Introducing the Cast and Production Team of The Love of the Nightingale

The Love of the Nightingale

Cast

Female Chorus: Helen - Marsha Amanova

Phaedra & Acrobat - Leah Beaudry

Niobe - Nathania Bernabe

Itys - Sadie Rain Bowling

Female Chorus: June - Lisa Dawn Daniels

Female Chorus: Echo - Noori Gill

Female Chorus: Hero - Rowan Hickie

Male Chorus - Quinn Hinch

Aphrodite & Acrobat - Julianna Hunt

Soldier 1; and Theseus - David Johnston

Philomele - Rachel Kent

Nurse & Female Servant - Brooke Leifso

Procne - Tanya Mirzayans

The Captain Kevin Ouellet

Female Chorus: Iris Corrine Pelletier

Male Chorus - John Trethart

The Queen - Sarah Van Tassel

King Pandion - Doug Verdin

Tereus - Justin Deveau

Soldier 2; and Hippolytus - Nate Rehman

Production Team:

Director - Alex Hawkins

Assistant Director - Eric Rice

Movement Coach - Kelsey Acton

Stage Manager - Pat Eyford

Production Manager - Janet McLean

Set Designer & Master Painter - Joan Hawkins

Lighting Designer - Leland Stelck

Costume Designer - Geri Dittrich

Sound Designer - Erin Foster-O’Riordan

Props - Alli Ross, Joan Hawkins, Geri Dittrich

Master Builder - Pierre Valois

Hair & Makeup - Geri Dittrich

Wardrobe Mistress - Elaina Bolton

There are always a few positions to fill and many hands required to help build and run the show. If you are interested in working on this show, contact Walterdale Theatre and they will pass along your information to Janet McLean.

In a Little Over a Week...

We start the season! Well, the work started a long time ago, but next Wednesday, on October 6th, 2010 we will officially kick off the 52nd Season with the Opening of Perfect Pie. Tonight and tomorrow night, the cast and crew is working on the Q2Q, Wednesday night is media call and a tech run and then a few more runs and a couple of Previews and we are open.

Perfect Pie is a beautifully written piece by Canada's Judith Thompson. It features 4 lovely actresses who have been seen at Walterdale and other place in Edmonton over the years. They have been working hard over the past few months doing the work with each other to play characters at different times of their lives. I hear reports from Production Team members about their strength as individual actors as well as an ensemble. I am so looking forward to seeing them. The set is finished. I was fortunate enough to get to help Joan Hawkins paint it. We had a lot of help on the set, both on the build and the painting. Pierre Valois let the build team and Joan led the painting team, all working hard to bring Alli Ross' beautiful design to life.

All of this has been directed by Mary Jane Kreisel. No stranger to Walterdale, this is MJ's first time directing a Walterdale show. She wisely picked a strong Production Team to work with, and all of them are working hard to help complete her vision for the show. Truly this has been a testament to teamwork at Walterdale.

Much Ado about Much Ado!

We had a fabulous turn-out for our recent auditions of this wonderful Shakespearean Comedy. Truly, I was blown away by the depth of the talent that we saw in all those current and future Walterdale members. So, here I present:

The Cast and Production Team of Much Ado About Nothing opening at Walterdale in December 2010:

Benedick - Murray Cullen
Beatrice - Erika Conway
Claudio - Patrick Errington
Hero - Leah Paterson
Margaret - Gabby Bernard
Ursula - Catherine Wenschlag
Don Pedro - Rob Johnstone

Don John - Justin Deveau
Borachio - Daniel James Stilwell

Constanza - Angela Tran
Leonato - Dale Wilson
Antonia - Mary-Ellen Perley
Dogberry - Shawn Pallier

Verges - Marcia Rigney
First Watchman/Chorus - Robert MacDougall
Second Watchman/Chorus - Troy Locke
Friar Francis - Dustin S. Lawrence
Sexton/Chorus - Elizabeth Johannson

Messenger / Third Watchman/Chorus - Kougar Rossetti
Baltha - Vicktoria Adam

Production Team
Anne Marie Szucs - Director
Monica Roberts - Assistant Director
Melanie Samson - Stage Manager
Ian Fitzgerald - ASM
Giorgia Severini - Production Manager
George Millar - Set Designer
Ephram di Medicci - Costume Designer
Kat Evans - Lighting Designer
Jon Shields - Sound Designer
Kristen Finlay - Props/Mask Designer