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Performing Résumé

Member of Canadian Actors’ Equity

Professional Theatre & Video Work

Producer Role Show Director
RuBarb Productions Ebenezer Scrooge A Christmas Carol: The Radio Play Evie Sawatzky
Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre (Spring Festival of New Plays) Various Kobyla Sharon Pollock
Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon Monsieur D’Arque, as cast Beauty and the Beast Ann Hodges
Globe Theatre, Regina Valentine/Second Officer/Priest Twelfth Night Ruth Smillie
Souris Valley Theatre Charles Cocktails for Two Hundred Jeff Pufahl
Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon Gerald/Sean O’Connal Who Has Seen the Wind Tibor Feheregyhazi
Station Arts Centre, Rosthern George Hoveland/Bob Lesfrud Tent Meeting Tibor Feheregyhazi
Globe Theatre, Regina Bill On Golden Pond Susan Ferley
Various All Billy Bishop Goes to War Robert Ursan
Opera Saskatchewan Official Registrar Madama Butterfly Irving Gutman
Opera Saskatchewan Dr. Grenvil La Traviata Irving Gutman
Opera Saskatchewan Customs Sergeant La Boheme Irving Gutman
Opera Saskatchewan Ambrogio The Barber of Seville
Prairie Opera Mankin Into the Light Robert Ursan
Prairie Opera Father The Little Match Girl Murray Moats
Prairie Opera The Storyteller The Snow Queen Robert Ursan
Prairie Opera The Fox Chanticleer Murray Moats
Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan (Prairie Opera) Mr. Page The Merry Wives of Windsor Robert Ursan
Prairie Opera The Metronome Zoggy the Time Traveller Murray Moats
Prairie Opera The Donkey The Starbird Murray Moats
Regina Symphony Orchestra Baron Popoff/Narrator The Merry Widow Vladimir Conta
Partners in Motion John Dearman Farm Credit Corporation training video Chris Triffo
Partners in Motion TV News Reporter SaskTel promotional video Chris Triffo

Community Theatre & Miscellaneous

Producer Role Show Director
Class Act Studios Widow Simone La Fille mal Gardée Ana Marie Campos
Crocus 80 Theatre, Weyburn Numerous roles, including:
Milo in Sleuth; Sgt. Trotter in The Mousetrap; Frank in How the Other Half Loves
Various
Regina Little Theatre Taylor Abbott Cake-Walk Ken Spencer
Regina Little Theatre Charles Blithe Spirit Nora Berg
Regina Summer Stage Avram
Fiddler on the Roof Ian C. Nelson
Regina Summer Stage Police Sergeant The Pirates of Penzance Ian C. Nelson
Regina Summer Stage Commander Harbison South Pacific Walter Phillips
Regina Summer Stage Mr. Bumble Oliver! Kelly Handarek
tye productions El Gallo The Fantasticks Robert Ursan
tye productions This Can’t Be Love Robert Ursan
tye productions Michael I Do, I Do! Steve Gregg
tye productions The No-Frills Revue Robert Ursan
tye productions Carlo (Chico Marx) A Night in the Ukraine Robert Ursan
tye productions Fairy Godfather Sleeping Beauty Edward Willett
Regina Lyric Musical Theatre Lurch The Addams Family Musical Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Musical Theatre Ensemble When You Wish Upon A Star Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Musical Theatre George Hoveland Tent Meeting
Edward Willett
Regina Lyric Musical Theatre Buddy Plummer Follies Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Jud Fry Oklahoma! Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Voltaire/Pangloss Candide Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Hines The Pajama Game Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Closer Than Ever Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Jigger
Carousel
Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Tevye
Fiddler on the Roof Jeffrey Pufahl
Regina Lyric Light Opera Tony The Most Happy Fella Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Sandor Bells Are Ringing Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Mr. Lindquist A Little Night Music Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Dromio of Syracuse The Boys from Syracuse Jake Roberts
Regina Lyric Light Opera Charlie Cowell The Music Man Philip May
Regina Lyric Light Opera Gangster Kiss Me Kate Jake Roberts
Regina Lyric Light Opera Some Enchanted Evening Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Rudolph Reisenweber Hello, Dolly! Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Harry Company Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera By George! and Ira Too! Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Baron Zeta The Merry Widow David Evans
Regina Lyric Light Opera Dr. Falke Die Fledermaus Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Duke of Plaza-Toro The Gondoliers Robert Ursan
Regina Lyric Light Opera Pish-Tush The Mikado Robert Ursan

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Other Performing Experience

Member of Wascana Voices

Past member of Canadian Chamber Choir, Prairie Chamber Choir, Regina Philharmonic Chorus, University of Regina Chamber Singers, Harding University A Cappella Choir

Livingston Square, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Gershwin

Premier Walter Scott, Hill Companies’ 100th Anniversary Receptions, Regina and Calgary, and Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association Centennial Convention, Saskatoon

The Host, This is Our House, music video for The Minnow, aired on Much Music

Close Encounters of the Science Centre Kind, Cable Regina

Edgewater Cafe commercial, STV, Regina

Extra in various feature films shot in Regina

Voice-overs for Saskatchewan Library Association, Saskatchewan Book Awards

Host of  Internet segment for Plugged In, Cable Regina

Host of net.talk, Cable Regina phone-in Internet show, for many years

Host of various Regina Symphony Orchestra concerts

Directorial Experience

Regina Conservatory for the Performing Arts
Queen for a Day (children’s operetta)

Regina Little Theatre
Rope
The Play’s the Thing
A Christmas Carol

Crocus 80 Theatre
Meanwhile Back on the Couch
The Tomorrow Box
Idaho Bill

Regina Lyric Light Opera
We’ll Meet Again (1994 & 2004)
Regina Revisited
Brunch with Gilbert & Sullivan
How the West was Sung

Regina Lyric Musical Theatre
Tent Meeting
As Time Goes By: A Love Story with Music and Ghosts
(writer and director)
The Music Shoppe (writer and director)

tye productions
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

Other
No Time to Spare, Regina Senior Citizens’ Centre
Love Will Be Our Home, Lutheran District Convention

Additional Information

Past president and founding member, Crocus 80 Theatre (Weyburn)

Past president, Regina Lyric Light Opera (now Regina Lyric Musical Theatre)

Life member, Regina Lyric Musical Theatre

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Music samples: listen to me (and friends) sing!

Here are some recordings for your enjoyment! James Willett singing Just a Closer Walk. This is my father singing, on a 1987 recording, what became his signature song as choral director at Western Christian College. Dr. Kenneth Davis Jr. singing Just A Closer Walk.  My dad learned the song from an early recording of Dr. Davis …