Playwright

Since moving to Regina almost five years ago, Arthur has written Tommy and Père, for Curtain Razors, and Weyburn 1959, which is now in development with Architect Theatre. Getting to Room Temperature (“a hard-hitting, sentimental and funny one-person play about dying”) was produced by Curtain Razors in February 2022, and Souffler la veilleuse, its French translation, was produced by Saskatoon’s La Troupe du Jour in February. He has also worked with On Cue Performance Hub and the Playwrights Reading Series, and he taught theatre history at the University of Regina.

Arthur has a long association with Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC), where he was resident playwright and then artistic director. His produced and published scripts include Zero Hour, Learning to Live with Personal Growth, 1997, Masada, and Cheap Thrill (all premiered by GCTC), Sisters in the Great Day Care War (Local 2204 CUPE), Crusaders of the World (Green Thumb), and The City (Workshop West). He was part of the GCTC collective that created Sandinista!, which was presented at Sheldon Williams Collegiate in 1982 as part of a Canadian tour. Facts, a murder mystery set in the Palestinian West Bank, premiered at GCTC in 2010, toured Palestine and Israel in Arabic, and was produced in Istanbul (in Turkish) and London, U.K.

Arthur is a featured writer at inroads.ca. You can find out more at https://www.canadiantheatre.com and wikipedia.com

Artistic Producer & Art Direction

Johanna Bundon has made robust contributions to the development of new work & creation processes in dance and theatre in Saskatchewan for over 15 years. Her capacity to embody ideas, and to create a generative space for new work to thrive has made her a sought-after collaborator by artists across disciplines.

Her choreography has been presented by New Dance Horizons, Globe Theatre, the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival, the Prairie Dance Circuit, and across the country through ongoing experiments in live & digital performance with Bundon Pfeifer Henderson (Pi Theatre, Vancouver; PAVED Arts, Saskatoon; Struts Gallery, Sackville; Dunlop Art Gallery & Curtain Razors, Regina). 

As a contemporary dancer, Johanna has performed work by Davida Monk,  Connie Moker-Wernikowski, and Robin Poitras & Edward Poitras.  Her own choreography SOLO SHOW TONIGHT recently toured to Magpie Festival in Edmonton (Summer 2024).

As an Artistic Associate of Curtain Razors, Johanna has been integral to the operations and vision of the company since 2016. She has led several company projects including: Community Office Hours (2021), Conversations for Love & Loss (2022), Trespassers Waltz (2020), and Getting to Room Temperature by Arthur Milner (2022)

Bundon is a graduate of LADMMI: Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montreal (2005), San Diego 4 Feldenkrais Professional Training Program (2020), Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory (2008), and has a BA in Arts & Culture from the University of Regina (2013). 

An active arts advocate with a special interest in artist-parenthood, peer mentorship, Joh is interested in better standards of practice for independent artists making work in Saskatchewan.

www.johannabundon.com

Art Direction

I was born and raised on the Canadian prairies, and remain convinced that there's no better place to contemplate nothingness. When the landscape is just a single horizontal slash between blue and yellow, absence becomes a constant comfort; when the wind is cold enough to make you need other people on a mortal level, absence becomes a terror realized.
(Isn't it curious how place shapes us?)

So I make art mostly about endings and death... but it's usually funny, the way King Lear is funny.

My contemporary art practice includes video, photography, installation, sculpture, performance, and text. I studied art in Canada and Germany. I show regularly across Canada, and occasionally in the USA and Europe; notable recent venues include The Dunlop Art Gallery, Alix Art Gallery, The Mendel/Remai Modern, The Rooms, Struts Gallery, Nuit Blanche Edmonton, Pi Theatre, YYZ Artists' Outlet, and the New Media Gallery of New Westminster (Canada); The Phillips Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Magenta Festival Boston, and Zero Film Festival (USA); kunstraum tapir, Berlin, Germany; Gallery SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland; and PSAS, Perth, Australia.

My work can be found in private and public collections including the Mendel Art Gallery/Remai Modern, the Glenfiddich Distillery Collection, the Telus Permanent Collection, and the Permanent Collection of the Center for Fine Art Photography USA. I currently teach art and media at Toronto Metropolitan University. I am represented by Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto.

Cast - Athol “Père” Murray

Cavan is delighted to finally work with Curtain Razors and on Arthur’s play as Athol “Père” Murray. Cavan has been involved in several productions across Western Canada, most recently in Vancouver in the Arts Club’s remount of Sexy Laundry; in Regina (Globe Theatre) & Saskatoon (Persephone) in their co-produced comedy, The Birds and the Bees; and others over a 40-year career: Corker (Theatre Northwest), Teechers, Tony & Tina’s Wedding (Hoarse Raven), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (CoConut Th.), The Odd Couple, Becky’s New Car (Arts Club), Amadeus, Much Ado About Nothing, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie Macrimmon, The Importance of Being Earnest (Globe Theatre), Apple (Borrowed Time), Macgregor’s Hard Ice Cream & Gas (Persephone Theatre).

Cavan has appeared in several recorded programs, worldwide, but is probably best known as “Mayor Fitzy” from Corner Gas. Cavan lives in Regina, SK with his wife & son and their dog Sam.

Cast - Tommy Douglas

Jayden is a Regina-based independent theatre artist whose practice in performance, directing, improvisation, and new work creation has spanned more than 20 years. Most recently he has appeared as Mr.Smee in Bad Hats Theatre’s Peter Pan and co-directed Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion (both for Globe Theatre), and many iterations of Untitled Peter Tripp Project (Bundon Pfeifer Henderson).

He holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Regina, and teaches for the UofR Theatre Department. Jayden is an Artistic Associate with Curtain Razors, and has helped to create Curtain Razors performance and community-based projects since 2015. As part of the collaborative trio Bundon Pfeifer Henderson, Jayden has been engaged in creating site-specific, multidisciplinary performance work since 2018. BPH will next tour their project An anvil, a coil, a patterned ocean to Edmonton this June. 

Much gratitude to this gifted team of artists for bringing themselves so fully to this project!

Director

Judy (she/her) is a director, creator, performer and teaching artist based in Saskatchewan. Her directing and/or creation works have been presented at Summerworks (Toronto), Intrepid Theatre (Victoria), Theatre Alberta, Vancouver Improv Fest, Sum Theatre (Saskatoon), Found Festival (Edmonton), 2B Theatre (Halifax). Judy has been an artist-in-residence with Listen to Dis’ and Riffel High School’s Integrated Theatre Program, That’s Possible. She is a frequent collaborator of Strange Victory Performance (Toronto/Edmonton), FadaDance (Regina), and Curtain Razors Theatre (Regina), with whom she has been an Artistic Associate since 2015. Judy is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the U of R and the Directing program at National Theatre School of Canada.

Production Manager

Andrew is a respected and sought-after arts administrator with nearly 20 years of senior management experience in the cultural sector. Most often working as a production manager, Andrew has helped stabilize, grow, and develop programming at some of Saskatchewan’s leading arts institutions, including the Globe Theatre and the Regina Symphony Orchestra.

Andrew has been closely involved with the Artesian on 13th Avenue since it opened in 2011, initially providing production and technical support for events and later serving as its Venue Manager. In 2016, he founded the not-for-profit and charitable organization Artesian Performing Arts Inc. and became the organization’s first Artistic and Executive Director. The organization continues to support emerging artists and lead the development of inclusive, community-based programming to this day.

 Andrew teaches technical production and stage management for the Department of Theatre at the University of Regina. He remains an in-demand consultant, collaborator, and mentor in production management, technical design, and theatre craft.

Production Support

Annika Danielson (she/her) is an emerging theatre artist located in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is currently in her third year of working towards a BFA in Devised Theatre and Performance Creation from the University of Regina. Annika’s primary theatre interests lie in new play development and devised processes. She is currently working on a devised show that will premiere in the spring of 2026 with her cohort and collective Theatre 26. Most recently Annika was seen as Rosalind in the University of Regina’s production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. She sends a big thank you to both Andrew Manera and the Curtain Razors team for inviting her to be involved in this production of Tommy and Père.

Production Support

Emily Sorensen (She/Her) is an emerging theatre artist from Regina, Saskatchewan. She is currently studying at the University of Regina and pursuing a BFA in Devised Performance and Theatre Creation. As an artist, she enjoys acting, devising, creating, and collaborating with as many other artists as possible. Her most recent credits include acting as Le Beau and Jaques in the University of Regina’s production of As You Like It (2024). As well as playwriting and acting in the University Of Regina/Fringe production of Family, Fairies, Wishes, and War (2024). She would like to extend much gratitude to the University of Regina, Andrew Manera and the Curtain Razor’s team for being able to be apart of this amazing production of Arthur Milner’s Tommy and Père.

Production Support

Slayte Prefontaine (He/Him) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in theatre and live performance. He is originally from Swift Current, SK but has been living, learning and working in Regina, SK for the past three years. He is currently working towards a BFA in Devised Theatre from the University of Regina.

He works with public performance, site specific performance, durational work, sound and is interested in the relation between technology to the performer. Previous credits include Assistant Director for As You Like It (University of Regina, 2024), as well as Actor and Set Designer for Families, Fairies, Wishes and Wars (2024). He would like to thank his cohort and professors at the U of R, as well as Curtain Razors and Andrew Manera for their guidance and for allowing him to be a part of this production.

slayteprefontaine.ca

Post-Show Chat Host

Krista is immensely curious about the world, about people, and about why we think the way we do—which might explain a past life in journalism. That same curiosity now fuels a career spent helping researchers share their work in ways that connect and inspire. It also drives a love for meaningful conversations, including this talkback. When not asking questions, Krista is happiest running beautiful trails with Birch, a German Shepherd who is, without question, the bestest boy. 

Set Carpenter

After almost five decades in the carpentry trade, Cal worked on his first theatre set with ‘Tommy and Père’. “It was a wonderful experience working with such a talented cast and crew.”