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Dial M For Murder
- Adapted by JEFFREY HATCHER, From the original by FREDERICK KNOTT
- Directed by JILLIAN KEILEY
Overview
Dial M For Murder
Get ready for an evening of danger, deception, and murder! Tony suspects his wife may be cheating on him, but shocking twists and revelations will raise the stakes with deadly results. This acclaimed adaptation of the classic thriller would even make Alfred Hitchcock Dial M for Murder.
Presented in partnership with Arts Club Theatre Company (Vancouver).
Cast and Creative Team
Tyrell Crews
(he/him) For Theatre Calgary (selected): Blithe Spirit, The Mousetrap, Blow Wind High Water, King Lear, Major Barbara, Pride and Prejudice, Enron, A Christmas Carol (2011), Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town. Based in Calgary, Tyrell has also collaborated with Alberta Theatre Projects, Vertigo Theatre, Downstage, Lunchbox, Sage Theatre, Black Radish Theatre, Ground Zero, Hit & Myth, The Shakespeare Company. Elsewhere: The Stratford Festival, The National Arts Centre, Drayton Entertainment, American Conservatory Theater, Bard On The Beach, Western Canada Theatre, among others. Tyrell is an established voice and radio actor who occasionally works in Film and Television. XO to his loves, A and C.
Emily Dallas
(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: A Christmas Carol (2024), Beaches the Musical, As You Like It (Shakespeare by the Bow). Elsewhere: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Persephone); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arts Club); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Bard on the Beach); As You Like It (Citadel/ MTC); Once (Citadel); Home for the Holidays (Lunchbox); A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Stage West). Emily is also a passionate teaching artist, and has taught with companies such as the Theatre Calgary, Bard on the Beach, and the Youth Singers of Calgary. She has trained with the Fiasco Theatre Conservatory, and holds a Theatre Performance Diploma (MRU), BFA MusicalTheatre (PACE University), and MFA Creative Writing (UBC). Love to her family and friends for making all things possible.
Olivia Hutt
(she/her) Theatre Calgary debut. Elsewhere: Most recently, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, and other Bard on the Beach productions. Olivia has worked in Vancouver and across Canada for other companies such as Arts Club Theatre Company, Mitch and Murray Productions, ZeeZeeTheatre, ITSAZOO
Productions, Green Thumb Theatre, and YPT. Film & TV: The Girl in the Cellar (Lifetime); Hunting Matthew Nichols (Dropshock Prod.); Debris (NBC). A Jessie Richardson Award winner, and Dora Mavor Moore nominee, Olivia is a collaborator, dramaturg, teacher, and advocate of constructively decolonizing theatre today. A huge thank you to her Mom, wife, and daughter for supporting her doing theatre!
Shekhar Paleja
For Theatre Calgary: Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer; The Humans. Other theatre credits include Bard on the Beach, CanStage, Arts Club Theatre Company, Royal Manitoba Theatre
Centre, Belfry, Globe, Vancouver Playhouse, ATP. Film & TV: After disappointing his family by not going into medicine, Shekhar has played doctors in many film & television shows such as Superman & Lois; Maid; Battlestar Galactica; Riverdale; Sanctuary; Firefly Lane; Emily Owens MD; and others. Shekhar is also an author. His novel, An Extraordinary Destiny, was published in 2017 by Brindle & Glass, and he’s had two children’s books published by Annick Press.
Stafford Perry
(he/him) For Theatre Calgary: A Streetcar Named Desire (2025), Million Dollar Quartet, One Man Two Guvnors, Major Barbara (w/American Conservatory Theater), Enron, A Christmas Carol (2011-12), Enchanted April, Timothy Findley’s The Wars. Elsewhere: The Ministry of Grace (Belfry, Making Treaty 7); Pride and Prejudice, As You Like it (Citadel); The Girl on the Train, Dracula, Strangers on a Train, The Lonely Dinner (Vertigo Theatre); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (ATP); Timothy Findley’s The Wars (Vancouver Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Neptune Theatre). TV: Black Summer (Netflix); Damnation (Universal); Heartland (CBC); Wynonna Earp (Sci-Fi Channel); Tin Star (Amazon); Tribal (APTN) for which he won the AMPIA Award for Best Performance by an Alberta Actor. Film: The Order, Faultline, Secrets in the Wilderness. Stafford would like to thank his family, Meredith, Llewyn and Gallagher for making life so wonderful. staffordperry.com
Christopher Duthie
Brianna Johnston
Jillian Keiley
(she/her) For Theatre Calgary: Twelfth Night (2018, w/Old Trout Puppet Workshop). Elsewhere: Tartuffe, A Christmas Carol, Metamorphoses, Copenhagen (National Arts Centre); Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Neverending Story (National Arts Centre/Stratford Festival); The Diary of Anne Frank, As You Like It, Bakkhai, Richard II (Stratford Festival); Under Wraps, Fear of Flight, Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Afterimage, Tempting Providence - w/TML (Artistic Fraud); 2025 Canada Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies. Jillian is the founding Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, and is the former Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre (2012-2022). jilliankeiley.com
Anton deGroot
Jolane Houle
Itai Erdal
Anton Lipovetsky
Anna Cummer
Jane MacFarlane
Anastasia St. Amand
Liz King
Charlotte Braid
Sabrena Shah Baigzada
Josie Kaip

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