Dorothy Beak – Kanata Theatre

Directing Credits

1986: May 7-11	Ghost on Tiptoe
1993: January 1993	Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1996: October 1996	A Month of Sundays

Acting Credits

1977: May 18-21	You Can’t Take It With You – I
1978: May 3-6	Arsenic And Old Lace
1979: March 7-10	Diary Of A Scoundrel
1980: May 7-10	Two And Two Make Sex
1980: December 3-6	Harvey
1982: March 1982	Round And Round The Garden
1983: May 11-14	Romantic Comedy
1984: February 1984	Dangerous Corner
1985: May 8-11	Living Together
1987: January 14-17	Key For Two
1989: May 1989	Pardon Me, Prime Minister
1991: February 1991	A Doll’s House
1992: May 1992	Pygmalion
1993: October 20-23	You Never Can Tell
1999: May 1999	The Madwoman of Chaillot
2000: Mar 22-25, Mar 28-Apr 1	Kindertransport
2002: March 27-30, April 2-6	The Stillborn Lover
2006: November 14-18 & 21-25	Happy Birthday Dear Alice
2008: November 11- 22, 2008	The Countess

Production Credits

Assistant to the Director	Murder Once Removed
Production Manager	A Christmas Carol Enter A Free Man Forty Carats Jill Otherwise Engaged Black Comedy Enter Laughing A Bequest To The Nation Whodunnit Noises Off On the Razzle Look, No Hans! Fools Steel Magnolias The Importance of Being Earnest – II The Cemetery Club Kindertransport You Can’t Take it With You -II Noises Off The Gallant Tailor or 7 at One Blow Rabbit Hole
Assistant Producer	The Wild Guys
Stage Manager	The Philadelphia Story Jitters She Stoops To Conquer Which Witch is Which? The Waltz of the Toreadors – II Moon Over Buffalo Through the Looking Glass Cash On Delivery The Last Romance
Assistant Stage Manager	Absent Friends The Heidi Chronicles Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Bus Stop
Stage Crew	Postmortem
Set Painter	Forty Carats
Lighting Design	Shadow Box
Sound Design	Forty Carats
Continuity	Angel Street You Can’t Take It With You – I Not Now Darling Everything In The Garden The Country Girl Bousille And The Just Twelfth Night There Goes The Bride Happy Birthday Communicating Doors Over the River and Through the Woods Caught in the Net Enchanted April The Heiress Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You We Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Properties	Critics Choice Sinners
Properties Assistant	I Never Sang For My Father
Furnishings	How The Other Half Loves Deathtrap Enter Laughing
Costumes Assistant	I Never Sang For My Father
Make-up	The Country Girl I Never Sang For My Father Twelfth Night Cause Celebre Waiting For The Parade Relative Strangers Quiet In The Land A Delicate Balance Crimes of the Heart As You Like It One for the Pot On Golden Pond
House Manager	Many Moons Choice for the Future

From the program for Happy Birthday Dear Alice:

DOROTHY BEAK (Alice) – most recently played Marion Raymond in The Stillborn Lover. She has performed in Romantic Comedy, Key for Two, Pygmalion, Kindertransport and many more at Kanata Theatre and OLT. Directing credits include Ghost on Tiptoe, Beyond Reasonable Doubt and A Month of Sundays. She has also produced and been stage manager for many shows. Dorothy’s involvement in the theatre started in England and has continued at Kanata Theatre for the past 30 years, serving on the board for 23 of these years in various positions and at the moment is the theatre’s publicist.

From the program for Happy Birthday Dear Alice:

DOROTHY BEAK (Margaret Ruskin) was most recently seen on stage as Alice in Happy Birthday Dear Alice, for which she was nominated by the Capital Critics Circle for Best Actress in a community theatre production. She has appeared in Stillborn Lover, Kindertransport, Pygmalion, Romantic Comedy and other productions. She has also been a producer and director. Dorothy has served on the board in many positions including president. She is Festival Chair for the Theatre Ontario Festival which will be hosted by Kanata Theatre in May 2009.