Stage Manager: Danielle-Ariel Caddell-Malenfant
Set & Costume Designer: Sabrina MillerPaul Van Dyck
Lighting Designer: Jody Burkholder

Though his church is on the verge of financial ruin, life is peaceful in Reverend Thad's little Christ Church parish, until a mysterious billionaire arrives offering to save the church in exchange for saving his soul (which he may have misplaced in Vancouver). With an all-star cast directed by Paul Van Dyck, Ned Cox’s world premiere offers an irreverent journey into the mordant realms of sex, murder, and religion. A curiously moving pitch black comedy from the author of HELLAVATOR and Duplicity Girls.

I wrote Mission Drive as part of the first Writers' Unit at Playwrights' Workshop of Montreal — tip of the hat to Emma and Greg and my Unit colleagues! The first scene came in a flash, fully formed, after which my job was to solve the mystery the scene posed. I've grown to love these characters. I think they're lost, frightened and wounded, even as they bluff and bluster their ways through their stories. In the end, perhaps the play is about the danger of feeling like you are in control, like you have all the answers, like you actually know WTF is going on. My fave recent blooper, from the October 2009 issue of "American Theatre": "Philip Seymour Hoffman hails director Peter Dubois' empathy and lack of judgement in working with new plays." Long live lack of judgement!

Originally from New Jersey, from 1977-2002 Ned lived in Los Angeles, Brisbane Australia, and London England. His first play, I Die for None of Them won the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1980, and the Time Out Award in its 1993 revival. Many plays later, and settled in Montreal, Ned directed his Mimi On The Beach for the 2004 Fringe Festival, joined the Writers Unit at the Playwrights Workshop, and became a member of their Board of Directors. October 2008 brought his site-specific play HELLAVATOR (performed in a 1950's freight elevator), followed by Four Minutes If You Bleed (co-written with Alexandria Haber) in the 2009 Zoofest, and Duplicity Girls, written specifically for Paula Costain and Johanna Nutter, at The Freestanding Space and The White Bear in London, UK.

A graduate of Queen’s University, Paul Van Dyck has been writing, directing, and performing theatre in Montreal for the past nine years. As Artistic Director of Rabbit in a Hat Productions, Paul created the critically acclaimed plays Haunted, Paradise Lost, Sahara Crossing, The Cyclops, and recently directed Penumbra at Centaur’s Wildside Festival. This summer he will direct Miss Sugarpuss Must Die for the Montreal Fringe Festival and perform in Norm Foster’s Mending Fences at Hudson Village Theatre.

- Paula is very pleased to be performing in her second Ned Cox play in a row! Earlier this year she traveled to London, England to perform in Ned’s Duplicity Girls at the White Bear Theatre, after a successful run at Montreal’s Freestanding Space in October. Paula’s other theatre credits include: Educating Rita (Globe Theatre), Strawberries in January (Centaur Theatre), Mimi on the Beach (Montreal Fringe, by Ned Cox), Kingfisher Days (Townships Stage), The Carpenter (Centaur Theatre), and Intimate Exchanges (Theatre Lac Brome). Film and TV credits include: My Messy Bedroom (WTN), Incredible Story Studio
(YTV), Circle of Friends (Incendo), The Foundation (Cardinal Films), The Velvet Devil (CBC) and Ring of Deceit (Incendo).

Kent is currently appearing as a moron in a YTV sitcom, and a psychopath in the recently released The Wild Hunt.

Emily is a second year theatre performance student at Concordia
University. Stage credits include Miranda in Repercussion Theatre's summer production of The Tempest, Lucy in Geordie Theatre's A Christmas Carol and Pippi in CETM's Great American Trailer Park Musical.