Design by Ricky Castanedo Laredo. rickycastanedo.com
Live at Studio 58
March 27-April 6, 2025
Boy bands are an industry that manufactures masculinity, popularity and desire - all to produce the next big hit. This devised piece follows a group as they strive for stardom and deal with the dark side of fame.
Creative Team
Concept, Direction and Choreography – Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg | Script and Movement Score – Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg with Studio 58 Students and Designers | Stage Manager – Brynna Drummond | Set and Props Design – Kevin MacDonald | Props Buyer – Emma Knox | Costume Design – Emily Friesen | Assistant Costume Design – Taylor MacKinnon | Lighting Design – Sarah Fett | Sound Design – Riley Hardwick | Dramaturgs – Josh Martin and Sarah Finn | Intimacy Director – Lisa Goebel
Run Time: Approximately 1 hour with no intermission
Content Advisories: Use of haze and fog, strobe lighting, coarse language, sexual references
Cast and Crew
Creative Team
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award-winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, educator and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations, Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies including Studio 58, Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, etc.
Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. Her solos and ensemble works have been performed around the world (highlights: Dance Base/Edinburgh, Southbank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary, etc.). Tara lives on unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner, composer/podcast producer Marc Stewart and their child Jasper. Tara is currently completing an MFA in interdisciplinary performance at Simon Fraser University. www.taracheyenne.com
Born in Vancouver BC, Brynna has always had a love for theatre. Graduating from Studio 58’s Production Program (2019) and years later completing Acting Program (2024). Previously, she has been a Stage Manager for Carousel’s The Tempest (2021), Child Minder for Arts Club’s Kinky Boots (2022), Arts Club’s Elf: The Musical (2023) and ASM for Pacific Theatre’s Middletown (2024).
It’s always a joy for Brynna to come back to Studio 58 and work alongside other likeminded artists and share a love of theatre together.
Over the years, Kevin has worked as an actor, designer, producer and technical director. He has acted with companies across the country ranging from The Playhouse, Rumble, Pi, Neworld, Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, Alberta Theatre Projects, National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage and Soulpepper. Often drawn to new work, Kevin has participated in over 75 workshops/readings of new plays. He was Co-Artistic Director of Section 8, a member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy and a member of the Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre. He has been nominated a number of times for his work as both an actor and a designer and has appeared in several films and tv series. Kevin is a graduate of the Acting Program at Studio 58.
Emma is a fabrication artist, puppet maker and props designer based out of Vancouver, BC. Before moving, she was Storybook Theatre's props builder/buyer and a mascot maker in Calgary, AB. She holds a BFA in Technical Theatre & Design from the University of Lethbridge and currently works as a Venue Technician for Gateway Theatre.
Props Designer: Linck & Mülhahn, Into the Woods (Studio 58). Props Builder/Buyer: Heathers: The Musical (Studio 58), Lionel Bart's Oliver! (Gateway Theatre), The Garden of Alice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Pearl Fishers, and HMS Pinafore (Vancouver Opera), The Neverending Story, Curious George, Sister Act, Return to Treasure Island, The Giver, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Goosebumps the Musical, Junie B Jones, and Into the Woods (Storybook Theatre). Head of Props: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Gateway Theatre).
Emily is a multidisciplinary designer, artist and graduate of the University of Victoria theatre program. It is a pleasure for her to be returning to Studio 58 and contribute to this incredible show. Select credits include: Women of the Fur Trade (Firehall Arts Centre); Kindred (Belfry); Metamorphoses (Studio 58); The Last Five Years, Ride The Cyclone, Salt Water Moon, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (BlueBridge Repertory); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Allihipporhinocrocodilligtor (Kaleidoscope); Snow White (Carousel); The Mixolydian (Green Thumb); The Great Bloom (Story Theatre); Othello, The Children’s Hour (UVic Phoenix Theatre); and It's Just Black Hair (Staging Equality). For more information visit emilyfriesen-theatredesigner.com
Taylor is thrilled to be at Studio 58 working with an amazing team. Taylor is a proud graduate of the Technical Theatre program at Capilano University. They have previously worked as a stage manager on Papa Penguin Play (Carousel Theatre for Young People), Parade (Raincity Theatre), AlliHippoRhinoCrocodilligator (Kaleidoscope Theatre), Juliet: A Revenge Comedy (Monster Theatre), Snow White (Carousel Theatre), God Said This (Pacific Theatre), Oz (Carousel Theatre/ Kaleidoscope Theatre), Lights (Touchstone Theatre) and We the Same (Ruby Slippers Theatre). Thanks to Emily for bringing me onto this project!
Sarah Fett (they/she) is a lighting designer and theatre maker hailing from the tiny town of Ashton, Ontario. They currently live and work on the unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. They love to self-produce weird, fun work with their friends - most recently 638 Ways to Kill Castro at the Edmonton Fringe. This coming summer you can catch them at the Edmonton Fringe with Cadaver Synod: a dark comedy about the corpse of a pope being put on trial in the 9th century. Fun fact: that really happened!
Riley Hardwick is an actor, improviser and Jessie Award-winning sound designer.
Originally from Alberta, Canada, Josh Martin is a maker, performer and producer who now lives and works in Vancouver, BC on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. In addition to an ongoing career as an interpreter and collaborator for dozens of dance companies and independent choreographers across Canada, for the past 15 years Josh has also been Artistic Co-Director of Company 605, an arts organization producing and presenting various movement-based projects and films, and valuing collaboration as a critical path to new directions in dance. Through both Josh’s independent practice, and with Company 605, his choreographic work has been presented throughout Canada and internationally, touring to numerous festivals and venues in over 15 countries worldwide. Josh is a past recipient of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award and, alongside his partner Lisa Mariko Gelley, the 2024 Lola McLaughlin Legacy Award celebrating achievement in dance. www.company605.ca
Sarah Finn (she/they) is a writer and multimedia artist working in performance and film. They use puppetry, original text, dance-theater and video to explore nonhuman bodies and the tragic-comic uncertainties of living through disaster. Her solo show Is this the right thing to be doing? was presented at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2024) and premieres in Vancouver in September 2025. Their work has been shown at festivals in North America, the Czech Republic, Germany and Japan, as well as venues in New York, where they received a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, MAP Fund Microgrant and were a resident-artist at Mabou Mines and Object Movement. She trained at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and is pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at SFU.
www.sarahkfinn.com | @sarah.k.finn
Lisa Goebel is an interdisciplinary artist working as an actor, choreographer and intimacy director. Recent credits include intimacy direction for Flight (Vancouver Opera), Heathers: The Musical (Studio 58) and puppeteering in Otosan (Little Onion). She completed her Intimacy Certification through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and is a graduate of Studio 58. Upcoming: choreographer/intimacy director for Pride and Prejudice (Western Canada/Gateway).