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Talent Bank : Q - T

posted by TBCAdmin on 4 June 2011 - 3:34pm

Theatre BC's Talent Bank

Q / R / S / T

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	Russell J. Roberts: Russell is an actor, director and teacher whose training includes the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England. He has numerous TV (Highlander, MacGyver, SCTV, The Commish...), film ( The Sea Wolf, Ernest Rides Again....) and stage roles to his credit (Lt.Brannigan, Guys & Dolls-Charlottetown Festival; John, Oleanna and Oberon, Midsummer Night's Dream-Western Canada Theatre; Willy, Fallen Angels-Vancouver Playhouse; Ghost/Play King,Hamlet-The Globe Theatre, Giles, Mousetrap-Manitoba Theatre and various roles, Under Milkwood-Theatre Calgary.....to name a few). Russell has taught stage fighting, vocal production, scene study and monologues at The Globe Shakespeare Theatre in Los Angeles, as a faculty member of the Charlottetown Festival Young Company & School and throughout BC. Theatre BC: Russell has worked as a theatre consultant for Theatre BC in the early 1990's and instructed Scene Study and Stage Fighting workshops at Backstage.
	Ted Roberts: Ted started his career in Theatre working in production with Gateway Players, Saskatoon (Dominion Drama Festival Finals, Windsor 1968). He completed a BFA in theatre design at the University of Alberta. He taught theatre design and production at the University of Saskatchewan. He has designed for many theatres across Canada : Neptune - Halifax, Centaur- Montreal, Canadian Stage-Toronto, Persephone- Saskatoon, Theatre Calgary; and for the past 25+ years he has been the resident designer at Vancouver Arts Club Theatre. Recent designs at the Arts Club include the premier of PARADISE GARDEN, BLACK COMEDY, LES MISERABLE, and the touring production of SALTWATER MOON. Ted is the recipient of 6 Vancouver Jessie Awards for outstanding design, and a member of Associated Designers of Canada. Theatre BC: Ted served as Adjudicator-Technical for the MAINSTAGE 2009 Festival in Maple Ridge and Zone Festival Adjudicator for the Fraser Valley Zone in 2010.
	Alix Rodriguez: Alix has painted her way across Canada and finally made it to Vancouver. She has been working at the Vancouver Playhouse ever since. She strongly encourages designers and directors to explore the world of paint as a great way to create mood, atmosphere and environment. Theatre BC: Alix instructed a course in Scenic Painting at Mainstage 2000 in Delta.
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	Sherri Sadler : Sherri has been associated with Studio 58 for over a decade, where she is the Publicist and Office Manager. Other freelance contracts have included the 1995 and 1996 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, the New Playwrights Festival, the Vancouver Opera and the Vancouver Symphony. Before entering the hallowed halls of Langara College she was the Development Director for Carousel Theatre, a Front-of-House Coordinator for six on-site theatres at Expo '86 and House Manager for the Surrey Arts Centre. Sherri originally hails from Seattle, Washington and is a graduate of Western Washington University in Bellingham with a degree in Arts Administration. Theatre BC: Sherri has given a number of Specialty Workshops in Publicity. She has also been involved with the New Play Festival in past years.
	Elie Savoie: Elie has been involved in the dramatic arts for over 60 years. Starting in community theatre he's acted, directed, designed sets and lighting for groups all across Canada, including Vagabond Players, Metro Theatre and The Arts Club (Vancouver), Presentation House (North Vancouver), Richmond Musical Theatre, North Kamloops Theatre Wing, Vernon Little Theatre, Prince George Playhouse, Regina Little Theatre and La Troupe Molire. His on-air career started as a TV weather man in Kamloops where he went on to produce and host a children's TV show and an interview series. This led to jobs at BCTV (now Global Television) and CBC Television as production assistant, studio camera operator, producer-director, program director and director of television. He worked on the development of the west coast series "The Beachcombers", directed 34 episodes, and ended up as Executive Producer of the series. He retired from the CBC after 30 years after serving as Program Director in Regina, Director of Television at CBC Windsor, Program Director & Program Development Manager at CBC Vancouver. As an instructor, Elie has conducted acting and/or directing workshops all around BC. He did several classes on directing for television at the CBC Toronto training centre, conducted acting for film and television workshops for Canada Manpower at Vancouver City College (Studio 58) and for the Ramona Beauchamp Talent Agency. He also served as instructor of film and television performance, and television business at Capilano College for 5 years. Elie produced and adapted a version of The Wizard of Oz for a Barbershop Harmony production, which was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1991.
	Philip Schulze : Philip is an award-winning designer. He has worked with all of the major theatre companies in the Lower Mainland and holds certificates in rigging, woodworking, First Aid, pyrotechnics, and fireworks. His work in Hotel Sorrento earned him the Best Lighting Design award from the Community Theatre Coalition. Other notable works include Herbal Bed and Nootka 2000. Philip has served as Technical Theatre Instructor/ Designer with the Vancouver School Board Artist in Residence program. Philip was the Technical Director for the Canadian Badlands Passion Play 10th anniversary, summer 2003. He is currently the Lighting Designer and Technical coordinator for Spread the Word Theatre Ministries "Sunong" Canadian National Tour. Theatre BC: Philip led a workshop on Lighting and Sets for the Central Interior Zone AGM in Oct/03. He also instructed Bargain Basics of Lighting at Backstage 2000 and Lighting Design at Backstage 2004
	Kathryn Shaw : Kathryn began teaching at Studio 58, the Professional Theatre Training Program at Langara College, in 1974, and has been the Artistic Director since 1985. She received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from Whitman College and an M.F.A in acting from Columbia University's School of Arts. For the past 30 years, Kathryn has directed for theatres across Canada and has taught acting for professional and community groups in British Columbia, Winnipeg and Halifax and has been a guest instructor at the National Theatre School in Montreal. Some of her directing work includes Trelawny of the Wells for Studio 58, The Great Depression by Joan MacLeod, which was part of Obsession, a co-prooduction with Studio 58 and Green Thumb Theatre and The Weir for Western Canada Theatre and the Belfry Theatre.Other credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream for Studio 58, The Bachelor Brothers On Tour for the Vancouver Playhouse , Skylight for the Belfry Theatre and The Glass Menagerie, Death Of A Salesman, The Front Page and Cyrano de Bergerac for the Gateway Theatre. Kathryn also co-wrote and performed in the Angry Actors' 1997 Vancouver Fringe Festival hit, Famous Dead Stories We Just Made Up. Theatre BC: Kathryn was the adjudicator for Mainstage '90 in Chilliwack and Mainstage 2004 in Kamloops, and has also participated as a Scene Development Director.
	Howard Siegel : Howard is a professional actor and director with 25 years experience appearing at regional theatres from across Canada. Vancouver audiences will remember his performances in The Wild Guys, The Puppetmaster of Lodz, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dads in Bondage, and Cyberteens in Love. Howard received a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award. Directing credits include Jericho Pier at Performance Works, Dads in Bondage at the Arts Club, and The Long Weekend for Sunshine Theatre in Kelowna. Howard was the Associate Director at Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary, and along with his partners at Big House Productions, he produced Men's Fest, Vancouver's festival of new plays about the changing role of men in the '90's. He has also appeared in feature films, television series, numerous commercials and radio drama. An accomplished instructor, Howard enjoys working with community theatre. Theatre BC: Howard has served as a touring Theatre Consultant in the Okanagan Zone and the Skeena Zone. He served as juror for two Canadian Annual Playwriting Competitions and also participated in the New Play Workshops as both a Reader and a Dramaturge in the Finalists' Round Tables, and as a Regional Workshop instructor. For Theatre BC, Howard has served as an Adjudicator for several Zones including the Fraser Valley, Central Interior, Yukon and Vancouver Zone Festivals .
	Annie Smith Annie Smith has been involved in community theatre for most of her life as an actor, playwright, dramaturge and director. Professionally, she was the Artistic Director of Trickster's Theatre, A First Nations touring theatre troupe. Annie holds a PhD in Education from UBC and an MA in Drama from the University of Alberta. She has taught theatre at UBC, Thompson Rivers University, North Island College, U of A, and is currently an instructor at Grande Prairie Regional College. Her most recent directing credits are : Unity(1918) (2008) , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2009), Burning Visions (2009), Sonny's Song (2010), And Up They Flew (2010), Blood Relations (2011). Annie's areas of expertise include improvisation, collective creation, script writing, ensemble acting, directing, character development, script analysis, physical theatre, voice, and new play development. Theatre BC: Annie has worked with Theatre BC as both a Zone Festival adjudicator and a juror for the Canadian National Playwriting Competition. Donna Spencer Donna Spencer is currently the Artistic Producer of the Firehall Arts Centre and was one of the Firehall’s founding directors. Her many theatre directorial credits include Stuff Happens, the hit, Urinetown The Musical, Einstein’s Gift, Golden Child, An Enemy of the People, Respectable, Menopositive The Musical!, The Yoko Ono Project, Wawatay, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, Reading Hebron, Counter Offence, The Stone Angel, Mom Dad I’m Living With a White Girl, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, fareWel, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and many others. Spencer has directed over eighty professional theatre productions, has collaboratively created three plays – Walking the Tightrope, Mainstream and Opening Doors and undertook the contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People for the Firehall. She has taught scene study and theatre production classes and provided dramaturgical input into many of the original productions that the Firehall has produced. She is an advocate for inclusivity in the performing arts and created one of Canada’s first culturally diverse theatre production programs at the Firehall in 1985. She is the winner of the Jessie Richardson Outstanding Direction Award for Urinetown, the Musical and for Reading Hebron and is the recipient of a Jessie Richardson Award for Multicultural Innovation in the Theatre and the City of Vancouver’s 1999 Cultural Harmony Award. She was most recently honored by the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame, has received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Arts And Culture category, the 2003 Explorasian Heritage Award for Community Building and the 2003 Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance Career Achievement Award. Ms. Spencer is, also, the Producer of the annual Dancing on the Edge Festival of Contemporary Dance, was the founding Chairperson of the Alliance for Arts and Culture, is past President of the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres for twelve years and the CanDance Network for four years. Ms. Spencer sat on the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation Board from 2000-2006, the B.C. Arts Board from 1992-1995 and was instrumental in recommending the creation of the B.C. Arts Council.
	Raimund Stamm : A graduate of Studio 58, Raimund Stamm has made a living as a professional actor for almost 20 years. He has a long list of credits in film, television and radio. He has appeared on stage with most of the province's larger theatre companies including the Arts Club, Gateway Theatre, Green Thumb, The Vancouver Playhouse, Shakespeare Plus (now TheatreOne) and Western Canada Theatre.When not performing he has taught acting , written sketch comedy and worked as a stage manager. As well as being a professionally trained actor, Raimund is also a highly qualified and experienced teacher. A member of the BC College of Teachers, he also has a Master's Degree in Adult Education. He currently offers theatre workshops and adjudication services through STAGES Educational Consulting. Theatre BC: Raimund has worked with Theatre BC extensively in recent years, including as a Workshop Instructor in the Zones and at both Backstage and Mainstage. He has also adjudicated numerous Zone Festivals.
	Scott Swan : Seacoast Studios Director: Scott Swan has been a theatre director and teacher for over thirty years and has won numerous awards for his work. He was the Founding Artistic Director of Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton and the Artistic Director of Festival Lennoxville in Quebec. He has directed at most of the major regional theatres in Canada including The National Arts Centre, The Shaw Festival, The Vancouver Playhouse, and Bard on the Beach. He also has been asked to direct at Stratford and has had two shows optioned for Broadway. He has served as a National Radio Drama Producer for C.B.C., acted in a number of plays films, and television productions and written for the stage and television. As an instructor, Scott was the Director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre School from 1987- 1991 has taught at the University of Alberta, U.B.C. and The Banff Centre, as well as Douglas and Kwantlen Colleges. He has served as the Director and Head Teacher of his own acting Studio, Seacoast Studios, for the last twelve years. Former Students work professionally in theatre and film in both Canada and the U.S., and students who he has trained have been accepted to some of the most highly acclaimed theatre schools and university theatre programs around the world. As Founding Artistic Director for the Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts here in West Vancouver and the Director of the Centre's Performing Arts School, Scott was, until his departure, responsible for envisioning and overseeing the Artistic and Educational components of the Centre. Scott has made his home in West Vancouver for twenty years, and lives with his wife, Cheryl, and his two daughters Ariel and Serinda. Theatre BC: Scott led a Directing workshop at the Backstage AGM Conference in 2004
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	Michael Taugher : Michael received his B.F.A.,at the University of Calgary. He has been Stagecraft instructor with over 10 years experience as technical director at the University of Calgary, and has extensive experience as a freelance lighting designer and technical director for Chemainus Dinner Theatre, the Port Theatre and also Theatre One in Nanaimo. He is currently stagecrafts instructor in Theatre Arts at Malaspina University in Nanaimo BC. Theatre BC: Michael was a Special Course Leader at Mainstage'99 in Nanaimo, teaching Lighting and Stage Design.
	Charles Tidler : Born in Ohio, Charles grew up in Indiana where he studied literature and philosophy at Purdue. He has lived and been writing in Canada for over 30 years. Charles is a poet and a dramatist with 40 scripts professionally produced. His jazz-inspired, companion one-acts Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers were hits in Toronto, the Edinburgh Festival, London's West End, and they have won many awards. Subsequent stage plays include The Farewell Heart, The Butcher's Apron, and the controversial academic satire The Sex Change Artist. A jazz play about Jack Kerouac for three actors and a trio of musicians, Fabulous Yellow Roman Candle, had its premiere at Toronto's Downtown Jazz Festival in 1993. Red Mango was a critical and box office hit in its premiere at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria. Charles teaches playwriting and has conducted playwriting workshops for 20 years. He was for six years a visiting playwright at the University of Victoria and two years an associate dramaturge at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has been associated with the Belfry Theatre as a dramaturge and workshop director for over 15 years. Theatre BC: Charles served as juror for the 16th Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
	Judy Treloar: Judy has been a drama educator and acting and speech teacher for many years. She taught at GlenLyon Norfolk School in Victoria, BC for the last 14 years where she directed many productions and prepared students for speech and drama festivals and International Speaking Competitions. She also taught the International Baccalaureate programme there for many years. Judy has been involved in community theatre in Victoria for many years and especially with the Victoria Theatre Guild at Langham Court Theatre. She also has extensive experience adjudicating and leading Directing Workshops.
	Shirley Jean Tucker: Shirley Jean Tucker is a multitalented, Canadian playwright, designer and fine arts teacher. Her writing is inspired by Canadian history. Since 2000, she has written, directed/designed: Ratz And Alma: The Rattenbury Intrigue; The Queen Of The Shuswap; Your loving, kind and true, Jack Boy; Hey Nurse! I've Gotta Pee; Sowing Seeds In Danny, a musical adaptation of the Nellie McLung novel; Annie's Solitude; The Supper Waltz; Morning Is Wiser Than Evening; When I Was A Girl; Nadia Stalin's Last Supper. Her first non fiction, The Amazing Foot Race of 1921, will be published by Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd, April 2011. Shirley Jean is experienced in doing, playwriting, directing, set and costume design and graphic development workshops.

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