Gimli Production Program 2024
R-G Productions
Hosted by the A-Spire Players
presents:
The Savannah
Sipping Society
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten
Directed by Alison Kolisnyk
Place: A yoga studio,
and a verandah in Savannah, Georgia.
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Time: Present day.
Cast in order of appearance
Randa Covington…..Hope Figueroa
Dot Haigler……………Linda McNeill
Marlafaye Mosley….Heather Forgie
Jinx Jenkins…..Kristen Ligertwood
Costume Design....Heather Forgie
Production Design..The Company
Stage Manager..........Riley James (Winnipeg)
.........John Bent Jr. (Gimli)*
Assistant S.M....Alison Kolisnyk (Gimli)
*John appears with permission from I.A.T.S.E. 63 Winnipeg
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There will be one fifteen minute intermission
Bios
Alison Kolisnyk (she/her) is thrilled to be directing again for R-G Productions, having previously directed Charming & Rose: True Love, Heroine Addiction and Not Medea. As an actor with R-G Productions, Alison has appeared in Psychopathia Sexualis, The Savannah Sipping Society (2017), Spider’s Web, Desdemona, and Breadcrumbs. Previous show credits also include: The Social, wirh Dark Horse Theatre, You can’t take it with you, and Elf: The Musical with the North Kildonan Community Players, The Mercury 13 with MaxQ Productions, The BS Comedy Players, and with Merlyn Productions: The Beggar and the Wolf, Nightingale, Wind of a Thousand Tales, Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations, The Brothers Grimm, Through the Looking-Glass, and Puss in Boots.
Hope Figueroa (she/her) is delighted to be performing again with R-G Productions! Her previous appearances with the company include: Motherhood Out Loud, Not Medea, The Savannah Sipping Society (2017), Relatively Speaking, The Storyteller, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other select credits include: The Tempest (Indifferently Reformed), C*A*S*H (BS Comedy Players), The Laramie Project (Meraki Theatre Productions), and A Marriage Proposal (Merlyn Productions). Hope is also a seasoned improviser. She is half of the improv duo, After Hours, with Alli Perlov and has been a core member of The Crosseyed Rascals since 2019. Off-stage, Hope serves as the Vice-President of Manitoba Drama Educators' Association and works in public education. Hope would like to thank her family and friends for their unwavering love and support.
Heather Forgie (she/her) is the artistic director of R-G Productions, as well as an actor, playwright, and director. Her most recent performances with R-G Productions include: Charming & Rose: True Love, Motherhood Out Loud, Not Medea, Psychopathia Sexualis, The Savannah Sipping Society (2017), Desdemona, Spider's Web, Breadcrumbs, Skirmishes, and Relatively Speaking. Heather has also performed and directed for The BS Comedy Players, and performed in numerous shows for Merlyn Productions, including: The Blabbermouth-The Puff Monster and the Wolf, Nightingale, Wind of a Thousand Tales, Snow White, and The Brothers Grimm. Heather is a teacher and mother of two boys.
Kristen Ligertwood (she/her) is very happy to be performing in her second show with R-G Productions, previously appearing in Motherhood Out Loud. Kristen has also performed with The BS Comedy Players. Kristen would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support.
Linda McNeill (she/her) is making her first appearance with R-G Productions. Previously she was seen in Merlyn Productions' Wind of a Thousand Tales. Before she moved to Winnipeg, Linda was in several productions with Trilight Theatre in Kenora, Ontario. Linda also appeared in TV's Killers in Plain Sight as a woman who was married seven times, but only killed one husband. She will also be seen in the movie Money for Nothing (working title) as Auntie Gayle, to be released next year.
This production is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend
Daniel Gilmour, who is represented on our stage by the cactus.
Special thanks to:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
The A-Spire Players
Kim Malchuk
Nathan Fletcher
Jeff Main
Place Eugenie Senior Apartments
Interlake Vacation Cabins
Mitch Krohn
Megan Gunn
Steph J Blanchette
Allison Loat
The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
The Staff at One88
Alexander Greyeyes
Liam Greyeyes
THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY
received its world premiere at
the Gypsy Theatre Company
Buford, Georgia
February, 2016.
THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY
was subsequently produced by
R-G PRODUCTIONS as part of
the Aspire Theatre's summer season, Gimli Manitoba
August 18 - 20, 2017
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services Inc.