To open our year in theatre interviews we are very pleased to present a mainstay of the Vancouver stage industry, and a pillar of our arts community. Jay is a theatre actor/writer/director and also works steadily in the TV/film industry. He could actually be our hardest working man in show business. Jay is directing Jeffrey… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Jay Brazeau
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This one goes to eleven: Victoria Bidewell
Last week I dealt with my post-play post-partum by going to see somebody else's work: In the Boom Boom Room, David Rabe's 1970s risk-taking opus about the wide-eyed, determined young go-go dancer Chrissy. In this roll Victoria owns the Studio 16 stage, and if you missed it, they're holding over December 3, 4 and 5.… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Victoria Bidewell
This one goes to eleven: Peter Birnie
I'm fascinated by our relationship with the critics. When I hear members of the theatre community talk about them, it's always with an amazing degree of passion, one way or the other. Nobody, it seems, is ever indifferent to them. I think it's great, and a good indication that they hold some position of importance… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Peter Birnie
This one goes to eleven: Daniel Arnold
Daniel Arnold is taking this theatre thing seriously. Armed with a BFA from the University of Alberta, where he met his writing/production/stage partner Medina Hahn, he toured the world for seven years with their first play written together: the wonderfully ethereal Tuesdays and Sundays. Off the road and relocated to Vancouver, Daniel has since been… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Daniel Arnold
This one goes to eleven: Rachel Peake
Hailing from Saskatchewan and now residing in Vancouver by way of the Drama Department of the University of Alberta, Rachel has been seriously busy making inroads into our theatre scene. A director/writer/producer/performer, she has worked with companies all over town, including Bard, the Arts Club, Boca del Lupo, Neworld, The Playhouse, Radix, Yorick...the list just… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Rachel Peake
This one goes to eleven: Christina Sicoli
I checked out a Fringe play last year written by my friends Julius and Tosha, a clever little piece called Hands Down about the world of competitive rock, paper, scissors. J and T both acted in it as well, along with a couple of other actors that I'd not yet met. They were both great,… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Christina Sicoli
This one goes to eleven: Diane Brown
Ruby Slippers Theatre illuminates social hypocrisy and sexual stereotypes through humour and theatrical innovation. Smart social satire is our forte, and we are leaders of this genre in our community. As Ruby Slippers heads into it's 20 anniversary season, we check in with Artistic Director Diane Brown, a long-time visionary in the Vancouver theatre community.… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Diane Brown
This one goes to eleven: Jo Ledingham
Next up in a series of interviews with Vancouver theatre critics is Jo Ledingham, who has been consistently reporting on our theatre scene at the Courier for quite some time. Once, years ago, I was putting up a couple of my original plays for their first run and, stupidly, hadn't bothered to invite any of… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Jo Ledingham
This one goes to eleven: Paul Armstrong
Ladies and gentlemen, a man who needs no introduction to a very large hunk of Vancouver: Mr. Paul Armstrong, Producer-at-large. An omnipresent entity throughout our independent arts scene, Paul glides between the worlds of film, music and theatre with seemingly no friction. His indie-film showcase The Celluloid Social Club has been running monthly since 1997,… Continue reading This one goes to eleven: Paul Armstrong
This One Goes to Eleven: Sebastien Archibald
Sebastien is a playwright/actor/director straight outta the theatre program at UVic, and is spinning his BA in theatre into his own company; ITSAZOO, where he resides as one of their four artistic directors. His well-received play Grimm Tales, a site-specific contemporizing of the works of the Brothers Grimm, is running in Victoria now and hits… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Sebastien Archibald
This One Goes to Eleven: Andrew Templeton
Andrew is a man on a mission. A mission similar to mine, actually, he is a theatre artist who thinks that he needs to do more than just make plays to increase the visibility and popularity of our art form. A Jessie-nominated playwright (for outstanding original script for Portia, My Love), who has seen his… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Andrew Templeton
This One Goes to Eleven: Christine Willes
Christine has been a professional actor since 1976, and now holds the positions of Department Head and Artistic Director at the William Davis Centre for Actors Study (which recently merged with Vanarts, Vancouver's institute of media arts). She has just started work on her next directorial effort: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, a contemporizing of several of… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Christine Willes
This One Goes to Eleven: Stephen Drover
Oy. To do Stephen's intro any kind of justice could turn this into a very long heading. In the interest of getting you to the interview portion faster, I will default to the trusty bullet-pointed list: Stephen holds a BFA in acting from Memorial University's Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Newfoundland, was an Associate Director… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Stephen Drover
This One Goes to Eleven: Peter Boychuk
Meet Peter Boychuk: Man of Many Hats. A young published playwright with a number of regional awards under his belt already, a Studio 58-trained actor who has performed on stages across Canada, and by turns director and dramaturg of mainly new works. And for his day job: arts administrator. Peter is the Director of Communications… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Peter Boychuk
This One Goes to Eleven: Laura Efron
The key to the success of our industry, in my opinion, is dedicated and impassioned arts administrators. Laura has been a soldier in that cause for years now, and I'm thrilled to welcome her to TOGtE. She has worked with many Vancouver arts orgs, among them See Seven, the Jessie Richardson Awards Society, Pacific Theatre… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Laura Efron
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