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Design by Ricky Castanedo Laredo. rickycastanedo.com

Live at Studio 58
March 27-April 6, 2025

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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
Created by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg with the participation of Studio 58 students | Director and Choreographer – Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg | 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 – Torquil Campbell | Intimacy Director – Lisa Goebel | Fight Director – Mike Kovac | Dialect and Voice Coach – Brad Gibson

Cast and Crew

In alphabetical order.

Ensemble:

  • Hernán Alonso Adrianzén Abanto (he/him)
  • Evan Andersen Sterns (he/him)
  • Carol Chu (she/her)
  • Aidan Currie (he/him)
  • Izel De Lara (she/her)
  • Chhavi Disawar (she/her)
  • Stella Jack-Rennie (they/she)
  • Juno (any)
  • Kathryn Kerby (they/them)
  • Clayton Melanson (he/him)
  • Saidi Mader (she/her)
  • Ellie McCullough (they/she)
  • Dylan McNulty (he/him)
  • Michelle Molina (she/her)
  • Philippa Ryder (they/them)
  • Gus Setala-Gay (they/them)
  • Tresha Thamilchelvan (she/her)
  • Alek Toledo-Cisak (he/him)
  • Carys Watts (she/her)
  • Ella Wood (she/her)

Studio 58 offers professional theatre training for actors and production personnel. The six terms of practical training consist of intensive classroom work as well as performance and backstage experience in productions. Production students and third term acting students operate sound, lighting and video and act as running crew and stage management.

Direction and Stage Management
Assistant to the Director – Mayara Nobre (she/her)
Assistant Stage Managers – Irene Lozano-Garcia (she/her), Emma Tow (she/her)

Set and Paint
Assisant to the Set Designer and Technical Director – Anne Constance (she/her)
Set Crew Head – Evan Makowecki (he/him)
Paint Crew Head – Daniel Marte (he/him)
Crew – Ayaulym Adilkhan (she/her), Payton Gowdar (she/her), Kobe Lim (he/him), Hazel Ogden (any), Destiny Renne (they/them), Bryce Tanton (she/her) 

Props
Crew Head – Joel Bakajika (he/him)
Crew – Sam Armas Gough (he/him), Kay Foord-Catterall (they/them), Taylor Weeks (they/she), James Yue (he/him)

Costumes
Crew Head – Ava Knight (she/they)
Crew – Umer Hanif (he/him), Jacob Joseph (he/him), Aurora Maher (she/her), Bryan Tran (he/him), Christo Zouzoulas (he/him)

Sound
Crew Head – Alex Christie (he/him)
Crew – Dre Zachary-Mattias Ayisi-Nyarko (he/him)

Lighting
Crew Head – Alexander Markovina (he/him)
Crew – Linden Kienzle, Liam Pritchard (they/them), Haylee Raby (she/her), Jilian Tolzmann (she/they), Jocelyn Wale (she/her), Abby Zacharias (she/her)  

Extreme
Crew Head – Lucy Mclachlan (she/her)

Marketing
Crew Head – Keely Coleman (she/her)
Crew – Kaliyana Denham-Rohlicek (she/her), Samaya Pankanea (she/her)