1979

CAST & CREW

Christopher Hunt – Actor “A”

For ATP: Over 20 productions, including: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Half Life, Art, Stones In His Pockets, Respectable, Vigil, Two Weeks With The Queen. Elsewhere: The Audience, The Light In The Piazza (Theatre Calgary); Die Fledermaus (Calgary Opera); Our Town (Caravan Farm Theatre); Calamity Town (Vertigo Theatre); Epiphany (Lunchbox Theatre - director). Film/TV: Heartland, Caitlin’s Way, Shanghai Noon, You Know My Name. Awards: Betty Mitchell Awards: The 39 Steps, When That I Was, Mesa, Bent, The Cocktail Hour. Christopher is honoured to be in this fine company of artists for 1979. He lives in Calgary with his family - Elizabeth, Grady, Arden and Charlie the dog.



Jamie Konchak – Actor “B”

For ATP: The Red Priest, The Apology, The Penelopiad, Oliver, Heartbreaker, The Romeo Initiative, Why Freud Fainted, Vincent in Brixton. Elsewhere: (Recent credits) CRIME: Does Not Pay (Downstage Theatre), Liberation Days, The Tempest, Joan: By Fire, As You Like It (Two Planks and a Passion); A Christmas Carol, The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary); The Floating Mouse (The Green Fools); Calamity Town, Farewell My Lovely, The Huron Bride (Vertigo Theatre); reasons to be happy, reasons to be pretty, Gruesome Playground Injuries (Ground Zero/Hit & Myth). Awards: 3 Betty Mitchell Awards for outstanding Performance, 1 Critter award for Outstanding Solo Performance and 2 Robert Merritt Awards for performances in Nova Scotia. Jamie is currently collaborating on numerous creative projects including, inVISIBLE with Handsome Alice. She is a member of the band CUTEST KITTEN EVER and lives in Calgary with her husband, Graham and their Pomeranian, Pepper.



Philip Riccio – Joe Clark

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: The Test, Festen, A Whistle in the Dark (The Company Theatre); The Seagull, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (Crow’s Theatre); Harper Regan (Canadian Stage); Translations, Hamlet, The Wild Duck (Soulpepper Theatre); Mr. Marmalade (Outside The March); Cripple of Innishmaan (Centaur Theatre); Tempest Tost, Henry IV part I and II (Stratford Festival) Director: Domesticated, Speaking in Tongues, Through the Leaves (The Company Theatre) Film/TV: Ransom, Saving Hope, Flashpoint, Republic of Doyle, Rent-a-Goalie, Diary of the Dead, Hotel Congress, My Family’s Secret. Awards: Toronto Critics Theatre Award (The Test). Philip is the Co-Artistic Director of The Company Theatre in Toronto www.companytheatre.ca and the publisher of Intermission Magazine www.intermissionmagazine.ca



Michael Healey – Playwright

For ATP: The Drawer Boy, Plan B. Elsewhere: Proud (GCTC), Kicked (Toronto Fringe and elsewhere), The Drawer Boy (Theatre Passe Muraille, Mirivsh, elsewhere), The Road to Hell (with Kate Lynch), Plan B, Rune Arlidge, Generous, Courageous (Tarragon), The Innocent Eye Test (Mirvish), Olympia (adapted from Molnar, Soulpepper), On the Rocks (adapted from Shaw, the Shaw Festival), The Physicists (adapted from Dürrenmatt, Stratford Festival). Awards: Chalmers Award, Governor General’s Literary Award, five Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Best New Play.



Miles Potter – Director/Dramaturg

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Over thirty five years of directing and acting across Canada, working on classics and developing new Canadian plays. Directing: productions at Stratford, the Grand Theatre, The National Arts Centre, CanStage, Mirvish Productions among many others. He has directed numerous productions for the Blyth Festival. He has also been a guest director and teacher at the National Theatre School, George Brown College, Humber College and Dalhousie University and The University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Miles has received a Dora nomination (Directing, Molly Sweeney, Grand/CanStage); Dora Award (Directing, The Drawer Boy, Theatre Passe Muraille), a Jessie Award (directing, The Taming of the Shrew, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver).



Laurel Green – Production Dramaturg

For ATP: Production Dramaturg – Fortune Falls, Cockroach, The Circle, Butcher, You Will Remember Me, Same Same But Different, The God That Comes, The Valley, Ash Rizin. Assistant Director – Charlotte’s Web, Red. Artistic Associate at ATP. Elsewhere: Listener in Residence at the High Performance Rodeo You Are Here Too: Recalling the Whaler (The Deep Field Podcast). Dramaturg/Director - Oblivion (Third Street Theatre), I think my boyfriend should have an accent…(Ottawa Fringe / Encore Series). Dramaturg – Touch, Taste (Ghost River Theatre / Beakerhead), Sky Sounds +15 Audio Installation (The Deep Field), Goldie Locks and the Three Polar Bears, Attack of the Pine Beetles! (Evergreen Theatre); Collapsible (mi casa theatre). Associate Artist with SpiderWebShow.ca, Co-Producer for The Deep Field (podcast available on iTunes), Board Member for LMDA Canada and Member of the PACT Diversity Committee.



Scott Reid – Set/Projection Design

For ATP: Legend Has It, Venus In Fur, 16 playRites Festivals, True Love Lies, East of Berlin, Half Life, Oliver Twist, Sitting on Paradise. Elsewhere: Turn of the Screw, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Farewell My Lovely, Vintage Hitchcock, In the Heat of the Night, Blithe Spirit, Dangerous Corner, And Then There Were None and Rebecca (Vertigo Theatre); Mom’s The Word: For Crying Out Loud, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Theatre Calgary); A Raisin in the Sun (Theatre Calgary/Soulpepper Theatre Company), Crimes of the Heart (Theatre Calgary/MTC); Die Tote Stadt, The Flying Dutchman, Otello, The Inventor, Little Women, Dead Man Walking and Faust (Calgary Opera); Class Acts, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Songs Of A Wayfarer, Requiem (Alberta Ballet); New Beginnings, Better Get Hit in Your Soul, The Wilds, and Spontaneous Combustion (DJD).



Jennifer Arsenault – Costume Design

For ATP: The Circle. Elsewhere: The Drowning Girls (Theatre North West), Let the Light of Day Through (Lunchbox Theatre), Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (The Shakespeare Company / Handsome Alice Theatre / Hit & Myth Productions), Une fenêtre sous l'ocean (Les 4 muses / L'ile Imagin'air), Chroniques de l'éphémère (Eye eye eye), Cowboy vs Samurai (Chromatic Theatre), SNAKEOIL (Sage Theatre's Ignite! Festival). Jennifer holds an MFA in theatre design from the University of Calgary and a BFA in scenography from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has completed assistantships at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at the Théâtre des Zygomars in Namur, Belgium.



David Fraser – Lighting Design

For ATP: Set & Lighting Design for: Buyer & Cellar, Butcher, Playing with Fire: The Theo Fleury Story, The Syringa Tree and The Goat. Lighting Design for: The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Charlie Brown, Unity 1918, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the ENBRIDGE playRites Festival 2005 – 2012. Elsewhere: Most recent work includes: 2015 English Canada Exhibit Prague Quadrennial - Director of Production & Lighting Designer. The Hounds of the Baskerville – Set & Lighting Design (Vertigo Theatre), Romeo & Juliet – Lighting Design (The Shakespeare Company), Carmen & Lucia di Lammermoor – Lighting Design (Edmonton Opera). Awards: Nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award, two Betty Mitchell Awards, and thirteen Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, twice as a recipient for his designs. David is the Production Manager at ATP and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.



Thomas Geddes – Sound Designer

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: TOUCH, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Ghost River Theatre); Pieces (O2 Dance Company); Little Red Phase II (Major Matt Mason & Eric Rose); Les Misérables (Arts Club). Thomas is excited about his ATP debut and wants to thank Anton de Groot and Laurel Green for their unwavering support as well as Andrea Lundy for believing in him. Hope you enjoy the political life of 1979!



Patti Neice – Stage Manager

For ATP: Assistant Stage Manager on The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Dust, The Valley, Intimate Apparel, Thinking of Yu, Drama: Pilot Episode. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for The Audience, A Christmas Carol, 'Da Kink in my Hair, Bad Jews, Shoplifters, Dear Johnny Deere (Theatre Calgary); Calamity Town (Vertigo). The Surrogate, Shopaholic Wedding Bells, Whimsey State (Lunchbox). ASM for One Man Two Goveners, Moutntain Top, A Christmas Carol, Anne of Green Gables, To Kill a Mockingbird (Theatre Calgary); The Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show (2011-2016).



Emma Slunt - Apprentice Stage Manager



Taylor Nicole Hicks – University of Calgary Intern

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: The Cycle (Common Ground Festival, Director/Playwright), Whole Grain Cereal (Taking Flight Festival, Ensemble), Yoncé (ND Theatre, Creator/ Choreographer). Thank you to everyone for coming out to support the arts and a special thank you to everyone who helped me achieve the opportunity to work with ATP this season!