Author: Calla Wright
Composer: Daniel Belland
Lyricist: Conar Kennedy
#1: Morgan Alexandra Donald
#2: Emily McCourt
#3: Calla Wright
#4: Josh Travnik
#5: Claire Rollans
#6: Nadia Mansaw
#7: Daniel Belland
Piano: Marthe Wildsmith
Guitar: Griffin Wright
Stage Managed by Emily Devereux and Robin Wolff von Selzam
Directed by Calla Wright
Calla Wright
Book, Director, #3
Calla Wright has been homeschooled for most of her life, and has been putting on plays (with lots of help from her family and friends) since she was ten. This is her third (and probably favourite) original play. An Unnatural Turn, her first play, was performed for An Evening of One Acts with Celsius Youth Theatre (of which she is an Artistic Director). Word Problem, her second play, was read for Teens @ the Turn 2009, and was performed with NextFest 2010. Calla has won Best Performance by an Actress at the National Youth Shakespeare Festival in Toronto for her performance in a scene from Richard III. Most recently she was a part of the 2010/2011 Young Company, and played First Maggie in their production of The Mill on the Floss. You can see her next year in the 2011/2012 Young Company. Calla would like to thank her family, cast, crew, the Fringe, and everyone who contributed to this play, for turning her weird little ideas into something fantastic. Hope you enjoy the show!
Daniel BellandComposer, #7
Daniel is thrilled to be part of this show, both as an actor and composer. In addition to composing, Daniel is a flutist and pianist, and has recently completed his Royal Conservatory Grade 8 in Flute, and Grade 10 in Piano. Daniel has composed scores for a number of theatre productions, notably a score for The Tempest, performed live. This is his first musical. Daniel recently directed A Midsummer Night's Dream for Celsius Youth Theatre, of which he is co-Artistic Director and co-Founder. You can catch him on stage this December as The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz at Festival Place! Enjoy the show!
Conar Kennedy
Lyricist
Conar Kennedy is a poet, musician, and songwriter hailing from Edmonton Alberta, who only grudgingly acknowledges reality by getting up for work every morning. He lives on an acreage near Stony Plain with his parents, sisters, dog/best friend, and an undetermined number of cats.
He is delighted to have been a part of such a fantastic musical, and to have been able to refer to himself in the third person for a whole paragraph.
He is delighted to have been a part of such a fantastic musical, and to have been able to refer to himself in the third person for a whole paragraph.
Josh Travnik
#4
I am so very very happy to work with Calla once again on another wonderful show. Some of my previous acting credits include The Haunting of Hathaway House, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and Twelfth Night with Celsius Youth Theatre, Kiss Me Kate with the Leduc Drama Society, Romeo and Juliet with the FreeWill Players Dream Team, and Word Problem for NextFest (Also written by Calla Wright and acting alongside Daniel Belland and Morgan Alexandra Donald). This is my Fringe debut, and I am ridiculously excited. Enjoy the show!
Nadia Mansaw
#6
Nadia is delighted to be involved in such an incredible show. Some of her previous acting endeavours include A Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and most recently A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is Nadia’s second time as a Fringe actor. Her first was a production of Beauty and the Beast with the Northern Lights Theatre. She would like very much to thank Calla for giving her a chance to do something she’s never done before. Enjoy the show!!!
Claire Rollans
Emily McCourt
#2, Violin
Emily is delighted to be in her first fringe show and hopes it'll be the first of many! She would like to thank Calla for writing, directing and casting her in semicolon. Emily will be attending the Grant MacEwan musical theatre program in the fall.
Marthe Wildsmith
Morgan Alexandra Donald
#1
Morgan is thrilled to be working with all of her friends on ; yet again! She is 17 years old and is going into grade twelve at Victoria School of the Arts this fall. Previous theatre credits include “Oliver!” at the Citadel, “Annie”, “White Christmas” and “Curtains” At Victoria School of the Arts, “Twelfth Night”, “Fourteen”, “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Celsius Youth Theatre as well as several other performances in the Edmonton theatre community. Thank you to everyone involved in ; especially all of our amazing parents, having to attend to the whims of all us no-good, spoiled rotten kids! Hope you enjoy the show!
#5
Though Claire Rollans is not a stranger to the Edmonton Fringe Festival, it would be fair to say that they are estranged friends, separated by the chaotic circumstances of life. Claire’s last appearance at the Edmonton Fringe Festival was back in 2005 when she appeared as one of the evil stepsisters in the Dramatic Learning production of Return of the Glass Slipper, a musical version of Cinderella. In the interim, Claire has appeared on stage frequently. At Victoria School of the Arts, Claire joined the casts of Annie, My Fair Lady, The American Clock, and Curtains. She also took part in the annual student-produced Playworks One-Act festival as both an assistant director and performer.
In 2008, Claire was thrilled to fill the role of Martha Cratchit in the Citadel Theatre’s annual sold-out production of A Christmas Carol. She also joined the Kokopelli Choir association in 2005 and has been singing with them ever since, sharing music across the country and all over the world.
Claire says she’s very excited to join the cast of ; the Musical. “Getting to work on a new musical is the most exciting thing a person can do in theatre. It’s absolutely breathtaking to see such different talents come together to make this one crazy, disturbing, absurd, and beautiful piece.”
#2, Violin
Emily is delighted to be in her first fringe show and hopes it'll be the first of many! She would like to thank Calla for writing, directing and casting her in semicolon. Emily will be attending the Grant MacEwan musical theatre program in the fall.
Griffin Wright
Guitar
Griffin is excited to play guitar in ; the musical. He has been taking guitar lessons for about a year and a half at Grant MacEwan College, he acted in a previous one of his sister’s shows, “An Unnatural Turn” and was very excited to have part in ; the musical.
Piano
Marthe Wildsmith is a young piano player in Edmonton. In 2009 she graduated from Grant MacEwan University with a Music Diploma in piano performance. Marthe can be seen around the city participating in musical theatre, playing classical repertoire, and viewing local theatre! In addition to playing the piano, Marthe enjoys riding her horse and drinking coffee. She would like to thank director Calla Wright for inviting her to be part of ;the musical.
Emily Devereux
Stage Manager
Emily Devereux is an ex-homeschooler/recent graduate from St. Joseph High School who is heading down to Calgary in the fall to start her Fine Arts degree at ACAD. She has been involved in a few areas of theatre, including being a part of the Citadel Theatre Students Club, doing improvisation in the Wildfire Festival and Edmonton Improv League, writing play reviews as a critic in the Cappies program, and stage managing for her high school’s production of Evil Dead: The Musical (as well as helping the props/set people by holding things while they attached other things to them—it was an important job, really!) She is thrilled to be continuing her theatre journey in the Fringe doing lighting for ; the musical and hanging out with some talented people.
Robin Wolff von Selzam
Stage Manager
Robin is very happy to be one of the stage managers/lighting people for ; The Musical. Previous theatre experiences include stage managing The Tempest (Celsius Youth Theatre) and acting in Twelfth Night, An Evening of One Acts and A Midsummer Nights Dream with Celsius Youth Theatre, Peter Pan and Narnia Night. Hope you enjoy the show!
