2009 PWC Jurors


2009 Jurors 21st Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition

The Jurors for the 21st Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition were: Garry Davey of Gabriola Island, BC Burton Lancaster of Nanaimo, BC Nicolle Nattrass of Nanoose Bay, BC

	Garry Davey Garry Davey is the former Artistic Director for TheatreOne in Nanaimo and of the William Davis Centre for Actor’s Study in Vancouver where he taught for 14 years. A graduate of The Vancouver Playhouse School, he has worked extensively as an actor in theatres across the country, as well as appearing in many television productions and feature films including Da Vinci's Inquest in recurring episodes, Cold Squad, The X-Files and the Victoria-based series Alienated. He has directed more than 20 plays including The Drawer Boy and Shirley Valentine for TheatreOne, Marion Bridge by Daniel McIvor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, and an acclaimed production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning Three Tall Women for Western Edge Theatre. Garry recently appeared in Night of Shooting Stars by Michael Armstrong, also for Western Edge, and directed The Occupation of Heather Rose with Catherine Caines on Gabriola. This summer he adapted the script and co-directed a street-theatre version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for TheatreOne’s Young Company. In the course of his career Garry has developed his craft with master teachers from across Canada, New York, LA, Paris and London. He has shared his work with Theatre BC for several years, as Zone Festival adjudicator(s), workshop play director, as well as teaching acting and directing workshops around the province. Garry has also twice served as a juror for the Canadian National Playwriting contest and as dramaturge at the New Play Festival in Kamloops, and had the honour to adjudicate Mainstage in Nanaimo in 2005.

	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 recently served as Artistic Director for TheatreOne in Nanaimo. Burton served as juror for the18th (2006) and 16th (2004) Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competitions.

	Nicolle Nattrass is honored to have been selected to jury Theatre BC’s Annual National Playwriting Competition. Nicolle is an actress (CAEA/ACTRA) & playwright (full member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada). She is a graduate from the University of Victoria in 1991 (Acting Specialization). She has performed across Canada in theatre, radio, commercials and film. In between performing for many regional theatres across Canada, she began writing sketch comedy and monologues which evolved into her successful one woman show, Brownie Points, Boldly Going Where No Brownie Has Gone Before. Brownie Points received nominations for Outstanding Original Play and Outstanding Performance at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Brownie Points received an American theatre premiere as well as being adapted into an award winning short film which garnered Best Comedy Award in 2003 and Best Performance in 2008. Her plays include: Good House-keeping (full length), The Kindness of Kevin Barteski (one act), The Drama Queens (one act comedy) and Dot in the City.


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2009 Jurors 21st Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition

2009 Jurors
21st Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition