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Heist

Shows > Heist
Mar 22 - Apr 13, 2025
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Heist

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Inspired by caper films like Ocean’s Eleven, Heist is a fast-paced, heart-racing play about a diamond heist gone wrong. Can this band of criminals pull off the perfect robbery? Full of diamonds, guns, lasers, betrayal and an incredible cast of characters.

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Cast & Creative Team

Alexander Ariate

Kruger

Alexander Ariate

Kruger

Citadel: The Play That Goes Wrong, The Three Musketeers, The Importance of Being Earnest, CLUE, and Peter Pan Goes Wrong.

Other Theatre: The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Winter’s Tale (The Shakespeare Company); Might As Well Be Dead, Murder On The Orient Express, and HEIST (Vertigo Theatre); Listen Listen (Teatro Live).

Film & TV: Fortunate Son (CBC).

Alex is an Alberta-based artist.

Belinda Cornish

The Spider, Intimacy Captain

Belinda Cornish

The Spider, Intimacy Captain

Citadel: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (with Arts Club); Playwright: The Garneau Block.

Other Theatre: An Undiscovered Shakespeare (Grand Theatre); Private Lives, Evelyn Strange, The Exquisite Hour (Teatro Live!); The 39 Steps (Mayfield Theatre); Coriolanus, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (Freewill Shakespeare Festival). Playwright: hiraeth (Varscona Theatre); Category E (The Maggie Tree/Coal Mine Theatre); Little Elephants (Shadow Theatre).

Other: Voice Over (Selected): Mass Effect trilogy, Dragon Age (Bioware Corp).

www.belindacornish.com

Devin MacKinnon

Marvin

Devin MacKinnon

Marvin

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Paradise Lost (Stratford Festival); King James (Theatre Aquarius/ATP); Little Women, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); The Tempest (The Shakespeare Company); Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage); Frankenstein, The Ruins, In This Light, Nothing Less!, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Liberation Days, The Mary Celeste (Two Planks and A Passion).

Callan McKenna Potter

Ryan

Callan McKenna Potter

Ryan

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: The Fox (Here For Now Theatre); Mother Courage and Her Children, The Three Musketeers (The Stratford Festival); Hamlet (Hit and Myth). 

Film & TV: (Selected): Workin’ Moms (CBC/Netflix); The Swap (Disney); Out Standing (GPA Films); No One Would Tell (Lifetime); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC).

Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Gillian Moon

Angie, Aerial Choreographer, Fight Captain

Gillian Moon

Angie, Aerial Choreographer, Fight Captain

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: Ephemere (Firefly Theatre and Circus); The Time Machinest (Cirque de la Nuit); Gatsby’s Cabaret (Spotlight Cabaret); Strawberry Shortcake Live North American Tour, Bubble Guppies Live Canadian Tour (Koba Entertainment); The Office (Jubilations); The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold).

Other: Graduate of Theatre Arts at MacEqan and BA at University of Winnipeg. @gillian.moon

Priya Narine

Fiona

Priya Narine

Fiona

Citadel: The Sound of Music (with Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), A Christmas Carol (4 seasons).

Other Theatre: Private Lives (Teatro Live!); Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Freewill Shakespeare); Queen Lear is Dead (Fox Den Collective); Constellations (ReadyGo Theatre); Slight of Mind (Theatre Yes/Citadel Theatre).

Other: Graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta.

Much love to her friends, family, and Cedar. For G, always.

Haysam Kadri

Director

Haysam Kadri

Director

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: Homes: A Refugee Story, A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Street Car Named Desire, Einstein’s Gift (Grand); Heist, Clue, Nero Wolfe: Might As Well Be Dead (Vertigo); King James, In Wonderland (ATP); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arts Club, MTC); The Shoplifters, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (Shakespeare Company); Prairie Boys Winter, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Dracula (Mount Royal University); Metamorphoses (U of C); Dracula (Red Deer College).

Film & TV: Last of Us, The Revenant, Hell on Wheels.

Haysam is the Artistic Director of Alberta Theatre Projects. albertatheatreprojects.com

Arun Lakra

Arun Lakra

Arun Lakra

Arun Lakra

Citadel: 2022 Playwrights’ Lab, Collider Festival; 2015 Playwrights’ Forum.

Other Theatre: Heist (Vertigo Theatre – Calgary; Grand Theatre – London); Sequence (Tarragon Theatre – Toronto; Downstage/Hit and Myth – Calgary; Shadow Theatre – Edmonton; Theatre 40 – Beverly Hills; Telluride Playwrights Festival – Colorado; Bloomington Playwrights Project – Indiana).

Arun has spent the last 20 years dividing his work life between his creative pursuits and his ophthalmology career. He would like to express his gratitude to Edmonton for the ongoing support, the ‘89 Cup, and for giving birth to his muse. @alohalakra.

arunlakra.com

Beyata Hackborn

Set Designer

Beyata Hackborn

Set Designer

Citadel: The Play That Goes Wrong (with Theatre Calgary & RMTC), Little Shop of Horrors (with ArtsClub), Jersey Boys.

Other Theatre: The Secret Garden, Village Wooing, Playboy of the Western World, Overruled, Bright Lights (Shaw Festival); The Inheritance (CanStage); Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Metronome, Mob, Horseplay (Workshop West); Sleight of Mind (Western Canada Theatre).

Much love to my household of dogs & friends, to shows that embrace non-reality and the absurd, to my mediocre juggling and of course, to my embarrassingly fervent love of Sondheim.

Jessica Oostergo

Costume Designer

Jessica Oostergo

Costume Designer

Citadel: A Streetcar Named Desire, Almost A Full Moon, The Sound of Music (with The Grand).

Other Theatre: Ring of Fire, The Legend of Georgia McBride (Arts Club); Sunrise Betties (ITSAZOO); Bunny, Stupid F*cking Bird (Search Party); Julius Caesar (Bard); An Undeveloped Sound (Electric Company); A Chorus Line (Studio 58).

Jessica is an Edmonton and Vancouver based Set and Costume Designer. She is a three-time Jessie Richardson Award winner for Significant Artistic Achievement with a total of seven nominations. Jessica is a graduate of Studio 58 and Emily Carr University of Arts & Design. Visit jessicaoostergo.com

Siobhán Sleath

Lighting Designer

Siobhán Sleath

Lighting Designer

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: Homes: A Refugee Story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, In Seven Days (Grand); Witness for the Prosecution, The Horse and His Boy, Wilde Tales (Shaw Festival); Hamlet (Shakespeare Company); Canoe (Unsettled Scores/Native Earth); Snow White (YPT); Come From Away: The Concert (Marquis Productions); Ring of Fire, On a First Name Basis (Theatre Aquarius); The Hobbit (Adirondack Theater Festival); The Great Divide (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); Ann (Arkansas Rep Theatre); Figaro’s Wedding(Against the Grain); Miracle on 34th Street, A Year with Frog and Toad, Shrek and The Addams Family (Neptune Theatre).

www.siobhansleathdesign.com

Richard Feren

Composer & Sound Designer

Richard Feren

Composer & Sound Designer

Citadel: Frozen.

Other Theatre: Controlled Damage, Grand Ghosts, Every Brilliant Thing, The Wars (The Grand); Erased (Open Heart Surgery/Theatre Passe Muraille) What The Constitution Means To Me, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (Soulpepper); Sequence, Mary’s Wedding (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Inheritance (Canadian Stage).

Film & TV: The Understudy (dir. Peter Pasyk); Composed scores for 8 feature films and numerous shorts.

Other: Winner of seven Dora Mavor Moore awards; Pauline McGibbon Award; shortlisted for Siminovitch Prize 2012.

www.haemorrhage-music.com

Corwin Ferguson

Projection Designer

Corwin Ferguson

Projection Designer

Citadel: Playing With Fire (with ATP).

Other Theatre: Homes: a Refugee Story (Grand); Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Salesman in China, Rent, Spamalot, Wrinkle in Time (Stratford Festival); Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Evil Dead the Musical (Starvox); Into the Woods Jr, Newsies, Hansel & Gretel (Yellow Door Theatre Project); Mary Poppins, Driving Miss Daisy, Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, 1984 (Saint John Theatre Company); Rinaldo (Pacific Opera Victoria); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III (The Shakespeare Company); You Will Remember Me (ATP).

Other: Graduate of BPA Program at Capilano University, Studio 58 Acting.

www.corwinferguson.com

Siobhan Richardson

Fight & Intimacy Director

Siobhan Richardson

Fight & Intimacy Director

Citadel: Actor: Forbidden Phoenix.

Other Theatre: Actor: The Penelopiad; Fight and/or Intimacy Director: Controlled Damage, Room, A Christmas Story, The Hobbit (The Grand); Sex, Getting Married, The Russian Play (Shaw); The Play That Goes Wrong (WMU); The Full Monty (Capitol, Port Hope); Trout Stanley (Tarragon Theatre).

Other: Resident Fight and Intimacy Director (Canadian Opera Company); Instructor (Paddy Crean International Workshop). Awards: Chalmers Arts Fellowship, Arts Response Initiative (Ontario Arts Council).

www.SiobhanRichardson.com, Instagram: @fighteractress.

Alexandra Rizkallah

Assistant Director

Alexandra Rizkallah

Assistant Director

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: Homes: A Refugee Story (The Grand); Much Ado About Nothing (Summer Shakespeare); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Stratford Festival); Jealousy, My Brother (Theatre of the Beat); With Love: Stories From the Middle East (Blue Stage UK);Good Old Days (One Four One Collective/Toronto Fringe); Innocence (Corbett Theatre); Sticky Fingers: A Musical (OKTC); Boundaries, Hopscotch (First Steps Theatre/Fringe).

Other: Jean Gascon Director Award, Stratford Festival. Alexandra is an international Director and Dramaturg.

Thank you to the Stratford Festival, Haysam Kadri, & Mom! @alexandra.riz_

Nick Shostak

Assistant Sound Designer

Nick Shostak

Assistant Sound Designer

Citadel: Hadestown, Sense and Sensibility, Crazy for You, Million Dollar Quartet.

Other Theatre: Chrysothemis (University of Alberta Studio Theatre), A Beautiful View (Edmonton International Fringe Festival)

Thanks to Pimento and the Clandestine Wrestling Society

Jordan Lloyd Watkins

Assistant Projection Designer

Jordan Lloyd Watkins

Assistant Projection Designer

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre (Selected): Homes (The Grand); Le Voyage (Flip the Switch); Nomadic Tempest (Caravan Stage); Ce qu’on attend de moi (2PAR4).

Much love to my family, and all the people that make having a family and working in Theatre possible. It’s always a pleasure working with Corwin Ferguson, the hardest working guy in Canadian theatre! Graduate of Studio 58.

Sang-Sang Lee

Stage Manager

Sang-Sang Lee

Stage Manager

Citadel: The Fiancée, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Tempest, Hadestown, Redpatch, Mamma Mia!, Sense and Sensibility, Million Dollar Quartet, West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, One Man, Two Guvnors, Make Mine Love, Spamalot, Private Lives, The Herd (with Tarragon).

Other Theatre: Snow In Midsummer (Shaw/NAC); Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart, The Amen Corner, The Clearing (Shaw); A Christmas Carol, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Honour Beat (Theatre Calgary); Opera in the 21st Century (Banff Centre); The Exquisite Hour, Fever Land (Teatro Live!).

Other: Many thanks to Jess.

Jess Gordon

Assistant Stage Manager

Jess Gordon

Assistant Stage Manager

Citadel: Debut.

Other Theatre: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, High School Project – Matilda: The Musical (The Grand);Rapunzel: A Merry (Hairy) Panto (The Captiol Theatre); Wendy and Peter Pan, Avon Theatre Production Assistant(Stratford Festival); Jonas and Barry in the Home, Made In Italy (Theatre Aquarius); A Christmas Carol, Come Down From Up River, Doris and Ivy in the Home (Upper Canada Playhouse); Wishful Seeing (4th Line Theatre);Red Tide: A Macabre Maritime Misadventure, Kensington: The Musical, Destination: Wedding! (Sheridan College).

Other: Graduate of Sheridan College’s Technical Production program.

Venue and Guidelines

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THEATRE
EVENING SHOWS:
MATINEES:
RUNTIME:
7:30 PM
1:30 PM
1 hour and 55 minutes
Seating Map | Directions
(Act I: 50 minutes Intermission: 20 minutes Act II: 45 minutes) All timings are approximate.

 Show Program
 Enrichment Guide
Age Recommendation: 12+

+ CONTENT ADVISORY

  • Explicit language
  • Gunshots
  • Non-toxic stage haze
  • Lasers and strobe lighting effects.
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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Production Info

By Arun Lakra

Directed by Haysam Kadri

Produced in Association with The Grand Theatre

CAST
Alexander Ariate Kruger
Belinda Cornish The Spider
Devin MacKinnon Marvin
Callan McKenna Potter Ryan
Gillian Moon Angie
Priya Narine Fiona
CREATIVE TEAM
Haysam Kadri Director
Arun Lakra Playwright
Beyata Hackborn Set Designer
Jessica Oostergo Costume Designer
Siobhán Sleath Lighting Designer
Richard Feren Composer & Sound Designer
Corwin Ferguson Projection Designer
Siobhan Richardson Fight & Intimacy Director
Belinda Cornish Intimacy Captain
Gillian Moon Aerial Choreographer, Fight Captain
Alexandra Rizkallah Assistant Director
Nick Shostak Assistant Sound Designer
Jordan Lloyd Watkins Assistant Projection Designer
Sang-Sang Lee Stage Manager
Jess Gordon Assistant Stage Manager

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