TO THE LIGHT

CAST & CREW

Elinor Holt – Mrs. Ramsay

For ATP: Angels in America Parts I&II, Oliver, Goodnight Desdemona, Age of Arousal, The Knowing Bird, Unity 1918, The Penelopiad, The Wizard of Oz, Charlotte's Web, Slipper. Elsewhere: The Spitfire Grill (Rosebud Theatre), Drinking Habits (Stage West), Lest We Forget (Lunch Box), Our Town (Caravan Farm ), R&J (The Globe ), Bingo Ladies (Hudson Village), Becky's New Car (Theatre North West), Pig Girl (Theatre Network), The Ecstatics (Northern Light Theatre), Mom's The Word (Theatre Calgary), Boy Gets Girl (Theatre Junction). Awards: Elinor received a Betty for her work in Boy Gets Girl. She has also received numerous Betty and Critter nominations over the years. Elinor lives in Calgary with her husband, Spider, their three children and their two pups.



Julie Orton – Lily Briscoe

For ATP: (Selected) Shakespeare's Dog, Intimate Apparel. Elsewhere: (Selected) Blow Wind, High Water, One Man, Two Guvnors, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary), As You Like It, Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company/Hit & Myth), Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (The Shakespeare Company/Handsome Alice Theatre), Queer Blind Date (Spontaneous Theatre/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), Blind Date (Spontaneous Theatre/North American Tour), Evelyn Strange, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Calamity Town, Our Man In Havana (Vertigo Theatre), Scarlet Woman, Speed Dating For Sperm Donors (Lunchbox Theatre), Speed The Plow, Kung Fu Panties, Reasons To Be Pretty, A Behanding In Spokane, Reasons To Be Happy (Ground Zero Theatre/Hit & Myth Productions), Cocktails at Pam’s (Teatro La Quindicina). Julie is a Calgary-based performer who has been recognized with three Betty Mitchell Awards, two Calgary Theatre Critic Award nominations, as well as an AMPIA nomination. Julie is also a guest star on Dirty Laundry, Calgary's only improvised soap opera. She is eternally grateful for blue shift.



Bryce Kulak – Musician, Composer/Music Consultant

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: 2 Pianos 4 Hands (Canadian tour); Billy Bishop Goes to War (Theatre Aquarius); Bohemians in Brooklyn, The Judgment of Paris, From Weimar to Vaudeville, and The Missing Pages (Tom Allen Productions, tour); The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish); Camelot (MTC/Theatre Calgary/Citadel). Film/TV: The Man That Got Away, Peg + Cat. Awards: Dora Nomination (composer, Reframed); Sterlings (composer, Bears and Nami Namersson); DAAD Short Film Prize, Berlin International Film Festival (The Man That Got Away). Bryce’s albums Welcome, Tin Can Telephone, and The Man That Got Away are on iTunes. Bryce thanks Max Telzerow, Marnie and Barry Worbets, Vanessa Porteous, ATP, and the fabulous team of To The Light. brycekulak.com



Evelyne de la Chenelière – Playwright

Evelyne de la Chenelière, author and actress, wrote several plays which were staged in Quebec as well as abroad, and translated and published into several languages. To name only a few, Des fraises en janvier, Henri & Margaux, Aphrodite en 04 and Le plan américain (recipient for best play of the Festival Scoops to Saarbrücken in Germany in 2009). Her work is an accurate observation of the human nature. In 2006, she was named recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award for her collection Désordre public. In 2009, the play Les pieds des anges was staged at Espace GO Theatre in Montreal and was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (2009) and was awarded with the Grand Prize of dramatic literature (2010). L’imposture was presented in fall 2009 at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. Her play, Bashir Lazhar, has been the object of a cinematographic adaptation by Philippe Falardeau and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards. Her play La chair et autres fragments de l’amour is an adaptation of the novel Une vie pour deux by Marie Cardinal and was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (2012). She has been Espace GO’s artist in residency for the past three years among which she wrote Lumières, lumières, lumières, Lettres d’amour and La vie utile, which will be presented next season. Her play Septembre was nominated for best original play at the 2014-2015 Critics awards. Evelyne de la Chenelière’s first feature film is currently in development with Micro_scope.



John Murrell – Playwright

For ATP: As Playwright: A Great Noise, A Great Light (world premiere), Waiting For The Parade (world premiere), Memoir, New World (also director), Democracy, Waiting For The Parade (40th Anniversary production, 2016). As Translator: Thinking Of Yu. As Director: Frankenstein. Elsewhere: As Playwright: His plays Waiting For The Parade, Memoir, Farther West, New World, Democracy, The Faraway Nearby, Death In New Orleans, and Taking Shakespeare have been produced throughout North America, and in 30 other countries. His latest, Fat Jack Falstaff’s Last Hour was premiered by One Yellow Rabbit Theatre in 2016. As Translator: Plays by Chekhov, Sophocles, Euripides, Rostand, Ibsen, Cocteau, Racine, and by Québec author Carole Fréchette. As Librettist: Texts for four operas: Filumena, Frobisher, Lillian Alling, The Inventor. Film/TV: Teleplays for Waiting For The Parade, Farther West; screenplay for The Secret Of The Nutcracker. Awards: Officer of the Order of Canada; Member of the Alberta Order of Excellence; Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award; Governor General of Canada Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement; Honorary Doctorate from the University of Calgary. John would like to thank colleagues and audiences in Canada and elsewhere for five decades of life in the theatre; and, especially, Alberta Theatre Projects, for the opportunity to translate this remarkable play by Evelyne de la Chenelière.



Vanessa Porteous – Director

For ATP: Directing: The world premiere of Gracie by Joan MacLeod (ATP/Belfry Theatre); Other: The world premiere of Cockroach by Jonathan Garfinkel, based on the novel by Rawi Hage, Charlotte’s Web, The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) by Mieko Ouchi, the world premiere of You Will Remember Me by François Archambault translated by Bobby Theodore, Red, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, the world premiere of Heartbreaker by Morwyn Brebner, the world premiere of Tyland by Greg MacArthur, the world premiere and revival of The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, The Syringa Tree (twice), the world premiere of Why Freud Fainted by David Rhymer, the world premiere of Pinocchio by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Plan B by Michael Healey, Proof, The Hobbit, the world premiere of Respectable by Ron Chambers, and The Gifts of The Magi. Elsewhere (Selected): the world premiere of Christina The Girl King by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Stratford Festival), The Penelopiad (The Arts Club), When That I Was (The Shakespeare Company), the world premiere of Queen Lear by Eugene Stickland (Urban Curvz), The Enchanted Child (Calgary Opera) AWARDS: Two Betty Mitchell Awards for Outstanding Direction. From 2009 - 2017, Vanessa was Artistic Director at ATP. For Wendy. @ATPvporteous



Narda McCarroll – Set/Lighting Design

For ATP: Gracie, Slipper, Cockroach, The Circle, Becky’s New Car, Around the World in 80 Days, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Red, Mary’s Wedding, The Wizard of Oz, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Drowning Girls, Vincent in Brixton, The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook, Plan B. Elsewhere: Blow Wind High Water (Theatre Calgary); The Drowning Girls, The Turn of the Screw, Sweeney Todd, The 39 Steps (Vertigo Theatre); Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); Othello (The Shakespeare Company); Peter and the Starcatcher, Extinction Song, Vimy (Citadel Theatre); The Trespassers (Belfry, Vancouver Playhouse); The Mikado (Calgary Opera); Film: Costume design for Cut Bank.



Hanne Loosen – Costume Design

For ATP: Debut. Upcoming: Constellations. 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.



Peter Moller – Sound Design

FOR ATP: Butcher. Elsewhere: Drowning Girls (Vertigo Theatre); All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, Fat Jack Falstaff’s Last Hour (One Yellow Rabbit) Awards: As the recipient of a number of Betty Mitchell and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes sound design awards and nominations, it has been my good fortune to collaborate with many of Calgary’s widely diverse theatre practitioners. Lately Peter has been exploring the songs of Danish band The Sacrificial Leaves with Calgary expat Mark Bandola. The result, Peter Moller & Mark Bandola Interpret The Songs Of The Sacrificial Leaves, is now available as a vinyl and digital album. More info available at eggpress.ca



Amelia Scott – Projection Design

For ATP: Projection Designer: Cockroach. Head of Video: 1979, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. Elsewhere: Projection Designer: Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage), Parade and La Boheme (Opera Nuova). Head of Video: Transformations, Backbone, Convergence Art + Technology Summit 2014 (The Banff Centre); Calamity Town, Bloodshot (Vertigo).



Justin Born – Stage Manager

For ATP: Venus in Fur. Elsewhere: (Selected) A Thousand Splendid Suns, Skylight, The Crucible, The Philadelphia Story, The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary); The Hollow, Calamity Town, The Game’s Afoot, The Huron Bride (Vertigo); Jeremy de Bergerac, Maria Rasputin Presents (Forte Musical Theatre Guild); The Diary of Anne Frank, Tuesday’s with Morrie, Queen Millie of Galt, Mary’s Wedding (Rosebud Theatre); The Canadian Badlands Passion Play (2010 – 2014), Production Services Coordinator of Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show (2015 – 2017). Love to my Mom, Dad and Ariel.



Elizabeth Wellwood – Apprentice Stage Manager

For ATP: Junior Apprentice 2012 season. Elsewhere: Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach); Merry Wives of Windsor (Bard on the Beach). Design Credits: Set: Not So Dumb (Green Thumb Theatre); Sonic Elder (The Chop). Costume: The Refugee Hotel (Studio 58). Sound: Alone Together (Green Thumb Theatre). Elizabeth is an emerging theatre artist and a graduate of Studio 58. She would like to thank ATP for welcoming her back home.