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students into Company Artists Biographies and poetry based theatre since 1996. From 1998 to the present we have gone to s chools doing 1-15 day artist-in-residence programs that have incorporated thousa nds of students at hundreds of schools across Alberta. Although our primary prog ramming for and with young people is Shakespeare, we have also produced Greek pl ays, adaptations of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas works, as well as a modern pl In addition to our ay by Ted Hughes. mandate of working with and performing for young people, we h ave developed the new Canadian productions of Maggie Now Parts 1-4, and Blood Op era: The Raven Tango Poems at the Fringe, Canoe and Serca Festivals. We have sta rted two new theatre festivals in Edmonton. In 2009 we premiered the launch of t he Serca Festival of Irish Theatre, which has since become its own independent c In 2011 ompany. we launched the first annual Thousand Faces Festival of Mythic Art, whic hTheatre Prospero presenting mythic works from around the world is dedicated to ToRomeoLear: FallNothing:musicalinEdmontonspecial performances Ourcreate, ofAdventures:Falland and repertory performances 1996-1997 1997/1998 1998/1999 1999-2000 2000/2001 2001/2002 Christmas residenciesspecial residencyandperformances 2002/2003 theSpring residency andEdmonton performances 2003/2004 andtheresidencies andDecemberperformancespecial 2004/2005 :Juliet: Kings:Development forandEdmontonEdmonton 2005/2006 SpringNothing Wales: residencyresidenciesrequest performances 2006/2007 Aboutthe residencies residencies andperformanceperformances 2007?/2011Fall/Spring Dream:Fall/Springresidenciesrequestresidency 2008?/2009SpringKings:inPlay SpringandEdmontoninEdmonton Edmonton 2009/2010 Ave.NightsEdmontonFall/SpringandperformancesEdmonton poetic 2010/ 118(adaptation):residenciesEdmontonresidencyresidency and performances 92100N2andFall/SpringDream: FallresidencyrequestEdmontonperformances Theatre 2011/2012ofABSpring Fall/SpringEdmontonEdmontonperformancesrequestperformances b T5GMidsummerShepherdsDecember in Edmonton Edmontonand Edmonton, Professionalthe :performancesperformances Hamlet YearBacchae: Hamlet: RockTaming MuchFrogs: KingComing Coming The Tempest: FallShrew:of Edmonton of, Artistic performances Macbeth: A Childs :to ResidencyFall/SpringNickleby: andDirector Mandate Tempest Life Second off around 2008 Ado foster residency creation residenciesNicholas repertory Block: Edmonton performance December Fall residencyand residencies classical, mythic We areWe Are,in Edmonton, Alberta, with office and y students, professionals and community members. performance spaces on 118th A Where based Whom We Serve venue. We provide single- and multi-day and multi-week Artist-in-Residence progr ams for schools around the province. We perform school matinees for Edmonton stu dents as well as providing performances for the general public and for festivals such as the Canoe and Serca Festivals. We also produce and encourage festivals which celebrate the richness and diversity of Edmontons cultural scene, such as t OurThousand Faces Artistic Objectives heToMain Goals andFestival of Mythicas a tool people can use to explore and celebrat keep Shakespeares works alive Art. To make them to be human. e what it meansaccessible to modern audiences in their local cultures without wate To celebrate and bring ring down the content. to immediate life other works that deal with great themes Our Role in the Artsin arts education and audience development. We like to give about humans as individuals and societies. primary role is Community young performers a chance to fly. Many of our student performers keep coming bac k to our projects in increasingly challenging roles. We believe that putting fai Mark is LeadersArtistic Director and Producer. As Artistic director of Theatr Artistican Edmonton Actor,positive psychological Director: BA, MFA th inHenderson: onlythe Company and Performanceand sociological repercussions. youth can of have Director e Prospero, he has directed Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About No thing, The Tempest, King Lear, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Bacchae, The Coming of the Kings, Blood Opera: The Raven Tango Poems, and The Taming of The Shrew. O ther credits include Spokesong, Pentecost, Agamemnon, The Unveiling, Danny and t he Deep Blue Sea, Julius Caesar, and Winners. Recent acting credits include Patr ick, Otto, and The Big Boss in Jennifer Spencers Maggie Now Series, and roles for Theatre Prospero including Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Alonso in The Tempest, the title role in Macbeth, Oberon, Puck, Quince and Theseus in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet. Mark is the founder of Theatre Prosper o, The Serca Festival of Irish Theatre and the Thousand Faces Festival of Mythic Art, and a founding member of The Alberta Avenue Mummers Collective. Mark has s at on the boards of Rapid Fire Theatre, Workshop West Theatre, and Arts on the A ve. He has taught at the Citadel Theatre School and the University of Alberta, f Elizabeth Hobbs: Associate Artistic Director: Lead Artist with Multi Day Residen rom which he holds an M.F.A. in Directing. Elizabeth Hobbs is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a double major i cies: BA double honours n drama and psychology. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Prospe ro and the artistic director of Punctuate! Theatre. She has been acting with The atre Prospero since she was 13 years old and has appeared in their productions o f A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Bacchae, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Macbeth , The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. She also directed their 2010/11 production o f Macbeth. Other directing credits include Judith and The End of Civilization (P unctuate! Theatre), The Secrets of Immortality (Serca Festival), The Importance of Being Earnest and Impulse (Edmonton Fringe), 13 Encounters and Fish at the Bo ttom the Sea (NextFest).