I first caught Torrance onstage last year in Bard on the Beach's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead which, being one of my all-time favourite plays, I was nervously hoping they weren't going to screw up. They didn't, not by a long shot. They took a difficult play and made it look easy, top… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Torrance Coombs
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This One Goes to Eleven: Brad Lepp
"My dear Minerva, It was not the best of times, it was not the worst of times, it was Ottawa." On June 9th of this year, at 7:45 pm, Kristian Bruun as Frank Dickens (son of Charles), launched the first of forty cross-country performances of his play Dickens of the Mounted with this line. Beginning… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Brad Lepp
This One Goes to Eleven: David Jordan
In taking on the unenviable position of Vancouver Fringe Executive Director, David not only managed to put together an outstanding festival in the face of a venue-disrupting civic strike, but he also weathered a shit-storm of controversy about the Fringe's decision to try out a new idea to raise awareness and pay down its debt.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: David Jordan
This One Goes to Eleven: Medina Hahn
Sherman, set the WABAC machine for the University of Alberta in the year 2000. Here we find one Medina Hahn, young, ambitious, and industrious. Looking for a way to showcase her studied talents post-ed, she and fellow student/pal Daniel Arnold figure hey, maybe we should sit down and write something for ourselves. Novel idea, that.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Medina Hahn
This One Goes to Eleven: Rhonda Dent
Rhonda has been a TV/film actor here for over a decade and decided 3 years ago to roll up her sleeves and start producing independent theatre with a vengeance. Most recently she produced and performed in Spanish Girl at the Havana. Somewhere in her busy schedule she finds time to be a freelance photographer. 1.)… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Rhonda Dent
This One Goes to Eleven: Ellie O’Day
Vancouver indie theatre, allow me to introduce you to Ellie O'Day, super-publicist. The reason you want to keep making money is so that you can one day hire her so you can work less and make lots 'n lots more money. She began her career here in the '70s as Western Canada's first female rock… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ellie O’Day
This One Goes to Eleven: David Benedict Brown
David finished theatre studies at Douglas College and kept his education rolling by forming Enlightenment Theatre, which launched with Collage: Homage to Kurt Schwitters at Studio 16 in December 2006. Their second effort, Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline, just wrapped at the waterfront theatre, which David produced, acted in, and provided lighting design. He was… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: David Benedict Brown
This One Goes to Eleven: Ryan Crocker
Ryan has the distinction of being the first theatre artist I ever met in Vancouver, back when we were both toiling away in the same crappy hotel, except that he would start the graveyard shift just as I was leaving my bar shift, and he'd finish as the sun was coming up, to spend the… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ryan Crocker
This One Goes to Eleven: Raul Sanchez Inglis
Raul began his career as an actor, and now writes prolifically for stage and screen. He christened the theatre at the Beaumont Studios with his brutally thrilling play In the Eyes of God, which has been recently published by Talon Books. He has directed all of his own plays, which also include For What We… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Raul Sanchez Inglis
This One Goes to Eleven: Lori Triolo
When I get whiny over how busy I am with my theatre career, I just have to think about Lori to put things back in perspective. A native New Yorker who transplanted herself with her husband to Vancouver some 15-odd years ago, she is the Artistic Director of the Beaumont Playhouse and its resident stage… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Lori Triolo
This One Goes to Eleven: Michèle Lonsdale Smith
Michèle graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in the late '80s. Since then she has devoted herself to her craft in every aspect of its forms, as actor, teacher, director, writer, and producer. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Lyric School of Acting and Lyric Stage Project, with whom she just finished… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Michèle Lonsdale Smith
This One Goes to Eleven: Ian MacKenzie
Welcome to the inaugural edition of a continuing series on The Next Stage. When I started this blog back in March my intention was to offer a glimpse behind the curtain of a neophyte theatre company mounting its first production, a chronicle of our formative period to hopefully drum up some interest and inspire conversation… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ian MacKenzie
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