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                                                                                                                                        By   LUCAS HNATH
                                                                                                                                  Directed by    KRISTA JACKSON
                                                                                                                                                        starring
                                                                                                                                              PAUL ESSIEMBRE
                                                                                                                                               DEBORAH HAY
                                                                                                                                               KATE HENNIG
                                                                                                                                             BAHAREH YARAGHI

                                                                                                                                Set & Costume Designer TERESA PRZYBYLSKI

                                                                                                                                     Lighting Designer MICHAEL WALTON

                                                                                                                                      Sound Designer MICHAEL WRIGHT

                                                                                                                                        Stage Manager LESLIE WATSON

                                                                                                                              Assistant Stage Manager KATHERINE DERMOTT

                                                                                                                                       Video effects created by ERIC DIZON
                                                                                                                                  Original music composed by JOHN GZOWSKI

                                                                                                                    Originally produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner,
                                                                                                                      and John Johnson. Commissioned and first produced by South Coast Repertory.
                                                                                                                            A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 is presented by special arrangement with
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Q&A WITH PLAYWRIGHT                                                                                     there were a lot of arguments in my play
                                                                                                                         that some of the scholars thought would         “...it’s a play about how

        LUCAS HNATH
                                                                                                                         actually give whatever critique they had
                                                                                                                         of Nora’s argument to Anne-Marie and it          much we’ve changed,
                                                                                                                         made the debate better.                          and how much we
                                                                                                                         How did you decide that the cast would           haven’t, in terms
                                                                                                                         be these four particular characters?
                                                                          All of the things that were debated and
                                                                          negotiated in A Doll’s House are still         I tried out a number of other characters,
                                                                                                                                                                          of thinking about
                                                                          topics that are debated and negotiated         but those four offered the most essential        equality between men
                                                                          now. So one of the first ideas that I had      and unique points of view. It felt
                                                                                                                         necessary to have a character who’s
                                                                                                                                                                          and women.”
                                                                          about A Doll’s House, Part 2 is it’s a play
                                                                          about how much we’ve changed, and how          basically a footnote in the original,
                                                                                                                         but is extremely significant, which is       a cluster of essays in front of his plays.
                                                                          much we haven’t, in terms of thinking
                                                                                                                         Anne-Marie. She was in a position to         Getting Married has a couple of essays
                                                                          about equality between men and women.
                                                                          I was reading a lot of Charlotte Perkins       most directly deal with the fallout from     that very strongly inform Nora’s big
                                                                          Gilman, who wrote The Yellow Wallpaper         Nora’s leaving. Then of course Torvald       opening speech about marriage. I often
                                                                          while working on the play. She wrote a         had to be there. Nora has three kids, and    try to find arguments that I don’t really
PHOTO BY REBECCA MARTINEZ.

                                                                          great deal of feminist theory and she had      at some point I entertained the notion       agree with, try to put those arguments in
                                                                          a really interesting line saying, when you     of having all three, but then it started     my own words, and try to make them as
                                                                          hear a school teacher, nurse, secretary        to come off as fussy, and I was most         convincing as possible. That tends to be
                                                                          — she listed a bunch of occupations —          interested in — as opposed to having —       the relationship between the plays and
                                                                          the first thing that anybody imagines is       the daughter.                                what I do or don’t believe.
                                                                          a woman. She goes on to say that she’s         This is in many ways a play about
                             How did you create a play that could                                                                                                     Nora asks herself at the end of A Doll’s
                                                                          looking forward to the day when you can        marriage. How did your own thoughts on
                             be understood relationally but also                                                                                                      House, “If I’m left to myself, what do I
                                                                          say one of those titles and a woman is not     marriage influence your work?
                             independently of the source text?                                                                                                        want for myself?” What is your current
                                                                          the first image that pops into the mind.       The argument that Nora makes at
                             The setup is there’s a woman who left                                                                                                    answer to that question for yourself?
                                                                          She’s thinking about certain limitations       the beginning about predicting and
                             her family 15 years ago. That’s kind of                                                                                                  I’m very, very happy to just always be
                                                                          in terms of how women are perceived.           advocating for a world in which there’s
                             the only information you need. The play                                                                                                  spending my time making something.
                                                                             At a certain point, I brought the play in   no marriage, in which the lines aren’t
                             doesn’t get into much about the specifics                                                                                                I want to be writing a play. I want to be
                                                                          conversation with a number of feminist         drawn between couples, that’s something
                             of the plot that motivated her to leave.                                                                                                 in the rehearsal room. My least favourite
                                                                          scholars and asked them to take a look         I’ve never really been able to understand.
                             There aren’t really winky references         at the play and counter-argue anything                                                      thing is actually watching any of my
                                                                                                                         My interest in the arguments in the
                             to the original. It seemed necessary         that gets said in it. One of the questions I                                                plays because then I’m not getting to
                                                                                                                         play does not necessarily have to do
                             that I write the play in a way that did      asked at one point was, “It was shocking                                                    actually do anything and having to just
                                                                                                                         with what I believe, but with what I
                             not require knowledge of the original,       for Nora to leave her children at the end                                                   sit there passively. I’m happiest when I’m
                                                                                                                         don’t understand. I don’t understand
                             otherwise it would turn into some kind of    of A Doll’s House, but if it were written                                                   writing, and in the rehearsal room, and in
                                                                                                                         Nora’s initial argument; I have a hard
                             inside theatre joke.                         now, what would be the shocking                time relating to it. When I’m writing,       the midst of making or rewriting.
                             Ibsen didn’t necessarily consider A Doll’s   ending?” The response was, “Well that’s        I try to find examples of people who
                             House a feminist text, but it’s come to be   still the shocking ending! That’s still        very convincingly make some of               Interview by Sarah Rose Leonard, Literary
                             one over the years. How have you entered     something that is unthinkable.” That was       those arguments.                             Manager of Berkeley Repertory Theatre
                             the conversation on feminism that            actually very helpful to hear. I think I           George Bernard Shaw wrote a play         (Berkeley, CA), and is reprinted with permission
                             surrounds Ibsen’s play?                      had gotten quite numb to the shock. And        called Getting Married. Shaw often has       from The Berkeley Rep Magazine, Sept 2018.
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DIR E CTO R ' S             N OT E S                                                                   T HE           CAST

BY K R I S TA J AC K S O N                                                           Paul Essiembre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TORVALD HELMER

A
        hundred and forty years after Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House and Nora’s          Deborah Hay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NORA HELMER
        slamming door reverberated throughout the world, American
        playwright Lucas Hnath penned Part 2. It sounds like a movie sequel.         Kate Hennig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNE-MARIE
        He plucks Nora, Torvald, Anne-Marie and Emmy out of 1879 and puts            Bahareh Yaraghi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EMMY
them in the ring together fifteen years later. His idea was audacious and the
play has taken the world by storm.
                                                                                                                                      SETTING
American theatre artist and teacher Stella Adler suggests that any points                        Norway. Inside the Helmer house. 15 years since Nora left Torvald.
Ibsen’s characters score end up in the hands of you, the judges. She says,
“Ibsen always has two points of view on the stage in his characters. One says
‘I believe this’ and the other says ‘I believe that.’ The audience listens to both
sides, but there is usually no way to resolve an Ibsen idea”.
                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                               A Doll’s House,Part 2 has a running time of 90 minutes,
                                                                                                                with no intermission.
I am a geek for Henrik Ibsen and I am in awe at how Hnath manages to be
simultaneously irreverent and loyal to the father of realism. He cleverly uses
                                                                                                     The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs,
the original as a springboard to create a forum to continue the never-ending                         either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices
debate on marriage, parenting, duty and love.                                                        such as cellular phones, beepers and watches.

But as you will hear, he frees them in his own modern American vernacular.
While set in 1894 Norway, Hnath’s contemporary dialogue catapults them to
meet us right here, right now. In doing so, he asks us, will history continually
repeat itself? Can society progress?

Part 2 is calling us to a better future, as Ibsen was. This family is still trying
to box with the laws of society and to move forward as individuals. He
exposes their hopes, needs, feints and struggles and shines a light on our
responsibility to one another and ultimately to ourselves.

Hnath gives us the opportunity to think and laugh and take sides and agree
or disagree with each of his characters at one point or another in the play.
Their gloves are on. Enjoy the match!

                                                                                     PAUL ESSIEMBRE AND DEBORAH HAY. PHOTO BY LEIF NORMAN.

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THE         COMPANY

                                                                                                                 PAUL ESSIEMBRE              in Othello and Beatrice in Much Ado
                                                                                                                 Torvald Helmer              About Nothing at Stratford; Canstage’s
                                                                                                                 Previously with Mirvish:    production of London Road. She’ll
                                                                                                                 The Heart of Robin Hood,    return to Shaw to play Roxanne in Kate
                                                                                                                 The Audience (both with     Hennig’s adaptation of Cyrano.
                                                                                                                 Royal MTC), and Stuff
                                                                                                 Happens (with Studio 180). Elsewhere:                       KATE HENNIG
                                                                                                 Four seasons at The Stratford Festival,                     Anne-Marie
                                                                                                 and over 60 productions across Canada.                      Kate Hennig is an
                                                                                                 Some favourites include Shakespeare                         actor, playwright,
                                                                                                 in Love and A Few Good Men (Citadel/                        teacher, director, and
                                                                                                 RMTC); The Man Who Shot Liberty                             the Associate Artistic
                                                                                                 Valance and Unnecessary Farce (RMTC);       Director of the Shaw Festival. She has
                                                                                                 The Duchess of Malfi and The Odyssey        performed on Broadway, with the RSC,
                                                                                                 (Stratford); The Normal Heart and The       with the Stratford and Shaw Festivals,
                                                                                                 Overwhelming (Studio 180); Butcher          and in regional theatres from Vancouver
                                                                                                 and The Best Brothers (PTE); Le Dîner de    to PEI. Her plays, The Last Wife and The
                                                                                                 Cons and Le Bourgeois Gentillhomme          Virgin Trial have enjoyed critical and
                                                                                                 (TFT); and Picasso at the Lapin Agile       popular success, and Mother’s Daughter,
                                                                                                 (Centaur). Paul also has more than 60       the next in the series, premieres
                                                                                                 film and television appearances, and has    this summer at Stratford. Also, this
                                                                                                 worked extensively as a voice artist in     summer, Kate’s translation/adaptation
                                                                                                 documentary narration, animated series      of Cyrano de Bergerac premieres at
                                                                                                 and commercial voice-overs.                 the Shaw. You can find out more about
                                                                                                                                             Kate’s varied career on her website:
                                                                                                                 DEBORAH HAY                 www.katehennig.com
                                                                                                                 Nora Helmer
                                                                                                                 Deborah is delighted to                      BAHAREH YARAGHI
                                                                                                                 join the Mirvishes. She                      Emmy
                                                                                                                 has performed many                           Bahareh was most
                                                                                                                 seasons at the Stratford                     recently seen playing
                                                                                                 and Shaw festivals, and in theatres                          the role of Mrs. Cheveley
                                                                                                 across Canada and the US. Recent work                        in An Ideal Husband
                                                                                                 includes Katherina in Stratford’s Taming    at Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
                                                                                                 of the Shrew; Goneril in Groundling         Other credits include: Shakespeare
                                                                                                 Theatre’s King Lear; Jadis in The           In Love (Citadel Theatre/The Royal
                                                                                                 Magician’s Nephew and Grushinskaya in       MTC), Julius Caesar, The Aeneid
                                                                                                 Grand Hotel at Shaw; and three seasons      (Stratford), Salt-Water Moon (Why
                                                                                                 as Catherine Cardinal on CTV’s Cardinal.    Not Theatre/Factory), Death of the
                                                                                                 Some favourites: Billie Dawn in Born        King, Blood Wedding and Hallaj
                                                                                                 Yesterday, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Eliza   (Modern Times Stage Company); Le
                                                                                                 Doolitle in My Fair Lady at Shaw; Emilia    Placard and Les Zinspirés 2 (Theatre
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Français deToronto); Unholy and HER2                           KATHERINE DERMOTT              KRISTA JACKSON                                MICHAEL WALTON
(Nightwood); Kiss (Canadian Stage/                             Assistant Stage                Director                                      Lighting Designer
Theatre Smash/ARC); Moment, Pomona                             Manager                        Krista is the Associate Artistic Director     Michael Walton is a Canadian lighting
and Bea (ARC); Minotaur (YPT); The                             Selected theatre credits       of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre          designer currently based in Stratford, ON.
Kite Runner (Theatre Calgary/Citadel                           include It’s a Wonderful       and Artistic Director of zone41 theatre.      Recent designs include: Così Fan Tutte
Theatre). Bahareh is a six-time Dora                           Life: The Radio Play, Di       She has received the Gina Wilkinson           (Canadian Opera Company); Tartuffe
Mavor Moore Award nominee and she is           and Viv and Rose, Outside Mullingar,           Prize and the Stratford Festival Jean         (Canadian Stage); The Rocky Horror
a resident artist at ARC in Toronto.           The Audience (with Mirvish); Brontë:           Gascon Award. Directing credits include:      Show, The Music Man, The Tempest,
                                               The World Without, Paradise Lost,              Dancing at Lughnasa (Shaw Festival);          Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, A Chorus Line,
                LESLIE WATSON                  Macbeth and The Hypochondriac.                 Sense and Sensibility, Morning After          Oedipus Rex, Othello, Fiddler on the
                Stage Manager                  Festival Theatre Production Assistant          Grace, Private Lives, The Seagull, (Royal     Roof, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Macbeth
                Leslie Watson is a             (Stratford); Wilde Tales (Shaw);               MTC); The Lion in Winter, Fly Me to           (Stratford Festival); The Full Light of
                Winnipeg-based Stage           1979 (Shaw/GCTC); Twelfth Night                the Moon (Grand Theatre); Associate           Day (Electric Company); Jenufa, Maria
                Manager who has                (Shakespeare BASH’d); Anne & Gilbert:          Director: All My Sons (Stratford Festival).   Stuarda (Pacific Opera); Chimerica (RMTC
                worked in theatres across      The Musical, Alice Through the                 Krista is an alumna of Ryerson Theatre        & Canadian Stage); Yoshimi Battles the
Canada for the past 14 years on over           Looking-Glass, The Sound of Music,             School and called Toronto home for 16         Pink Robots (La Jolla Playhouse). Michael
60 productions. Favourites include:            Pacino One Night Only (NAC); Tosca,            years. Special thanks to Matthew, who         will be travelling to Tel Aviv to remount
Little Shop of Horrors, Shrek, The Little      Madama Butterfly (Opera Lyra, Ottawa);         keeps the home fires burning.                 his design of Cosi Fan Tutte for the Israeli
Mermaid, Mary Poppins (Rainbow                 This is War (GCTC). In 2016 Katherine                                                        Opera in the spring.
Stage); Once, Kill Me Now, Billy Elliot,       was awarded the Jean A. Chalmers               TERESA PRZYBYLSKI
Cabaret, White Christmas (RMTC); and           Apprentice Achievement Award from              Set and Costume Designer                      MICHAEL WRIGHT
many more. Leslie is a proud graduate          the Stratford Festival of Canada.              Teresa Przybylski is an architect and         Sound Designer
of Sheridan College, and a member of                                                          a theatre designer. Companies she             Michael is a Winnipeg-based sound
CAEA. Love to Sean and Murtaugh for                                                           has designed for include: Stratford           designer. Credits include Sense and
holding down the fort back home.                                                              Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival,          Sensibility, Morning After Grace,
                                                                                              Canadian Opera Company, Opera                 The Humans, Bittergirl: The Musical,
                                                                                              Theatre in Saint Louis, Blyth Festival,       Black Coffee, Million Dollar Quartet,

                   T HE       C R E ATIV E                 TEA M
                                                                                              Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre,            Billy Elliot the Musical, Seminar (with
                                                                                              Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Native          Mirvish), Late Company, Private Lives,
                                                                                              Earth, Volcano Theatre, Theatre Smith-        The Secret Annex, The Seagull, Venus
                                                                                              Gilmour, Canadian Stage and others.           in Fur, The Penelopiad, August: Osage
LUCAS HNATH                                    playwright at New Dramatists since 2011,       She has been awarded five Dora Mavor          County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer,
Playwright                                     and is a proud member of the Ensemble          Moore Awards her work in the theatre          The Last Five Years (Royal Manitoba
Lucas Hnath’s plays include The Christians     Studio Theatre. Lucas is a winner of the       and two Gemini Awards for production          Theatre Centre; I Dream of Diesel, North
(2014 Humana Festival), Red Speedo             2012 Whitfield Cook Award for Isaac’s Eye      design in film and television. She is         Main Gothic, The Monster Trilogy, The
(Studio Theatre, DC), A Public Reading         and received a 2013 Steinberg/ATCA New         a member of The Royal Canadian                Elmwood Visitation, Age of Arousal
of an Unproduced Screenplay About              Play Award Citation for Death Tax. He has      Academy of Arts and The Associated            (Theatre Projects Manitoba); Everything
the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep),           also received commissions from the EST/        Designers of Canada. Teresa is teaching       is Coming Up Roses (Gearshifting
Nightnight (2013 Humana Festival), Isaac’s     Sloan Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville,   stage design at York University while         Performance Works); Hedwig and the
Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Death           South Coast Repertory, Playwrights             continuing her career as a scenographer.      Angry Inch Atrocity Tour 2004 (Rose
Tax (2012 Humana Festival, Royal Court         Horizons, New York University’s Graduate                                                     Tinted Productions, UK).
Theatre), and The Courtship Of Anna            Acting Program, and the Royal Court
Nicole Smith (Actors Theatre of Louisville).   Theatre. Lucas holds a BFA and an MFA
His plays are published by Dramatists          from New York University’s Department of
Play Service. Lucas has been a resident        Dramatic Writing.

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WINNER!       WINNER!
3 TONY AWARDS PULITZER PRIZE
                                                                                                                     FRANCES KONCAN
                                                                                                                     Assistant Director
                                                                                                                                                                                                                minor in Theatre Arts at the University
                                                                                                                                                                                                                of Manitoba. At an early age, he worked
                                                                                                                     Frances Koncan is a playwright, director,                                                  at his parents’ company as an Assistant
                                                                                                                     producer, and activist from Couchiching                                                    Designer, designing some of the best in
                                                                                                                     First Nation, Treaty 3 Territory. They                                                     African couture and bespoke designs.
DAVID MIRVISH presents                                    PRODUCTION OF                                              hold an MFA in Playwriting from the                                                        He has had his own fashion show and

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                                                                                                                     City University of New York Brooklyn                                                       currently works as a freelance Costume
                                                                                                                     College, and a BA in Psychology from                                                       Designer designing numerous times
                                                                                                                     the University of Manitoba. They are                                                       for the Blackhole Theatre Company and
                                                                                                                     the Artistic Director of Vault Projects,                                                   Onetrunk Theatre Company.
                                                                                                                     a non-profit performance company
                                                                                                                     dedicated to working with a majority                                                       KATHERINE JOHNSTON
                                                                                                                     of diverse artists and producing work                                                      Assistant Lighting Designer
                                                                                                                     through an intersectional lens. For                                                        Katherine is a graduate of the University
                                                                                                                     credits, heckling, or potential dating                                                     of Winnipeg Department of Theatre &
                                                                                                                     opportunities, just stalk their social                                                     Film. She has a degree in production and
                                                                                                                     media. Taurus, with sun in Leo. Fav                                                        stage management and has spent the last
                                                                                                                     Colour: Purple. Twitter/Instagram:                                                         five years working in the profession in
                                                                                                                     @franceskoncan xoxo                                                                        multiple capacities. Credits for lighting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                design include Dib & Dob and the Journey
                                                                                                                     AYOBAMI IGE                                                                                Home (Manitoba Theatre for Young
                                                                                                                     Apprentice Costume Designer                                                                People), Constellations and Edward II
                                                                                                                     Ayobami Ige is the Creative Director                                                       (Theatre by the River). Katherine was
                                                                                                                     of mrige.com, a Fashion and Lifestyle                                                      the Lighting Design resident at Rainbow
       Troy Adams                   Ma-Anne Dionisio                    Louise Pitre                                 Journal, a place where everybody of                                                        Stage in 2015 as well as the Lighting
                                                                                                                     different works of life can come to get                                                    Design assistant on Buddy: The Buddy
                                                                                                                     inspired on how to create a personal                                                       Holly Story and The Producers in
                                                                                                                     style that is appealing to them. Ayobami                                                   previous seasons. It has been a wonderful
                                                                                            Photos by Max Telzerow   grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria before                                                          experience working with Michael and
                                                                                                                     relocating to Canada for his Bachelor’s                                                    she’s grateful to RMTC for providing such
                                                                                                                     Degree in Computer Science with a                                                          a fantastic opportunity.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THORA LAMONT
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Head Buyer & Accessories Coordinator . . . JACKIE VAN WINKLE
                                                                                                                     Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANCES KONCAN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                First Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMANDA ISAAK
    Brandon Antonio                   Stephanie Sy                    Nathan Carroll                                 Apprentice Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AYOBAMI IGE
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PENNY HANFORD, KAREN LUCHAK,
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Head of Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL WRIGHT                        Software Co-ordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVE PELLEY
Head of Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOAN LEES-MILLER                          Ticketing Software Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARA RIVARD
Wigs & Makeup Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEVERLY COVERT                                 Ticketing Software Co-ordinator . . . . . FRANCO MARCANTONIO
                                                                                                           Database Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APARNA ALIMINETI
FOR MIRVISH PRODUCTIONS
Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MIRVISH             FOR MIRVISH GROUP SALES & SUBSCRIPTIONS
Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN SEWELL                     Sales Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS DORSCHT
Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MUCCI                    Group Sales Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATASHA SPRINGETT
Director of Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CAMILLO CASCIATO                           Associate Manager, Subscription Operations . BLAIR LEIGHTON
Director of Sales & Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN KARASTAMATIS                                      Associate Manager, Subscription Services. . . . DANIEL McLARTY
U.K. Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL ELLIOTT                 Subscriber Relations Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ARIKA UMME GUL
Director of Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCOT WHITHAM                           Subscriber Relations Representative . . . . . . . . . . . .PAULYN RAMAN
Director of Labour Relations &                                                                             Student Outreach & Education Co-ordinator . DENISE ANDERSON
   Business Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK LAVAWAY                             Group Sales Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NELIA BAIRD
Director of Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KELLY ROBINSON                               Corporate Group Sales & Event Co-ordinator . . TIFFANY TOBIAS
Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA INTASCHI                      Group Sales Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRANDON BARNSWELL
Associate General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES CHU                              Subscriber Administration
Assistant Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANIKA NATER                     Representatives . . .DANIELLA FRUSTAGLIO, MUNIRA SARUAT
General Management Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . HANNAH MIRVISH                                        Subscription Service Representatives . . . . . . . . . MARY ASKWITH,
Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS PRIDEAUX                                ERNEST AVSEEV, ERNEST CAYEMEN, MATTHEW KENNEDY,
Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NATHAN GILES                                    CLARA KIM, ALEXANDRA LEAN, RICHARD McDONALD,
Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIANNE GWARTZ                                                                               RYAN REEVE, MIKE RICHARDSON
Production Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DESIRÉE PROVEAU
Communications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUE TOTH                            FOR THE CAA THEATRE
Press & Public Relations Manager . . . . . . . . J. RANDY ALLDREAD                                         General Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RON JACOBSON
Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANTONIO TAN                        Front of House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIE HOLOWATY
Graphic Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OTTO PIERRE                           Assistant House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COREY PALMER

Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANCA LONGOBARDI                                    FOH Supervisor/Operations Assistant . . . . . . . . . HALEY WATSON

Web Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JENKINS                      Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERARD RAJU

Videographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRISTAN GOUGH                   Assistant Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DENNIS WONG

Program Director, CRM,                                                                                     Maintenance Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN MCCARTHY

   Data Insights & Ecommerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUBREY STORK                                House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON BROWNING

CRM & Reporting Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIANNE WU                          Assistant House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . G. STUART BAULCH

Assistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROSIE DRISCOLL                                   Head of Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELENA RAKITSKAYA

Company Management Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEN COOPER
                                                                                                                           For Mirvish Programme and Mirvish Partnership
Labour Relations & HR Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . EMILY KNIGHT
                                                                                                                                     Opportunities, please contact:
Senior IT Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSIE DI LUZIO
System Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES BARTHMANN,
                                        PHILLIP DREW, KATHARINE POSAVAD
Analyst/Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REG DUNCAN
Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON YIP                The Exclusive Sponsorship Agency of Mirvish Productions
Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TINA MARSHALL                                      brian.himel@brandsamplified.com
Show Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACQUEL FROST                                              jory.amar@brandsamplified.com
Accounting Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE LOGAN, KIM SITU
Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILIAN SIU                         Backstage Employees are represented by the
Assistant to David Mirvish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREL PURVIS                                                 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HELDER BRUM                                         Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

FOR ED MIRVISH ENTERPRISES                                                                                                       Mirvish Productions is a member of the
General Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL LAZAR                                           Professional Association of Canadian Theatres
                                                                                                                                 (PACT) and engages, under the terms of the
FOR TICKETKING                                                                                                                   Canadian Theatre Agreement, actors and stage
General Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES ALDRIDGE                                              managers who are members of the Canadian
Phone Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALAN FORSYTH                                                      Actors’ Equity Association.
Phone Operations Asst. Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSIE MARCON

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