by Charles L. Mee - Theatre and Film

big love
by Charles L. Mee
THE VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE PRESENTS
neworldtheatre’s
ADRIFT ON THE NILE
FEBRUARY 2-10, 2007, 8 PM
February 10, 4 pm, pay-what-you-can matinee performance,
not available on subscription
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Theatre at UBC Presents
big love
by Charles L. Mee
JANUARY 24 to FEBRUARY 3, 2007
TELUS STUDIO THEATRE
Directed by JOANNA GARFINKEL
Scenography by RONALD FEDORUK
Costume Design by JAY HAVENS
Composition & Sound Design by PATRICK PENNEFATHER
CAST
Lydia
Olympia
Thyona
Bella/Eleanor
Piero/Leo
Giuliano
Constantine
Oed
Nikos
YOSHIE BANCROFT
CECILE ROSLYN
COURTNEY LANCASTER
JOANNA RANELLI
EVAN FRAYNE
KEVIN KRAUSSLER
DARYL KING
GORD MYREN
SPENCER ATKINSON
Big Love runs 1 hour, 25 minutes with no intermission.
Tonightʼs performance contains nudity, violence, coarse language
and strobe lighting effects.
Please turn off all pagers and cellular telephones.
The use of any camera or recording device is prohibited in the theatre.
SPECIAL THANKS
Arts Club Theatre
Tallis Kirby
Oneida
“Lavender” from the album The Wedding
PRODUCTION
Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager/Costumes Crew Chief
Production Manager
Technical Director
Scenographer
Set Assistants
Lighting Assistant
Costume Designer
Costumes Supervisor
Costumes Assistant/Costume Builder
Costume Cutter
Costume Builders
Composer & Sound Designer
Sound Assistant
Properties Supervisors
Properties Crew Chief
Fight Choreographer
Vocal Coach
Publicity
MFA Directing Advisor
Scenic Carpenters
Lighting Operator
Sound Operator
Follow Spot/ Running Crew/Costumes Assistants
Follow Spot/ Running Crew/ Scenic Builder
Scenic Artist
Scenic Painters
Production Web Site
JOANNA GARFINKEL
CAMERON CROOKSTON
MYA BROWN
BENJAMIN FEAGAN
JAY HENRICKSON
JIM FERGUSSON
RONALD FEDORUK
STEPHANIA PELLE, YULIA SHTERN
KRISTEN ROBINSON
JAY HAVENS
JEAN DRISCOL-BELL
CARMEN ALATORRE
CHARLOTTE BURKE
TIFFANY ABBOT, BASHA LODOVSKY,
STACY SHERLOCK
PATRICK PENNEFATHER
JAMES CHEN
JANET BICKFORD, LYNN BURTON
GIA NAHMENS
NICK HARRISON
LISA BELEY
DEB PICKMAN
STEPHEN HEATLEY
JIM FERGUSSON, DON GRIFFITHS
JON HORN
JAMES CHEN
HANA JOHNSON, NOVEM FUNG
LIAM BATES
LORRAINE WEST
IRENA HOTI, BREANNE JACKSON,
JESSE JEFFREY, MELANIE LEE
LINDA FENTON MALLOY
BIOGRAPHIES
PLAYWRIGHT
Charles L. Mee
Chuck Mee has written bobrauschenbergamerica,
Wintertime, Belle Epoque, Vienna: Lusthaus, Snow
in June, A Perfect Wedding, Limonade tous les
Jours, and a number of other plays in addition
to his work inspired by Greek plays: Big Love,
True Love, Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women A Love Story
and others. His plays have been performed at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the
Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam,
Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere.
His complete works are available on the internet
at www.charlesmee.org.
His work is made possible by the support of
Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
DIRECTOR
Joanna Garfinkel
For Theatre at UBC, MFA candidate Joanna Garfinkel has directed The Skin of Our Teeth, The
Dispute and Bear and she was assistant director
for KJ Sanchezʼs critically acclaimed production
of The House of Atreus. She is the recipient of
the 2006 Sydney J. Risk Award for Directing.
Before coming to Vancouver, Garfinkel resided
in Austin, Texas where she co-created 2004ʼs
Bonfire Festival and
directed three original
works within it. Other
credits include: Don’t
Drown for the Rude
Mechanicals (nominated for two Austin
Criticsʼ Table Awards), Honey for Frontera Fest
(nominated for Best of Fest), and Maria Irene
Fornesʼ Mud for iron belly muses.
CAST
Home. Selected credits outside UBC include
Mary Stuart with Blackbird Theatre, Macbeth
Spencer Atkinson
with Urban Rogues and Answers with Rifleman
Productions. On screen credits include Stargate
Spencer Atkinson is thrilled to be apart of such SG-1, the independent feature Follow the Leader
an explosive play. A former member of the and the video game, CSI-Miami. Evan will next
national cycling team
be seen in Mother Courage and Her Children at
and national medalUBC in March.
ist, Spencer is now in
his Intermediate Year
Daryl King
of the BFA Acting Program. So far this seaDaryl grew up on the prairies dreaming of takson he has appeared
ing over his grandpaʼs farm, but along the way
in Blackbird Theatreʼs Peer Gynt as well as Henry fell in love with the theatre. He is excited to be
in UBCʼs production of The Skin of Our Teeth. Also playing ʻConstantineʼ in this production of Big
at UBC, he has performed in The Firefly Project, Love. Past credits include ʻStudent #2/Julietʼ
the 2005 Secrets Project and played “Alan” in in Shakespeareʼs R & J (Mad Duck), ʻFluteʼ in
William Ingeʼs Summer Brave last April. You can A Midsummer Night‘s Dream (Whistler Theatre
next see Spencer in Brechtʼs Mother Courage and Project), ʻProctorʼ in Terrible Things (Rumble),
Her Children at the Fredric Wood theatre.
ʻTonyʼ in You Can’t
Take it With You (StuYoshie Bancroft
dio 58) and ʻDavidʼ
in San Diego (Studio
Yoshie is a second year BFA Acting student. At
58). Currently he is
UBC, she previously played Mrs. Potts in Summer
rehearsing Showdown
Brave, and Esmerelda in The Skin of Our Teeth.
with Green Thumb
She grew up doing
and will be spending
youth theatre at Arts the summer on the main stage at Bard on the
Umbrella where she Beach. Daryl is a recent graduate of Studio 58.
performed in The Com- A special thanks to Joanna for giving him this
plete Works of William wonderful opportunity. Enjoy the show!
Shakespeare: Abridged
and played Estelle in Kevin Kraussler
Cocktails at Pam’s, which were both toured to
high schools in the lower mainland. Yoshie is Kevin is delighted to
thrilled to be part of Big Love, her first UBC the- appear in this producatre season show. She would like to thank the tion of Big Love. This
cast and crew for all the hard work put into this is Kevinʼs final year
production!
in the BFA acting program. His recent theEvan Frayne
atrical credits on UBC productions include Jamie
Gangel in Beautiful Thing, the Waiter in Life After
Evan is in the final year
God, Azor in The Dispute, and Jim OʼConnor in
of the Theatre at UBCʼs
The Glass Menagerie. Kevin is also an alumnus
BFA Acting Program
of the Douglas College acting program. He will
and is very excited to
next be performing at UBC in Mother Courage
play in Big Love with such a great cast and crew. and Her Children. Kevin would like to thank his
He was last seen as Dana in the world premier family and friends for their inspiration and supof Life After God with Touchstone Theatre and port and the talented cast and crew for creating
UBC. Other shows at UBC include Beautiful Thing, such an exciting event.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Bringing It All Back
Courtney Lancaster
Courtney Lancaster comes from Nova Scotia,
and is at UBC enjoying her Intermediate year
of the BFA Acting program. Some of her favorite past credits include Godspell, Welcome to
the Moon and Tough!
at Festival Antigonish
Summer Theatre, and
most recently The Skin
of our Teeth with Theatre at UBC. Courtney
has enjoyed every moment of working on Big Love, and is grateful to
be part of such an amazing cast and crew. Next
up for Courtney is Theatre at UBCʼs production of
Mother Courage and Her Children. Thanks go out
to her friends and family, as always.
Gord Myren
Gord is currently a 2nd year BFA Acting student at
UBC. He began his acting career in 2001 when
he played Derek Richards in Jonathan Beanʼs
Happy Birthday, You’re Dead performed at the
Granville Island Waterfront Theatre. Since then,
Gord has graduated
from the Douglas College theatre program
and has been involved
in several other plays.
Gord has played such
roles as Hart in Kevin
Kerrʼs Unity (1918), Father Don in Lanford Wilsonʼs Sympathetic Magic and recently played Hal
in William Ingeʼs Summer Brave and Antrobus
in Theatre at UBCʼs production of The Skin of
Our Teeth directed by Joanna Garfinkel. Gord
is very pleased to be a part of this production of
Big Love and also looks foreward to his roles in
the upcoming UBC production of Bertolt Brechtʼs en, Susie in Bringing
Mother Courage and Her Children.
it all Back Home, Parlormaid in La Ronde,
Joanna Rannelli
Emma in Bus Stop,
Other Credits: WaitJoanna completed the Douglas College Theatre ing for Godot, Electra,
Program in 2002, and now undergoes her final and Kindertransport. Joanna can next be seen
year in the BFA Acting Program at UBC. Recent as Yvette in Mother Courage. She is thrilled to
credits at UBC include Lois in Life After God, be playing Bella/Eleanor in Big Love, a play
Sandra in Beautiful Thing, Lucia in Measure for that has many challenges and such unique reMeasure, Duchess in King Richard and His Wom- lationships. Joanna feels honored to be working
with such a talented group of people, she would
would like to thank Joanna Garfinkel for her
hard work and support as well as cast, crew, and
everyone that has helped in the development of
the show. Joanna also wants to thank her father
for his never ending love and support.
“art is written on the wind”
–Peter Brook
Cecile Roslin
Cecile Roslin is absolutely thrilled to be
a part of this production of Big Love. In her
intermediate year in
the BFA theatre program, Cecile is very happy
to making her main stage debut in this raucous
show. Past credits include Gladys in The Skin
of Our Teeth, Millie in Summer Brave, Marta in
Waiting for the Parade, Hero in Much Ado About
Nothing and the Harold in Marat/Sade. She
also spent many years involved at every level
of the Canadian Improv Games, various local
cabarets and doing supernumerary work with
the Vancouver Opera. Television credits include
a production and acting role on Rogers Cableʼs
Generation Why? and hosting and panel appearances on MTV Canadaʼs Select. Cecile would like
to thank Joanna for this amazing opportunity.
Working on this project has been incredible
PRODUCTION
Mya Brown
Mya Brown is an intermediate student in UBCʼs
Bachelor of Arts Theatre program. She has previously been fortunate to work with organizations
such as The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Theatre One, and The Nanaimo
Theatre Group. Her film directorial credits include Flushed and the Greenlight Award Winning
The Truth Is Here. Mya currently directs the promotional department of Vancouverʼs CiTR Radio,
as well as coordinating her own live production
management, and merchandise company entitled “Merchant Productions”. Most recently, she
assisted production in UBC Operaʼs performance
of The Gondoliers.
Cameron Crookston
Cameron is a fourth year BA theatre student.
Some recent works include Stage Managing the
United Players of Vancouverʼs The Seagull, at the
Jericho Arts Centre, Technical Director for Theatre at UBCʼs The Dispute/King Richard and His
Women, in the Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre
and Stage Managing Theatre at UBCʼs Frankie
and Johnny and the Claire de Lune in the Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre. Cameron wishes
to sincerely thank the talented and gracious
cast and crew for all their dedication. A special
thanks to Joanna Garfinkel for creating a show
that has been a truly rewarding experience.
Ronald Fedoruk
Jay Henrickson
Jay Henrickson is the
Manager of Technical
Theatre Production at
the UBC Department
of Theatre, Film and
Creative Writing. He has been involved in UBC
Theatre productions from 1977 to the present
and has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of scenery construction for Theatre, Film
and Television. He taught Scenery Construction
and Welding for five years at Douglas College.
Jay is a partner in Scenic Solutions Inc., a local BC company manufacturing scenic materials
for the Theatre, Film and Television Industries,
a Member of The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, a senior member in the
Construction Department of I.A.T.S.E. Local 891
(Film and Television) and a retired member of
I.A.T.S.E. Local 118 (Theatre). Jay is the father of
two wonderful children.
Ronald Fedoruk has been teaching Scenography
in the Theatre Program since 1989, has designed
twenty productions for Theatre at UBC, and has
served a term as Head of the Department of
Theatre, Film and Creative Writing. Fedorukʼs
Theatre career spans more than thirty-five years,
and he has created designs for many Canadian
Theatres. For six years he was the Scenographer
for Bard on the Beach, for which he designed a
dozen productions. He is now a member of the
Board of Directors of Bard on the Beach. Fedoruk is a member of Associated Designers of
Canada, the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology and has been a Canadian representative Patrick Pennefather
to the International Theatre Design OrganizaPatrick Pennefather (BFA Music, MFA) is a
tion (OISTAT).
multi-award winning sound designer and composer who has worked with numerous theatriJay Havens
cal, dance, and corporate clients in Canada
Jay is a student in his 4th year of the BFA, de- and internationally for the past 20 years. He
sign/production. Being involved in theatre from has worked with the internationally renowned
a very young age, he has experience both in front Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver Theatre
of and behind the curtain. He holds a diploma in Sports League, CBC RaTheatre Arts from the University College of the dio and Television and
Fraser Valley. Favorite credits include: playing a Bravo Television. His
Weasel in Wind in the Willows, assistant costume music and design have
designing Silverwing & costume and mask de- been heard in many
signing for The Big League at Carousel Theatre, contexts; theatre, balset designing Beau Jest & To Kill a Mocking Bird let and modern dance,
at Gallery 7 Theatre and house managing at film, dance film, specUCFV, where he also did some directing. He is tacle, circus, comedy, radio, podcast, e-advertisgrateful to his parents Brian and Cheryl for their ing, and websites. He is currently programming
love and support and also to Amber, Tammy original comedic podcasts for www.xpodradio.
and James. His next projects include: costume com. Big Love is Patrickʼs second Theatre at UBC
coordinating Showdown at Green Thumb Theatre production this season.
(opening Feb 4th) and learning wardrobe management on Mother Courage and Her Children at
UBC.
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