10 Minute Musicals

Carie Fargey-Scott

There are no adjectives to describe how happy Carie is to be back on stage! This is her second show with Bears With Knives Productions, having performed in the Living With Festival last October. Other favourite performances include All Together Now, The Most Massive Woman Wins, Sympathy Jones, Anything Goes, Hello Dolly, and Evita, all with the Leduc Drama Society. Outside of theatre, she’s a huge fan of ‘80s music, politics, the Oilers, married for 16 years, mom to a 12-going-on-30 year old, a fraud fighter, and breast cancer survivor.

Carly Pettitt

Carly is an artist based out of Amiskwaciwâskahikan and has been acting for over a decade. She is so excited to be returning to the Bears With Knives stage with such a talented cast, and feels honoured to have performed at the first Bears show, and now at the one year anniversary! Carly's a proud UofA drama alumni and her acting credits include Vanessa in This Isn't How We Left It, Ellie Blake in Leduc Drama Society's Disney's Freaky Friday and Gertie in Festival Place's Oklahoma! You can catch her as Pythio in Leduc Drama Society's production of Head Over Heels! Carly would like to thank such a talented cast and crew for not only being such amazing mentors, but friends. She would like to make a special shoutout to her husband, as well as her mom and dad for supporting her since day one! Enjoy the show!

David Thai Son

David is grateful for the chance to collaborate with Bears With Knives on a unique series of shows. He most recently portrayed Conrad in "Ordinary People" for the Living With Mental Health Festival, also produced by BWK. Coming up in May, David will appear as Musidorus in the Leduc Drama Society's production of "Head Over Heels."

Els Gummer

Els has been with the Leduc Drama Society since 1994, making it thirty years this year! She’s enjoyed appearing in many musicals and comedies, including favourites such as We’ll Meet Again, South Pacific, On Golden Pond and most recently, I Hate Shakespeare at the 2019 Fringe Festival. Thanks go to director Erin McLean of Bears With Knives Productions for giving Els a shot in this super fun musical. The cast has been such fun to work with and there has been lots of laughter along the way. She hopes you enjoy the show as much as she has!

Erin McLean

Erin, singer, actor, dancer, scary beyond all reason and dog mama, bringing you her particular brand of sass and vocals. Raised and escaped from Fort McMurray she holds a diploma in Music. She's played such roles as Morticia, Briar Rose and Janice Joplin and music directed shows such as Sleeping Beauty, Sympathy Jones,High Fidelity and Gone Country. Erin lights up the stage fronting local cover band Ice Cold Crazy and is proud to contribute to the local music and theatre scene with company Bears With Knives Productions! Words to live by: Rock the Worlds Face! And Singing Makes You Brave!

Keith Gummer

Keith is really excited to be working with Bears with Knives Productions. Keith’s previous experience on stage has been with “Leduc Drama Society” in over 35 shows, such as, “Best little Whorehouse in Texas”. He is chomping at the pellets to perform for you in “10 minute musicals. Hope you enjoy.

Lucas Paterson

Lucas is a feral garbage creature who loves long walks and dreams of being a Texas game warden. He's been in quite a few shows in the Edmonton area, and is incredibly famous, so don't be shocked if you feel like you've seen him somewhere before. He hopes you enjoy this show as much as he does, and want's to thank you for coming out to support local theater ❤️

Leonard Marshall

Len has been involved in theatre for nearly 30 years and has had many wonderful experiences. Though mostly seen on stage lately he has been spending more time on the production side, this time as Stage Manager with a couple of brief and wacky appearances. He knows you will find this production both entertaining and enlightening, so sit back and enjoy.