Brock University) with any registration questions: kfricker@brocku.ca
Workshop facilitators: Marcel Stewart, Kaylyn Valdez-Scott
Register to reserve your spot via Zoom.
Also check out: Brock University’s Sexual Violence Prevention Committee presents a screening of The Skin We’re In, Desmond Cole’s acclaimed CBC documentary that pulls back the curtain on racism in Canada. Tuesday, March 23, 7-9 pm – please check back for link.
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FILM screening and panel discussion
“The Garden Left Behind”
March 26, 2021 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The Department of Dramatic Arts, the MIWSFPA, the Office of Human Rights and Equity and Brock Pride are hosting a special guest presentation by DART alumnus and New York-based producer, Roy Gokay Wol, of his film “The Garden Left Behind”. The 2019 SXSW Audience Award-winning feature film debut by Flavio Alves is a story about a young Mexican trans woman and her grandmother who navigate life as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
This online event will feature a post-screening panel conversation and will stream to BUSU and Brock TV YouTube channels.
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Walker Cultural Leaders Series
Theatre pedagogy in the era of climate crisis: An online symposium
March 20 & 21, 2021
Livestream events presented on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel.
An upcoming weekend of online events will explore the role that theatre education plays in relation to climate crisis. Presented as part of the 2020-21 Walker Cultural Leader’s Series program, the online symposium “Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis” runs March 20 and 21 as free livestreamed events on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel.
Convened by volume co-editors Dr. David Fancy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock University, and Conrad Alexandrowicz, Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Victoria, this event features four online panel discussions with contributing authors of the volume, each a theatre scholar and/or practitioner.More information on this event available on the symposium website: brocku.ca/tpcc
The full weekend program features:
Saturday 20 March 2021
1-2:15pm ET – Theatre Pedagogy and the Climate Crisis
Moderator: David Fancy, with Lara Aysal, Derek Davidson, Katrina Dunn, Beth Osnes
Watch the livestream event on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel.
3-4:15pm ET – Eco-Aesthetics in Performance and in Design
Moderator: Conrad Alexandrowicz, Tanja Beer, Rachel Bowditch, Joan Lipkin, David Vivian
Watch the livestream event on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel.
Sunday 21 March 2022
1-2:15pm ET Eco-Literacies in Teaching Theatre
Moderator: Sasha Kovacs, with Mary Anderson, Dennis Gupa, Caridad Svich
Watch the livestream event on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel.
3-4:15pm ET Intersectionality, Solidarity, and the Body of the Earth
Moderator: Rachel Rhoades, with Gloria Akayi Asoloko, Soji Cole, Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta
Watch the livestream event on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel.
GIMME THREE FESTIVAL
“Parallel Universe”
March 18, 2021 at 7 p.m.
presented online! Please check back shortly for viewing details.
A collection of student created scenes presented in festival format. Showcasing the talents of first year performance students! Every DART 1P99 student performs in a Gimme Three directed by an upper year student. Meet the future of DART!
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Click here to view the Concord Floral Program in PDF format, or view on the production website.
Sandbox Theatre (DART 4F56 – Advanced Studies in Theatre) presents:
Concord floral
by jordan tannahill, directed by ali joy richardson
Ten teenagers must face their guilt — and their past — in the latest online production offered online by Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts (DART).
Written by Canadian theatre maker Jordan Tannahill, two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Concord Floral was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 2016 and has been produced by theatre companies across the country.
Directed by Dramatic Arts Instructor Ali Joy Richardson, the play will be streamed on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) YouTube channel on Friday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m.
The gripping production features original design, choreography and musical composition by the student cast as they perform virtually from their homes.
THE CAST
10 / BOBBIE JAMES: Taj Crozier
6 / NEARLY WILD: Avery Delaney
2 / BOBOLINK: James Dengate
1 / JUST JOEY: Mike Hammond
9 / GREENHOUSE: Holly Hebert
5 / ROSA MUNDI: Sid Malcolm
4 / FOREVER IRENE: Grace Martins
7 / COUCH: Heidi Nickel
3 / JOHN CABOT: Nathan Rossi
8 / FOX: Jackson Wagner
Production Team
**Director – Ali Joy Richardson
*Stage Manager/Assistant Director – Diego Blanco
*Associate Choreographer – Taj Crozier
*Costume Designer – Avery Delaney
*Sound Designer – James Dengate
*Marketing Manager/Dramaturg – Mike Hammond
*Assistant Director – Holly Hebert
*Video Designer/Production Manager – Peter Herbert
*Lighting Designer – Sid Malcolm
*Composer/Sound Designer – Grace Martins
*Choreographer – Heidi Nickel
*Marketing Manager/Assistant Poster Design – Nathan Rossi
*Set Designer/Poster Designer
Technical and Production Support – Brian Cumberland
Brock Graphic Design – Gilgun Doran
Technical and Production Support – Gavin Fearon
Pedagogical Support – Mike Griffin
Brock Communications – Gillian Minaker
Marketing and Outreach Support – David Vivian
*Students of the DART 4F56 class
**Course Instructor to the DART 4F56 class
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The Department of Dramatic Arts and the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre present:
Walker Cultural Leaders Series for 2020:
Theatre in The Era of Climate Crisis: A weekend of performances and discussion of the intersections between climate change, performing arts and activism
Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts (DART) has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre to offer online performances and virtual discussions that explore the intersection of performing arts and climate change as part of the Walker Cultural Leaders Series from Friday 13 – Sunday 15 November 2020.
The weekend is convened by DART Professors David Fancy and Karen Fricker and will include the sharing of five commissioned performance provocations, a live-streamed performance of Broadleaf Theatre’s award-winning production The Chemical Valley Project, co-created by Kevin Matthew Wong and Julia Howman, and a panel discussion with contributing artists Kevin Matthew Wong (Broadleaf Theatre), Santee Smith (Kaha:wi Dance Theatre), and David Fancy.
As part of the Walker Cultural Leaders Series, Brock University commissioned 10 regional theatre artists to create short online presentations exploring the climate crisis in relation to any area of their interest. The first five performance provocations will be showcased as part of the November gathering and will include artists who are performers, devisors, designers, educators, and writers. These artists have explored a multitude of themes in relation to climate change including consumerism, feminism, colonialism, COVID-19, healing, ecological grief and more. Excerpts of these works in progress will be shown followed by a talk back.
“We’re committed to manifesting Marilyn Walker’s vision and legacy of cultural leadership by bringing creative and critical attention to the climate crisis,” said David Fancy. “We’re especially grateful to have the opportunity to collaborate with the PAC on this series of presentations.”
“The climate crisis is going to require our collective creativity to rise to its challenges,” said Annie Wilson, PAC’s Programming Supervisor. “We appreciate the opportunity to work alongside Brock’s Dramatic Arts Department to build this opportunity to reflect as a community on this most important issue.”
The full weekend program features:
Friday 13 November 2020
5pm-6:30pm
Walker Cultural Leaders Series Commissioned Artists
Dani Shae Barkley exploring the economy, globalization, ecological grief and the climate
Kelly Wolf exploring feminism and the climate
Iain Lidstone exploring the relationship between land and healing
Excerpts will be followed by a discussion chaired by Michelle Mohammed.
Livestreamed on both the PAC and MIWSFPA Facebook and YouTube pages. Content available for viewing until Sun 29 Nov.
7pm
The Chemical Valley Project by Broadleaf Theatre, co-created by Kevin Matthew Wong and Julia Howman
Livestreamed performance from Robertson Theatre at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Presented by the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in partnership with Brampton’s Rose Theatre, Kingston’s Grand Theatre and Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Supported by Ontario Presents and Ontario Arts Council.
Tickets for The Chemical Valley Project are pay-what-you-can and are available on the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre website at www.FirstOntarioPAC.ca. Content available for viewing with PWYC ticket purchase until Sun 29 Nov.
Saturday 14 November 2020
2pm
The Chemical Valley Project by Broadleaf Theatre, co-created by Kevin Matthew Wong and Julia Howman
Livestreamed performance from Robertson Theatre at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Presented by the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in partnership with Brampton’s Rose Theatre, Kingston’s Grand Theatre and Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Supported by Ontario Presents and Ontario Arts Council.
Tickets for The Chemical Valley Project are pay-what-you-can and are available on the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre website at www.FirstOntarioPAC.ca. Content available for viewing with PWYC ticket purchase until Sun 29 Nov.
Sunday 15 November 2020
1pm
Land, Water, Activism, Performance: A talkback and discussion panel featuring Kevin Matthew Wong of Broadleaf Theatre; Santee Smith, Artistic Director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre; and DART Professor David Fancy, moderated by Karen Fricker.
Topics will include Broadleaf Theatre’s commitment to climate-focused dramaturgy; Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s Indigenous futurist dance production Skén:nen; and the upcoming Theatre Training in the Era of Climate Crisis volume and conference co-edited and organized by David Fancy.
Livestreamed on both the PAC and MIWSFPA Facebook and YouTube pages.
2pm-3:30pm
Walker Cultural Leaders Series Commissioned Artists
James McCoy exploring fatigue and the climate; the emotional response to climate change
Adrienne Smoke presenting Rona: exploring colonialism, COVID-19 and the climate
Excerpts will be followed by a discussion chaired by Michelle Mohammed.
Livestreamed on both the PAC and MIWSFPA Facebook and YouTube pages. Content available for viewing until Sun 29 Nov.
Tickets for The Chemical Valley Project are pay-what-you-can and are available on the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre website at www.FirstOntarioPAC.ca. There are no tickets required for The Walker Cultural Leader Series Commissioned Artists and Land, Water, Activism, Performance: A talkback and discussion panel. These events will be livestreamed on both the PAC and MIWSFPA Facebook and YouTube pages. Content available for viewing until Sun 29 Nov.
ABOUT THE WALKER CULTURAL LEADERS SERIES:
Beginning in 2011 the academic programs of the Marilyn I. Walker School have celebrated the legacy of Marilyn, her gift and her vision by programming the Walker Cultural Leaders (WCL) Series. The ongoing development and refinement of the WCL program facilitates invitations to recognized cultural leaders, top researchers, visiting artists, scholars, professionals, theatre companies, producing and presenting organizations, associations, and others to contribute to the intellectual and creative life of the School and the Niagara region.
ABOUT THE FIRSTONTARIO PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE:
The FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre is located in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario on the shared traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Neutral Peoples and many other Indigenous people from across Turtle Island. We offer our sincere gratitude and respect to the original and continued stewards of this land. We also acknowledge Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, and 2SLGBTQQAI+ that have been marginalized for centuries and more – and our collective responsibility to take action for a better world free from oppression, discrimination and racism. The PAC aims to provide meaningful opportunities to bring our community together in a place of mutual understanding, empathy, and respect through the arts.
Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, the 95,000 square foot cultural complex opened in November 2105 and is comprised of four state-of-the-art performance venues which hosts international, national and local artists alongside community members and organizations.
The FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre acknowledges the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of St. Catharines and our long time partnership with Brock University for their ongoing support.
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Program for Scenes from an Execution is available on the website
Fall Mainstage Production:
Scenes from an Execution
by Howard Barker
Scenes from an Execution is a genre-bending feeding frenzy of high impact theatre, art film, and social media. This production features the story of a 16th century punk feminist painter named Galactia. She outsmarts and out-arts all the other hangers-on with her ability to wield a paintbrush and her prowess with a video camera. She stores her lover in a plexiglass box, and, well, everything takes off from there… Taking place in an in-between pandemonium of dozens of separate performance spaces around the region and the world, Scenes From and Execution integrates the live and the recorded, and blood and paint, in festival of good-times-for-all that won’t be easily ignored!
Directed by David Fancy.
Live streamed on:
October 30 at 7:30 PM
October 31 at 7:30 PM
November 01 at 2:00 PM
November 06 at 7:30 PM
November 07 at 7:30 PM
Where: created at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines with content from the performance spaces of students and artists in Canada and Mexico, streamed to the MIWSFPA YouTube Channel.
Reservations to view the Scenes from an Execution performance of your choice can now be made at brocku.universitytickets.com
There is no charge for reservations, but numbers are limited. Please book your ticket soon.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: David Fancy
Associate Director: Molly Lacey*
Set/Costume Designer: Kelly Wolf
Assistant Designer: Wyatt Hoskins*
Dramaturg: Asenia Hall*
Choreographer: Trevor Copp
Dance Captain: Marley Mahon*
Audio Design: James Dengate*
Stage Manager: Peter Herbert*
Assistant Stage Manager: Alyssa Ruddock*
CAST:
Galactia – Holly Hebert*
Carpeta – Neo Moore*
Urgentino – Jesse Caines*
Suffici – Jackson Wagner*
Rivera – Heidi Nickel*
Ostensible – Diego Blanco*
Prodo/Sailor – Jarrod Vandenbogaerd*
Sketchbook/Pastaccio – Celine Zamidar*
Supporta – Sammie Marett*
Dementia – Chloe Petrou*
Sorda/Sailor – Maiya Irwin*
Official/Gaoler – Isaiah Alton*
Lasagna/Sailor – Marley Mahon*
Sailor/Workman/Woman in the next cell – Thea Van Loon*
PRODUCTION:
Production Manager: Brian Cumberland
Technical Director: Gavin Fearon
Assistant TD: Sid Malcolm*
Sound Operator: Alex Sykes*
Head of Wardrobe: Roberta Doylend
Wardrobe Assistant: Julian Corlett*
Construction Head: Ed Harris
SM Supervisor: Carolyn MacKenzie
( * DART student)
GIMME TWO FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 2020
presented online!
Every DART 1P99 student performs in a Gimme Two directed by an upper year student.
All Mainstage performances:
- Appropriate for High School-Age Audiences
- Shows may contain mature language and situations
- Post-performance Q&A with the actors and creative team are available for both productions.
- Teacher Workshops are available
- Audience Maximum: varies depending upon the production, contact the Production Manager
- Contact Brian Cumberland, Production Manager, for more information: bcumberland@brocku.ca.
- Purchase regularly priced tickets here
Publicity opportunities and media information:
Please contact Gillian Minaker, Communications Officer, MIWSFPA
905 688 5550 x4765
e-mail: gminaker@brocku.ca
unless otherwise indicated, all performances for 2020-21 are online
PARKING
Parking is not available on-site, however, there are more than 1,000 spots available in nearby parking garages, surface lots and on city streets within a five-minute walk to our address at 15 Artists’ Common. Visit www.stcatharines.ca/en/livein/ParkingLotsGarages.asp for a list of parking locations, or see below.
Upcoming events at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
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