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Flush Ink Performing Arts
Presents
THE
PRODUCTION
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Paddy
Gillard-Bentley |
Paddy Gillard-Bentley 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, debuted
in Paddy is
the Artistic Director of Flush Ink Performing Arts and a former President of
ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights). Paddy’s plays online. Paddy is the
Artistic Director of Flush Ink Performing Arts, and has produced AJS I, II,
III IV & V and UNHINGED ’08 & ‘09 and co-produced She Speaks 2007
with Jenni Mundy and 2008 with Catherine Frid. She produced She Speaks ’09. |
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Brian Kelly |
Brian Z. Kelly 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 if he could realize that his life is no longer insanely busy. Brian excels at flying a stunt kite perched
on top of a huge hay bale, while connecting deliveries across the country on
his blackberry. He plays soccer,
coaches soccer but more than all these things, he loves to hang out with his
son, Liam. Brian was our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008, and
has done most of the promo shots for Asphalt Jungle Shorts. He was the Technical Director for UNHINGED
’09. He is also on the
Board of Flush Ink Performing Arts and our Marketing Director. |
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Lindsay Stewart |
Lindsay Stewart has been a fixture in the region's
arts and entertainment scene for more than two decades. As a singer and well
regarded songwriter, he made the college radio charts and continues to record
original material. He co-wrote a song that reached the finals of the 1994
CFNY New Music Search and has received airplay around the world. As a writer,
he has published articles, features and interviews regionally and
internationally covering theatre, music, politics and culture. His performance resume includes appearances
in numerous television and film productions, most notably portraying Jimi
Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer in an Lindsay is our
filmographer. He’s filmed AJS I, III
& IV, She Speaks 2008 and UNHINGED ’08 and ’09. He is creating archives of most of FIPA’s
productions, and did an amazing job with UNHINGED - look here |
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THE CREW |
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Samuel Liam Bentley |
Samuel Liam Bentley
loved being part of the tech crew at KCI.
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………………….be a Ferrari mechanic!
Sam has been our
Everything Man for Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II, III IV V & VI and She
Speaks ‘07 ‘08 ’09 ‘10 also UNHINGED
’08 ’09 ‘. |
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Virgil Burnett was
born in We are so grateful
for Virgil allowing us to use his amazing artwork, Muse, for SHE SPEAKS. |
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CHERYL EWING has over twenty years experience in senior
management in the arts. Having worked in the municipal, educational, for
profit and not-for-profit sectors, Cheryl brings a broad perspective to the
work of artists and their impact on the community. Cheryl is also trained in
Technology of Participation Facilitation Methods. Consequently, she is able
to offer organizations guidance in planning effective meetings, reaching consensus,
developing solid plans for results, and discovering creative and effective
solutions to the challenges they face. She designed the innovative young audience
programmes — eyeGO to the Arts and River Run Centre’s Linamar for the
Performing Arts. She is the General Manager of Cheryl is very proud to have the honour of
working with Prologue’s Susan Habkirk in the writing of Raising the Curtain, a manual for young audience presenters
based on her own experiences. She is an active volunteer within Waterloo
Region serving on the boards of Dancetheatre David Earle and JM
Drama/Registry Theatre as well as the Waterloo Region Prosperity Council
Creative Forum Steering Committee. She is also an active member of Rotary. Cheryl will be our
MC for She Speaks ‘10. |
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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 Catherine co-produced She Speaks,
2008. |
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Kaira Jakobsh is a grade ten student who sings in the
concert choir, plays clarinet in the band and plays acoustic and electric
guitar at home. Her most exciting six
months was last year - living like a
gypsy in Kaira was our
Stage-Manager for She Speaks ’09. |
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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
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 was the
Assistant Producer for AJS I, II, III and has been our talk-back facilitator
for She Speaks ’07, ‘08. & ’09. |
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Mark Kochut |
MARK KOCHUT is coming out of
retirement for this AJS – on many levels.
Mark got a taste for theatre in high school in Since then, he’s embarked on a quest to find the perfect job,
which may not exist. Mark enjoys ball hockey, stunt kite-flying and online
poker. He is an amateur mycologist who
most loves to spend time with his two favourite ladies – his wife and his
daughter. Mark was our Stage
Manager for AJS IV and our Technical Director for UNHINGED. |
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Kari Kokko |
Kari earned a BFA from 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. |
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Jenni Munday |
Jennifer Munday was in Jenni was
co-producer for She Speaks ’07 with Paddy, and will again be co-producing She
Speaks in 2010. |
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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. |
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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.
Bruce was our Stage
Manager for She Speaks 2008. |
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