Artistic Producer
Kate Newby is a Calgary based award-winning director, actor, and festival curator whose work in new play development and the staging of contemporary plays has appeared on numerous stages across western Canada.
With over 150 acting credits, some highlights include: You Will Remember Me, August, an Afternoon in the Country, Angels in America (I and II), Love and Human Remains (Alberta Theatre Projects); Private Lives, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Counsellor at Law (Theatre Calgary); and Cyrano de Bergerac (The Citadel Theatre).
Selected Directing Credits include: Hamlet, Theatre Calgary’s Shakespeare by the Bow; Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), (Handsome Alice, The Shakespeare Company, and Hit and Myth Productions); She Stoops to Conquer (The Stratford Festival, Assistant Director); Twelfth Night (The Shakespeare Company); Waiting for the Parade (Fall 2016), The Apology, True Love Lies, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, How Do I Love Thee? (Alberta Theatre Projects); The Mousetrap, In the Heat of the Night, Twelve Angry Men (Vertigo Theatre); Lion in the Streets (premiere and remount), Bent (Sage Theatre); Crave (Blacklist Theatre).
As a festival curator, Kate was the Artistic Director of the Calgary International Children’s Festival (2004-2011). She has also curated events and festivals for Beakerhead 2015, the Canada Winter Games, CAPACOA, and Calgary 2012.
Kate has received five theatre awards and eighteen nominations for directing, acting and production. She holds a BFA Acting degree from The University of Alberta and an MFA Directing degree from The University of Calgary.
Artistic Associate
Kelly Malcolm is a Calgary based artist whose recent theatre credits include The Crucible, One Man Two Guvnors (Theatre Calgary), Three Little Pigs, The Great Munsch Mystery, Munsch-O-Rama, The Kitchen Witches (New West Theatre), and LEGOLAND (Urban Curvz). She is one of the creators/performers of the award-winning Pochinko Clown duo – The Tighty Whities. When Kelly is not clowning around or working as an Artistic Associate for Handsome Alice, she teaches theatre to the young and young at heart with companies like CYPT, Pumphouse Theatre, and The City of Calgary.
She holds a B.F.A Dramatic Arts Performance from the University of Lethbridge.
Meg Farhall
Fund Development Associate
Meg Farhall is a Calgary based actor, theatre maker and arts educator. She is excited to be Artistic Associate – Fund Development for Handsome Alice and is also currently working on the inVISIBLE project as a collaborator. She is a founder and ensemble cast member of The Late, Late Breakfast Show; a company committed to developing provocative and inclusive sketch comedy.
Select theatre credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Spirit Fire Theatre) The Club (Theatre Yes/High Performance Rodeo) Polar Express (Aspen Crossing) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Shakespeare Company) As You Like It, Macbeth (Shakespeare In the Park).
Select film and TV credits include: Wynona Earp (YDP Productions), Faultline (QuirkGirl), Young Drunk Punk (YDP Productions), Word of Mouth (Green Productions).
As an arts educator, Meg has worked for many local programs including Pumphouse Theatre, Alberta Jr. High Drama Festival, Shakespeare Company Outreach and more. Meg is currently film and TV associate at Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio and was formerly the Artistic Director of Alberta High School of Fine Arts (2008-2009).
Meg holds a Theatre Arts Diploma in Performance from Mount Royal College (2000), a BFA Acting degree (2002) and a B.Ed. Drama Education degree (2005) from The University of Lethbridge.