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Hele
HelenWeeden - Director
Helen
has a had a long and varied association with Kanata
Theatre as a producer, properties manager, and
seamstress, for many productions. Her acting career
includes Hansel and Gretel plus The Haunted
Castle for Kanata Theatre and That Summer for
Lakeside Players. Helen completed a course in Directing
with Theatre Ontario in 2002 and now is applying herself
in several key roles for Aladdin. Helen says that
over the years she has worked with many warm and
talented people at Kanata Theatre: so much so that she
now has a keen interest in scriptwriting and is nearing
completion of the Scriptwriting Program at Algonquin
College. She already has a half dozen completed scripts
in her portfolio, for venues ranging from radio to
movies to stage plays. Her Madness of Moose and
Mosquitoes received a stage reading at Kanata
Theatre's Evening of One Act Plays this past July
and she is now heavily involved in writing a full-length
screenplay.
Martin Weeden - Director
Martin
began working with Kanata Theatre as a ‘techie’ running
sound and lights for many of the production in the early
years of the Ron Maslin Playhouse. He took the acting
plunge with Hansel and Gretel and then went on to
play in Hobson’s Choice, Murder by Misadventure,
Communicating Doors, The Stillborn Lover and An
Experiment with an Air Pump. Now he is turning his
hand to the support of Helen jointly directing and
producing Aladdin. Working with a large cast,
innumerable details, a tight schedule, the busy lives of
everyone involved plus the expectations of the community
has given Martin an new appreciation for the role of all
the directors he has worked with!
Director's notes
When
asked to comment on the experience of directing a large
cast musical production on the scale of Aladdin,
Helen and Martin said: ‘We are blessed to have had an
incredible host of highly talented people from which to
choose our amazing cast. And we have had a most
remarkable group of very capable and gifted Kanata
Theatre members contribute to the development of every
aspect of the look, sound and feel of the final show.
With all of these great ingredients, it was a certainty
we would be able to present to our audience a startling,
colourful, lively and memorable production.’
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