Our talented Theatre and Film alumni have created a variety of successful career paths after graduation. Discover what they’re working on and keep in touch with your peers.
If you are a Theatre and Film alum and wish to add or update your profile on this page, please send an email to publicity.events@ubc.ca with your name, program you graduated from and when, and (optional) a short bio, max. 70 words.
The alumni list is organized alphabetically by last names.
Rae Ackerman
BA Theatre/English, 1965
email: rae_ackerman@city.vancouver.bc.ca
Yvonne Adalian
Summerschool of Arts Acting, 1962
email: yadda@saltspring.com
David Adams
Theatre/English, 1978
email: blesskop@hotmail.com
Eurassia Adamson
BA Theatre Honours, 2007
Recently opened up a 1200 square foot production studio right in downtown Toronto. My production company “SWEEP MEDiA”, formerly known as “NUTHOUSE PRODUCTIONS”, has opened its doors to Queen Street Studios for filming, photoshoots, gallery showings, and events. Sweep Media itself is working in projects across the performing arts genre in film, TV, print, and the ever expanding internet–the idea is to create a media factory. I recently studied this summer at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York for Acting. In the Spring of 2008 I will be returning to Manhattan to film a traveling show for a major TV network–yet to remain unnamed!
email: eurassia@gmail.com
Kelly Aisenstat
BFA Acting, 1992
email: kaisenst@rmrf.com
Francesca Albertazzi
BFA Tech/Design, 2003
Currently working full time at AldrichPears Associates – an exhibition design firm based in Vancouver.
email: fresca@shaw.ca
Kerry Allchin
BFA Acting, 2004
email: kmallchin@hotmail.com
Dave Allen
Design/Tech, 1996
email: centrestage@mac.com
Mitchell Allen
Film Production, 2014
Mitchell Allen is an award-winning sound designer and editor working out of Toronto, or available to anyone on the great wide Web! He’s worked on feature films, documentaries, short films and PSAs, all with varying, eclectic themes.
Links to some of his work/trailers for his projects:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchmakesmovies/-
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-allen-2760b433/
Andy Alvarez
Film Production, 2017
Andy Alvarez is an award-winning filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production. Her directorial debut, and UBC Thesis project, based on her personal story is the award winning short film La Mariposa, 2017. After more than fourteen world-wide festival screenings, and several awards, La Mariposa was awarded a Leo Award for Best Student Production in June of 2018. She was selected as one of the 10 filmmakers to participate in Vancouver’s International Film Festival’s first Talent Lab program. Then went on to be one of five finalists at the MPPIA Pitch at the Whistler Film Festival in December 2018. This year Andy was awarded the Lindalee Tracey Award at Hot Docs for her recent short film, Our Home, 2018. Andy is currently developing a webseries; Growing Up With Mi Familia for which the pilot has been funded by TELUS Storyhive.
Studio 104 Entertainment: https://www.studio104entertainment.com/
email: aalvarez@studio104ent.com
Demo reel: https://vimeo.com/343615935
Lois Anderson
BFA Acting, 1990
email: loloand@yahoo.ca
Michelle Anfield
BA Theatre, 1981
Postgraduate Diploma, Arts Administration,City University London, now Head of Drama, South Holderness College
email: turnerm@shtc.org.uk
Larry Antrim
BEd Concentration in Theatre, 1978-80
former Secondary School Drama Teacher – Richmond Now Elementary Counsellor
email: lantrim@richmond.sd38.bc.ca
Kambiz Ardani
Theatre, 1998
I am living in Richmond now. Since graduation I have continued studying film acting, public speaking, and entrepreneurship.
email: k_aradni@yahoo.com
Jared Aronoff
MA Cinema and Media Studies, 2019
Jared Aronoff completed a Master's Degree at UBC in the Fall of 2019, with a thesis studying the language used to describe badness in cinema in a scholarly context. Jared's other research interests include popular culture, cult audiences, and serial television.
twitter: https://twitter.com/JaredAronoff
email: jaredaronoff@gmail.com
Kensaku Asano
Theatre Minor, 2002
In Memoriam – June 16, 2005: Kensaku has passed away after a battle with cancer. Theatre at UBC joins the Vancouver theatre community in mourning the loss of a very talented former student, friend and theatre artist.
There is a memorial service for Kensaku on Saturday, June 25th at 1pm, with a reception to follow, at the Richmond Funeral Home (8420 Cambie Road, Richmond, B.C).
Kensaku Asano studied Theatre and English Literature at the University of British Columbia and graduated in 2002. He also trained at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City and the Canadian National Voice Intensive.
Kensaku’s stage credits included roles in Shinken Shobu, The Muse, Lysistrata and The Star-Spangled Girl (as Norman Cornell, Vanguard 2003). Additional acting credits included commericals for Nortel Networks and Kyocera, as well as a video installation, I See You Hear, which was exhibited in art galleries in late 2004. Kensaku played the Herdsman in Iphigenia Among the Taurians.
Announcing the creation of the KENSAKU ASANO MEMORIAL AWARD
Friends and family of Kensaku Asano and the Department of Theatre and Film are aiming to create an endowment in Kensaku’s memory.
Kim Aspden
BFA Design, 2001
email: kimaspen@hotmail.com
Spencer Atkinson
BFA Acting, 2008
In Memoriam – November 12, 2016: With deep sadness, we announce that Spencer Thomas Gary Atkinson passed away at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver due to cancer that stemmed from Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
Spencer lived fully and with passion in his 31 years. He was a Canadian National Junior Track Cyclist, travelled many parts of the world, attained a BFA in Theatre (UBC), acted on stage and in film, lived on an ashram in India, attained a Masters of Software Systems (UBC) and landed his dream job as a Software Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA). Spencer loved the majesty of nature, all forms of physical activity, epic challenges, games, and dearly loved his friends and family.
He leaves his mother Lori (Cheryl), father Gary (Kathy), and sister Jacqueline (Heather) as well as many other treasured family members. A beautiful living celebration was held in Vancouver. At Spencer’s request, dear friends and family members partied in his room on the Palliative Unit. Spencer held court, made his usual wise-cracks, laughed, hugged, and expressed his love and gratitude.
Spencer felt strongly about organ donation. To honour him please consider organ donor registration. In lieu, of flowers, we request donations to the Canadian Liver Foundation and/or the Canadian Crohns and Colitis Association.
Tara Avery
BFA Acting, 2003
email: taraavery@gmail.com
Ghazal Azarbad
BFA Acting, 2015
Ghazal Azarbad was born in Mashhad, Iran and raised in Vancouver, BC. Recent credits include The Seagull, Wedding at Aulis, La Bête, Innocence Lost (Soulpepper); Shakespeare in Love, Taming of the Shrew (Bard on the Beach); It’s a Wonderful Christmas-ish Holiday Miracle, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Arts Club); and Entrances and Exits: An Improvised Farce (Howland Company/Bad Dog Comedy). Upcoming projects cancelled due to Covid19 include Paradise Lost, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Bard on the Beach) and the East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement). She is a graduate of the UBC BFA Acting program and the Soulpepper Academy; a Jessie Award nominee and the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghazooool/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghazalazarbad/
Dear Konstantin - Ghazal Azerbad
Dear Konstantin is a series of letters written from Masha to her unrequited love Konstantin, 20 years after his death. Inspired by The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. Written, performed, and artwork by Ghazal Azarbad. Sound designed by Debashis Sinha.
Dear Konstantine Podcast: https://ghazooool.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QrfZb5
Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/32s2o94
Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/31ArMdH
Liz Baca
BFA Design/Tech, 1999
email: lizbaca@shaw.ca
Lyndsey Baillie
BFA Design/Tech, 2001
email: lyndseybaillie@hotmail.com
Simone Bailly
BFA Acting, 1998
email: n/a
Barb Barker
BEd, Theatre Concentration, 1982
Teaching theatre at Richmond Secondary
email: bbarker@dccnet.com
Kathleen Ball
BA Theatre Design, 1975
email: kathy2AB@aol.com
Larissa Ballstadt
BFA Acting, 1996
Currently working in film/television
email: n/a
- George Baldwin
BA English (Honours), 1948
Retired since 1984 in False Creek; U. of Alberta for 34 years. Chair of English, Dean of Arts, V-P (Academic)
email: baldwin5956@shaw.ca
Geraldine Balzer
Theatre Arts, 1980
email: geraldineb@canoemail.com
Stirling Bancroft csc (he, him)
Film Production, 2012
Bancroft is an international cinematographer working on studio pictures and independent projects. His recent credits include, Monkey Beach, which opens the 2020 VIFF festival, Sniper: Assasin’s End, which topped the US iTunes chart for film rentals; Freaks, which Premiered at TIFF and then went on to crack the top 10 on US Netflix. Adventures in Public School played at TIFF the year before and then went on to VIFF afterwards. He’s currently in Taipei photographing Breaking, a political thriller set to release in 2021.
tel: 1.778.888.7245
Robin Bancroft-Wilson
BFA Production/Design, 2003
email: robinbw@gmail.com
Julie Barber
B.Mus, 1995
email: JuuleeB@aol.com
Beverly Bardal
BFA Acting, 1991
email: bbardal@interchange.ubc.ca
Kelly Barker
BFA Acting, 1996
email: kelly_barker@yahoo.ca
Ross Bartleman
BA, French Language & Literature/Member of UBC Musical Theatre Society [West Side Story – 1985, Guys & Dolls – 1983, South Pacific – 1982]
In Vancouver and around the world, building an independent interdisciplinary performing arts production company and living arts centre
email: xperimentalsandbox@gmail.com
Roger Barton
BFA Acting, 1973
email: rbarton@idirect.com
Nirmal K. Bawa (Gill)
BA Theatre & English, 1967
email: nirmal.bawa@ubc.ca
Luke Beattie
B.A. Theatre, 2000
email: luke_beattie@hotmail.com
Ryan Beil
BFA Acting, 2005
email: ryanbeil@inbox.com
Lisa Beley
BFA Acting, 1990
Lisa Ann Beley is head of Voice and Text at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. She obtained a BFA from the University of British Columbia and as an actor worked in theatre, film and television as well as established herself as one of Vancouver’s top voice-over talents. She can be heard in numerous animation series, commercials, and corporate videos. She received her MFA and Voice Teachers Diploma from York University. She has taught voice, speech and text at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Film School, Tooba Physical Theatre, as well as many workshops for private and corporate clients. Lisa has spent over 15 years on faculty with Canada’s National Voice Intensive where the focus of the text work is on Shakespeare. She is a member of Vasta and of the Guild of Embodied Practice. Much in demand as a dialect coach in feature films and television she has worked with notable actors such as Paul Bettany, Freddie Highmore, Sam Neill, Daniel Radcliffe and Christina Hendricks.
email: lisabeley@gmail.com
http://aca.shakespearetheatre.org/faculty-and-staff/
Diana Belshaw
BA Theatre & English, 1971
email: diana.belshaw@humber.ca
Meaghan Benmore
BA Tech Theatre, 1997
email: mbenmore@bmporternovelli.com
Christine Berg
BFA Acting, 2001
email: strawberrydearie@hotmail.com
Amy Berger
B.A. Drama (second year only)
email: amyamyamy@hotmail.com
Gregory Berry
MFA Directing, 2000
Greg Berry directs a small theatre company in Seattle, WA, Outsiders Inn, and is a bookseller by day at the Elliott Bay Book Co. This Fall of 2017 Outsiders Inn is producing Bryan Wade’s Blitzkrieg in the Armory at the Seattle Center.
email: berry.gregory@gmail.com
Susan Bertoia
BFA Acting, 1990
Susan Bertoia is a theatre artist, teacher and Artistic Director of BellaLuna. Her recent creator and/or performer credits include: I Came to Tell (La Luna Productions), Over the River and Through the Woods (Western Canada Theatre/Richmond Gateway), Cirque Poule, Lagoon of Lost Tales (Boca Del Lupo), The Last Adam (Primavera Productions) and a variety of mask and comic productions with BellaLuna.
She has received the Gordon Armstrong Theatre Artist Award as well as a 2003/04 nomination for Best Supporting Female at the Vancouver Jessie Richardson Awards. She has taught at UBC and has been an Artist-in-Residence at various institutions in BC and the Yukon.
Her training/studies/intensives include: BFA in Theatre (UBC), commedia dell’arte (in Italy and at Dell’ Arte School), mask, physical theatre (One Yellow Rabbit) and voice (Richard Armstrong).
Upcoming – Susan will be travelling to Kamloops for Western Canada Theatre’s production of Dear Santa by Norm Foster in December and returning to play at the Arts Club Stanley Theatreps production of Enchanted April by Matthew Barber in February.
website: www.bellaluna.ca
email: sbertoia@smartt.com
Sarah Best
B.A. Theatre, 2001
After completing my theatre degree, I went on and completed my Education Degree at UBC in Secondary Drama. I am now a teacher-on-call in the North Vancouver School District. I am loving every minute of it and hope to come back to UBC to do a master’s degree in the near future.
email: sbest@telus.net
Janet Bickford
B.A. Theatre History/Creative Writing, 1968
email: jbickfrd@interchange.ubc.ca
Stephanie Biela
BFA Acting, 2003
Stephanie is currently living in Los Angeles and working at Twentieth Century Fox as an Account Manager in New Media. She is also acting and finishing up the sitcom writing program at UCLA and hopes to one day write for a television series. Her love for comedy has given her the opportunity to perform on such stages as The Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store, and don’t be surprised if you see her pop up on your TV in various commercials every now and again!
email: stephbiela@hotmail.com
Tina Biello
BFA Acting, 1996
email: tinalbielllo@hotmail.com
Michelle Bjornson
MA Stage Design, 1971
Instructor in Film programme at Langara College. Independent filmmaker, producer, writer, editor, director.
email: mvdbjornson@gmail.com
Drew Blaikie
BA Theatre, English Lit, 2003
Curently teaching and writing in China.
email: k2cloudz@hotmail.com
Andrea Blakey
BFA Acting, 2006
email: n/a
Patrick Blaney
BFA Acting, 1985
Most of the 1990’s was spent teaching drama at the elementary and secondary levels. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching but about ten years ago became more interested in exploring my spirituality. I graduated from the Vancouver School of Theology and was ordained recently in the Anglican Church. I am currently the new Curate at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver. I still live in Vancouver in Kitsilano with my partner Christopher.
email: pblaney1@shaw.ca
Addy Braber (Wintermans)
M.A., 1969
I work at St. Francis Xavier University as Theatre Director and part time teacher; for the past 15 years I have run Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre , a professional repertory theatre.
email: adoucett@stfx.ca
Nicole Braber
BFA Acting, 2001
email: nicolebraber@hotmail.com
Kathryn Bracht
BFA Acting, 1986
Kathryn has been on faculty at The University of Regina where she teaches acting and directing at the graduate and undergraduate level. Since leaving Vancouver she has been actively involved with the Saskatchewan Playwright’s Centre as an actor, director and dramaturg. She’s appeared in several Saskatchewan film and television projects, including Corner Gas, Insecurities, Redemption SK, The Tommy Douglas Story, and The Velvet Devil, to name a few. She is currently involved in the creation of hyphen-theatre, a new Regina based theatre company.
email: kathryn.bracht@uregina.ca
Mo (Maureen) Bradley
MFA in Film Production, 2001
Maureen studied Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University. She abandoned a brief career as a bassist in the Montreal underground music scene after she received a VideoFACT music video production grant. After relocating to Vancouver, Maureen immersed herself in the artist-run-centre scene and returned to school to pursue and MFA in Film Production from UBC. Prior to joining the Writing Department at the University of Victoria in 2004, she was an Assistant Professor of Film Production at the University of Regina. In 2002, she became the first female director to join the Saskatchewan District Council of the Directors Guild of Canada. Maureen is a past the President of the Board of Directors of CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers, Queer City Cinema, Video In and a previous Pacific Board Member of the Independent Media Arts Alliance of Canada.
A media artist, curator and educator, Maureen has created more than 50 short films and videos, four film installations and two web art projects. Her award winning productions have screened at galleries and festivals around the globe including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Many of her productions have been broadcast in North America and abroad. Retrospectives of Maureen’s work have screened at festivals in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa. She has garnered Best Film awards from festivals in Chicago, Akron, Philadelphia and Santa Barbara. In 1992, Maureen reached her largest audience of more than 15 million viewers appearing as a writer/director on the CBC TV series Road Movies.
website: http://maureenbradley.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/MaureenBradley
email: bradley@uvic.ca
Laurie Brazzill
1993
email: lbrazzill@shaw.ca
Joanne (Howitz) Brede
B.A. Theatre/ Psychology, 1990
I also studied costume design in the MFA program 1990 – 1991. Currently I live in Colorado and work as an accountant for a steel company where I am also responsible for inventory control. In 2006, I completed a paleontology certification program with lab and field specializations and spent a week on a dig in Montana.
email: jbrede@q.com
Alan Brodie
BFA Design/Tech, 1989
In September 2021 veteran lighting designer Alan Brodie accepted the position of Manager, Theatre Operations at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver, BC.
In a career that began in 1989, he designed for theatre and opera companies across Canada as well as major summer festivals and ballet companies. He began designing productions for the Arts Umbrella Dance Company in 2013, and he has conducted lighting workshops for Arts Umbrella emerging choreographers. Alan has lit major works for Crystal Pite with the National Ballet of Canada, Nederlands Dans Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Ballett Zürich. He has received Jessie Richardson, Dora, Betty Mitchell and Sterling Awards, as well as a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In 2012 Alan was shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.
Alan has taught at UBC, the National Theatre School of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Studio 58 (Langara College). He has a BFA in design from UBC and an MFA in directing from UVic.
Website: www.alanbrodie.ca
Aaron Brown
B.A. Theatre, 2002
email: worldrdaio.geo@yahoo.com
Diane Brown
MFA Directing, 2017
Diane is a multi award-winning director and actor, and is the long-time Artistic Director of one of Canada’s most resilient and successful independent theatre company’s, Ruby Slippers Theatre. She is the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Bra D’Or Award, a national award annually presented by the Playwrights Guild of Canada, in recognition of her years of championing works by women.
For Ruby Slippers Theatre, Diane has commissioned many English language translations of the best in contemporary French Canadian plays. She has proceeded to also produce and direct their award-winning English language premieres in Vancouver. Her affinity for the best in the French Canadian canon in English translation has resulted in critically heralded productions that include Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau, The Winners by Francois Archambault, translated by Shelley Tepperman, Life Savers by Serge Boucher, translated by Shelley Tepperman, The Leisure Society by François Archambault, translated by Bobby Theodore, and most recently You Will Remember Me by François Archambault. Her English language Vancouver premiere production of You Will Remember Me has since been picked up, and was showcased to great critical acclaim as part of The Gateway Theatre’s mainstage 2016/17 Season. In 2015 she commissioned the English language translation for After Me by Christian Bégin, translated by Leanna Brodie, and produced / directed the premiere. This resulted in five Jessie Award nominations including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production. That same year she was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Duchess a.k.a. Wallis Simpson.
Diane has also freelanced across Canada and the United States. This work included four seasons with The Actors Shakespeare Company in upstate New York as an actor and a director, and work with The Sacramento Theatre Company. Diane co-created several interdisciplinary performance works that she then directed which were showcased abroad and at the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa.
Other directorial highlights include award winning productions of The Waiting Roomby Lisa Loomer (Canadian Premiere), The Cat Who Ate Her Husband by Drew McCreadie (World Premiere), Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey (Vancouver Premiere) andHotel Bethlehem by Drew McCreadie. Her production of Hotel Bethlehem has since been picked up three times by other companies. Ruby Slippers Theatre’s landmark production of Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View saw four remounts in four years, including five weeks at The Centaur Theatre in Montreal and a showcase at The Goldcorps Centre for the Arts Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre in downtown Vancouver. Ruby Slippers’ equally successful production of Communion by Daniel MacIvor was produced in association with Pacific Theatre.
Diane also spearheaded one of Ruby Slippers Theatre’s most powerful programs, Advance Theatre : New Works by Diverse Women. This annual week-long festival of dramatic readings features new works by diverse Canadian women, directed by diverse Canadian women. This initiative is in direct response to the appalling fact that over two thirds of the plays on Canada’s mainstages are written and directed by men. Advance Theatre offers profile to diverse women playwrights and directors and has resulted in some of the plays receiving fully realized, professional mainstage productions.
Diane and Ruby Slippers Theatre have created seven full-length new Canadian works, and toured nationally three times. She and RST have earned the reputation for being Vancouver’s premiere producers of French Canadian plays in English translation, and perveyor’s of smart social satire that is infectiously entertaining. The company has garnered 40 nominations and 16 professional theatre awards in the last 10 years alone.
Diane is very active in the Vancouver cultural community. She leads Theatre Cares Vancouver, a volunteer organization that raises funds and awareness for people living with HIV/aids, is a member of Studio 58’s Theatre Advisory Committee, the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre’s national Advocacy Committee, was a founding member and Past President of the See 7 Performing Arts Society, spent five years on the steering committee for the Theatre Engagement Project, and is involved with several environmental and social justice initiatives.
Diane is a graduate of Simon Fraser University, and holds a Masters Degree in Theatre from the University of British Columbia. She lives with her husband and son in Vancouver.
http://www.rubyslippers.ca/diane-brown-biography
Laurann Brown
BA Theatre, 2006
MA Voice Studies – Central School of Speech & Drama (London, UK) 2008
email: laurann.brown@googlemail.com
Niki Brown
BFA Acting, 2005
email: niki_b83@yahoo.ca
Ruth Brown
BFA Acting, 2005
email: n/a
Sasa Brown
BFA Acting, 2004
email: sasabrown@hotmail.com
Andrea Burgoyne
BA Theatre, 2006
email: andrea.burgoyne@gmail.cm
Cynthia Burtinshaw
Stage Management and Design, 1997
email: water@axion.net
Kate Butler
BA, 2006
email: kate.a.butler@gmail.com
Kathryn Burvill (Daniels)
BA Theatre, 1974
Became professional in 1974. Worked with Green Thumb Players, Carousel, Regina Globe Theatre, etc. Got married and moved to Squamish to start family. Am now Founder/Director of semi-professional theatre company – Between Shifts Theatre.
email: kburvill@shaw.ca
Erika (Betty-Ann) Busch
Music, 1966
email: n/a
Damon Calderwood
BSc Animal Biology, unclassified Theatre, BEd Science and Theatre, 1991
email: dcalderwood_is@hotmail.com; dacalderwood@sd43.bc.ca
1991, BSc. Animal Biology with theatre minor.
1993-1994 took theatre unclassified.
Graduated 1995, BEd. Theatre and Science.
Taught Science and Theatre for two years at Montgomery Junior Secondary in Coquitlam (1995-1997)
Taught Theatre for five years at Riverside Secondary in Port Coquitlam (1997-2002)
Now teaches as a substitute while pursuing theatre and film work.
As of 2005 has worked for Bard on the Beach, The Chemainus Theatre Festival, Pacific Theatre, Garter Girl Theatre (Dawson City and Whitehorse), Snowblind Prouctions (Dawson City), Alberta Opera, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Coconut Theatre, Krysalis Theatre, Masterpiece Murder Mystery Theatre, String Productions, The Vancouver Fringe Festival, and several other smaller companies and co-ops. Formed Ace Productions with Gordon Roberts in 2004 to do Tomfoolery.
Has performed in community shows with a variety of companies including The Gateway Theatre, North Shore Light Opera Society, Greater Vancouver Operatic Society, Royal City Musical Theatre, Footlight Theatre, Deep Cove Stage, North Vancouver Community Players, Presentation House Players, Downstage Right Productions, First Impressions Theatre, Applause Musical Theatre, Elder College, James Productions, Theatre in the Raw, Vancouver Theatre Sports, Whiterock Players, The Half-Stratford Players, The United Players of Vancouver, Stage 43, and Savage God.
Has performed in 13 shows in Theatre BC festivals from 1995-2004, winning several acting awards.
Winner of the EV Young scholarship in 2000 for Outstanding Performance in South Pacific with TUTS
Nominated for best actor in a musical for Tomfoolery in 2004 (Ovation Awards).
Shows Damon did while at UBC:
1988 THE BRAGGART SOLDIER–Cario
1990 THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE–Desert Policeman, Judge
1990 HERR PUNTILA AND HIS SERVANT, Matti–Labourer
1991 THE GHOST SONATA–Baron Von Skanskorg
1993 BOUSILLE AND THE JUST–Phil
1994 THE DINING ROOM–Standish, Billy
1994 MOO–Doctor, Charlie
1994 NIGHT OF THE IGUANA–Reverend Shannon
1995 THE MUSE’S HEMISPHERE–Ego
1995 AM I BLUE–John Polk Richards
1995 THE KING’S THRESHOLD–Monk
Damon is also an accomplished bird photographer; his work can be seen on the following website: www.globalbirdphotos.com
He also does headshots and other related photography. For examples and rates please e mail him at dcalderwood_is [at] hotmail.com
Martin Calvo
Film Production, 2017
Martin is a writer and director based in Vancouver, BC, having graduated from UBC in 2017 with a BFA Majoring in Film Production and minoring in Creative Writing. He is currently in the development phase of a co-written script for Crazy 8’s 2020 Top 12. Martin’s most recent directoral project was his 2017 UBC Undergraduate thesis film, The Firm. Since graduating Martin is working towards an independent career as a screenwriter. He’s focused on making meaningful connections with other collaborators in the filmmaking community through the passion for storytelling. Martin is a co-founder and an executive producer of Studio 104 Entertainment. His focus within the partnership includes seeking projects for development, refining them in early stages of production, as well as writing original narrative content.
Studio 104 Entertainment: https://www.studio104entertainment.com/
email: http://mcalvo@studio104ent.com
Robert Carey
BA, 1974
Director of Development at Bard on the Beach.
email: rcarey@bardonthebeach.org
Morgan Carrier
BFA Design, 2000
Stephen Carvers
BA everything theatre, 1998
email: steve@cavers.ca
Camyar Chaichian (Chai)
BFA Acting, 1992
MFA Directing, 2007
Founder of Neworld Theatre
Camyar is a multi-award winning theatre, film, television and radio practitioner. As a writer, his work ranges from the co-creation of a political satire, to dreaming up allegorical musicals that have been published by Talonbooks and in the Canadian Theatre Review. As a director and actor, he has worked for professional companies and festivals across Canada as well as appearing in numerous television and film productions. His internationally recognized theatre projects include acting and co-directing The Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil and producing Crime and Punishment which was one of the PuSh Festival's first local sold-out and award winning productions. His M.F.A. thesis production on the Frederic Wood Theatre stage was Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht starring Lois Anderson leading a group of talented B.F.A. students including Courtenay Ching Lancaster, Joanna Ranelli, Evan Frayne and Kim Senklip Harvey.
Camyar's work as a producer and manager began with his founding of Neworld Theatre. He has served on several arts boards, advisory groups and granting juries and has worked as an Arts broadcaster and educator. He also took a three-year hiatus from the professional Arts circuit and broadened his perspective working in social services.
Currently, Camyar is the Program Manager, Community Cultural Development at the City of Richmond. He is also completing his training as a Certified Non-Profit Lifecycles consultant.
email: camyarchai@gmail.com
Dana-Lori Chalmers
BFA Acting, 2003
email: danalori@gmail.com
Charlotte Di Chang
MFA Theatre Design and Production, 2020
Charlotte is a Vancouver based Costume and Scenic Designer for theatre and film. She is also a bit of a makeup guru that loves sparkles and glitter. Charlotte started her journey at University of the Arts London as a Costume Interpretation student. After a year of working with both large-scale and independent theatres in Beijing, she moved to Vancouver to continue her education and future career. At the University of British Columbia, Charlotte also found her passion in Set Design, and had collaborations with couple of UBC short films. In 2020, she received her MFA degree in Theatre Design and Production. Previous works include: UBC: The Changeling (Costume Designer), Hosanna (Assistant Costume Designer & Makeup Artist), short film Reverie (Production & Costume Designer), Much Ado About Nothing (Assistant Costume Designer), GOLDRAUSCH (Assistant Set Designer).
Website: https://www.designcharlottechang.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chachachalottee/
Ivy Charyna
BA Drama and Music, 1997
Teaching music and drama for Surrey School District.
email: icharyna@telus.net
Sidney Chiu
BA in Film and TV Studies, May 2002
With a focus on films with international appeal, Sidney Chiu’s producing credits include LOVE JACKED a Canada South African romantic comedy coproduction starring Amber West and Keith David – winner of the Best Narrative Feature at the Pan African Film Festival (Los Angeles) 2018. COCONUT HERO a Canada German coproduction with Six Island Productions and UFA Fiction directed by Florian Cossen and Lola nominated, winner of the Best Film in Focus at the Zurich Film Festival in 2015, BANG BANG BABY starring Jane Levy, and Peter Stormare for Scythia Films winner of the Claude Jutra Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. Sidney was also the Production Manager on the Mandarin romantic comedy FINDING MR RIGHT, which grossed over 80 Million USD. THREE DAYS IN HAVANA starring Gil Bellows directed by Tony Pantages and Gil Bellows, shot in Havana Cuba with E1 distributing in Canada. Sidney’s first produced feature entitled A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS written / directed by Terry Miles premiered at TIFF in 2012.
website: https://www.scfilmprod.com/
Celia Chu
BFA Technical/Design, 1998
School district music teacher. Private teacher of voice and drama in White Rock.
email: sassycelia@yahoo.com
Hilary Clark
Undergrad:Home Ec Masters:Education, 1952 and 1990
email: hilary_clark@telus.net
Julian Clarke
BA, Film and TV Studies, 2000
Since graduating film school at the University of British Columbia, JULIAN CLARKE, ACE has been editing for 20 years. After cutting his teeth on numerous independent projects in Canada, Clarke collaborated with director Neill Blomkamp on "District 9", “Elysium" and “Chappie". For his work on District 9, Clarke was nominated for an Oscar® for Best Achievement in Film Editing, an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award for Best Edited Film Feature (Dramatic) and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing. In 2015 Clarke edited Tim Miller’s Deadpool which went on to gross over 700 million in worldwide box office, as well as garnering an Eddie Award nomination for Best Edited Film Feature (Comedy). In 2016 Clarke co-edited the pilot episode of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” for which he won an Eddie ward for Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television. Clarke’s other work includes “Skyscraper”, for Universal Pictures, and "Terminator: Dark Fate” produced by James Cameron.
email: julianclarke@me.com
Laura Clarke
BFA Acting, 2000
email: laurasclarke@hotmail.com
Sarah Clarke
Film Production 2019
Sarah Clarke is a writer and director from Edmonton, Alberta. She graduated with a BFA in Film Production from the University of British Columbia in 2019, where she completed her first short films, 'Eggshells' and 'Absence'. Drawing inspiration from video games and a lifelong love of fantasy and horror films, her work focuses around the supernatural and fantastic elements present in mundane life.
Phillip Clarkson
Costume Design, 1975
Vancouver based costume designer
email: phillclarkson@telus.net
BJ Clayden
BA Theatre, 1973
Email: bjclayden@gmail.com
After graduation worked for NFB on a project and appeared in shorts e.g. The Beachcombers. Technical Director of Vancouver East Cultural Centre in the 1970s. Studied with Gary Pogrow and workshopped with Alec Rubin. Member of IATSE 891, 1979 -1991. Stills photographer for performance (film, theatre, dance) and small businesses 1973 -2024. Studied dance, ballet, musical theatre, and salsa. Currently teaching salsa to seniors.
Jessica Clements
BFA Acting, 2002
email: jess4clements@yahoo.ca
Adam Jonathan Con
Music Education, 1986
Currently Assistant Professor of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Georgia Southern University
email: adamcon@gasou.edu
Paralee Cook
BFA Studio Arts, 1994
email: pearc@yahoo.com
Torrance Coombs
BFA Acting, 2005
Currently living in Vancouver, acting in Film/TV and Theatre.
email: tcoombs@shaw.ca
Gareth Convery
BA English Major, Theatre Minor, 2002
email: convery@interchange.ubc.ca
ira cooper
BFA 2007 (Acting)
ira cooper has been devising, facilitating, and exhaling performance for the entirety of his cognitive existence. At one point, he was acting in the Setkani Festival in Brno, Czech Republic. At another point, he was producing and performing in his own show as part of the White Nights Festival in Beijing. And then he was in Nelson, BC, working on a piece based on the life and gags of Sir Charles Chaplin. In 2015, along with several other UBC grads, he formed Spec Theatre, a collective focused on creating, collaborating on, facilitating, and instigating original theatrical pieces that represent and empower the plethora of voices and ideas in various, unique communities. Their first show, Sid, written by ira, was a one woman show about the DTES and Disassociative Identity Disorder. In 2019 and 2020, Spec Theatre’s Artisanal Intelligence, written by ira and collaborated on by several UBC theatre grads (Samuel Jing, Hannah Everett, and Drew Carlson) and several non-UBC folk, travelled the Fringe circuit near and far (PEI, Regina, Edmonton, and New York) to stark-raving reviews. Next up, AI will be, fingers crossed, performed at the Havana Theatre as part of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival 2020. Currently, Spec Theatre, having just become a non-profit, is focusing on restructuring its system of governance, building it off the concepts of inclusion, diversity, and decolonization, and embedding long-standing, actionable, and authentic practices in its core. Creatives are invited, particularly those who are underrepresented in the arts, to build real, mutual, supportive relationships with Spec, in hopes for reconciliation, collaboration, and empowerment.
Enough with the third person - let’s talk, let’s discuss, let’s make joy, let’s make art, let’s tell truths, let’s put up shows in new spaces with new rules, let’s be spontaneous and scripted and awkward and new. Let’s collaborate!
Personal: mrmakdeck@gmail.com
Spec Theatre: spectheatre@gmail.com
Phone:604-690-1222
John Cooper
MFA Directing, 1981
email: jdcooper@telus.net
John Cooper has directed over 100 productions at theatres across Canada, with recent local productions including OTHELLO and ZADIE’S SHOES for the Arts Club Theatre and SLEUTH and TO DIE FOR for The Richmond Gateway Theatre. Favorite recent productions elsewhere include THE CRUCIBLE and THE RAINMAKER for Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, where this season he will direct DEATH OF A SALESMAN.
He is a three-time Jessie Richardson Award winner for outstanding direction, most recently for The Arts Club Theatre production of Arthur Miller’s ALL MY SONS. He was nominated for Jessie Richardson Awards for his direction of JE ME SOUVIENS and HIGH LIFE, both in 2000. His production of LIFE SKILLS won the Jessie Award for best production (1996) and his production of BIG MAMA won the Betty Mitchell Award for best production of a musical (2000). He is a free-lance director based in Vancouver where he lives with his wife actress/playwright Lorena Gale, and sons Jordan and Clayton.
Cooper is also a sessional instructor in Theatre direction at UBC, where he has recently directed A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and Ibsen’s LADY FROM THE SEA.
He earned his MFA in Directing at UBC in 1981.
Luc Corbeil
BFA Acting, 1983
Luc became used to writing about himself in the third person by preparing bios for playbills. After appearing and dying on various TV episodes I concentrated on technical theatre and festival work mostly with the Children’s, Folk Music and Fringe Theatre Festivals. I am currently the manager of the Old Auditorium, full circle back to UBC.
email: luccorbeil@shaw.ca
Kathleen Corbett
BFA Acting, 2000
I love this website and it’s a great way to stay connected especially when one is far away. Hope everything is going well for you in Vancouver and Take Care!
email: katcorbett27@hotmail.com
Rob Cowan
Film Production, 1980
ROB COWAN (Producer) is a 35-year industry veteran who has worked on over 45 productions in both features and television. After graduating from UBC Film and Television faculty, Cowan began his career in Canada in the early 1980s, working as an assistant director on such successful films as “Three Men and a Baby,” starring Tom Selleck and Ted Danson; “Stakeout,” with Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez; and “Cocktail,” starring Tom Cruise.
During this time, Cowan worked on the Costa-Gavras film “Betrayed,” starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger, produced by Irwin Winkler. Winkler subsequently asked Cowan to work on Costa-Gavras’ “Music Box,” starring Jessica Lange, and to assist on Winkler’s directorial debut, “Guilty by Suspicion,” starring De Niro and Annette Bening. Just after finishing the film in 1990, Cowan was asked to serve as Winkler Films’ head of development.
Cowan co-produced Winkler’s “Night and the City,” starring De Niro and Lange, subsequently taking the reins as President of Winkler Films. During his tenure, he produced “The Net,” starring Sandra Bullock, which he and Winkler later turned into a television series for the USA Network; “The Juror,” starring Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin; “At First Sight,” starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino; the critically acclaimed film “Life as a House,” starring Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Hayden Christensen; Michael Apted’s “Enough,” starring Jennifer Lopez; and the Cole Porter biopic “De-Lovely,” starring Kline and Ashley Judd, which was selected as the closing night film for the 2004 Cannes film festival. Cowan also executive produced the soundtrack album, which was nominated for a Grammy that year.
Striking out on his own in 2006 - Cowan’s first project was producing Jon Avnet’s “Righteous Kill,” starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. He also served as a producer on Breck Eisner’s “The Crazies,” starring Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell; “So Undercover,” starring Miley Cyrus; Oren Peli’s "The Chernobyl Diaries"; James Wan’s worldwide hit “The Conjuring,” starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson; and the hit comedy “Tammy,” starring Melissa McCarthy. After Executive Producing the blockbuster “San Andreas” starring Dwayne Johnson, Cowan continued his relationship with Melissa McCarthy and director Ben Falcone by producing “The Boss” and most recently “Superintelligence”. Similarly, his strong relationship with filmmaker James Wan saw him producing “The Conjuring 2” and the billion dollar box office hit - the DC comic adventure “Aquaman”.
Cowan is presently executive producing “The Tomorrow War” – a big budget action scifi picture starring Chris Pratt for Paramount studios to be released Christmas of 2020.
Mara Coward
BFA Acting, 1994
Artistic Associate of Neworld Theatre
email: camyarandmara@telus.net
Robin Cox
BA-Acting & Psychology, MA-Counseling Psychology
I remember my time in the UBC theatre department fondly and still stay in touch with some of my compatriots. I am not in theatre any more but I can still make a mean looking bruise from my makeup bag.
email: retan@axion.net
Gregory Coyes
MFA Film Design/Production, 2018
Gavin Crawford
BFA Acting, 1993
Gavin is currently wo rking for the CBC on THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES
gavincrawford@rogers.com
Maria J. Cruz
B.A. Theatre, Minor Art History, 1997
email: n/a
Shawna Cruz
BA Theatre
I did my LLB at UBC and I’m now practicing law.
email: n/a
Marek Czuma
MFA (Directing), 2003
Currently teaching acting and drama at the University of Lethbridge.
email: czumamarek@yahoo.ca
Since graduating from UBC with an MFA in the spring of 2003, Marek Czuma has been working as both an actor and director.
Czuma directed Joe Orton’s WHAT THE BUTLER SAW and Rex Deverell’s QUARTET FOR THREE ACTORS on Galiano Island in 2003, and the classic British farce SEE HOW THEY RUN for Chemainus Theatre in 2004. In March of 2005, he’ll direct ARSENIC AND OLD LACE at Chemainus.
As an actor he appeared as Charles Condomine in BLITHE SPIRIT by Grafitti Theatre on Saltspring Island. In 2005, he’ll play Lord Chiltern in AN IDEAL HUSBAND at Chemainus.
Czuma also teaches theatre to children at the school on Galiano Island, where he lives.
Marita Dachsel
BFA Creative Writing/current MFA Creative Writing
email: missmarita@mac.com
Hanne Lene Dalgleish
BFA Theatre Design, 1999
email: dalgers@gmail.com
Heidi Damayo
BFA Acting, 2018
Heidi Damayo was born and raised in Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She first auditioned for Crocodile in her junior high’s production of Peter Pan and is thrilled to have somehow ended up here. Her past playwriting credits include LIVE (LEAP at The Arts Club), and Home Fires Burning (UBC Centennial Celebration), and she is also one of Nightswimming Theatre’s 5x25 commissioned playwrights. Select acting credits include Mustard (Arts Club/Belfry Theatre), New Canadian Kid (Green Thumb Theatre), and She Kills Monsters (UBC Theatre and Film). She is a graduate of UBC Theatre and Film’s Acting program, a Fight Directors’ Canada Intermediate Actor- Combatant, a member of Affair of Honor’s fight family and their in-house dramaturg, a Wesbrook scholar, and a recipient of the HSBC Undergraduate Award and Stephen Woodhouse Memorial Prize.
Pamela Dangelmaier
BFA Acting, 1985
After graduation, I worked for a few years in the acting field (stage & film) but eventually left it and moved for six years to Germany (Munich) where I worked at various jobs including a stint as a MAZ operator at one of Germany’s largest video production companies.
email: pam@botanus.com
Courtney Daniel
BFA Technical Theatre and Design, 1998
Currently working in costume design on feature films in Vancouver.
email: courtneycostumes@gmail.com
Tanya Dargel
BFA Acting, 2002
email: tanyadargel@hotmail.com
Julian Darius
BFA Design & Production, 2008
email: julian@roniseholdings.ca
Kerry Davidson
BFA Acting, 1991
email: scarylynn@yahoo.com
Nick Davis
BFA Tech/Design, 1991
Lives outside London, England. Currently working on HARRY POTTER V with work appearing in many other feature films over the last 14 years. Works in both make-up and modelmaking. (Better Make that HARRY POTTER VI now! )
email: nickfx1@hotmail.com
Emma Luna Davis
BFA Design/Tech, 2001
email: mail@emmaluna.com
Hilary Davis
BFA Design/Tech, 1998
email: hilarysd@yahoo.com
Ernest Cobena Dei
MA in Theatre, 1993
email: edei@oise.utoronto.ca
Laura Di Cicco
BFA Acting, 1988
email: boccaccio95@yahoo.co.uk
Tanja Dixon-Warren
BFA Acting, 1987
email: tanja@hoarseraven.com
Edgar Dobie
BA, 1973
I am currently the Executive Producer for RIVERDREAM, a production company based in Dublin. I am based in NY where we have a production office. We continue to produce Riverdance throughout the world and have several other projects in development and in pre-production.
email: edgar@edgardobieinc.com
Samantha Donabie
BFA Acting, 1999
email: samdonabie@hotmail.com
Bruce Dow
BFA Acting, 1985 and MFA Directing, 1988
As an actor, Bruce has appeared: on Broadway (JANE EYRE, THE MUSIC MAN, ANYTHING GOES); over 10 seasons as a leading actor with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (appearing this season as “Trinculo” in THE TEMPEST, with Christopher Plummer, and as “Speed” in Two Gentlemen of Verona); and innumerable appearances across Canada and the United States. He has directed professionally in London (ON), Toronto and Vancouver, and has had original musicals produced in Calgary, Toronto, and Pittsburgh. This fall he will star in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, sharing the role of “Pseudolus” with celebrated Actor and Comedian Sean Cullen; a co-production with Mirvish Productions and The Stratford Shakespeare Festival. The production will be directed by Des McAnuff with choreography by Wayne Cilento.
website: www.brucedow.com
email: bruce@brucedow.com
Stephen Drover
MFA Directing, 2002
Artistic Director – Pound of Flesh Theatre in Vancouver
website: www.poundofflesh.net
Kathleen Duborg
BFA Acting 1994, MFA Directing 2014
Currently living in Vancouver where I work directing (Jerusalem, Concord Floral, The Beauty Queen of Leenane), teaching (UBC, VFS, Studio 58, Douglas College) and occasionally acting. I'm also co-conspirator/instigator of Dirt Road Theatre.
telephone: 604-839-2674
Barbara Duncan
BA Acting; BEd Education 1972
1970’s graduated from National Theatre School. Last 8 years, teacher for the Vancouver School Board. Can’t wait to see you all!
email: n/a
Katrina Dunn
MA Theatre, 2016; PhD Theatre, 2020
Katrina is an Assistant Professor in the University of Manitoba’s Department of English, Theatre, Film and Media where she teaches Acting, Directing, and Theatre Studies in the Theatre Program. Her scholarly articles explore the spatial manifestations of theatre, as well as ecocritical theatre, and have been published in several national and international journals. Katrina was the Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Touchstone Theatre from 1997 to 2016. She also co-founded the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Her long career as a stage director and producer has had considerable impact on the performing arts on the West Coast and has been recognized with numerous awards.
website: https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/English_theatre_film_media/faculty/katrina_dunn.html
email: Katrina.Dunn@umanitoba.ca
Sarah (Simpson) Durno
BFA Acting, 1996
email: sarah.durno@gov.bc.ca
Sarah Durno who has been appointed by the British Columbia Arts Council to the position of Senior Arts Policy and Program Advisor and Program Coordinator for Theatre.
Sarah Durno received her BFA in Theatre from UBC and an MBA in Arts and Media Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto. She has worked for the Arts Club Theatre Company, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Firehall Arts Centre and Carousel Theatre Company, followed by a year-long engagement as Director of Corporate Communications for Victorian Epicure/ Epicure Selections, a national food manufacturing and distribution company based in Victoria. Having worked in both the not-for-profit and private sectors, Sarah has embraced the new challenge of serving in the public sector and is thrilled that she is once again able to work with the arts community.
Sarah is looking forward to the privilege of serving as a liaison between BC’s professional theatre community and the BC Arts Council to support the amazing contributions of organizations and individuals whose art enriches the lives of all British Columbians.
Harold Dyck
English, 1953
email: haroldjdyck@shaw.ca
Nicole Eby-Batiz
BFA Acting, 1993
email: nicole_eby@hotmail.com
Martin Elfert
BFA Technical Theatre & Design, 1995
email: elfert_on_tour@hotmail.com
Barbara-Anne Eddy
Mussoc, 1976
email: barbara_anne_eddy@hotmail.com
Ryan Egan
BFA Acting, 2003
email: ryan_egan@hotmail.com
Mat Ellis
BA Theatre, 2003
email: mattellis1981@yahoo.ca
Susan Elworthy
BFA Acting, 1987
I’ve been working and studying, back and forth between the coast and the prairies.
email: susan.elworthy@gmail.com
Andrew Emde
BFA Technical Theatre and Design, 1997
email: taemde@gmail.com
Lynn Emde
BFA Tech, 1993
email: mlemde@hotmail.com
Eric Epstein
BA Theatre, 1978
email: ee@northwestel.net
Josh Epstein
Commerce, 2001
email: joshepstein1@hotmail.com
Mark Eum
BFA Design/ Tech, Film Minor, 2004
email: mehm43@hotmail.com
Guy Fauchon
BFA Acting, 1991
email: gfauchon@shaw.ca
Ian Fenwick
MFA Directing, 1981
Though I officially received my MFA in 1981, I was a student in the department from 1974 to 1976. While at UBC, I was a founding member of Touchstone Theatre and later its Artistic Director. In 1980 I began the Theatre Department at the University College of the Fraser Valley where I continue to teach and direct.
email: fenwicki@ucfv.bc.ca
Michael Fera
BFA Acting, 1987
Michael Fera is a self-employed director who has been working in Vancouver for over 17 years. In 1992, he and his wife, Tanja Dixon-Warren, co-founded Hoarse Raven Theatre as a means to create work for themselves and fellow artists. Since their inception as a small grassroots organization operating without staff, without a computer and with only the residence telephone number, Hoarse Raven Theatre as grow into a profitable business with annual revenue of over 1 million dollars.
Aside from his duties as co-artistic director, Fera co-directs the ongoing production TONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING and continues to accept freelance work in all facets of theatre. He is looking forward to directing the world premiere of Dancing in the Light at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in the autumn of 2004.
Other favorite directing credits include the 2003/04 annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, BOSTON MARRIAGE (Canadian premiere), HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, CORPUS CHRISTI (Canadian premiere), BALTHAZAR AND THE MOJO STAR, TARTUFFE, THREE HEADS TALKING, THE HERBAL BED, THE BELLE OF AMHERST, TONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING (Seattle, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver), ROMEO AND JULIET, THE MAIDS, MACBETH, LIFE AFTER HOCKEY, TEECHERS, MOLLY SWEENEY (Canadian premiere) and MEDEA (Canadian premiere).
Fera is presently an artistic executive for Ailanthus Achievement Centre where he works closely with inner-city youth using theatre as a tool to build character and self-esteem.
Fera and Hoarse Raven Theatre work closely with the Vancouver School Board with their involvement in the career preparation program. He is a recipient of the 40 Under 40 Business in Vancouver Award recognizing him as one of the outstanding business people of the year and Hoarse Raven Theatre has received a number of Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations (significant artistic achievement, outstanding production and outstanding performance). Hoarse Raven Theatre was the 1997 recipient of the Vancouver Board of Trade “Joint Venture” Award.
email: info@hoarseraven.com
Seamus Fera
BFA Acting, 2017
Currently in Vancouver, BC working with lower income youths in creating meaningful theatrical experience that connect to their environment and experiences while engaging in freelance directing and acting contracts. Literary Manager of Western Gold Theatre and Director of the Jessie Richardson Awards Society Board.
email: fera@live.ca
Alex Lazaridis Ferguson
PhD Theatre Studies, 2017
email: alexlazaridisferguson@gmail.com
Sarah Ferguson
BFA Acting, 1997; PhD, 2008
email: sarah.ferguson@keyano.ca
Angela Ferreira
BA Theatre/French, 2003
email: angela_g_ferreira@yahoo.ca
David Findlay
Film Production, 2015
Recently shortlisted for the Next Director Award at the D&AD and Silver winner for New Director of the Year at the Shots Awards America 2020, David Findlay is a writer-director and Arts graduate of the University of British Columbia hailing from Quebec City.
His work focuses on the earnest examination of human behaviour and is known for seamlessly straddling the line between fiction and documentary through a highly cinematic and empathetic lens.
His latest short 'Found Me' is premiering in September, 2020 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Website: https://www.davidwfindlay.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dw.findlay/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.findlay1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/David_Findlay11
Helena Fisher-Welsh
BFA Acting, 2015
Helena Fisher-Welsh was born in Portland, Oregon, where she has worked with Artists Repertory Theatre, The Portland Actors Conservatory, Salt and Sage Theatre, CoHo Productions, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, and Enso Theatre Ensemble. She was part of Third Rail Repertory's 2018-2019 mentorship cohort, where she also worked as Community Partnership Coordinator and as assistant director for John (dir. Rebecca Lingafelter). Since 2016 she has worked primarily with Enso Theatre Ensemble as an actor (Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice; Margaret, Much Ado), playwright (Much Ado), grant writer, and board member. Other recent credits include Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Salt and Sage Theatre), and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Portland Civic Theatre Guild). She is a graduate of the UBC BFA Acting program and a recipient of the Evelyn Jasiulko Harden Scholarship in Theatre.
She has guest-starred on the live comedy podcast Spec Script (The Twilight Zone) and is the co-host of the film criticism podcast Sneople at the Movies.
Enso Theatre Ensemble: https://www.ensotheatre.com/
Sneople at the Movies: https://www.infinitybreak.net/sneople
Julian Fitzell
BFA Design/Tech, 2002
email: julian@beta4.com
David Fischer
MFA Stage Design, 1978
Since 1981 freelance production designer in film and television
email: dlfischer@shaw.ca
Claire Fogal
BA in Theatre & English Literature, 1990-96
PhD in Theatre, 2014-present
website: clairefogal.com
email: clairefogal@gmail.com
Eileen Fogarty-Ellis (Fogarty)
Theatre, 1970
Teaching in Vancouver – raising kids-enjoying the success of my fellow theatre classmates
email: efogarty-ellis@cw.bc.ca
Ivone Fonseca
BFA Acting, 2001
email: ivone_fonseca@hotmail.com
Nick Fontaine
BFA Acting, 2008
After graduating from UBC Acting, Nick was put to work right away alongside two of his classmates in Pi Theatre’s Emerging Artists program, with large roles in their summer show The 8th Land. Since then, Nick has appeared regularly in theatres across Vancouver as an actor, singer, and musician. He was honoured for his work in 2009 with two Ovation Musical Theatre Awards for Best Male Supporting Actor and Best Male Newcomer. When not working in theatre, Nick can be heard playing percussion for shows and musical acts throughout the Lower Mainland. Look for his work with local singer-songwriter Nadia von Hahn!
email: nicholasfontaine@gmail.com
Dennis Foon
MFA Playwriting, 1975
email: n/a
Dennis Foon (MFA, UBC 1975 in Playwriting) is co-founder of Vancouver’s Green Thumb Theatre and was its Artistic Director until 1988. He has written over 20 award-winning plays for adults and young people that are frequently produced in Canada and around the world, including NEW CANADIAN KID and SKIN. His novel SKUD, (Groundwood Books, 2003) received the Sheila A. Egoff Book Award, and THE DIRT EATERS (Annick, 2003) was a Red Maple Honor Book.
In 1997, he received a Gemini Award, a Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Award and a B.C. Leo Award for his screenplay of the hard-hitting CBC TV movie LITTLE CRIMINALS, which also garnered a Critics’ Prize at the Monte Carlo Film Festival and a Grand Prize at the Geneva Film Festival. He wrote the television movie WHITE LIES, starring Sarah Polley and Lynn Redgrave, which received a 1998 International Emmy nomination for best production, and earned best screenplay at the Columbus International Film Festival.
Foon scripted TORSO: THE EVELYN DICK STORY (Shaftesbury Films) for CTV (2002 Gemini winner for best movie, WGC Top Ten Award) and SOCIETY’S CHILD (Sienna/Buffalo Gal) for CBC (Blizzard Award, best movie; 2002 Gemini runner-up, best movie), both broadcast in 2002. He also co-wrote Mina Shum’s feature LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY, which played at the 2002 Toronto, Vancouver and Sundance Film Festivals, garnered seven Leo nominations and is slated for U.S. release in September. He story edited of Shum’s acclaimed first feature DOUBLE HAPPINESS. His adaptation of Michael Ignatieff’s novel SCAR TISSUE (for CBC) was a 2003 Gemini nominee for best screenplay.
Don Foran
BA Theatre, 1982
Many fond memories performing in Freddy Wood & Dorothy Somerset productions back in the day. Former ex-pat living back in Vancouver after 5 years in Asia acting in Korean tv/film comedy series and dramas in Seoul. My post-grad stage experience has been limited to “Peer Gynt” & “The Crackwalker”. I have been a photo-double for David Duchovney, Kevin Costner & David Arquette. Both Sean Penn & Johnny Depp have wanted to beat me up. I still do the occasional extra work (since Rocky IV).
email: donforan@gmail.com
Ian Forsyth
BA Theatre, 1981
email: ianforsyth@shaw.ca
Teddy Forsyth
(Babichuk)Theatre
Administrator for Sunshine Theatre in Kelowna
email: teddyforsyth@shaw.ca
Eric Freilich
BFA Acting, 2011
Eric graduated from the BFA in 2011 and spent time working mostly in TV and film in Vancouver before moving to Toronto in 2012. He landed a recurring role in Season 12 of Degrassi and a small role in the Nickelodeon series Life With Boys. He also played prominent roles in film versions of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream produced for an educational app called Shakespeare at Play. He performed stunts in Pompeii and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, as well as virtually every History Channel battle re-enactment docuseries to come through Toronto. Eric also produced, wrote, and directed a wide variety of small-budget theatre, TV, and film projects.
In 2014, Eric went back to school. He obtained his JD/MBA from Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business, and specialized in business law and finance. Eric spent his summers at Dentons Canada LLP before returning for his articles, and was hired back into the Business Law Group. Eric’s practice is focused on Canadian and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, general corporate/commercial work, and files involving clients in the entertainment industry. In particular, Eric enjoys working with clients who have developed a strong brand in entertainment and media and want to maximize other business interests.
https://www.dentons.com/en/eric-freilich
Beth French
MFA Directing, 1987
I have had two of my own plays produced in Toronto at Factory Theatre: LIFE SENTENCES and RAUL JULIA’S ROMERO. I was Playwright-in-Residence at Factory Theatre for the 1999/00 season and a member of their Playwrights Lab (1998/99) developing my play, THE LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE, which was read at Harbourfront in 2000 by ScriptLab.
Al Frisk
BFA Tech/Design, 1996
After working film for the last decade Al has managed to find a balance with theatre by working with the Mad Duck Theatre Collective (www.madduck.immediatetheatre.com) and has also formed and runs Scene Ideas Inc. with fellow UBC Grad Ken Hollands and Isaac Kinakin.
website: www.sceneideas.ca
Bobby Garcia MFA Directing, 2001 email: bobbygarcia@mac.com Meghan Gardiner BFA Acting, 2001 Meghan has been touring her one woman show Dissolve across the continent since 2003. She has also been seen on such Canadian stages as The Arts Club, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Axis Theatre, The Electric Company and Western Canada Theatre. She is the current playwright in residence at Green Thumb Theatre, having written “Blind Spot” and “Role Call” for their seasons. Please visit www.meghangardiner.com for more information email: mg@meghangardiner.com Dennis Garnhum MFA Directing, 1993 Dennis has been the Artistic Director at the Grand Theatre in London, ON since the fall of 2016. Before taking on his role at the Grand, Dennis was Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary from 2005 to 2016. Since taking on his role with the Grand, Dennis created several new programs: COMPASS New Play Development Program, the award-winning 100 Schools educational outreach program, and 1000 Seats community initiative. He also launched a new partnership with Sheridan College’s Canadian Music Theatre Program that partners with the Grand’s High School Project. Dennis’ career has taken him across North America, directing plays, musicals and operas at a number of companies including Vancouver Opera, National Arts Centre, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Florida Grand Opera, American Conservancy Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Pacific Opera Victoria, Belfry Theatre and Neptune Theatre. Garnhum studied at the Universities of Victoria (BFA) and British Columbia (MFA in Directing). He has also worked for three years in New York City, as a director and producer. Dennis is a recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee and a Calgary Award for Community Achievement in Arts. His co-adaptation of Lost—A Memoir was nominated for a 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award. Email: dgarnhum@grandtheatre.com Fran Gebhard MFA Directing 2002 email: frannieg21@yahoo.com Natalie Gemmellbfa Production and Design, 2003 I’m in Prince Rupert B.C., playing an active role in the arts in small town B.C. including directing amateur theatre email: nataliegemmell@yahoo.ca Pascale Gendreau BA, Theatre Major, 2007 email: pascale.gendreau@gmail.com Farhad Ghaderi Film Production, 2017 Farhad is a Mexican-Iranian cinematographer and director passionate about conveying raw emotion in his work. Farhad finds it strange to write in third person. He giggles a little bit. Awards: Gold Screen - Cannes Young Director Award 2020 Winner - Shiny Awards for Best Music Video - 2020 Nominated - CSC Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video - 2020 Shortlisted - Prism Prize Top 20 Music Videos of 2020 Winner - CSC Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video - 2019 Shortlisted - UKMVAs for Best Alternative Video, International - 2019 MVP Project - Canadian Academy of Cinematic Arts x Prism Prize x RBC Music - 2019 Nominated - CSC Award for Best Cinematography in a Student Film - 2018 Selected Press: Boooooom | Conclicted/Restricted Exclaim | Conflicted/Restricted Ads of the World | Flirting with Death Pellicola Magazine | Interview Website: https://www.farhadghaderi.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farhadghaderi_/ Karen Gilodo BA Theatre, 1999 email: karengilodo@hotmail.com Jacqueline Gilchrist MFA, Theatre Design and Production, 2019 Jacqueline is an early career costume and scenic designer. As part of her thesis project, she is scenic designing Lois Anderson’s production of Much Ado About Nothing for UBC Theatre’s 2018/19 Main Stage Season. The designs use trompe-l'œil and forced perspective to build a not-quite-realistic space that plays with perception.Jacqueline completed her BFA in Theatre at the University of Victoria. While there, she focused on costume and scenic design, and experimented with costume design using non-conventional materials, such as various plastics, papers and LED lighting. website: http://www.jacquelinegilchrist.com/ David Gonella MFA, Film Production, 1998 Over the last 15 years, David Gonella, Executive Director of the Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES Festival, has helped build the strong team that welcomes more than 28,000 music fans to the Shuswap every summer. As the Salmon Arm Folk Music Society works to make the Shuswap a destination for artists and art enthusiasts alike, David strives to create the positive working environment and operational efficiencies that makes the Society’s dream possible. A 1998 graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA Film program, David’s three-decade career in the arts began as a writer, director and producer creating films, television episodes and music videos before serving as the Guest Coordinator for the Vancouver International Film Festival for two years. In 2007, David and his wife Ellen Gonella moved to Salmon Arm to start a family. After arriving in the Shuswap, David joined the Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES team and launched his 15-year career that saw him grow from Volunteer Coordinator to Site Manager, Production Manager, Festival Director and finally Executive Director in 2017. Through his work with the festival and his dedication to supporting local grassroots movements, David strives to help enrich the fabric of the Shuswap artistic community. Shari Graydon BA Theatre, 1980 Leading Informed Opinions, non-profit project to train expert women to contribute ideas & analysis to public discourse. Recently published I Feel Great About My Hands and Other Unexpected Joys of Aging. Regularly draw on my theatre background when speaking, training and doing media interviews. Leading Informed Opinions, non-profit project to train expert women to contribute ideas & analysis to public discourse. email: shari@informedopinions.org Alison Green MFA Design, 1992 email: agdesign@interchange.ubc.ca Bruce Greenwood (BA ‘75) email: n/a Peter Grier BFA Acting, 1996 Here’s to Peter Loeffler. email: pgrier@mac.com Don Griffiths BA Film/Tech, 1975 email: donansol@interchange.ubc.ca Michael Groberman MA Theatre, 1999 A writer who lives in Vancouver. email: m.groberman@yahoo.ca Robert Groberman BEd Theatre Concentration, 1990 I taught high school theatre for three years. Am now teaching grade 3 in Surrey BC. email: rgrober@yahoo.com Sarah Groundwater BFA Acting, 2003 email: prairiegirlproductions@yahoo.ca Fabrice Grover BFA Acting, 2001 website: www.fabricegrover.com Daniele Guevara BFA, Set and Lighting Design, 2003 Daniele is a set and lighting designer. Her previous credits include: Set Designer for DIRECTOR’S CUT (Crow’s Theatre), Set Design Assistant for FROBISHER (The Banff Centre/The Calgary Opera), Projection designer for HANA’S SUITCASE (LKTYP), Assistant Production Designer for BLUE MAN GROUP at the Venetian, Las Vegas (Blue Man Group Productions), Assistant Lighting Designer for BLUE MAN GROUP Toronto (Blue Man Group Productions), Set Designer for SUZIE GOO PRIVATE SECRETARY (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Her set and lighting design for THE TRIGGER (Touchstone Theatre) won her a Jessie nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design, Large Theatre 2005. email: danieleguevara@shaw.ca Corin Gutteridge Technical Theatre, 1991 email: cgutteri@sprynet.com Alexia Hagen BFA Acting, 2001 email: alexiahagen@hotmail.com Lorraine Hamilton (Tremblay) BFA Design/Tech, 1994 email: forlh@shaw.ca Robert Hamilton MFA Design, 1988 (Lighting) Sept 1988 to 2009 – Assistant then associate designer at Douglas Welch Design Associates Ltd. Lighting design and theatre consulting. 2009 to Present – Co-owner of DWD Theatre Design + Consulting Inc., principal designer of theatres and technical system for theatres throughout BC and Alberta. 1989 to 2015: Contract Faculty in Stagecraft Dept. at Douglas College, teaching all courses relating to stage lighting plus other stagecraft subjects. (25.5 years, part-time) Other: Music ’91 – Roadshow Weekends, Experience Canada ’92 National Tour (Canada 125) email: rob [at] d-w-d.com Marcus Handman Marcus Handman BA theatre / film 1972 Retired Former Executive Director, Directors Guild of Canada, Victoria Symphony, Pacific Opera Victoria, Cinematographers Guild (669) email: marcus.handman@gmail.com Margot Harding Bachelor of Music Opera Major, 1996 I am living in winnipeg and performing nationally in opera, concert, etc. I’ve sung in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, as well as various venues in Germany and Austria. email: bloodyraptor@hotmail.com Ian Harmon BFA Acting, 2005 email: jbond15@shaw.ca Morgan Harper MA Film Studies, 2018 Shoshana Hereld MA Theatre Studies, 2018. BA Interdisciplinary Studies. As a student of both Classical studies and theatre, I combined my loves of antiquity and drama by studying late-Victorian Britain, whose artists also loved and united both subjects. Framing my research around the work of actor-manager Wilson Barrett, I used late-nineteenth-century toga dramas set in ancient Rome to investigate the connections between the Classics, theatre, and neoclassicism. Toga dramas provide important evidence of the relationships between Britain and ancient Rome, between theater and other artistic genres, between the Classics and class, and between historical accuracy and artistic license. Lily Mussallem Harper Education & Theatre Vancouver, B.C. telephone: 604-742-3177 Alishia Harris BFA Design/Tech, 2003 In Memoriam It is with great sadness, that we announce the sudden death of Alishia Harris, BFA alumna (2003) who passed away on Monday, January 14. A memorial service was held on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at All Saints Anglican Church, 4755 Arthur Drive, Ladner, B.C. at 1:00 p.m. A memorial fund for Alishia Harris has been established. Those wishing to contribute to Alishia’s fund should make their cheques out to “UBC” with “Alishia Nora Harris Memorial Fund” in the memorandum line. Please address your contributions to: Attn: Maryn Ellis, UBC Development Office, Suite 500, 5950 University Boulevard, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z3. For further information on the Alishia Nora Harris Memorial Fund please contact June Chow, Development Officer, UBC Faculty of Arts. Thank you for your generosity. Katherine Harris email: laughingdiva@hotmail.com Simon Hayama BFA Acting, 1995 email: simonhayama@hormail.com Julia Henderson PhD Theatre Studies, 2018 email: julia.henderson@ubc.ca Dermot Hennelly (a.k.a Noel Burton, actor) Acting, 1968 A professional practitioner in all media and a motivated teacher, I have a body of performance work as leading and character actor (England & Canada) in theatre, film, TV, radio, commercials and media. I have been artistic director for two companies, and a teacher at HE level at three universities. In England I was a company member of the Liverpool Everyman and the Leicester Theatre Company, where I worked with Michael Bogdanov, Mia Farrow, Alan Rickman, Heather Sears, Tim Rice and Henry Livings, among many others. In Vancouver, I performed regularly at the Arts Club, the Playhouse and City Stage theatres and was a regular on CBC Radio (including The Cherry Orchard, as Lophakin opposite Dame Peggy Ashcroft’s Madame Ranevskaya). H.E. Experience: At Memorial University I taught performance for the camera. At Regina University I taught performance, directed The Caucasian Chalk Circle and acted with senior students in Gammer Gurten’s Needle, The Trojan Women and Ken Mitchell’s The Shipbuilder. Victoria University hired me to introduce classical theatre into the B.A. Program at Matsqui Federal Penitentiary after directing Loot at the prison (documented in the film Inside/Out). I performed with students at UBC in Brecht on Brecht and The Firebugs. In Toronto I was a play therapist at the Children’s Hours Clinic for the treatment of emotionally disturbed children. I taught acting for the camera at Charles Stuart International Agency, Vancouver, and Focus International Agency, Montreal. Artistic Direction: In Vancouver, after playing a lead in Jack Darcus’s Deserters, I directed Twelfth Night at the Firehall Theatre. A critical and box office success, the production led the way to the foundation of the Vancouver Shakespeare Festival, which developed into Bard On The Beach as it is called today. Following the success of Twefth Night I founded the Open Theatre Company, a community-based classical theatre company. I incorporated an open door policy whereby anyone in the community without prior experience wanting to participate in a play could do so. I produced nine plays: by Chekhov (2), Shakespeare (3), Brecht, Vanbrugh, Frisch and Coward. Uncle Vanya – our most successful production staged in a warehouse on a 4000 sq. ft. set during Expo ’86 – inspired the movie Vanya on 42nd Street. In 1987 was artistic director for White Rock Summer Theatre. Acting for Screen & Television: Since 1993, in Montreal, as NOEL BURTON, I have acted in film, TV, theatre, radio, video games and commercials in English, French and Spanish, working with the likes of Mathieu Kassievtiz, Todd Haynes, Bob Rafelson, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mischa Barton, Beau Bridges, Vanessa Bauche, Christian Duguay, Denise Filiatrault, Katie Holmes, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Plummer, Dominic Michel, Wesley Snipes, Nastasia Kinski, Michel Brault, Brian McKenna, Richard Attenborough, Denys Arcand, Stephan Gaghan, and Robert Downey Jr., among many others. Ref. www.imdb.com & www.asilentlove.com under Noel Burton Training: 2008-2009 MA (Creative Writing) with Distinction, University of Wales, Bangor 1997-2006: Screen Acting, Warren Robertson Workshop, Montreal, Canada 1973: L.R.A.M. (Teacher – Speech & Drama) 1972-1973: Acting, The Drama Studio, London, UK 1965-1968: Acting, University of British Columbia, Canada email: warringroses@hotmail.com Sarah Henriques BFA Acting, 2001 email: sarahchenriques@hotmail.com Martha Herrera-Lasso MA Theatre Studies, 2012 email: Herreralassomartha@gmail.com Amos Hertzman email: amoshz@telus.net Kanon Hewitt BFA Theatre Design and Production, 2019 Kanon Hewitt is a projection and sound designer, stage manager, producer, playwright, and performer from Tokyo, Japan. Kanon creates and performs for various international stages including Vancouver, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Highlights include MTV Japan, Benesse, kiseki (Kazunori Kumagai), Camera Obscura (Queer Arts Festival, frank theatre company), Simon a toujours aimé danser (Théâtre la Seizième), and Kuroko (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre). Kanon is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (graduated 2019), a certified actor-combatant with Fight Directors Canada, and a member of new media designer Sammy Chien's Chimerik似不像 Collective. https://kanonhewitt.weebly.com/ email: kanon.hewitt@gmail.com Ibata Hexamer BFA Design/Tech, 2002 After graduating from UBC in 2002, Ibata went on a political detour and worked as a personal assistant to lawyer and Vancouver City Councillor Tim Louis, as well as Councillors Ellen Woodsworth, Tim Stevenson, and Dr. Fred Bass. In 2005, Ibata was hired by the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) as a political organizer, and helped lead the organization into the 05 and 08 Civic Elections. Ibata also worked on the 05/06 Federal election campaign as the Database Manager for the NDP’s Vancouver Centre candidate. Ibata is the owner of RhythmNation.ca, a local event production and DJ company, and is President of Myriade Properties, a real estate investment firm based out of the US. email: ibatahexamer@yahoo.ca Jane Heyman BA (Honours) Theatre, 1966 Too many memories. Too little time. Look forward to seeing fellow students and former students at the reunion. Blessing for Dorothy, Jessie and Sydney. email: Jane_Heyman@telus.net Kate Hilderman BFA Acting, 2008 Kate recently completed filming on the feature film Quantum Suicide, and will be spending the spring promoting its release. email: silent_sunrise@hotmail.com Carol (Nesbitt) Holland BFA Acting, 1986, MA Theatre History, 1992 Performed in Vancouver briefly, then went on to get an MA in theatre history from UBC and a BEd from Queen’s University. Taught Engish and Theatre and directed students for many years in Ontario and the US, I am now at home (in New Jersey) with my two children (born 2002 and 2005). Great to see this website – fun to find old names! email: carol.holland@comcast.net Ken Hollands BFA Tech, 1996 Production meetings at Lou’s Bar and Grill- Highly recommended. Check out www.YouAndMeEnt.com. It’s slightly outdated, but it contains projects that heaps of alumni have collaborated on. email: Kholl@telus.net Clayton Holmes Film Production, 2004 Clayton Holmes has been making films under the Bull Terrier Productions banner since age ten, when he filled up a balloon with spaghetti sauce and attempted to replicate a scene from Scanners. His projects since include the feature film Breakup.com, a seven-part video magazine called EarGoggles, and a six-part web series called The Wise. His latest short film, Unknown Caller, is currently on the festival circuit and a new project, Maceration, is scheduled to begin filming in early 2021. Clay lives in Strathcona, Vancouver with his wife Niki and an old Bull Terrier named Boomerang. email: holmesclayton@hotmail.com Facebook: (Bull Terrier Productions): https://www.facebook.com/EastVanFilms Facebook (personal): https://www.facebook.com/clayton.holmes.186 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bullterrierproductions/?hl=en Twitter: Bull Terrier Productions @BullTerrierPro1 Emily Holmes BFA Acting , 1999 email: emmyholmes@hotmail.com Ken Hollands BFA Tech, 1996 After touring with Canadian bands and a stint as Production Manager for Bard on the Beach, am now building scenery with fellow ’96 Alumnus, Al Frisk. Check out www.sceneideas.ca Cheers to Loeffler and the Freddy Wood! email: ken@sceneideas.ca Sjahari Hollands BSc Mathematics, 1968 Playwright and Actor: I have written several full length and one act plays. A one person monologue was produced at the Vancouver Fringe. email: lshollands@ca.inter.net Craig Holzschuh MFA Directing , 1999 email: craigholzschuh@hotmail.com Elana Honcharuk BFA Design & Technical, 1988 Currently I am Head of Props at Prairie Theatre Exchange, while my husband is Head of Sound at Manitoba Theatre Centre (both in Winnipeg) email: n/a Bria Hooper Theatre/English, 2003 email: bjhooper@telus.net Cynthia Hopkins BFA Acting, 1987 email: Cynthia_Hopkins@telus.net Jon Horn BFA Production and Design, 2009 Jon moved away to Saskatchewan and is now the technical director of a small dinner theatre company. email: jonhorn14@hotmail.com Joanne Howitz B.A. Double Major: Theatre & Psychology, 1990 johowitz@gmail.com I also studied costume design in the MFA program 1990 – 1991. I have worked as an accountant since 1994. I have lived in Connecticut (1991-2001), in The Pas, Manitoba (2002-2004), and in Denver, Colorado (2004-2009). I currently live in Abbotsford, BC, with Mike O’Donnell (BFA Acting 1992). Lily Hui BA Theatre, 1982 email: dragonstarpictures@yahoo.ca Stephen Hunt MFA Creative Writing, 1989 I worked as an AD to Arnie Zazlove on BILLY THE KID in 1988 (!) I spent 7 years in New York as a playwright, where my work was produced by the Public Theatre, Naked Angels, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, where I’m a member. I’m currently a theatre critic and feature writer at THE CALGARY HERALD, and Adjunct Professor (of Playwriting) in UBC’s Creative Writing Program. www.stephenbhunt.com email: stephenbhunt@gmail.com Anthony F. Ingram BA English and Theatre, 1992 I’m in the acting company of the Stratford Festival of Canada right now, and will be coming back to Vancouver mid-November. email: 4ps@direct.ca & antony@look.ca Jenny Inster BA Theatre, 2002 email: jenny_inkster@hotmail.com Mike Inwood BFA Design/Technical, 2001 Mike is an independent lighting designer in New York City. In 2010 he received an Emmy Award for his work with NBC Television’s coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Other design projects for theatre, dance and television have taken Mike to cities across the Canada, the United States and Europe. email: mail@mikeinwood.com Michael Irwin MA (Directing), 1967 Retired Theatre Technician, Kelowna email: michaelirwin@shaw.ca
Laura Janeshewski BFA Technical Theatre, 1986 In Memoriam – November 7, 2006: Laura passed away peacefully at the age of 42 on Tuesday Nov.7th, 2006 at Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto with friends and her Mom by her side. She will be missed by the many people she touched during her life. There was a celebration of life for Laura on Dec 10 at the New Revue Stage on Granville Island – and there was another gathering at the Richmond Inn (Westminster Salon) on Dec 17th. A performer with the Vancouver TheatreSports League during the 80’s and early 90’s, Laura was a very funny lady. She was co-host on The Complaint Dept. Rogers Cable 4 in Vancouver circa 1992 and hosted the weekend news for CKZZ-FM (Vancouver) in the early 1990s. From 1994 to 2006 Laura had a busy career as a producer/reporter/writer for MacLean’s, MoneySense and Canadian Business magazines as well as for CTV and CBC-TV Toronto. Kathleen Jayme BFA in Film Production, 2011 Kathleen Jayme is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC who is passionate about telling meaningful and personal stories. Her breakthrough documentary “Finding Big Country” has screened to sold out theatres and been met with critical acclaim. It was the winner of the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival’s (VIFF) prestigious People’s Choice Award and the #MustSeeBC award as voted by the VIFF audience. In addition, “Finding Big Country” won Best Canadian Film at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, and won two Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Documentary POV and Best Multicultural film, among other festivals and awards. Since its initial worldwide release by TELUS, “Finding Big Country” has been programmed internationally by ESPN, ABC, and in Canada by Sportsnet, NBA TV, and Air Canada. Kathleen is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Film Production Program and also worked at the National Film Board of Canada where she coordinated and oversaw over thirty documentaries, animations, and digital projects through all stages of production. She is the winner of the 2019 TIFF Pitch This! competition as well as the 2017 Storyhive 100K grant edition, and a fellow of the 2019 Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative, the 2017 Hot Docs Documentary Channel Doc Accelerator program, and the 2017 Telus Storyhive Banff World Media Festival program. TIFF pitch: https://katjayme.com/tiff-pitch/ Articles: https://katjayme.com/news/ Erin Jeffery BFA Acting, 1994 email: erinjeffery@gmail.com Samuel Jing BA Theatre Studies, 2018 Sam is an emerging director looking to make a name for himself in the mean streets of Vancouver. Having grown up in Hong Kong, Sam translates his multi-cultural experience into the artistic work that he engages in. Sam has a great interest in classical Greek performance; he attended the GoGlobal Greece seminar to shoot an educational short film in the original Greek language, as well as his honours thesis discussing the merits of utilizing stagecraft as a means of examining the legal system of fifth century Athens. When he isn't dancing along to the Hamilton soundtrack for the hundredth time, you can find him editing his YouTube videos or penning a new screenplay in some quaint cafe. Sam is also the grateful recipient of the Yvonne Firkins Prize for best record of achievement in directing and staging, and the inaugural recipient of the Jerry Wasserman scholarship for academic excellence and promise in the performing arts. Past credits include: Artisanal Intelligence (Stage Manager; Edmonton Fringe, Frigid Festival NYC, PEI Fringe, Regina Fringe), The Medicine Hat Playwrights Festival (Director; The Cultch IGNITE! Festival), Crunchy: A Short Play (Director; Brave New Play Rites), Louis and Dave (Director; UBC Players Club), Ode to Man (Performer; Barefaced Greek), Doubt: A Parable (Director; UBC Players Club). email: sjjing853@gmail.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jingstasam/?hl=en You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrmPiyzzhzj5iVy_JA2_y2w Ma Jiucheng Design, 1999 email: jiucheng@hotmail.com Tracy Johnson BFA Creative Writing, 1992 email: aisenstat@shaw.ca Aaron Johnston BFA Acting 1999 I’m still in Vancouver. I’m no longer acting. I’ve become a makeup artist. I am currently finishing my makeup artistry diploma at The Blanche MacDonald Centre for Applied Design. email: aaronjohnston@telus.net Bryan Johnston BFA Acting , 2000 email: oddyanyuan@hotmail.com Mike Johnston Film Production, 2017 Mike Johnston is an award-winning Director and Producer from Vancouver, BC. His films have been screened at festivals all over the world including the Vancouver Shorts Film Festival, Independent Short Awards, Canada Shorts Film Festival and the Impact DOCS Awards. Mike’s first documentary film, Synnopsis was awarded the Award of Distinction at the Canada Shorts Film Festival and Award of Excellence at the Impact Docs Awards in Los Angeles. In 2019, Mike’s documentary Portrait of a Warrior was commissioned by CBC Arts. Mike is currently developing two documentary series, True North Crime: Hunting a Cold Case Killer and Breaking Kayfabe - an exploration of independent professional wrestling in Canada. Studio 104 Entertainment: https://www.studio104entertainment.com/ email: http://mjohnston@studio104ent.com Luisa Jojic BFA Acting, 2001 Performing professionally on stage, in film, television, and multi-media/ performance art contexts since graduation, Luisa’s work has been seen in Canada, the US and abroad. Luisa has worked with such companies as The Vancouver Playhouse, The Arts Club, The Vancouver Opera, The Gateway Theatre, Theatre Northwest, Blackbird Theatre, Radix, The Only Animal, Theatre Terrific, Reel Wheels, Pound of Flesh, and Bard on the Beach. Please visit www.luisajojic.com for more info and upcoming projects. email: luisajojic@hotmail.com Art Jones Pure Science -Chemistry, 1946 email: artjones@shaw.ca Gillian Jones BA Theatre (Honours) 2006 Currently completing a Masters in Arts & Cultural Management at Pratt Institute in New York. email: gillianjones_2@yahoo.com Pam Jones BA – Theatre, 1982 I currently own SOUNDSWRITE Communications, a sound studio in North Vancouver. We write and produce audio and have done radio ads for TransLink, RE/MAX and many other clients. We also write television scripts for Knowledge Network. After receiving my BA at UBC I went on to BCIT to get a broadcast degree. My theatre training comes in handy every day as I’m a busy professional voice actor. I remember working in the Dorothy Somerset when it was tucked in behind the Frederic Wood. Feels like five minutes ago – doing productions for M.A. grads John Cooper and Richard Lucas and racing to English classes taught by Jerry Wasserman. I still do a lot of acting in North Vancouver for Deep Cove Stage, and Theatre West Van at Kay Meek Centre. I’ve been lucky enough to win a couple of Theatre BC acting awards and acting is still my passion. I have been to a few shows at Frederic Wood in the past couple of years and every time I go, I am always so impressed with the quality of the productions and the detail put into performances.I look forward to seeing the new studios. email: pam@soundswrite.ca Virginia Jones BA Theatre email: bufoqueen@hotmail.com Ella Joseph MFA Design, 2000 “There is nowhere to go but keep on going and nothing to do but keep on doing.” (Inertia, performance installation by Ella Joseph, dedicated in memory of Peter Loeffler). The compulsion to visually express my thoughts through the creative process has not ceased, and responses to my work from audiences in Iasi, Bucharest, Vancouver, Utrecht, London, Zurich, Amsterdam, Honolulu, Toronto, and many other European cities has been deeply rewarding. The most recent audience encounter was as an artist and guest lecturer for “Art21: Identity”, at Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University in New York State. For the past year I live in Buffalo, NY, where, in addition to my continuing art efforts, I support the production and web-casting of videos in the corporate IT world with a competitor of AOL and Yahoo. webpage: www.i2iconcepts.net/ellajoseph email: ellajoseph@i2iconcepts.net Jay Kamal Film Production, 2015 Jay Kamal is a cinematographer and alumni of the UBC Film Production program. After traveling and living abroad in various countries for most of his life, Jay developed a passion for diverse storytelling and strives to incorporate unique cultural elements into his cinematography. Jay has worked in both camera and lighting departments in the Vancouver film and television industry since graduating from UBC Film and has since been mentored by some of the world's most renowned cinematographers. He has been 2nd Unit Director of Photography and Camera Operator on television series such as Warner Brothers’ “Batwoman” and ABC’s “A Million Little Things”. His films have screened and won awards at international film festivals including Cannes, Edmonton, and Montréal. He recently completed cinematography on two feature films in BC and Alberta and is currently planning his feature directorial debut in Europe in the Spring of 2021. Website: www.jay-kamal.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaykamaldop/ Jason Karman Joint MFA Film Production and Creative Writing, 2019 Jason is a Vancouver-based screenwriter and director whose 16 short films have screened internationally at festivals including the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival, and Telefilm Canada’s Not Short on Talent at Clermont-Ferrand. Graduating in 2003 with honors in Cinematography from Capilano College, Jason has worked in documentaries, dramas, thrillers and dance on screen. In 2011, Jason received the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award at Vancouver Queer Film Festival for I’M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, and in 2015 was recipient of the Jury Choice Award at Reel Pride Winnipeg for KIMCHI FRIED DUMPLINGS. He is the 2016 recipient of the James Lee Foundation Scholarship. Rami Katz MFA Filmmaking, 2017 Rami Katz is a Vancouver-based filmmaker whose work has screened internationally. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of British Columbia, where he received the H. Norman Lidster Prize in Documentary Filmmaking. His MFA thesis film, "The Issue of Mr. O'Dell", premiered at the 2018 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival where it won the President's Award. The film has since gone on to screen at nearly twenty film festivals throughout North America, garnering several awards and nominations, and made its broadcast premiere on the Knowledge Network. Rami was selected to participate in the 2015 RIDM Talent Lab and the 2018 Oregon Documentary Camp, and his films have screened at over two-dozen film festivals around the world. Website: www.ramihkatz.com Ken Kaneko BFA Theatre Tech and Design, 1993 cameraman for Shaw TV News email: kkaneko@shaw.ca Gerardine Keane BFA Technical Theatre & Design, 2001 email: greakeane@yahoo.co.uk Karen Kelm BA English, 1988 email: kmkelm@telus.net Nicholas Kendall BA Theatre, 197 email: 0nicholaskendall@shaw.ca Heather Kent BFA, Design/Tech. 1989 I teach theatre production at Humber College in Toronto. Since graduating from UBC I have never stopped learning; sometimes by mucking around in various prop shops throughout the country… and sometimes in classrooms. I love teaching and I love learning. I have spent a lot of time at the Ontario College of Art and Design learning everything from book binding to silversmithing, and last year I completed an Masters in Art Education from UVic. My degree from UBC has been the best springboard into a happy career in the arts. email: heather.kent@humber.ca Kevin Kerr BA Theatre, 1991 email: kkerr@vcn.bc.ca Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh BFA Tech, 2002 email: fkhaki21@hotmail.com Annette Kim BFA Film Production, 2018 Annette (24) was born in Seoul, South Korea and she moved to Toronto, Canada at age 7 when her mother decided Canada would be a more nurturing educational environment for her. She relocated to Vancouver after high school to pursue film production at the University of British Columbia and graduated with a film degree after collaborating on many different short film projects. Annette realized while composing the soundtrack for her thesis film that she doesn’t want to give up on pursuing her childhood dream of performing as a singer. She moved to Seoul shortly after graduation and worked to release a self-composed digital single while working her day job teaching English and creating educational media content. She is excited to release more songs that represent her authentic self and her identity as an Asian-Canadian after ‘Vibe With Me.’ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Annettely instagram: http://instagram.com/Annettely YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/AhnettSay Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/Annettely Twitch: http://twitch.tv/Annettelly Ellie Kim BFA Design, 2009 email: yelloluki7@gmail.com Kelly Kirby BA Theatre, 2001 email: kirbykelly@hotmail.com Leanne Koehn BA Theatre, 1997 website: www.leannekoehn.com email: leannekoehn@telus.net Lori Kokotailo BFA Acting, 2001 email: lorikoko@hotmail.com Erica Kopyto BA Theatre, 2001 Happy 50th Freddy Wood! email: ericakopyto@yahoo.com Matthew Kowalchu BA Theatre, 2007 Still based in Vancouver; I am currently directing The Soap Show, a weekly, live improvised Soap Opera (Season One: “Jour du Jour”), at the Firehall Arts Centre, as well as co-writing the screenplay for Lawrence & Holloman, based on the play by Morris Panych, and being developed with Ameland Films. email: mtkowalchuk [at] gmail.com Crystal Kramer Theatre BA & Minor English, 1998 Casting Director. Crystal Kramer C.D.C. (Previously Crystal Olsen). 10 years casting in the film & TV industry. Have my own business “Crystal Casting”. Cast Feist 1,2,3,4 – was up for Best Music Video Inside Steve’s Mind – 1st position home page youtube. Selected Mayday Episodes- TV Series Assistant Casting Cinderella Man / Ron Howard. email: crystalcasting@yahoo.ca Jody Kramer BA Theatre, 1996 I am an animator now, and a country singer too! All the acting and directing skills I got at UBC really really help. email: jody_kramer@hotmail.com Margaret Kyle BA Theatre, 1980 email: mgk13@hotmail.com Katy Lai BFA Tech 2000 email: katy_shanshan@hotmail.com Stacey Landers BA Honours Theatre, 2002 MA, Drama – University of Toronto, 2004 email: staceylanders@gmail.com Craig Lapthorne BFA Acting, 2000 email: lapthorne2004@hotmail.com Jenny Larson MFA Directing, 2019 Jenny is an interdisciplinary theatre artist: a director, creator, and performer. She served as the Artistic Director of the experimental new works company Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas from 2008-2019. In 2019, Jenny and her wife, khattieQ launched JK JK, a collaboratively-devised queer performance art company with a mandate to magnify stories of the disenfranchised and to disrupt the status quo. www.jkjklol.org | khattieandjenny@gmail.com Eva Lau BFA Acting, 2001 email: evileva71@yahoo.ca Emily R. Laue BFA Acting, 2004 email: erlaue@hotmail.com Brenda Leadlay MFA Directing, 1989 email: brenda@jccgv.bc.ca Rebecca Lee BFA Acting, 1996 email: rebeccalee@email.com Julie Lees Creative Writing, Theatre, 2002 email: goghoti@hotmail.com Catriona Leger Updated: July 28, 2019 BFA Acting, 1997. MFA Directing, 2010 Catriona has worked across Canada as a professional actor, director, movement coach, producer, and creator for over twenty years. She has also served as Artistic Director of a Company of Fools, Ottawa’s original professional Shakespeare company; is co-founder and associate producer of subDevision, a celebration of site-specific devised theatre; is former Co-Artistic Director of Skeleton Key Theatre, and has served on various arts juries and boards. Catriona holds an MFA in Directing and BFA in Acting (UBC) and is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier (Paris, France). She is a recipient of the JBC Watkins Award for Theatre from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Sydney J. Risk Award for Directing. Her work has garnered attention from the Jessie Richardson Awards, Prix Rideau Awards, Capital Critics Circle Awards, and Broadway World Awards. She has taught in the theatre departments of the University of British Columbia (Vancouver Campus), University of Ottawa, St. Lawrence College, and Algonquin College, and is currently a full-time faculty member at Thompson Rivers University. email: catrionaleger@gmail.com Christy Leigh BA Theatre, 2004 email: ckleigh@shaw.ca Mark Leiren-Young Theatre History/Film email: mark@leiren-young.ca Kevin Leopold BA Developmental Psychology, 1990 I remember blocking till 4am, sleeping in the office and hitting classes at 8am. Then we had a matinee with 20 seniors in -20 weather. It brought us all together. email: cutetourist@yahoo.com Nicole Leroux BA Theatre, 1998 I’ll be on stage in Vancouver for one night only, March 15, 2007, performing a workshop of my politically charged one woman show: THE RED SHIFT. Check out my website for more details. website: www.nicoleleroux.com Joven Lin 1998 I’m residing in sunny California, but sure miss the Vancouver rain… What 4 great years I had at the Theatre dept. I miss everyone…, especially Dr. Peter Loeffler.. email: morknhismaster@yahoo.com Kuei-ming Lin MFA Creative Writing and Theatre, 2012 I live and breathe my own plays, wherever it takes me,I sing and dance for the stars and the trees. Catch me if you see a butterfly fading in the breeze. email: cassia33@hotmail.com Heidi Lingren (McDonald) BFA Design & Technical Theatre, 1995 email: heidimcdee@yahoo.ca J.P. Linton B.A. Honours Theatre, 1969 J.P. Linton has appeared on Broadway as Von Strack in Amadeus with David Suchet, McBurney in the Royal National Theatre’s NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES with Corin Redgrave, and Dudgeon in THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE with Lee Richardson. Favorite roles Off-Broadway and in regional theatres: Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House (Huntington Theater, Boston), Julian in COMMUNICATING DOORS (Cape Playhouse, MA) with Rue McClanahan, WALTER IN THE BROKEN JUG (Lincoln Center), Constable of France in HENRY V (Stratford,CT) with Christopher Plummer, Lennie in OF MICE AND MEN (Canada) with Delroy Lindo, Petkoff in ARMS AND THE MAN (New Jersey) with Laila Robbins, Sir Andrew in TWELFTH NIGHT (Canada), Sherlock Holmes in FLIGHTS OF DEVILS (Long Island), Malvolio in TWELFTH NIGHT (New York) and Bernard in Jules Feiffer’s HOLD ME (Canada). He has also played over 30 lead and recurring roles in feature films, made-for-television movies and television series, from LAW AND ORDER to CAGNEY AND LACEY. His most recent feature film was GIRLFIGHT with Michelle Rodriguez. He has also recorded over 250 audiobook novels for the Library of Congress. Mr. Linton lives in Manhattan with his wife, Karin, and their 7-year old son, Bryant. email: jplassoc@sprynet.com Adrienne Lister BA Theatre, 2007 email: adri_lister@hotmail.com Rhys Lloyd BFA Acting, 1994 email: razl@uniserve.com Owen Lock BFA Design, 1986 email: owenlock@hotmail.com Andre Loiselle MA/PhD, Theatre, 1995 (and Film Production, 1988) After completing my Diploma in Film production, I stayed at UBC to do my M.A. and my PhD in the Theatre department. I completed my PhD in 1995 and the same year, I got a job in the Film Department at the University of Regina. In 1997, I joined the film program at Carleton University, where I am currently Professor of Film Studies and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. My main areas of research are Canadian and Québécois cinema, screen adaptations of drama, and the horror film. I have written half a dozen books including “Denys Arcand’s ‘Déclin de l’empire américain’ and ‘Les Invasions barbares’” (2008), “Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec” (2007) and “Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama” (2003). I have also edited a few anthologies, such as “Canada Exposed” (2009, co-edited with Pierre Anctil and Christopher Rolfe) and “Self-Portraits: the Cinemas of Canada since Telefilm” (2006, co-edited with Tom McSorley). I generally teach “Introduction to Film Theory and Analysis,” as well as various courses on Canadian Cinema, adaptation theory and the horror film. I am currently putting together an anthology on “Theatricality and Cinema” (co-edited with Jeremy Maron). I also appeared as an “expert on zombie movies” in the documentary “Zombiemania” (2008, Donna Davies) along with Tom Savini and George A. Romero. email: andre_loiselle@carleton.ca Gordon Long MA Theatre History, 1974 email: glong@shaw.ca Jeremy Long MFA (Playwriting), 1973 After UBC I was a founding member of Vancouver Theatre Workshop (aka Tamahnous Theatre) with a number of other grads, worked in various professional productions as production manager, tech director, director and playwright. Taught theatre at Malaspina College. email: Jeremy.Long@gems5.gov.bc.ca Andrew Lynch BFA Acting, 2011 Andrew is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s BFA Acting program and has worked with Green Thumb Theatre, Kaleidoscope, and several independent companies since. He is the co-creator/director of the interactive Shakespeare experience “Slumber Here” and works as a stand-up and burlesque performer. tel: 604-839-4316 Allan Lysell BA Acting, 1970 email: lysella@groupwise.douglas.ca
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MacKenzie MFA (Theatre/Creative Writing) 2007 Currently doing a PhD at UBC email: origins@vcn.bc.ca Kathy Mackenzie BFA (Theatre) 1999 Managing Director of the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver and Director on the Board of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres Christina Macleod BA email: chrismac@vpl.ca Jane MacFarlane BFA Acting, 1991 email: voiceactivated@telusplant.net James Martin BA in Film and TV Studies, 1988 email: canuckinla1999@gmail.com website: www.oneeyedpie.com Kevin McAllister BFA Design/Tech, 1993 webpage: www.kevinmcallister.com email: kevin@kevinmcallister.com Ian McAndrew BMus, Opera, 1981 email: mcandrew@interlog.com Gordon McCall MFA Directing, 1980 Currently Artistic Director, Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal since 1997. webpage: See www.centaurtheatre.com for full biography email: trout57@hotmail.com Siobhan McCarthy BA Hon Theatre, 1998 Managing Artistic Director/ Producer of the absolut theatre company, Artist in Residence for the City of Vancouver, Teaching Faculty of NCFA, Youth Playwright Mentor at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (604) 263 1859 Website: www.whoareyoucallingcrazy.com email: s_siobhan@shaw.ca Siobhan McCarthy is the founder and managing artistic director/ producer of the absolut theatre company and lucid dreams productions. Originally from Toronto, she trained, competed and toured as a National Precision Figure Skater for over half her life. She then lived in Europe before “heading west” and earning an honours degree in theatre from U.B.C. in 1998. Past directing credits include: SPIRALING WITHIN, HAPPY MEAL, SEE BOB RUN, A SOLDIER’S TALE, DRUNKEN BLISS!?! MACBETH, ROMEO & JULIET, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS and the awarding winning BOLD GIRLS. Equity Co-Op’s include W.O.W-wow!!!, and WHO ARE YOU CALLING CRAZY!?! Some film and television credits include ANIMAL MIRACLES, F-STOP, STILL LIFE, A BUG AND A BAG OF WEED, LAST WEDDING, DRUNKEN BLISS, and PATRICIA GREY. Favourite stage credits include: Kayla in SPIRALING WITHIN, A Dark Witch in MACBETH, the title role in CLAIRE, STAR IN FIVE DOLLAR DRINKS and Andrea in WHO ARE YOU CALLING CRAZY!?! Siobhan is the production manager of the Vancouver International Film Festival Trade Forum and she teaches voice, movement and mask at the New Image College of Fine Arts. She one of the Youth Playwright Mentors at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and she works with Youth Cancer Survivors at Vancouver Children’s Hopital — mentoring them in creating their play for the 2005 Children’s Festival. Siobhan has been an invited guest speaker/performer at the World Madness and Arts Festival in Toronto as well as numerous schools and hospitals. This year Siobhan is an Artist in Residence with the City of Vancouver at Gallery Gachet for her innovative community art building project entiltled, “The Masks We Wear.” Her play, SPIRALING WITHIN will be heading down under for a six month tour to be produced by Syzygy Theatre Co. Siobhan is represented by Deborah Harry Talent. Dr. Richard A. McKay, FRHistS, DPhil, MSc. BA Film and Television Studies major, History minor, 2000 Arriving at UBC in autumn 1996, I started in Arts One, and was accepted into the Film Studies program for my third and fourth years. I graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (Film and T.V. Studies major, History minor). I followed this with a stint as a camera assistant trainee for IATSE 669 in 2003 and 2004 before deciding that working in production wasn’t for me. In 2005 I moved to the UK and undertook a master’s and doctorate in history at the University of Oxford. I then completed training as a coach and have pursued both academic research and private-practice coaching work (www.richlifecoaching.co.uk) since then. Most of my published academic work has focused on the history of the idea of “patient zero” in the context of infectious disease epidemics, though I’ve also been investigating the history of sexually transmitted infections in England and North America during the middle decades of the twentieth century. When an article I co-authored was published in the journal Nature in 2016, it drew a great deal of media attention and I received numerous expressions of interest in my research from documentary filmmakers. One of these production companies, Fadoo Productions, purchased the rights to my book, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, when it was published in 2017, and brought me on as historical consultant for the film in 2018. I worked closely with the writer-director Laurie Lynd and the film’s content producers, Christian Medawar and Yves Bisaillon, from the beginning of the project until after the film had its premiere at Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival in April 2019. Given how hard we worked to produce a historically accurate documentary film with heart, I’m delighted that the American Historical Association has awarded Killing Patient Zero its 2020 John E. O’Connor Award for outstanding interpretation of history through film (documentary category). I am presently the Wellcome Trust Research Fellow based in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and I’ve been in this position since 2013. https://www.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/fellows-associates/mckay Twitter: https://twitter.com/RAMcKay Trina McClure (Pacy) BFA Acting , 2000 I saw my first UBC production in 1990 when I witnessed a very interesting and memorable production of Hamlet. Eight years later it was me on the stage. I have memories from the boards of the Freddy Wood Theatre that, no matter my career path, will by far be some of the happiest of my life. They will last me forever. Whatever stage I walk, the teachers and staff, my experiences, and the classes of the Freddy Wood walk with me. Congratulations on your 50th! email: gandt@shaw.ca Mark McConchie BA Sociology and LL.B, 1984 It always felt like ‘more’, so after 12 years as a lawyer, I quit law to become a professional actor. email: mmcconch@shaw.ca Katie McCulloch BFA Acting , 2001 email: commitmentdeficient@hotmail.com or mccullkg@mapleleaf.ca Vicki McCullough BA Theatre, 1975 email: vmccullough@telus.net Cam McGill BFA Technical, 1983 email: cameron.mcgill@ubc.ca Meghan McGuinness BA Theatre, 2002 email: meghan_mcg20@hotmail.com Derek McIver BA Theatre, 2002 email: derekmciver@hotmail.com Jennifer McLean BFA Acting, 1994 email: jeneralmow@yahoo.ca Chris McLeod MFA Stage Directing, 1996 Living in Ottawa. For the last year I have been Artistic Director of Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences, a company that was founded ten years ago. My first child was born four years ago in Nov., my second child will be born in Feb. email: cmcleod@cyberus.ca Cheryl McNamara BFA Acting, 1995 I’m in Toronto, currently President of Shakespeare in the Rough. Most recently I wrote, produced and was in THE DIZZY & DALE CHRONICLES for the Toronto Fringe. I also co-wrote THE DICK’S A DAME, again at the Toronto Fringe, and Tim Sims Playhouse. email: cherylmcnamara@rogers.com Michelle McRae MFA Design, 1995 email: mcrae@ica.bc.ca Niti Maini BA Theatre , 2001 email: cici_u@yahoo.ca Linda Fenton Malloy MFA Theatre, 2003 email: lmalloy@mail.ubc.ca Julie Martens BFA Design, 2000 email: takemeto_harlem@hotmail.com Meah Martin B.A. Theatre, MFA Creative Writing, 1999 email: meahmartin@gmail.com Currently living in Vancouver, B.C. Working on two projects at the moment, THE GOOD GOOSE, and IF I KNEW, stage plays. Taught Creative Writing at UBC – introductory level for two years, and Playwriting for two years Producer Brave New Play Rites Festival. The Rose Cafe staged reading at Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver Brown Wasp, a one woman play won National Playwright Award for a one act. Produced by Solo Collective Over the Moon, produced by UBC published in The Canadian Theatre Review Other publications – Going it Alone, Plays by Women for Solo Performers by Kit Brennan, and Brave New Play Rites an Anthology by Bryan Wade. Shannon Matson (Woelk) BFA Zain Meghji BA Theatre, 2000 email: zainmeghji@hotmail.com Natalie Meisner MFA Creative Writing (Theatre) 2000 Playwright, Poet, and Fiction Writer. Recent Productions: “Daylight Savings” with CBC Radio and “Beaver Sonatas” with Lunchbox Theatre. Book of Plays: Growing Up Salty and Other Plays email: ndmeisner@hotmail.com Michele Melland BFA Acting, 1990 If you recognize me, email me!! I’m in New York now but come home often – CIAO!! email: vancouveractress@aol.com Kelly-Ruth Mercier MFA Directing ,2001 email: krmercier@yahoo.com Michael Mew BA Technical Theatre & Design, 1996 email: info@goingwestpictures.com Michael is a funny guy – at least that is what he has been led to believe. Though misunderstood at times, one questions if he has invented his own little world with a language to go with it. His unique humor and view of the world can be due to his upbringing as a first generation Chinese Canadian. Growing up on the front lines of cultures clashing, trying to find a harmony between Western and Chinese cultures gave him strong views on social issues and multiculturalism. Life became even more colorful as Michael moved into his Pink Period: The Gay Years (1991 – Present). This fruitful period to date has seen Michael graduate from the University of British Columbia Department of Film & Theatre, exhibit as a photographer/artist, curate art shows, work as a costumer in film and TV and most notably writing and directing five short films. His latest PEKING TURKEY won five audience awards to date and has screened at over thirty festivals. He is currently pitching BOBBY ANGEL and MISS. MAFIA, two full-length feature romantic comedy scripts he wrote and is hoping to shoot his satire feature GOING WEST in the near future. Gregory Middleton Film and TV Studies, 1989 Gregory Middleton is known for his cinematography work in Watchmen (2019), Game of Thrones (2011) and The Killing (2011). He won an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Cinematography For A Limited Series Or Movie (2020) for his work in Watchmen. He was also nominated twice for an Emmy in Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (2015, 2016) for his work on Game of Thrones. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) and the American Society of Cinematpgraphers (ASC). website: http://www.middletondp.com Karen Mirfield BFA Design, 2005 email: littlemirf@hotmail.com Lynn May Mirfield BFA Tech , 2001 email: linnmay@hotmail.com Camille Mitchell BFA Acting email: nootaksas@aol.com Aaron Moon BFA Acting, 1999 email: n/a Lyle Moon BFA Acting I am married and have three daughters. Five year old twins and a three year old. I am the Casting Director for Universal Orlando. email: francie@mindspring.com Robin Mooney BFA Acting, 2004 email: robinmooney@yahoo.com Chris Moss BEd (drama/English), 1977 Summer Stock memories with Camille Mitchell, Jane Heyman, Barb Duncan, Edgar Dobie and others – we did “Dark of the Moon”, “1837 the farmers revolt” and “Was he Anyone”. email: cmoss@uvic.ca Robin Mossley Acting, 1979 Hi. I’m living in Vancouver and thanks to UBC and my lovely, talented and steadily employed wife, I’m working in the acting profession (sporadically sometimes, but then there’s still no business like the show business, it’s just sometimes there’s no business you know.) I have great, fond, memories of my time at UBC and would be happy to hear from any of the people I had the pleasure of working with while I was there. email: mossley@bigfoot.com Jennifer Mossa Little of this, a little of that, 1997 Did a combined creative writing and drama course-load. email: mosschic72@yahoo.co.uk Celeste Alexis Munger BFA Tech, 1997 email: stevenceleste@hotmail.com Lisa Roy Munro BFA Tech email: roymunro@telusplanet.net Amanda Murdoch BA Theatre, 2003 email: amanda.murdoch@gmail.com Katie Murphy BFA Acting, 2002 In Vancouver, just trying to do what the young acting grad does. email: prettyladykt@hotmail.com Peter Murphy BFA Acting email: pdmurphy@hotmail.com Natasha Nadir MFA Directing, 2006 email: mnnadir@telus.net Gia Nahmens BA Theatre, 2007 I have been working in Vancouver as a stage manager and production manager for the past 2 years. email: gianahmens@hotmail.com Jessica Anne Nelson MFA in Directing, 2018 email: N/A Benton Neufeld BFA Theatre Design and Production, 2016 Since graduation Benton has been working as a stage manager in Alberta where he returned after graduation to be close to family and friends. Benton now resides in Calgary where he continues to work in theatre and as a professional magician performing for corporate and private events. email: bentoncneufeld@gmail.com or benpricemagic@gmail.com website: benpricemagic.com facebook & instagram: @Benpricemagic Facebook & Instagram @Benpricemagic David Newham Updated Jan. 20, 2013 BFA Acting, 2006 Founding member and current co artistic producer of Seven Tyrants Theatre. email: david@seventyrants.com Kate Newman BFA Acting 1999 I teach and direct children at the Shadbolt Centre, have done some assistant directing at the Roundhouse, am a published lyricist in Slovakia. Right now, I’m doing my MA in Educational Psychology looking at acting from a sociocultural perspective. email: n/a Pauline Newstone B.Ed, Theatre Major, 197? email: n/a Robin Nichol MFA Directing, 1989 email: rnichol@telus.net Laura Nordin BFA Acting, 1999 email: lauranordin@yahoo.com Tianna Nori BFA Acting, 2009 email: n/a Ashley O’Connell BFA Acting, 2006 email: ashoconnell@gmail.com Moya O’Connell BFA Acting, 1999 Currently living & acting in Montreal. Previously Toronto and London, England. Spend my summers at Bard on The Beach Shakespeare Festival. 5th season. email: moystar@hotmail.com Michael O’Donnell BFA Acting , 1992 I’m teaching English and Drama in Abbotsford BC at Robert Bateman Secondary. email: Mike_ODonnell@sd34.bc.ca Nick Orchard BA Theatre, 1991 TV/Film Producer, my own company (Soapbox Productions), 650 Keith Road W., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 1M6. President, Soapbox Productions for past 17 years, producing television and feature films. Website: www.soapboxproductions.ca email: norchard@shaw.ca Kevin Orr MFA Directing, 1990 Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa email: korr@uottawa.ca Richard Ouzounian MA Directing & Playwriting, 1972 email: rouzounian@sympatico.ca RICHARD OUZOUNIAN, theatre critic of the Toronto Star, has worked professionally in the performing arts for the past 32 years. In that time, he has written, directed, or acted in over 225 productions, served as artistic director of five major Canadian theatres, been an associate director of the Stratford Festival of Canada for 4 seasons, and was Harold Prince’s assistant on the original Toronto production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. His recent works for the stage include LARRY’S PARTY, EMILY AND DRACULA: A CHAMBER MUSICAL – all of which broke box office records across North America. From 1990 through 2004, he was also the host of CBC Radio 2’s popular musical theatre program SAY IT WITH MUSIC and from 1995-2000 he served as Creative Head of Arts Programming at TVOntario. He has published five books by McArthur and Company, the most recent being a collection of his celebrity interviews called ARE YOU TRYING TO SEDUCE ME, MISS TURNER? Another volume (DIVAS, DUDES AND BROADWAY BABIES) will be published in June of 2005. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Pamela , and their two children, Katherine and Michael. Joyce Ozier MA, Stage Design, 1979 After being one of the Founders of the Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre in the 70’s (Anyone remember that?), I eventually moved into the world of retail display and was head of award-winning WOW! WINDOWS Display & Design Ltd. here in Vancouver. I’m now retired. email: joyceozier@gmail.com Olga Ozkaya MA Theatre Studies, 2018
Guy Palmer English; Biology, 1934 As a semi-official photographer, I shot some seventy plays, from THE CRUCIBLE in 1954 to HAMLET in 1991… email: guy.palmer@shaw.ca Adam Parboosingh MFA Design, 2000 Assistant professor of lighting and projection design within the School of Theatre at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. email: aparboosingh@lsu.edu webpage: www.adamparboosingh.com Sylvia Pare BA Theatre, 1992 email: sppare@uniserve.ca Brian Parkinson BA Theatre, 1972 Professor, Theatre & Dramatic Arts, Acting Associate Dean of Fine Arts, at the Unviersity of Lethbridge, and Artistic Managing Director, New West Theatre, Lethbridge email: parkinson@uleth.ca Diana Parry Film Production, 2017 Diana Parry is a Mi’kmaq Director of Photography based out of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Having graduated from the University of British Columbia’s Film Production Program in 2017 she has continued to shoot short narrative films such as Line of Fire (2018), Zero (2019), the Telus StoryHive funded Laura (2019) and Crazy 8’s short Sol (2020). She received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Chilliwack Film Festival ’19 and won Best Cinematography at the Vancouver Shorts Film Festival ’2o for Laura. Diana uses cinematography as a tool to support powerful stories and is excited to create diverse content, especially from unique cultural and gender perspectives. She was one of the recipients of the Storyhive and NSI Fellowship program for ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2019. Studio 104 Entertainment: https://www.studio104entertainment.com/ email: http://dparry@studio104ent.com Demo Reel: https://vimeo.com/user35483685 Heather Pawsey (Mitchell) Mus Voice Performance, 1986 email: n/a Lauren Payne BA Theatre, 2002 email: frnchkis@hotmail.com Suzie Payne BA Acting, 1999 I actually hung out at the Theatre Department for four years, 1967-1971, but I didn’t complete my BA then – hey it was the 60’s…finally did in 1999, and then went to SFU and studied Biology. All the while dipping in and out of the wonderful world of Theatre, acting, directing, teaching, and writing. Recently have written a full-length play, and just completed my first novel. Watch for it. email: suziepayne@telus.net Jane Penistan email: n/a 90 Years Young! A round of applause for a much loved Theatre at UBC alumna Jane Penistan who celebrated her 90th Birthday at the Jericho Arts Centre on Sunday February 10th, 2008, surrounded by family, friends and theatre colleagues. Now 90 years young Jane could easily run rings around many people half her age. Both a theatre and opera enthusiast Jane is currently an arts reporter for the Hampton Review and for the online arts journal Review Vancouver. She was born and brought up in London and moved to Canada in 1949, settling in Stratford Ontario. Jane along with her husband revitalized the town’s economy by working to establish The Stratford Festival, a theatre festival dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. British actor and director Tyrone Guthrie agreed to become the festival’s first Artistic Director. On July 13, 1953, actor Alec Guinness spoke the first lines of the first play produced by the festival: “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York.” The drama festival is now one of the largest theatrical companies in the world employing approximately one thousand actors, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians, administrators and other staff. Jane enjoyed working for the festival for ten years during which time she enjoyed meeting many of the English speaking theatre’s premiere artists. When her five children were grown up, Jane “retired” to Vancouver, where she earned both a BA and MA in English from UBC. Michelle Penney BFA Design/Tech, 1995 email: michelle.penney@gmail.com Eric Peterson BA ’72 email: n/a Thrasso Petras BA Classical Studies, 1993 email: thrasso@uniserve.com Dawn Petten BFA Acting, 1997 email: dpetten@telus.net Deb Pickman BA Theatre, 1991 email: deb@shamelesshussy.com Deb Pickman is co-founder (along with alumna Renée Iaci), an active ensemble member and past co-artistic director of the Vancouver based theatre company shameless hussy productions. The company has a mandate of “telling provocative stories about women, to inspire the hand that rocks the cradle to rock the world”. As an actor Deb has co-created several plays & toured widely throughout North America and Europe with her own company and others (including most notably Green Thumb Theatre). Most recently she appeared in the hussies Jessie Richardson Award winning production of Frozen by Moira Buffini. Deb is also specialist in social media and all aspects of publicity and marketing for the arts. She currently holds the position of Marketing & Communications Manager for Theatre at UBC where she earned her BA. Deb is a recipient of the Vancouver Sun People’s Choice Award for Outstanding Actress, two Jessie Richardson Award nominations and UBC’s Sharon Yacowar Frohlinger Memorial Scholarship. More at http://www.shamelesshussy.com Jocelyn Pitsch BA Theatre, 2005 Currently completing a PhD, following completion of a Masters, both through the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. email: n/a Christine Plunkett BFA Design & Stage Management , 1986 email: cplunkett64@hotmail.com Melissa Poll BFA Acting (2000) and MA Theatre History/Criticism (2006) email: pollmel@hotmail.com Niven Pong BFA Design/Tech, 2002 email: nivenpong@hotmail.com Melissa Powell BFA Production and Design, 2003 email: melissapowell@shaw.ca Cricket Price BFA, MFA Theatre, 1993 email: cricketp@shaw.ca Reva Quam BFA Design/Tech, 1999 I’m currently living and designing costumes in Toronto. email: reva@revaquam.com Walter Quan BComm, 1985 All with MUSSOC – actually, it was not the easiest of relationships (MUSSOC…Theatre…Music) but we all made it work… email: waltquan@islandnet.com Cordula Quint M.A., 1989 Since graduating from UBC with my M.A., I have continued my studies in theatre and drama at the University of Toronto. After being involved in the professional and semi-professional theatre in Toronto for several years as director and dramaturge and completing my PhD, I have moved on to become Assistant Professor of Drama at Mount Allison University. Studying theatre at UBC was a great experience and gave me a very solid foundation! email: cordulaquint@hotmail.com Kelsey Ranshaw BFA Acting, 2016 Kelsey Ranshaw is a Vancouver based artist living and working as both a performer and a secondary drama teacher within the community. She graduated from the BFA acting program at UBC (2016), and holds an additional BEd in Secondary Theatre also from UBC (2017) and a previous diploma in acting from Red Deer College (2010). Her performance background began at a young age in semi-professional ballet and other types of movement and dance, and she was delighted to discover an additional passion for theatre and music during in her mid-teens while in high-school. She particularly enjoys physical theatre work and often utilizes clowning as a creation tool; she even plays with her cat Amiko as her clown, Penny. One of her favourite theatrical experiences was singing and dancing as Shipyard Sal and Mountaineer Molly for the North Vancouver Museum and Archives educational program story filled walking tours during the summer of 2016. Currently Kelsey is expanding her horizons by pursuing an interest in voice. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-ranshaw-96b52760 Instagram: @kelseyjaneranshaw email: kelsey.ranshaw@gmail.com John Rapsey MA Directing, 1969 I moved to Australia in 1986 and switched from theatre to film and television. I have been creator and/or writer on a number of series including ‘Haydaze’, ‘Ship to Shore’, ‘Sweat’, ‘Fast Tracks’ and ‘Foreign Exchange’. In 1998 I became the head of Scriptwriting at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia – a fabulous city on the Indian Ocean. Lately I’ve added a new job as Director of the WA Screen Academy. My wife Irene, who studied Design at UBC under Richard Kent Wilcox is now the head of Wardrobe at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. email: rapsody@iinet.net.au Helen (Max) Read BA Drama and Theatre Arts, 1979 email: maxread@telus.net Kimira Reddy MFA Design Kimira is a Set and Props Designer and a MFA Design graduate from UBC. She is constantly learning new tools that give her the most creative freedom possible. She uses virtual reality as a concept tool for set design and provides Directors with an immersive VR walk-through of the final product before it's even built. Originally from South Africa, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts Technology, specializing in prop-making and scenic painting. Recent credits: Assistant Set Designer: The Birds & the Bees (Arts Club); The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in Love, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus (Bard on the Beach); Set Designer: The Turn of the Screw (Aenigma Theatre); Romance, Relationships, Rights (Anvil Theatre); Burqa Boutique, The Way You Carry On, Fireflies (Killjoy/rEvolver Festival); The Crucible (UBC); Seussical JR., The Time Machine (Gateway Theatre). More info: www.kimirareddy.com email: kimira.reddy@outlook.com Joanna Redfern MA Theatre, 2004 Joanna has joined the faculty at University College of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, where she’ll be teaching first-year acting and Intro to Theatre. email: n/a Heather Redmond BFA Acting, 2000 email: htredmond@hotmail.com Joel Redmond BFA Acting, 2005 email: joelredmond@yahoo.com Sarah Redmond BFA Acting, 1996 Maryanne Renzetti BFA Acting, 2009 Maryanne Renzetti is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting program and the AD of Staircase Theatre. She is also a grad of Canada’s National Voice Intensive and the British American Drama Academy, in Oxford, England. She’s notable for her performance in the critically acclaimed “Oh, The Humanity and Other Good Intentions” by Will Eno in the 2010 Vancouver Fringe Festival and “The Gas Heart” in the 2009 Fringe Festival. Recent acting credits include True Story, (®evolution theatre) The Idiots Karamazov, Medea, Unity (1918) (Theatre@UBC), Taming of the Shrew (Emerald Pig Theatrical Society), and Staircase Theatre’s Evelyn Strange, Home Free, Cocktails at Pam’s and Hunter Gatherers. website: http://www.staircasetheatre.com email: maryrenzetti@gmail.com Joshua Reynolds BFA Acting, 2001 email: joshua_r@hotmail.com Ariel Rhodes BA Theatre, 1996 Presently I am teaching visual arts at Britannia High School in Vancouver. Since graduating from UBC, a million other things. email: ariel@logicus.net Daryl Ritchot BFA Production and Design, 2004 email: darylr@axion.net Sarah Roa BFA Acting, 2014 Sarah Roa is a Filipina Canadian actress; grateful to be living and working on the Unceded Territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam Nations. She holds an acting diploma from Douglas College and a BFA in Acting from UBC. Some past credits include: The Turn of the Screw (Aenigma Theatre), Robinson Crusoe + Friday (Axis Theatre), The Drowning Girls (Theatre North West), and Pride & Prejudice (Arts Club). When the world returns to live theatre she will be on stage with Manitoba Theatre for Young People in "The Velveteen Rabbit" and on the mainstage with Bard on the Beach as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." email: s.roacanero@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-roa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahroa._/ Kate Robbins (Buchols) Studies in Theatre and English 1978-80 1978-80 Working actor in film/tv/voice-over, President of the Union of BC Performers/ACTRA email: katerobbins2001@hotmail.com Russell Roberts BFA Acting email: rroberts11@shaw.ca Don Robinson BA Theatre/Art, 1987 Went to FTS Canada after leaving UBC to work with Catherine Caines. Taught there for a year or so. Spent over a decade acting around town and a bit in film and TV, but now work as a stage technician with mainly local festivals and companies. email: dondobongo@hotmail.com Chris Robson BFA Acting 1996 I recently finished performing the role of Duncan Wooley in “Leading Ladies” at the Richmond Gateway Theatre, directed by UBC alum Johnna Wright. I am currently in pre-production for “The Last Five Years”, which will be staged at the Jericho Arts Centre in late January. email: chrisprobson@hotmail.com Wayne Howard Robson Theatre at UBC student, 1970’s With great sadness we note of the passing of one of our exceptionally talented alumni, Wayne Howard Robson. While a student in the UBC Department of Theatre in the 1970’s Robson was one of the stars of our stage. He appeared in many productions here including Scapino! (as Scapino) along with Bruce Greenwood, Bernard Cuffling, Camille Mitchell, Gordon McCall and Jerry Wasserman. A brilliant comic actor he also is also well remembered for playing Face, the conniving servant, in Professor John Brockington’s production of The Alchemist at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre – again alongside Jerry Wasserman who is our current head of the Department of Theatre and Film. Wayne played a huge role in my early career. I counted him as a good friend, too. He lived in my house for a while and I lost a lot of money to him at cribbage, but I didn’t mind because he always made me laugh so much. He died way too young: a tragic loss to the Canadian acting community.” – Jerry Wasserman Robson appeared in over 100 theatre productions, 30 feature films and 120 television productions, including 12 seasons as Mike Hamar on “The Red Green Show”. His honors include Gemini Awards for his roles in And Then You Die and The Diviners, a Dora Award for his work in Walking the Tightrope at Theatre Direct and a Blizzard Award in Manitoba forThe Diviners. He received Genie nominations for his roles in The Grey Fox and Bye Bye Blues, and was named Actor of the Year by the Vancouver Sun. The actor recently became a 2011 company member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and was scheduled to make his debut this season as Grampa in The Grapes of Wrath. The Festival has announced that it will dedicate that production to his memory. More here: http://www.citizennews.ca/?p=5705 Robson is survived by children Ivy and Louis, and their mother Lynn. Michael Robinson BFA Acting, 1983 Acting and Directing in Film, Theatre, and Television. Still improvising with the Vancouver Theatresports League. Head improvisation instructor at the Vancouver Film School one year acting programme. Director of VFS sitcom project. email: michaeljhrobinson@gmail.com Chris Robson BFA Acting MFA Directing, 2013 email: chris.robson9@gmail.com My thesis production was a double feature: George F. Walker’s “Problem Child” and “The End of Civilization” from the “Suburban Motel” series, at the Telus Studio in february, 2012. Since then, I accepted the Artistic Directorship of City Stage New West, acted in the Pick of the Fringe hit, “Romance” by David Mamet, directed “Welcome to My Wake” by Ingrid Nilson, directed “Our Country’s Good” for UBC Players’ Club, and am currently playing Polymestor in United Players’ production of “Hecuba”. Right after that closes, I will be performing in the Canadian Premiere of “Holmes & Watson Save the Empire” at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre, Feb. 27-Mar.16, and directing “Freud’s Last Session” for City Stage New West in November! Sarah Rodgers BFA Acting, 1987. MFA Directing, 2003. email: SarahJaneRodgers@hotmail.com I just closed a show called “Power Lines” with ex alumni David Mackay and MFA writer Murray Logan – whoops – sorry we didn’t let you know! I am constantly doing shows in the community and know lots of ex grads from a “few” years ago so I will try to keep you in the loop! This is a wonderful idea! Joyce Rosario BFA Design/Tech, 2003 email: joyce.rosario@gmail.com Finally graduated in the Spring of 2003 after starting way back in the Fall of 1996….am now working with dancers as an administrator for battery opera, and still keeping in the theatre loop as a freelance costume designer. Check out the former at www.batteryopera.com and the latter in Sea Theatre’s current production of Cat and Mouse (Sheep) [at] Presentation House in April 2004. Izzy Rubin BFA Design/Production, 2005 email: nebula009@yahoo.com Gary Rupert B.A. Theatre & English, 1968 email: gary.rupert@ubc.ca Teacher and administrator in B.C. schools for many years, Exec. Director of B.C. Festival of the Arts, Exec member, Canadian Stage Band Festival, West Coast Jazz Festival, BC Arts Administrators’ Assoc.; now Program Coordinator, UBC Faculty of Education
Chris Sackett MFA Lighting and Sound Design, 1998 email: Sackett@sou.edu Currently Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. SOU is the designated center for excellence for the performing arts in the Oregon University System. Recently established the Ashland Center for Theatre Studies offering masters program in Theatre Education Emphasis in Production and Design. This program is aimed at high school and jr, college teachers of theatre who wish to enhance their scope in theatre design and its production elements. We have a positive relationship with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with adjunct faculty and guest artists from OSF enhancing our program. There are internship opportunities for students of significant potential. This season includes Charles Mee’s Big Love, Oiver Hailey’s Who’s Happy Now, David Edgar’s Entertaining Strangers, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Henrick Ibsen’s Ghosts. Laara Sadiq BFA Acting, 1992 email: laara@laarasadiq.com website: laarasadiq.com Vanka Salim Theatre Design and Production, 2018 Vanka Chaitra Salim (she/her) is a muslim Canadian-Indonesian theatre designer based in Greater Vancouver. A graduate from the UBC BFA Theatre and Design Program in 2018, she enjoys designing projections, set and lighting. She is also a theatre technician, set painter, acrylic paint-maker and aspiring dessert connoisseur! Apart from her involvement in the Theatre community, Vanka is interested in Fine Arts, Dance, Videography, Graphic Design, Animation and Gaming Development and Design. Be sure to also check out Vanka and her Indonesian dance peers, Srikandi Indonesia! website: www.vankasalim.com/ Emilio Salituro BFA Acting, 1994 email: esalituro@canadafilm.com After working in the Acting industry (theatre, film & TV) for 10 years, I am now representing actors as a Talent Agent/Manager for Muse Artist Management here in Vancouver. Helenna Santos BFA Acting, 2004 Just graduated and signed to Characters talent agency. email: helennasantos@yahoo.ca Lorenzo Savoini MFA Design, 1999 Currently freelance designing. email: lorenzodesign@yahoo.com Eve Savory B.A. Asian Studies, 1969 email: Eve_Savory@cbc.ca David Savoy MFA Directing, 2008 Appointed the new Artistic Director of the Sudbury Theatre Centre. Thomas Schaad MFA Design, 1992 Just opened a winery with my brother. First vintage for sale in 2003. email: tkschaad@yahoo.com Ian Schimpf BFA Design/Production, 2008 Ian is still in Vancouver, working and designing for various companies. email: ian.schimpf@gmail.com Goldie Semple It is with great sadness we note the passing of one of our most accomplished alumna, Goldie Semple. She will be greatly missed and our deepest sympathies go out to her many friends & family. Read a wonderful tribute to Goldie by Richard Ouzounian in the Toronto Star. “Goldie Semple, one of Canada’s finest classical actors, who divided her career between the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, died Wednesday, following a long battle with cancer. She was 56.” Goldie Semple starred in a Theatre at UBC production of Tartuffe by Moliére, directed by Klaus Straussmann. Goldie Semple also starred with her husband Lorne Kennedy in the Theatre at UBC production of Tartuffe by Moliére, directed by Klaus Straussmann. In the photo are (standing) Alumnus Lorne Kennedy and Lee Taylor (centre). Sabine Sengmueller BA – everything! 1998 email: randomgirl01@hotmail.com Rachel Shaen MFA Theatre Design and Production, 2019 Rachel Shaen is an MFA Lighting Designer and technician. She has mainly Lighting Designed, Technical Directed, and been a technician in Kingston, Ontario with Kingston companies including the Queens Department of Drama and Music, Theatre Kingston, and Thousand Islands Playhouse. Lighting Designs include: two narrative dance pieces: Initially Unconditionally, Unfamiliar, choreographed and directed by Kay Kenney. (She received best design of the Juvenis Festival for Unfamiliar); Heathers the Musical (Juvenis Festival), Servant of Two Masters (Queens School of Drama and Music). Her technician and Technical Direction credits include: Kingston Storefront Fringe Festival, Down Syndrome by The Dozen (Peerless Productions), End of The World Club written and directed by Kat Sandler (Queens School of Drama and Music), 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane directed by Chantel Martin (common place). She was also both Technical Director and Lighting Designer for Paper Series by David Yee directed by Wallis Caldoza (5th Company Lane). She is currently a stage technician at The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Zaib Shaikh MFA Directing , 2001 email: zaibshaikh@hotmail.com Michael Shanks BFA Acting, 1994 email: n/a Meghann Shantz BA Theatre, 2002 email: meghann_shantz@hotmail.com Parjad Sharifi MFA Scenic Design, 2010 email: parjadsharifi@yahoo.com Yulia Shtern MFA Scenic Design, 2010 email: shterns@yahoo.com Odessa Shuquaya BFA Acting, 1999 email: odessajoy@hotmail.com Sadie Silcock BFA Acting, 2004 email: sadiesilcock@gmail.com Beverley Siver BFA Design/Tech Theatre, 1983 email: n/a Annie Smith (Sauer) BA, 1993 email: n/a Jason Smith BFA Acting, 1989 email: jason@yoursoulswork.com Ryan Warren Smith B.A. Minor in Theatre, 2005 email: ryanwarrensmith@hotmail.com Sheila Smyth BA Theatre/English, 1968 50 year synchronicities are most interesting! email: delight@lightspeed.ca Sandra Chamberlain-Snider MA, Theatre Studies 2013 Donna Soares BA Theatre & French, 2002 email: donnasoares@gmail.com Carolyn Soper BFA Acting, 1985 email: carolyn.soper@disney.com Rebekka Sorensen BFA Design, 2001 email: n/a Javier Ricardo Sotres Porres BFA Acting, 2015 Javier is a Mexican artist who focuses within the fields of theatre and photography. In recent years, photography has been his main focus however, theatre and acting are what brought him to Canada and so, he will continue to pursue both artistic endeavours for years to come. Javier is a proud holder of a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia and has been seen in shows such as “The Quizmaster” [BNP] and The Dumb Waiter [Theatre at UBC]. He is a self-declared nerd who enjoys video games, pole dancing and salsa dancing among other things. If you’d like to hear his voice, you can always check out “Duggan Hill”, a Radio Drama by Andy Garland or for more nerdy content, “CritQuest” a Dungeons and Dragons actual play podcast. http://www.sotresjr-photography.com/ Don E. Soule Theatre, 1984 I have been retiring and doing a bit of teaching and writing in the UK. email: donsoule46@hotmail.com Anna Spencer (Anna Keene) BA Theatre, 1977 Following UBC, studied acting in England and have lived and worked in UK ever since. Wide range of roles in theatre, film and for BBC radio, all as Anna Keene. email: annakeene@xenon.myzen.co.uk Andria Spring BA Film Production, 2005 Andria Spring’s diverse list of producer credits include The Survivor (2022), Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), Pieces of a Woman (2020), and The Front Runner (2018). She is the EVP Post Production at BRON Studios where she oversees the completion and delivery of all media properties to dozens of partners ranging from HBO, to Sony, to Lionsgate. Spring helms from the University of British Columbia’s Film & Theatre department, where she completed her BA in Film Production. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andriaspring/ Elliott Squire BFA Theatre Design and Production, 2013 Elliott is a Canadian set and costume designer for theatre and opera based in London. He is a graduate of Edinburgh's Scenehouse Programme, 2015, and also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), where he was twice the winner of the Peter Loffler Memorial Prize, in both 2012 and 2013. Theatre design credits include Midnight: A New Musical (The Union Theatre) [Nominated for an Off-West End Award for Best Set Design], One Last Thing For Now (The Old Red Lion), Sleeping Beauty (Guildford School of Acting), and The Seagull (UBC Theatre). Opera credits include Giulio Cesare (Bury Court Opera) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Xi'an Concert Hall). Elliott is a versatile and hands-on designer, with a variety of added experience as a maker. He has also acted as an associate designer, model maker, and draughtsperson to a variety of leading designers, both in the UK and in Canada. Phone: +44 7784 355821 Twitter: https://twitter.com/elliott_squire Jason Gray-Stanford BFA Acting, 1992 email: n/a Rachel E Stanners MFA Theatre, 2007 email: ms.stanners@gmail.com Kevin Stark BFA Acting, 2009 Kevin is currently living in Vancouver as a working actor. He just completed The Flu Season at the Dorothy Somerset Theatre and will be touring Becky’s New Car with the Arts Club in January. email: kevostarks@gmail.com Lindsay Steenberg MA Film Studies, 2005 Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema. She has published numerous articles on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science and the forthcoming monograph Are You Not Entertained? Mapping the Gladiator in Visual Culture, for which she was awarded a Research Excellence Fellowship from Oxford Brookes. She has recently begun a new project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Coulthard at the University of British Columbia, to map the fight sequence in post-millennial action cinema. Recently published: "Bruce Lee as Gladiator: Celebrity, Vernacular Stoicism and Cinema" in Global Media and China. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2059436419874625 Twitter: @lsteenberg Adam Stokes BFA, 2004 Adam is currently living in Vancouver. He has been working as Assistant Technical Director at The Roundhouse. Adam has also been persuing stage management and production management in a various productions including: THE BOND (Pound of Flesh), FINAL VIEWING (Radix), and HAMLET (The Shakespeare Project, Savage God). Adam will be taling a hiatius from theatre to teach English in Japan in 2005-2006. email: aj22@shaw.ca Jane Stokes BA Theatre, 1979 Stage-managed until late 1980s. Then worked in healthcare. Now home with the family. email: stoneyjakes@yahoo.ca Isabella St. Clair Bella St Clair is an actor, stunt woman in training, model, songwriter, recording artist, and 2017 graduate of the BFA Acting program. Her debut single, Not for Want of Trying, produced by Sound of Kalima, dropped this summer on all streaming platforms, as did her first collaboration project with artists The Nazz. She plans to release three original songs and a music video by the end of the year, is training for stunts with a world championship fighting coach, and she does it all while she moonlights (and pays the bills) as a podcast host and copywriter for local startup Predictable Revenue. email: thebellastclair@gmail.com Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30ZbEAA Camille Sullivan BFA Acting 1996 email: n/a Rachael Sundin BA Theatre , 2001 email: rachaelsundin@hotmail.com Jonathan Sutton BFA Acting, 1997 I’m in Vancouver finalizing a feature length film called “God’s Baboons”, which I wrote, directed, and produced on digital video. website: www.godsbaboons.com email: jonathansutton@telus.net Ian Tan Film Production, 2019 Ian Tan is an editor who graduated from the Film Production program,UBC Theatre and Film. He began making videos when he was 13-years-old with his neighbours and a camcorder. Drawing much of his influence from coming-of-age films and the science-fiction and fantasy genres, he hopes to create universally relatable stories from a place of honesty and authenticity. He aspires to be a feature film editor and enjoys the collaborative process of storytelling. email: iantan2496@gmail.com Catherine Taylor-Williams BFA Acting, 1994 I am currently an artist/manager at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. I act and teach here as well as work in the Communications Department. email: catherine@shakespeare.org Colin Thomas BA Theatre, 1976 email: colinthomas@telus.net Colin Thomas works as both a theatre critic and playwright. He has been writing about theatre for The Georgia Straight for the past 15 years and has worked as a critic on many programs for CBC radio. The Chalmers Children’s Playwriting Awards have honoured each of his last three plays for young audiences: ONE THOUSAND CRANES; TWO WEEKS, TWICE A YEAR; and FLESH AND BLOOD. All of these scripts are published and productions have received Jessie Awards in Vancouver and Dora Awards in Toronto. Companies across Canada and throughout the United States have mounted Colin Thomas’s works for young people. Prestigious American productions include those at The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and The Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC. Thomas’s work has also been seen in many other countries, including Germany, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Hong Kong, Austria and Australia, and his writing has been translated into French, Japanese, and German. Critics and audiences are equally enthusiastic about SEX IS MY RELIGION, the first play that Thomas has written specifically for adult theatregoers. This play is published by Scirocco Press and Ballet B.C. has based a ballet on the work. The theatrical version of SEX IS MY RELIGION has been mounted in Vancouver, Toronto, Houston, and New York. Thomas story-edited the Juno Award-winning documentary, A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS. He was once a regular contributor to Sesame Street. And he is currently shopping around his screenplay, FAIRY CHRISTMAS. Jillian Thomas BA Theatre, 1998 email: jthomas@crr.ca Sharon Thompson BFA Theatrical Design/Stage Management, 1993 email: sj.thompson@telus.net Michelle Thorne MFA Directing, 2019 Michelle Thorne is an award winning, multi faceted educator and theatre artist originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta. After receiving her BFA in Theatre from the University of Lethbridge in 2007, Thorne worked as a freelance actor, educator, and director throughout Alberta. In 2014 she and fellow theatre artist (and childhood friend) Danna Rae Evasiuk began an independent theatre company named Theatre; Just Because. Theatre; Just Because experienced a monumentally successful debut season of community-minded programming including a basic theatre skills based workshops, a monthly play reading series, a one-act production master class, an after school play production series aimed at junior high aged students, and a high-ticketed fundraising dinner theatre extravaganza in partnership with local non-profit organization, Waypoints. However, the infamous May 2016 wildfire “The Beast” which forced the entire community of Wood Buffalo to evacuate from their homes inspired Thorne to reflect upon her career and future goals, leading her to apply for an MFA Degree in Directing. Thorne will receive her Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of British Columbia in November 2019. Thorne is the current Director and Lead Instructor for the Keyano Theatre Drama Force production; a summer musical theatre intensive program for youth. Selected favourite directing credits include Disney’s Frozen Jr and Bugsy Malone Jr for the Drama Force program, as well as Lion in the Streets, Tuesdays and Sundays, and Great Slave Lake for The University of British Columbia, Steel Magnolias and The Other Side of the Pole for Keyano Theatre Company, and The Awesome 80s Prom, Fanny and Manny Tie the Knot, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox for Theatre; Just Because. Up next Michelle will be Costume Designing for emerging Theatre Company JK JK’s premier production at the BC Culture Days this fall, she will also be assistant Directing Noises Off with the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver in January 202 under Director Scott Bellis, and will be directing The Great Gatsby for Keyano Theatre’s 40th Anniversary Season Spring 2020. Booking Inquiries can be sent to Michelle at michellereneethorne@gmail.com Melissa Tsang BFA Production and Design, Music, 2006, UBC MBA Candidate, 2019, Durham University Producer, Arts Club Theatre Company linkedin.com/in/melissajtsang/ Joe Tschanz Major – Theater, Minor – Film, 2002 I have been directing independent shorts, documentaries & music videos for the last 3 years. email: joetschanz@hotmail.com Kris Tung BA Theatre email: kristung@gmail.com
Doctoral candidate, Theatre History, University of Victoria
"Crime TV's Undercover Halloween," in the Journal of Popular Television.
"The Fall and Television Noir" in Television and New Media.
Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science
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Vicki Van Bergeyk BFA Technical, 2002 email: coralina_silverwolf@hotmail.com Gerald Vanderwoude MFA , 1992 email: sbeckett@interchange.ubc.ca Astrid Varnes BFA Acting, 2005 email: astridv77@yahoo.ca website: www.bitemarkstheatre.com Louise Vergnano Costume Dept. Freddy Wood Theatre, 1970 Living in Charlottetown, PEI where I own an independent bookstore and watch for past theatre friends to pass through our Summer Theatre Festival. email: briancollins@pei.sympatico.ca Jana Veverka MA Directing, 1971 email: jveverka@shaw.ca Following seven years of writing and producing for CBC Radio and Television (including The Beachcombers) I have been working primarily as Showrunner / Producer and Writer on various TV Series and MOW’s including: BLACK STALLION, LONESOME DOVE, CAITLIN’S WAY, AFTER MIDNIGHT, EYES OF A COWBOY and THE AWAKENING. I am currently producing a Documentary Series called THE WEEK THE WOMEN WENT. Tamerrah Volkovskis BFA Design/Tech, 1999 it’s all ron fedoruk’s fault. he showed us how to float a flat in thtr 150 and it all started there. bloody hell. thank you. email: tamerrah@hotmail.com Nik von Schulmann BFA Design/Tech, 1991 email: nik@prpconnect.com Micheal Vonn (Klingspon) BA Theatre, 1985 When I graduated, my name was “Lisa Klingspon” email: mvonn@hotmail.com Lisa Waines BFA Acting, 1992 email: ljwaines@hotmail.com Rebecca Walters BFA Acting, 1992 email: rw_nerka@hotmail.com Sandra Walton BEd, 1978 email: swalton@telus.net Mike Waterman BFA Acting, 2004 email: m_waterman@shaw.ca Jessica Watson BFA Acting, 2004 email: cooljes@hotmail.com Kim Watt BFA Acting, 1983 email: kimwattusa@yahoo.com Mark Weatherley BA Theatre, 1992 email: mwspoon@msn.com Jon Weinberg BA Theatre, 2000 email: weinbergjon@hotmail.com Joshua Weiss BA Theatre, 2000 email: joshuaweiss22@hotmail.com Peter Eliot Weiss BA/MFA, 1993 email: p.weiss@utoronto.ca Douglas Welch MFA Design, 1991 email: doug@d-w-d.com Laura White BFA Acting , 1986 email: mycariad@shaw.ca Sheila White MFA Design, 2002 email: sheilala@shaw.ca Karen Wikberg 5th Year Arts in Theatre, 1976 Worked in theatre for 25 years in various capacities before going to law school. I have been a Crown Counsel since 1999. I have been a playwright since 1988. email: n/a Bryn Williams BFA Acting, 1997 and B.ed, 2000 email: bryn_williams@canada.com Kristine Willing (Lockhart) BEd Theatre Major, 1982 email: miwpromotions@shaw.ca Barbara Wilson BFA Technical Design, 1993 have been working in film and television, as both an Art Director and Assistant Art Director. email: goforbarb@hotmail.com Peter Wilson BFA Acting 1998 I’m in Europe till April 2003 tracking down the elusive bulgarian spider squirrel. email: petwilson@hotmail.com Stefan Winfield BA French, 1987 email: srwinfield@hotmail.com Colleen Winton BA Acting, 1977 Artistic Director of Western Gold Theatre. Director of Queen Lear at Presentation House. Recent credits Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (WCTC) Miss Hannigan in Annie (TUTS) Auntie Em/Glinda in Wizard of Oz (Citadel) Anne in The Black Rider (November Theatre). Upcoming – St.Lawrence Shakespeare Festival. email: colwin@shaw.ca Mary Wiseman BFA Design/Tech, 1998 Working in tv/film since 2000. IATSE/ACFC member in Costumes Dept. And still love to ride my bicycle! email: mjwiseman@shaw.ca Kate Witoszkin BA Technical Theatre, 2004 Living in Abbotsford. Working as Event Coordinator for the Abbotsford International Airshow. email: n/a Richard Wolfe MFA Directing, 1994 RICHARD WOLFE APPOINTED AS PI THEATRE’S NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (Feb. 13, 2008) – The Board of Pi Theatre announces the appointment of Richard Wolfe (Theatre at UBC MFA, Directing Alumnus) as successor to Del Surjik. Mr. Wolfe is the company’s third Artistic Director in its 24 year history. website: www.conspiracy.ca email: rwolfe@conspiracy.ca RICHARD WOLFE APPOINTED AS PI THEATRE’S NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (February 13, 2008) – The Board of Pi Theatre announces the appointment of Richard Wolfe (Theatre at UBC MFA, Directing Alumnus) as successor to Del Surjik. Mr. Wolfe is the company’s third Artistic Director in its 24 year history. Wolfe’s tenure as Artistic Director of Pi will commence this week. “I am very pleased to welcome Richard to Pi. The board is excited by his artistic vision and looks forward to working with him to position the company for our next phase of growth. Del Surjik will be involved in the transition period as AD emeritus until his relocation to Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon this summer” said Shawn Bouchard, President of the Pi Theatre Board of Directors. “Pi has a rich history in Canadian theatre and I’m very excited to have been chosen to lead the organization’s artistic activities at this point in its evolution. Vancouver is fast becoming recognized across the country as a theatre centre of extraordinary quality,” stated Wolfe. “The work produced by those who have chosen to call Vancouver home is as vibrant, passionate, and formidable as any in Canada. I’m excited by Pi’s mandate to engage with dramatists from the French Canadian and international repertoires and I look forward to bringing together local, national and international theatre makers through the ongoing activity of this outstanding company.” Del Surjik, outgoing Artistic Director commented, “I heartily congratulate Richard on his appointment. I have great respect for him as a colleague and for his passion for theatre and he has been a standout component of this community for many years. Artistic renewal is an exciting time in any theatre company’s life and I have great confidence in Richard’s ability to take Pi Theatre forward into a new and vigorous future.” Richard Wolfe is an accomplished award-winning theatre artist who has twelve years of experience as an Artistic Director and who has directed over 50 productions in cities around the country. After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan’s drama program, Wolfe started his professional career working with 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon. After working as an actor, director, dramaturge and producer from Edmonton to Newfoundland, Wolfe came to Vancouver to earn his MFA in directing from UBC. He is a founding member of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, See Seven Performing Arts Society and Theatre Conspiracy. He is also a member of the Lincoln Centre Theatre’s Director’s Lab in New York, the Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas; has participated in the Director’s Project at the Shaw Festival, is the recipient of three Jessie Richardson Award nominations for Outstanding Director and has received the Ray Michal award for Outstanding Body of Work by an Emerging Director. Wolfe is also an educator and has taught at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, the University College of the Fraser Valley and at UBC. Gillian Wolpert BFA Design/Production, 2006 After a brief but exciting stint in Banff I’ll be starting my first season with the Stratford Festival as an Assistant Lighting Designer in 2007. email: design@gillianwolpert.com Johnna Wright BA Theatre , 1987 An actor, director, producer and dramaturg, Johnna spent 9 years as co-Artistic and Managing Director of Solo Collective Theatre. She was also a founding member of Bard on the Beach. Johnna is the recipient of a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Direction (The Triumph of Love, Blackbird Theatre) and of the Ray Michal Award for Outstanding Body of Work by an Emerging Director. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta and is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She now maintains a freelance career out of Saskatoon, where she is a Literary Manager for Persephone Theatre. Johnna returned to UBC in 2007 as a guest director for The Rez Sisters. website: www.johnnawright.com email: johnnawright@shaw.ca Katey Wright BFA Acting, 1987 A Vancouver-based actress and singer, Wright has performed on stages across Canada. Favorite roles to date include The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods (Patrick Street Productions), Viola in Twelfth Night (Bard on the Beach), Claire in Proof (Manitoba Theatre Centre/Citadel Theatre), Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Club Theatre), Constance in She Stoops to Conquer (Grand Theatre/Vancouver Playhouse), and most of all, Amalia in Morris Panych’s production of She Loves Me! (Stanley Theatre), where she met her Dear Friend and husband, actor/singer Peter Jorgensen. email: katey@sfu.ca Naomi Wright BFA Acting, 2002 email: naomiwright@shaw.ca Craig Wrotniak BHK & BEd – Drama/Theatre and Physical Education, 2007 I am a high school drama teacher in the Surrey School District. Currently I am running the drama and theatrical arts program at Sullivan Heights Secondary. email: wrotniak_c@sd36.bc.ca Karl Wylie (Updated Aug. 31 2012) BA, Theatre & English, 1964 MFA Theatre Production [Design & Directing] Univ. of Hawaii; Research Fellow in Drama, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan and University of Waterloo; “Lighting Guy”, Centre In The Square, Kitchener, ON; lighting designer and theatre consultant; currently Stratford Shakespeatre Festival; living in Waterloo, ON. email: kwyliek@gmail.com Jing Xian (Jessica) Yang BA Film Studies and Psychology, 2018 Jessica is a PhD student in the Cinema and Media Studies department at the University of Southern California, where she also received her MA in the same department. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, double majoring in Psychology and Film Studies. She writes regularly for the Canada Media Fund Trade publication and is actively involved as an analyst in the Canadian media environment. Her research interests deal with new media (particularly YouTube), fandom and audience, and industry trends. She loves working in all parts of the film industry, from festivals to market research. In her spare time, Jessica also makes YouTube videos about media analysis and student life. YouTube: still studying, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN93WiKGkpi3lXiBRwUlAOQ CMF Trends: https://trends.cmf-fmc.ca/author/jessica-yang/ email: jessicatardisyang@gmail.com Tien Yen BFA Production and Design, 2004 email: tien.yen@hotmail.com Sophie Yendole BFA Acting, 1996 email: syendole@hotmail.com Norman Yeung BFA Acting , 2000 email: unclemaowantsyou@hotmail.com Norman Yeung’s credits since graduating with B.F.A. in acting include FUGITIVES (Western Theatre Conspiracy), EXIT THE DRAGON (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre), FILTHY RICH (Chutney Productions/Firehall), and YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (Gateway Theatre). He moved to Toronto in 2002 to study film at Ryerson University. In 2004, he performed in fu-GEN Theatre Company’s Potluck Festival of new scripts at Factory Theatre. He is currently writing a play with fu-GEN, which will have a staged reading at Factory Theatre in 2005 as part of the new Potluck event at the Cross Currents Festival. David L. Young B.A. Theatre & History, 1990 Dr. David L. Young is currently teaching Grade Six at Blacklock Fine Arts Elementary School in the Langley School District. He is also a published playwright, theatre director, and was the founder and Artistic Director of the Impulse Theatre Company, as well as Point Blank Players Theatre Company. He is the Canadian ‘State’ Representative for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), as well the editor of one of their primary journals – Stage of the Art (SOTA), and the Organizing Chair of the 2007 AATE conference to be held in Vancouver. Dr. Young has published widely on issues of drama education theory, as well as attending and presenting at numerous conferences throughout North America. He has a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in Arts Education (focusing on drama), Dr. Young also has an M.A.; B.Ed; and B.A. from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Young has taught at UBC, SFU, TRU (formerly UCC Kamloops), University of Phoenix (Vancouver Campus), Aldergrove Community Secondary, D.W. Poppy Secondary, County Line Elementary, and Carousel Theatre. emaill: dly@telus.net Drew Young BA Theatre, 1982 email: brysonyoung@canada.com Victor Young BA Psychology, 1970 email: va.young@rogers.com Raugi Yu BFA Acting email: eyetheplanet_ draconis@hotmail.com Alex Zahara BFA Acting, 1996 email: alexzahara@shaw.ca Alex Zahara has been busy in the Vancouver film and television scene since graduating with a BFA in Acting from UBC. A familiar face to sci-fi fans, he has appeared in numerous genre series, including seven guest spots on STARGATE SG-1 and the SCI FI Channel’s movie, BABYLON 5: LEGEND OF THE RANGERS: TO LIVE AND DIE IN STARLIGHT, portraying Dulann. He has also made guest appearances as Johanssen in James Cameron’s DARK ANGEL (RED, RISING), ANDROMEDA (MUSIC OF A DISTANT DRUM), THE IMMORTAL (FOREST FOR THE TREES), WELCOME TO PARADOX (BLUE CHAMPAGNE), FIRST WAVE (THE PURGE), and the special 100th episode of THE OUTER LIMITS (TRIBUNAL), as SS Lieutenant Karl Rademacher. Zahara has also provided the voice of the lead character, bounty hunter Nick Logan, in 40 episodes of the animated series THE ROSWELL CONSPIRACIES, which aired on the Cartoon Network. Zahara also has an extensive list of films to his credit. After making his debut in THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR with Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif, he went on to earn a Leo Nomination for his performance in the critically-acclaimed short, EVIRATI. Zahara recently appeared opposite Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden in WALKING SHADOW for A&E. Zahara’s theatre resume is also impressive, including winning a Jesse Richardson Award in 1998 for his performance in the play MOJO (Western Theatre Conspiracy). He was also nominated for best actor in 1999 for playing all five male characters in the apocalyptic sci-fi/fantasy play MARISOL (WTC) as well as being nominated in 2000 for his portrayal of a writer looking for his soul in THE PROMISED LAND (Solo Collective). Currently, he can been seen in the movie OPEN RANGE with Kevin Costner and in the recurring role of Ezekiel on the Showtime series, JEREMIAH. Upcoming shows you can see him in include a recurring role in the Stephen King mini-series, KINGDOM HOSPITAL as a policeman, and an episode of COLD SQUAD as a bad comic book shop owner. Claire Zaslove (Brown) MFA Directing 1984 Still retain an apartment in Vancouver, but home base is now Seattle. Spent much of the ’90s playing leading roles at the Bathhouse Theatre. Have been writing plays and, together with Arne Zaslove, raising Max Gabriel (8) and Jessica Rose (2). email: claire.zaslove@aya.yale.edu Andrew Zender BA Theatre, 1998 Working in Vancouver, sadly not acting (yet!) saw the exhibit in Robson square. email: n/a JoAnn Zinzolin BA Theatre, 1990 Submitted: October 24, 2010 I am living in Powell River, B.C. Currently enrolled at Vancouver Island University. Learning to live-living to learn. email: jzinzolin@gmail.com