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CONTENTS
Billing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Bill Millerd, artistic managing director
Peter Cathie White, executive director
Mr. Bruce Flexman, FCA, CM, chair
Arts Club Theatre Company is a not-for-profit
registered charity which leads in developing
and producing live theatre in British Columbia.
Charitable Registration Number
11921 3551 RR0001
Artistic Director’s Circle . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the Playwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A Note from the Director . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Corporate, Foundations, and . . . . . 12
Government Supporters
Friends of the Arts Club . . . . . . . . . . 13
Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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15-2588 (11/15)
THE (POST) MISTRESS
Book and Music by Tomson Highway
Feb 4 – 28, 2016
Goldcorp Stage at the
BMO Theatre Centre
Arts Club Theatre Company
52nd season, 577th production
STARRING
CREATIVE TEAM
Patricia Cano Marie-Louise Painchaud
Cailin Stadnyk Marie-Louise
Painchaud (select performances)
Bill Sample Piano
Bill Runge Saxophone
John Cooper Director
Bill Sample Musical Director
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Choreographer
Ted Roberts Set, Lighting, and Video
Designer
Kirsten McGhie Costume Designer
Scott Zechner Sound Designer
Pamela Jakobs Stage Manager
Ashley Noyes Apprentice Stage
Manager
There will be one intermission.
Taking photographs or making any recording is prohibited in the theatre.
Please turn off devices.
Season Sponsors
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WELCOME
also a long list of individual donors
to our joint campaign with Bard. You
can check out their names on the
donor board in the lobby. Thank you
to them all—they really did make our
dreams come true.
Welcome to the Goldcorp Stage
at the BMO Theatre Centre. Or
perhaps welcome back. This theatre
is the Arts Club’s first capable of
flexible seating configurations—
proscenium, thrust, cabaret, inthe-round, and alley—allowing a
director’s imagination to take flight.
But this is much more than a new
theatre for the Arts Club. It is also
an administration, wardrobe, and
rehearsal home for both us and Bard
on the Beach. In its 48,000 square
feet, it houses four fantastic and
much-needed rehearsal halls, two
wardrobe construction facilities,
two wardrobe storage areas, livestreaming capabilities to enhance our
education programs, and offices for
both theatre companies. It’s a vibrant
cultural hub in this emerging area
of the city, with the rehearsal halls
busy not just with Arts Club and Bard
activity but also buzzing with other
arts and community groups. In fact,
the halls and theatre are available
to other arts groups for 6 months
of the year! It’s an amazing space
made possible by not only corporate
donors like BMO and Goldcorp, but
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Let’s get to this show though.
Tomson Highway, who wrote this
wonderful work you are about to see,
is a Canadian cultural treasure and it
is a privilege to have this wonderful
piece at the Goldcorp Stage. The
importance of acknowledging
such individuals hit home during
the weekend of January 9 and 10,
when the lives of Dal Richards and
Leon Bibb were celebrated. At Dal’s
service, his band played swing tunes
to the enjoyment of the overflowing
audience. At Leon’s celebration
at the Granville Island Stage, Bill
Sample oversaw a two-hour concert
with such talents as Ann and Jane
Mortifee, Jim Byrnes, Eleanor Collins,
Ed Henderson, The Marcus Mosley
Gospel Choir, and Leon’s son Eric,
that brought laughter and tears to
the packed house. Dal’s orchestra
played the Stanley Theatre soon
after we opened, and Leon has been
associated with the Arts Club since
he stepped onto the Seymour Street
stage in Jacques Brel… Giants both.
Bill Millerd & Peter Cathie White
Artistic Managing Director &
Executive Director
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
The Arts Club Theatre Company relies on your philanthropic support to ensure the strength and vitality of the company. As a non-profit
arts organization, the Arts Club could not exist without the generosity of our individual donors. Ticket sales cover only a portion of our
production costs, so we rely on community gifts to close the gap. Please consider joining us by becoming a member of the Artistic
Director’s Circle today. Contact Parmida Zarrinkamar, Manager of Individual Giving, at 604.687.5315, ext. 261, for more information.
Visionary ($20,000+)
Philip & Donna Bernard*
Geoff Clydesdale*
Bonnie Mah*
Bill Millerd in memory of
Helen & Frank Millerd*
Art Vertlieb & Bev Briscoe
Anonymous*
Producer ($10,000 – $19,999)
Longhedge
Mrs. Timmie Marr*
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Champion ($5,000 – $9,999)
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D. Bell & M. Sim
Lyrica Bradshaw*
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George & Lee Grills*
Stan & Kathy Hamilton*
June Harrison & Luc Bergeron*
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Pam & Jim McAdie*
Morris Nord & Fiona Macdonald*
The River Foundation
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Anonymous*
Benefactor ($3,500 – $4,999)
Robert Bennett, in memory of
Miriam*
David & Edith Camm*
Drs. Doug & Kerstin Conn*
Bonnie & Terence Gordon*
Marilyn & Murray MacKenzie
Stephen Richards & Linda Loo
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In memory of Robert W. Thompson
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Play Patron ($2,500 – $3,499)
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Todd & Valerie Prodanuk*
Robert Sharman & Sharon Bryan
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Ken Terriss*
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Major Patron ($1,500 – $2,499)
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In memory of Jim Babcock*
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Douglas Seifert
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Kenneth E. Mathews
Al Collins & Paul Blaney
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Carol Anne Humphrys &
Nick Smith
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In memory of Arjan Taank
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Michael & Janet Walker
Mrs. Terry Wilkinson*
Terry Wolfe & Marlene Dixon*
The Wolrige Foundation
Maureen Zavislak*
Anonymous* x3
Anonymous x3
Associate Director ($1,000 – $1,499)
Val & Dick Bradshaw
C. J. Brooks*
Deborah Brown & Arthur Harpur
M. & F. Bylsma
Lynette Faris*
Victoria I. Graham
Dr. Judith Kalla*
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Clint & Lynn Mahlman*
Bett and Robin McLean
Tracy & Sandra Moore*
Andre & Brock Rowland
Sonja Sanguinetti*
Curt Smecher
Peter & Karen Stephen
Eric Wilson*
Anonymous x2
Legacy Gifts
Estate Of Louise Chen Uytengsu
Legacy Circle Members
Lyrica & Jack Bradshaw
Axel & Millie Conradi
Judi L. Curtiss
Dr. Kate Dahlstrom
Sam & Elizabeth Dunbar
George & Lee Grills
Mrs. Timmie Marr
Bonnie Mah
Bill Millerd
Betty McGowan
Todd & Valerie Prodanuk
Robert Sharman & Sharon Bryan
Alfred Schultz & Leona Kolla
Jo-Ann Ternier
D. Marion Thomas
Ian G. Waddell, Q.C.
Terry Whitehead
B. Wharton
Anonymous (x4)
*Represents individuals who have
contributed to the Arts Club for five or
more consecutive years.
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Photo: Sean Howard
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Tomson Highway was born in a snow bank on the Manitoba/Nunavut
border to a family of nomadic caribou hunters. He had the great
privilege of growing up in two languages, neither of which was French
or English; they were Cree, his mother tongue, and Dene, the language
of the neighbouring “nation,” a people with whom they roamed and
hunted.
Today, he enjoys an international career as playwright, novelist, and pianist/songwriter.
His best known works are the plays The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing,
Rose, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, and the best-selling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen.
For many years, he ran Canada’s premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth
Performing Arts (based in Toronto), out of which has emerged an entire generation
of professional Native playwrights, actors and, more indirectly, the many other Native
theatre companies that now dot the country.
He divides his year equally between a cottage in northern Ontario (near Sudbury, from
whence comes his partner of 29 years) and Gatineau Québec, at both of which locales
he is currently at work on his second novel. In 2013, he published his most recent play,
The (Post) Mistress; a One-Woman Musical and released the accompanying CD, Patricia
Cano Sings Songs from The (Post) Mistress.
For more information, visit tomsonhighway.com. Tomson Highway is represented by the
Mensour Agency in Ottawa, Ontario. www.mensour.ca
A NOTE FROM
THE DIRECTOR
It is always a pleasure to witness and
celebrate the human spirit, especially in
story and song. I love the laughter and the
tears. And the questions I may be asked.
I am always intrigued by the questions
I hear Tomson Highway asking, and
the fresh manner in which he is asking.
Here, in this piece, I hear him asking
“What allows us to let go and transcend?
Is it through the acknowledgment and
understanding of the suffering in others
that we able to understand and let go of
our own suffering?”
In song and story and questioning we feel
a renewed connection to Life.
Thank you for joining us.
Peace,
John
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THE COMPANY
PATRICIA CANO
Marie-Louise Painchaud
Arts Club debut
Other Theatre: Emily Dictionary
in world premiere of Tomson
Highway’s Rose; invited to work alongside
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre at the Paris-based
theatre company Le Théâtre du Soleil, under
the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine; member
of the National Arts Centre’s English theatre
company (2010/11); played Marie-Louise
Painchaud in a 2012 Peterborough, ON
production, and performed the same role
in a French co-production (TNO/CNA) in
Sudbury and the NAC. In 2015, performed
in Suzanne Lebeau’s The Sound of Cracking
Bones in both English and French (Pleiades
Theatre Company, Toronto, ON, director John
Van Burek) as well as the GNTC’s production
of The (Post) Mistress in Saskatoon, directed
by Johnna Wright. Since 2001, has toured the
world alongside Tomson Highway, singing his
songs in Cree Cabaret form. Featured on his
Juno nominated album (2015), The (Post).
Other: Born and raised in Sudbury, ON;
studied at U of T. In 2007, moved to Rio de
Janeiro, and worked with multi-instrumentalist
Carlos Bernardo, with whom she later co-wrote
her debut album, This is the New World (2009)
(Best Album by a Solo Artist 2011, Northern
Ontario Music Awards). Tours BC and Quebec
in March with her band.
CAILIN STADNYK
Marie-Louise Painchaud
(select performances)
For the Arts Club: Singin’ In
The Rain (2003, debut), Funny
Girl, Hockey Mom Hockey Dad, Company,
Hairspray!, Xanadu, and One Man, Two
Guvnors.
Other Theatre: Mary Poppins (WCT/
Persephone), Twist & Shout, Waiting for the
Parade (Chemainus), Gunmetal Blues, The Last
Resort, Honk!, Anne of Green Gables (Globe
Theatre), Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors
(WCT), Cats (Theatre Calgary), Grumpy Old
Men (MTC), The Love List, Fiddler on the
Roof (The Playhouse), Evil Dead: The Musical
(Ground Zero), Urinetown (Belfry).
Film & Television: Supernatural, Once Upon a
Mattress, Battlestar Galactica.
Other: Jessie Award nominee, Ovation Award
nominee and Ovation Award recipient.
Extensive motion capture credits. Visit www.
cailinstadnyk.com for more. For Alastair and
Amy.
JOHN COOPER Director
For the Arts Club: Dead of Winter
(1983, debut), Being At Home
With Claude, Someone Who’ll
Watch Over Me, The Ginkgo Tree,
Moon Over Buffalo, High Life, Zadie’s Shoes, All
My Sons, Othello, Up Island, Intimate Apparel.
Other Theatre: Big Mama; The Willie Mae
Thornton Story (Belfry/National Arts Centre);
Mesa, Trying, Red Mango, Je Me Souviens
(Belfry), Death Of A Salesman, Moonlight and
Magnolias, Death and the Maiden, Lips Together
Teeth Apart, Love and Anger, Frankie and Johnny
in the Claire de Lune (Vancouver Playhouse);
Mesa, Bingo (Prairie Theatre Exchange); The
Crucible, Of Mice and Men, The Rainmaker
(Theatre Aquarius); 15 Seconds, Winning
(Alberta Theatre Projects), Angels in America,
Mojo, Vigil, Atlantis, Life Skills, That Woman
(Theatre Network); Glengarry Glen Ross, Farther
West ( Grand Theatre).
Other: Three Jessie Richardson Awards for
Outstanding Direction.
BILL SAMPLE
Musical Director/Piano
For the Arts Club: Cookin; at the
Cookery, Xanadu, Little Shoppe of
Horrors, Six Women With Brain
Death, It’s Time to Sing.
Other Theatre: Beyond Eden (Playhouse/
Theatre Calgary), Le Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse),
The Fantasticks (Playhouse), A Chorus Line
(Playhouse), Cats (Canadian Touring Company),
Joseph (International Touring Company),
Grease (International Touring Company), Evita
(International Touring Company), Raymur
Mothers, Yippies, Bruce the Musical (Theatre in
the Raw).
Film & Television: Ratatouille (soundtrack), Dirty
Dozen (soundtrack), Beachcombers (soundtrack),
McGyver (soundtrack), Harmony Cats
(soundtrack), Highlander (soundtrack), many
films and TV series as composer.
Other: BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, 2003;
Lifetime Achievement Award and and Most
Influential jazz Musician from the Royal
Canadian Music Project; his band Sample
Stearns Band (from the 70s) received the Most
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Influential Group award; Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee Award; 2013 Ovation Award – Best New
Work for Raymur Mothers.
TARA CHEYENNE
FRIEDENBERG Choreographer
Arts Club debut
Other Theatre: Comedy of Errors
(Bard on the Beach), Romeo &
Juliet (Studio 58), A Midsummer Nights’ Dream
(Bard on the Beach 2015 and 2006), Cymbeline
(Bard on the Beach), Urinetown (Firehall Arts
Centre 2014 and 2006) Azano, Photog (Boca
Del Lupo), A Midsummer Nights’ Dream
(Studio 58), The Forbidden Phoenix (Gateway
Theatre), Live from a Bush of Ghosts (Theatre
Conspiracy), Trout Stanley (Ruby Slippers
Theatre).
Other: Six-time Jessie Award nominee and
double Award winner (group), two-time
Ovation nominee; recipient of the 2014
Chrystal Dance Prize. BA Honours Major
in Dance, Simon Fraser University, Artistic
Director, Tara Cheyenne Performance.
TED ROBERTS Set, Lighting,
and Video Designer
For the Arts Club: Starting Here,
Starting Now (1978, debut);
recent favourites, It’s a Wonderful
Life, Disgraced, Les Misérables, In The Heights,
The Mountaintop, Sister Judy, Twisted Christmas,
Dream Girls, Clybourne Park, It’s Snowing on
Saltspring. Tours – Red Rock Diner, Craigslist
Cantata, Henry & Alice, The 39 Steps.
Other Theatre: Chelsea Hotel, Urinetown
(Firehall Arts Centre); Hedda Gabler, My
Chernobyl (Persephone); Driving Miss Daisy, A
Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Magnus).
Other: Twenty-time Jessie Award nominee and
six-time Award winner; Graduate of University
of Alberta Theatre Design program.
KIRSTEN MCGHIE
Costume Designer
For the Arts Club: Started in
2009 in the props department.
Took the position of Assistant
Head of Wardrobe in 2013, and the following
season, became the Head of Wardrobe.
Other Theatre: Designer and builder with
many companies, including Leaky Heaven
Circus, Newworld Theatre, Mortal Coil, The
Electric Company Theatre, UBC Theatre,
Studio 58, and Vancouver Opera.
Other: She is a two-time Jessie nominee and a
one time winner. From 2005-2011 she assisted
internationally renowned artists, Geoffrey
Farmer and Brian Jungen in the execution of
their works of art.
SCOTT ZECHNER
Sound Designer
Arts Club debut
Other Theatre: Late Company
(Touchstone Theatre), The Best
Laid Plans: A Musical (Touchstone & PSP), The
Duchess AKA Wallis Simpson (Ruby Slippers),
Into The Woods (Fighting Chance), Blackbird,
The Zoo Story (Aenigma Theatre), Pride and
Prejudice (Theatre At UBC).
Other: A two-time Jessie Award nominee for
Sound Design, Scott is a recent graduate of
the BFA Design & Production program at UBC.
Thanks to Mom, Dad and Kelsey for all their
support.
BILL RUNGE Saxophone
For the Arts Club: Tapestry (1996,
debut), Red Rock Diner, Let Me
Sing.
Other Theatre: La Cage Aux
Folles (Playhouse, 2012), Thoroughly Modern
Millie (Gateway, 2009), Godspell (Uncle
Randy, 2006), Baby Boomer Blues (Waterfront,
2001), Godspell, Snow White (Western Canada
Theatre, 1974), No No Nanette (Mussoc, 1973).
Film & Television: (Includes games). No Clue,
The High Cost Of Living, 18 to Life, Degrassi
High TNG, Living Out Loud, Revolution, Code
Green, The Cantata, Superkids, Simpson’s
Interactive, Chris Isaak Show, Ed, Edd, & Eddy,
Beggars and Choosers, What about Mimi,
Motorcity Online, Autopsie D’un Film Erotique,
Babette’s Feet, Highlander, Final Cut, Cadillac
Girls, Hard Core Logo.
PAMELA JAKOBS
Stage Manager
For the Arts Club: A Christmas
Story, Les Misérables, In the
Heights, It’s a Wonderful Life,
Educating Rita, A Twisted Christmas Carol,
Xanadu, Becky’s New Car, Spamalot.
Other Theatre: Recent: Love Bomb (Shameless
Hussy); Shakespearean Rhapsody (Carousel
Theatre).
Other: Two Jessie Award nominations, UBC
BFA grad. Thanks to Craig and Rose for all
their love and support.
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CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
The Arts Club Theatre Company thanks its government and corporate partners for their support of the 2015/16 season.
Season Sponsors
Presenting Sponsors
Production Sponsors
Community Outreach Sponsors
Tour Production Sponsor
Event Sponsors
Technology Sponsors
Government Support
Additional Partners
$10,000+
• Anna’s Cake House
• BMO Capital Markets
• Business in Vancouver
• HollisWealth
• Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel
• Open Road Auto Group
• TELUS Vancouver Community Board
$5,000 – $9,999
• CIBC World Markets
• Empire Life
• Grosvenor Canada
• HSBC Bank Canada
• Investors Group
• KPMG
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Mercury Launch & Tug Ltd.
MNP LLP
Richards Buell Sutton LLP
Royal Sussex LePage
Secret Garden Tea Company
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Vancouver Trolley Company
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Up to $4,999
• Cool Air Rentals
• Empire Life
• Konet Systems
• Marin Investments Limited
• New Look Business Centre
• Proscenium Architecture & Interiors
• Tap and Barrel Restaurant
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TR Trades Reproduction
US Consulate General
Vancouver Courier
Foundations
• Christopher Foundation
• CIBC Children’s Foundation
• Diamond Foundation
• Hamber Foundation
• Kaatza Foundation
• Kinder Morgan Foundation
• McCarthy Tétrault Foundation
• RBC Foundation
• The Simons Foundation
• The Somerset Foundation
• Vancouver Foundation
For more information about corporate sponsorship and donations, please contact Stephanie Cardwell, Manager of Corporate
Sponsorships and Foundations, at 604.687.5315, ext. 267.
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FRIENDS OF THE ARTS CLUB
We gratefully acknowledge the support of all the Friends of the Arts Club, individual donors whose contributions help to support what
we do. We have recently updated our membership levels and we have endeavoured to include all patrons who wish to be listed. If
you feel you have been omitted in error, have questions or concerns, or wish to join the Friends of the Arts Club, please contact Jen
Challinor at 604.687.5315, ext. 279, or [email protected].
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George & Donna Battye
Fund, held at Vancouver
Foundation
Bill & Heather Beamish
Susan Bennett
Carolyn Bird
Neil D. Boucher
Julie Bournival & Rhys Clarke
Barbara Bowes
Jim & Nancy Boyle
Chuck & Diane Campbell
H. Campbell & K. Zaine
Joan Campbell
Susan Chant*
E.A. Clutchey
June Coe*
Howard & Beth Coulter
David & Janet Courage*
Barbara Cox & Dan Aspinall
P. J. Curtis*
Valerie Dahl & Tony Traboulsee
Ruth Davies
A. DeKoven*
Deb and Lionel Durocher
Eagle Spirit Gallery
In memory of Howard Eckman*
L. Eldridge
Anne Elliott
I. Joan Elliott
Beverly Epp
Catherine Evans
Sandra Fergusson
Mary & Ronald Fines
Ethel & David Frankel
Shirley and Don Fraser
In memory of Tom Fraser*
Lori Fretwell
Sarah and Michael Frost
Deirdre Gernsbeck*
Karen Gilmore & Rob Van Nus
Dennis Goodman*
John & Julia Gosden*
Daryl Gouthro
Irene Griffiths
Paul Gustafson
Dianne Haag/
Accommodations by
Pillow Suites
Ingrid Hagerlund
S. Hardin
Marilyn Harrison*
Gail Helmcken
James & Elspeth Helmcken*
Arlene H. Henry, QC
Linda Ann Herman &
Patricia Horstead
Jane Heyman*
Teri Hodgins, Barbara Birt &
Anne Thompson
Aileen Hollifield*
Sam & Christine Hooge
Joan & Robert Hornal
B & I Housego
In memory of Alex Howatson
Doreen Ingram
Teresa & Lewis James
Ronald Jobe
Linda Johnston*
Lesley Joy & Steve Sipos*
Betty Jung & David Chan
Stephen & Mary Ann Juras*
Mrs. Skylar Kamlade
Peter Kappel
Sherry & Stuart Katz
Jacqueline Kelly &
Rowland McLeod
Kate Ker
Ross & Jill Ker
Kathy Kinloch
Anne Kober
Russell Kozub
Doug & Laurie Lakusta
Florence Laniuk*
Deborah Lendon*
Kate Lucas
Mary MacDonald
Maureen L. MacDonald
Marian E. MacFarlane
Jeff & Valerie Marus*
Raymond McAllister
Sarah McAlpine
Terry & Sandy McBride*
Linda McDonald &
Victor Holysh
Marlene McDonald
Emmet & Linda McGrath
Christine McLean
Mrs. Verna McNichol
Don & Mary Millerd
Mike Moretto
Brenda Morrison
C. Rochelle Moss
Thom Noakes
William Nordmark
June Ogden
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Stephen & Pamela Ottridge*
Nick & Hazel Parker-Jervis*
Rose Parker & Usher Hammer
Allan & Sheila Parr
For Patricia from George*
Ray & Judy Pletcher*
Kathy Poon
Dr. Nicole Racette
Dave & Elaine Rickards
Evelyn M. Riley
Harley Rothstein &
Eleanor Boyle*
Mr. & Mrs. Real Rousseau*
Marie Rozitis
Michael Ryan
P.D. Ryan
David Schreck*
Erika & Andrew Scott
Gail Screaton &
John Maclachlan*
Gillian Seager
Aubrey Searle
James Shepherd
Shuley Family
Tricia Sirrs
Eleanor Sleath
Jenna Smith
Robert & Patricia Smith
Janis Souter
Peter & Daphne Spencer*
Kristin Stockley
Win & Hollie Stothert*
Mary Stott
John Street
Darcey Sudeyko
Paula Swart Till
Rebecca & Todd Talbot, in
memory of Amy Wallis
Erica Tang
Peter Thaler*
Silvia Thorne
Art Toft
Maureen Topley
Caroline Underhill
Mary H. Vickers
J. Walsh
Edward Wilson*
Jennifer Yeung
Anonymous* x4
Anonymous x20
* indicates those who have
supported the Arts Club for 5
or more consecutive years.
The (Post) Mistress 13
BOARD & STAFF
Bill Millerd, artistic managing director
Peter Cathie White, executive director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair Mr. Bruce Flexman, FCA
Past Chair Dr. Ross Paul, CM,Phd
Treasurer Ms. Kerry Suffolk
Secretary Mr. Richard Bell
Mr. Aleem Bandali, Mr. Mike Black, Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie,
Ms. Michele Collins, Mr. John Dawson, FCPA, FCA,
Ms. Teo Dechev, Ms. Anna Fung QC, Ms. Carol Anne Humphrys,
Mr. James Kitamura, Mr. Eugen Klein, Mrs. Joanne Klein,
Mr. Bryan Mabee, Ms. Bonnie Mah, Mr. Dave Morton,
Ms. Erika Tse
COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS
Ms.Roberta Beiser, Mr. Philip Bernard, Ms. Donna Celle,
Mr. Axel Conradi, Mr. Jamie Corbett, Mr. Christopher Gimpel,
Dr. Stanley Hamilton, Ms. Catharine Herb-Kelly QC,
Mr. Bruce Milley FCA, Mr. Morris Nord, Mrs. Joan Pitman,
Ms. Janet Rogers, Mr. Al C. Schultz, Ms. Lisa Seed,
Mr. Jim Storie, Mr. John J. Sutherland, Mr. Ian Waddell QC
ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE FOUNDATION
President Mr. Christopher Gimpel
Treasurer Mr. Bruce Flexman, FCA
Secretary Ms. Catharine Herb-Kelly QC
Mr. Jamie Corbett, Mr. Eugen Klein, Ms. Bonnie Mah,
Mr. Morris Nord, Mr. John J. Sutherland, Mr. Art Vertlieb QC
ARTISTIC
Resident Designer Ted Roberts
Artist Liaison Stephanie Hargreaves
Literary Manager Rachel Ditor
ReAct Assistant Veronique West
LEAP Leader Shawn Macdonald
LEAP Assistant Christine Quintana
Music Theatre Intensive Director Peter Jorgensen
Actor’s Intensive Program Director Dean Paul Gibson
Actor’s Intensive Head Instructor Scott Bellis
PRODUCTION
Director of Production Stephan Baeuml
Technical Director, Stanley & Tours Eugenio Saenz Flores
Technical Director, Granville Island & Goldcorp Craig Fulker
Technical Director, Shop Ace Martens
Facilities Manager Jack Holmes
Rentals Manager Catherine Wilson
Production Secretary Dawn Padget
Production Assistant Robert Burns
Head Electrician (Stanley) Shawn Watson
Head Electrician (Granville Island) Darren Hales
Goldcorp Stage Technician Garreth Lau
Head Sound Technician Philip Ronayne
Assistant Sound Technician Kate De Lorme
Head Stage Carpenter (Stanley) Marcus Stusek
Stage Carpenter (Granville Island) Bret Roach
Assistant Stage Carpenter Alex Pauls
Assistant Fit Up Carpenter Lucas Hall
Head Dresser Oriana Camporese
Tour Technician Alberto White
Rentals Technicians Liz Kraft, Darren John
Head Carpenter Joao Carlos d’Almeida
Lead Carpenters Lorraine West, Chris White
Head of Properties Michael Gall
Second Properties Robyn Volk
Head Scenic Artist Kristine Kavalec
Head of Costumes Kirsten McGhie
Assistant to the Head of Costumes Tiffany Bishop
Cutters Sarah Marchant, Victoria Klippenstein
Wardrobe Maintenance Mary Jane Cox, Sean Malmas
Stage Managers Angela Beaulieu, Rachel Bland, Sandra Drag,
Caryn Fehr, Claire Friderich*, Tessa Gunn*, Michelle Harrison*,
Ronaye Haynes, Jan Hodgson, Pamela Jakobs, Peter Jotkus,
Jenny Kim*, April Starr Land, Rebecca Mulvihill, Ashley
Noyes*, Rick Rinder, Tanya Schwaerzle*, Allison Spearin,
Anne Taylor, Yvonne Yip *Apprentice Stage Managers
Building Maintenance Kris Jankovic
14 The (Post) Mistress
ADMINISTRATION
Director of Finance & Systems Valerie Prodanuk
Director of Education Natasha Klein (on leave)
Manager of Administration Teddy Forsyth
IT Manager Allan Kong
Manager of Databases & Systems Lou Ann Mendoza
Education Coordinator Kevan Ellis
Accountant Igor Rozenberg
Accounting Assistant Eileen Craig
Receptionist Susanna Summers
Volunteer Coordinator Elizabeth Pope-Moore
MARKETING
Director of Sales & Marketing Bryan Woo
Publications & Communications Manager Susan Cho
Marketing Manager Jaime Fletcher
Publicist Amy Lynn Strilchuk
Writer & Editor Angela Caravan
Graphic Designer Roger Allen
Marketing Coordinator, Digital April Green
Marketing Coordinator, Loyalty Alva Tang
Group Accounts Associate Adam Caddell
Tour Coordinator Christina Campbell
Digital Storyteller Mark Halliday
Tour Intern Hillary K. Edison
DEVELOPMENT
Director of Development Kathy MacKenzie
Manager, Individual Giving Parmida Zarrinkamar
Manager, Corporate Sponsorship & Foundations
Stephanie Cardwell
Manager, Special Events Stephanie Roberts
Cultivation & Stewardship Coordinator Jen Challinor
Development Coordinator Hoori Barkh
Development Associate Carlyn Bishop
Junior Graphic Designer Peng Wei
GUEST SERVICES
Guest Services Manager Peter Chapek
Front of House Managers Laura Eveleigh, Max Forsyth
Front of House Kaila Butler, Brendan Blanchard, Bonnie Dane,
Ronaye Haynes, Linda Guthrie, Meredith Hambrock, Alexis
Jones, Michelle Kaesar, Aaron Lee, Shirley Lum, Kavin Ni,
Kirsten Niedtner, Devon Parkin, Sandy Peters, Mylyn Ramos,
Veronica Rozenberg, Nathan Smith, Samein Shamsher, Karen
Worrod, Vanessa Yee
BOX OFFICE
Ticket Sales Manager Megan Verhey
Sales Systems Manager Harpreet Kullar
Ticket Sales Supervisors Eric Biskupski, Madeline Doig
Box Office Ria Antonopoulos, Jo B, Jean Choi, Holly Emmett,
Brett Harris, Jacinta Jones, Gwenda Lorenzetti, Amanda Konkin,
Tim Mahoney, Danny Mak, Emma Middleton, Kirk Olson, Erin
Schneider
THEATRE LOUNGES
Director of Food & Beverage Steve Sheridan
Bar Managers Torrance Jestadt, Kelly Golby, Blaine Anderson,
Colin Speir, Chris Schonfeldt
Bar & Lounge Staff Edward Adams, Chari Agellon, Eric
Angerman, Anthony Catenaccio, Sam Clark, Paddy Cole,
Colin d’Astoli, Lucas Floody, Rafal Frej, Mike Fydenlund, Kim
Howanyk, Mia Ingimundson, Savanna Junjek, Mike Kucheran,
Julia Litke, Ron Mill, Sarah McCusker, Emilda Radjah, Anna
Rasmussen, Dallas Richards, Joey Robertson, Khalied Salem,
Dillan Simard, Jason Simmer, Carlina Simmons, Sunil
Suvarna, Stephanie Thompson, Michelle Towell, Paul Vigano,
Gavin Weddell, Linsay Willier, Katarzyna Zacheja
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & SPECIAL THANKS
Wig by Hackman’s Head Office
The Arts Club thanks its many volunteers for their support
The Arts Club Theatre Company is a member of the
Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT),
The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance,
and the Alliance for Arts and Culture, and operates under
the jurisdiction of Canadian Actors Equity Association
Preproduction personnel and stage crew are members of Local
118 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
The Arts Club Theatre Company and Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
WISH TO RECOGNIZE OUR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN DONORS.
THANK YOU!
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Department of
Canadian Heritage
Province of BC
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Goldcorp
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Financial Group
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Dobrzensky
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Gaze
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Gimpel
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Smith
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Ray
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Foundation
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Sibthorpe
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Mogenson
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Mulcaster
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Macdonald
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Paterson
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Jonalyn Siemens
The Vancouver Trolley
Company
Michael Walker
Douglas Welch &
Elizabeth Ball
Faye Wightman
Shawn Williamson
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