A Christmas Carol

For Theatre Calgary: Assistant Director/Choreographer: Rough Crossing. Actor: A Christmas Carol (1990, 1993, 1995), Anne of Green Gables (1994), Evita (1993), Pal Joey.

Mark is extremely happy to be directing at Theatre Calgary, and to be opening the season with such an incredible team working on this hilarious play! Recent directing credits include: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Stage West), The Real Inspector Hound (Bright Young Things), Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem (Vertigo Theatre) and Undercover (Spontaneous Theatre/Tarragon Theatre/Vertigo Theatre). Mark is also formerly the Artistic Producer of Lunchbox Theatre (2014-2017) and the Artistic Director of Vertigo Theatre (2004 – 2012). He has been honoured with numerous awards for his work as a director, choreographer, and artistic administrator, including the 2006 Greg Bond Memorial Award, the 2012 Harry and Martha Cohen Award and in 2013 was presented the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contribution to the arts in Alberta. Next up, Mark will return to Theatre Calgary onstage in their new production of A Christmas Carol. Much gratitude to Stafford Arima for this wonderful experience.

For Theatre Calgary: A Christmas Carol (2018), Twelfth Night, The Shoplifters, Pride & Prejudice.

Elsewhere: The 39 Steps, Wait Until Dark, The Mousetrap, The Game’s Afoot, Vintage Hitchcock, and Gaslight (Vertigo); Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story (ATP); Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company); Book Club and Book Club 2 (Lunchbox); Sextet, Lungs, and The Wolves (Verb Theatre); Tomorrow’s Child (Ghost River); In The Wake (Downstage/Calgary Children’s Festival). Anna has been nominated for numerous theatrical awards and has been lucky enough to take a few home. Thank you to Craig, Olive, and Aubrey for all their love and support.

For Theatre Calgary: The Crucible, W.O. Mitchell’s Jake and the Kid, The Miracle Worker.

Karen is a Calgary-based actor, director, improviser and educator. She’s also the founder and Artistic Producer of Dirty Laundry, the COMPLETELY IMPROVISED Comedy Soap Opera, now in its 20th season, Monday nights at Lunchbox Theatre. Karen’s mom doesn’t like biographies that are just ‘lists’, so she pauses here to say that her mom used to play the bagpipes. Karen is the Administrative Director of Artstrek, Theatre Alberta’s summer drama camp for teens. (Ask her about it!)  Karen loves Kevin, Griffin and Neil Diamond.

For Theatre Calgary: A Christmas Carol (2011-18), Twelfth Night, The Audience, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Overcoat.

Recent Projects Include: Premieres of Ryan Griffith’s The Boat, Fortune of Wolves (Theatre New Brunswick); Premieres of Aaron Bushkowsky’s adaptations of Farewell, My Lovely, The Big Sleep, and Lucia Frangione’s The Thin Man (Vertigo); and the premiere of The Old Trout’s Ghost Opera (Calgary Opera/The Old Trout Puppet Workshop). Graham is a New Brunswick native who makes his home in Calgary with his wonderful wife Jamie, fiesty Pomeranian Pepper, and 3 week old son Thatcher.

For Theatre Calgary: A Christmas Carol (2017-18). Elsewhere: Miscast, Mary Poppins (StoryBook). Julianne is a grade eight student at Nickle School. She studies voice at Serpas Vocal Arts. In 2018, Julianne represented Calgary at the Alberta Music Festival and was awarded the provincial championship in classical voice. She dances at The Dance Factory where she trains in all disciplines. Julianne is thrilled to be back on stage at Theatre Calgary. Thanks to her family and friends for always cheering her on.

For Theatre Calgary: Mary and Max - A New Musical, The Secret Garden. Elsewhere: Allegiance (Broadway); Ragtime (West End); Carrie (Off-Broadway); Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris (Stratford Festival); Red Velvet (The Old Globe, CA); The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Roundabout Theatre Company, NYC); Altar Boyz (Off-Broadway); bare (Off-Broadway); Candide (San Francisco Symphony); Bowfire (PBS television special); A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (Boston Pops); Saturday Night (Off-Broadway); Two Class Acts (The Flea Theatre, Off-Broadway); Poster Boy (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Guys and Dolls (Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ); Children’s Letters to God (Off-Broadway); The New World (Bucks County Playhouse, PA); Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater, PA); The Princess and the Black- Eyed Pea (San Diego Rep); Total Eclipse (Toronto); Spring Awakening – The Musical (UC Davis); and Marry Me A Little (Cincinnati Playhouse). Stafford served as associate director for the Broadway productions of A Class Act and Seussical. He is the Artistic Advisor for Broadway Dreams and an adjunct professor at UC Davis. He studied at York University in Toronto. staffordarima.com

For Theatre Calgary (selected): Mom’s The Word: For Crying Out Loud, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Raisin in the Sun, Sherlock Holmes, Crimes of the Heart, Romeo and Juliet, Gaslight. Elsewhere: The New Canadian Curling Club, The Virgin Trial, The Last Wife, 1979 (ATP); Dracula: The Bloody Truth, The Thin Man, The Lonely Diner, Nine Dragons, The Drowning Girls (Vertigo); Eugene Onegin, South Pacific, Die Tote Stadt (Calgary Opera); Our Canada, Class Acts (Alberta Ballet); Better Get Hit in Your Soul, Modern Vaudevillians, Juliet and Romeo (DJD). Scott has also designed for such companies as Quest Theatre, Lunchbox, and The Shakespeare Company.

For Theatre Calgary: Shakespeare by the Bow (2012-2018), Blow Wind High Water, The Crucible, One Man, Two Guvnors, King Lear.

Deitra resides in Calgary and has been designing theatre, dance, film, and TV across the prairies for well over a decade. She is an awarded designer who was educated both at Grant MacEwan University and ACAD, where she holds a B.F.A. Her career in design has allowed her to work with some of the best companies in the country with notable selected credits including: Dracula: the Bloody Truth!, Calamity Town, Sherlock Holmes, Sweeney Todd, The 39 Steps (Vertigo); Intimate Apparel, Legend Has It, playRites 2013 (ATP); Evil Dead: The Musical: ’09, ’10, ‘12 (GZT/H&M); Farewell My Lovely, The Penelopiad (Arts Club). Congrats to the cast and crew and biggest love to a.b. for all his love and support!

For Theatre Calgary: Stage Manager – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, Hamlet (Shakespeare by the Bow), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Park). Assistant Stage Manager – The Humans, Skylight, The Light in the Piazza, Bad Jews. Apprentice Stage Manager – Dear Johnny Deere, One Man, Two Guvnors, BOOM (High Performance Rodeo). Chaperone – A Christmas Carol (2012 -16, 2018), Mary Poppins. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager – 39 Steps, Our Man in Havana, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight; Apprentice Stage Manager – The Haunting, In the Heat of the Night (Vertigo); The Surrogate (Lunchbox); Stage Manager – Smoke (Downstage), The Good Bride (Handsome Alice).