CONSTELLATIONS

CAST & CREW

Jamie Konchak – Marianne

For ATP: 1979, The Red Priest, The Apology, The Penelopiad, Heartbreaker, The Romeo Initiative, Why Freud Fainted, Oliver Twist, Vincent in Brixton. Elsewhere: A Christmas Carol, The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary); Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage); The Drowning Girls, Calamity Town, Farewell, My Lovely, The Huron Bride (Vertigo Theatre); Nothing Less, Liberation Days, The Tempest (Two Planks and a Passion); The Floating Mouse (The Green Fools); Songs From Nightingale Alley (OYR/Feast of Friends). Awards: 3 Betty Mitchell Awards for Supporting and Lead Performance, Calgary Critics Award (The Floating Mouse), 2 Robert Merritt Awards for performances in Nova Scotia. Jamie proudly calls Calgary home and lives along the Bow River with husband, Graham and Pomeranian, Pepper.



Mike Tan – Roland

Mike is very excited and thankful for his debut performance with ATP! Elsewhere: (Selected) Cowboy vs. Samurai (Chromatic Theatre); Travels with My Aunt, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Wait Until Dark (Vertigo Theatre); Little Red River, On the Side of the Road, Lucy Lost Her Heart (Theatre Junction). Mike currently works as a photographer at Diane + Mike Photography (dianeandmike.ca) shooting the best festivals, such as Calgary Folk Music Festival, Sled Island, and M:ST Performance Art Festival. He enjoys silly dances with his son, Aiden; pillow talk with Frankie and Prismo (cats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯); and living up to super-Di.



Nick Payne – Playwright

Nick Payne’s plays include IF THERE IS I HAVEN’T FOUND IT YET (Bush Theatre and Roundabout Theatre Company, New York), WANDERLUST (Royal Court Theatre), Sophocles' ELECTRA (Gate Theatre), ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG (Paines Plough/Sheffield Theatres and Shoreditch Town Hall), LAY DOWN YOUR CROSS (Hampstead Theatre), CONSTELLATIONS (Royal Court Theatre and Duke of York’s), and THE SAME DEEP WATER AS ME (Donmar Warehouse). He is the recipient of the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, 2012 Harold Pinter Playwright’s Award, and the 2012 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play for Constellations.



Director – Valerie Planche

For ATP: Directing Debut. Elsewhere: Skylight, Bad Jews (Theatre Calgary) (Betty Mitchell Award for Director); Hana’s Suitcase (Storybook Theatre), Love and Information (Ambrose University), Body Awareness (Shadow Theatre), Canadian Premier; Homelife (Aboriginal Arts), Canadian Premier; Blood: A Scientific Romance (Sage Theatre), World Premiere; Ruined (Ellipsis Tree Collective), Canadian Premier; Thy Neighbour’s Wife (Urban Curvz Theatre) (Betty Mitchell Nomination for Best Production); The Duplex (Lunchbox Theatre) (BD&P Emerging Director Program mentored by Dennis Garnhum); Petty Threats (Petro Canada Series Staged Reading, Lunchbox Theatre), The Odd Couple (Chaemera Productions); Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company); ReVital Signs (in studio for The University of Calgary), The Fourth King (St. Augustine School for the Performing Arts); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Under the Cover Theatre). Assistant Director: Spiders Web (Vertigo Mystery Theatre), Glenn (Blacklist Theatre Co.). Valerie is an award winning, 30-year veteran actor, director and a teacher. She has appeared in TV and film, and has performed on stages all across Canada.



David Fraser – Set/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 Last Wife, 1979, 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: Elektra – Light Design (Edmonton Opera), Wait Until Dark – Set Design (Vertigo Theatre), Richard III – Lighting Design (The Shakespeare Company). Awards: Nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award, two Betty Mitchell Awards, a SATAward, and thirteen Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, thrice as a recipient for his designs. David is the Production Manager at ATP and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.



Hanne Loosen – Costume Design

For ATP: To the Light. Elsewhere: Skylight, The Shoplifters (Theatre Calgary); Macbeth, The Three Musketeers (The Shakespeare Company); Sextet (Verb Theatre); Cinderella, The Magic Flute (Calgary Opera, School Tours); Bea, Shakespeare’s Will (Sage Theatre); The Tall Building (Handsome Alice Theatre); Lord of the Flies, Hana’s Suitcase (Storybook Theatre); Children's Corner after Debussy (State Opera Berlin); New Scenes (Deutsche Opera Berlin), Dis Placed (Gauge Dance Theatre); Attila (Mariinsky Theatre); Three Sisters (Stage Entertainment Amsterdam). Hanne is an MFA graduate in scenography from the Technical University of Berlin. She obtained her BA from Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design.



Dave Clarke – Sound Design

Dave is a musician, actor and writer. He has composed music and produced sound designs for theatre, film, dance and multi-media for three decades. Recent projects include sound designs for Concrete Theatre's Consent and Paper Song; his play That's Danger! is in its seventh year of touring for Alberta’s Worker's Health Centre. Dave was the sound guy for CBC Radio’s The Irrelevant Show. He has won several awards for his work, including Sterling Awards for Outstanding Actor (The Unseen, Chorus Productions), Outstanding Score (Dog, Surreal SoReal Theatre), Musical Direction (Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp) and Sound (Shakespeare’s Will, Vimy, The Ecstatics).



Karl Sine – Fight Director

Karl works is an Actor, Director and a certified Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada. Selected Fight Directing credits: Wait Until Dark, Sherlock Holmes & The Case Of The Jersey Lily, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, The Game’s Afoot, Farewell, My Lovely, The Huron Bride (Vertigo); Carmen, Silent Night (Calgary Opera); King Lear, Liberation Days, The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Equivocation, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (The Shakespeare Company); She Has a Name (Burnt Thicket). Selected Acting credits: The Case Of The Jersey Lilly, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Vertigo); Macbeth, Equivocation, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Land of the Dead (TSC); The Crucible, Pride & Prejudice, Enron, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing (TC); Queen Milli Of Galt, Mary's Wedding (Rosebud). AWARDS: Karl has won multiple Betty Mitchell awards for his work as a fight director and as an actor. Karl wishes to thank his wife, Lindsey and his three beautiful children Olivia, Charlie and Zachary.



Johanne Deleeuw – Stage Manager

Johanne has been a professional Stage Manager for more years than she cares to count. For ATP: Waiting for The Parade, Cockroach, The Circle, Becky’s New Car, Charlotte’s Web, Butcher, Games, You Will Remember Me, Around the World in 80 Days, Dust, The Valley, Intimate Apparel, Thinking of Yu, Drama: Pilot Episode. Johanne has also stage managed shows for Vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, Stage West, Sage Theatre, Ground Zero Theatre and One Yellow Rabbit. She is currently the resident Stage Manager and Company Manager for One Yellow Rabbit. In her spare time, Johanne enjoys knitting and traveling with her husband, Calgary Blues Musician Tim Williams. She is thrilled, as always, to be working again with her dear friends at Alberta Theatre Projects.



Emma Slunt – Apprentice Stage Manager

For ATP: 1979. ELSEWHERE: 39 Steps (Vertigo Theatre),Time Present (Lunchbox Theatre). Assistant Stage Manager: Seussical The Musical, Beauty and The Beast (Storybook Theatre), Bengal Tiger At The Bagdad Zoo (Search Tower Company), Man Equals Man (University of Calgary). Stage Manager: Bridge To Terabithia (Storybook Theatre), The Container (University of Calgary).