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CASEY AND DIANA

By NICK GREEN

CAST

RANDI EDMUNDSON Diana

MATHEW HULSHOF Thomas

JAXON JENSEN Andre

KAREN JOHNSON-DIAMOND Marjorie

JANELLE REID Vera

AMELIA SARGISSON Pauline

CREATIVE TEAM

MATT EGER Director

LORENA SANDOVAL* Set Designer

REBEKAH JOHNSON* Lighting Designer

DONNIE TEJANI Costume Designer

LUKAS VANDERLIP Sound Designer & Composer

JANE MacFARLANE Dialect Consultant

ASHLEY REES Stage Manager

PETER JOTKUS Assistant Stage Manager

Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 20 minute intermission.

WCT is proud to tell our stories in the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory within the traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation.

Produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.MQlit.ca Nick Green is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC).

Casey and Diana was originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. The premiere production opened on June 1, 2023 at the Stratford Festival Studio Theatre. Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director & Anita Gaffney, Executive Director.

Western Canada Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and engages professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the jointly negotiated Canadian Theatre Agreement.

* Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.

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The Met's 2025–26 season of live movie theatre transmissions features eight exceptional operas.

La Sonnambula

VINCENZO BELLINI

10 AM, OCT 18, 2025

Arabella

RICHARD STRAUSS

10 AM, NOV 22, 2025

I Puritani

VINCENZO BELLINI

10 AM, JAN 10, 2026

Eugene Onegin

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

10 AM, MAY 2, 2026

La Bohème

GIACOMO PUCCINI

10 AM, NOV 8, 2025

Andrea Chénier

UMBERTO GIORDANO

10 AM, DEC 13, 2025

Tristan und Isolde

RICHARD WAGNER

9 AM, MAR 21, 2026

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

GABRIELA LENA FRANK / LIBRETTO BY NILO CRUZ

10 AM, MAY 30, 2026

A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome back to a New Year, and a new work by another Canadian writer. Nick Green is a prolific and extraordinary talent; one of the best currently writing for Canadian stages.

Casey & Diana premiered at the Stratford Festival in 2023 and has since had several award-winning productions in centres, coast to coast, across Canada. There are currently two US productions in the works for 2026.

The play tells a story of deep compassion, joy, and hope in the face of great pain and fear. The year is 1991, and we are in Casey House; at the time Canada’s only free-standing hospice for AIDS patients. It’s difficult to remember the atmosphere of those years for those of us who lived through it, and I would think it’s difficult to imagine for anyone who didn’t. For people like me, who felt able to continue moving through the world as we always had, feeling relatively safe, it was easy to look away. For those so inclined it was easy to blame behaviours, and shame sufferers. For those personally affected it was a devastating time, made harder by a world that felt guided more by fear and judgment than by compassion and love.

Then came Diana Spencer, the People’s Princess. One October day in 1991, at Casey House in Toronto, Princess Di changed the conversation with a simple gesture, and a demonstration of true grace. At a time when many were still frightened to share a waiting room with AIDS patients, she shared so much more than that. Photographs of her sitting at men’s bedsides, holding their hands and offering comfort and compassion, were on the front page, above the fold, of major newspapers globally (the ‘90s version of “going viral”), and made all of us re-examine our own response to the crisis. When Diana looked those men in the eye, held their hands and spoke with them, they were seen; and they could no longer be “unseen” by any of us. The ground shifted.

Our Executive Director Matt Eger takes the director’s chair on this project and the vision and commitment to the story is palpable in every choice made. Because we work so closely together, I have felt more connected to the process on this than previous shows this year and I am so proud to have it on our stage, and so proud of the courage and clarity of Matt’s approach to it. There is grief here, yes, but there is also peace, and love, and laughter.

Later in the season we really will make you laugh. Holly Lewis’ farce The Fianceé is next up in February, and we will close the Sagebrush season with Mark Crawford’s The Golden Anniversaries. Over at the Pavilion we will be welcoming Kevin Matthew Wong and Benevolence in March, then Wolf Cull by Cheyenne Scott in May. Lots left to share! And don’t forget to save the date for our Breaking Ground fundraising event April 24!

Kelli Fox, Artistic Director

The hopes you enjoy the show!

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE

“Laughter through tears is my favourite emotion.” – Truvy, Steel Magnolias

As a young queer millennial, I carried the legacy of the AIDS crisis in my bones—in my outward attitude and arrogance, and my inward feelings of isolation and loneliness. Surely, I thought, I am unworthy of love. HIV was no longer a death sentence, yet people living with it were still spoken about in hushed tones, treated as social pariahs. Even now, with Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) readily available and the undeniable truth of Undetectable = Untransmittable, stigma lingers.

And yet in the queer community there is still joy, even glamour, and always so much laughter. And perhaps that’s part of the Princess of Wales' enduring legacy as a queer icon—the way her dazzling public life was matched by a complicated, aching private one. That juxtaposition feels like the romantic essence of the queer experience.

Princess Diana’s iconic visit to Casey House cracked open a truth the world had ignored, and playwright Nick Green hones in on that moment to remind us that in darkness, grace and humour are resilient. It shouts from the palace balcony that it’s never too late to reach out, mend a relationship, or choose connection over bitterness. Because whatever plague comes, we will continue our glittering procession—singing, dancing, and laughing as we go.

Nick and I didn’t experience the devastating scale of loss that defined the beginning of the HIV pandemic. I’m lucky to have elders who did—survivors who have held me through my own darkest seasons. Their resilience, their insistence on joy, taught me that I was wrong—today, I know that I am worthy of love. The weight of our history is still present, and I’m grateful to Nick for trusting me with this play to help lift us up, even for this moment.

AIDS has not disappeared. Neither have we. We are still here.

Call your sister. Take her to brunch.

Matt Eger, Director

EXTENDING DRAMATIC MOMENTS: NICK GREEN’S CASEY AND DIANA

Canadians do not have to reach too far back into our collective memory for instances of dramatic events with international reach unfolding within our borders. In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono selected Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel to stage their “bed-in-for-peace,” an 8-day gift to the world’s media, where they recorded “Give Peace a Chance.” In 1992, Salman Rushdie elected to end four years in hiding—a response to the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran’s fatwa—by attending a PEN Canada gala in Toronto.

Less well known, but equally dramatic and consequential, was a 1991 event, also in Toronto: at Casey House, Ontario’s first free-standing hospice, Princess Diana held the hand of a person dying of AIDS—a gesture instrumental in changing public perception of those suffering with HIV-AIDS.

Given the impact of the princess’s gesture, it is not surprisingly that the Stratford Festival commissioned the play you are about to experience (although puzzling it took so long). Casey and Diana premiered on June 1, 2023, with subsequent productions across Canada.

Set largely in Casey House, which was opened in 1988 by volunteers lead by journalist June Callwood (and named for her son, Casey) the play focuses on the week before the visit of Princess Diana. Toronto playwright Nick Green’s five fictional characters anticipate and prepare—not only for that visit, but also for the end of life for at least one of them.

Thomas, the longest-term resident, vividly recollects watching every televised moment of the royal wedding with his sister Pauline as he composes lyrics that detail minutiae of Diana’s life in order to recite them to her. Thomas holds the lens through which we view Diana, who wanders in and out of the plot before her “actual” arrival, as a projection of his imagination. The vehicle for much of the play’s humour, Thomas also sets the play’s time context through abundant pop culture references—from Madonna to the Golden Girls, from Weekend at Bernie’s to Lionel Ritchie. Equally, Thomas evokes pathos, as the ailing man contends with his complicated relationship with Pauline: they shared much as youths, but their subsequent estrangement has damaged them both, and their reconciliation attempts sometimes prove painful.

Recently arrived patient Andre, nurse Vera, and volunteer Marjorie round out the cast. When tending to the most basic and profound physical and emotional needs of terminal patients, caregivers navigate shifting boundaries. Both poignantly and wittily, Casey and Diana explores those tricky lines—as well as the complexities of professional and volunteer relationships.

With both head and heart, Nick Green tackles difficult issues. The folks at the Stratford Festival were wise to commission him, as were the folks at Western Canada Theatre to showcase Casey and Diana in this, their all-Canadian 50th anniversary season. Good art can extend the reach of dramatic moments beyond their time and place like nothing else can.

Ginny Ratsoy

Professor Emerita, Thompson Rivers University

Board of Directors, Kamloops Adult Learners Society www.kals.ca

COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES

RANDI EDMUNDSON – Diana

At WCT: Actor – Nanny in The House at Pooh Corner ; Assitant Director – In a Blue Moon

Elsewhere: Randi wears many hats in the world of theatre, including producing, directing, performance, and design. With her Jessie Richardson Award-winning company Little Onion Puppet Co., Randi has toured multiple original puppet works across Western Canada. She has worked as a performer and/or puppet creator with Chemainus Theatre Festival, Neworld Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, the National Arts Centre, Lunchbox Theatre, and Upintheair Theatre. She holds a BFA in Performance from the University of Victoria and an MFA in Directing from the University of Calgary. Randi is grateful to create as a freelance artist on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory in Vancouver and as the Artistic Producer of Project X Theatre on unceded Secwepemc territory in Kamloops. Up next, Randi is touring her puppet show Otosan, co-created with Shizuka Kai and Jess Amy Shead, to Winnipeg’s Manitoba Theatre for Young People.

KAREN JOHNSON-DIAMOND – Marjorie

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Where You Are (Theatre Northwest, Prince George); Hilda’s Yard (Chemainus Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing (Verb Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary). Karen also performed in two shows last year with her own son Griffin: For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Rosebud Theatre) and Clue (New West Theatre). Karen's mom dislikes biographies that are just 'lists', so let’s pause here while Karen tells you that she’s obsessed with Neil Diamond. You should listen to “Be” from the Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack. It’s a great gateway drug into his music. Karen is also a professional improviser, and co-produced Dirty Laundry – The Completely Improvised Soap Opera from 1999–2020. Next up, Karen will direct Damien at Rosebud School for the Arts. Thank you for supporting live theatre!

MATHEW HULSHOF – Thomas

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Mathew is a Toronto based, Alberta born actor who graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program. Past credits include: A Christmas Carol, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Citadel Theatre), On the Banks of the Nut, The Oculist’s Holiday, Margin of the Sky (Teatro Live!), Bed & Breakfast (Theatre Network), Three Sisters (Alchemy Theatre Paris), Deathtrap (Mayfield Theatre), Nevermore (Persephone Theatre), Happy Birthday Baby J (Shadow Theatre). Next up he will return to Teatro Live! In Edmonton for the 40th anniversary of Cocktails at Pam’s. Many thanks to Nicole at daCosta. Much love to Jonathan.

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JAXON JENSEN – Andre

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Native to Kelowna, Jaxon is thrilled to return to the Okanagan and make his WCT debut. Past theatre credits include Into the Woods (Grove Theatre); Ghost the Musical (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Rent (Renegade). Past film and television credits include Checkin' It Twice, The Christmas Cup (Hallmark); Romantic Friction, A Christmas Spark (Lifetime); Alien Encounters (HBO). Jaxon studied in the Opera Performance Undergraduate program at UBC in Vancouver, before moving to London, England where he became a resident artist at the West End's Phoenix Arts Club. He subsequently lived in Berlin, Germany where he was an apprentice with Staatsoper Unter den Linden, before settling in Mexico City, where he currently splits his time between Canada. In addition to performance, Jaxon is a sought after coach to singers and actors, and runs Jaxon Jensen Studios.

JANELLE REID – Vera

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Janelle Reid is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion of singing and acting. She has a BFA degree in Music and Theatre and a second degree in a Bachelor of Education. She juggles being a teacher on call while, auditioning and singing on the stage. She receives every opportunity on the stage with gratitude as it signifies a moment where she can help bring people together.

AMELIEA SARGISSON – Pauline

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Recently: Witness for the Prosecution (Drayton); Stag & Doe (1000 Islands). Upcoming: The Last Wife (MTC), Ismène/Ismene (Théâtre Double Signe/ Centaur). Amelia is an actor, writer, director and coach born and raised in Montreal. Favourite credits include: The Wolves (META - Outstanding Ensemble), If We Were Birds (META nomination), down from heaven (Cartes Premières Best Actress) (Imago); Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear (Canadian Stage SIHP); La Bête, Amadeus (TIFT); The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel); Red Velvet (Dora nomination), The Watershed, Seeds (Crow’s); Paradise Lost, Hamlet 911, Othello The Front Page The Comedy of Errors (Stratford); All I Want for Christmas, The 39 Steps (META nomination) (Centaur). She is the voice and mocap actor for Nora in the hit video game, Lost Records: , for which she recently received a New York Videogame Critics Circle Best Acting nomination. TV credits include: The Boys, Murdoch Mysteries, . She has directed and narrated multiple audiobooks for Penguin Random House Canada, and teaches regularly at the National Theatre School.

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Music spanning rock to sea shanties to jazz and everything in between. Enjoy an evening of a cappella voices, humour, and absolutely no other instruments!

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Concerts at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 7:30 pm

Information and tickets available at chambermusiciansofkamloops.org or at the door

CREATIVE TEAM

MATT EGER – Director

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Matt Eger is a theatre artist and producer based in Kamloops, BC. They are the Executive Director of Western Canada Theatre, and are deeply grateful to work at the intersection of artistic practice and building and sustaining arts organizations through a shared creative process.

Matt previously ran the independent theatre collective Shotgun Juliet, collaboratively creating and writing several full-length works including Forest For the Trees, To Be Alone With You, Stealth, and How to Say Goodbye, and directing productions such as A Beautiful View, Jewel, and Kaleidoscope. They have also directed with Ebb and Flow Collective, Patchwork Plays, the Newmarket National Play Festival, Winter Bird, and Confessions Collective.

Matt has worked as a theatre and dance producer with companies including the Dance Umbrella of Ontario, Coal Mine Theatre, Why Not Theatre, and Cue6 Theatre.

LORENA SANDOVAL – Scenic Designer

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Lorena Sandoval is a scenic designer, prop fabricator, and educator with over 20 years of experience in theatre and the entertainment industry. She has contributed to large-scale productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Wicked, as well as projects for Disney, Universal Studios, and Cirque du Soleil in props fabrication. Her scenic design work explores the intersection of materiality, form, and storytelling, emphasizing the creation of emotionally resonant stage environments. Her work on Casey and Diana continues this exploration, investigating how materials, form, and space shape visual and emotional storytelling. Lorena holds an M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Penn State University and a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Scenic and Properties Design at Western Carolina University.

REBEKHA JOHNSON – Lighting Designer

At WCT: The Attic The Pearls and 3 Fine Girls, Mambo Italiano, Miracle Worker, If We Are Women

Elsewhere: Clue (Theatre North West); Baskerville (Chemainus Theatre); Women of the Fur Trade, Reflections on Crooked Walking (Firehall Arts Centre); A Doll's House Part 2 (Western Gold). Rebekah is a Sessional Instructor at the University of Victoria, and Technical Director at Chemainus Theatre. Rebekahjohnson25.com

DONNIE TEJANI – Costume Designer

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Donnie has built his career wearing many hats in the wardrobe department and has established himself in Vancouver as a dresser, wig stylist and Jessie and Ovation Award winning costume designer. After years of learning tricks from the 'front lines' as Head Dresser at the Arts Club, he shifted focus to design going on to work with companies such as TUTS, Neworld Theatre and Vancouver Opera. He satisfies his cravings for work behind the scenes by touring internationally as the Wardrobe Supervisor for Kidd Pivot. Donnie’s work can also be seen on screen on the runways of drag competition series’ such as RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars, Drag Race Canada and Call Me Mother (S2) Upcoming: Così fan tutte (Vancouver Opera), Something Rotten (Studio 58), The Little Mermaid (TUTS) @donnietejani

LUKAS VANDERLIP – Sound Designer & Composer

At WCT: Pride & Prejudice, Hurry Hard, Sleight of Mind, It's a Wonderful Life, The Drowning Girls, VIMY, Armstrong's War. Lukas composed original theme music for “Seasons” WCT’s 50th Anniversary series of video interviews. Elsewhere: Lukas Vanderlip is a composer, sound designer and songwriter who has been working in the Kamloops theatre and film industry for over five years. Lukas is an alumni of the TRU Actor's Workshop Theatre program. Lukas is currently engaged in various 'creative activities' and would love if you went and listened to his new album: https://beholding.bandcamp.com/album/narcissus

JANE MacFARLANE – Dialect Consultant

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Jane is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary, where she has worked on 90+ productions since 2000. She is the Associate Director of A Christmas Carol [ 2023 – ] and has coached TC’s various incarnations for 17 years, including playing Mrs Crachit in 2001-2002. She has also coached productions for Alberta Theatre Projects, Vertigo Theatre, The Shakespeare Company, One Yellow Rabbit and various other theatres in Calgary. She has taught acting and voice for the actor at York University, Harvard University, Southern Methodist University, Mount Royal University, the University of Alberta and is currently the Division Lead in the Drama Division in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at UCalgary.

ASHLEY REES – Stage Manager

At WCT: Assistant Stage Manager: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Elsewhere: Stage Manager: Kiuryaq (Akpik Theatre); The Full Monty, Kiss Me Kate (Drayton Entertainment); The Ballad of Georges Boivin, Countries Shaped Like Stars (Lunchbox Theatre); The House of Bernarda Alba (Sage Theatre).

Assistant Stage Manager: Peril in the Alps, Deadly Murder, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Murder on the Orient Express, The Extractionist (Vertigo Theatre); The Sound of Soul, Fiddler on the Roof (Drayton Entertainment).

PETER JOTKUS – Assistant Stage Manager

At WCT: Assistant Stage Manager: The Woman in Black ; Stage Manager: Kim’s Convenience

Elsewhere: The Belfry; Pacific Opera; Arts Club (current) Vancouver Playhouse (twelve consecutive seasons); Bard on the Beach; Electric Company; Aeriosa Dance; WCT; Banff Centre; ATP; The Citadel; Theatre Calgary; MTC; Stratford Festival; Shaw Festival; Grand Theatre; Canadian Stage; Opera Atelier; COC; National Arts Centre; Centaur; Charlottetown Festival.

Touring: De Singel, Antwerp; BAM, New York; Edinburgh International Festival; Kammerspiel, Munich; American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco; Bushnell Center for the Arts, Hartford; Bergen Festival, Norway; Wellington Festival; Adelaide Festival; Barbican Theatre, London; World Stage Festival; Luminato, Toronto. Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

BRAVO TO OUR DONORS!

Western Canada Theatre gratefully acknowledges the following government agencies, corporations, foundations, and individuals for their generous contributions through sponsorships and/or charitable donations. We thank everyone who plays their important part in helping us to bring the highest quality of work to the broadest possible audience. Listings based on annual contributions, July 01, 2025 – January 4, 2026.

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House Staff

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

At time of printing (January 05, 2026)

CHRYSTIE STEWART President

SUNNIE ROTHENBURGER

Vice President

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ALICIA ASHCROFT

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MONICA MACAULAY

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