Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata - Factory Theatre

Acting Up Stage Company & Factory Theatrea co-productionDo You Want What I Have Got?A Craigslist CantatabyVeda Hille & Bill RichardsonDirected byAmiel GladstoneMusical Direction byVeda HilleChoreographed byMonica DottorStarringDmitry ChepovetskyBree GreigDaren A. HerbertVeda HilleSelina MartinBarry MirochnickSet & Costume DesignerRobin FisherLighting DesignerKimberly PurtellStage ManagerDustyn Walesinstall CrewAlyksandra Ackerman, Matt Armour, Josh Hoodless, Patrick Lavender,Michael Bennett Leroux, Liz Maraston, Christopher RossPainterAmanda WhiteThank YouJason Golinsky, David Hoekstra, Katie Horrill,Mike Ledermueller, Young People’s TheatreDeveloped and premiered atthe Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver,British Columbia, 2012Originally produced in a 20 minuteversion by Theatre Replacement asa co-commission with PuSh andTheatre Conspiracy, Vancouver, BC,2009. Thanks to the Arts Club’sReACT play development program,the PuSh international PerformingArts Festival, and the Belfry Theatre’sSpark Theatre Festival.Running Time85 minutes with no intermissionRecording DevicesTaking photographs or making anymechanical recording is prohibitedin the theatre. Please turn off pagersand cellular phones.Bar/LoungeThe Bar/Lounge is open for yourenjoyment. You can enjoy DirectCellars wine, MillStreet TankhouseAle, Steamwhistle Pilsner, Balzac’scoffee, tea, soda and juice as wellas an assortment of homemadegoodies.The musician and musical director engaged for thisproduction are members of the Toronto Musicians’Association, Local 149 of the American Federationof Musicians of the United States and Canada.Factory Theatre is a member of the ProfessionalAssociation of Canadian Theatres and engagesunder the terms of the Canadian TheatreAgreement, professional Artists who are membersof Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

Amiel Gladstone DirectorAmiel Gladstone is a West Coast based writer and director. As a director, hisproductions have been both site specific in unusual venues, and in traditional theatres.He has written and directed for a variety of companies, including the Belfry, CaravanFarm Theatre, the Guild and Ramshackle in Whitehorse, SummerWorks, TheatreReplacement, and Theatre SKAM. Most recently, the world premiere of Do You WantWhat I Have Got? for Arts Club/PuSh Festival, the world premiere of 100% Vancouver for PuShFestival/Theatre Replacement, Canadian premiere of This at the Vancouver Playhouse, Tape forAlley Theatre, Lucia di Lammermoor for Vancouver Opera, world premiere of Extraction with TheatreConspiracy, and soon Tosca at Pacific Opera Victoria.Bree Greig PerformerBree is 100% thrilled to be not only visiting Toronto for the first time, but to be makingher Toronto theatrical debut! Having grown up in eastern Pennsylvania, but currentlyresiding in Vancouver, she is excited to explore eastern Canada! Recent Credits Include:Do You Want What I Have Got? (Arts Club Theatre); The Wizard of Oz and The Soundof Music (Footlight Theatre Company); The Fantasticks (Vancouver Playhouse); BatBoy The Musical (Patrick Street Productions) Other: Bree is a graduate of Berklee College of Musicand in addition to singing and acting teaches yoga in Vancouver.Daren A. Herbert PerformerBorn in Bermuda, Daren has worked, studied, and taught on stages, sets and studiosin the US, Canada, South Korea, the UK, and Japan. He won a Los Angeles DramaCritics Circle Award and an NAACP Theatre Award nomination for his work in The WildParty, and he’s a two time Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for performances inThe Toxic Avenger and Parade. Vancouver stage appearances include Glengarry GlenRoss, Lobby Hero, Intimate Apparel, The Music Man, the Jessie Award winning production of TheLight in the Piazza and Clybourne Park. On-screen appearances include Dreamgirls, 2012, HumanTarget, Breakout Kings, Fringe, This Means War and a recurring role on the CW’s Cult.Veda Hille Composer, Musical Director & PerformerVeda Hille has been writing songs, making records, and playing shows all over since1992. She has released 14 albums, the latest being Peter Panties. Collaborationswith other artists have resulted in video and music performances, electro acousticexperiments, rock songs for children, eccentric musicals, and an opera about pinetrees. Veda is happy to be spending time in Toronto again, even in the winter.vedahille.com

Selina Martin PerformerSelina Martin is a Toronto-based theatre artist and musician. She performed in thepremiere of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata, for the Arts ClubTheatre in Vancouver. She has worked multiple times with Crow’s Theatre (Hedwigand the Angry Inch, Dali, Godzilla), One Yellow Rabbit Theatre (Five Hole: Tales ofHockey Erotica), Shadowland Theatre, and Bald Ego Theatre, with whom she cocreated12 original plays in 5 years. Selina is also the author of three critically acclaimed CDs. Hermost recent, Disaster Fantasies, has received glowing praise from across the country, and hasbeen variously described by music writers as “smart”, “vivid”, “brave”, “reckless”, “must-hear” and“masterful.” selinamartin.comBarry Mirochnick MusicianBarry Mirochnick is a Vancouver-based drummer/multi-instrumentalist originally fromWinnipeg. He performed in Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata, atVancouver’s PuSh Festival in 2009 and at Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre in 2012. As adrummer, Barry has recently toured, recorded, and/or performed live with Veda Hille,Neko Case, Great Aunt Ida, Jakob Dylan, Whitehorse, Keri Mctighe, and Paul Pigat.Kimberly Purtell Lighting DesignerPreviously for Factory Theatre, Kimberly designed Featuring Loretta, BeyondMozambique, The Russian Play, Essay, Better Living, Apple, Escape From Happiness,and Leisure Society. Previously for Acting Up Stage, she designed Caroline or Changeand Parade. Most recent design credits include Someone Else (Crow’s Theatre), TheNormal Heart (Studio 180), The Penelopiad (Nightwood Theatre), The Little Years(Tarragon), Speed The Plow (Soulpepper), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Stratford ShakespeareFestival), Crash (Theatre Passe Muraille), Svadba (Queen of Puddings/Edmonton Opera), Rigoletto(Opera Hamilton). Kimberly has received three Dora Awards, seventeen nominations and is arecipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.Bill Richardson PlaywrightBill Richardson is working out what little remains of his mid-life crisis in whatlittle remains of the Arlington Hotel in what little remains of Holmfield, Manitoba,population 22, more if you count the dogs.Dustyn Wales Stage ManagerFor Acting Up Stage: The Light in the Piazza Select Credits: Lost in Yonkers (HGJTC); TheHobbit (MTYP); i Think i Can (YPT/NAC); The Great Mountain (YPT/RedSky); BillyBishop Goes to War, Faith Healer, Glengarry Glen Ross, Travesties, The Guardsmanand Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper); Iolanthe (TOT); ByoLogyc (MissionBusiness); Waiting for Godot (Yes, Let’s Go); Fairytale Ending: The Musical (Bestof Fringe/Next stage); Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy, Great American Trailer ParkMusical and King Lear (Hart House Theatre) Upcoming: Blue Planet (YPT)

about About Acting acting Up up Stage stage Company CompanyActing Up Stage produces musicals with depth,substance & does them beautifully. — Lynn Slotkin, CBCActing Up Stage Company is dedicated to producing, developing and advancing theversatile art of musical theatre in Canada. Each season we interpret contemporarywork through the lens of both our country’s most accomplished and most promisingartists, bring new musicals to life, and develop the artists and audiences of tomorrow.Since 2005, under the leadership of Artistic Producer Mitchell Marcus, we’ve beenrewarded time and again with rave reviews, sold-out performances, six Dora Awardsand six Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards. Staged in intimate settings and starringCanada’s finest artists, our productions are timely, thought-provoking, and entertaining,challenging expectations of the musical theatre genre.Past work includes Caroline, or Change, Ride The Cyclone, Parade, The Light In ThePiazza, A New Brain, A Man of No Importance and Elegies: A Song Cycle. Each year wepresent a series of concerts, train and mentor young performers from across Ontariothrough One Song Glory and The Banks Prize, and develop new musical worksthrough our NoteWorthy program.StaffArtistic Producer Mitchell MarcusAssociate Artistic Director Elenna MosoffAssistant General Manager Paul BeauchampAudience Engagement Manager Nathaniel BryanOne Song Glory Producer Tamara WeiszExecutive Producer David DanielsBoard ofDirectorsChair Scott BeltonTreasurer Gary MarcusSecretary Mallory GilbertDirectors Aubrey Baillie, Curtis Barlow, Kathleen Freeman, Peter McKinnon,Richard Sniderman, Jason Spetter, Beth Sulman, Ellen WallaceAssociatesAssociate Artists Thom Allison, Leslie Arden, Barbara Barsky, Bruce Dow, StevenGallagher, Patty Jamieson, Jeff Lillico, Sharron Matthews, Robert McQueen,Tracy Michailidis, Phillip Silver, Paul SportelliAdvisory Council Helen Burstyn, David Daniels, Roger Garland, Lucille Joseph

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