Doug Curtis

Doug Curtis is the founder and Artistic Director of Calgary's Ghost River Theatre. Founded in 1999, Ghost River Theatre's vision is to create new Canadian theatre that is innovative, original, and highly theatrical. Ghost River combines storytelling and live music and creates collaboratively to tackle controversial topics. An Eye for an Eye is about a quintessentially Alberta topic: Wiebo Ludwig, the RCMP, and the oil and gas industry. Doug was the director and collaborator on An Eye for An Eye, which won the 2001 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Musical, and also played at Theatre Network and the National Arts Centre, Ottawa. An Eye for an Eye was also adapted as a radio drama for the CBC. Ghost River followed that show with Picnic; about the day the Ludwig family came to see An Eye for An Eye.

As a producer, Doug recently directed the collaboratively-created The Alan Parkinson's Project, and wrote and produced Confessions of a Paperboy, While My Mother Lay Dreaming, and X-Ray, a collective-creation musical on 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay. As a writer and performer, he has created The Photo Double (One Yellow Rabbit/Ghost River); and collaborated on The Carrot Warrior Seminar (Halifax, Edmonton, Calgary). He wrote and performed Mesa at Workshop West, at Sunshine Theatre, and at Magnetic North in 2005. In 2004, Ghost River created programs such as "Performance Storytelling" and "Writing on Your Feet" to help high school students and emerging performers discover their voice.

 

Jason Rothery - Artistic Producer

Jason is a Calgary-based writer, dramaturge, producer and administrator. A graduate of UBC's Creative Writing Program, Jason is the author of Wedgie, Wilson's Leg, the space between us, The Drop, Re:Generation, the Centaur Showcase Award-winning Menace, and The Generations Project –developed for ATP's playRites Festival (2005). Jason served as in-house dramaturge for Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre, is the creator and co-producer of the Walking Fish Festival (Vancouver), and was the co-founder and Festival Director of the 2006 Calgary Fringe Festival. In the fall of 2006, he served as Associate Producer of PlayWorks Ink (Alberta Playwrights Network). Jason is an Artistic Associate with Urban Curvz Theatre Society, and is the Artistic Producer at Ghost River Theatre.

 

Cimmeron Meyer - Lighting Design

Last season's lighting design credits included Dig and Sailor Boy (Ghost River Theatre), Make the Monkey Dance (Raw Gloss Collective), Famous Puppet Death Scenes (Old Trout Puppet Workshop), Columbo: Prescription for Murder for Vertigo Theatre and Lighting/Barbies/Video for Michael Green's Frank Zappa Project.

 

 

 

 

 

Heather Moore – Costume Design

Professional costume designer in film and theatre, Heather's credits include: The Assassination of Jesse James, Daughters of Joy, The Comeback Season, Six Figures, Hellboy, Open Range, Blade2, Almost America, Rat Race, Speaking of Sex, Texas Rangers, Snow Day. Theatre credits include: Sweeney Todd, Flumena, Die Fledermaus, Susan-Nah (Calgary Opera), Anne of Green Gables (Theatre Calgary), Mesa, Dig, While My Mother Lay Dreaming (Betty Mitchell Award nomination) and Confessions of a Paperboy (Ghost River Theatre).