Patricia Cerra is an award-winning artist with a multi-faceted national career, where she has worked on over fifty productions with dozens of companies. She received the Sterling Award for Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role, Comedy. Citadel credits: A Christmas Carol (6 seasons), The Fiancée, The Silver Arrow, Shakespeare in Love. As a director: workshops of The 7 Fires: A New Musical, Trials and Triumphs of a Tar Baby (The Musical Stage Company); The Entire Hamlet (Alberta Theatre Projects, workshop director & dramaturg); Tune to A (Azimuth Theatre); Here There Be Night (Theatre Network & Workshop West co-pro); Horizon Lab (Citadel Theatre). She was the Associate Producer for Vita Brevis Arts & the National Arts Centre on the two-part touring production of the critically acclaimed international best-selling novel Fall On Your Knees (Canadian Stage, Neptune Theatre, The NAC & The Grand Theatre). Patricia is also the Associate Artistic Director of The Musical Stage Company in Toronto, which is the largest and leading charitable musical theatre company in Canada.

Ray is a Winnipeg born Theatre Artist of Filipino and Grenadian descent. Ray trained with the Black Hole Theatre Company, and at The Banff Centre, and has been previously seen at The Citadel in Shakespeare in Love, and more recently as Caliban in The Tempest. Recent theatre directing credits include The Velveteen Rabbit (Manitoba Theatre for Young People) and Hedda Gabler (Echo Theatre). Ray can also be seen on The Porter (CBC Gem/BET). Ray is co-host of the Winnipeg Centric Sports Podcast Ray & Benny Talk Sports, which you can find on YouTube, and on all podcast providers.

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” – MLK 

Katori Hall is an Olivier Award-winning playwright from Memphis, Tennessee. Katori’s play The Mountaintop, premiering at Theatre503 in 2009, transferred to the West End and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010. Following its West End run, the play opened on Broadway in October 2011 to critical acclaim. Katori’s other work includes the award-winning Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!, Our Lady of Kibeho, Purple is the Colour of Mourning and The Blood Quilt. In addition to her Laurence Olivier Award, Katori’s other awards include a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, the Columbia University John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, National Black Theatre’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award.

Known to Citadel audiences as a performer, Pat is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting and MFA Directing programs. Pat’s directing credits include: Ribbon, a one-woman show about Amber Valley (U of A Studio); The Syringa Tree, another one-woman show (York University); Henry V, The Ash Girl and Chrysothemis (Concordia University Edmonton); The Domino Heart (Edmonton Fringe); God of Carnage (U of A Studio); Heaven (Citadel/ NAC); assistant director, The Color Purple (Citadel Theatre).

In his 44-year career, John has worked all over Canada. He has worked in every major city and every Province many times over. Some of the theatre companies that he has worked for are Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Centaur Theatre, Segal Centre, Shaw Festival, The Grand, The Globe, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, to mention a few. He has helped to bring to life new plays, musicals and dance pieces which is well over 75 world premieres some of which include: Anne & Gilbert, Mambo Italiano, Prom Queen, Fire, Vegas: Live, The Mad Boy Chronicles, Velvet, For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Assorted Candies and many others. He is also an experienced Scenic Artist (46 years) and a noted instructor. He wishes to thank his mother for her ongoing support.

Leona is a Sterling Award winning costume designer, improviser, performer and artist who has acted and deigned for Teatro La Quindicina since 1982 including Stewart Lemoine’s Pith! from here to Off-Broadway, Cocktails at Pam’s, Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s and scores of others. Other design credits include Clue, Clybourne Park, Betty’s Summer Vacation, Heaven, and Jersey Boys (Citadel Theatre); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Annapurna, The Comedy Company, The Drawer Boy (Shadow Theatre); 9 to 5: The Musical, Hairspray, Sister Act, Canada 151, and Canada Rocks: The Reboot (Mayfield Theatre). Film credits include Trevor Anderson’s The Man That Got Away and Before I change My Mind. Leona has also costumed the music videos Boys Like You, and Pink Kimono for the musical duo Whitehorse.

Jeff can be found behind the scenes at the University of Alberta Drama Department, as the Lighting Supervisor.  Before Covid, Jeff worked on THE INVISIBLE – Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Catalyst/Vertigo Theatre) as the Associated Projection Designer. Other lighting designs: Shumka’s world premieres of Mosquitos Wedding and Ancestors and Elders, and Shumka’s Nutcracker (Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Royal Theatre); Going to St. Ives and Mesa (Atlas Theatre/Varscona Theatre); Projections for Moonshine By Larissa Pohoreski (Nextfest); Lighting and Projections for Eva Evasion (FireFly Theatre Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Dave has created sound and music for theatre, film, dance, and multi-media for three decades. Previous designs for the Citadel Theatre include: Little Shop of Horrors (with the Arts Club), The Royale (Sterling Award for Outstanding Sound), Deafy, Network, The Tempest, Cost of Living, A Brimful of Asha, and Mary’s Wedding: A Métis Love Story. Other recent designs include: Fiji (Shatter Glass Theatre – Edmonton Fringe); Enough (Northern Light Theatre); The Drawer Boy & All The Little Animals I Have Eaten (Shadow Theatre). Dave is a CODA (child of deaf adults). His award-winning family musical performed in sung English and American Sign Language Songs My Mother Never Sung Me (Concrete Theatre) recently completed its first western Canadian tour.

Amelia Scott is a Montreal-based video designer working in theatre, opera, dance, live music, and beyond. She is also an instructor of Video Technology and Design at the National Theatre School of Canada and has guest lectured at Concordia University. Notable collaborations include: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Munich Kammerspiel, The Barbican Centre, LA Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, New Zealand Opera, National Arts Centre of Canada, Porte Parole, Crow’s Theatre, Ottawa Chamber Festival, National Kaunas Drama Theatre, Espace Go, Théatre Denise-Pelletier, The Segal Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Banff Centre.

Jean-Pierre (J-P.) Fournier is an actor, fight director, director, stunt co-ordinator, theatre/ film/television consultant, teacher; Maître d’Armes of Fight Directors Canada; Fellow of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, Senior member of the International Order of the Sword & Pen. Previous credits: JOYA (Cirque du Soleil) Mexico; 17 productions (Stratford Festival, ’86 – ’88);18 productions (Manitoba Theatre Centre – ’81 – ’83); 44 productions (Citadel Theatre ); taught Stage Combat across Canada, U.S., Norway, the UK, Belgium, and Mexico. J-P. did the fights and battles for Calgary Opera’s stunning production of Macbeth last May.  Graduate of U of A in Directing and Acting programs.

Citadel: Rubaboo, A Christmas Carol, The Royale, The Garneau Block, Made in Italy (Stage Manager); Trouble in Mind, Children of God, Peter and the Starcatcher, and A Christmas Carol (Assistant Stage Manager); Freewill Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Comedy of Errors, and The Merchant of Venice (Stage Manager); other stage management credits include Last Chance Leduc (Snowflake Productions); Shakespeare’s R&J (Kill Your Television); Bust (Theatre Network); and assistant stage managing Rock the Canyon, Mamma Mia! (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); and Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre).

Nyssa is thrilled to be bringing The Mountaintop to the Citadel Theatre. Graduate of the University of Alberta, Nyssa is an Edmonton-based stage manager, happily hiding in the safety of the shadows backstage. Recent stage management credits include: Little Shop of Horrors, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Matilda, Christmas Carol and Shakespeare in Love (Citadel Theatre); Mermaid Legs (SkirtsAfire); Nevermore, The Invisible (Catalyst); Unsung, Here There Be Night (WWPT); The Wrong People Have Money, The Mountaintop (Shadow Theatre). Extra love to her family and partner Kia for sanity maintenance.

Davis Shewchuk (He/They) is an emerging Albertan stage manager. He is excitedly participating in the Citadel’s RBC Horizon Emerging Artist program. They are passionate about creating anti-oppressive workspaces. He strives to create works accessible to both audiences and artists. Select credits include: Made in Italy, Almost a Full Moon (Citadel); Grease (WCT); Off the Beaten Path, Stories of Arlyrus (OBPMusical); and Tune to A (Expanse/Azimuth).