WILDWOMAN

CAST & CREW

Elizabeth Barrett - Kitty

Elizabeth Barrett is a Vancouver based Actor. Theatre credits include: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (Arts Club Theatre); Heroes of The Fourth Turning (Mitch and Murray Productions); Fairview (The Search Party Theatre); Teenage D*ck (Arts Club Theatre); The Code (Green Thumb Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Tennessee Performing Arts Centre); Unexpecting (Zee Zee Theatre); Reframed (Electric Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol (Western Canada Theatre); Law of the Land (Caravan Farm Theatre) and East Van Panto’s Little Red Riding Hood (Theatre Replacement). Elizabeth is a graduate of Studio 58. She would like to thank her family, friends and husband Anton.



N Girgis - Didi

PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS AT ATP: Charlotte’s Web, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, Drowning Girls (Cross Canada Tour); In Wonderland, Around the World in 80 Days, The Blue Light. SELECTED THEATRE: Life of Pi (Citadel/RMTC); One Christmas Carol (Storybook); Dark Lady, Complete History Abridged, Blues in the Night (LBT); Mousetrap, Humble Boy, Counsellor-At-Law (TC); Dracula: Bloody Truth, Sherlock Holmes, Ends of the Earth, Mystery of Edwin Drood (Vertigo); Nine Dragons (Gateway); Becoming Dr. Ruth, Hound of the Baskervilles (TNW); The Gig (Aquarius); Coyotes, Abundance, Beggar’s Opera (Caravan); Thousand Splendid Suns (Grand); Titus Andronicus, Richard III (Shakespeare Co.); What You’re Missing (Chutzpah Festival); Communion, Palace of the End, Life Skills (Network); Heroine, Love (Northern Light); Speaking in Tongues (Shadow); Trespassers (Belfry, Vancouver Playhouse); Lion in the Streets (Sage); Deathtrap, Suite Surrender, Unnecessary Farce, Fiddler on the Roof, 39 Steps (Stage West); Amadeus, Macbeth, Constant Wife (ATF); Speak (Globe). Next up, Come from Away at Theatre Calgary, next door.



Nathan Kay - Henry, Fight Captain

Select Credits: Bunny, Stupid F*cking Bird, Dance Nation (Search Party). Death of a Salesman (Citadel Theatre). The Dark Lady, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare abridged, Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Bard on the Beach). Red Velvet (Arts Club). Strangers on a Train (Vertigo). King Arthur’s Night (Neworld Theatre). Special thanks to Tess, Dad, Mom, Rachael, and Midge!



Connor Suart - Pete

Recent theatre: Young Scrooge in Theatre Calgary’s Christmas Carol; and Jesus Christ in the 30th Anniversary production of the Badlands Passion Play in Drumheller, AB. Film/TV: Nate Champion in Kevin Costner’s The West (History Channel); Brody in Murder Runs in the Family (Lifetime). Much love to his family and friends for their constant support; to his two real fur babies, Georgia and Theodore, and most of all his partner Robyn. You all help make a hairy situation much more bearable.



Synthia Yusuf - Cathy

Synthia Yusuf is a Vancouver-based Actor and Singer, who has worked on several stages across Canada. Most recently she portrayed Anna in Disney’s Frozen with the Arts Club Theatre Company, where she has also been seen as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, and Maria in the Sound of Music (2019). Other select credits: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, original Canadian cast (Mirvish), the Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, the Dark Lady, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Bard on the Beach 2024 & 2025 company), Waitress (Theatre Aquarius/ The Grand), Disney’s Frozen (Neptune Theatre), Disney’s the Little Mermaid (Persephone Theatre).



Kat Sandler - Playwright

Kat is an award-winning playwright, director, and screenwriter, and served as the Artistic Director of Theatre Brouhaha in Toronto. Her plays have been produced across Canada and internationally. Recent writing/directing credits include Anne of Green Gables at the Stratford Festival and WILDWOMAN at Soulpepper. She created the concurrent double bill of political farces; The Party & The Candidate for the Citadel Theatre in 2019. She has written for Kim’s Convenience, and is currently in production on Yaga, a new TV production for CRAVE based on her hit play.



Jamie King - Director

Jamie King is an awarded director born and raised on the sunshine and rain of Coast Salish lands. Recent highlights: Middletown, The Wolves and LOVE/SICK at Pacific Theatre; 500 Words and What if? for Green Thumb Theatre; Sunrise Betties for Itsazoo Productions; Pretty Girls, Blue Stockings and Can We Fix It? for Studio 58; As You Like It for Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan; The Legend of Georgia McBride for Arts Club Theatre Company; Audio Land Walks for Caravan Farm Theatre. Jamie is the current Producer for Theatre Replacement. For more information about their work visit www.jamiekinghere.com



Narda McCarroll - Set Design

Narda is a set, costume and lighting designer based here in Calgary. Favourite ATP credits: The Wizard of Oz, Glory, To the Light, Cockroach, The Circle, Red, Mary’s Wedding. Selected credits elsewhere: The Woman in Black, (Vertigo Theatre); Cipher (Arts Club/Vertigo); A Doll’s House (Arts Club/Theatre Calgary); Peter and the Starcatcher, The Penelopiad, Vimy (Citadel Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Grease (Western Canada Theatre); Cinderella (Rainbow Stage); Brontë: The World Without (Stratford Festival). Narda’s work has been seen across the country with tours of Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); Glory (Western Canada Theatre/ATP) & The Drowning Girls (Bent out of Shape). She designed the costumes for The Freewill Shakespeare Festival in Edmonton for 16 seasons. She also designed the costumes for the feature film Cut Bank. Visit narda.ca to see images of her work.



Alaia Hamer - Costume Design

Alaia is a Vancouver theatre designer originally from the Gulf Islands. Recent projects she has worked on include costume design for The Dark Lady, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach), Disney’s Frozen, Miracle on 34th Street, Million Dollar Quartet, Sexy Laundry, The Cull, Beneath Springhill, The Birds and the Bees (Arts Club) The East Van Panto: Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid (Theatre Replacement), HMS Pinafore, Carmen Up Close and Personal (Vancouver Opera), Set Design for The Hobbit, Case for Existence of God, God Said This (Pacific Theatre), Ce Que Je Sais de Vrai (Seizieme). She has worked on a variety of smaller shows through Vancouver and has a passion for costuming dance. Alaia is a graduate of the UBC Theatre Design program in 2017 and holds an English literature degree from 2012.



Gerald King - Lighting Design

Previously for ATP – Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike. Previously for Gateway Theatre: King of the Yees, The Music Man, and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Lighting Designer for Rigoletto (2025), The Flying Dutchman (2023) (Vancouver Opera); Guys and Dolls (Arts Club); Matilda the Musical (The Citadel/The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard on the Beach); Carried Away On The Crest of a Wave (National Arts Centre, Ottawa); and As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Co.)



Nancy Tam - Sound Design

Nancy Tam is a sound artist, theatre maker, and writer. The award-winning composer experiments with form and dramaturgy to create immersive sonic designs and environmental performances for on-stage and on-screen media. Her current research triangulates between sound, space, and body to examine the uncanny valley of haptics. Nancy is a founding member of the performance collective A Wake of Vultures, the theatre collective Five Blessings, and the visual art collective Fathom Sounds. Her work and collaborations have toured around the world.



Victoria Snashall – Stage Manager, Intimacy Captain

Victoria is a Vancouver based Stage Manager who is so excited to have her Alberta debut. Other credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar (Drayton Entertainment), 3 Musketeers, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, Guys & Dolls, The Birds & the Bees [tour], Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Redbone Coonhound, Kim’s Convenience, Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story, Buffoon (Arts Club); Pride and Prejudice, Jesus Christ Superstar [co-production with Thousand Islands Playhouse], Hurry Hard, The Wizard of Oz, (Western Canada Theatre), East Van Panto: West Van Story (Theatre Replacement), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Messiah, The Wolves, A Christmas Carol (Pacific Theatre). Thank you to the team at ATP for having her.



Donna Sharpe - Assistant Stage Manager

Donna is a multi-discipline stage manager working in opera, dance, musical theatre, classical, and new performance creation. Favorite selected credits include Teenage Dick, The Seafarer (Alberta Theatre Projects), La Traviata (Opera Kelowna), Moby Dick, Die Tote Stadt, Dead Man Walking, and Silent Night (Calgary Opera), Cinderella (Rainbow Stage), Ghost Opera (The Old Trout Puppet Workshop), and Every Brilliant Thing (Verb Theatre). Donna is also a Stage Management Instructor at University of Calgary. At Banff Centre, Donna continues her work with international artists and will return as Dance Faculty Stage Manager in June 2026, before heading off to explore Australia for the summer.



Lisa Goebel – Intimacy Director

Lisa Goebel is an interdisciplinary artist working as an intimacy director, choreographer, and actor. Recent credits include intimacy director for Così fan tutte (Vancouver Opera), Little Women (Arts Club), The Effect (Rumble/Itsazoo), Waitress (Arts Club), and choreographer/intimacy director for The Dark Lady (Bard on the Beach), and Bright Star (GTP/Mirvish). Last seen on stage with Little Onion Puppet Co’s Otosan (Jessie Award, Outstanding Ensemble) and Stick’s and Stone’s Middletown. Lisa is a certified intimacy director through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and a graduate of Studio 58.



Olivier Lunardi – Fight Director

Olivier Lunardi is a fight director, actor, and stunt performer working across Canada, bringing a grounded, story-first approach to stage combat. Wildwoman marks his second collaboration with director Jamie King. His latest work includes fight directing Robert Lepage’s Macbeth, his fourth outing with Lepage. Whether on stage or behind the scenes, Olivier is drawn to the raw, human moments inside the violence—crafting action that feels lived-in, immediate, and inseparable from the story being told.