WAITING FOR THE PARADE

CAST & CREW

Janelle Cooper – Janet

For ATP: Charlotte's Web, The Penelopiad, Toad of Toad Hall. Elsewhere: Twelfth Night, I Am For You, The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (National Arts Centre); John Ware Reimagined, The Real McCoy, Ruined (Ellipsis Tree Collective - www.ellipsistree.ca). Film/TV: The Right Kind of Wrong, High Noon, Snow 2: Brain Freeze. Awards: Calgary Critics nomination (John Ware Reimagined), CAT award (Chicago: The Musical). An abundance of face kisses to the little one I do all of this for. And a big thank you to ATP for having me again on yet another exciting adventure! ENJOY!



Allison Lynch – Marta, Vocal Director

For ATP: Ash Rizin', The Penelopiad, The Red Priest. Select Elsewhere: Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Company); Dear Johnny Deere, One Man Two Guvnors, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Double Indemnity, In the Heat of the Night, Sweeney Todd (Vertigo); Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical (Rainbow Stage); Closer (GZT/H&M); A Worthy Opponent (Lunchbox); Goodnight Desdemona (Good-morning Juliet) (Handsome Alice); The Piper (Downstage); Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Essay & The Russian Play (Urban Curvz); Twisted, Maria Rasputin Presents, But…This IS my Day Job! (Forte); The Soul Collector (Catalyst); Archaeology (Theatre Junction) Awards: Betty Mitchell Awards: Supporting Actress (Ash Rizin'), and Actress in a Musical (Twisted). Betty nominations: Actress in a Drama (Romeo and Juliet) and (Closer), Sound Design/Composition (The Russian Play), Musical Direction/ Composition (The Penelopiad). Jessie nomination: Composition (The Penelopiad, Arts Club). Allison will be releasing her first jazz album this fall. Much love to Braden (the husband) and Deb (the cat), Pottsy, Grandpa Grant, the Lynch-Griffiths families and this fabulous team of artists. Special thanks to grandparents Vogt and Lynch, for bravely starting anew in Canada. And especially Grandma Mutti, for always, always singing. Ich habe dich lieb.



Sabryn Rock – Catherine

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Caught (Theatre Passe Muraille); Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (YPT), Obeah Opera (Nightwood/PanAm);The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, The Three Musketeers (Stratford Festival); Once on This Island, Caroline, or Change (Acting Upstage/Obsidian Theatre); Ruined (Obsidian Theatre/Nightwood). Upcoming: Passing Strange (Acting Upstage/Obsidian Theatre); The Last Wife (Globe Theatre). Film/TV: The Girlfriend Experience, Eyewitness, Against the Wall, Degrassi, The Story of Luke. Awards: Nominated for several Dora awards (Caroline Or Change, Once on This Island, Jacob Two Two). Training: Sabryn is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, The Stratford Birmingham Conservatory and most recently the Actors' Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre. Much love to my fiancé Paul and my wonderful family for their steadfast support!



Elizabeth Stepkowski Tarhan – Margaret

For ATP: Sweeney Todd, Jitters, Candide, The Hobbit. Elsewhere: Pride and Prejudice, Mom's the Word, A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast, A Streetcar Named Desire, Song and Dance, Anne of Green Gables, Hamlet, Evita (Theatre Calgary); Gaslight, Sweeney Todd (Vertigo); Suite Surrender, Chicago, Glorious! (Stage West); Fascinating Ladies, Blues In The Night, Best of The West End, Kreskinned (Lunchbox Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale (The Shakespeare Company); Avenue Q, August: Osage County, Oliver!, The Sound of Music, Cabaret, A Christmas Carol, The Beggar's Opera, Oh What a Lovely War, The Music Man, Man Of La Mancha (Citadel Theatre); History of Wild Theatre, Thunderstruck, Doing Leonard Cohen, Mata Hari-Tigress at the City Gates, Permission, Death in New Orleans, Somalia Yellow, In Kleskavania, Hunger's Brides, Alien Bait (One Yellow Rabbit); Honk! (Globe Theatre), Filumena (The Banff Centre Opera). Awards: Betty Mitchell Award Best Actress (Stone and Ashes). Betty Mitchell Award Best Performance in a Musical (Marg Szkaluba (Pissy's Wife)). Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award Best Supporting Actress (Cabaret). My thanks to this wonderful company of performers, technicians, stage managers, our director and everyone at ATP. John Murrell, thank you for this beautiful play.



Selina Wong – Eve

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Naughty but Nice, Touch Me, Jeremy de Bergerac (Forte Musical Guild), Avenue Q (The Arts Club), Avenue Q (Stage West), The Buddy Holly Story (Globe Theatre), Miss Saigon (University of Calgary Operetta Company), featured soloist in From Hong Kong to Broadway with CPO. Awards: Betty Mitchell Nominee for Outstanding Ensemble (Naughty but Nice), Betty Mitchell Nominee for Actress in a Comedy / Musical (Avenue Q), Calgary Critic Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Touch Me), Calgary Critic Nominee for Supporting Actress in a Musical (Avenue Q). Selina has been a private voice teacher in Calgary for over a decade and holds her ARCT in Vocal Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Selina would like to thank ATP and Kate for this amazing opportunity! She sends love and gratitude to Nicolas, her parents, family and friends for their continued support.



John Murrell – Playwright

For ATP: A Great Noise, A Great Light (world premiere), Waiting For The Parade (world premiere), Memoir, New World (also director), Democracy, Frankenstein (director), Thinking Of Yu (translator). Elsewhere (selected): Waiting For The Parade (Vancouver Playhouse; Western Canada Theatre Company, Kamloops; Theatre Calgary; Citadel Theatre, Edmonton; Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon; Grand Theatre, London; Tarragon Theatre, Toronto; The National Arts Centre Of Canada, Ottawa; Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto; The Shaw Festival; Centaur Theatre, Montreal; Neptune Theatre, Halifax; Hudson Guild Theatre, New York; Lyric Hammersmith, London, England; Maple Leaf Theatre, Tokyo; many community, university, and high school theatres throughout North America).
Memoir (Guelph Spring Festival; Neptune Theatre, Halifax; Place des Arts, Montreal; The National Arts Centre of Canada, Ottawa; Toronto Free Theatre; The Stratford Festival; Theatre Calgary; The Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver; Olympia Theatre, Dublin; Ambassadors Theatre, London West End; Théâtre de L’Œuvre, Paris (televised); Théâtre Edouard VII, Paris (televised); The Moscow Arts Theatre; many other theatres and frequently televised throughout Europe; Shochiku Theatre, Tokyo, Japanese tour, and TV production). Farther West (Theatre Calgary; Tarragon Theatre, Toronto; Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver; Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto; Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska). Democracy (Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska; Citadel Theatre, Edmonton; Grand Theatre, London; Tarragon Theatre, Toronto; Belfry Theatre, Victoria; Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa; The Bush Theatre, London, England). The Faraway Nearby (Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska; Belfry Theatre, Victoria; Tarragon Theatre, Toronto; Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal). Death In New Orleans (One Yellow Rabbit Theatre, in Calgary and at The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival).Taking Shakespeare (One Yellow Rabbit Theatre, Calgary; The Stratford Festival; numerous other productions in North America). Also translations of classical and contemporary plays, performed throughout the English-speaking world. Story and words for four operas: Filumena (Calgary Opera, The Banff Centre, The National Arts Centre of Canada, Edmonton Opera, CBC-TV, PBS-TV); Frobisher (Calgary Opera, The Banff Centre); Lillian Alling (Vancouver Opera, The Banff Centre); The Inventor (Calgary Opera, Vancouver Symphony). 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; Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in Theatre; 3 Chalmers Best New Canadian Play Awards (Waiting For The Parade, Farther West, The Faraway Nearby); Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award for One Yellow Rabbit production of Death In New Orleans; Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play (Filumena); Honorary Doctorate from the University of Calgary.
John would like to thank friends, family, colleagues, and audiences in Canada and around the world for five remarkable decades of life in the theatre. He would especially like to thank Alberta Theatre Projects for initiating him into professional theatre, and for this beautiful 40th Anniversary Production of Waiting For The Parade.



Kate Newby – Director

For ATP: As a Director: The Apology, True Love Lies, How Do I Love Thee?, The Goat or Who is Sylvia? As an Actor: You Will Remember Me; Games; August, an Afternoon in the Country; Angels in America Parts I and II; The Duchess; Otherwise Bob, Miracle Mother; Odd Fish; 7 Stories; Our Countries Good; Speed the Plow; Love and Human Remains; Off on a Comet; Nothing Scared; Jitters. Elsewhere: Selected Directing: Hamlet (Shakespeare by the Bow Theatre Calgary); Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Handsome Alice Theatre, the Shakespeare Company and Hit and Myth Productions); She Stoops to Conquer (assistant director, The Stratford Festival); Twelfth Night (The Shakespeare Company); The Mousetrap, In the Heat of the Night, Twelve Angry Men (Vertigo Theatre); Lion in the Streets, Bent (Sage Theatre). Over 150 acting and film credits. Awards: Kate has received five awards and eighteen nominations for actor, director, and production. Kate is the Artistic Producer of Handsome Alice Theatre, a Calgary theatre company whose mission is to unleash the female voice. www.handsomealice.com



Chantelle Han – Assistant Director

For ATP: Debut. Elsewhere: Medea (Chromatic Theatre); Kim's Convenience (Soulpepper Tour); The Bully Project, Offensive Fouls (Concrete Theatre); Kung Fu Panties Redux (Loose Moose/Rebecca Northan); Everything is Awful (IGNITE! Festival). Film/TV: Hell on Wheels, The Dorm, Hug-O-Gram, Horse Mask, The Tower, Cody Fitz. Awards: Calgary Theatre Critic's Nomination for Best Actress (Medea). Chantelle is also an emerging director and has assistant directed: Polonius and His Children (IGNITE! Festival), and Benefit (Downstage Theatre).



Gillian Gallow – Set/Costume Design

For ATP: Dust, The Red Priest. Elsewhere: The Physicists, The Three Musketeers (Costumes, Stratford), Hirsch (Set/Costumes, Stratford); King Lear (Set/Costumes, NAC); Mary Poppins (Costumes; Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Seminar (set/costume, MTC/Mirvish); Night, The Road to Paradise (Set/Costumes, Human Cargo); God of Carnage (Set/Costume, MTC/Vancouver Playhouse); Appetite (Set/Costume, Volcano/TPM); The Mill (Set, Theatrefront). Upcoming: Louis Riel (Costumes, COC), The Million Dollar Quartet, Hand to God (Set/Costumes, MTC) and The Octoroon (Shaw Festival). Awards: Gillian is the recipient of 3 Dora Mavor Moore awards.



Harry Frehner – Lighting Design



Anton de Groot – Composition/Sound Design

For ATP: Charlotte’s Web, Becky’s New Car, The Circle, Cockroach. Elsewhere: The Shoplifters, Mary Poppins (Theatre Calgary); Macbeth, Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet (Shakespeare Company); Travels With My Aunt, The Stones (Vertigo); Of Fighting Age (Verb); Book Club, Aviatrix, Peril in Paris (Lunchbox); Sequence, Bashir Lazhar, Good Fences, In The Wake (Downstage). Awards: Betty Mitchell Award and Calgary Critics Award (Travels With My Aunt – Outstanding Set Design). Up Next: The Tall Buildings (Handsome Alice); It’s A Wonderful Life (Lunchbox); The Hollow (Vertigo); Skylight (Theatre Calgary); Drinking Habits (Stage West); 1979 (ATP).



Johanne Deleeuw – Stage Manager

For ATP: Cockroach, The Circle, Becky’s New Car, Mump & Smoot in “ANYTHING” with Knooma, Charlotte’s Web, Butcher, You Will Remember Me, Games, Around the World in 80 Days, Dust, The Valley, Intimate Apparel, Drama: Pilot Episode, Thinking of Yu. Elsewhere: Christmas at the Opera 2015, The Mikado, Candide, The Pirates of Penzance (Calgary Opera); It Could Be Any One of Us, Rope, Blythe Spirit, The 39 Steps (Vertigo Theatre); various other productions for Lunchbox Theatre, Stage West, Ground Zero, Sage Theatre. Other: In addition to her work as a Stage Manager, Johanne is also a director, a dramaturge and an arts administrator. She lives in Calgary with her husband, Blues Musician Tim Williams.



Megan Gurnsey – Assistant Stage Manager

For ATP: The Circle, Charlotte’s Web, Around The World In 80 Days. Elsewhere: Dial “M” For Murder, Travels With My Aunt, The Huron Bride, Sweeney Todd, The 39 Steps (Vertigo Theatre); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Speed Dating For Sperm Donors, Fascinating Ladies, Peril In Paris, Wanda’s Visit (Lunchbox Theatre). A graduate from Mount Royal University’s Technical Theatre Program, Megan is very excited to be working with such a talented group of artists.