Orphan Song Written by Sean Dixon - March 27 - April 24 - Tarragon Theatre
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Orphan Song March 27 – April 24
2022
Written by Sean Dixon
written by
Orphan Song Sean Dixon
cast creative
Heather Marie Annis Richard Rose
Neanderthals/Carrion Bird Body/Good People/ Director
Young Neanderthal Woman/Mammoth/Blackbirds/Hyena
Graeme S. Thomson
Beau Dixon Set Design
Gorse
Charlotte Dean
Philippa Domville Costume Design
Swing - Chorus
Juliet Palmer
Sophie Goulet Music Direction and
Mo Sound Design
Phoebe Hu Sandy Plunkett
Neanderthals/Dog/Rabbit/Mammoth/Blackbirds/ Stage Manager
Hyena 3/Carrion Bird Body 2/Music & Puppet Captain
Alysse Szatkowski
Germaine Konji Apprentice Stage
Neanderthals/Good People Woman/Hedgehog 2/ Manager
Mammoth/Blackbirds
Sara Ahmadieh
Ahmed Moneka Head Scenic Painter
Neanderthals/Carrion Bird Wing/Good People Man 2/
Toad/Mammoth/Blackbirds/Hyena 2/Another Hedgehog Sebastian Cox
Scenic Paint Assistant
Kaitlin Morrow
Child/Chicky - Pupper Master
Kaitlyn Riordan
Neanderthals/Good People/Hedgehog 1/
Mammoth/Blackbirds/Moon
Terry Tweed
Gran
Daniel Williston
Neanderthals/Carrion Bird Wing/Good People Man 1/
Bear/Mammoth/Blackbirds
Orphan Song was commissioned and developed by Tarragon Theatre.
Pre-show: field recordings from the Iberian Peninsula, the Neanderthals’ last known home.
Creative Commons licensed samples taken from Freesound.org created by dobroide.
Recorded and live sounds voiced by the cast and composer.
a message from the artistic director and managing director
Welcome back! We have been so grateful for the encouragement we have received
from you, our incredible patrons and community as we re-open our doors to live
gathering and the experience of sharing new Canadian stories. Thank you!
It’s no secret that we have endured so much during this long intermission, and while
we are beginning to see light through the tunnel, we also acknowledge the incredible
sacrifices this time has brought. Our disconnection from family and the inability to
easily play and imagine with each other has certainly been a weight on us all. With
that in mind, and after a long-awaited offering of this new work by Sean Dixon, we are
pleased to invite you to experience the scope of re-connection and courage in
Orphan Song.
At its heart, this is a journey of building relationships and belonging in the face of a
complex environment. Sean’s investigation of what it means to find home and the
people who make it, is one we can all identify with, and with the support of music and
puppetry, and Richard Rose’s vision, we are afforded the chance to escape while
finding our own truths through the characters’ paths. This story challenges our
patience, tolerance, and acceptance while championing the unequivocal value of
family and community. That very patience is also what makes this piece as timely to
present as ever.
Thank you for re-discovering your home at Tarragon, and from our family to yours, we
are thrilled to have you continue this season with us; one that challenges us to look
ahead and to imagine so many possibilities. Thank you for being the foundation in
which we can walk this journey forward.
Enjoy the show and bon spectacle!
Mike & Andrea
Please Note:
Your Safety is our Priority.
All visitors are required to wear a mask that fully covers the nose, mouth and chin at
all times during their visit to the theatre.
Tarragon Theatre is an active member of the Professional Association of Canadian
Theatres (PACT), the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), and engages
professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under
the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement.playwright’s note
In the past, I always felt that my best work struggled with a vision of parenthood — or
certainly responsibility for a child — as something that really frightened me. I grew up
in the middle of a family of nine but I lost a brother when I was very young, and that
put me on a path to never wanting to bring a child into this world.
Now I’m a parent: my wife and daughter and I are a family through adoption, and that
has changed everything for me. Our daughter is nine now.
So this play is an exploration of what it means to take responsibility for a child at all
costs in a dangerous world. When, in the beginning, my own family experienced the
struggles of forging attachment, these felt as elemental and dangerous as I think they
would have in any point in human history.
I recall noticing, in those early days, that there were many examples of children’s
stories we came across about how a human family adopts an animal — usually a dog —
and the animal is difficult to live with due to some trauma in his past: he chews up all
the furniture or his farts smell really bad. The family considers returning him to the
pound. But he is finally allowed to stay because he proves his worth by showing how
useful he can be.
This is not that kind of story. It would never occur to Szzt-mm-muwu-mu(mu)-muwu-
mu(mu)-weeuweet to try and prove her worth. Her instincts tell her she needs to be a
child in a family, but she consciously believes she can get by on her own. The adoptive
parents need to earn her trust. They’re the ones who need to prove worth.
Sean Dixon - March 2022
l and acknowledgement
As we gather on the sacred land upon which Tarragon is built, Tarragon
acknowledges that we all are a part of a larger ecosystem within our community,
Tkaronto, where Tarragon Theatre lives and operates - and that we also commit
ourselves and in turn energize our audiences to continually reflect on and respond to
our relationship to the land around us. This country has been cared for by generations
of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nations, and the land on which Tarragon rests and
is able to share this story has been cherished and protected by, the Anishnabeg, the
Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Heather Marie Annis (She/Her)- Neanderthals/Carrion Bird Body/
Good People/Young Neanderthal Woman/Mammoth/Blackbirds/
Hyena
For Tarragon: Debut
Selected Credits: A Tonic For Desperate Times (Theatre Gargantua);
Post Alice (Here For Now Theatre); Remembering The Winnipeg General
(Zeitpunk); Morro and Jasp: Save The Date, Let’s Go (DMT
Productions); Bright Lights (Bruhaha); Emily’s Piano (YPT); Morro and
Jasp: 9-5 (Factory Theatre); Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself (Cahoots,
UNIT); Of Mice and Morro and Jasp, Stupefaction, Morro and Jasp do
Puberty (U.N.I.T. Productions); The Money Tree (Roseneath Theatre);
Scheherezade (Nobody’s Business Theatre); By A Thread (Sterling
Studio); Come Blow Your Horn (Classic Theatre Festival); Marat/Sade
(SoupCan); Savage/Love (Zeitgeist/Column 13).
Selected Film and Television: Workin’ Moms (CBC); The Supers, The
Stoners, and The Big Bad (Bell Media); Saving Hope (CTV); Reign (CW).
Upcoming: Urban ARTeries (Theatre Gargantua); and new projects
with Morro and Jasp (www.morroandjasp.com)
Awards: Dora Award (Morro and Jasp Go Bake Yourself ); Canadian
Comedy Award, Dora Award Nominations (Remembering the Winnipeg
General and The Money Tree); Gourmand Cookbook Award.
Other: Big thanks to Alastair and Valkyrie (@corginfluencer), friends
and family and the Orphan Song team. I’m excited to be playing on my
favourite stage in the city with such a talented team.
@heathermarieannis @morroandjasp
Charlotte Dean - Costume Design
For Tarragon: The Realistic Jones, No Great Mischief, and others over 30
years.
Selected Credits: Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, Treasure
Island (Stratford Festival)
Arms and the Man, Sweet Charity, (Shaw Festival); The Glass Menagerie,
Billy Elliot (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre)
Awards: Herbert Whittaker Award, 5 Dora Awards, and the Virginia
and Myrtle Cooper Award
Beau Dixon - Gorse
For Tarragon: Hamlet, Harlem Duet
Selected theatre credits: Guys ‘n’ Dolls, HMS Pinafore (Stratford
Festival);Ghost Quartet (Crow’s Theatre); Marjorie Prime, The Father
(Coalmine Theatre); The Colour Purple (Neptune Theatre); Ma Rainey’s
Black Bottom (Soulpepper Theatre); As You Like It/ Titus Andronicus
(Canstage/ Shakespeare In High Park); Passing Strange (Obsidian/
Musical Stage Co.)
Film and television: Station Eleven (HBOMAX), The Expanse (Ama-
zon Prime)
Selected writing credits: Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable (4th Line
Theatre); Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story (Arts Club/
Festival Players); From Here To Africville, Once A Flame (Factory
Theatre). (Cont.)PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Beau Dixon (Cont.)
Selected musical direction: Stop The World (Talk Is Free Theatre);
Pippin (Sheridan College); Freedom: Spirit and Legacy of Black Music
(Stratford Festival).
Selected sound design: The Big Sleep (Vertigo); Cottagers and Indians
(Tarragon).
Nominations and awards: Two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Two
Toronto Critics Awards, Calgary Critics Award, Betty Mitchell nomina-
tion and a Dora Mavor Moore nomination.
Other: Beau is a self-taught, multi award-winning Actor, Composer,
Playwright, Sound Designer and Music Director.
www.beaudixon.com
Sean Dixon (He/Him) - Writer
For Tarragon: A God in Need of Help
Selected Credits: The Wilberforce Hotel; The Orange Dot; Jumbo;
France (or, The Niqab); Falling Back Home; The Painting; Sam’s Last
Dance; Billy Nothin’; and The Gift of the Coat.
Other: Sean Dixon is a playwright best known for his work with
Victoria’s Theatre SKAM and Winnipeg’s renowned Primus Theatre.
He’s written several plays for B.C.’s Caravan Farm Theatre and
Ontario’s Blyth Festival, and will be publishing his fifth novel next
year with Calgary’s Freehand Books. In 2014, he was nominated for
the Governor General’s Award for his play A God In Need of Help,
produced here at the Tarragon. Upcoming is a children’s picture book
for Tundra, also featuring themes of adoption, entitled The Family
Tree.
Sean lives with his wife, the multi-award-winning documentary
maker Katerina Cizek, and a nine-year old daughter whose brilliant,
funny, stubborn character inspires much of his current work.
Philippa Domville - Swing - Chorus
For Tarragon: Within the Glass, The Trouble with Mr.
Adams, If We Were Birds, Chimera, Gravity Calling,
Selected Credits: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in the Rough); acbeth
(Canadian Stage) Top Girls ( MTC); The Penelopiad ( Royal Shakespeare
Company/NAC); Much Ado about Nothing, Comedy of Errors (Theatre
by the Bay) Time After Time, The Chet Baker Project (Crow’s Theatre/
Theatre Passe Muraille); Uncle Vanya, The Madras House, In Good King
Charles’ Golden days (Shaw Festival); Comedy of Errors, Bacchae, Fair
Liberty’s Call (Stratford Festival).
Selected Film and Television: In the Shadow of the Moon,
Damnation (series regular), Murdoch Mysteries, Beauty and the Beast,
Sworn to Silence, An Accidental Friendship.
Choreography: Penelopiad (The Grand Theatre);
The Tempest (Stratford Festival); Marilyn the Mermaid, Persephone
Project, Grymye (Theatre Petit Jeu), A funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum (Ryerson University).
Directing: Skinny Saints (Theatre Petit Jeu). (Cont.)PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Philippa Domville (Cont.)
Awards: Dora Nomination, Christopher Plumber International
Fellowship (Globe Theatre, London England).
Other: Theatre Movement Instructor Ryerson University, Member of
ARCA; Artists for Real Climate Action and the Climate Justice Dance
Brigade.
Sophie Goulet - Mo
For Tarragon: Scorched, Forests, The Real World?
Selected stage credits: Dom Juan, The Bald Soprano (Théâtre
français de Toronto); Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Canadian Stage);
Noises Off, As You Like It, The Lark, London Assurance, Dom Juan,
Henry VIII, The Tempest (Stratford Festival).
Selected U.K. credits: Polygraph (Nottingham Playhouse); Pride &
Prejudice (Bristol Theatre Royal); Pericles (New Vic Theatre).
Selected film and TV: Anne with an E, Michael: Everyday, Murdoch
Mysteries (CBC); Remedy (Global); The Borgias (CTV); Grey Gardens
(HBO); Good Witch (Hallmark Channel).
In Quebec: Prank, Ces gars là, Mehdi et Val, Les Barbares de la Malbaie
and Série Noire.
As a writer: Her latest project is a six part television series
inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids. The series is currently optioned by
BlikTV and Amalga Créations Média, in Montréal.
Other: Sophie holds degrees from Concordia University and
L’université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. She is a graduate of the
Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Studies and the Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School.
Phoebe Hu (She/Her) - Neanderthals/Dog/Rabbit/
Mammoth/Blackbirds/Hyena 3/Carrion Bird Body 2/Music & Pup-
pet Captain
For Tarragon: Debut
Selected Credits: Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre); Cabaret,
Mary Poppins (Grand Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (YPT); Comfort
(Red Snow Collective).
Selected Film and Television: Wedding Season (Netflix); TallBoyz
(CBC), Spin (Disney Channel).
Upcoming: Woking Phoenix (Silk Bath Collective/Theatre Passe
Muraille).
Education: National Taiwan University (BA in Foreign Languages and
Literatures); Sheridan College PREP Program; Randolph College for
the Performing Arts (Triple Threat Award).
Other: An urban dance choreographer and Classical/Traditional
Chinese musician from Taiwan, Phoebe currently works across
Ontario as an interdisciplinary artist. Besides performing, she also
works as a movement coach, language & cultural consultant, and script
translator with companies such as Shadowland/Changeup Theatre,
Project:Humanity/Crow’s Theatre, and Hamilton Fringe Festival. In
the spirit of Orphan Song, she is grateful for the original caretaker, and
her chosen family, on this land.PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Germaine Konji - Neanderthals/Good People Woman/Hedgehog 2/
Mammoth/Blackbirds.
For Tarragon: Debut
Selected Credits: Finally There’s Sun (Stratford Festival); Baapii
Roho- Banks Prize Cabaret (Musical Stage Company); Blackout (Musical
Stage Company); Into the Woods (Talk is Free Theatre).
Selected Writing credits: After the Reckoning (Centaur Theatre); The
Smearing of Silent Blood (Stratford Festival); The Rising (Charlottetown
Festival); The Lobster Who Cried Person (Bad Hats Theatre); King Henry
Five (Driftwood Theatre).
Upcoming: Dixon Road (Musical Stage Company).
Awards: The Banks Prize 2020.
Other: Thankful for my dear ones, who make it possible for me to do
the thing that I love. Thank you Tarragon for the opportunity to play
here.
@germaine.k
Ahmed Moneka - Neanderthals/Carrion Bird Wing/Good People
Man2/Toad/Mammoth/Blackbirds/Hyena2/Another Hedgehog.
For Tarragon: Shakespeare Fusion
Selected Credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Driftwood
Theatre); No Women’s Land (Jaberi Dance Theatre); Tell Me What It’s
Called (Riser Project - Theatre Centre); Abduction From The Seraglio
(Canadian Opera Company); Thirst (workshop/in development) (Modern
Times Theatre); In Sundry Languages (Toronto Laboratory Theatre).
Upcoming: Gilgamesh and Enkidu (TRIA Theatre Company);
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Crow’s Theatre);
Rubble (Theatre Passe Muraille, Aluna Theatre).
Awards: Stingray Rising Stars finalists 2019 at TD Toronto Jazz
festival.
Other: Member of Noteworthy The Musical Stage & Prime Mover: and
member of Soulpepper Academy.PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Kaitlin Morrow (They/Them) - Child/Chicky - Puppet Master
For Tarragon: Debut
Selected Credits: Crime After Crime, Bendy Sign Tavern, Wasteland,
Swordplay, Watch Out Wildkat (Sex T-Rex); My Child (Haus of
Casati); Macbeth: Walking Shadows (Shakespeare in the Ruff);
Hangman (Scapegoat Collective); Goodnight Moon (Mermaid Theatre
of Nova Scotia); Puppet Chats (Bad Dog Theatre); Star Gays (Cardboard
Sword).
Selected Film and Television: Object Relations, Hello My Baby, Poe,
Dangerous Persuasions, General at a Meeting.
Upcoming: Sketch T-Rex at Toronto Fringe Festival.
Awards: Honourary My Theatre Award for Puppetry, Just for Laughs’
Best Comedy*, Second City’s Outstanding Comedy*, BC Touring
Council Award*, Filmapalooza’s Audience Choice* (*with Sex T-Rex).
Other: Special thanks to Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia’s Loft
Program, the late Deborah MacLean, and my Dad, Jim Morrow for
teaching me how to do all things puppet.
Juliet Palmer (She/Her) - Musical Direction and Sound Design
For Tarragon: Debut
Selected Credits: Choreography of Trauma (Continuum); Oil & Water
(Detroit Symphony Orchestra); Every Word Was Once An Animal (Jor-
dan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon); Ukiyo, floating world (Urban-
vessel and Thin Edge New Music); Inside Us (Western Front, Vancou-
ver); The Man Who Married Himself (Toronto Masque Theatre); Sweat
(CalArts, Los Angeles; Bicycle Opera, Canada; National Sawdust, New
York); Voice-Box (World Stage); Stitch (The Theatre Centre); Shelter
(Tapestry New Opera and Edmonton Opera).
Selected Film: Visiting Ben Shemen; Warsaw, January 2011; Soaring,
Roaring, Diving; SLIP.
Upcoming: fire break (Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra);
riverMOUTH and Bubble Life (Urbanvessel).
Awards: The Lebenbom Award, Detroit Symphony Orchestra;
Brooklyn Film Festival, Spirit Award, Warsaw, January 2011; Toronto
International Short Film Festival, Best Experimental Short, Slip;
Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Experimental Film, Soaring, Roaring,
Diving; Dora nominations, Outstanding New Opera & Outstanding
Production, Stitch.
Other: So happy to be singing like a bird with you all.
www.julietpalmer.ca and www.urbanvessel.comPERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Sandy Plunkett - Stage Manager
For Tarragon: Bunny, The Circle, The Trouble with Mr Adams
Selected Credits: The Fish Eyes Trilogy, Boys with Cars
(Nightswimming); This, Flood Thereafter, Game of Love and Chance
(Canadian Stage); Dividing Lines, La Communion, Madre, (Aluna
Theatre); The Berlin Blues, Ipperwash (Blyth Festival); Public Servant,
The Story, Weather the Weather, (Theatre Columbus/Common Boots);
Gladstone Variations, Yichud (seclusion) (Convergence); The Silicone
Diaries (Buddies in Bad Times); The Turn of the Screw (DVxT) and 7
summers with Dream in High Park.
Other: A champion of site specific theatre, Sandy often finds himself
surrendering to various locales. He is the great-grandson of Morley
Plunkett of the almost forgotten WW1 Canadian Vaudeville Troupe,
The Dumbells.
Kaitlyn Riordan (She/Her)- Neanderthals/Good People/Hedgehog
1/Mammoth/Blackbirds/Moon
For Tarragon: Debut
Selected Credits: After the Fire (Punctuate!/Theatre Centre);
Maggie & Pierre (Thousand Islands Playhouse, timeshare produc-
tions at The Tarragon, The Grand); The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet,
Macbeth: Walking Shadows, Cymbeline’s Reign, Two Gents (Shakespeare
in the Ruff); Noises Off! (Segal Centre); The Merchant of Venice, Blithe
Spirit (Stratford Festival).
Selected Film and Television: Five Days at Memorial, The Boys,
Twelve Monkeys, Reign, Murdoch Mysteries.
Upcoming: Co-writer of ‘1939’, premiering at The Stratford Festival
this summer.
Awards: Four-time Dora nominee for acting
Other: I am a settler on this land of Irish and French descent. I love
plays that make me feel and force me to ask questions; Orphan Song is
such a play. I am honoured to be part of this spirited team, telling this
moving story, in such an ambitious way. After two years off the stage,
it’s so good to be back.
www.kaitlynriordan.comPERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Richard Rose - Director
For Tarragon, as Director: Orestes, The Message, Guarded Girls,
Hamlet, The Bakelite Masterpiece, The Summoned, Wormwood, The
Realistic Jones, Abyss, Much Ado About Nothing, The Bakelite
Masterpiece, An Enemy of the People, A God in Need of Help, The Valley,
This is War, No Great Mischief, The Real World?, Forests, Courageous,
Another Home Invasion, Molière, Democracy, Scorched, Léo, Humble Boy,
Remnants, 3 in the Back, 2 in the Head, It’s All True, Prague.
Other: Richard Rose was the Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre
from 2002 - 2021. Prior to joining the Tarragon in 2002, Richard was
Founding Artistic Director at Necessary Angel (a position he held from
1978–2002), Associate Director for Canadian Stage Company, Director
of the Stratford Festival Young Company, and spent ten seasons
directing at the Stratford Festival.
He has directed plays across Canada, the United States, and in
London’s West End, in styles ranging from the environmental to the
classical. Richard is well known for developing new work,
including four plays that won the Governor General’s Award and nine
other nominated plays. He is a four-time Dora award winner for
direction and production and has had numerous nominations.
Alysse Szatkowski - Apprentice Stage Manager
For Tarragon: Copy That, Orestes.
Selected Credits: Venus in Fur, The Mountaintop (Theatre Kingston);
Two Pianos, Four Hands; Shirley Valentine, BOOM X (Thousand Islands
Playhouse); Copenhagen, The Seagull (Soulpepper); The Rez Sisters
(Stratford Festival).
Upcoming: A Perfect Wedding (Thousand Islands Playhouse).
Other: So very glad to be back sharing live theatre with a live audience!
Graeme S. Thomson - Set Design
For Tarragon: Mustard, Wormwood, The Valley, Scorched, Leo, The
Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion, No Great Mischief, Three in the Back,
Two in the Head, On the Verge, Blood Relations, Member of the Wedding,
among others.
Other selected credits: The Heart of Robin Hood (Mirvish); True
West, Farther West(Soulpepper).
Other: Recipient of Five Dora Awards (including Outstanding Set
Design for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; Outstanding Lighting
Design for Remnants).PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
Terry Tweed - Gran
At Tarragon: Forests, Another Home Invasion, Jehanne of the Witches
Selected Credits: The Complex (It’s Not a Pivot Production); Liars at a
Funeral (Truth ‘n’ Lies Theatre); Over the River and Through the Woods
(Theatre Aquarius); Homechild (Belfry Theatre); Orpheus
Descending (MTC/Mirvish); The Medici Slot Machine (Pea Green
Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Festival of Classics); Happy Days
(Histrions); Bea’s Niece, The Faraway Nearby (GCTC); The Winter’s Tale,
The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre New Brunswick).
Other: Terry has been an enthusiastic teacher for over 40 years,
having taught at Humber College, Sheridan College, University of
Toronto (Erindale), Shaw Festival, Birmingham Conservatory
(Stratford) and the University of Ottawa, where she taught in both
English and French. Terry also served on the Council of Canadian
Actors’ Equity for 18 years, 6 of those years as President.
Daniel Williston (He/Him) - Neanderthals/Carrion Bird Wing/Good
People Man1/Bear/Mammoth/Blackbirds
For Tarragon: Fugue (workshop)
Selected Credits: Lil’ Red Robin Hood, Wizard of Oz (Ross Petty
Productions); Ring of Fire (Citadel); Kinky Boots (Mirvish, Australian
Tour); Shrek The Musical (Globe Theatre); Spoon River, Accidental Death
of an Anarchist, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Barber of
Seville, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman (Soulpepper); Evil Dead: The
Musical (Starvox).
Selected Film and Television: V/H/S 94 (Shudder); Odd Squad (PBS);
Good Witch (Hallmark); Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix); Dark Matter (SYFY/
Bell Media); Heroes Reborn, Dark Matters (NBC); Gangland Undercover
(The History Channel).
Upcoming: Hello Stranger (Mongrel Media); 1UP (Lionsgate); Ring of
Fire (Theatre Aquarius).
Other: Daniel is very lucky to be doing theatre right now, and to be do-
ing it with all of these artists is humbling and fulfilling. Love to
Kristen.
www.danielwilliston.com
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tinuing to support not only our outstanding professional theatrical productions,
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Anne Bermonte Joan Pierre
Naomi Brown Katherine Pollock
James Buchanan Laurence Siegel
Jenny Gumbs Elaine Stavro
Naguib Keval Heather Yamoah
Suzanne Murphy Walter YimSPONSORS
Funding provided by the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Arts Council.
Onstage now in the Extraspace
Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers
and Little Brothers
Written and Performed by
Makambe K. Simamba
Directed by
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Live Performance Dates:
March 8 – April 10
Available Digitally:
March 22 – April 10
Photo image: Shakeil Rollock by Marko Kovacevicse ason sponsor
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