MAINSTAGE 2007 ADJUDICATOR
& WORKSHOP PLAY / SCENE DEVELOPMENT INSTRUCTORS

MAINSTAGE ADJUDICATOR

Dean Paul Gibson

Dean is a graduate of Vancouver's prestigious Studio 58 professional theatre training program. He is an artistic associate with Vancouver's celebrated Shakespeare Festival Bard On the Beach and has appeared in fifteen of their productions. He traveled with the national tour of the acclaimed production The Overcoat for the Vancouver Playhouse and was a member of the original award-winning production in 1997. He was featured in the award winning GreenThumb production of Problem Child, which also garnered him a Jessie Richardson Award for his work. Some recent credits include; the Belfry Theatre's production of  "Stones In His Pockets", Lucio in Measure for Measure for Bard On the Beach, Ray Say in “The Rise and Fall of Little Voice” for the Vancouver Playhouse, Inspector Goole An Inspector Calls  WCT / Gateway Theatre and Kemp in Vigil (WCT). Dean will be revisiting the role of Kemp in Vigil this fall at (Theatre Calgary.)

Selected directing credits include: School for Scandal (Arts Club), A Midsummer Nights Dream, HAMLET, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, (Bard on the Beach), No Great Mischief and NOISES OFF (Playhouse), A Flea in Her Ear (Arts Club/Stanley) Lend Me a Tenor, Good Night Desdemona - Good Morning Juliet and Powerlines (Gateway Theatre), Lettice and Lovage (Pacific Theatre), The Dunsmuirs  (Chemainus Theatre),
Upcoming work includes Romeo and Juliet for Bard On The Beach, It’s A Wonderful Life for the Arts Club and True West for the Playhouse.

Dean has also taught classes and workshops for Backstage, Mainstage, Capilano College and Bard on the Beach, focused on the Love of Language.

Theatre BC: Dean has served as Adjudicator for many Zone Festivals  and has been enthralling participants with his The Shakespearean Soliloquy & Love of Language Acting Workshops for numerous Backstage & MAINSTAGE Festivals.

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• David Ross
• Lanni McInnes

Scene Development Instructor

• Janet Michael

David has been Artistic Producer of Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops for over 23 years. Prior to returning to the West, he co-founded Rising TideTheatre in St. John's, NFLD, touring Canada,England, Wales and Ireland.David has served Western Canada Theatre and other companies as an actor, director, musician, dramaturge and sound designer. Some of his recent directing credits include Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, and the world premieres of Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, Scandal: The Robert Sommers Story, and The Dreamer's Quest. Some of his favourite roles in the last few years include, Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors, Robert in Proof, Angus in The Drawer Boy, and Dupuis Tarwater in Outlaw. David has acted in more than 100 dramas for CBC Radio and also appears in the feature film Deepwater shot in and around Clearwater. David is serving a second three-year term on the BC Arts Council.
In addition to his work at WCT, he has adjudicated drama festivals in both BC and Newfoundland, including serving as Adjudicator at Theatre BC's MAINSTAGE 2000 provincial festival in Delta. David continues to support the endeavours of Theatre BC and sees the New Play Festival and the development of new Canadian work as elemental to WCT's mandate.

Lanni's work as an actor and director has primarily been with Western Canada Theatre, for thirty-plus years. Those years have also included projects with other professional theatres across B.C. Lanni recently directed Having Hope at Home by David S. Craig, for WCT's Sagebrush Theatre (mainstage) series. She has served as a Dramaturge Instructor for TBC's New Play Festival in Kamloops since 2000, as a Playwriting Competition Juror in 2001, and as a course workshop instructor at Mainstage in Kamloops. Lanni will also be leading a Special Course in "Directing The Actor" for this festival.

JANET MICHAEL is a Canadian theatre professional who has been employed bycompanies from Newfoundland to British Columbia. She is  presently Associate Director with Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops where she has been engaged as an actor, director, musician, sound designer, writer, dramaturge and teacher. Her journey through the world of Canadian theatre has led her, most recently, to the choicest acting roles of her life - Ernestine in Tomson Highway's ERNESTINE SHUSWAP GETS HER TROUT (WCT), Grandma in Alistair McLeod's NO GREAT MISCHIEF (Vancouver Playhouse) and most recently and equally challenging Charlotte Whitton in Sharon Bajer's MOLLY'S VEIL (WCT).
Janet's previous Theatre BC credits include: Zone Adjudication, Scene Development, Special Course Workshop Instruction at Mainstage and Dramaturgy at Theatre BC's New Play Festival in Kamloops.