CHARLOTTE’S WEB

CAST & CREW

Aubrey Baux – Avery Arable/Lamb

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: The Lion King Jr (StoryBook Theatre - Spotlight), Bridge To Terabithia (StoryBook Theatre), The Secret Garden (StoryBook Theatre – TSM), Annie Davidson (Cowtown Opera), Library Tour & Cannonball Festival (CYPT). Aubrey is always thrilled to be on stage and is especially thrilled to play the role of Avery and the Lamb. Aubrey would like to thank his mom, dad and brothers for their support and love.



Annabel Beames – Fern Arable

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Madame Butterfly (Calgary Opera); Together (Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show).
Annabel is ten years old and in grade 5. She loves to sing and dance, and attends Counterpoint Dance Academy. Annabel is thrilled with the opportunity to join the ATP ensemble, she thanks her family, friends and a horse named Jack, and hopes you enjoy the show!



Geoffrey Simon Brown – Lurvy/Templeton

For ATP: The Circle, Tyland. Elsewhere: Actor: Skylight (Theatre Calgary), The Tall Building (Handsome Alice), The Mousetrap (Vertigo), Equivocation, Complete Works (Shakespeare Company) Air, This Is Our Youth (Major Matt Mason Collective). Playwright: The Circle (Tarragon), Little Red, Air, Control, & Destroy (Major Matt Mason Collective). Awards: Betty Mitchell Awards (Best New Play – The Circle & Best Supporting Actor – Equivocation), Tarragon Theatre’s RBC Emerging Playwright Award, Theatre Calgary’s Stephen Hair Emerging Actor Award. Geoffrey is currently playwright-in-residence at Theatre Junction, writing a play about and with an ensemble of Calgary teenagers. Thanks to ma & pa & a little snake.



Nadien Chu – Edith Zuckerman/Goose

For ATP: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Elsewhere: All the Little Animals I have Eaten (One Yellow Rabbit), The Believers, 10/12 (Roxy Performance Series); 9 Parts of Desire, The Maggie Tree, Space//Space, Cleopatra’s Sister, Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide, Cherish (Northern Light Theatre); Ladies Who Lynch (Workshop West), The Merry Wives of Windsor/The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar/The Tempest, Twelfth Night/Othello, Titus Andronicus/Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet/Love’s Labour’s Lost (Free Will Shakespeare Festival); Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Penelopiad, August Osage County (Citadel Theatre);
The Ugly One, The Crackwalker, Mourning Dove, Kill Your Television, Pig Girl, Palace of the End (Theatre Network). TV: Blackstone, Andromeda. Awards: Sterling (Titus Andronicus). Nadien would like to thank her family for their continued love and support. Special thanks to Laurel Green for this special opportunity to play her favourite character – barnyard animals!



Ethan Cole – Musician/Announcer, Composition

For ATP: Good Fences (with Downstage). Elsewhere: Peril In Paris (Lunchbox Theatre); Twisted (Forte Musical Theatre Guild / The Bitter Suite Society); In The Wake (Downstage); The Astonishing Adventures of Awesome Girl and Radical Boy (Lunchbox Theatre). Recently released Ghost Towns - a new EP of original music. Awards: Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Composition (The Astonishing Adventures of Awesome Girl and Radical Boy), Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play, with Eric Rose (Peril In Paris). Ethan is thrilled to be back at ATP, and would like to thank his family and friends for all their amazing support - with special thanks to Emily.



Léda Davies – Charlotte, Aerial Movement Creator

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Snow Angel (Quest Theatre); Project Whooping Crane (Green Fools); Toothfairy (Old Trout Puppet Workshop); One Flea Spare (Sage Theatre) Circus: Persephone Bound (Screaming Goats Collective); Circus Sessions (Femmes du Feu/ CCAFT); 100% Femme (Montreal international Jazz Festival); Cirqua Zerna: Le Sublim (La Caserne) Film/TV: Necessary Action, Burlesque Assassins, There by Grace. Awards: Betty Mitchell Nominee – Best Actress in a Dramatic Role (One Flea Spare). Léda thanks her Calgary and Montreal family, her always-supportive husband and hopes to ‘catch’ you at the show!



Philip Fulton – John Arable/As Cast

For ATP: Treasure Island. Elsewhere: In a World Created by a Drunken God (Downstage); An Inspector Calls (Vertigo Theatre); Vimy (Citadel); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Theatre Calgary); Penelope vs the Aliens, Birdbrain (Quest Theatre); American Buffalo (Ground Zero Theatre); Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood, Symphonic Sorcery (Dandi Productions). Awards: Betty Mitchell nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actor (The Cripple of Inishmaan). Philip has performed in children's theatre internationally and now oversees the education and outreach programs for Calgary Humane Society. He is delighted to return to the stage incorporating his two loves of theatre for young audiences and animal welfare.



Stafford Perry – Homer Zuckerman/Uncle Pig, Fight Director

For ATP: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike. Elsewhere: One Man Two Guvnors, Major Barbara, Enron, Enchanted April, The Wars, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Wait Until Dark, The Haunting, In the Heat of the Night, Panic, Double Indemnity, Rope, The Mousetrap, And Then There Where None (Vertigo); Sextet (Verb Theatre) Pride and Prejudice, As You like It (The Citadel); Romeo and Juliet (Neptune); In On It, With Bells On (Lunchbox); Stray (Workshop West); As You Like It (The Shakespeare Company). Stafford would like to thank Meredith and Llewyn for making life so wonderful, and the rest of his family for their love and support.



Sarah Wheeldon – Martha Arable/Sheep

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Company/Hit & Myth Productions); Boy's Own Jedi Handbook (Ground Zero/Hit & Myth Productions); Eavesdrop, iRobot (Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre); The Sound of Music (The Citadel Theatre); Silence: Mabel and Alexander Bell (Theatre Calgary FUSE). Film/TV: Dead Again in Tombstone (Universal Studios); Miracle on Christmas Lake (GREEN Productions); Hell on Wheels (AMC). Awards: Calgary Critics Award nomination (Twelfth Night). Sarah thanks her super supportive loved ones and friends, and is so honoured to be a part of this amazing community that inspires her every single day!



Tenaj Williams – Wilbur

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Touch Me: Songs for a (Dis)Connected Age (Co-Pro with Forte Musical Theatre Guild), A Christmas Carol 2015,16 (Theatre Calgary); Sextet (Verb Theatre); Macbeth, All’s Well that Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Company); Heatwave (New West Theatre); The Urban Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, The Paperbag Princess (Co-pro with Forte), A New Brain, Shrek the Musical (Storybook Theatre); Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Ellipsis Tree Collective). Awards: Calgary Critics Award (The Paperbag Princess). Tenaj is so thrilled to be a part of this show and thanks his family and friends for all their love and support. Enjoy the show!



Joseph Robinette – Adapting Playwright

Joseph Robinette is a Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award nominee for the libretto of the acclaimed A Christmas Story, The Musical. He is the author or co-author of 55 published plays and musicals. His works have been produced at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, The Theater at Madison Square Garden and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, the BBC in Britain, in all 50 states and in 21 foreign countries. Twelve of his works have been translated into foreign languages, and another five have been anthologized. Robinette collaborated with E.B. White on the authorized stage version of Charlotte's Web, and he wrote the musical version with Charles Strouse (Annie and Bye, Bye, Birdie). Other dramatizations include The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Anne of Green Gables and Debbie Macomber's A Gift to Last and The Inn at Rose Harbor. He is the recipient of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Distinguished Play Award for Sarah, Plain and Tall and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America medallion for his "body of dramatic works for family audiences in the United States and beyond."



Laurel Green – Director

For ATP: Directorial debut. Production Dramaturg – 1979, 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, Deep Field Podcast, 2016 & 2017. 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). Laurel is President of LMDA Canada and Co-Editor for CdnTimes at SpiderWebShow.ca



Anton de Groot – Set/Lighting Design

For ATP: Waiting for the Parade, The Circle, Cockroach. Elsewhere: HMS Pinafore, Treasure Island (Stratford Festival); The Hollow, Travels With My Aunt, Nine Dragons (Vertigo); The Shoplifters (Theatre Calgary); All’s Well That Ends Well, Macbeth (Shakespeare Company); Crime Does Not Pay, In the Wake, Sequence (Downstage); The Tall Building (Handsome Alice); Book Club, It’s a Wonderful Life (Lunchbox). Awards: Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Set Design (Travels With My Aunt), and for Outstanding Light Design (Macbeth). Up Next: King Lear (Shakespeare Company); GIANT (Ghost River Theatre); and A Light Shower - an interactive installation - at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.



Jennifer Lee Arsenault – Costume Design

For ATP: 1979, The Circle, assistant designer on The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Butcher. Elsewhere: The Drowning Girls (Theatre Northwest), Let the Light of Day Through (Lunchbox Theatre), Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (The Shakespeare Company/Handsome Alice Theatre/Hit & Myth Productions), Madagascar (Storybook theatre), NYC vs YYC, Prison Divas (Cowtown Opera); Une fenêtre sous l'océan (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). Assistant designer: The Hollow, The Mousetrap (Vertigo Theatre); Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Theatre Junction), Carousel, She Stoops to Conquer (Stratford 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 Banff Centre for the Arts and at the Théâtre des Zygomars in Namur, Belgium. She is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.



Thomas Geddes – Sound Design

For ATP: 1979. Elsewhere: TOUCH, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Workshops (Ghost River Theatre); Pieces (O2 Dance Company); Little Red (Major Matt Mason & Eric Rose); Soliciting Temptation (Sage Theatre); Les Misérables (Arts Club). Thomas is happy to be back at ATP and he hopes you enjoy a classic tale brought to life.



Jane MacFarlane – Vocal Coach

For ATP: The Last Wife, Fortune Falls, Legend Has it, The Circle, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Venus in Fur, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Toad of Toad Hall, That Elusive Spark, The Syringa Tree, Vincent in Brixton Elsewhere: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, The Mousetrap, Dial M for Murder (Vertigo Theatre) as well as productions at Theatre Junction, Sage Theatre, Stage West Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre. Jane Is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary, where she has worked on over 40 productions in the past decade. Film/TV: Wynonna Earp. Jane is also an actor, director and instructor, having taught at such institutions as York University, Harvard University, SMU, UCalgary, MRU, UofA and most recently for the Globe Theatre Conservatory in Regina.



Poe Limkul - Assistant Lighting Designer



Kerry Johnson – Stage Manager

For ATP: The Last Wife, Cathy Jones’ Stranger to Hard Work, Fortune Falls, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Elsewhere: Liberation Days, Mary Poppins (Theatre Calgary); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Ursa Major (Catch the Keys/Workshop West); Christina~Phillipe, Ride, The Ecstatics (Northern Light Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher, Other Desert Cities, A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, The Wizard of Oz, The Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel Theatre). Kerry is a graduate of the BFA Stage Management program at the University of Alberta.



Nicole Bergen – Assistant Stage Manager

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Nicole Bergen works as a stage manager and assistant stage manager in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Past shows include Die Fledermaus, Turandot (SM, Calgary Opera); Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro (SM, Saskatoon Opera); Filumena, Die tote Stadt, Silent Night, The Flying Dutchman, La bohème, Moby Dick (ASM, Calgary Opera); Christmas at the Opera 2016, Ariodante, What Brought Us Here (SM, Calgary Opera, second stage). This season's shows include South Pacific, Eugene Onegin, Tosca (ASM, Calgary Opera).



Sydney Hunt– D. Michael Dobbin Apprentice

For ATP: The Last Wife. Elsewhere: Dr. EP Scarlett High School Drama Department 2014-2017. Awards: Outstanding Achievement Supporting Acting (Calgary High School Drama Festival 2017), Outstanding Achievements in Directing, Drama and Advanced Acting (Dr. EP Scarlett High School 2015-2017). Sydney has also been a member of ATP’s FRESH PRINTS Student Writers Group for two years. She gives thanks to her friends, family, teachers and mentors who have worked closely with her for many years. Sydney would also like to recognize and thank ATP for giving her a chance at this amazing experience, and she hopes you enjoy the show!



Kate Pallesen – Child Supervisor

Kate is excited to be back at ATP this season as the Child Supervisor on Charlotte’s Web. Kate is an emerging artist in Calgary with a passion for stage management and sound design. She recently graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a BFA in Theatre Production. Select theatre credits include: The Last Wife (ATP), The Shape of A Girl (Haven Theatre), The Drowning Girls (Vertigo Theatre), Where’s My Sky, The Drowning Girls, Weldon Rising, Exia (University of Lethbridge). Kate would like to thank her family, peers, and mentors for all of their support!