1.0NUOVA Vocal Artshttps://nuovavocalarts.ca/fradminhttps://nuovavocalarts.ca/fr/author/admin/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="FkwkVXnCbm"><a href="https://nuovavocalarts.ca/fr/show/fun-home/">Fun Home</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://nuovavocalarts.ca/fr/show/fun-home/embed/#?secret=FkwkVXnCbm" width="600" height="338" title="« Fun Home » — NUOVA Vocal Arts" data-secret="FkwkVXnCbm" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! 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October 1–4, 2026 Westbury Theatre 100 minutes · no intermission Get tickets MusicJeanine Tesori Book & LyricsLisa Kron Based on the graphic memoir byAlison Bechdel DirectorBenjamin Smith Music DirectorSimon Abbott Presented in partnership withFringe Theatre The Story About the Show Moving between Alison’s childhood, her university years and her adult life, Fun Home reveals a family held together by affection, secrecy and the stories its members tell themselves. What emerges is at once deeply personal and universally recognizable: a daughter’s attempt to see her parents clearly—and, in doing so, better understand herself. Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Fun Home is a compassionate and profoundly moving theatrical memoir, alive with humour, discovery and an unforgettable contemporary score. Recommended for mature audiences. From the Director Director’s Note Benjamin Smith Read director’s note Fun Home has been one of my favourite musicals for over a decade, and a piece I have wanted to stage for nearly as long. What has always moved me is the way it holds contradiction: love and damage, tenderness and shame, humour and grief, all existing at once. It understands something profound about memory, and about the difficult work of understanding the people who made us. When Fun Home opened on Broadway in 2015, it became the first Broadway musical to centre a lesbian protagonist. A decade later, that history feels worth remembering. We are living through a moment in which questions about whose stories young people encounter, and which lives are given space in public culture, feel newly urgent. Art has always been sensitive to those shifts. When the boundaries around what may be seen, read, or represented begin to move, artists have a responsibility to notice, and to keep making room for humanity. That is what Fun Home offers so beautifully. No easy answers, but a family: specific, funny, loving, difficult and completely human. For this production, we began with a blank page: a space where the past can be drawn, erased, rearranged and summoned again. Where Alison can stand beside the child she was and the father she is still trying to know. Perhaps we all do some version of this. We return to the people who shaped us. We ask new questions of old memories. We notice what we could not see before. Maybe that is one of the gifts of looking back: not that the past becomes simpler, but that we become capable of holding more of it. Thank you for joining us in that act of remembering, and for supporting NUOVA and the remarkable artists who have brought this story to life. Benjamin Smith The Company Meet the Cast Meet the artists bringing Alison Bechdel’s singular family story to the Westbury stage. Alison Jaimi Reese Read bio Jaimi is an actress, singer, improviser, drag king and nanny. She also enjoys running and playing Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop games. You can catch her in upcoming improv shows with Sorry Not Sorry, usually at Grindstone Theatre. Selected credits include White Christmas (NUOVA Vocal Arts); Bat Boy, Evil Dead, Cult Cycle, Imaginary Friend and Final Girl (Straight Edge Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar and Macbeth (Malachite Theatre); and The Other Side of the Pole (Prime Stock Theatre). Medium Alison Julie Koebel Read bio Julie Koebel is a recent graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program, and they are thrilled to join this production. Growing up on the traditional, unceded territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Matsqui and Seyome First Nations, they received a Diploma in Theatre for the Stage from Douglas College. Julie is inspired by nature, community and finding joy in the little things. Selected credits include Antigone (Bleviss Laboratory Theatre); The Laramie Project, [BLANK] and Orlando (Studio Theatre); Titanic: The Musical and A Little Night Music (NUOVA Vocal Arts); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (University of Alberta); and The Ash Girl and Love/Sick (Douglas College). Small Alison Aislyn Burdek Read bio Aislyn is an 11-year-old actor and singer with a passion for musical theatre. She has been training vocally for three years and studies piano, continuing to grow and develop as a young performer. Aislyn loves being on stage and takes every opportunity she can to perform, including singing at local venues and open-mic events. Whether stepping into a character or sharing a song with an audience, she brings enthusiasm, creativity and a genuine love for the stage. Aislyn is always excited to learn, challenge herself and make new memories along the way. She is thrilled to be part of this production and grateful for the opportunity to share the stage with such a wonderful cast. Bruce Doug Mertz* Read bio Doug Mertz has appeared on many local stages, most recently with Citadel Theatre in The Importance of Being Earnest and Clue, and with Thou Art Here Theatre in Civil Blood: A Treaty Story. He is involved in the creation of a new play about architect Arthur Erickson, The Light from Other Skies by Liam Monaghan, which will premiere in Lethbridge next spring before playing Edmonton and Vancouver. Doug is an Assistant Professor at MacEwan University, where he teaches acting, auditioning, speech, and dialects and accents in the Music Theatre Performance BFA program. Next up: The Extractionist at Studio Theatre, University of Alberta. Helen Kim Mattice Wanat* Read bio Kim Mattice Wanat is the founder and Artistic & Managing Director of NUOVA Vocal Arts. An accomplished director, educator, producer and performer, she has spent more than two decades creating ambitious opportunities for emerging singers and theatre artists. Through NUOVA, Kim has helped generations of artists develop their craft through intensive training, mentorship and fully staged performance. She is delighted to return to the stage as Helen in Fun Home. Joan Kijo Gatama Read bio Kijohttps://nuovavocalarts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Kim-Mattice-Wanat-052-768x512.jpg