Here's the most fantabulous cast and crew, who made the first production the top-seller at the 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival! A ShipBrecht Production.
Cast
Adam
Drew Moore is an emerging Ottawa actor. A recent graduate of the Ottawa Theatre School and member of resident acting company Third Wall Theatre, Drew is excited to be part of Fringe again this summer. Recent credits include: Louder than Words (Moonrise Productions) as Eric, Asher in My Name Is Asher Lev (9th Hour Theatre Company) and Semyon in Ottawa Theatre School's The Suicide, directed by Pierre Brault.
Photo credit: Andrew Alexander Photography
Photo credit: Andrew Alexander Photography
Eve
Jennifer Vallance is delighted to take part in her 4th Ottawa Fringe Festival play! In theatre she was seen in Chamber Theatre's Edmond and Mechanicsville Monologues, also Seven Thirty's Noises Off! She appears in many Independent films including Gott ist Tott, Algebra, and Percy Harris as well as the latest Dany Bedar music video. Jennifer is the lead singer, keyboard player and songwriter with the rock band Rules of Seven, to be releasing their first CD later in 2013.
Find out more at: https://jennifervallance.workbooklive.com/Wbl.mvc/Page/Intro
Photo credit: Andrew Alexander Photography
Find out more at: https://jennifervallance.workbooklive.com/Wbl.mvc/Page/Intro
Photo credit: Andrew Alexander Photography
Geb, Stan and varia
William Beddoe is an Ottawa native who studied theatre at Brock University and has performed locally with Odyssey Theatre, Third Wall, Evolution Theatre, the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Salamander Theatre, and others. His connection to the Ottawa Fringe runs deep as he was a Producer of the Festival for its first two years ('97/98). William is a parent and would really like his daughters and future grandchildren to have a healthy planet to grow up in.
Photo credit: Catherine Monteith-Pistor
Photo credit: Catherine Monteith-Pistor
Cranky, Gus and varia
Elana Levitan is a clown, mother to a neurotic 15 month old boxer and has an obsessive enthusiasm towards canning and pickling things. She is a graduate of the Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theatre where she had the luxury of living in a rural setting among the Redwoods of Northern California and grew to appreciate clean, emission free air! Elana is stoked to be making her Ottawa Fringe debut with this fresh and funny production.
Photo credit: Bobby Kintz (Second Glance Photography, DC, USA)
Photo credit: Bobby Kintz (Second Glance Photography, DC, USA)
Sharma and varia
Robin Guy appeared most recently as Jaques in Bear and Company’s summer tour of As You Like It. Other productions include Plosive!’s Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as SevenThirty’s I do not Like Thee, Dr. Fell and A Flea in Her Ear. Other local work includes Birth (Director, Gillian) for her company Three Sisters, Oreo for Silent QUEMB, Some Girls for Vision Theatre, as well as Annie in The Miracle Worker, Maria in The Sound of Music, Diana in Anne of Green Gables, and Christina in Dancing at Lughnasa. She records voiceovers for numerous audio projects, performed a recurring role in Ottawa’s Me, My House, and I, and can often be seen slashing, throttling, or collapsing at Scarlett’s Dinner Theatre. Offstage, Robin teaches piano, voice, and theatre, and wrangles two small children, a collie, and a very patient partner.
Sharma's Aide and varia
Artem Barry is a graduate from the University of Ottawa Theatre program, and is happy to be performing at the Ottawa Fringe again after summers away - past appearances include The Deathe of Tybalt and Romeo and Juliet (Ottawa Shakespeare Company, 2010), Pirate Jenny's Circus (Counterpoint Players, 2009), and If Not For The Sea (Zopyra Theatre, 2007). An Ottawa native, he is excited to be contributing to the community again.
Crew and other cool folk
Director
Tracey Guptill is currently doing a Master’s of Environmental Studies at Queen’s where her thesis involves writing a play about responses to perceived ecological crises. She has worked with many Ottawa theatre companies, most notably playing Cecily (The Importance of Being Earnest) and Nina (The Seagull) for Third Wall Theatre, and Viola in Twelfth Night for the Company of Fools Torchlight Shakespeare Series. She has also worked for several key environmental organizations, and also teaches workshops using Boal’s forum techniques. She directed and choreographed 3am, a piece by local spoken word artists and dancers, and performed in Daniel Mroz’s Circe/Landfall at the Canada Dance Festival in 2010.
Playwright and Producer
Ann Cavlovic is a fiction writer, essayist, and environmental economist recently entering the world of theatre. Her short fiction has appeared in literary journals such as Room, Event and SubTerrain. She was a finalist in the 2005 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. Her essays have been published in the Globe and Mail, the Centennial Reader, the Kudzu Review, and Alternatives. On stage, Ann has directed and produced dance performances related to social issues: www.healthysensuality.blogspot.ca.
Find out more at: anncavlovic.com.
Photo credit: Harry Nowell Photography
Find out more at: anncavlovic.com.
Photo credit: Harry Nowell Photography
Sound and Music
Scott Irving is an Ottawa-based pianist. He is extensively involved in community musical theatre, having served as musical director for Sock ‘n’ Buskin Theatre, Erudite Theatre, and the Orleans Young Players. Past productions include Evil Dead: The Musical (2009), Urinetown (2010), Peter Pan (2011), Company (2012), and The Rocky Horror Show (2013). His taste for diverse musical styles has led him to get involved with such varied music groups as Ottawa’s Capital Chamber Choir (new classical and Canadian works), the Majid Hassas Persian Ensemble (Iranian-style piano), and The PepTides. Scott studied music at the University of Guelph and holds an ARCT in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Stage Manager
Ashley Proulx has been working as a Stage Manager/ Designer for a few years now. Recent Stage Manager Credits: Clue...less (Eddie May Murder Mysteries), Absurd Person Singular (SevenThirty Productions), and A Slay-Ride Together (Eddie May Murder Mysteries), Assistant Stage Manager Credits: His Girl Friday (GCTC), Midwinter's Dream Tale (GCTC/ Company of Fools), and 39 Steps (SevenThirty).
Production Assistance
Seth Gerry is a production manager and designer, new to Ottawa since 2011. He currently works as the Assistant Production Manager for the Great Canadian Theatre Company. Seth is proud to have worked extensively in theatre production for the past decade with companies such as Curtain Call Productions (2004 - 2011) at the University of Guelph, the Kawartha Lakes Summer Playhouse (2002 - 2005), and Triple Threat Theatre (2006 - 2011) at the Academy Theatre in Lindsay, Ontario. In addition to production management, Seth's specialties include lighting design, set design, and technical direction. Seth studied Art History at the University of Guelph and holds an MA in Art and Visual Culture. This is his first fringe production.