Blithe Spirit

(he/him) For Theatre Calgary (selected): The Mousetrap, Blow Wind High Water, King Lear, Major Barbara, Pride and Prejudice, Enron, A Christmas Carol (2011), Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town. Based in Calgary, Tyrell has also collaborated with Alberta Theatre Projects, Vertigo Theatre, Downstage, Lunchbox, Sage Theatre, Black Radish Theatre, Ground Zero, Hit & Myth, The Shakespeare Company. Elsewhere: The Stratford Festival, The National Arts Centre, Drayton Entertainment, American Conservatory Theater, Bard On The Beach, among others. Tyrell is an established voice and radio actor who occasionally dabbles in film and television.

(she/her/they) Theatre Calgary debut. Ali is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist focused on devising, puppetry, and clown. They hold an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, where they co-founded HOT TRASH! Theatre, a devised theatre company that focuses on DIY aesthetics, physical storytelling, and general nonsense. She also is the new Artistic Director for live programming at the Festival of Animated Objects here in Calgary. Recent credits: All I Want for Christmas, Go For Gold Audrey Pham (Lunchbox); INISKIM (Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry); Peter and the Wolf (The Old Trout Puppet Workshop); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Persephone Theatre); and seasons 1 & 2 of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (The Jim Henson Company and Apple TV+). Ali is a recipient of the Duval Lang Emerging Leader Award and an Elizabeth Sterling Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement in Theatre for Young Audiences.

(she/her) Theatre Calgary debut. Elsewhere: Grease (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); Canadian premiere of May We All (42nd Street Productions); Adele (Legends, Live!); London Road (UK Production). Louise is a British born actor from the South-west of England, and is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a passionate vocal coach and teacher and has worked with such companies as Storybook Theatre and Youth Theatre Canada. Louise is excited to be making her first appearance at Theatre Calgary, and would like to thank her supportive family, friends, creative team and crew and her ever-patient fiancé who has spent many nights hearing these lines over, and over again. @louiseduff_vocals

(she/her) Theatre Calgary debut. Elsewhere: Murder on the Links (Vertigo); Beautiful Man (Downstage, Verb and Handsome Alice); The Replacement (SAL); Parts and Labour (Field Work); Between Us, inVISIBLE (Handsome Alice); Hamlet: A Ghost Story, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company); A Streetcar Named Desire (Spirit Fire Theatre); The Club (Theatre Yes/High Performance Rodeo). Film & TV: Dickens of a Christmas (Polyscope), This Too Shall Pass (Telefilm), Faultline (Independent), Operation: Clean Slate, Word of Mouth (Green Productions), Lucky Star, Second Hand Luxury, Circle of Steel (KinoSum), TinStar (Prime), Jann (CTV), Heartland (CBC),Wynona Earp (SciFi). Much love to my family.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: A Streetcar Named Desire (2025), The Importance of Being Earnest (2022, Betty Mitchell Award for Lead Performance in a Comedy). Select theatre credits: The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, Teenage Dick (Alberta Theatre Projects); The Extractionist (Vertigo Theatre); Chariots of Fire (Rosebud Theatre). Film credits: My Life with the Walter Boys (Netflix), Joe Pickett (Paramount+), and A Cowboy Against Thunder (Numera Films) where she won the AMPIA Award for Best Female Performance. She would like to thank her friends and family for their unending support, and Nicole and Mom, for carrying her always. For her own darling, Sam. @emilyjaynehoward

For Theatre Calgary: Over 40 productions, including Selma Burke, The Scarlet Letter, Twelfth Night (2018), The Audience, 7 Stories, Glorious, Humble Boy, Copenhagen, True West, Private Lives, Memoir, The Importance of Being Earnest (1995), Charley’s Aunt, Amadeus, Tartuffe. Elsewhere: The Seafarer (ATP); Sleuth (Vertigo Theatre); Resident Aliens (Theatre New Brunswick); Driving Miss Daisy (StageWest); Gilgamesh Lazyboy (One Yellow Rabbit); Waiting For Godot (Black Radish Theatre); 1979 (Alberta Theatre Projects); Flight Risk (Lunchbox Theatre); Our Town (Caravan Farm Theatre). Film & TV: Things I Know To Be True, Heartland, Caitlin’s Way, Shanghai Noon, You Know My Name. Awards: Christopher recently received the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his contribution to Canadian theatre. He’s also the recipient of eight of Calgary’s Betty Mitchell Awards and the 2018 Harry & Martha Cohen Award.

(she/her) Theatre Calgary debut. An award winning stage performer for over 40 years, Corrine is a 12-year member of the Shaw Festival, starring in favourite productions as Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, The Seagull, Lady Windemere’s Fan, Faith Healer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Come Back Little Sheba. Other favourites include: Withrow Park (Tarragon Theatre); Middletown (Shaw/Crowe’s Theatre); The Penelopiad (RSC-UK/NAC); Mamma Mia, Memory of Water (Mirvish); The Wrong Son (NAC); Shirley Valentine (ATP/The Globe); Love and Anger (ATP/ Citadel/ Vancouver Playhouse); El Crocodor (Touchstone Theatre). TV: Rachel Lynde on Anne With An E (Netflix/CBC), The voice of Emma on Corner Gas Animated, Schitt's Creek and Moonshine (CBC). Corrine would like to dedicate her performance as Madame Arcati to Christopher Newton.

(he/him) For Theatre Calgary: A Christmas Carol (2007-09, 2019, 2023-24), As You Like It (Swing), The Importance of Being Earnest (2022, Betty Mitchell nom). Select Credits: Struck, Reverie (Ghost River Theatre); Hamlet Frequency, Henry VI Part III (Shakespeare Company); The Thin Man, n00b (Vertigo Theatre); 52 Pick-Up (Lunchbox Theatre); Journey of Lifetime, Snow Angel, Night Light, Shoes of Sand (Quest Theatre); Smash Cut Freeze, Radioheaded II (One Yellow Rabbit); The Goat (ATP). Select Film & TV credits: Upper Class Crimes (JB Paramount), The Abandons (Netflix), Under the Banner of Heaven (FX), The Ties That Bind (RoadWest Pictures/Reckseidler Films). Christopher is also a playwright (A Dinner Party, n00b), emerging screenwriter (Bladder Shy, Self-Tape) and arts educator with Theatre Calgary, Calgary Young People’s Theatre, Quest Theatre, Evergreen Theatre, Think Fast/Pense Vite and JUBE School. He is eternally grateful for his wife, Alexandra, and their son, Harrison.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Actor - The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet (SITP 2013); Fight and Intimacy Director - The Mousetrap, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SBTB 2023); Fight Director - A Streetcar Named Desire (2025); Assistant Fight Director - Forgiveness, A Christmas Carol (2017). Favourite recent credits: Actor - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (ATP); The Tempest, Julius Caesar, The Three Musketeers (Shakespeare Co); The Money Shot (Ground Zero - Betty Mitchell nom). Fight and Intimacy Director - Jekyll and Hyde, The Extractionist (Vertigo); The Ministry of Grace (MT7); Teenage Dick (ATP). Fight Director - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Betty Mitchell Award), Richard III (2023) (Shakespeare Co); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (ATP); All I Want for Christmas (Lunchbox - Betty Mitchell nom.); GIANT (Ghost River - Betty Mitchell nom.). Intimacy Director - Kisapmata (Lunchbox). Brianna is thrilled to be working with this amazing team. Thanks and love to Logan for all his support! @bricmae

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Director - The Miracle Worker, Crimes of the Heart, A Christmas Carol (2001-03), Gaslight, All My Sons, Memoir. Actor - Mom’s The Word for Crying Out Loud, A Christmas Carol (1990), Tartuffe. Elsewhere: The Antyssey, Snow White, Snow Angel, Shoes of Sand (Quest Theatre); King Henry IV Part I, The Edible Woman, London Cuckolds, The Constant Wife, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Junction); Billy Bishop Goes to War (Alberta Theatre Projects); Village Wooing (Shaw Festival). Nikki is the Artistic Director of Quest Theatre, and loves the process of creating theatre through exploration, imaginative play, and collaboration with exceptional artists. She gives a big thank you to the board and team at Quest. Christopher and Charlie are her favourite playmates.

(he/him) For Theatre Calgary (selected): The Mousetrap, Million Dollar Quartet, TC Returns, A Christmas Carol (lighting – 1999, set & projections – 2019, 2023-24, production design – 2020, 2021), Billy Elliot the Musical, Mom’s The Word: For Crying Out Loud, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Raisin in the Sun. Elsewhere: Pride and Prejudice, Clue (Citadel); Alberta Kitchen Party, Stealing Sam, Disgraced, The New Canadian Curling Club (ATP); Misery, Clue, Murder on the Orient Express, Strangers on a Train, Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Vertigo); Don Pasquale, Macbeth, Eugene Onegin, South Pacific (Calgary Opera); Our Canada, Class Acts (Alberta Ballet); Better Get Hit in Your Soul, Modern Vaudevillians, Juliet and Romeo (DJD). Scott has also designed for such companies as Quest Theatre, Lunchbox, and The Shakespeare Company. scottreiddesign.com

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: The Importance of Being Earnest (2022). This is a bucket list show and Ralamy is thrilled to return to Theatre Calgary to create with these ghostly, creative souls. Select credits: Charlotte’s Web, The Seafarer, Teenage Dick (ATP); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Company); The Ballad of Georges Boivin (Lunchbox); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Vertigo); Fresh Hell (Fire Exit); Screwball Comedy, Elvis Has Left the Building (Stage West); The Importance of Being Earnest, Much Ado About Nothing (CYPT); Hair, Sweet Charity (Brown Cow Collective); Annie, The Neverending Story (Storybook); Waiting for Godot (Black Radish Theatre). These beautiful costumes are the work of the immensely talented Theatre Calgary Costume Team, and Ralamy is deeply grateful for their brilliance, wisdom and support. We had so much fun! Love always to Hugh, Avalon, Aidan, Maya and Juno.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Blow Wind High Water. Elsewhere: A Killing at la Cucina, The Woman in Black, The Girl on the Train, The Extractionist, Cipher, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Vertigo Theatre); The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, To the Light, Red, Cockroach, The Circle (ATP); Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Vimy (Western Canada Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher, The Penelopiad, Julius Caesar (Citadel Theatre); Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre); Bronte: The World Without (Stratford Festival); Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow Stage); Glory (WCT/ATP/National Tour); The Drowning Girls (National Tour). Film & TV: Costume design for the feature film Cut Bank. Narda performed in a production of Evita here at TC many years ago. Go to narda.ca to see images of her work.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: The Importance Of Being Earnest (2022). Alixandra is thrilled to be back at Theatre Calgary. Other sound design/composition credits include: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson of #2B, Gaslight (Vertigo Theatre); The Dark Lady, Home For The Holidays, All I Want For Christmas (Lunchbox Theatre); Magic Lies: An Evening with WO Mitchell, Grace & Glorie, Lilia! (Rosebud Theatre); and Assistant Sound Design for Grand Magic, Richard II, and Wedding Band (Stratford Festival). Alixandra’s compositions have also been featured in Alberta Kitchen Party (Alberta Theatre Projects) and Parts & Labour (Fieldwork). Home For The Holidays, her original musical co-written with Cayley Wreggitt, received two Betty Mitchell Awards, for both Outstanding Sound Design/Composition and Outstanding Musical. Thanks to Conrad and Clarence for the never-ending love and support.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Associate Director - A Christmas Carol (2023-24), Resident Voice Coach – More than 80 productions since 2000 including: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Lehman Trilogy, Beaches the Musical, Selma Burke, Meteor Shower, The Mousetrap, Forgiveness, The Importance of Being Earnest, Million Dollar Quartet, 12 seasons of Shakespeare by the Bow and 18 years of A Christmas Carol (incl. playing Mrs. Cratchit from 2001-02). Additionally, Jane adapted and directed the 2022 ShakesGo production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has also worked for ATP, Vertigo, and The Shakespeare Company, and coaches Voice and Presence through her business Voice Activated. She has taught Voice for the Actor and Acting at such institutions as York University, Harvard University, Southern Methodist University, MRU, UAlberta, and is currently on faculty in the Drama Division in the School of Creative & Performing Arts at UCalgary.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Actor - A Christmas Carol (2004-05), Henceforward. Jennie is thrilled to be part of the TC Mentors program! Jennie is a theatre artist with over 25 years experience and has been recognized through Betty Mitchell, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, Hamilton Arts Awards: Outstanding Actress, Outstanding Achievement/ Performance in TYA, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical. Jennie has worked with the National Arts Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, ATP, The Cultch, Ghost River, The Only Animal/ Vancouver Olympics, and children’s, arts, folk, puppet festivals. Jennie served as Theatre Aquarius (Ontario) Education Director for 8 seasons, and previous co-Artistic Director of Green Fools Theatre. Her original works and collaborations have toured Canada and internationally. She recently returned to Alberta with her family and is Education & Outreach Associate at Theatre Calgary.

* TC Mentors participants are generously supported by RBC Foundation.

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Beaches (Script Supervisor), Meteor Shower (Assistant SM), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Go), The Importance of Being Earnest (Apprentice SM). Past Stage Management credits include: Go For Gold Audrey Pham, Heaven (APSM) (Lunchbox); The Orange Dot (Sage); Beautiful Man, The F Word, Men Express Their Feelings (Downstage); For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Magic Lies: An Evening with W.O. Mitchell, A Christmas Story, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, The Christians, An Inspector Calls (Rosebud Theatre); Gaslight (ASMVertigo Theatre); Makambe Speaks (Ghost River Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (CYPT). She is also an actor, musician, seamstress, and baker of many cupcakes. Naomi is delighted to be back at Theatre Calgary this season!

(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Selma Burke, Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville, Steel Magnolias. Jennifer is ecstatic to come back to Theatre Calgary for Blithe Spirit! Elsewhere: Don Pasquale, The Marriage of Figaro (Calgary Opera); Murder on the Links, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse (Vertigo Theatre), Static (Chromatic Theatre Co.Pro Inside Out Theatre); Naughty But Nice 8 & 9 (Forte); Hookman (SCPA & Chromatic Theatre); Undressed (ATP), 我的名是张欣恩(Chromatic Theatre). In her free time, you will see her spending time at local events, exploring new restaurants, or playing video games. She is grateful for her parents, her fur baby, Max, and her partner, Lowell, for their immense love and continued support.

(she/her) Theatre Calgary debut. Allison is a Treaty 6 & 7 based stage manager, production manager, director, and performer. Recent credits include: Murder on the Links, Misery (Vertigo Theatre); Henry IV Part 2, Henry IV Part 1, Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing (Prime Stock Theatre); Celexia (Citizen Theatre); Date Night (Sunflower Collective Theatre); Home for the Holidays, Countries Shaped Like Stars, Cottagers and Indians, Stage One Festival 2023 (Associate Artist Company PM, Lunchbox Theatre). Thank you to her friends and family for their enthusiastic support. If Allison ever starts to haunt you, she may be appeased by giving her chocolate, a beach day, and a good laugh.