Jim Garrard Writer - Big TicketAs a director, Jim has worked at Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Bristol Old Vic and the legendary Theatre Second Floor. Also, locally, at Queen’s Drama, Domino Theatre, Kingston Summer Festival, SALON Theatre, Theatre Kingston Fringe (Krapp’s Last Tape). He is a graduate of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
He is best known as a playwright who directs his own plays, including Bondage Plays for My Country: Dead Heat, Getting Even, Cold Comfort, Spencer’s Mom and Big Ticket. Other plays include Peggy’s Song, Fourteen, Sir John, Eh? (with Grant Heckman) and a new play, Deep Water Dreams, a play about the life of Florence Nightingale. Cold Comfort was also an award-winning feature film. His short film, Touch My Lips, produced by Canadian Film Centre, has played at festivals around the world. Jim is founding artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille, SALON Theatre, Kingston Summer Festival and The Macdonald Festival. He was Resident Theatre Director at Rochdale College, Simon Fraser University, and University of Toronto (UC Playhouse). He is a member of ACTRA and Writer’s Guild of Canada. He served as Executive Director of Toronto Arts Council and Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Commission, and as President of Rochdale College. Jim lives in Kingston. 
Will Smith-Blyth - SM BOY BEATLE, ALICE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
Will is a theatre tech, and aspiring lighting designer. Born and raised in Kingston Ontario, he has always had a passion for entertainment, and originally thought studying film in Toronto would be the best way to fulfil it. However, during a summer break back in Kingston, he worked as a tech for Theatre Kingston’s Fringe Festival, and instantly fell in love with the unique thrills of live performance. Since then, he has continued to refine his technical skills in the theatre, working with Rosemary Doyle on subsequent Fringe Festivals. He is now dipping his toes into the larger world of Kingston Theatre, by taking on the role of Lighting Designer for “Blood River” (Theatre Kingston, 2023). Will strongly believes in the idea of variety being the spice of life, and is determined to pursue the great variety offered by Canadian theatre as his calling in life. 
Clelia Scala - Set Design
A visual artist whose work includes mask and puppet design, installations, collage, and illustration. Her explorations into the fantastic and uncanny stem from a lifelong engagement with tales and myths and her interest in the theme of human interaction with the natural world. As a designer and fabricator for theatre, Clelia has worked with theatre companies and institutions such as Bad New Days, Carousel Players, Geordie Theatre, Guilty by Association, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Odyssey Theatre, Queen’s University, Suitcase in Point, Theatre Kingston, University of Missouri-St Louis Opera Theatre, Yale University, and Zacadia Circus. Clelia’s visual art has shown in galleries in Canada and the United States and is in private collections across North America. |
Rosemary Doyle Director- Alice and the World We Live in, Big TicketRosemary Doyle - Director
Rosemary Doyle was born and raised in Kingston, starting her theatre career here on the Grand Theatre stage and with Theatre 5. In her forty year career she honed her skills at AMDA in NYC, with Mirvish in Toronto, at the Shaw Festival, always returning frequently to work for Theatre Kingston, Salon Theatre and The Thousand Islands playhouse. In 2011 she founded the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood, an independent theatre venue that hosts over 42 different companies a year, and in 2018 she returned to Kingston as the Artistic Producer of Theatre Kingston. Rosemary is an Actor, Playwright, Director, Lighting and Set Designer and Carpenter, in no particular order. 
Andrea Robertson Walker - Designer BOY BEATLE, ALICE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.Recent credits for Theatre Kingston include THESE DEEDS, SOMETIMES I LOVE YOU ALWAYS, HAPPY DAYS and WHAT A YOUNG WIFE OUGHT TO KNOW. Some highlights include DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, MERCHANT OF VENICE and she won the Prix Rideau Awards: Ottawa Gatineau for her design work on TWELFTH NIGHT.
Seymour Irons - Playwright/ Director FAMILY CONTAINER
Seymour is an interdisciplinary Queer Black artist situated in Kingston Ontario. Since completing his undergraduate degree in Media and Performance Production at Queens University, Seymour has been building an entertainment company called See More Wake Up. His creation work focuses on the intersections between the mystical and the mundane, and what we could learn from these discoveries. Seymour has always loved to perform and create, from sound design, to dance, to theater. His most recent project was called "Sooth Shivers", a Site-specific movement performance, which was produced by his company. He can also be known for previous roles as Cadmus in Grapevine Theatres “Harmonia”, and as Lucy in Queens University's “Not Wanted on the Voyage.” Recently Seymour has completed the PXR IBPOC fellowship where he practiced and performed Virtual Reality Theatre. During this experience, he had the opportunity to produce sound for Tactics Theatre’s “Anasi V. God(s)”. |
Actor, director, and writer, Sean Roberts appeared as Buffalo Bill in Theatre Kingston ‘s These Deeds (2022). He is delighted to work again with Helen Bretzke with whom he shared the stage in Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Bottletree Productions, 2017). He has had the great good fortune to be a part of Kingston’s vibrant and vital performing arts scene since 1985, both on the stage and in independent films. Thanks go to Rosemary Doyle for the opportunity to be a collaborator on the Kingston premiere of Alexandria Haber’s moving Alice and the World We Live In.Richard Sheridan Willis: Richard trained at RADA and has worked extensively at theatres throughout the world. Companies include Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC; Norway’s National Theatre; Peter Hall Company, London; Coal Mine, Mirvish Productions(Toronto)Denver Centre Theatre Co; The Wilma Theatre, Philadelphia. Recent theatre includes Breathing Corpses (Coal Mine), Henry Irving in These Deeds(Theatre Kingston) Malvolio inTwelfth Night, Chorus in Henry V (Folger Library Theatre)Richard was artistic director of the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival for 6 years 2017 - 2023. He directed As You Like It in 2018, played the title role in Cyrano in 2019, directed Twelfth Night in 2022 and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2023. His solo show Strolling Player played in Toronto, Stratford, Waterloo, Sudbury, Port Hope, Prescott, Washington DC and Hastings in the UK. Janet Irwin Janet Irwin has been working in Canadian theatre since the 1970s, and has worn many hats – director, playwright, adaptor, dramaturg, producer, and teacher. She has also worked on many stages – very large (National Arts Centre Southam Hall,) large (National Arts Centre Babs Asper Theatre,) medium (Great Canadian Theatre Company,) small (her basement with a sheet on the clothesline,) outdoor (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, Odyssey Theatre, and the amphitheatre at the National Gallery,) … and many others including churches and a repurposed tooth-brush factory (Upper Canada Playhouse.) She is currently developing/helping develop several plays: Mary Ann Alice and a reimagining of an earlier play, Seaway Story.
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Helen Bretzke – Alice
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