Sally is an award-winning playwright and teacher-director of theatre with, by and for young people and a performer who loves to clown. She is completing a graduate degree in writing at the University of Victoria with master playwright Joan MacLeod. Hers is a strong local voice, and a proud addition to the interview series. 1.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Sally Stubbs
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This One Goes to Eleven: Anna Cummer
Anna is the very model of the modern Vancouver working actress. Born in Singapore and raised between Southeast Asia and Saskatoon, she graduated high school in Hong Kong and went on to earn two theatre degrees in England. She now lives and works tirelessly here in Vancouver in TV, film and theatre. On stage she… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Anna Cummer
This One Goes to Eleven: Jennifer Copping
Jennifer has been gracing stages and screens all over North America for years, and has recently found a passion for the director's seat. Most recently she has crafted performances for Paige 18 and HeadKase Production's In the Boom Boom Room, and before that she co-directed the Canadian premiere of Stiff Cuffs at the Beaumont and… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Jennifer Copping
This One Goes to Eleven: Ben Ratner
Local actor Ben Ratner also happens to be local writer/director/acting teacher Ben Ratner. His face is well known to Vancouverites from his co-starring role on DaVinci's City Hall and from the many locally produced indie films he's been involved with, notably his Leo Award-winning turn in Mount Pleasant and his own Moving Malcolm, which he… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ben Ratner
This one goes to eleven: Spectral Theatre Society
I wish a stage company like the Spectral Theatre Society on every city. Operating from their theatrical lair deep in the heart of the Downtown East Side, these guys wear their love for genre fiction on their sleeve, and produce consistent, well branded work. You always know the experience in store for you at a… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Spectral Theatre Society
This one goes to eleven: Lois Dawson
Continuing our TOGtE Stage Manager series, we are proud to present you with Ms. Lois Dawson: professional SM, theatre buff and all around social media socialite. You can read about her consistently updated love for the stage at her own blog here, and have a #theatre conversation with her most times of the day here.… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Lois Dawson
This one goes to Eleven: Cameron Mackenzie
Cameron's Stage resume runs the gamut from set and props design to director to clown to actor to drag queen...and back to director. He is the Artistic Director of the newly inaugurated Zee Zee Theatre which just launched with Cameron's passion project Whale Riding Weather at the PAL. After having seen the production myself all… Continue reading This one goes to Eleven: Cameron Mackenzie
This one goes to eleven: Bill Marchant
Actor, Educator, Playwright, Poet, Songwriter...components of the sum of the Artist. Bill is the head of the acting department of the Vancouver Film School, and the premiere run of his new play Ashes just ended at the Firehall. It received the first honest standing ovation I have given a play in a long time. His… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Bill Marchant
This one goes to eleven: Heidi Taylor
I met Heidi for the first time a short while ago while she was in rehearsal for the play she just finished directing, and was immediately struck by her passion and directness on the topic of our independent theatre scene. She's completely immersed in it, as an actor, a director and as a Dramaturg; Heidi… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Heidi Taylor
This one goes to eleven: Jill Perry
The Stage Manager: long the un-sung hero of the theatre. And it's time someone did some singing. Technical expertise, a will to get everything little thing perfect every single night, a precise eye for detail and the patience of Job are the requirements for this position, and we couldn't live without them. We have a… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Jill Perry
This one goes to Eleven: Craig Hall
If you were to put a face to the future of Vancouver independent theatre, it might look a bit like Craig Hall's. Young, energized, overworked and perhaps spread a little thin...this is the price of being a trailblazer. He wears big hats on both sides of the playing field; as an artist and an administrator.… Continue reading This one goes to Eleven: Craig Hall
This one goes to eleven: Richard Wolfe
Richard Wolfe is an architect of the Canadian theatre scene in the truest sense, much of the work we are doing now is being built on a foundation of effort that he has been putting in for quite some time. He recently assumed the role of Artistic Director of Pi Theatre after 12 years as… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Richard Wolfe
This one goes to eleven: Ryan Mooney
Ryan is the Artistic Director of Fighting Chance Productions, a young and prolific company whose consistent body of work has already drawn a great deal of positive attention. They were all over the news in November when their mounting of The Laramie Project caused a bit of a stir. And their previous work; The Musical… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Ryan Mooney
This one goes to eleven: Amiel Gladstone
Amiel Gladstone: Playwright, Director, Blogger (he has one of the best titles for a blog ever), he works all over BC from Victoria (a co-founder of Theatre SKAM) to Vancouver to the Okanagan. His numerous plays include Hippies and Bolsheviks and My Three Sisters, a Chekhov adaptation. Amiel is truly tireless in his efforts to… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Amiel Gladstone
This one goes to eleven: Bob Frazer
Meet Vancouver's Bob Frazer. (There, we lay claim to him. It's official now because it's on the internet.) Born in Ontario but raised in the Okanagan, Bob has become a bit of a Golden Boy of our stages here. I love his simple bio from the program for his current production of Skydive, onstage now… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Bob Frazer
Simon Ogden 