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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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_
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
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.
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.
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.
