{"id":239,"date":"2014-05-22T19:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2014-05-30T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T04:37:06","slug":"the-artists-of-the-ministry-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/article11.ca\/?page_id=239","title":{"rendered":"The artists of The Ministry of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandon and Patti, by Andy Moro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Performance:<\/strong>
\nPatti Shaughnessy
\nSteven McCarthy
\nBrandon Oakes
\nLindsey Clark<\/p>\n

Direction, Dramaturgy and Design<\/strong>:<\/strong>
\nTara Beagan, director & playwright
\nAndy Moro, lighting, video and set
\nJeff Chief, costume design
\nAndrew Penner, sound composition & design
\nDaniel David Moses, dramaturg
\nJenn Hewitt, production coordinator
\nBrittany Ryan, production management apprentice<\/p>\n

ARTIST BIOS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Tara\"<\/a>Tara B<\/strong>eagan – playwright, director, co-founder\/co-director<\/strong>
\nTara is Ntlaka\u2019pamux and Irish \u201cCanadian.\u201d As a playwright, Tara has been in residence at Cahoots Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, and the National Arts Centre. Three of her twenty plays are published, and two have received Dora Award nominations. Her works include\u00a0 commissions from Theatrefront, KICK, mysterious entity, Caravan Farm and Praxis. Tara served as AD of Native Earth Performing Arts for 3 years. Prior to this, she was an actor, director, dramaturg, Community Liaison, Playwright-in-Residence, and an Artistic Associate for NEPA. As an actor, Beagan has received Dora and Betty award nominations, and has appeared on CBC radio and TV. She has directed five productions to date. tarabeagan.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jeff\"<\/a>Jeff Chief – costume designer<\/strong>
\nJeff is excited to be part of this production. His costume design experience includes R\u00e9unir<\/em> (Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company), the Kohkum\u2019s Christmas<\/em> series (SNTC), The Cherry Orchard<\/em> (Live Five), A Man A Fish<\/em> (Persephone Theatre), Where the Blood Mixes<\/em> (co-production, Western Canada Theatre\/Theatre Aquarius\/Theatre Network), The Great Mountain<\/em> (Red Sky), Migration<\/em> (Red Sky\/Black Grace), Indigenous Dance Residencies (Banff Centre), Thunderstick<\/em> (Theatre Network\/Persephone Theatre), God of Carnage<\/em>, and Berlin Blues<\/em> (Persephone Theatre). Jeff has also built costumes at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Citadel Theatre, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Banff Centre’s Summer Arts Festival, Red Deer College, Persephone Theatre, and Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

\"Lindsey\"<\/a>Lindsey Clark – actor playing Lizzie-Mae<\/strong>
\nLindsey is a graduate of the Acting program at the National Theatre School of
\nCanada. She most recently appeared at the Next Stage Festival in Scheherazade<\/em>
\nfor Nobody\u2019s Business Theatre. Other performance credits include: Family Story<\/em>
\n(Birdtown Swanville); The Charge of the Expormidable Moose<\/em> (One Little Goat);
\nLear<\/em> (Harbourfront World Stage Festival); Post Eden<\/em> (Suburban Beast\/Next
\nStage Festival); Antigone Dead People<\/em> (Small Wooden Shoe); Vacant<\/em> (Triangle Pi
\nProductions); A Thousand Words<\/em> (UnSpun Theatre); And so, the animal looked back<\/em>
\n(Alex Wolfson); Gilgamesh<\/em> (Groundwater Productions); and Dog Sees God<\/em> (Six
\nDegrees). Lindsey can be seen next in Steady State\u2019s Fantastic Extravagance<\/em> at the
\nToronto Fringe.<\/p>\n

\"Jenn\"<\/a>Jenn Hewitt – production coordinator<\/strong>
\nJenn is a stage manager and a versatile technician who hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia. At Neptune Theatre, in Halifax, she was head technician of their Studio Theatre for two years and a scenic painter for four years. Jenn has also been resident stage manager for the Chester Playhouse Summer Theatre Festival in Nova Scotia. Since moving to Toronto in 2010 she has worked as a freelance technician and stage manager. Select stage management credits include Musical of Musicals – The Musical!<\/em>, The Last Five Years, Berlin to Broadway, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris<\/em> (Chester Playhouse); Sir John Eh? The Musical<\/em> (Salon Theatre); Girl Who Loved Her Horses, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Jumping Mouse<\/em> (Centre for Indigenous Theatre); Those Who Can’t Do<\/em> (Theatre Passe Muraille) and Spin<\/em> (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre\/Outspoke Productions).<\/p>\n

\"Steven\"<\/a>Steven McCarthy – actor playing Brother Cain<\/strong>
\nSteven directed Bliss, Boblo, The 20th of November, Malaria Lullaby<\/em> and Maylee Todd\u2019s Musical Planetarium<\/em>, is the frontman for 10-piece funk extravaganza The ElastoCitizens and 4-piece trash dance music group Monster, hosts the Motel Parkdale Music Residency, and has a major role in Guillermo del Toro\u2019s upcoming television series The Strain<\/em>. He runs Candles are for Burning<\/a>, a company devoted to making rock and roll like it\u2019s theatre and theatre like its rock and roll.<\/p>\n

\"andy\"<\/a>Andrew Moro – projections, set and lighting. co-founder\/co-director<\/strong>
\nToronto-based mixed European \/ Mushkegowuk Cree Andy Moro is an internationally acclaimed set, lighting, projection and sound designer. He is a multi-award winner and has twice been named among NOW magazine\u2019s top-10 theatre artists.
\nMoro collaborates annually at the Banff Centre\u02bcs Indigenous Dance Residency, and repeatedly with Native Earth Performing Arts, VideoCabaret, Red Sky Performance, Buddies in Bad Times, the Cabaret Company, Kaha:wi Dance, MIchael Greyeyes’ Signal Theatre and many more. Andy and Tara recently developed Beagan’s work\u00a0In Spirit<\/em>\u00a0for\u00a0Native\u00a0Earth Performing\u00a0Arts and toured her Dreary and Izzy<\/em> in collaboration with Western Canada, Gateway and Saskatchewan Native Theatres.
\nwww.andymoro.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DDM\"<\/a>Daniel David Moses – dramaturg<\/strong>
\nDaniel is a Delaware from the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario. His plays include Coyote City<\/em>, a nominee for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, his most traveled, Almighty Voice and His Wife<\/em>, and the James Buller Award Winner The Indian Medicine Shows<\/em>. His newest books are A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems<\/em> (2012) and the Oxford University Press’ An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English<\/em>, of which he is a founding co-editor (2013). He teaches as an associate professor and a Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Drama, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.<\/p>\n

\"Brandon\"<\/a>Brandon Oakes – actor playing Clem<\/strong>
\nBrandon was once approached by a man who had no shoes. The man asked Brandon for shoes. Brandon gave him his. Brandon is best known as an actor for TV, film, and the stage. Recently, you\u2019ve possibly seen him in the feature film Rhymes for Young Ghoul<\/em>s or in the Glen Gould directed Thunderstick <\/em>by Kenneth T. Williams. Brandon is also a visual artist and a writer.<\/p>\n

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\"Andrew\"<\/a>Andrew Penner\u00a0 – composer and sound designer<\/strong>
\nTheatre:\u00a0 Andrew is an award winning composer and sound designer who has worked with The Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, RBC Festival of Classics, The Tarragon Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, Native Earth, Necessary Angel, The Theatre Centre, and several others.\u00a0 Andrew is also a member of the award winning, Kitchenband (Boblo, Reesor, Pelee, Petrichor<\/em>).\u00a0 Film\/TV:\u00a0 Andrew has created music for \u201cSmall Town Murder Songs\u201d, \u201cCooking With Stella\u201d, \u201cOne Week\u201d (Genie Award), \u201cWho is KK Dowey\u201d and \u201cThis Beautiful City\u201d (Genie Nomination), the upcoming \u201cEdweard\u201d, as well as others.\u00a0 His music can also be heard on the television series, \u201cLost Girl\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Music:\u00a0 Andrew has released 4 critically acclaimed albums with his band, Sunparlour Players (www.sunparlourplayers.com<\/a>) and has performed across North America.\u00a0 He also produces records ranging most genres and enjoys making noise.<\/p>\n

\"Britt\"<\/a>Brittany Ryan – production management apprentice<\/strong>
\nBrittany is a Chinese-M\u00e9tis (Ojibwe) production\/stage manager and administrator currently beginning her career in theatre. Brittany worked with ARTICLE 11 as a Production Assistant for their installation entitled DECLARATION<\/em> at Fork York during the On Common Ground Festival. She has worked with other Indigenous companies such as Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA), Michael Greyeyes\u2019s Signal Theatre, and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre as an Assistant Stage Manager. Brittany currently works in the office as a Fundraising Intern and Administrator for NEPA and the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance. Brittany will be pursuing her final year of her BFA at Ryerson University for Performance Production in the fall.<\/p>\n

\"Patti\"<\/a>Patti Shaughnessy – actor playing Grace<\/strong>
\nPatti is from a small band of the Mississaugas located on a beautiful peninsula known as Wshkiigimong, (Curve Lake FN).\u00a0 Patti studied at Trent University and following her academic studies she trained at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto.\u00a0 For the last decade, Patti has worked as an actor and artistic producer of various theatre and multi arts projects, most notable being the Ode’min Giizis Festival.\u00a0 Selected acting credits include touring Canada and Mexico with Red Sky Performance in Raven Stole the Sun<\/em> and acting in three Canadian productions of Tomson Highway\u2019s The Rez Sisters<\/em> (Theatre Northwest, Magnus Theatre and Market Hall Theatre).\u00a0 Patti has recently returned from Nuuk, Greenland where she works as a director and theatre instructor at the National Theatre of Greenland and its school. Patti is thrilled to be working on The Ministry of Grace<\/em> with this dynamic company.<\/p>\n

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