BASH’d!
Chris Craddock (playwright/performer)
artist bios
Chris is an Edmonton based Actor/Producer/Writer. His work in Edmonton has been nominated for a total of thirteen Sterling Awards, and he has been the proud recipient of five of the awards. His film Turnbuckle was nominated for two Ampia Awards, for direction and editing. He was also the winner of the Embridge Award for best emerging artist, and the Alberta Book Award for his collection of plays for teens Naked at School, published by Newest Press. He graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program in the spring of 1996. As an actor, Chris has been employed by theatre’s all over Canada, including the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Network, the Manitoba Theatre Centre and One Yellow Rabbit Theatre in Calgary. He is also the creator or co-creator of several works for audiences of many categories. These include: SuperEd; Indulgences; The "Tranny" Trilogy; 3…2…1 (with Nathan Cuckow) The Day Billy Lived (which was adapted to life on the Native Reserve in co-operation with Debajehmuhjig Theatre of Mantoulin Island); Wrecked; Do it Right; Making Out; Men are Stupid Women are Crazy; Ha; PornStar; DreamLife; Moving Along (which was recently featured on Bravo’s Singular Series May, 2005); the Sterling Award nominated, Dora winning musical BoyGroove; and a Sterling Award winning adaptation of the novel Summer of my Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews. His plays for teens have toured extensively throughout Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan, Ontario and parts of the US. They have been seen by over 100,000 kids. His plays have been included at the High Performance Rodeo, The Magnetic North Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival, Edmonton Comedy Festival SaskNative Theatre, International Fringe festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Toronto, NYC, Orlando.
Nathan Cuckow (playwright/performer)
Nathan is an Edmonton based Actor/Producer/Playwright. He is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Edmonton’s critically acclaimed, multi-Sterling Award winning, independent theatre collective, Kill Your Television (K.Y.T). As an Actor, Nathan was last seen at the Toronto, Winnipeg and N.Y.C 2007 Fringe Festivals in BASH’d! – a gay rap opera, (co-written and performed by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow); K.Y.T’s production of Daniel MacIvor’s one-man show, Monster, (in which Nathan received a Sterling Award for Outstanding Performance by and Actor in a Leading Role); Shadow Theatre's production of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain (for which Nathan received a Sterling nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role); and in K.Y.T.'s Sterling Award winning production of The Glass Menagerie (Outstanding Independent Production). Other credits include: 3...2...1 co-written and performed by Nathan Cuckow & Chris Craddock at The 2005 Magnetic North Festival in Ottawa/Edmonton in May 2004 at Azimuth Theatre (Sterling Award nomination for Best New Play); his Sterling Award nominated one-man show, STANDupHOMO, which was performed at the 2002 Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals, in th Jan. 2005 at One Yellow Rabbit’s 19 Annual High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, and in Aug. th 2005 at the 15 Annual Summerworks Festival in Toronto; K.Y.T's Sterling Award nominated production’s Fool for Love andThis Is Our Youth; K.Y.T's Sterling award winning productions STOP KISS, SHAKESPEARE’S R&J, and subUrbia, (which Nathan received a Sterling nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role);and Teatro La Quindicina's The Hothouse Prince and Two Tall, Too Thin by Stewart Lemoine.
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Aaron Macri (composer)
Aaron is an Edmonton based Sterling Award nominated Sound Designer/Musician and a graduate of Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan College Music program. His most recent designs include: the gay4pay co-op’s production of BASH’d! at the Roost Niteclub; Azimuth Theatre’s Sterling Award Nominated production’s BoyGroove, Faithless, and 3...2...1; the gay4pay co-op’s production of STANDupHOMO; Catalyst Theatre’s Carmen Angel; Ribbit Production’s Pilk Madhouse; Panties Production’s Burlesque; FreeWill Players Twelfth Night; Citadel Theatre’s Stones in his Pockets.
Eva Pang (stage manager)
Eva is an Edmonton based stage manager and a graduate of the University of Alberta’s Stage Management program. Recent credits include: the gay4pay co-op’s production of BASH’d! at the Roost Niteclub; Raw Meat Productions’ Hooked; Alberta Opera’s The Frog Prince; The Banff Centre’s The Magic Flute; Workshop West’s The Mouse Trap and Springboard Festival of New Works; Edmonton Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung; Broadway North’s Cinderella; Theatre Prospero’s Hamlet.
Ron Jenkins (director)
Ron is an Edmonton based Sterling Award winning Director/Actor/Playwright. He has worked across the country from Halifax to Vancouver and is the former Artistic Director of Workshop West Theatre. Selected credits include: the William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits, Robert Wilson musical The Black Rider (Sterling Award for Outstanding Direction, 1999 N.Y.C International Fringe Festival Winner Outstanding Direction); Ron Chamber's 17 Dogs; Mieko Ouchi’s The Red Priest (EIGHT WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE); Mary’s Wedding by Stephen Massicotte (Sterling Award nomination for Outstanding Director); Mesa; Ilsa Queen of the Nazi Love Camp; Apple by Vern Theisen; The Edmonton Queen by Darrin Hagen. Ron has been honoured with four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards for directing THE BLACK RIDER, Ron RESPECTABLE, STEEL KISS and THE HORROR, THE HORROR, and was also the winner of the 2004 Syncrude Award for Innovative Artistic Direction.
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