ByJoe DiPietro - Chemainus Theatre Festival

Joe DiPietro
Margaret Martin, Ian Harmon, Norma Dirom David Cooper Photography
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October 3 to
November 8
2014
Mark DuMez
Artistic Director
VANCOUVER ISLAND’S THEATRE GETAWAY
C H E M A I N U S T H E AT R E ’ S
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Dougan’s Lake
Featuring Serigraphs by Arthur Vickers
and Fabulous Getaway Packages.
Our online auction offers selected limited edition serigraphs by internationally
acclaimed Vancouver Island artist Arthur Vickers.The collection is currently on
display at the Chemainus Theatre Dining Room. Our online auction will also
include getaway packages, day trips, tickets and lots more. All proceeds from this
auction benefit the Chemainus Theatre Festival Society and will help fuel
our passion for presenting engaging and enriching live theatre for
Vancouver Island residents and visitors.
Please visit us at
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Call to arrange a viewing or for more information.
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Joe DiPietro
By
Directed by
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Stage Manager
Apprentice Stage Manager
Aida Gianelli
Frank Gianelli
Emma Cristano
Nick Cristano
Caitlin O’Hare
Nunzio Cristano
Pamela Halstead
Craig Alfredson
Laurin Kelsey
Darren Boquist
Paul Tedeschini
Lisa Russell
Linzi Voth
Linda Goranson
Bill McFadden
Margaret Martin
Giovanni Mocibob
Stephanie Moroz
Wes Tritter
SETTING: The Gianelli home in Hoboken, New Jersey.
INTERMISSION: There will be one 20-minute intermission
Presented with the generous assistance of:
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
The Chemainus Theatre Festival engages, under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of the
Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The Chemainus Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and its members.
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MESSAGE FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
The Professional Association of Canadian Theatre recently
released a study that found 80% of Canadians believe live
theatre is important to making communities both vibrant
places to live and helping attract visitors.
Looking at Chemainus and the Cowichan region, this certainly
holds true as the Chemainus Theatre has become a cultural
and economic cornerstone drawing close to 70,000 theatre
goers per year to our artsy seaside corner of the Island.
RANDAL HUBER
Even on the broad national scene, Chemainus plays an integral role. Last year, roughly
8 million tickets were sold for live theatre across our country. This means 1 out of every
114 people who attended a theatre performance in Canada did so by visiting the
Chemainus Theatre.
Theatre plays a key role creating vibrancy and drawing us together to help create and
support that elusive sense of community. Even if it’s just for a few hours as an audience
sharing a collective experience, theatre is a living breathing thing that flourishes and
grows with greater participation.
Thank you for attending today’s show.
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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MARK DUMEZ
I grew up in a small great lakes town with a population just
about to crack 2000 souls when I left. I knew all my aunts and
uncles – even the ones who moved “all the way” to the other
side of town. Every second Sunday of the month, without fail,
my father’s six siblings would gather in one of their houses for a
meal and a visit – until the later years when the “cousin count”
was so high that only the aunts and uncles were allowed. To
this day, the living relatives still gather – to solve the problems
MARK DUMEZ
of the world over a pot luck lunch, some coffee and Snickers bar salad. I am grateful for
many blessings of my family and especially that even with their differences, they all love
and respect one another when they gather together.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
In this play, Joe DiPietro gives us the perfect, imperfect family. Through his hilarity, we
can consider our own sense of place, our loyalties to location, commitment to culture
and hopes for our legacy and lineage. In the mobility of North American culture, Tengo
famiglia invites us to examine our roots, whether we love em’ or lump em’. The patriarchs
and matriarchs of Nick’s world allow us to laugh at ourselves in another skin and call us to
savour the tastes and conversations that shape who we are. Enjoy the feast!
ISLAND SAVINGS & CHEMAINUS THEATRE
proudly present
DISCOVER THEATRE WORKSHOPS
These workshops, complementary for schools courtesy of Island Savings’
“Growing Island Families Together” – GIFT program, explore acting skills
through improvisational play and written scenes. They will be led by
education coordinator for the Chemainus Theatre Festival, Andrea Cross.
If you know of a school that would like to receive a free Island Savings
Discover Theatre Workshop, please contact:
Education Coordinator,
Chemainus Theatre Festival
[email protected] or 250-246-9800 ext 728
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THE PLAY
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey whose parents have retired
and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees
both sets of grandparents for dinner every Sunday. But then he gets offered his dream
job. The job he’s been waiting for – marketing executive – would take him away from
his beloved, but overwhelming grandparents. When he tells them they begin a series of
schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle,
for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio & Emma have a plan but
we won’t give the ending away here.
THE PLAYWRIGHT
JOE DIPIETRO
Joe DiPietro won two Tony Awards for co-writing Memphis, which also received the
2010 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. His other
plays and musicals include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (the longest running
musical revue in off-Broadway history); The Toxic Avenger and The Thing About Men
(both winners of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical,); the
much-produced comedy Over the River and Through the Woods; The Art of Murder
(Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play) and the Broadway musical All Shook Up.
His drama Creating Claire debuted at George Street Playhouse in 2010. His work has
received thousands of productions across the United States and around the world.
THE DIRECTOR
PAMELA HALSTEAD
Pamela recently completed her tenure as the Artistic Director
of Lunchbox Theatre (Calgary, AB) and is the former Artistic
Producer of Ship’s Company Theatre (Parrsboro, NS). In her
10 years between these two companies she directed and/or
produced over 60 productions, the majority of them premieres
of new works. Pamela is Artistic Adviser to Valley Summer
Theatre (Wolfville, NS), Artistic Producer of DMV Theatre
(Halifax, NS) and the PERFORM! Coordinator for Theatre Nova
Scotia. Recent credits include: directing Mass Appeal for
Valley Summer Theatre and The Net for Theatre New Brunswick, directing and
dramaturging the world premieres of Never A Syllable for Onelight Theatre and Bingo
Ladies for Lunchbox Theatre, and producing White Rabbit, Red Rabbit for DMV
Theatre. She also returned recently to Lunchbox to curate and coordinate the 27th
Suncor Energy Stage One Festival. In 2013, Pamela was awarded the inaugural Evans
Award at the Calgary Critics’ Awards for her contribution to the vibrancy of the Calgary
theatre community. She recently returned to Nova Scotia and is thrilled to be back
living by the sea.
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CRAIG ALFREDSON Set Designer
Craig has been working for over 15 years as a Technical
Director and Designer for various Vancouver theatre and
dance companies. He holds his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2009)
and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts at the
University of British Columbia. Notable design credits include
Hansel & Gretel (UBC Opera); Unity 1918 (Theatre @ UBC);
Stuff Happens, Vimy (Firehall Theatre); 7 Stories (Capilano
University); Mary Poppins (Arts Club Theatre).
DARREN BOQUIST Lighting Designer
Besides lighting, Darren Boquist has written, produced,
and performed plays across Canada. Recently he won the
“North Shore Zone Festival Best Male Actor Award” for his
performance of Michael Novak in God of Carnage. He has
received two Jessie Nominations for lighting design – Carousel
Theatre’s Busytown and Aesop’s Fables. And has designed
lights for Pi Theatre, Upintheair Theatre, Theatre North West
and Studio 58 among others.
LINDA GORANSON Aida Gianelli
Linda is thrilled to return to Chemainus after Jeeves in Bloom.
Recent theatre credits include The Cemetery Club, Perfect
Wedding, The Little Years, Tough Case (nominated for a Dora
for best production), Calendar Girls, On Golden Pond and Vigil.
Film and TV credits include Gridlocked, Remedy, Hemlock
Grove, Owning Mahowny and The Rowdyman. She starred in
The Painted Door which was nominated for an Oscar for best
Live Action Short. She trained at LAMDA .
LAURIN KELSEY Costume Designer
Laurin Kelsey obtained her BFA in Set & Costume Design
from the University of Victoria and also attended the National
Theatre School of Canada. After her studies, Laurin spent 3
years living and working in Berlin, Germany, where she
designed for both theatre and film. Recent credits include
Munschercise (Chemainus Theatre), My Romantic History
and Summer & Smoke (English Theatre Berlin).
www.laurinkelsey.ca.
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MARGARET MARTIN Emma Cristano
A resident of Victoria, Margaret is pleased to return to
Chemainus Theatre Festival for the eighth time. Other plays at
CTF include Anne of Green Gables, The Mousetrap, Queen Milli
of Galt, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Importance of Being Earnest,
Arsenic and Old Lace, and Hay Fever. In her forty year career
she is probably best known for her portrayal of Emily Carr both
onstage and on television.
BILL McFADDEN Frank Gianelli
Bill McFadden is excited to be making his debut at the
Chemainus Theatre Festival reprising the role of Frank in Over
the River and Through the Woods. In his storied career some
favourite roles have included; Norman (On Golden Pond),
Justice Biddle (Trying) and Oscar (Oscar and Felix). A clown, a
town-crier, and a teller of tales, Bill is known for spontaneous
magic tricks and his signature calling card – balloon animals.
GIOVANNI MOCIBOB Nick Cristano
Giovanni Mocibob is excited to be back on the Chemainus
stage. Previous Chemainus Theatre credits include Chickens,
and Amadeus. In the spring you can catch him in The Whipping
Man at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver. Other theatre credits
include: Mary’s Wedding, Doubt, My Name Is Asher Lev,
Fiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha. Recently he
co-starred as the urban legend serial killer “Thinman” in an
episode of Supernatural and is currently developing a comedy
series with his wife Holly Pillsbury.
STEPHANIE MOROZ Caitlin O’Hare
Stephanie is excited to be making her debut at the Chemainus
Theatre Festival. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now
calls Vancouver home. Recent credits include Meg in Leading
Ladies (Persephone Theatre), Theresa in Between the Sheets
(pi Theatre), and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest
(Persephone Theatre/Western Canada Theatre). Stephanie is
a graduate of Studio 58. She thanks you for coming, and hopes
you enjoy the show!
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LISA RUSSELL Stage Manager
Lisa has stage managed in professional dance, theatre,
musical theatre and opera across Canada and is delighted
to be making her Chemainus Theatre Festival debut. Most
recently Lisa was the Interim Production Manager for Calgary
Opera’s Opera in the Village Summer Festival and the Banff
Centre Midsummer Ball’s Operations and Script Supervisor.
Originally from Calgary, Lisa now makes her home in Regina.
She is the recipient of two Tyrone Guthrie Awards from the
Stratford Festival.
PAUL TEDESCHINI Sound Designer
Paul is a sound designer, as well as a full time mixing and
mastering audio engineer. Live mix credits include: Liona
Boyd, Sheri Ulrich, Barney Bentall and Tom Taylor, John Gogo.
Recent sound design credits include: Home Is A Beautiful
Word (The Belfry Theatre); It’s a Wonderful Life, Chickens, The
39 Steps (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Noises Off (Western
Canada Theatre); Fresco (Shadbolt Centre / TheCultch); and
Circle Mirror Transformation (Arts Club Theatre).
WES TRITTER Nunzio Cristano
Mr. Tritter last appeared in Chemainus in Having Hope at
Home, where he played Gramps, spat carrots into a pot and
had fun. Since then, The Fantasticks, It’s A Wonderful Life,
Miracle on 34th Street and My Fair Lady for Blue Bridge
in Victoria. This November, King Pellinore in a Concert
performance of Camelot with Victoria Symphony and Pacific
Opera. Lives in a wee Cottage Garden in Victoria with “a white
picket fence” and is happy with life. “Tengo famiglia!”
LINZI VOTH Apprentice Stage Manager
Linzi delightfully makes her debut as a SM Apprentice at
Chemainus Theatre! With a Bachelor of Performing Arts &
MT Diploma (CapU) Linzi is a multifaceted performing arts
addict. Recently: A Hellfighter’s Story (Rooted); Spring
Awakening (FC); Cabaret (Pipedream); Magic to Do (ITP/WRS);
Mrs. Claus’ Kitchen (Famous Artists). Linzi has performed with
Gateway, Royal City, TUTS, Metro, sings Alto with VanDeca
Choir, and works with children who have autism.
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Three unexpected callers arrive on Christmas Eve, uncovering clues from Holmes’
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