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Flush Ink Performing Arts Presents

THE CREW & PRODUCTION

It also takes an entire village to put on a show. Ours is growing…

Samuel Liam Bentley	Samuel Liam Bentley is in Grade 11 and part of the tech crew at his school, which he loves.. He emerged from the womb looking for the stage. He had his first agent by five, much to the horror of his mum. He has been in several films and television shows. He has taken several drama courses, including a three week Shakespeare intensive with Prof. Leslie O’Dell, when he was eight. His favourite performances were in Due South (Paul Gross is really cool!), The Spreading Ground with Dennis Hopper and Witch Blade. His live performances include playing Puck and Macbeth in ‘A Midsummer’s Afternoon Nap’. But what he really wants to do is direct………………….film! Sam has been our Everything Man for Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II, III and She Speaks 2007 & 2008.
Catherine Frid	Catherine Frid's one-act drama Greater Good was selected by 6^th@Penn Theatre in San Diego, California, for inclusion in the Human Rights Play Festival 2007. Her play Golden Door, a full-length drama, was read by Toronto's Praxis Theatre as part of its New Play Reading Series, in December 2006. She sits on the board of directors  of Aluna Theatre in Toronto. Catherine co-produced She Speaks, 2008.
Paddy Gillard-Bentley	Paddy has been involved in one aspect of theatre or another since her Mother, Tessa, was four months pregnant with her performing in Time Out For Ginger. Her full-length play, Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, had its debut in Kitchener, Ont. Canada, in November 2002.  It received its American premier in May - June, 2005, in Denver, Co. at The Playwright Theatre, directed by Cynthia Davies. Two one acts; White Noise, directed by Stuart Scadron-Wattles, and Sanguine Sonata, directed by Gary Kirkham were produced with Theatre & Company and Comic Strip appeared in a festival of shorts in Toronto with The Cabbagetown Theatre Company. Several short plays have been produced: One Tender Lie (Sacramento), In Tense City (North Dakota, Boston and Provincetown, Cynthia’s Story (Provincetown), Frailty Thy Name is Woe (Manhattan). Hunting the Penumbra, Howard and the Snake and The Delicate Art of Breathing, have all received stage readings. A longer version of Frailty Thy Name is Woe will be produced in the upcoming Shakespeare, Made in Canada, in 2007. Paddy is the President of ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights), was in Writer's Bloc, a playwright's group affiliated with Theatre & Company for four years and was a member of The Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Most recently, Paddy performed in The Vagina Monologues, Leave Taking, and Pamphilia. Paddy is the Artistic Director of Flush Ink Performing Arts, and has produced AJS I, II, III and co-produced She Speaks 2007 with Jenni Mundy and 2008 with Catherine Frid.
Brian Kelly	Brian Kelly is the President of Jump Logistics, an international courier company based in Cambridge. If he wasn’t so busy doing that, he would be writing things from plays to lyrics, he would be acting, maybe even try his hand at directing, he would finish his short film, resume his photographic passion, play his guitar on every decent beach in the world and he would have a really cool puppet tv show. Brian excels at flying a stunt kite perched on top of a huge hay bale, while connecting deliveries across the country on his blackberry. More than all these things, he loves to hang out with his son, Liam. Aside from his company, Jump Logistics, being an official Flush Ink Sponsor, Brian has been our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008.
Gary Kirkham	Gary Kirkham is a playwright, actor, filmmaker, et al. His play, Queen Milli of Galt, won the Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition and will be part of the 2007 Blyth Festival Season. His one act play, Look, was adapted into a short film staring Mike Peng and Alan Sapp. His newest play, Falling: A Wake, will premiere at the Registry Theatre March 15-24, 2007! Gary is a member of Lost & Found Theatre. He has also acted with Theatre & Company and most recently, MT Space, touring in their version of The Season of Immigration. Gary spent years as an improviser with several comedy troupes including Mental Floss and was in The Second City’s Master class. And, if you didn’t blink, you might have seen him in several sketches on The Kids in the Hall. As a filmmaker, Gary filming Bard on the Street, a series of Shakespearean monologues performed on locations throughout the region. Gary has been the Assistant Producer for AJS I, II, III and has been our talk-back facilitator for She Speaks 2007 & 2008.
KARI KOKKO	Kari earned a BFA from York University in theatre production, and has enjoyed working in various capacities with various theatre companies. Favourite credits include doing the lighting designs for Vigil (Lost&Found Theatre), The Season of Immigration to the West, Yes or No, and Pinteresque (all with The Multicultural Theatre Space). Favourite non-theatre credits include working at the Working Centre (first in the Recycle Cycles community bicycle resource centre, and then in the Queen Street Commons cafe), and studying music at Wilfred Laurier University. Kari co-stage managed Asphalt Jungles Shorts II, and we are happy to have her back. Kari was the co-Stage Manager of Asphalt Jungle Shorts II, and the SM for AJS III.
Nicole Lee Quesnel	Nicole is looking forward to working with Paddy again (though she still has trouble not thinking of underwear when she hears the title of the project).  Nicole has been a professional theatre artist in Southern Ontario since moving here from California in 1997.  Selected credits: being one of the founding members of Lost & Found Theatre; STAGE MANAGER: Vigil, Cotton Patch Gospel (Lost & Found Theatre), Ivanka Returns, Hockey Mom Hockey Dad (Showboat Festival Theatre), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Perimeter Institute), Shady Business (Theatre Cambridge) Metamorphoses, Fire, Crossing Delancey, Beauty and the Beast; Problem Child, Transit of Venus, Queen Milli of Galt, Quilters,Three in the Back Two in the Head, Shadowlands, Waiting for Godot (and a whack of other plays when she was the resident stage manager at Theatre & Company); DIRECTOR: Eleemosynary (Lost & Found Theatre), Lady Windermere's Fan (Redeemer College University),The Real Inspector Hound, Magician's Nephew (Theatre & Company); ACTOR:  A Lost & Found Christmas, Radio Leacock (Lost & Found Theatre); The Art of Dining, The Dayboy and the Nightgirl (Theatre & Company); TEACHER (acting, directing, stage management) Redeemer College University, Heritage Bible College, Waterloo Community Arts Centre, and the Studio at Theatre & Company (of which Nicole was the education coordinator in the 2004-2005 season).  This spring, Nicole was also the acting production manager of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.  Nicole's favourite credit to date: Mrs. Richard Quesnel. Nicole was Stage Manager of Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, and co-Stage Manager for AJS II.
	Lindsay Stewart has an amazing bio, but unfortunately, he hasn’t sent it to me yet. Nor has he sent me a photo, so I’ve opted for this lovely portrait of him, dressed as a Vampire for Come As You Were. When he sends me a bio and a more recent and less gruesome picture, I will alter this space. Lindsay has become our filmographer. He’s filmed AJS I & III and She Speaks 2008.
Virgil Burnett	Virgil Burnett was born in Kansas in 1928, Virgil Burnett is an author and illustrator whose work has been widely published in Europe and North America. He received his undergraduate education at Columbia University in New York, where he studied with Edward Melcarth, a Social realist painter. In 1950 he was drafted, trained as a combat engineer and sent to Europe where he served for two years in a propaganda company as an artist-illustrator. After his military service he attended graduate school at Berkeley, taking a master's degree in art history. When a Fulbright scholarship took Burnett to Paris in 1956, he encountered other expatriate artists including David Hill, who remained a close friend until his death in 1977. Burnett also met Maurice Darantiere, a French publisher, who made him aware of the expressive possibilities of the book arts. By 1960 he was working primarily as an illustrator. A professor in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Waterloo since the early 1970's, Burnett has created an artistic oeuvre of extraordinary scope and breadth. (From Beglo, Jo Nordley. "Text,Image, Memory, and Illusion" in Virgil Burnett: a Retrospective Exhibition 1960-1990. Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo Library, 1991). We are so grateful for Virgil allowing us to use his amazing artwork, Muse, for She Speaks 2007 & 2008
Bruce Wolff	Bruce Wolff was more surprised than anyone to be among this group of actors in the first Asphalt Jungle Shorts. But that was ages ago. Since then, he’s participated as an actor in She Speaks, Asphalt Jungle II and Asphalt Jungle III. Now that he’s feeling quite at home on the stage, wherever the stage might be, we’re going to put him back stage for this show. Bruce is beginning to realize his secret dream of returning to the glory years of writing, producing and acting in high school productions.   His day job (which he won't be quitting anytime soon) at Wilfrid Laurier in the Biology Department gives him plenty of opportunity to practice his oratory skills. It is most likely that work, time with his kids and friends, and traveling will provide sufficient incentive to keep the stage an enjoyable avocation. Bruce was our Stage Manager for She Speaks 2008.

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