CRAWLSPACE CREATED AND PERFORMED BY KAREN HINES ARTIST NOTE: KAREN HINES CAVEAT EMPTOR. solo series sponsor

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1 solo series sponsor CRAWLSPACE CREATED AND PERFORMED BY KAREN HINES }{ approximate running time: 85 minutes there will be no intermission ARTIST NOTE: KAREN HINES CAVEAT EMPTOR How and where do we live? What did we do to get there? Do we have the imagination to be somewhere else? Crawlspace is the second play in what I think of as a shelter trilogy. The trio includes Drama: Pilot Episode (set in the luxe and haunted Hotel Nakwaga), as well as All the Little Animals I Have Eaten (set in a condominium building that features a micro French farm in its green spaces: hyper-local produce and cute little lambs you can... pet). Crawlspace is inspired by a true story. The three plays are concerned with precarity; with the desire to transcend one s circumstances; with the overwhelming yearning for a place to rest, to feel at home. I have looked through dark, comedic lenses as I have written these plays as I wonder where we are going and how we got here. Dark, but in the end these plays cleave to the light because I think of comedy as a kind of duty... and that real estate is weirdly funny. Crawlspace is about property, ownership, shelter, and security, among other things. The play premiered at, and was commissioned by, a tiny downtown Toronto art gallery, Videofag, in the fall of The gallery had itself been at the centre of a real estate war involving Walmart and its plans to scoop up the surrounding Kensington Market neighbourhood in yet another Big Store build. That context was embraced by our production and was itself a player. We also did house parties before and after the first run: in a narrow Annex Victorian worth a million; in the kitchen at the Debajehmujig Creation Centre on Manitoulin; in an Edmonton tear-down; and in living rooms in Toronto s west and east ends. These private performances still happen, from time to time, as do public performances most recently in a micro-theatre in the centre of Vancouver s macro-market. In every case, with this play, as with the world of real estate, location, location, location matters. Where it is is where you are. So, welcome. We re glad that you re here. The doors will be locked for your safety. The room has been treated for your comfort. You will be sheltered to the best of our knowledge. KAREN HINES, Creator and Performer of Crawlspace. karen hines. photo: gary mulcahey

2 ARTISTS & BIOGRAPHIES CRAWLSPACE for crawlspace: Karen Hines Creator & Performer Kendra Bator Executive Producer Sascha Cole* Onstage Performance Associate & Associate Producer Sandra Balcovske, Blake Brooker Dramaturgy Kate Lynch Directorial Consultant Michelle Tracey* Set Designer & Associate Lighting Designer Sandi Somers* Lighting Designer Anton de Groot Sound Designer Greg Morrison Musical Compositions Georgina Beaty Production Dramaturgy for soulpepper: Lisa Li Producer Evan Bonnah-Hawkes Technical Director Lisa Nighswander Head of Properties Robert Harding Production Stage Manager Liesl Low* Stage Manager SANDRA BALCOVSKE DRAMATURG: spent many years at The Second City, where she taught classes and directed the Touring Company and eight Mainstage shows. It was there that she met Karen Hines and started collaborating with her on the POCHSY plays and films. Sandra was director and dramaturge of Linda Griffiths The Game of Inches, Spiral Woman and the Dirty Theatre, of the third iteration of The Drowsy Chaperone, and of Dan Redican s It s Always You, which was picked as a hit of the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival. Sandra has been nominated for a Canadian Comedy award and three Dora Mavor Moore awards for directing. Currently working with Justin Miller on Pearle Harbour s Chautauqua. GEORGINA BEATY PRODUCTION DRAMATURG: Director/Dramaturg: Big Shot (crosscountrytour/ NextStage); Lavinia (Unofest, Wakefest); How Should a Person Be? (revolver fest). Assistant Director: Linda Griffith s Heaven Above, Heaven Below. With Architect Theatre: Like There s No Tomorrow (SummerWorks); This Must Be The Place (Passe Muraille); Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show (PasseMuraille, Undercurrents, revolver, tour). Select Acting: Extremophiles (Writer/Performer/Producer, Summer- Works); Crawlspace (VideoFag); Stitch (Native Earth); Summer Spectacular (Small Wooden Shoe); The Graduate (Segal Centre); The Shape of a Girl (YPT/Green Thumb Theatre - Jessie Award); The Huron Bride (Vertigo); My Turquoise Years (Arts Club); Unity (1918) (Alberta Theatre Projects); And So It Goes, Bone Cage (Downstage). *member of the soulpepper academy

3 BLAKE BROOKER C.M. DRAMATURG: is the founder and artistic director of One Yellow Rabbit Performance theatre in Calgary. Recent projects at Soulpepper: director of Sylvia Plath Must Not Die and Doing Leonard Cohen. In development for Soulpepper, The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson, adapted with Denise Clarke. Recent dramaturgy: All the Little Animals by Karen Hines; Young Drunk Punk by Bruce McCulloch; Kate Bowie by Greg MacArthur; Betroffenheit by Jonathan Young; and Crystal Pite and Fat Jack Falstaff s Last Hour by John Murrell. KENDRA BATOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: is a general manager and executive producer. Favourite credits include: Toronto: Crawlspace; Soulpepper on 42nd Street; Matilda. San Francisco: Birdheart (Julian Crouch and Saskia Lane); Early Shaker Spirituals (The Wooster Group); Hundred Days (The Bengsons, Record Album); New York City: Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story; Murder for Two; Martin Moran s All The Rage (Lortel Award); Eve Ensler s Emotional Creature; 3C; Elective Affinities (Starring Zoe Caldwell); Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn; Evil Dead The Musical; Almost, Maine; Touring: Murder for Two; OTHER: Season of Cambodia (A Cambodian Arts Festival, produced by Cambodian Living Arts); Everybody Rise! A Tribute to Elaine Stritch. SASCHA COLE ONSTAGE PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATE & ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Caledon, Ontario. SOULPEPPER 2017: Crawlspace. FOR SOULPEPPER: It s a Wonderful Life, Winter Waves Festival. OTHER THEATRE: Post Eden (Suburban Beast); Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (GCTC); New Jerusalem (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); The Diary of Anne Frank (Shakespeare in Action); Shakespeare s Nigga (Obsidian Theatre); Bethune Imagined (Factory Theatre); Rock N Roll (Canadian Stage/Citadel). FILM & TELEVISION: My One Demand, Killjoys, Remedy, Murdoch Mysteries, The Family, CBC s The Great War. OTHER: Graduate of BADA Midsummer Program (England), National Theatre School (Montreal). Current member of the Soulpepper Academy. ANTON DE GROOT SOUND DESIGNER is a set, light and sound designer based in Calgary. Select credits include: The Shoplifters, Mary Poppins (Theatre Calgary); The Circle, Waiting for the Parade (ATP); All s Well That Ends Well, Macbeth (Shakespeare Company); Bashir Lazhar, Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage); The Tall Building (Handsome Alice); The Hollow, Travels With My Aunt (Vertigo Theatre). Anton received the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Set Design for Travels With My Aunt in 2014 and Outstanding Light Design for Macbeth in He is currently working as Assistant Light Designer for the Avon Theatre at the Stratford Festival of Canada.

4 ROBERT HARDING born and raised in Lewisporte, Newfoundland. SOULPEPPER 2017: Production Stage Manager. Stage Manager: Of Human Bondage, Cage, Spoon River, Crawlspace. FOR SOULPEPPER: It s a Wonderful Life, The 39 Steps, The Odd Couple, The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, Marat/Sade, The Dybbuk, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Spoon River, Of Human Bondage, The Norman Conquests, The Barber of Seville. OTHER THEATRE: Once On This Island (Acting Up Stage/Obsidian); The Best Brothers, Communion, A Beautiful View, How it Works, Past Perfect (Tarragon); Stuff Happens (Studio 180/Mirvish); Parade (Acting Up Stage/Studio 180); Divisadero: A Performance, This Is What Happens Next (Necessary Angel). KAREN HINES CREATOR & PERFORMER: Karen is an award-winning writer, performer and director and a two-time finalist for the Governor General s Literary Award for Drama. Her plays include The Pochsy Plays, Drama: Pilot Episode and, most recently, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, which premiered this January at the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary. Karen is a Dora Award-winning stage performer and director, having directed all of adult horror clowns Mump & Smoot s productions, as well as two premieres for the late Linda Griffiths, Age of Arousal and HeavenAbove. Karen s performances and productions have been presented across North America and overseas. She has performed extensively in Canadian television and film, and her own prize-winning short films have screened on five continents. LIESL LOW STAGE MANAGER born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SOULPEPPER 2017: Kim s Convenience, Crawlspace. FOR SOULPEPPER: Winter Waves Festival, Chasse-Galerie, Alligator Pie, Communist Till Payday. OTHER THEATRE: Union Summer Festival (BaAM Productions); The Beaux Strategem, The Enchanted (George Brown); A Year with Frog and Toad (Neptune Theatre); Ghost Tango (Vocalypse/Bradyworks); Lungs, Outside Mullingar, Opening Night, Venus in Fur, The Motor Trade, Be My Baby (Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre). OTHER: Liesl received her BA Honours in Theatre Production from the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University. She is currently a member of the Soulpepper Academy. GREG MORRISON MUSICAL COMPOSITION With Hines: Hello Hello (Tarragon Theatre, The Space), Pochsy s Lips, Oh, Baby, Citizen Pochsy and Pochsy Unplugged (Toronto Fringe, Canadian/U.S. tours); Score for the short films Pochsy: An Industrial Film and A Tax on Pochsy. OTHER THEATRE: The Drowsy Chaperone (Toronto Fringe, Theatre Passe Muraille, Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway); Mump and Smoot In Something Else (Canadian Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre); Mump and Smoot in Flux (Canadian Stage); Mump and Smoot in Cracked (ATP); Toad of Toad Hall (ATP).

5 FILM & TELEVISION: Songs for Slings & Arrows (Rhombus Media); Getting Along Famously (CBC); The Joe Blow Show (Comedy Network); Sensitive Skin (Rhombus Media); Songs for the feature film The Boy Who Smells Like A Fish (Rhombus Media). SANDI SOMERS LIGHTING DESIGNER Over the last few decades Sandi s has lit stages for companies such as OYR, ATP, The Alberta Ballet and Lunchbox Theatre. Her recent productions include lighting and projection design for Making Treaty 7, set and lighting design for The University of Lethbridge s Caucasian Chalk Circle, lighting design for OYR s All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, and Wordfest s Crawlspace. Outside of designing for theatre, Sandi has lit events indoors and out, and is the lighting designer for The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta. MICHELLE TRACEY SET DESIGNER born and raised in Oakville, Ontario. SOULPEPPER 2017: Cawlspace. FOR SOULPEPPER: It s A Wonderful Life. OTHER THEATRE: The Unending (Convergence Theatre); Hamlet, Julius Caesar (Canadian Stage), The Assholes (Theatre Smith-Gilmour), Still (Binocular Theatre), Taking Care of Baby (The Storefront Theatre), SOS (Erika Batdorf), The Fatal Gaze, Last Days (Uo T Opera), Much Ado About Nothing (Tarragon Theatre), M dea Undone (Tapestry Opera). OTHER: Graduate of York University 2013 (Toronto), Design Intern with Tarragon Theatre (Toronto). Member of the Soulpepper Academy. CRAWLSPACE WAS ORIGINALLY PRODUCED AT VIDEOFAG IN TORONTO IN SEPTEMBER NOMINATED FOR 5 DORA AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PLAY AND BEST PRODUCTION CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Karen Hines FEATURING Georgina Beaty DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG Sandra Balcovske DIRECTOR & EFFECTS John Turner SCENERY & LIGHTING DESIGN Patrick Lavender SPECIAL EFFECTS CONSULTANT Michael Kennard STAGE MANAGER Jennifer Lee PRODUCTION MANAGER Kelly Read EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Kendra Bator CREATIVE PRODUCERS Videofag / Jordan Tannahill + William Ellis MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN Greg Morrison + Kiran Sachdev

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