A Co-Production with The Citadel Theatre
Heist
By Arun Lakra
January 14 to February 1, 2025
Opening Night Friday, January 17
Spriet Stage
Age Recommendation: 12+
Running time: 115 minutes which includes a 20-minute intermission.
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Diamonds. Deals. Lasers. Betrayal. Ocean’s Eleven for the theatrical stage!
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Five criminals team up for one final job after finding themselves betrayed.
Heist is an edge-of-your-seat, popcorn-theatre, action-thriller with all the necessary players: the charmer, the pretty boy, the sneak, the muscle, and the geek. Prepare for anything and everything, then watch as karma comes collecting in this Ocean's Eleven-inspired theatrical production.
Calgary’s breakthrough screenwriter, playwright (and ophthalmologist by day), Arun Lakra brings high-tech, stunt-filled, crime drama from the silver screen to the stage. His mission? To keep savvy audiences on their toes with a fast-paced, twisty whodunnit that has the lobby buzzing.
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AFTERWORDS
On select Wednesday evenings, immediately after the performance, join host Breanne Ritchie in theatre's lounge for a brief guided discussion with guest artists, creative team members, and Grand staff members.
- Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025: With special guests Priya Narine (Fiona) and Emilio Vieira (Kruger)
- Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025: With special guests Devin MacKinnon (Marvin) and Callan McKenna Potter (Ryan)
- Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025: With special guests Belinda Cornish (The Spider), Emilio Vieira (Kruger), and Gillian Moon (Angie)
TEA TALKS
Join us for creative conversations pre-show with host Breanne Ritchie and special guests connected to the show. Tea Talks begin at 12:00pm before the Wednesday 1:00pm matinée.
- Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025 - With special guest Nigel Stuckey, Documentary Film Maker and retired London Police Officer
The Cast
Belinda Cornish
The Spider
For the Grand Theatre: An Undiscovered Shakespeare.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Arts Club 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: The Garneau Block (Citadel Theatre); hiraeth (Varscona Theatre); Category E )The Maggie Tree/Coal Mine Theatre); Little Elephants (Shadow Theatre).
Voice Over (Selected): Mass Effect trilogy, Dragon Age (Bioware Corp).
Other: www.belindacornish.com
Theatre Credits (Selected): Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Arts Club 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: The Garneau Block (Citadel Theatre); hiraeth (Varscona Theatre); Category E )The Maggie Tree/Coal Mine Theatre); Little Elephants (Shadow Theatre).
Voice Over (Selected): Mass Effect trilogy, Dragon Age (Bioware Corp).
Other: www.belindacornish.com
Devin MacKinnon
Marvin
For the Grand Theatre: Debut
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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).
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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).
Callan McKenna Potter
Ryan
For the Grand theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Fox (Here For Now Theatre); Mother Courage and Her Children, The Three Musketeers (The Stratford Festival); Hamlet (Hit and Myth).
FILM & TV Credits (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.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Fox (Here For Now Theatre); Mother Courage and Her Children, The Three Musketeers (The Stratford Festival); Hamlet (Hit and Myth).
FILM & TV Credits (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.
Gillian Moon
Angie
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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.
Priya Narine
Fiona
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Private Lives (Teatro Live!); The Sound of Music (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Citadel Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre - 4 seasons); Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Freewill Shakespeare); Queen Lear is Dead (Fox Den Collective); Slight of Mind (Theatre Yes/Citadel Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Private Lives (Teatro Live!); The Sound of Music (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Citadel Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre - 4 seasons); Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Freewill Shakespeare); Queen Lear is Dead (Fox Den Collective); Slight of Mind (Theatre Yes/Citadel Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta.
Emilio Vieira
Kruger
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard III, The Miser, Coriolanus, The Tempest, Napoli Milionaria!, A School for Scandal,Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny (The Stratford Festival); The Three Musketeers (RMTC); The Two Noble Kinsmen, Cymbeline (Shakespeare BASH’d); Towards Youth: a play on radical hope (Crow’s Theatre/Project Humanity); Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe (Canadian Stage).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Titans (HBO Max); february: a love story (Sudden Spark Collective).
Other: Graduate of York University’s Acting Conservatory (2014) and the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre (2015-2017).
Theatre Credits (Selected): London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard III, The Miser, Coriolanus, The Tempest, Napoli Milionaria!, A School for Scandal,Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny (The Stratford Festival); The Three Musketeers (RMTC); The Two Noble Kinsmen, Cymbeline (Shakespeare BASH’d); Towards Youth: a play on radical hope (Crow’s Theatre/Project Humanity); Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe (Canadian Stage).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Titans (HBO Max); february: a love story (Sudden Spark Collective).
Other: Graduate of York University’s Acting Conservatory (2014) and the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre (2015-2017).
Creative Team
Haysam Kadri
Director
For The Grand Theatre: Homes: A Refugee Story, A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Street Car Named Desire, Einstein’s Gift.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Clue, Nero Wolfe: Might As Well Be Dead (Vertigo Theatre); In Wonderland (ATP); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arts Club, MTC); The Shoplifters, Romeo and Juliet ( Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (The Shakespeare Company); Prairie Boys Winter, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Dracula ( Mount Royal University); Metamorphoses (U of C); Dracula (Red Deer College).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Last of Us, The Revenant, Hell on Wheels.
Other: Haysam is the Artistic Director of Alberta Theatre Projects albertatheatreprojects.com
Theatre Credits (Selected): Clue, Nero Wolfe: Might As Well Be Dead (Vertigo Theatre); In Wonderland (ATP); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arts Club, MTC); The Shoplifters, Romeo and Juliet ( Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (The Shakespeare Company); Prairie Boys Winter, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Dracula ( Mount Royal University); Metamorphoses (U of C); Dracula (Red Deer College).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Last of Us, The Revenant, Hell on Wheels.
Other: Haysam is the Artistic Director of Alberta Theatre Projects albertatheatreprojects.com
Beyata Hackborn
Set Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel/Theatre Calgary/RMTC); The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden, Village Wooing, Playboy of the Western World, Overruled, Bright Lights (Shaw Festival); The Inheritance (CanStage); Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Little Shops of Horrors (Arts Club/Citadel); Jersey Boys (Citadel); Metronome, Mob (Workshop West); Sleight of Mind (Western Canada Theatre).
Other: www.beyatahackborn.com
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel/Theatre Calgary/RMTC); The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden, Village Wooing, Playboy of the Western World, Overruled, Bright Lights (Shaw Festival); The Inheritance (CanStage); Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Little Shops of Horrors (Arts Club/Citadel); Jersey Boys (Citadel); Metronome, Mob (Workshop West); Sleight of Mind (Western Canada Theatre).
Other: www.beyatahackborn.com
Jessica Oostergo
Costume Designer
For the Grand Theatre: The Sound of Music.
Theatre Credits (Selected): A Streetcar Named Desire, Almost A Full Moon (Citadel); 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).
Other: 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
Theatre Credits (Selected): A Streetcar Named Desire, Almost A Full Moon (Citadel); 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).
Other: 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
Siobhan Sleath
Lighting Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Homes: A Refugee Story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, In Seven Days
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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).
Other: www.siobhansleathdesign.com
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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).
Other: www.siobhansleathdesign.com
Richard Feren
Composer & Sound Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Controlled Damage, Grand Ghosts, Every Brilliant Thing, The Wars.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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 Credits: 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. www.haemorrhage-music.com.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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 Credits: 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. www.haemorrhage-music.com.
Nick Shostak
Assistant Sound Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (selected): Hadestown, Sense and Sensibility, Crazy for You, Million Dollar Quartet (Citadel Theatre).
Theatre Credits (selected): Hadestown, Sense and Sensibility, Crazy for You, Million Dollar Quartet (Citadel Theatre).
Corwin Ferguson
Projection Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Homes: a Refugee Story.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Salesman in China, Rent, Spamalot, Wrinkle in Time (Stratford Festival); Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Newsies, Nobody’s Children, Hansel & Gretel (Yellow Door Theatre Project); Mary Poppins, Driving Miss Daisy, Enemy of the People, Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, 1984 (Saint John Theatre Company); Rinaldo (Pacific Opera Victoria); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III (The Shakespeare Company); Playing with Fire, Buyer & Cellar, You Will Remember Me (Alberta Theater Projects).
Other: Graduate of the BPA Program at Capilano University, Studio 58 Acting Graduate www.corwinferguson.com
Theatre Credits (Selected): Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Salesman in China, Rent, Spamalot, Wrinkle in Time (Stratford Festival); Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Newsies, Nobody’s Children, Hansel & Gretel (Yellow Door Theatre Project); Mary Poppins, Driving Miss Daisy, Enemy of the People, Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, 1984 (Saint John Theatre Company); Rinaldo (Pacific Opera Victoria); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III (The Shakespeare Company); Playing with Fire, Buyer & Cellar, You Will Remember Me (Alberta Theater Projects).
Other: Graduate of the BPA Program at Capilano University, Studio 58 Acting Graduate www.corwinferguson.com
Siobhan Richardson
Fight & Intimacy Director
For the Grand Theatre: Actor - The Penelopiad; Fight and/or Intimacy Director - Controlled Damage, Room, A Christmas Story, The Hobbit, High School Projects - Les Misérables (Spring 2007), Romeo & Juliet (Fall 2007).
Theatre Credits (selected): Resident Fight and Intimacy Director (Canadian Opera Company); Sex, Getting Married, The Russian Play (Shaw), The Play That Goes Wrong (WMU), Betrayal (Soulpepper), Trout Stanley (Tarragon Theatre).
awards: Chalmers Arts Fellowship (Ontario Arts Council); Best Fights in a Martial Arts Short nomination (Action on Film, LA); Arts Response Initiative (Ontario Arts Council).
Other: Instructor (Paddy Crean International Workshop), www.SiobhanRichardson.com, Instagram: @fighteractress.
Theatre Credits (selected): Resident Fight and Intimacy Director (Canadian Opera Company); Sex, Getting Married, The Russian Play (Shaw), The Play That Goes Wrong (WMU), Betrayal (Soulpepper), Trout Stanley (Tarragon Theatre).
awards: Chalmers Arts Fellowship (Ontario Arts Council); Best Fights in a Martial Arts Short nomination (Action on Film, LA); Arts Response Initiative (Ontario Arts Council).
Other: Instructor (Paddy Crean International Workshop), www.SiobhanRichardson.com, Instagram: @fighteractress.
Alexandra Rizkallah
Assistant Director
For the Grand Theatre: Homes: A Refugee Story.
Theatre Credits (selected): Jealousy, My Brother (Theatre of the Beat); Much Ado About Nothing (Summer Shakespeare); Good Old Days (One Four One Collective/Toronto Fringe); Love's Labour's Lost (Stratford Festival); Sticky Fingers: A Musical (OKTC); Boundaries, Hopscotch (First Steps Theatre/Fringe); With Love: Stories From the Middle East (Blue Stage E15); Innocence (Corbett).
Other: Jean Gascon Director Award, Stratford Festival. Alexandra is an international director and dramaturg. Thank you to the Stratford Festival, Grand Theatre, Haysam Kadri, & Mom!
Theatre Credits (selected): Jealousy, My Brother (Theatre of the Beat); Much Ado About Nothing (Summer Shakespeare); Good Old Days (One Four One Collective/Toronto Fringe); Love's Labour's Lost (Stratford Festival); Sticky Fingers: A Musical (OKTC); Boundaries, Hopscotch (First Steps Theatre/Fringe); With Love: Stories From the Middle East (Blue Stage E15); Innocence (Corbett).
Other: Jean Gascon Director Award, Stratford Festival. Alexandra is an international director and dramaturg. Thank you to the Stratford Festival, Grand Theatre, Haysam Kadri, & Mom!
Sang Sang Lee
Stage Manager
For the Grand theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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 Herd (Citadel/Tarragon); 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 (Citadel Theatre); The Exquisite Hour, Fever Land (Teatro Live!).
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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 Herd (Citadel/Tarragon); 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 (Citadel Theatre); The Exquisite Hour, Fever Land (Teatro Live!).
Jess Gordon
Assistant Stage Manager
For The Grand Theatre: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, High School Project - Matilda: The Musical.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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.
Theatre Credits (Selected): 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.
