Saturday March 24 2018 – 12 NOON
The Alumnae Theatre

Pay What You Can at the door
(suggestive price: $10  CASH ONLY)

SYNOPSIS
Raina Shepherd, a mentally unstable woman, has lost her grip on reality following a recent tragedy. When her brother Daniel and son Griffin come to her aid, what unfolds is a number of searing revelations from their collective pasts that

rock this already fragmented family to the breaking point.

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CAST

Raina Shepherd………………Alexandra Milne
Daniel Shepherd……………..Anton Wasowicz
Griffin Shepherd/Mark……..Steven Vlahos
Mercedes Shepherd…………Michele Dodick

ALEXANDRA MILNE, Raina
Alexandra is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Company 2011). She was most recently seen at the Alumnae Theatre in This Will Be Our Last Transmission (Fireworks Festival, 2017). NYC theater credits include When the Party’s Over (Planet Connections Festival, Best Actress Nominee), Macbeth (Aquila Theatre) and Kutsukake Tokijiro (Flea Theater). Film: Dim the Fluorescents (LaRue Entertainment, Slamdance 2017 Jury Prize), Cave Small Cave Big (Joële Walinga), The Feed (TonMan Productions), and Dogmouth (Dogmouth Productions). Television: The Blacklist (NBC).

ANTON WASOWICZ, Daniel/Cliff
Anton grew up with a fine arts background. He began learning the violin at age five, attended theatre programs at Young People’s Theatre, and graduated from the Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). He studied music and musical theatre at ESA, which led him to pursue acting and complete the Theatre Performance program at Humber College in order to refine his craft. While he currently pursues his goals as an actor and musician, he also practices Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance. This is Anton’s first time performing in the New Ideas Festival with Alumnae Theatre, and he is most grateful for the opportunity.

STEVEN VLAHOS, Griffin/Mark
Steven is a recent graduate of Humber’s Theatre Performance program, where he performed in and co-created To Me in Ten Years (directed by Richard Greenblatt), The Clowns (directed by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith), and Delete After Death (TALKALOT collective). He studied clown with Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith, and acting with Diana Belshaw and Tatiana Jennings. Since graduating from Humber, Steven has performed in Massimo Pagliaroli’s Inch of Your Life: Episode 1, as well as co-founded Hole In The Wall Theatre Company.

MICHELE DODICK, Mercedes
Michele’s theatre credits include The Crucible and Lend Me a Tenor (Alexander Showcase Theatre). She did a nine-month run as Sister Terry in the Vancouver production of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding. She has also appeared in a couple of short films and done some TV.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            CREATIVE

Playwright – Romeo Ciolfi
Director of Reading – LIz Best
Assistant Director/Stage Manager – Myriam Wedge
Dramaturg – Jane Miller

ROMEO CIOLFI, Playwright
Romeo is a graduate of York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. His screenplay Play Ball was a winner of the Kairos Prize in Screenwriting and was optioned by Pâté Productions. Screenplays Who Is Molly Steele? and The Great Surrender were finalists in the Chronos Prize in Screenwriting. His plays include OverTime (Toronto Fringe), Blue (The Village Playhouse) and Stillborn (Annex Theatre). He has written and directed seasonal theatrical productions, creating shows from the ground up. Romeo is the artistic director of Studio Speranza. On his website (www.studiosperanza.ca), he blogs about writing and productions of his work.

LIZ BEST,* Director
Liz is an actor, director, and playwright. She has appeared in commercials, film, television, and theatre in Canada and the United States, including two seasons on City TV’s Meet the Family, for which she was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Performance in a TV series. She has directed for Scarborough Players, Encore Entertainment, Alumnae Theatre, and Marion Abbott Productions. Liz’s play The Bay was performed at Alumnae’s Big Ideas 2016, and her play, Surrender, Dorothy was part of Alumnae Theatre’s Fireworks Festival 2017.  *Liz Best appears with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

MYRIAM WEDGE, Assistant Director/Stage Manager
Myriam is a writer, director, and art director based in Toronto. She’s a recent graduate of Toronto Film School’s acting program and has since switched gears to focus on the production side of the film, television, and the theatre industries. Myriam has worked as an art director and assistant director on an array of short and feature length independent films, and is currently writing a play she will be directing at the end of this year.
JANE MILLER, Dramaturg
Jane’s career as an actor, singer, and composer spans thirty+ years. Highlights include touring her solo show, Disco Goalie, to sold-out houses across Canada, and two Dora nominations as a performer. She participated in multiple play-development workshops with Nightswimming, which led to her work in Blue Note (Harbourfront HATCH), Lake Nora Arms (SummerWorks), A Wolf in the Voice, and These Are the Songs That I Sing when I’m Sad, which premiered at Boca Del Lupo in Vancouver, February 2017, and is returning there March 2018. (sadsongs.ca) Jane directed and dramaturged Romeo Ciolfi’s Blue (Village Playhouse) and Jane Moffat’s Gink (Toronto Fringe).