Ken Ludwig’s BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY

Chengyan Boon

Lighting Supervisor

Chengyan is a lighting designer with ten years in the Vancouver theatre, dance and music scenes. A graduate of the UBC BFA Theatre Design and Production program and a member of IATSE ADC 659, his work has been seen before on the Gateway stage for Yoga Play (lighting/video), China Doll, and various productions with Gateway Academy. Other recent designs include Instantaneous Blue and Snowflake (Mitch and Murray Productions), The Messiah and Wakey Wakey (Pacific Theatre) and Mad Forest (Douglas College). Supporting shows of all shapes and sizes from diverse cultures is a privilege that he is thankful for every day.

Oriana Camporese

Costume Supervisor

Andrew Cownden

Actor 1

Andrew has been a professional actor for almost 20 years. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Recent credits include Jaques in As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Co. in Washington, DC); Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (Arts Club); The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (Western Canada Theatre); Julian Marsh in 42^nd Street (TUTS); The Emcee in Cabaret (Royal City Musical Theatre). For Gateway Theatre: Ensemble in Annie (2010). Andrew uses art to scream meaning into the void—and you can too!

Genevieve Fleming

Sherlock Holmes

Genevieve Fleming (she/her) is an actor, director, and producer raised on the unsurrendered ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq people called Mi’kma’ki. Recent stage highlights include Yaga (Touchstone), The Café (ITSAZOO/Aphotic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard), Clean/Espejos (Neworld), and The Twelve Dates of Christmas (Arts Club). Recent camera highlights include appearances on The Recruit, Wild Cards, So Help Me Todd, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Travelers. Genevieve is the recipient of two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, several nominations for performance, and the Ray Michal Award for direction. She is delighted to be making her Gateway debut as the incomparable Sherlock Holmes and is also pleased that she doesn’t have as many costume changes as some of her castmates. Enjoy the show!

Lisa Goebel

Intimacy Director

Lisa is an interdisciplinary artist working as an actor, choreographer, intimacy director, and producer. She is delighted to be back at Gateway Theatre after intimacy directing China Doll in 2019. Recent credits include associate movement director and intimacy director for Choir Boy (Arts Club), intimacy director for Into the Woods (Studio 58), and movement consultant for Red Velvet (Arts Club). She completed her Intimacy Certification through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and is a graduate of Studio 58.

Mack Gordon

Actor 2

Mack is an internationally renowned theatre artist who resides in Vancouver, BC. This is his debut role on the MainStage at Gateway Theatre, though he previously appeared in a workshop reading of Meghan Gardiner’s play Gross Misconduct and has worked on the faculty for Gateway Academy. He studied at the University of Victoria as well as The Second City in Chicago. He is the founding Artistic Producer of A Theater in the Dark in Chicago. He has worked professionally in BC with companies such as Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, Pacific Theatre, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Green Thumb, Theatre Northwest, Project X Theatre, and UpintheAir Theatre.

MIKE KOVAC

Co-Fight Director

Mike Kovac is a Certified Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada and works in film/television/theatre in and around Vancouver. He has fight-directed Arts Club, Sense and Sensibility, Noises Off, The Shoplifters, Beauty and the Beast, Misery, and Mustard, among others. He’s an instructor with Capilano University, UBC, and TRU. If you see him on stage or screen, he’s probably about to get beaten up.

Sylvie La Riviere

Co-Fight Director

Sylvie is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Academy of Fight Directors Canada, as well as a teacher and fight choreographer with over ten years of stage combat experience. Recent shows include Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Mustard (TRU); Multi-Vs, Heroine, Playthings (Affair of Honor); Coriolanus, and St. Joan of the Stockyards (UBC). Previous Gateway Theatre productions include Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella and Anne of Green Gables: The Musical.

Scarlett Larry

Assistant Stage Manager

Scarlett is a stage manager and theatre creator based in Vancouver and Stratford. She has spent six seasons at The Stratford Festival in stage management, lighting design, and production administration. Favourite credits include stage manager of Letters From Max (Necessary Angel); stage manager/associate lighting designer of Kiviuq Returns: An Inuit Epic (Qaggiavuut, National Theatre of Greenland, Tarragon Theatre); writer/director of The Stage Manager’s Guide to Dating Assholes (self-produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Toronto Fringe Festival). Scarlett has an MA in Art History and BFA in Theatre Production from York University.

Ken Ludwig

Playrwright

Ken Ludwig has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year.

His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You is currently running on London’s West End. It was previously on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical.

In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theatre, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Baskerville, Sherwood, Twentieth Century, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, A Fox on the Fairway, A Comedy of Tenors, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood and Murder on the Orient Express. They have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Kristen Bell, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins and Henry Goodman.

His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays on theatre are published in the Yale Review. He gives the Annual Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and he served on the Board of Governors for the Folger Shakespeare Library for ten years. His first opera, Tenor Overboard, opened at the Glimmerglass Festival in July 2022. His most recent world premieres were Lend Me A Soprano and Moriarty, and his newest plays and musicals include Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.

His plays include commissions from the Agatha Christie Estate, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe Theatre, and the Bristol Old Vic. For more information visit www.kenludwig.com.

Gerry Mackay

Dr. Watson

Gerry Mackay is an actor and director with over 30 years of experience performing across Canada. Gerry earned his BFA from the University of Victoria and MFA from the University of British Columbia. Gerry has performed in many shows, including Having Hope at Home, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and All Shook Up at Gateway Theatre. Other theatres include Birds and the Bees (tour); Redbone Coon Hound, One man two Guvnors, August Osage County, Hamlet, and Dinner with Friends (Arts Club); Equivocation (Bard); Late Company (Touchstone); Indian Arm (Rumble Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Belfry); Romeo and Juliet (Citadel Theatre); For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Globe Theatre); The Illusion (Stratford Festival).

Steve Marsh

Sound Designer

Credits: Poochwater, Jersey Boys (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Woman in Black (Atlantic Repertory Company); Head of Sound at Segal Centre for the Performing Arts 2008 to 2022

Upcoming: Bittergirl, Once (Thousand Islands Playhouse)

Elizabeth McLaughlin

Dialect Coach

Liz is a Canadian actor, voice/speech/dialect coach, and acting coach based in Vancouver. She has 38 years of experience with theatre, film, and business clients from across the globe. Elizabeth holds her MFA from George Washington University at the STC in Washington, D.C., and has studied Knight-Thompson Speech in New York. She believes in kind and respectful work for all. She is happy to be back at Gateway.

Melissa Oei

Actor 3 & Fight Captain

Melissa is an accomplished actor and emerging director working in theatre for the past 15 years. Melissa previously appeared on the Gateway MainStage in Les Belles Soeurs and in Studio B for Long Division. Other recent credits include A Doll’s House Part 2 (Western Gold); Unexpecting (Zee Zee); The Cafe (Aphotic/Itsazoo); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard). Melissa is a graduate of Studio 58. Melissa has always had a passion for theatre, and it is the greatest joy in life to perform on stage for a living!

Yanting Qiu

Translation for Surtitles

Yanting Qiu is a first-generation Chinese immigrant theatre creator based in the unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. She is a producer, playwright, translator, and storyteller. As the co-founder of the Theatre as a Second Language Society, Yanting is working on building a community for culturally and linguistically diverse artists and audiences. Her first play translation for Gateway is The Forbidden Phoenix (2011) by Marty Chan. Yanting is proud to be working on Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery this time. She hopes that her translations capture the humour of this wonderful show and help more people enjoy it.

PHILOMENA SONDERGAARD

Stage Manager

Philomena has been a professional Stage Manager in Vancouver for over 20 years; working in dance, theatre, and live events. Notable credits include Crazy for You (Royal City Musical Theatre); Cabaret (Raincity Theatre); Something Rotten (TUTS); Betroffenheit, (Kidd Pivot/Electric Company); Romeo and Juliet (Ballet BC); 5 seasons for Align Entertainment; Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret (URP); 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Patrick Roberge Productions. Philomena would like to thank her husband Rob for his unwavering support.

Kevin Tanner

Lighting Designer

Credits: Third Floor (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Lancashire Lass (Watershed Festival/DAN School of Drama and Music); Harmonia (The Grapevine Theatre Project); One Last Night with Mata Hari (World Premiere: The Eye Of The Dawn Collective); Shipwrecked! (Theatre Kingston); Legally Blonde, Les Misérables, Anything Goes (St. Lawrence College/ Thousand Islands Playhouse); Murder on the Orient Express, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Glass Menagerie (Domino Theatre)

Other: Kevin has worked for the last decade in production and technical leadership roles at Thousand Islands Playhouse, Kingston Grand Theatre, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, and most recently, as the Managing Director of Production at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Barbara Tomasic

Director

Barbara is the Executive Artistic Director at Gateway Theatre, and works as a director at various theatres across Canada. A graduate of JIPA and UBC with an MFA in Directing, Barbara’s past credits at Gateway Theatre include directing Anne of Green Gables-The Musical, Crazy for You, Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and acting in Sound of Music and King and I.  Barbara is grateful for the amazing team that brought this show together!