Alumni List

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:

https://vimeo.com/80660408

https://youtu.be/brA1C5eULgk

https://vimeo.com/312709627

https://vimeo.com/286076101

https://vimeo.com/369791712

https://youtu.be/duPq2u2nJW4

https://youtu.be/sJNjF65tBF4

https://youtu.be/hWZo0KppR6c

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

  1. 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.

www.stirlingbancroft.com

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.

sarah.reid.clarke@gmail.com

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:

Shots

Nowness 

Vogue Italia

Director's Notes

Billboard | MVP

Booooooom | To You Alone

Mâché

You Wanted A List | Interview

Boooooom | Conclicted/Restricted

Complex | MVP

Exclaim | Conflicted/Restricted

Booooooom | Laura Lémerveil

Vancouver Sun | MVP

Exclaim | Nothing

Shots | The Journey

Ads of the World  | Flirting with Death

Pellicola Magazine | Interview

Preset Factory | Interview

In a Foreign Land | Interview

Canal 14 | TV Spotlight

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

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

  1. Music (Voice Performance), 1993

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

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.

www.katjayme.com

www.findingbigcountry.com

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
Twitter: @ramihkatz
Instagram: @katzigensky
email: ramihkatz@gmail.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
instagram: @andrewlynchstagram
email: Andrew.james.lynch@gmail.com

Allan Lysell

BA Acting, 1970

email: lysella@groupwise.douglas.ca

Gerry Mackay

MFA Directing, 2004

email: ozmac@shaw.ca

A. 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

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 UnconditionallyUnfamiliar, 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
Doctoral candidate, Theatre History, University of Victoria

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

www.elliottsquire.com

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 BrookesShe 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
"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

http://www.routledge.com/

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
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @thebellastclair

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

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

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