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VENUE

SHOCTOR THEATRE

RUNTIME

EVENING SHOWS:
7:30 pm - 9:50 pm
MATINEES:
1:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Act I: 60 min Intermission: 20 min Act II: 60 min TOTAL RUNTIME: 2 hr 20 min

Runtimes are approximate estimates, and may vary between performances.

CONTENT ADVISORY

Age Recommendation: 14+

  • Not recommended for younger children
  • Coarse language
  • Mature content (adultery, infidelity, alcohol consumption)
  • Violence (fighting, shooting, hit-and-run car accident)
  • Theatrical effects (including theatrical haze, flashing and bright lights, strobe effects, loud sounds including gunshot)
  • Parental guidance is advised

Age recommendations and content advisories have been thoughtfully prepared by Citadel Theatre staff. However, we understand that individuals may engage with content in different ways. We encourage patrons to consider their own comfort levels, as well as the suitability for any accompanying youth, before attending.

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THE GREAT GATSBY

October 31 - November 22, 2026

By F. Scott Fitzgerald Adapted for the stage by Erin Shields Directed by Daryl Cloran Produced in Partnership with the Grand Theatre (London, ON) and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg)

Step into the glittering excess of the Jazz Age, where champagne flows, flapper dresses shimmer, and music drifts through the night until dawn. At the center of it all stands the opulent mansion of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, whose legendary parties draw eccentric New Yorkers from every corner of the city. Yet for all the spectacle, Gatsby himself remains an enigma. Driven to reunite with his long-lost love Daisy, Gatsby risks everything to reclaim a dream that may no longer exist. Illusion and reality collide in this tragic stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, re-envisioned by Canadian playwright Erin Shields and brought to life with a live jazz band.

 
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CAST
Tess Benger
  • Daisy Buchanan
Bailey Chin
  • Jordan Baker
Duncan Cox
  • Jay Gatsby
Timothy Dowler-Coltman
  • Tom Buchanan
Richard Lee Hsi
  • Nick Carraway
Kristin Johnston
  • Mrs. McKee
  • Dolly Myer
Tom Keenan
  • George Wilson
  • Mr. McKee
  • Mr. Gatz
  • George Duckweed
Ben Kuchera
  • Ensemble
Rochelle Laplante
  • Myrtle Wilson
  • Etta Bloom
Katherine Matlashewski
  • Ensemble
Sarah Richardson
  • Ensemble
Brendan Wall
  • Klipspringer
  • Meyer Wolfsheim
  • Dan Cody
  • Police Officer
  • Piano

Ensemble roles (Partiers, Butlers, Maids, Bystanders, Passengers) are played by the company.

MUSICIANS
Mark Segger
  • Drums
Aretha Tillotson
  • Bass
Jim Cockell
  • Contractor
UNDERSTUDIES
Tom Keenan
  • Meyer Wolfsheim / Dan Cody
Ben Kuchera
  • Jay Gatsby
  • Nick Carraway
  • Tom Buchanan
Katherine Matlashewski
  • Daisy Buchanan
  • Jordan Baker
  • Myrtle Wilson / Etta Bloom
Sarah Richardson
  • Mrs. McKee / Dolly Myer
  • Klipspringer / Police Officer / Piano
Brendan Wall
  • George Wilson / Mr. McKee / Mr. Gatz / George Duckweed
CREATIVE TEAM
Erin Shields
  • Playwright
Daryl Cloran
  • Director 
Lorenzo Savoini
  • Set Designer
Deanna Finnman
  • Costume Designer
Hugh Conacher
  • Lighting Designer
Joelysa Pankanea
  • Composer
  • Music Director
  • Sound Designer
Allison Plamondon
  • Choreographer
Morgan Yamada
  • Fight and Intimacy Director
Doug Mertz
  • Dialect Coach
Ben Osgood
  • Assistant Director
Madison Henry
  • Stage Manager
Samantha Desiree
  • Assistant Stage Manager
Claire Sonmor
  • Apprentice Stage Manager

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Citadel: Mamma Mia

Other Theatre: Kimberly Akimbo, Titanique (Mirvish/Segal); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Crows/Musical Stage/Mirvish); Beautiful (RMTC/Segal); Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats/Soulpepper); Sweeney Todd (TIFT); Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse); Cabaret (Grand Theatre); Girls Like That (Tarragon); Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown); Top Girls, Philadelphia Story, Our Town (Shaw).

Other: Nominations: Evie award, META award, multiple Dora awards, and won a Dora award for her role in Alice in Wonderland.

Citadel: Life of Pi, Network.

Other Theatre: Little Women, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Feast (Prairie Theatre Exchange).

Film & TV: A Suite Holiday Romance (Hallmark).

Bailey is thrilled to be back at the Citadel Theatre alongside such an amazing company. Special thanks to my friends and family for their endless support and love.

For Jana.

Citadel: Debut

Other Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde, Rent, Afterlight, Strike! The Musical, South Pacific (Rainbow); Once, Waitress, Murder for Two, Intrepid (RMTC); Charlie Brown, Narnia (MTYP); The Band’s Visit (WJT); Pippin, Reefer Madness (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); End of the Line, The Ballad of Johnny Boy, The Headliners, “KING”, Blink (Walk&Talk); Hamlet: The Modern Players Guide (Shakespeare in the Ruins).

Film & TV: Alter Boys

Hey, if I saw a green light my first thought would be “go” too.

Citadel: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All…, Pillowman, Oliver!, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol

Other Theatre: Sweat (CanStage); Orphans (Coalmine); Vimy (Soulpepper); Towards Youth (Crow’s Theatre); Punk Rock (Howland Company); Hamlet (NTS).

Film & TV: Priscilla, BOTS, Burden, Shook, Dreams of the Moon

A graduate of Victoria School of the Arts, the National Theatre School of Canada and the Canadian Film Centre, Tim’s thrilled to be back at the Citadel where he first began this journey at 7.

Citadel: Disney’s Frozen, Peter and the Starcatcher, Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Other Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (Freewill Players); Cowgirl Up, Games (Alberta Theatre Projects); Everybody Loves Robbie, Victoria Martin Math Team Queen (Northern Light Theatre); The Particulars (Punctuate Theatre); Small Mouth Sounds (Wildside Productions); Mesa (Atlas Theatre); Shocker’s Delight (Teatro Live)

Other: Graduate of Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MFA Movement) and the University of Alberta (BFA Acting). Sessional Instructor for MacEwan University Music Theatre Performance.

Citadel: Murder on the Orient Express, The Wizard of Oz, Vinyl Cafe: The Musical, A Christmas Carol, 9 to 5: The Musical, Sense and Sensibility.

Other Theatre: Come From Away (Arts Club); The Odd Couple, Pith, Deathtrap (Teatro Live!); Dance Nation (SkirtsAfire); MOB (WWPT); Helen (Trunk Theatre); Enough, We Had A Girl Before You, Baroness Bianka’s Bloodsongs, Origin of the Species (Northern Light Theatre).

Much love and gratitude to Ash, Mason, Blythe and Thalia.

Citadel: Murder on the Orient Express, Shakespeare in Love.

Other Theatre: Among Men, Little Women, The Humans, Hand to God (Royal MTC); As You Like It, Waiting for Godot, Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Ruins); Serving Elizabeth (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Bang Bang (RMTC/Belfry); Romeo and Juliet (Magnus).

Film & TV: Little House on the Prairie, Stonechild, Don’t Even, Melaleuca, Burden of Truth, Channel Zero, Zooey and Adam.

Citadel: Debut

Other Theatre: Tartuffe (The Shakespeare Company); Marjorie Prime (Trunk Theatre); Into the Woods, A Christmas Carol (Carter-Ryan Productions); The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow (Shadow Theatre); Romance, Romance (NUOVA); The Games of Love and Chance (Prime Stock Theatre).

Many thanks and much love to my family and Abby.

Citadel: Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Clue, Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The 70s Musical

Other Theatre: Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Club); CTRL-ALT-DLT (Concrete Theatre); Caribbean Muskrat (Teatro Live!); Hiraeth (Bright Young Things); Ms.Pat’s Kitchen (SkirtsAFire Festival); Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing (Freewill Shakespeare).

Thank you Mom and Dad and the Babiaks for all the love and support over the years.

Citadel: Debut

Other Theatre: Indecent (Royal MTC); Courage Now (Firehall/vAct); Disclosure (Vancouver Fringe); One Of A Kind (VICF); East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement); The Rocky Horror Show, Cerulean Blue, TomorrowLove (Studio 58); The Fantasticks (Stage 43); Into the Woods (RCMT).

Other: Graduate of Studio 58.

Katherine is filled with gratitude to be making her Citadel debut in Gatsby! Special thanks to mom for her love and support.

Citadel: Six

Other Theatre: Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Elf, Rumour Has It, Alice in Pantoland, Controlled Damage, The Color Purple, Shakespeare in Love (Neptune); Come From Away, Matilda (Grand); Six (Mirvish); Rose (NAC); Rez Gas (Capitol); 9 to 5 (TIP); Assassins, Heathers, Peter & the Starcatcher, Company (WST); Ruthless, Damn Yankees (Chester Playhouse); New Waterford Boy (HEIST); Rocky Horror Show, Nunsense (HFDT).

Film & TV: Moonshine

Other: Merritt Award winner for Outstanding Music Direction; the Blackrats.

Citadel: Debut

Other Theatre: Once, Harry Potter (Mirvish); Great Comet of 1812 (Crows Theatre/Mirvish); Bright Star (GTP/Mirvish); Warhorse (National Theatre/West End); Paradise Square (Berkley Rep); 8 Seasons at Soulpepper Theatre; 6 Seasons at Confederation Centre for the Arts.

Film & TV: Adults, Accused, Ripple, Murdoch, Chicago, Hairspray.

Brendan is also a dad to the awesome Finbar and Kilian Wall and husband to the incredible Mary Francis Moore.

Citadel: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Wizard of Oz, Legally Blonde, Disney’s Frozen, The Sound of Music, Mamma Mia!, West Side Story, Avenue Q.

Other Theatre: West Side Story World Tour 2016–2018 & 2019 (Sundance Productions).

Mark is a casual percussionist with the ESO, member of local ensembles UltraViolet, Damn Magpies, Blackout Over Rio and Pelican Hat.

Citadel: The Ballad of Johnny and June, Hadestown.

Other Theatre: SIX: Canadian Company (Mirvish).

Aretha has a BMus from the University of Toronto, MMus. Berklee College of Music. Awards and nominations include: 2024 Western Canadian Music Awards: Jazz Arist of the Year, 2026 JUNO nominee: Insturmental Jazz Album of the Year (solo category), and 2026 Western Canadian Music Awards nominee: Jazz Arist of the Year.

Citadel: Jane Eyre

Other Theatre: You, Always (Canadian Stage); Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary (Crow’s); Medusa, Queen Goneril (Soulpepper); Ransacking Troy, Much Ado About Nothing, Paradise Lost (Stratford); To a Flame (1S1/Nightwood); Thy Woman’s Weeds (Repercussion/Centaur); Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre); Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre); The Lady from the Sea (The Shaw Festival); If We Were Birds (Tarragon Theatre).

Other:

Erin’s plays are published by Playwrights Canada Press and you can read more about upcoming projects on her website.

Citadel: Death of a Salesman, Vinyl Cafe: The Musical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ‘70s Musical, A Streetcar Named Desire, Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, Made in Italy, The Fiancée, Network, Shakespeare in Love, Almost A Full Moon, Matilda.

Other Theatre: Sense & Sensibility (Stratford Festival); As You Like It (Citadel; Bard on the Beach, Vancouver; Chicago Shakespeare; The Shakespeare Company, Washington DC; Milwaukee Rep; Theatre Calgary; RMTC; Grand Theatre, London).

Other: Artistic Director of the Citadel since 2016.

Citadel: Network, Ubuntu.

Other Theatre: Come From Away (Arts Club Theatre); The Tao of the World, The Hobbit, A MidSummer Night’s Dream (Stratford); Piaf/Dietrich (The Grand); Summer and Smoke (Crow’s Theatre/Soulpepper).

Other: Recipient of five Dora Awards for outstanding design and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Citadel: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Cyrano de Bergerac( 2026 Sterling Award for Outstanding Costume Design) The Wizard of Oz, Little Women, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ‘70s Musical, Pride and Prejudice.

Other Theatre: Li Keur Riel’s Heart of the North and La Cenerentola (Manitoba Opera); La Bohème, Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Count Ory (Edmonton Opera); Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio (Alberta Musical Theatre); Sunday in the Park with George (MacEwan University); The Magic Flute (Calgary Opera).

Citadel: Lighting Design: Murder on the Orient Express, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Color Purple. Video Design: Network.

Other: Hugh is a lighting and multi-media designer and photographer. He collaborates with choreographers, directors, visual artists, dance and theatre companies throughout Canada and around the world. His photographic work resides in private collections and has been published worldwide. Hugh is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada (since 1982) and of l’Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec.

Citadel: Death of a Salesman, Life of Pi, Little Women, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Other Theatre: Mosque Heist (Globe), Antigone (Bard on the Beach).

Film & TV: Comedy Invasion title track (Prime, Hulu)

Originally from Kenya, Joelysa is an award-winning composer and sound designer from Vancouver. She’d like to thank Daryl Cloran for bringing her along on this glittering, wild ride and giving her a seat at Gatsby’s table!

Citadel: Debut

Other Theatre: Kimberly Akimbo (Mirvish/Segal); White Christmas, Damn Yankees, Holiday Inn (Shaw); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (YPT); Memory Home and The Tchaikovsky Vignettes (HB Studio – NYC); Goblin Market (59E59 – NYC/Edinburgh Fringe).

Film & TV: Choreography: Curfew (Oscar winner, 2013), Before I Disappear (IFC), Believe (NBC).

It’s been Allison’s dream to make theatre at The Citadel ever since seeing The Miracle Worker when she was 11 years old.

Citadel: Death of a Salesman, Little Women, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Doug Mertz always loves returning to the Citadel Theatre. He teaches dialects, Shakespeare, auditioning and speech in the Music Theatre Performance Program at MacEwan University.

Citadel: Debut

Other Theatre: The Divorced Dad’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (Typecast Anonymous); Sweet Jesus: The Gospel According to Felt (Group of Rogues); 13 (ABBEDAM Productions); Butcher (Shattered Glass Productions).

Ben is a Ukrainian-Canadian director, arts administrator, and a proud graduate of the UofA’s Bachelor of Arts Honours program. He has worked at The Citadel Theatre since 2017 and is currently the Box Office & CRM Manager. He is also the Board President of Thou Art Here Theatre. Much love to Dayna & Sweet Peas.

Citadel: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Death of a Salesman, Vinyl Cafe: The Musical, The Ballad of Johnny and June, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Three Musketeers, The Sound of Music, Network.

Other Theatre: Hey Viola! (Charlottetown Festival); The New Canadian Curling Club, The Buddy Holly Story (Thousand Islands Playhouse); seven seasons at Western Canada Theatre.

Other: Maddy is a graduate of the Thompson Rivers University Theatre Program in Kamloops, BC.

Many thanks to Daryl, Sami, and Claire.

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: In the Shadow Beyond the Pines, Elf: The Musical, Yaga, Into the Woods, Network, Rez Sisters, Orlando (RMTC); Kimberly Akimbo, Merrily We Roll Along (DryCold); Hansel & Gretel, Castor et Pollux, Mansplaining Division (MUO); Fiddler on the Roof (Rainbow); Bring It On: The Musical (The Globe); Casey and Diana (RMTC/TA); Clue (RMTC/The Grand); Narnia (Bad Hats/MTYP). Does other things too. 😊

As always, couldn’t do it without Matt and Zella.

Citadel: A Christmas Carol

Other Theatre: GORE (Tiny Bear Jaws); Undiscovered Country (Theatre Network Mainstage); Ecos (Diaspora Diaries); Rat Academy, Rat Academy 2 (Batrabbit Productions); Reign Check (Walters & Watt); Re:Construct(ion) (Donkey Dog Theatre); Working It Out (Alberta Workers’ Health Centre).

Claire is a Queer stage manager, technician, and lighting/set designer. Originally from Calgary, they are a proud graduate of the University of Alberta’s BA/BEd program. Much love to their family and friends!
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