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The Cast
John Krukowski Simon
Til' Skype Do Us Part - Devon
Just Like a Movie - Adrian
John Krukowski Simon is a UW student in Theatre and Performance. John has been acting both on and off campus in the region of Kitchener Waterloo for a decade now. For the first time, John has integrated the role of performer with dramaturgy for TomorrowLove™. John enjoys pretentious movies and falling in public.
Jess Bertrand
Til' Skype Do Us Part - Rory
Perfect - Addison
I'm Jess Bertrand. I am a theatre student at the University of Waterloo. In TomorrowLove™, I play the roles of Addison in Perfect, and Rory in 'Til Skype Do Us Part. I am lover of the Arts and have been thrilled to be a part of this production.
Kendalin Bishop
Perfect - Pat
Just Like a Movie - Mischa
Kendalin is in her third year of the theatre and performance program and is enjoying experimenting with different aspects of production. She enjoys taking on new challenges in both the technical and acting sides of production.
Kassidy Shaw
I Wrote You This Letter - Hunter
Reid
Eight Legs, Two Hearts - Hayden
Reid is very excited to be playing Hayden in 8 Legs, 2 Hearts. From a very young age Reid had an itch to create, and has been very active both on and offstage. Reid loves plants, but is starting to get concerned that their spider plant isn’t producing any spiders. If found in the wild, please let us know; they’ve stopped answering emails and we’re getting desperate.
Taylor Howard
Eight Legs, Two Hearts - Casey
Taylor Howard will be playing Casey in the show TomorrowLove™. His hobbies and living habits are spending his time playing video games and watching anime, unless his parents are reading this, then he spends his time studying and preparing for classes.
Tia Rankine
Reeseman - Joey
My name is Tia and I am a 2nd year exchange student from London. I will be playing Jo in TomorrowLove™; from the playlet Reeseman. I am really enjoying my time in Canada and can not wait to explore it more. In my spare time I like to bake and play volleyball as well as write books. I am excited to see TomorrowLove™ and cannot wait for everyone to see it.
Trevor Sinke
Eternal Space Logic - Quinn
Trevor Sinke has been involved in the theatre scene for about 5 years, after being introduced to it by his high school drama teacher approaching him in Grade 9 to fill a role in the ensemble. Since then, Trevor's found himself filling all types of roles, such as stagehand, sound operator and stage manager, before eventually finding himself back on the stage itself, where he played Edgar Allen Poe for the first season of the National Theatre School Drama Festival (formerly known as the Sears Drama Festival). Trevor wishes to thank you for your support of the theatre community and inspiring many young adults such as himself in pursuing their passion under the lights.
Alec Ewing
I Wrote You This Letter - Sasha
Alec Ewing (Sasha) is honoured to be apart of his first mainstage production at the University of Waterloo. He is in his 1A term of the Theatre and Performance program and is planning to minor in psychology. He thanks the cast and crew for their support and hard work, and hopes you enjoy the show!
Erik Fielder
Reeseman - Charlie
Sam Mirandola
Eternal Space Logic - Parker
This is Samantha Mirandola, she is a Theatre and Performance and English (Literature and Rhetoric) undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo. Samantha has acted in several other productions including her role as Bobbie James in Concord Floral. She is looking forward to the show and she wonders if the fridge really is bigger on the inside...
Visiting Artists
The University of Waterloo’s Theatre and Performance department almost always invites visiting artists to collaborate on Theatre of the Arts productions. This type of networking allows artists from outside our academic bubble to engage with students and faculty at the university. Artists visit from all over Canada to offer their artistic and professional perspective to the university and build relationships with students, faculty, and staff. In the fall term of 2018 there are a number of visiting artists working with our program’s creators. These artists sometimes travel from great distances to our institution to contribute their knowledge and experience to students, faculty, and, in this case, the creation of TomorrowLove™.
Andrea Donaldson - Director
Andrea almost exclusively develops and directs new works for the stage, a calling that was seeded in her early interdisciplinary and collective creation training. Her work is imagistic, complex and discreetly choreographic. Andrea is driven to create arresting works that expose private moments in a public fashion. Andrea’s directing has been described as visually stunning, hilarious, thrilling, whip-smart, sublime and bold.
Recent directing credits include Taming of the Shrew (SLSF) Snowman (Soulpepper Academy), Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood), Love and Information (RCPA), Sequence (Tarragon), These Peaceable Kingdoms (NTS), and the following Dora-nominated projects: Quiver (Nightwood Theatre), Within the Glass (Tarragon), Mistatim (Red Sky), The Atomic Weight of Happiness (Theatre Direct), Montparnasse (TPM), Offensive Fouls (Theatre Direct), The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski (National tour). Other recent credits include Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Janet Wilson Meets the Queen (GCTC), Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon), Beautiful Man (Summerworks), Une Parcelle de moi... (Espace René-Provost, Gatineau), CLEAVE (NTS), Tyumen Then (Toronto Fringe).
Andrea has been honoured with Stratford’s Jean Gascon Award for Direction, Best Director - International Youth Drama Month - Shenzhen, China, has been nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award & the John Hirsch Directing Award and has received a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance & Production for performing in And By the Way, Miss (Theatre Direct). Andrea was Tarragon Theatre’s Assistant/Associate Artistic Director for four seasons, is in her fourth season as the Program Director for Nightwood Theatre’s Write From the Hip, is a regular guest artist at the National Theatre School and co-Artistic Director of Groundwater Productions with Governor General Award winning playwright Erin Shields.
Dramaturgy Team: "Why did you choose the University of Waterloo to visit, why this project and why now?"
Andrea: “Waterloo is famous for being a hotbed for technical minds. TomorrowLove™ smashes together meditations on love in the context of the near future. Seemed like a perfect marriage.”
Dramaturgy Team: "What do you have to contribute to UWaterloo with your participation in creating TomorrowLove™ with us?"
Andrea: “What is my contribution to UWaterloo with TomorrowLove™ ? A gateway drug to more contemporary theatre!”
Anna Truesch - Set and Props Designer
Anna Treusch, an Ottawa native, moved to Toronto to pursue her fascination with the arts after having been technically trained in visual arts at Canterbury High School. It was while being enrolled in Ryerson University’s Theatre Production Program that she learned how design is the best fusion of both visual art and performance art. Since graduating, Anna has worked as a Set and Costume Designer for theatre and film, a freelance Scenic Artist and a Props Mistress. Some companies Anna has had the gratification of working with are Factory Theatre, Theatre St. Johns, Stephenville Theatre Festival,Theatre Columbus, Theatre St.Johns, Theatre Passe Muraille, Randolph Academy, Fallen Rock Productions, Native Earth, among others.
Dramaturgy Team: "Why did you choose the University of Waterloo to visit, why this project and why now?"
Anna: “Theatre is all about connection and a huge part of that is the collaboration process. This show offered me two exciting new collaborations, one with Andrea Donaldson, who's work I value. From what I know, she approaches work with bravery and an open heart but also supports that with her knowledge of text and storytelling. I have been very excited to work alongside her and was lucky enough to have her bring me on board. The other collaborator is UWaterloo and the students. This is my first time working here, and I get to meet a whole new faculty and group of students. It's always exciting meeting new talent and observing the way that other people facilitate and create. And why now... because Janelle called and I picked up!”
Dramaturgy Team: "What do you have to contribute to UWaterloo with your participation in creating TomorrowLove™ with us?"
Anna: “I come from a visual art background and am used to working with loose concepts and finding my path as I go. I am hoping to bring a new way of looking at how to watch/create a play. I also am pretty sarcastic.”
Christopher Stanton - Sound Designer
Christopher Stanton has been creating work for stage and screen for over twenty years. He is a performer, director, writer, sound designer, and composer. His stage work has taken him across Canada to Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal – and internationally to New York, Bogotà, Munich, Brisbane, Dublin, and Vienna. He has been nominated for 14 Dora Awards across disciplines, winning in 2017 for his direction of Alistair McDowall's Pomona, and in 2011 for his performance in Enda Walsh’s New Electric Ballroom. Stanton is also the Artistic Producer of Toronto-based indie performance company ARC, and a Founding Artist of the Hamilton-based performance collective INDUSTRY.
Debut. Other theatre credits include: ARC (Moment), Possible Worlds Stratford / Talk Is Free / BeMe Munich (Possible Worlds), World Stage Festival / Brisbane Festival / Dublin Fringe / Wiener Festwochen (Ajax & Little Iliad), MacKenzieRo (New Electric Ballroom). Other: Chris is a director, performer, sound designer, writer, and musician. He has been nominated for four Dora Mavor Moore Awards as a performer (winning in 2011), five as a sound designer, and two as a director. He is the Artistic Producer of indie theatre company ARC.
William Innes - Graphic Designer
Will is a Toronto based digital media creator whose work has been featured online, in-print, and on both broadcast radio and television. He holds a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Waterloo and has focused on collaborating with theatre artists and companies in the GTA. Entirely self trained, he works in audio/video production, motion graphics animation, graphic design, and photography. Recent projects include; Specimen, an uncanny performance experience adapted from a psychology textbook, Dance for Me Toronto, an intimate encounter between Toronto musicians and dancers, and The Tale of a Town Canada. In addition to digital media, William has performed as an actor, improviser, singer, musician, director, and stage manager.
Maureen Callaghan - Stage Manager
Maureen Callaghan is a stage manager and arts educator. Recent projects have included La Bohème (Highlands Opera Studio); The Rainmaker (Drayton Entertainment); This Will Be Excellent (Carousel Players); Pinocchio, Winter Mixed Programme and YOUDance School Tours (National Ballet of Canada); Pyramus and Thisbe (Canadian Opera Company); La Calisto (COSI, Centre for Opera Studies in Italy) and tour managing Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra for Opera Atelier’s Armide at the Palace of Versailles. Maureen trained at the Banff Centre and teaches drama workshops for the Living Arts Centre. She spent almost 10 years with Canada’s National Ballet School as both Academic Teacher and Production Assistant.
Marc Bondy - Acting Coach
2018 was Marc’s 20th year as a professional actor and director. He is the founding Artistic Director of Outlook Theatre and CEO of Outlook Promotions Inc. He is native to Windsor, Ontario and is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s BFA Acting Program, the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory, and the Robbins Academy at Banff Centre/Citadel Theatre. He also trained in the U.K. at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as part of the International Shakespeare Residency Program as the recipient of the Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award in 2004. His passion for theatre knows no bounds. As an actor he has worked across the country at the Stratford Festival, Theatre by the Bay (Barrie), Shakespeare by the Sea (Halifax), Persephone Theatre (Saskatoon), Globe Theatre (Regina), Citadel Theatre (Edmonton), STC (Sudbury), Theatre New Brunswick (Fredericton), Bruce County Playhouse (Southampton), Shakespeare in the Ruff (Toronto) and St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival among other places. He has a handful of television credits to his name, but his passion has always been and continues to be theatre. And tennis. And scotch. To say that Marc is a busy guy, is an understatement. He is currently teaching 3 acting courses at the U of Windsor; serving as instructor of record and acting coach on TommorowLove™ here at the University of Waterloo; preparing to direct Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information (coming up in March) all while maintaining his successful promotional staffing company in Toronto, Outlook Promotions Inc. which he founded in 2006 to employ actors between their artistic engagements. Marc is happily married and the father of two beautiful daughters who make all of his “changing hats” worthwhile.
Resident Artists
Sharon E. Secord: Costume Designer
Paul Cegys: Lighting Designer
Alexandra Carruthers : Assistant Lighting Designer
Andy Houston: Supervising Dramaturg
Dramaturgy Team
Brooke Barnes
Jess Bertrand
John Krukowski
Nitten Patel
Wendy Qing
Alexandra Carruthers
Christina McArthur
Supervising Dramaturg: Andrew Houston
Production Staff
Cameron Jolliffe: Lighting Supervisor
Gill Lesperance: Technical Director
Harman Minhas: Head of Publicity (Coop)
Janelle Rainville: Production Manager
Kendalin Bishop: Head of Carps/Paint
Maureen Callaghan: Stage Manager
May Nemat Allah: Assistant Stage Manager
Nicole Reid: Head of Lighting
Rebecca Petrosino: Head of Wardrobe
Shamanta Haider: Assistant Stage Manager
Shaw Forgeron: Props Builder/Buyer
Tech Crew
The Tech Crew is made up of students enrolled in THPERF 243 which teaches them the basis of theatre production. The tech crew works with the production team to build the set/props, hang/focus the lights, paint, create/alter costumes, and work as running crew during performances.
Abbey MacDonald
Alexandra Kale
Chelsea MacDonald
Emerson Schaefer
James Liu
Monica Durlak
Samantha Mirandola
Stephanie Dilnot
Su Su (Yuru Su)
Thien Tran
Tia Nicole Rankine