Carole is the Artistic and Managing Director for one of the city's most vital companies: Carousel Theatre for Young People, which has been turning kids onto the magic of performing arts for 35 seasons. She started her career with a BFA in acting from SFU, and performed across British Columbia before taking the Carousel reins.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Carole Higgins
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This One Goes to Eleven: Jessie van Rijn
I am convinced that to nurture a future audience for theatre - all theatre - we need to get 'em while they're young. In Vancouver, this is where Carousel Theatre comes in. General Manager Jessie came to Carousel via the Chemainus Theatre Festival on Vancouver Island with a BFA in Dramatic Arts from the U… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Jessie van Rijn
This One Goes to Eleven: Stephen Park
If you want to be a good actor you need to be continuously acting. This is the lesson I've learned over the past 4 years from watching Steve Park; as an actor in my ensemble, as a TV/film actor, and as an acting instructor at the Lyric Studios and the Vancouver Film School. Steve is… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Stephen Park
This One Goes to Eleven: Dave Deveau
It's always a pleasure to feature young and determined local playwrights on TOGtE. With a BFA from York and an MFA from UBC, Dave's not just sitting around waiting for someone to stage his work. He created Zee Zee Theatre together with partner Cameron Mackenzie, and they just finished a successful run of his new… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Dave Deveau
This One Goes to Eleven: Emma Luna Davis
Emma is the true picture of Arts Administrator as Rock Star. With a MA in Arts and Media Management in a European Context from the Utrecht School of the Arts and a Theatre BFA from UBC, together with years of Stage Management and Logistics Coordination under her belt, she exemplifies the passion required on the… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Emma Luna Davis
This One Goes to Eleven: Denis Simpson
From his Wikipedia page: Denis is a Canadian actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, songwriter, writer, director, judge and humanitarian. (He is involved in charitable work with Aids organizations, and hosting local events.) The original bass vocalist for The Nylons, he left the band to appear in the Broadway musical Indigo before they became commercially successful. He… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Denis Simpson
This One Goes to Eleven: Greg Bishop
Greg Bishop is a hustler, in the best sense of the word. His company, Eye Heart Productions continues to roll with new and provocative work, and through it he is bound and determined to establish a new model for independent theatre funding, one that relies on business stratagems over the time-honoured grant-driven engine. And in… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Greg Bishop
This One Goes to Eleven: Darien Edgeler
Out in the wild, far reaches of Deep Cove (an epic 8 minute drive from downtown, an invisible accessibility discussed previously on TOGtE) there thrives a burgeoning theatre community grinding away tirelessly throughout the year. It was there that we first met Darien, preparing to be seen in his own work Seasons, directed by Wendy… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Darien Edgeler
This One Goes to Eleven: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Tara is a theatrical force of nature, busy hammering out a viable niche for dance-theatre in Vancouver. She's been dancing since the age of 3, went to ballet school and theatre school, and earned a degree in dance from Simon Fraser University. She worked with Green Thumb Theatre as a dance/actor. She is now the… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
This One Goes to Eleven: Max Reimer
A native Vancouverite, Max returns to the West Coast from a 12-year stint as the Artistic Director of Hamilton's Theatre Aquarius to take on the newly created role of the Playhouse's Artistic Managing Director, a hybrid of two previous administrative tent poles. He will rely on his varied history as a theatre artist - as… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Max Reimer
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: 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
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