October 2017 PRODUCTION OF SALT-WATER MOON BY DAVID FRENCH DIRECTED BY RAVI JAIN

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1 October 2017 THE PRODUCTION OF SALT-WATER MOON BY DAVID FRENCH DIRECTED BY RAVI JAIN

2 DAVID MIRVISH Presents DAY 237: HE KNOWS THE SPOTLIGHT IS BRIGHT, BUT HIS FUTURE IS BRIGHTER. Whether he s a performer on or off stage, your son deserves the opportunity to shine. UCC s unrivalled combination of academics, athletics and arts will sharpen his mind, strengthen his body and ignite a creative spirit in him that only UCC can establish and nurture. Visit Upper Canada College and see for yourself where the foundation for your son s success begins and where he will discover his stage. Come to our Open House October 19 and 20. DISCOVER HOW WE CAN HELP With over $5 million in fi nancial assistance available, your son s dreams could become a reality. THE PRODUCTION OF SALT-WATER MOON BY DAVID FRENCH DIRECTED BY RAVI JAIN Starring KAWA ADA MAYKO NGUYEN ANIA SOUL Stage Manager TAMARA PROTIC Apprentice Stage Manager TROY TAYLOR Lighting Designer KAILEIGH KRYSZTOFIAK Sound Designer THOMAS RYDER PAYNE

3 THE CAST Jacob Mercer... KAWA ADA Mary Snow... MAYKO NGUYEN Narration and Music.... ANIA SOUL A moonlit September night in 1926, in front of a late 19th century home in rural Newfoundland. Salt-Water Moon has a running time of 90 minutes with no intermission. SPIRITS COLLECTION Salt-Water Moon was first presented by Tarragon Theatre, Toronto in This production of Salt-Water Moon was first produced by Factory Theatre, Toronto, ON in February 2015 All rights enquiries to Author s agent: Charles Northcote, Core Literary Inc., Toronto The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches. ABOUT SALT-WATER MOON DAVID FRENCH S SALT-WATER MOON premiered at Tarragon Theatre in 1984 as part of the semi-autobiographical Mercer Family Cycle. Although written over a decade after the first Mercer play, it takes place early in the Mercer family chronology and depicts the tender and tumultuous courtship of Jacob Mercer and Mary Snow. The play won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New 4 mirvish.com Play, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Drama, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award, and was a finalist for the 1985 Governor General s Award for Drama. Salt-Water Moon has received hundreds of productions around the world since its premiere, including a French-language translation by Antonine Maillet, which has been produced across Canada. Happy hour just got better! HÄAGEN-DAZS TRADEMARKS REPRODUCED UNDER LICENSE BY / MARQUES DE COMMERCE HÄAGEN-DAZS REPRODUITES SOUS LICENCE PAR: NESTLÉ CANADA INC., NORTH YORK, ON M2N 6S8

4 THE OFF-MIRVISH SERIES Niagara Wine Country is closer than you might think. IN AUGUST 2012 DAVID MIRVISH SAW a wonderful production of an Irish play called Terminus at the annual SummerWorks Theatre Festival. The production was playing for only a few performances in a venue that held no more than 30 people. He thought it was a shame that more people could not have a chance to see it, so he did something quite unusual and extraordinary. He found a way to make the stage of the Royal Alexandra Theatre a black-box theatre seating 200 people with the playing area located in front of the empty historic auditorium of 1,500 seats. As well, for many years David was searching for a way to showcase the wealth and breadth of Toronto's theatre community and to bring its work to a larger audience. He also wanted to bring acclaimed and important international shows that share a commitment to artistic excellence, and an exploration of language, action and ideas that are challenging, innovative and provocative. These shows often would not be appropriate to play 1,500 or 2,000 seats; but at 700 seats, the Panasonic Theatre is an ideal size for this kind of work. This is how the Off-Mirvish season began. The inaugural season in included Terminus from Outside the March company, Anthony Rapp in Without You, Studio 180 s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park and Mary Walsh in Dancing With Rage. Subsequent seasons included the Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, The Two Worlds of Charlie F., George F. Walker s Dead Metaphor, Buyer & Cellar, Rick Miller s Boom, the Tony Award-winning Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, Seminar starring Tom McCamus, BigMouth and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced. This season s lineup begins with Salt-Water Moon, continues with King Charles III and ends with the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Fun Home. ABOUT FACTORY THEATRE This Mirvish theatre proudly serves wine from Peller Estates. FOUNDED IN 1970, FACTORY WAS THE first theatre company in the country to devote itself to producing 100% Canadian content. In recent years, under the Artistic Direction of Nina Lee Aquino, Factory has become renowned for producing work from exciting and diverse artists from across Canada. From their home at 125 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Factory has led the development and sharing of Canadian stories like the one you are seeing today for over four decades. This Season Factory is producing six plays between September 2017 and May If you like what you see tonight visit factorytheatre.ca to find out more. mirvish.com 7

5 THE COMPANY KAWA ADA Jacob Mercer After graduating from The Boston Conservatory, Kawa was cast on Broadway in Bombay Dreams. Since then, he s played leading roles at major theatres in the country, including Tarragon, Factory, Canadian Stage, The Shaw Festival and Soulpepper Theatre Company, for which his debut performance earned him a Dora Award for Outstanding Actor. His recent screen credits include a recurring role in the CBC series Shoot the Messenger and the animated feature, The Breadwinner, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this September. Kawa is also a writer and has the distinction of being the first Afghan-Canadian published playwright, with the release of his play, The Wanderers, by Playwrights Canada Press. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. MAYKO NGUYEN Mary Snow Select theatre credits: TomorrowLove Outside The March; The Unending Convergence Theatre; Salt-Water Moon Factory Theatre (Dora nomination); LULU v.2 Rhubarb Festival; Passion Play Outside the March/Convergence Theatre/Sheep No Wool (Dora nomination, Best Ensemble); Carried Away On The Crest Of A Wave Tarragon Theatre; Offensive Fouls Hustle N Bustle Theatre (Dora nomination Best TYA Production. Select TV credits: Killjoys, Slasher, Cracked, Rookie Blue, ReGenesis, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. Mayko is a three-time Gemini Award nominee. ANIA SOUL Narration and Music Janisa Weekes aka Ania Soul bridges the gap between two disparate musical worlds. She merges the intimacy and introspection of a singer-songwriter with the rich aesthetic of roots soul and R n B. She is fresh from underscoring music and performing in the Dora award winning play Salt-Water Moon early Shortly after she was accepted into the coveted Early Fall music residency at the Banff Centre, where she had the space and time to create new works for her album due Spring Her lyrical ability to document a soundtrack to her life has left audiences wanting more as she has showcased her original works at NXNE, Canadian Music Week, Manifesto Festival and more. When not performing her own compositions, she channels Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight as she is one of the mesmerizing leading ladies fronting the popular events band The St.Royals in Toronto. Summer 2017 gave her the opportunity to perform main stage at the Vancouver Island Music Festival and collaborate with Sam Cooke s original backing band The Soul Stirrers. Janisa s desire to be an actor alongside a musician comes easily and honed this longing while attending the Rcurrents program at Bcurrent lead by Ahdri Zhina Mandiela from mirvish.com

6 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA THE CREATIVE TEAM A PLAY BY AYAD AKHTAR KAREN GLAVE EXCELLENT! FEARLESS! Throbs with mounting tension! RETURNS AFTER A SOLD-OUT RUN ALEX POCH-GOLDIN RAOUL BHANEJA THE GLOBE AND MAIL NOVEMBER DIRECTED BY ROBERT ROSS PARKER BIRGITTE SOLEM Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge Street /2 ALI MOMEN DAVID FRENCH Playwright David French ( ) was one of Canada s best-known and most successful playwrights. Among his works are the semi-autobiographical Mercer plays: Leaving Home; Of the Fields, Lately; Salt-Water Moon; 1949; and Soldier s Heart. This quintet of plays about a Newfoundland family has also touched audiences in the US, Europe, South America, and Australia. French s other works include the smash-hit backstage comedy Jitters, the pool-hall drama One Crack Out, the memory play That Summer, and translations of Chekhov s The Seagull, and Strindberg s Miss Julie. In 1989, French was inducted into the Newfoundland Arts Hall of Honour, and in 2001 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. Born in Coley s Point, Newfoundland, French made his home in Toronto, but spent 39 summers at his cottage in Cable Head, PEI. David French died in December of RAVI JAIN Director Toronto-based stage director Ravi Jain is a multi-award-winning artist known for making politically bold and accessible theatrical experiences in both small indie productions and large theatres. As the founding artistic director of Why Not Theatre, Ravi has established himself as an artistic leader for his inventive productions, international producing/collaborations and innovative producing models which are aimed to better support emerging artists to make money from their art. Selected directing credits include: For Why Not Theatre: The Prince Hamlet (5 Dora Award Nominations); A Brimful of Asha, I m So Close, Fault Lines: Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands (Governor General Award for playwright Nicolas Billon); Like Mother, Like Daughter (in collaboration with Complicite, London); For Theatre Centre: We are Proud to Present... (4 Dora Award Nominations), Sea Sick (co-directed with Franco Boni); A Lion in the Streets (National Theatre School); Lisa Codrington s The Adventures of the Black Girl in her search for God (Shaw Festival); For Soulpepper: Accidental Death of An Anarchist (Dora Award for Outstanding Production); The 39 Steps (4 Dora Award Nominations); For Factory Theatre, Salt-Water Moon (Dora Award and Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Direction). Consultant director credits include BOOM! (Mirvish/WYRD); and Much Ado about Nothing (Tarragon Theatre). Jain was the inaugural artistic-director-in- residence at The Theatre Centre. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Siminovitch Prize and won the 2012 Pauline McGibbon Award for Emerging Director and the 2016 Canada Council John Hirsch Prize for direction. He is a graduate of the two-year program at École Jacques Lecoq. For more information on Why Not Theatre, TAMARA PROTIC Stage Manager Tamara Protic, a graduate of the York University Theatre Production program, spent seven years with the Classical Theatre Project working on all sorts of Shakespeare and touring Canada mirvish.com 11

7 Integrated Partnerships Connect with our highly affluent and engaged customers through a variety of key touchpoints: and the United States. Most recently she had the pleasure of working with ZoomerMedia/Theatre Brouhaha on Late Night, written and directed by Kat Sandler; Cue6 Productions Byhalia, Mississippi, directed by Jill Harper; and Veritas Theatre s S h e e t s, written and directed by Salvatore Antonio. This past July she toured this wonderful show to Ottawa, and she s thrilled to be back and thankful for the opportunity to work on it again. Tamara would like to send out thank-yous to her parents, Nemanja, Ana, and Trish for their stupendous love and support. Off (Soulpepper); Cambaby (Theatre Mischief); Salt-Water Moon (Factory/Why Not), A Line in the Sand, The Crackwalker (Factory Theatre); Hana Hashimoto (Carousel Players); Objections to Sex and Violence (Sex & Violence Collective). Kaileigh has designed for musicians Elizabeth Shepherd, Nagata Schachu, and Plants and Animals. She is an alumni and instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada and a two-time Dora nominee. THOMAS RYDER PAYNE Sound Designer Thomas Ryder Payne is a composer and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. Selected past work includes designs for Stratford, Shaw, Mirvish, Soulpepper, CanStage, Tarragon, Factory, TPM, YPT, Crows, Modern Times, Aluna, BIBT, Nightwood, Toronto Dance Theatre, NAC, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, RMTC and many others. Thomas has received 2 Dora awards and 17 nominations. CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Red Carpet Corporate Hospitality Events Programme Magazine Digital, , Print and Out of Home Advertising In Venue Partnerships Product Sampling and Branded Activations BRIAN HIMEL t: e: brian.himel@brandsamplified.com JORY AMAR t: e: jory.amar@brandsamplified.com TROY TAYLOR Apprentice Stage Manager For Factory: Debut. For Mirvish: Debut. Elsewhere: Apprentice Stage Manager: The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon), All But Gone (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage), Something Fishy (Lighthouse Festival Theatre), The Seagull (Crows Theatre/Canadian Stage). Assistant Stage Manager: Dance Weekend Ontario 2017, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Fall for Dance North Stage Manager: manicpixiedreamgirls (Rock Bottom Movement), Armband (Human Body Expression). Production Assistant at the Stratford Festival. Graduate of the Ryerson Theatre School. Much love to Mum, Dad, Ryan, Rene, Madison, David, Erika, and all those that have shown kindness to me. KAILEIGH KRYSZTOFIAK Lighting Designer Recent credits: El Retorno (Riser Project); Wildfire (RARE, Soulpepper); The Emancipation of Ms. Lovely, The Breath in Between (Crow s); Superior Donuts (Coal Mine); Laurier (Charlottetown Festival, TNB); Beaver (Storefront); Noises FOR FACTORY THEATRE Artistic Director... 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