Teenage Dick

CAST & CREW

Anna Cummer – Elizabeth York

Anna Cummer is a Calgary-based actor and playwright. She has performed across Canada at The Vancouver Playhouse, The Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Vertigo Theatre, Persephone, and the National Arts Centre. ATP credits include In Wonderland (2021) and Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story (2016). Anna also works in voice-over as well as in film & television as an actor and puppeteer. She has been nominated for Jessie Richardson Awards, Betty Mitchell Awards, Calgary Critics’ Awards, and Broadway Across Canada Awards with a few trophies making their way to her mantle. Anna feels very honoured to be part of the Teenage Dick team. Thank you to Jenna Rodgers for this opportunity.



Riki Entz – Barbara “Buck” Buckingham

Riki is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, consultant, and writer. Often working behind the scenes on audience accessibility, Riki is excited for the opportunity to be on stage, especially after years of being forced to perform in front of inaccessible stages. Recent performances include:
Oh Claire! Divergent Dances (Inside Out Theatre, Springboard Performance and Anandam’s Divergent Dances), The Point of View Ensemble Presents: A Very Special Election (Inside Out Theatre)



Todd Houseman – Eddie Ivy

Todd Houseman (aka Kaskitew Asiniy) is a Nehiyaw mixed-blood actor, improviser, and writer from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). He is a graduate of the acting program and a current teacher at the National Theatre School of Canada. Todd is also a senior improviser with Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre. He is the co-creator (with Ben Gorodetsky) of the cultural comedy web series Folk Lordz, and the co-creator of the award-winning play Whiteface (with Lady Vanessa Cardona). In 2021 Todd was awarded a position on the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation’s Top 30 Under 30 list in recognition of both his artistic and cultural facilitation work. Recently, Todd’s play The Children of the Bear was commissioned by Toronto’s Outside the March and is currently in development as a large-scale immersive play. In his free time, he enjoys building masks, making knives, or being in the forests of western treaty 6.



Emily Howard – Clarissa Duke

Emily Howard is no stranger to the Martha Cohen Theatre. Eleven years ago, she sat in the audience to watch a matinee performance of Mary’s Wedding, and left knowing that this is where she needed to be. After graduating from the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta, she continued her work and exploration with clown, neo bouffon, Shakespeare, script development, production work, and film. Most recently, she performed in The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Calgary) and understudied for The Extractionist (Vertigo Theatre). Now, with bated breath, she is making her ATP debut. Back in the place where her dream began. She is so thankful to be working alongside such an inspiring team. Extra thanks and love to her family, friends, and partner for carrying her always. Clarissa for president!



Isabella Pedersen – Anne Margaret

Isabella Pedersen is a multicultural performing artist who has worked in Canada, Europe and Asia. She is an actress, writer, model and radio host with networks such as Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Cosmopolitan Magazine and award-winning station Monster RX93.1. Past credits include: The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Twelfth Night (Olivia), Barefoot in the Park (Corie), Parts & Labour (Jin & Others), Little Women (Swing: Meg/Beth/Amy). This is her debut performance with Alberta Theatre Projects! Izzy is sincerely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of ATP’s Teenage Dick! She thanks her family, friends and wonderful co-creatives for their love and support. You can follow her journey on Instagram at @izzypedersen.



Dylan Thomas-Bouchier – Richard Gloucester

Dylan Thomas-Bouchier is a Cree and Dene dis-arts storyteller. Born and raised in Fort McMurray and the Fort McKay First Nation (Treaty 8), He graduated from The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS) acting program. He is happy to be having his Calgary Mainstage debut with ATP and all of you here with us. Previous credits include The Herd Citadel/Tarragon) Indecent (NTS); Comedy of Errors (Theatre Calgary), Everybody (NTS), Bentboy (Young People's Theatre).



Mike Lew - Playwright

Mike Lew’s plays include Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse, Wooly Mammoth, Ma-Yi at the Public, and Artists Rep productions; Public Studio, O’Neill, OSF workshops), Tiger Style! (Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, and Alliance productions; O’Neill and CTG workshops), Bike America (Ma-Yi and Alliance productions), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct, and Next Act productions), Moustache Guys, and the book to the musical Bhangin’ It (Richard Rodgers Award; La Jolla Playhouse, Jerome Robbins Project Springboard and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat “Triple R” workshops). He is a Tony voter, Dramatists Guild Council member, and resident of New Dramatists. He is a Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Ma-Yi and former La Jolla Playhouse Artist-in-Residence (both with Rehana Lew Mirza). Honors include Lark Venturous and NYFA fellowships and the Kleban, PEN Emerging Playwright, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Heideman, and Kendeda awards. He is former co-director of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest collective of Asian-American playwrights in the country. He is married to fellow playwright Rehana Lew Mirza, who he met in Ma-Yi Lab (read the story here). Training: Juilliard (2013), Yale (2003). Photo: Walter Kurtz



Jenna Rodgers – Director

Jenna (she/her) is a mixed-race Director and Dramaturg who gratefully resides here in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), on Treaty 7 Territory. She is the founding Artistic Director of Chromatic Theatre, the Dramaturg for the Playwrights Lab at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Board Co-Chair of LMDA, and the Director of Theatre Alberta’s Artstrek. She is a passionate arts equity advocate, a graduate of the NTS Artistic Leadership Residency (2020), the Banff Centre’s Cultural Leadership Program (2019), and a member of the artEquity National Facilitator Training cohort (2018). She is the most recent recipient of Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize. She holds a MA in International Performance Research from the universities of Amsterdam and Tampere. Jenna is delighted to return to ATP for Teenage Dick. Recent directing credits include Little Women at Theatre Calgary, Hookman and The Green Line for Chromatic Theatre, Sherlock Holmes at the Vanishing Thimble at Vertigo Theatre, Undressed at Alberta Theatre Projects, and Mary’s Wedding at the Citadel Theatre. She was selected as part of the 2020 Michael Langham Directors Conservatory at the Stratford Festival.



Tania Alvarado – Choreographer

Tania Alvarado is a contemporary dance artist whose career has shifted through diverse performance mediums and somatic practices. Tania has performed across Canada, interpreting the choreography of various notable Canadian dance artists. Tania’s choreography has been presented at various noteworthy festivals and contemporary dance venues across the country and she has performed her solo work throughout Europe with Bancs d’Essai Internationaux – through Tangente (Montreal). Tania’s most recent theatre credits include performing in two productions at Vertigo Theatre, Cipher, and Murder in the Studio, which she also choreographed. This past season, Tania choreographed for the Calgary Opera's production of La Traviata, for the Caravan Farm’s latest horse opera, Blackhorse and for ATP's premiere of Cowgirl Up.



Brianna Johnston – Fight Director

Brianna is thrilled to be back at ATP! An actor and Fight Director, she has had the pleasure of working all across Alberta. Favourite fight credits include Richard III, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (The Shakespeare Company), The Ministry of Grace (Making Treaty 7), The Extractionist (Vertigo Theatre), All I Want for Christmas (Lunchbox Theatre, Betty Mitchell nomination), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Alberta Theatre Projects), GIANT (Ghost River Theatre, Betty Mitchell nomination), A Dinner Party (Bad Knaps Collective), Peter Pan (CYPT), and Zorro: Family Code (Assistant Fight Director, ATP). Favourite acting credits include THEATRE: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Alberta Theatre Projects), The Tempest, The Three Musketeers (The Shakespeare Company), The Crucible (Theatre Calgary), The Money Shot (Ground Zero Theatre, Betty Mitchell nomination), The Bone House (Apparition Theatre); FILM: Heartland, Black Summer, Wynonna Earp, Skinner. Watch for her upcoming Fight Direction for a second year in The Canadian Badlands Passion Play. Thanks and love to Logan and all her family and friends for all their immense support.



Kristen Padayas – Assistant Director

Kristen (She/Her) is a South Asian/Portuguese actor/producer currently residing on Treaty 7 territory also known as Calgary, Alberta. She is a graduate of Grant MacEwan College’s Theatre Arts Program and the University of Alberta’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting Program. Most recent acting credits include: The Scarlet Letter (Theatre Calgary), The Wedding Party, The Jungle Book (Alberta Theatre Projects), Sherlock Holmes & the Raven’s Curse, Murder in the Studio (Vertigo Theatre), The Strid (Downstage Theatre), A Fit, Happy Life, A Grand Time in the Rapids (Teatro la Quindicina), Barvinok (Pyretic Productions). Her first foray into Assistant Directing was for Teatro la Quindicina’s production of ‘Fever Land’ (2021). She is an Associate Producer with Chromatic Theatre and a Co-Artistic Producer with Impossible Mongoose. This year she is a part of Chromatic Theatre’s Playwrights’ Unit as a producer and is also writing her first play as part of the Unit! She is also writing a new play for Concrete Theatre’s ‘Sprouts’ festival. Kristen thanks her husband Dan for all his love and support.



Hanne Loosen – Set Design

Hanne is a set and costume designer living and working in Calgary. She is originally from Belgium and before her move to the beautiful prairies, Hanne lived in Berlin and was mainly working in opera. FOR ATP Set and Costume Design: In Wonderland and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Set Design: Bombay Black, Stealing Sam, Costume Design for: Zorro: Family Code, Constellations, To The Lights, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (co- production with The Shakespeare Company). She has worked in Canada with Theatre Calgary, Calgary Opera, Vertigo Theatre, The Shakespeare Company, Rosebud Theatre, The Shaw Festival and others. During the pandemic she created a design-led Experiment Lab with her installation piece For Design’s Sake. Her design work can be viewed online at www.hanneloosen.com



Ralamy Kneeshaw – Costume Design

Ralamy is delighted to debut at ATP, rethinking Shakespeare with all of these wildly creative souls. What a fantastic team! Recent design credits: The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Calgary), Fresh Hell (Fire Exit), Elvis Has Left the Building & Screwball Comedy (Stagewest), The Importance of Being Earnest, Much Ado About Nothing (CYPT), Hair, Sweet Charity (Brown Cow Collective), Annie, The Neverending Story (Storybook Theatre) and Waiting for Godot (Black Radish Theatre). Ralamy has a BFA in Drama, a Master’s degree in Anthropology and runs The Costume Collective. She is deeply grateful for the talent, skill and friendship of ATP Head of Wardrobe, Caroline Broadley. Thanks always to Hugh, Avalon, Aidan, Maya & Juno for their love and support.



Ajay Badoni – Lighting Design

Ajay Badoni is excited to have back to back shows at ATP. After working on the wonderful show Bombay Black he is back for Teenage Dick. Ajay is mostly Calgary based Lighting Designer. Ajay has had the opportunity to work with many different companies as Lighting Designer, his past credits are, Bombay Black, ATP, The Herd, at Persephone Theatre, Heaven and Shark Bite with Lunchbox Theatre, Sherlock Homes and the Vanishing Thimble, Vertigo Theatre, A More Sparkling Version of Ourselves, with VERB theatre, Real Bio (or The Tragedie of Pinocchio in Five Comedic Acts), A Little Princess, Much Ado About Nothing with CYPT, and Screwball Comedy, with Stage West Calgary. Up next for Ajay is the 2023 Cannonball festival at CYPT. A youth run festival at West village Theatre. Ajay would like to thank his Family and Friends for everything. Enjoy the show.



Peter Moller – Sound Design

Peter has run Egg Press Co., a Calgary-based graphic and sound design establishment, since 1976. He is the recipient of a number of Betty Mitchell and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards and nominations for his theatre sound designs. Recent designs: The Gold Rush REDUX (OYR High Performance Rodeo); In Wonderland, Disgraced, The New Canadian Curling Club (ATP); The Merchant of Venice (The Shakespeare Co/Hit & Myth), Waiting For Godot (Black Radish); Modern Times REDUX (The GRAND); 1958, a sound design presented at Calgary’s Arts Commons. To see and hear Peter’s work, please visit eggpress.ca



Donna Sharpe - Stage Manager



Ashley Rees – Assistant Stage Manager

Ashley is so pleased to be back with ATP and working on this wonderful production! Past credits for ATP include: IN WONDERLAND, ALBERTA KITCHEN PARTY (Stage Manager). Other credits: THE EXTRACTIONIST, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (ASM, Vertigo Theatre); THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (Stage Manager, Sage Theatre); NOISES OFF, A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ASM, Theatre Calgary); MAMMA MIA!, A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, JERSEY BOYS, LEGALLY BLONDE (Stage West Calgary)



Eden Middleton – Apprentice Stage Manager