Neptune Theatre's Production of
# East Coast Kitchen Party
April 18 to May 7, 2023
Spriet Stage
Additional Information
Opening Night April 21
Advisories Conceived and Created by Jeremy Webb and Ian Sherwood
**Running Time:** 110 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.
**Age Recommendation:** 4+
**Content Advisory:** This production depicts scenes of implied alcohol consumption.
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## **The Story**
Celebrate a Maritime tradition! *East Coast Kitchen Party* offers an authentically Nova Scotian experience. It’s a concert celebration set in a kitchen, where the instruments come out, and friends start to play some of the best music that the East Coast has to offer. Each performance will see the stunning cast of Maritimers, joined by an **[outstanding lineup of London, Ontario musicians](/east-coast-kitchen-party-guest-artists)**, who will drop in to give the party a very local flavour.
This is the perfect opportunity to grab your friends and family, raise a glass, and celebrate the music that defines us – and the music that binds us.
## **Enhance Your Experience**
### Creative Conversations
Enjoy stimulating discussion and hear insights into Grand productions with host **James Stewart Reaney** and special guests at *Creative Conversations*, offered **pre-show in the Spriet Theatre.**
- Wednesday, May 3, 2023
## **From the Stage Door**
“A summery, sociable night of Atlantic pride.” - **Halifax Bloggers**
“We end the season with music, friends, and Maritime flavour! In this East-Coast-meets-London experience, a rotating group of performers from our city will not only join each show (Live! And in person), but will keep the party going immediately following the show in our newly-created Drewlo Lounge. Plus, did I mention you can sit onstage at the bar?” - **Dennis Garnhum, Grand Theatre Artistic Director**
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### The Cast
Ian Sherwood
Co-Creator/Performer/Musical Director
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Argyle Street Kitchen Party (Neptune Theatre).
Other: Ian Sherwood is an award winning singer songwriter from Halifax Nova Scotia. He has released 6 albums of original music, received a Canadian Folk Music award for Contemporary Singer of the Year and has twice been named Musician of the Year by the Nova Scotia Music Awards. He Currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with his partner Geneviève Steele and their two children, Winnie and Daphné. Ian spends his down time doing home renovations and trying to learn the secret language of French that his children and wife speak when he’s in the room. Heave Away! [www.iansherwood.com](http://www.iansherwood.com)
Malia Rogers
Performer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Argyle Street Kitchen Party (Neptune Theatre); Selah’s Song (Theatre of the Beat); Bernie’s Bistro (Backyard Theatre).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Mr. D (CBC); Sea Change (Lifetime).
Other: Independent singer-songwriter; graduate of Acadia University (BA, Theatre Performance) and York University (MA, Theatre & Performance Studies). [www.maliarogers.ca](http://www.maliarogers.ca)
Celia Owen
Performer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut
Theatre Credits (Selected): Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells); Peter Pan, Cinderella, Mamma Mia! (Neptune Theatre).
Film and TV Credits: Eleanor Bennet on Moonshine (CBC/Entertainment One).
Other: Really stoked to be here at the Grand!
Karen Lizotte
Performer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): ONCE (Citadel Theatre); ONCE (Neptune Theatre); Stan Rogers: A Matter of Heart (Geordie Brown Productions); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Lions' Den Theatre); DRUM! (Brookes Diamond Productions); Cabaret (Saint John Theatre Company).
### Creative Team
Jeremy Webb
Co-Creator
Jeremy is the twelfth Artistic Director
in Neptune Theatre’s history. Prior to Neptune,
Jeremy was the Artistic Producer of Eastern
Front Theatre. Jeremy moved to Canada, from
his native UK, in 1998, making Halifax home.
He grew up in Cambridge and trained at The
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Jeremy has
been working at Neptune ever since 1998, in so
many capacities. For Neptune he has directed
Elf: The Musical, Alice, Fully Committed, Woman In
Black, The Rocky Horror Show, Peter Pan, Mamma
Mia!, Shakespeare In Love, Cinderella, Noises Off,
Little Thing Big Thing and Calendar Girls. Up next
he’s directing Billy Elliot. Jeremy directed Noises
Off for The Mayfield Theatre in Edmonton
in February 2020. His one-man version of A
Christmas Carol has been a great success since
2003, touring Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and
the USA, in schools and theatres since then.
His other plays, Shakespeare On Trial and Fishing,
have also both toured for years. He won the 2010
Mayor’s Award for Achievement in Theatre.
In 2013, Jeremy won the Creative Arts Nova
Scotia Established Artist Award. In 2014, Off
The Leash/Jeremy Webb won the 2014 Touring
Performers Award, presented by The Atlantic
Presenters Association. In 2017, he was awarded
The ACTRA David Renton Award of Excellence
(for service to the film & TV union.)In 2022,
he was awarded the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Medal for service to the arts. If you ask him, he'll
tell you he is most proud of two ‘productions’
Dylan (8 years) and Samuel (10 years.)
Samantha Wilson
Director
For The Grand: Debut. Other selected theatre: Misery, Shape of a Girl, Liars (Neptune Theatre), Dayboil, Odd Ducks, Tuesdays and Sundays (Ship’s Company Theatre); When it Rains (2b Theatre); Where You Are, Sexy Laundry (Theatre Baddeck) The Roaring Girl, In The Next Room (Sheridan College), Women of Troy, The Secret in the Wings (Dalhousie University); Strawberries in January, The Paris Crew (Live Bait Theatre); Really Really, Unity 1918 (Mount Allison); Marion Bridge (STC) Selected TV/Film Credits include: Look at Me, Diggstown, Moonshine, Night Blooms, S&V, Trailer Park Boys, Haven, Queer as Folk, Legends and So Close. Samantha holds an MFA from York University and has taught and directed at Mount Allison University, Sheridan College and York University. She currently teaches part-time at Dalhousie University.
Vicky Williams
Lighting Designer / Tour Technical Coordinator
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): East Coast Kitchen Party (Neptune Theatre); Elf (Neptune Theatre); Noises Off! (Mayfield Theatre); Peter Pan (Neptune Theatre); Pleasureville (Neptune Theatre); The Children (Keep Good {Theatre} Company); Some Blow Flutes (Homefirst Theatre Company); The Argyle Street Kitchen Party (Neptune Theatre); The Romeo Initiative (Ship’s Company Theatre); King of Berlin (Doppler Effect Productions); Constellations (Keep Good Theatre Company); Bingo! (Mulgrave Road Theatre Company).
Film Credits (Selected): Moonshine, The Sinner, Bystanders, Sullivan’s Crossing, I Hate You.
Andrew Cull
Set Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
theatre Credits (Selected): The Rocky Horror Show, Misery, Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells), Fathers and Sons, The Argyle Street Kitchen Party (Neptune Theatre); What a Young Wife Ought to Know, East of Berlin (2b theatre); I,Claudia, Salt Water Moon (Globe Theatre).
OTHERother: Andrew lives in Halifax with his family and works at the Neptune Theatre as the Assistant Technical Director.
Suzanne McArthur
Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: 13th season.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Hamlet-911, Hosanna, The Tempest (Stratford Festival); The Birds and the Bees, Aladdin: The Panto, Snow White: The Panto, Weekend Comedy, Perfect Wedding (Drayton Entertainment); The Fixer-Upper, It’s Your Funeral, Lunenburg, Buying the Farm, Birds of a Feather, Storm Warning, Wrong for Each Other, Knickers! A Brief Comedy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); The Normal Heart (Studio 180/Buddies in Bad TimesTheatre); Forests (Tarragon Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Silver Mist Productions).
Upcoming: Les Belles-Soeurs (Stratford Festival).
Other: Love to Phil, Michael and Charlie.
[Program](https://www.grandtheatre.com/hp/east-coast-kitchen-party) [Tickets ](https://tickets.grandtheatre.com/overview/10133)