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2004 Jurors
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Burton Lancaster Burton has worked in the professional theatre, in both North America and Europe, for over forty years, mainly as a Producer, Artistic Director and Administrator. He trained at the famed Central School of Speech and Drama and had ten years experience in the British theatre working with such companies as the Old Vic, the Royal Court and the New Shakespeare Company. He came to North America to work with Les Grands Ballet at Expo '67. In Canada, Burton was the founder of six professional theatre companies, including Magnus Theatre (Thunder Bay), Union Theatre Waterloo and the Lakeshore Summer Festival. He has also served as Artistic Director for many companies, incl. the Showboat Festival Theatre (Port Colborne,Ont.)and the Marlowe Theatre (Canterbury, UK). Producing credits include Sheherazade for Canadian Stage (Toronto) and The Witch of Edmonton for Equity Showcase, which the Toronto media voted one of the ten best productions of 1993. He now lives on Vancouver Island where he most recently directed a production of Blithe Spirit for Graffiti Theatre on Saltspring Island. |
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Eliza Gardiner has an M.A. in Drama from the U of Toronto, as well as a B.F.A. in Film from York University. She has been instructing and directing Young People's theatre through her company, Earth Muffin Productions, for eight years. Eliza has written and designed original plays, adaptations of classics and musicals. She currently instructs first-year Theatre History at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo | |
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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 15 years. Charles is the father of two sons and makes his home in Victoria. |
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