BIOS OF THE DAMNED!

RON KENNELL  (The Barker) Most recently Ron has appeared in Ines de Castro (Whetstone) and the Dick’s a Dame (Toronto Fringe). Other credits include: Monsieur D’Eon is a Woman (Pea Green)- Dora nomination. Coyote Ugly (DVxT), MacBeth (Modern Times), The Juniper Tree (Red House) and Conquest of the South Pole (Wild Pig). TV/Film credits include roles in Bait, Third Miracle, Nikita, Amazon, Final Jeopardy, Feast of All Saints, and Charms for the Easy Life. In the fall Ron can be seen in the Canadian Stage Production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

HUME BAUGH (Scary Actor One):  Previously at Summerworks: The Erotic Curve of the Earth. Other: Toronto Fringe: Looper; Mysterium Tremendum; Smoke; Tiny Addictions; The Lonquest; The Punk Topper; Persephone (Saskatoon): Phedre; The Duchess; The Catalon Plays; Dancocks Dance; Grand Theatre (London): The Pheonix Lottery; Celinore; Eclectic: Weldon Rising; Threshold: Howl, The Language of Love; Upcoming; Forms of Devotion; Factory: A Short History of Night; Tarragon: A Woman’s Comedy; Festival of Classics (Oakville): Love’s Labours Lost; Twelfth Night. Artword: Whoever You Are; Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton): Jupiter In July. Squeeze Co-op: The Squeeze. Buddies: Sexual Healing. Passe Muraille: Sleeproom. Stratford: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing.

KIMWUN PEREHINEC (Scary Actor Two): As a child, her sense of direction failed her with traumatic results and Kimwun developed an irrational and powerful, sweaty palmed fear of public transit. She’s over it now, thank goodness, because it was just weird. Selected Credits include: Static Cling (The Ninth Airborne); Vicious Little Boyz in the Rain and the Charmers Award Winning Pop-Song (Theatre Direct’s Buncha Young Artists Havin Their Say Festival); Animal Music (Straw Dogs), Sleeping Beauty and Winnie-the-Pooh (Stage West); Hospital (Summerworks); Lona in Pillars of Society (George Brown); Olivia in Twelfth Night and Candy in Unidentified Human Remains… (University of Waterloo)

DARREN KEAY (Scary Actor Three): Darren isn’t afraid of anything. He’s also prone to lying. Earwigs give him the willies and he has an unnatural aversion to the deep-end of swimming pools, as he always imagines a long, black, slimy tentacle squirming out of one of the jet valves and strangling him underwater. Once in a while he gets stage fright. Some occurrences having been during: The Edible Woman (Theatre on the Grand), Walking on Water (New Stages Peterborough); Tourist Trap (Theatre Aquarius), An Inspector Calls (Neptune Theatre). He can also be seen on the big shiny part of a dark theatre in Jim Alodis’ The Uncles and The New Waterford Girl. Thanks for coming and remember… ugh!

 MELODY A. JOHNSON (Scary Actor Four): Melody is ghoulishly happy to be a part of the Sideshow premiere. Selected theatre credits include The Glass Menagerie (Manitoba Theatre Centre), Six Degrees of Separation (Theatre Aquarius), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Equity Showcase), The Europeans (Dora nomination), Seven Lears and It’s All True (Dora nomination)for Necessary Angel Theatre Company . For the Stratford Festival, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Julius Caesar.  Comedic turns include  the Second City mainstage’s Dora nominated Last Tango on Lombard , and Nude Beachwear 100% Off, (2000 Canadian Comedy Award Nomination), and Sin City. Upcoming:  The Piper, by Colleen for Necessary Angel. What scares Melody...the Kid Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

NATASHA MYTNOWYCH (Necromancy): Natasha has just finished her final year at Lorne Park Secondary School. At LP, she assistant directed and designed Godzilla The Musical, and was costume crew head for Web of Murder and Jitters. Outside of School, Natasha worked on Mirvish Production’s Rent and Needfire, and was the scenic designer for the 2000 Toronto Fringe Festival’s A Touch of Death (Gasp!)- A Clown Play. This year Natasha directed and designed LP’s Vicious Little Boyz In The Rain. Most recently she wrote, directed and designed Honalee, which competed in the 2001 Sears Festival and won Best Script at the school, district and provincial levels. At the Provincial Showcase, she received the first Mira Award for Extraordinary Accomplishment in Direction and Design, and the Ken Watts Memorial Scholarship. In the Summerworks Festival, Natasha is also Stage-managing Matthew MacFadzean’s richardthesecond, at the Artword Theatre. Natasha would like to thank everyone she has worked with this past year for their support and inspiration.

STEVE MINNIE: (Stage Manager): Steve is thrilled to be involved with Summer Theatre once again. He has been busy working on productions during the Spring and Fall. Steve has been involved with Community Theatre for the past seven years. He has done many things, such as SM, ASM, sound, set painting, set decor and props. Most recently he stage managed a Fringe and jumped right into Summerworks show. Other Stage Management credits include: Where’s Charlie, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Music Man, Rumors, Arsenic & Old Lace, True West, Hedda Gabbler, Betrayal, and the list goes on.

  ERIC WOOLFE (Playwright, Maker of Gruesome Things): When Eric was a child, a grey, lanky man, with a long, crooked nose lived in his pajama drawer, and threatened to carry him away in a bloody potato sack if he wasn’t asleep by midnight. Eric’s other plays include Pomeranski Rex (winner of the Toronto Fringe 2000’s Twenty-four Hour Playwrighting Competition), The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom, (Summerworks, Eldritch Theatre), and the upcoming Grendelmaus which concerns a doomed love triangle involving an over-educated file clerk, a former trapeze artist and an ancient, malevolent rodent. As an actor Eric is currently appearing in The Lion King as a scary green monster with strange orange animal growing out of his chest. Some of his other credits include Kingdom of Earth (Touchmark Theatre), The Brighton Beach Trilogy (Grand Theatre), Six Degrees of Separation (Theatre Aquarius), Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses (Canadian Stage Company) and Salt Water Moon (Theatre Orangeville).

MICHAEL WALLER (Director) is having a very scary summer. His tasks over the warm months have included a stay at Bluewater Summer playhouse in Kincardine where he has been directing various workshops and learning how to run a theatre, then it's off to Theatre On The Grand where he will direct Lorne Elliot's Culture Shock, then back to Kincardine to remount the smash hit bittergirl  which he directed at Second City and Buddies. In September, he gets to rest for a month and help his lovely wife Louise prepare to have a baby girl in October.  Michael's other directing chores have included Dave Carley's Taking Liberties View From The Roof (both Summerworks hits and Walking On Water. Lilla Csorgo's Babes On Bay Street for Theatre Passe Muraille and Sean Reycraft's Popsong(Chalmers Award Winner) for Theatre Direct. Upcoming, Michael is looking forward to changing diapers and directing Sean's new play Roundabout- again for Theatre Direct and especially, Eldritch Theatre's newest offering Grendelmaus- both in 2002.

Creepy Music by Paul Sportelli & Jay Turvey

Recording & Sound Design by Trevor Hughes

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