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HUNCHBACK
NEVERMORE
FRANKENSTEIN
- Company Biographies
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from Mary Shelley’s 1813 novel,
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
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Upcoming Performances
May 3 - 29, 2010
Bluma Appel Theatre, Toronto
Presented by the Canadian Stage Company
Performance History
2006-2007
- Keyano Theatre, Fort McMurray
- Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton
2007-2008
- Vancouver East Cultural Centre/PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
- Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre
- Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton
- Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts
2008-2009
- Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
- Max Bell Theatre, Epcor Centre, Calgary (Co-presented by One Yellow Rabbit & Theatre Calgary, Part of the 23rd annual High Performance Rodeo)
- Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon
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JIM BOB BOUDREAU
Jim Bob is a freelance Production Manager / Technical Director. A few of his more notable contracts include - Technical Director for the Alberta Centennial Initiative's 2005 Royal Visit, Technical Director for the ceremonies division of the Edmonton 2001 World Championships and Production Manager for the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Prior to starting his freelance activities he worked for companies such as, The Stratford Festival; The Banff Centre; The Manitoba Theatre Centre; The Vancouver Playhouse and The Canadian Stage Company. He also teaches a course on Technical Direction at Grant MacEwan College.
WADE STAPLES
Wade is excited to be a part of the creative team on another amazing production by world renowned Catalyst Theatre. Past sound design credits with Catalyst Theatre include: The Blue Orphan, The Key to Violet’s Apartment, and Carmen Angel. He holds Music Performance, Recording Arts and Theatre Production diplomas from Grant MacEwan College. For the past fourteen years Wade has been an instructor for the Theatre Production program at Grant MacEwan College. In addition, Wade operates his own production company and works as a freelance sound and multimedia designer, production manager, and sound engineer. Wade works extensively at the Stratford Festival of Canada, The River City Shakespeare Festival, and The Citadel Theatre.
CANDICE CHARNEY
Candice is excited to be working once again with the amazing team of Frankenstein. She graduated from the University of Alberta with a BFA in Stage Management in 2005. And most recent credits include Stage Managing Two Gentlemen of Verona with Free Will Players and Assistant Stage Managing The Vertical Hour with Neptune Theatre in Halifax. Love always to her family and girlfriend. Thank you for your constant love and support.
JOHN RAYMOND
John is thrilled to be working on Nevermore. He has stage managed Frankenstein (2006-2008), Blue Orphan (2005) and a workshop of Sticky Shoes (2005) for Catalyst Theatre. He is a faculty member of the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta where he also serves as Technical Theatre Coordinator. He was Director of Production at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton from 1998-2004. Other selected stage management credits include Shakespeare’s Will and The Mystery of Irma Vep at the Citadel, My Fair Lady at Alberta Theatre Projects, A Delicate Balance at Canadian Stage, Fire for Theatre Calgary, The Mother of all the Behans, My Children! My Africa! and Balconville for the Centaur Theatre and Sticks and Stones, The St. Nicholas Hotel, Wm. Donnelly Prop. and The Sun Raiser for the Banff Centre.
KEREM ÇETINEL
After finishing his MFA Theatre Design degree at the University of Alberta, Kerem designed set, costumes and lighting for several companies in and around Edmonton including: Scythe (Dammitdance Theatre), Hansel and Gretel (Opera Nuova), Sound of Music (Keyano Theatre), Faithless (Theatre Network & Azimuth Theatre), Hamlet (Theatre Prospero), Glass Menagerie and Monster (Kill Your Television Theatre), Helen’s Necklace (Shadow Theatre), Thought Crimes (Citadel Theatre), Fat Pig (Northern Light Theatre), The Cube (Mile Zero Dance) and Death and the Maiden (Globe Theatre). Some of his previous work abroad include working as the resident lighting designer of Istanbul International Jazz Festival and designing set and lighting for SEZ (Laboratuar Performance Arts Company - Istanbul), a contemporary dance performance commissioned by World Architecture Congress 2005.
Kerem’s lighting design for A Midsummer Nights Dream, has been chosen by the international jury and displayed in the gallery exhibit of World Stage Design 2005 (12-19 March 2005, Toronto), one of the three lighting designs representing Canada in the exhibition.
LAURA KREWSKI
Laura is trilled to be working with Catalyst Theatre again on the production of Nevermore. Her choreographic credits include Frankenstein, (Catalyst Theatre), The Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel Theatre and LKTYP), HMS Pinafore (Edmonton Opera), With a Twist (Lunchbox Theatre), Two Gentleman of Verona (Freewill Shakespeare Festival), Footloose (The Mayfield), Beauty and the Beast (Keyano Theatre), and Forever Plaid (Globe Theatre). She also choreographed FreeFall, and Jazz Playground for her contemporary jazz company FreeFall Dance. Laura has been an instructor and choreographer for Orchesis Dance Group at the University of Alberta, the Edmonton Contemporary Dancers and Edmonton School of Ballet, as well as at many private and post secondary arts programs. She teaches extensively at various workshops and summer schools, and adjudicates dance across Canada.
JONATHAN CHRISTENSON
Jonathan received his M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Alberta in 1996, the same year he became Artistic Director of Catalyst Theatre. Under his leadership, the company has created eighteen original productions in the past ten years. Highlights include: The Blue Orphan, The House of Pootsie Plunket, Love + Love, Songs For Sinners, and The Abundance Trilogy. Catalyst’s productions have toured Canada, the U.K., Australia and the United States and Jonathan has been honoured with numerous awards, both at home and abroad, for his work as a director, writer and composer.
Outside of Catalyst Theatre Jonathan has taught for the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. He has directed productions for Studio Theatre (University of Alberta, Edmonton), The Citadel Theatre’s Teens at the Turn festival (Edmonton), Workshop West’s Springboards New Play Festival (Edmonton) and Keyano College Theatre (Fort McMurray).
NICK GREEN
This is Nick’s very first show with this fantastic company and he couldn’t be more excited! He was most recently seen this summer in the premier of his new play Gayface at the Edmonton Fringe Festival and Nextfest. Other credits include As You Like It, Scenes From an Execution, and The Myth of Summer (Studio Theatre), Castrated (Expanse Dance Festival), The Orchid Drive (Independent), South Pacific, and Kiss Me Kate (Theatre Under the Stars). Writing credits include Kenny Timeless (808), Sounds of Rain, and The Fabulous Buddha Boi (Loud ‘n Queer). Nick is a recent graduate of the B.F.A. Acting program at the University of Alberta.
ANDREW KUSHNIR
As a performer, Andrew has worked with companies that include the Citadel, Teatro La Quindicina, The Globe, CanStage, and Buddies In Bad Times. He has spent seasons with the Shaw Festival, Free Will Players, and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (as Cordelia and the Fool in King Lear). In recent months, he has played Sparkle in Habitat (Theatre Network), The Playwright in The Review (SummerWorks), and Woof in the Toronto revival of Hair (CanStage). His musical play Captain Princess was one of four works-in-progress presented at Buddies In Bad Times' Spotlight on the Creator/Perfomer this past October. Andrew is a graduate of the U. of A. BFA (Acting) Program.
TIM MACHIN
Tim Machin trained at the University of Victoria and then, moved to England. While living in London, he did national and international touring, regional rep, London, West End and Fringe. Highlights include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Complete Millenium Musical (Abridged), Taking Steps, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes and Around The World In Eighty Days. He worked extensively in voice over and won the gold medal in the category of classic abridged fiction for his reading of One False Move by Harlan Coben. As a singer songwriter he fronted various bands. Since moving back to Canada recently he has appeared on Forensic Factor for the Discovery Channel and The Great Quake for the National Geographic Channel. Tim spent last summer in the Muskokas performing in Tom Dick And Harry.
SARAH MACHIN GALE
Sarah is originally from Edmonton, but is currently based in Toronto. She is a graduate of the BFA (Acting) program at the U of A, where she worked with Jonathan and Bretta on The Still Point of the Turning World. In Edmonton, she worked for Workshop West, Skid Theatre/Ron Jenkins, Shadow Theatre, Azimuth and Acme. Sarah then moved overseas to study at the London Contemporary Dance School. She worked in England doing regional rep, radio drama, choreography, at various theatres on the London Fringe and toured extensively round Europe, Scandinavia and the Far East. Highlights include, Dr. Who for the BBC, The Winslow Boy, Absent Friends, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Since being in Toronto, Sarah has appeared in Klank at the Harbourfront and a staged reading of Rosemary Rowe’s play Kiss with Your Teeth at Buddies in Bad Times. Sarah is a founding member of the Ruckus Ensemble, a research based theatre company that presents After the Crash, a play about brain injury.
NANCY MCALEAR
A graduate of both the Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts Program and the University of Alberta B.F.A. Acting Program, Nancy has worked across the country at theatres including the Citadel, Vancouver Playhouse, National Arts Centre, the Globe and the Grand. Some highlights of her theatre career include Romantic Accordion, Wizard of Oz, Hello Dolly, Taming of the Shrew and Frankenstein. Currently she lives in Toronto where she has worked extensively in film and television for the past ten years. She has had exciting opportunities working with some of her favourite actors including Anne Bancroft, Mathew Modine, Sigourney Weaver and John Stamos. Nancy can be seen next in Misery at Theatre Network. She was recently honoured to receive an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for her performance in last year’s incarnation of Frankenstein.
DOV MIKELSON
Dov is one of the original artistic associates with Catalyst Theatre and, in the role of Kirbus, toured their award-winning House of Pootsie Plunket all over Canada and the UK. For Catalyst - Electra, The Abundance Trilogy, Songs for Sinners and The Blue Orphan (Magnetic North Theatre Festival), Frankenstein (2006/07). Now based in Toronto, Dov continues to work on stage, film and television. Selected theatre: Amadeus (CanStage/Citadel), A Midsummer Night's Dream (CanStage), The Trials of John Demjanjuk (Theatre Asylum-tour), The Amorous Servant (Pleiades), Kyke Kabaret (Rhubarb Festival-Buddies – which he wrote and performed), The Gladstone Variations (Convergence) and most recently, Dying to Be Sick (Pleiades/NAC). He appeared in the short film Found Objects (Old World Films) which premiered at the Toronto, Montreal and Sao Paulo film festivals 2007. A huge thanks to my family and friends for their love and support.
TRACY PENNER
Tracy is thrilled to make her Vancouver debut with Catalyst Theatre’s Frankenstein. She is originally from Manitoba, but has been working in Edmonton for the last few years. Selected theatre credits include: The Shape of a Girl (Concrete Theatre), Quality (Nordic Nomad Productions, England), Shoe! (Vault: Theatre of Invention), Frankenstein (Catalyst Theatre and Keyano College), Progress and Procrastination (The System Theatre), Get Away (Theatre Yes), On the Open Road (UofA), Undiscover’d Country (U. C. Collective), CHEECH (Mutt’s Nuts), Bearing Witness (UofA), The Beaux’ Stratagem, Electra, and The 7 Dwarfs (Studio Theatre), Camelot (Manitoba Theatre Centre), Funny Girl (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre), as well as simple gifts, a one-woman show written and performed by Tracy for a variety of communities; including Edmonton’s 2005 Fringe Festival and Washington, DC’s 2006 Capital Fringe Festival. Tracy is a BFA graduate of the University of Alberta.
GEORGE SZILAGYI
George was both flattered and insulted to hear he was the director’s first choice to play a horrifyingly repugnant monster. He seems to be a natural choice when it comes to casting monstrous beasts, having played a giant slug (The Blind Butterfly, Iguanodon Theatre), an evil dragon (The Hobbit, Fringe Theatre Adventures), a nightmarish bear (Slowly An Exchange…, Edmonton Fringe), and (gasp!) an unrepentant philanderer (Dinner With Friends, Theatre Buffet Co-op). An Edmonton-based actor, George recently performed and co-produced The Anger In Ernest And Ernestine (Aarrgghh!! Productions), wrote Hockey Stories For Boys for Azimuth Theatre, and punched Tom Green in the stomach in the soon-to-be released feature film Freezerburn.
BRETTA GEREKE
Bretta is originally from Winnipeg and has resided in Edmonton for the past 14 years. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Interior Design in 1992, and from the University of Alberta with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design in 1996. Bretta is the resident designer of Catalyst Theatre, where she has designed over 15 world premieres.
Bretta has also worked extensively at The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Opera, Canadian Stage, The Edmonton Opera and The Calgary Opera.
Aside from her theatre work, Bretta has designed a summer house on Devil’s Lake, and works as an archaeological illustrator. She feels very lucky to have 13 Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards an Enbridge Award for Best Emerging Artist.
BETH DART
Beth recently graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA in Stage Management program. Previous credits include stage manager for What the Butler Saw (Keyano Theatre), ONE (Red To Blue Productions), Double Inconstancy (Studio Theatre), La Perichole (Opera Nuova) Stone and Ashes (Media Room, UofA) and assistant stage manager for The Clink, Ribbon, and As You Like It (Studio Theatre). Recently, Beth produced a site-specific Halloween show called Dead Centre of Town. In early 2007, Beth created, produced and artistic directed an experimental multi-disciplinary, multi-layered arts event, The Revolution, in partial completion of her degree.
