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Members by Last Name : Find TBC'S Talent
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Russell J. Roberts: Russell is an actor, director
and teacher whose training includes the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England. He has
numerous TV (Highlander, MacGyver, SCTV, The Commish...), film ( The Sea Wolf, Ernest
Rides Again....) and stage roles to his credit (Lt.Brannigan, Guys & Dolls-Charlottetown
Festival; John, Oleanna and Oberon, Midsummer Night's Dream-Western Canada Theatre;
Willy, Fallen Angels-Vancouver
Playhouse; Ghost/Play King,Hamlet-The Globe Theatre, Giles, Mousetrap-Manitoba Theatre and various roles,
Under Milkwood-Theatre
Calgary.....to name a few). Russell has taught stage fighting, vocal production, scene
study and monologues at The Globe Shakespeare Theatre in Los Angeles, as a faculty member
of the Charlottetown Festival Young Company & School and throughout BC. Theatre BC: Russell has worked as a theatre consultant for Theatre BC in the early 1990's and instructed Scene Study and Stage Fighting workshops at Backstage. |
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Alix
Rodriguez: Alix has painted her way across Canada and finally made it to
Vancouver. She has been working at the Vancouver
Playhouse ever since. She strongly encourages designers and directors to explore the
world of paint as a great way to create mood, atmosphere and environment. Theatre BC: Alix instructed a course in Scenic Painting at Mainstage 2000 in Delta. |
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David
Ross : 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 Tide Theatre 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. |
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Sherri
Sadler : Sherri
has been associated with Studio 58 for
over a decade, where she is the Publicist and Office Manager. Other freelance contracts
have included the 1995 and 1996 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, the New Playwrights
Festival, the Vancouver Opera and the Vancouver Symphony. Before entering the hallowed
halls of Langara College she was the Development Director for Carousel Theatre, a Front-of-House Coordinator for
six on-site theatres at Expo '86 and House Manager for the Surrey Arts Centre. Sherri
originally hails from Seattle, Washington and is a graduate of Western Washington
University in Bellingham with a degree in Arts Administration. Theatre BC: Sherri has given a number of Specialty Workshops in Publicity. She has also been involved with the New Play Festival in past years. |
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Ed Schneider : Ed has been acting since the tender age of four, when he appeared on "The Johnny Lane Show" in his native Texas. He has appeared onstage with Theatre Under the Stars, Gateway Musical Theatre, North Shore Light Opera, Metro Theatre, Penticton Light Opera and Penticton Singers and Players in a number of plays and musicals including Oliver!, Pirates of Penzance, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun, and Oklahoma!. He has also appeared in numerous TV commercials for companies such as Canadian Tire, Wosk's Furniture and Maglite Flashlights. In addition to his acting work, Ed is a director with many successful productions across the province under his belt. Just to name a few highlights, he has directed The Foursome and Cemetary Club with Bare Bones Theatre Company and Har! The Pirate Play, Arsenic and Old Lace, Lettice and Lovage and That Summer for Summerland Singers and Players. Ed is an avid student of all things theatre and has done extensive workshops in acting, singing, dancing, and directing. |
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Philip Schulze
: Philip is an award-winning designer. He has worked with all of the major theatre companies in the Lower Mainland and holds certificates in rigging, woodworking, First Aid, pyrotechnics, and fireworks. His work in Hotel Sorrento earned him the Best Lighting Design award from the Community Theatre Coalition. Other notable works include Herbal Bed and Nootka 2000. Philip has served as Technical Theatre Instructor/ Designer with the Vancouver School Board Artist in Residence program. Philip was the Technical Director for the Canadian Badlands Passion Play 10th anniversary, summer 2003. He is currently the Lighting Designer and Technical coordinator for Spread the Word Theatre Ministries "Sunong" Canadian National Tour. Theatre BC: Philip led a workshop on Lighting and Sets for the Central Interior Zone AGM in Oct/03. He also instructed Bargain Basics of Lighting at Backstage 2000 and Lighting Design at Backstage 2004 |
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Kathryn
Shaw : Kathryn began teaching at Studio 58, the Professional Theatre Training Program at Langara College, in 1974, and has been the Artistic Director since 1985. She received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from Whitman College and an M.F.A in acting from Columbia University's School of Arts. For the past 30 years, Kathryn has directed for theatres across Canada and has taught acting for professional and community groups in British Columbia, Winnipeg and Halifax and has been a guest instructor at the National Theatre School in Montreal. Some of her directing work includes Trelawny of the Wells for Studio 58, The Great Depression by Joan MacLeod, which was part of Obsession, a co-prooduction with Studio 58 and Green Thumb Theatre and The Weir for Western Canada Theatre and the Belfry Theatre.Other credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream for Studio 58, The Bachelor Brothers On Tour for the Vancouver Playhouse , Skylight for the Belfry Theatre and The Glass Menagerie, Death Of A Salesman, The Front Page and Cyrano de Bergerac for the Gateway Theatre. Kathryn also co-wrote and performed in the Angry Actors' 1997 Vancouver Fringe Festival hit, Famous Dead Stories We Just Made Up. Theatre BC: Kathryn was the adjudicator for Mainstage '90 in Chilliwack and Mainstage 2004 in Kamloops, and has also participated as a Scene Development Director. |
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Howard
Siegel : Howard is a professional actor and director with 25 years experience appearing at regional theatres from across Canada. Vancouver audiences will remember his performances in The Wild Guys, The Puppetmaster of Lodz, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dads in Bondage, and Cyberteens in Love. Howard received a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award. Directing credits include Jericho Pier at Performance Works, Dads in Bondage at the Arts Club, and The Long Weekend for Sunshine Theatre in Kelowna. Howard was the Associate Director at Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary, and along with his partners at Big House Productions, he produced Men's Fest, Vancouver's festival of new plays about the changing role of men in the '90's. He has also appeared in feature films, television series, numerous commercials and radio drama. An accomplished instructor, Howard enjoys working with community theatre. Theatre BC: Howard has served as a
touring Theatre Consultant in the Okanagan Zone and the Skeena Zone. He served as juror
for two Canadian Annual Playwriting Competitions and also participated in the New Play
Workshops as both a Reader and a Dramaturge in the Finalists' Round Tables, and as a
Regional Workshop instructor. |
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Annie
Smith Annie Smith has been a champion of community theatre for decades. Her mother was a founding member of Burnaby Players, and Annie's first role was as a chick in The Masque of Aesop, directed by Myra Benson. More recently, she has earned her MA in Drama from the University of Alberta, where she taught improv. acting. She has also taught scene study at the University College of the Cariboo. Annie's achievements have been to develop and direct new works: Not Working, for The Very Small Theatre Company, Three White Versions, Tales, of Love, Lust and Loss, a collective project, House of Cards, For Lack of Trying, "Sorry" Is Not Enough, Tough Cookies, and Legends Theatre for Trickster's Theatre, and the Fabulous Ms. Adventures, Vancouver Fringe show. Annie' areas of expertise include improv, ensemble acting, directing, character development, script analysis, physical theatre, voice, new play development. |
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Raimund
Stamm : A graduate of Studio 58, Raimund Stamm has made a living as a professional actor for almost 20 years. He has a long list of credits in film, television and radio. He has appeared on stage with most of the province's larger theatre companies including the Arts Club, Gateway Theatre, Green Thumb, The Vancouver Playhouse, Shakespeare Plus (now TheatreOne) and Western Canada Theatre.When not performing he has taught acting , written sketch comedy and worked as a stage manager. As well as being a professionally trained actor, Raimund is also a highly qualified and experienced teacher. A member of the BC College of Teachers, he also has a Master's Degree in Adult Education. He currently offers theatre workshops and adjudication services through STAGES Educational Consulting. Theatre BC: Raimund has worked with Theatre BC extensively in recent years, including as a Workshop Instructor in the Zones and at both Backstage and Mainstage. He has also adjudicated numerous Zone Festivals. |
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Scott
Swan : Seacoast Studios Director: Scott Swan has been a theatre director and teacher for over thirty years and has won numerous awards for his work. He was the Founding Artistic Director of Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton and the Artistic Director of Festival Lennoxville in Quebec. He has directed at most of the major regional theatres in Canada including The National Arts Centre, The Shaw Festival, The Vancouver Playhouse, and Bard on the Beach. He also has been asked to direct at Stratford and has had two shows optioned for Broadway. He has served as a National Radio Drama Producer for C.B.C., acted in a number of plays films, and television productions and written for the stage and television. As an instructor, Scott was the Director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre School from 1987- 1991 has taught at the University of Alberta, U.B.C. and The Banff Centre, as well as Douglas and Kwantlen Colleges. He has served as the Director and Head Teacher of his own acting Studio, Seacoast Studios, for the last twelve years. Former Students work professionally in theatre and film in both Canada and the U.S., and students who he has trained have been accepted to some of the most highly acclaimed theatre schools and university theatre programs around the world. As Founding Artistic Director for the Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts here in West Vancouver and the Director of the Centre's Performing Arts School, Scott was, until his departure, responsible for envisioning and overseeing the Artistic and Educational components of the Centre. Scott has made his home in West Vancouver for twenty years, and lives with his wife, Cheryl, and his two daughters Ariel and Serinda. Theatre BC: Scott led a Directing workshop at the Backstage AGM Conference in 2004 |
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Michael
Taugher : Michael received his B.F.A.,at the University of Calgary. He has been Stagecraft instructor with over 10 years experience as technical director at the University of Calgary, and has extensive experience as a freelance lighting designer and technical director for Chemainus Dinner Theatre, the Port Theatre and also Theatre One in Nanaimo. He is currently stagecrafts instructor in Theatre Arts at Malaspina University in Nanaimo BC. Theatre BC: Michael was a Special Course Leader at Mainstage'99 in Nanaimo, teaching Lighting and Stage Design. |
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Charles Tidler : Born in Ohio, Charles grew up in Indiana where he studied literature and philosophy at Purdue. He has lived and been writing in Canada for over 30 years. Charles is a poet and a dramatist with 40 scripts professionally produced. His jazz-inspired, companion one-acts Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers were hits in Toronto, the Edinburgh Festival, London's West End, and they have won many awards. Subsequent stage plays include The Farewell Heart, The Butcher's Apron, and the controversial academic satire The Sex Change Artist. A jazz play about Jack Kerouac for three actors and a trio of musicians, Fabulous Yellow Roman Candle, had its premiere at Toronto's Downtown Jazz Festival in 1993. Red Mango was a critical and box office hit in its premiere at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria. Charles teaches playwriting and has conducted playwriting workshops for 20 years. He was for six years a visiting playwright at the University of Victoria and two years an associate dramaturge at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has been associated with the Belfry Theatre as a dramaturge and workshop director for over 15 years. Theatre BC: Charles served as juror for the 16th Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition. |
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Judy Treloar: Judy has been a drama educator and acting and speech teacher for many years. She taught at GlenLyon Norfolk School in Victoria, BC for the last 14 years where she directed many productions and prepared students for speech and drama festivals and International Speaking Competitions. She also taught the International Baccalaureate programme there for many years. Judy has been involved in community theatre in Victoria for many years and especially with the Victoria Theatre Guild at Langham Court Theatre. She also has extensive experience adjudicating and leading Directing Workshops. |
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