DonaldAdams:

Donald began his theatrical career over twenty years ago in Vancouver. He attended the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School and was a

member of the Playhouse acting company for two seasons. In 1982 he moved to Toronto and

appeared with Second City, Stratford

Festival, Canadian Stage, and Tarragon Theatre. Since returning to Vancouver in 1996

he has appeared with the Arts Club in “The

Three Penny Opera” and “Hamlet”, Bard On the Beach in “As You Like It”and

“Richard III”, Touchstone

Theatrein “It’s All True” and “Cherry Docs”and

the Playhouse Theatre in “Patience”. Some film and TV credits include

“Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy”, H-E- Double

Hockey Sticks”, “Loyal Opposition”, “Double Exposure”,

“Millennium”, and “Titanic” (the mini-series). Don’s

teaching credits include improv workshops at the Stratford Festival, Tarragon, Waterloo

University, Wilfred Laurier University and Centre In The Square.

Patti Allan:

Patti Allan is one Vancouver’s best known actors with a careerthat spans film, television and theatre. A graduate of the Simon Fraser Centre for the

Arts, she is a “many time” Jessie nominee, and 4 time recipient of Jessie Awards

for her roles in Theatre in Vancouver. Patti has appeared in film, T.V. and theatre

productions, locally and across the country. Her theatre credits include: Lend Me a

Tenor (Richmond Gateway), It’s Snowing on Saltspring, Arsenic and Old Lace,

Hamlet, Imaginary Invalid (Arts Club),

Asylum of the Universe (neworld theatre company), Rare Earth Arias (Urban

Ink), Cymbeline (Bard On the Beach),The

Music Man, 3 Tall Women, The Heiress, A Perfect Ganesh (T he

Vancouver Playhouse). Her film and T.V. credits include: Romeo, Reefer Madness,

Kat Plus One, Cooking Lessons, Huff, Goodboy, Dead Like Me,

DaVinci’s Inquest, Dead Zone, Cold Squad and numerous movies of the

week. Patti is committed to theatre with young people, and has directed theatre at the

Vancouver Youth Theatre, the Arts Club‘s Summer

Musical Theatre Intensive for Teens, and at numerous schools throughout the lower

mainland. She has adjudicated many theatre festivals for young people and is also a

theatre artist in residence for the Vancouver School Board. Patti also sings with the

Swing Sisters, a swing/jazz girl group that performs in and around Vancouver.

For Theatre BC: She served as Kootenay Zone Festival Adjudicator in 1983.

Bart Anderson:

Bart received his acting training at Ryerson TheatreSchool, the BanffSchool of Fine Arts and at Gastown Actors’ Studio

Ltd. Bart’s professional theatre credits include work for the Shaw Festival, Skylight Kawartha Summer Theatre and the

Michael Armstrong:

Michael Armstrong has been acting, directing andwriting for the theatre in British Columbia for 35 years. He also has experience with

stage management, set design, lighting and sound, and has worked with community theatre

companies around the province. He has been a member of Theatre BC for most of the past 25

years. He has taught acting for teens and adults privately and in the school system for

the past ten years. He is a published poet and playwright, alumnus of the Banff playRites

Colony, and past president of the Federation of BC Writers. He has a BA in English

Literature and BC Teaching Certificate. Recent teaching credits also include a brief stint

at York University teaching Theatre History. Michael has taught workshops for community

theatre and schools in acting, writing, directing, and improvisation. His play, In

Their Nightgowns, Dancing, was published in 2005 by UNBC Press. Recently, he has also

released a CD of spoken word and jazz, Crow Songs, with the jazz ensemble, Vinyl

Groove. Professional acting credits include McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Nest, Ben Weatherstaff in The Secret Garden, and Pseudolus in A Funny

Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Professional directing credits include dinner

theatre, touring productions, and musicals such as Cabaret and Jesus Christ

Superstar.

He has extensive experience with young actors and community players and is available to

work all over the province directing, teaching workshops and offering dramaturgy sessions

for plays in rehearsal or

production.

Mel Austin-Tuck:

Mercedes Baines:

Mercedes Baines is a professional independent theatre artist who has been teaching acting andwriting for 16 years. She is a graduate from the School for the Contemporary Arts (Simon

Fraser University). Mercedes’ one person show Love Bites received a Jessie

nomination for best play and was performed at the Firehall Arts Centre, Bar None,

Chivana’s and in Toronto at Theatre

Passe Muraille. She was recently seen in the summer hit boca del lupo’s Lagoon of

Lost Talesas Pearl. Her Poetry is published in 6 anthologies, most recently short

fuse and Bluesprint. Her directing credits include: Plum and Other Colours (Bella

Luna Productions), Finding My Way – a tale in taps. (Step in Time/Banff Centre

for the Arts), Persephone and the Pomegranate (Public Dreams Society) Marking

Time (Wild Horse Productions), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Arts Club Theatre)

as well as collaborating on many projects with her students. She has taught or facilitated

workshops at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Youth Theatre, Theatrix, Gastown Actors’ Studio Ltd,

Theatre B.C., Headlines Theatre, The Vancouver School Board, the Carnegie Centre and co

runs a family history storytelling program in elementary schools called the Reclaiming

Project. She is the co – artistic director of La Luna Productions.

Theatre BC:

Mercedes led a workshop entitled Writing on the Run at Backstage/02.

Gillian Barber:

Gillian studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Dramain England and is a busy working actor in Vancouver. Movie credits include: Alice inWonderland (1955), rainbow war (1985), Short Time (1990), Needful

Things (1993), Jumanji (1995), Millenium Monster (1997), Double

Jeopardy (1999), The 6^th Day (2000), The Sports Pages (2001),

Bang, Bang You’re Dead (2002) She has also appeared in many television series:

The X-Files: The Red Museum, Gillian of The Spirits (1996), Stargate SC-1

Season 7 (2003) . Gillian has performed in more than 50 productions with the Arts Club and Vancouver Playhouse theatre companies.

She choreographs professionally and directed Jerry’s Girls, You’re a Good

Man, Charlie Brownat Capilano College, Cinderella and Anything Goes.

She is currently on staff at the Capilano College Theatre department teaching musical

theatre.

Linda Beaven

My love affair with theatre began in the early 50s when myparents took us to Brigadoon at Theatre

Under The Stars.Being a product of the education of that era, I was in the

“Academic” program – no time for the arts with all those science courses and

drama was not even offered after grade eight. Luckily I grew up in Vernon and saw amazing

productions by the Powerhouse

Theatrewhich kept my interest alive. Knowing something was missing after graduation,

I attended college in Bellingham where I took all the arts courses I could fit into my

schedule. I won the lead in Reynard and that event changed my life. Realizing I

would never be an actress, I switched into education, majoring in theatre and English. I

have been teaching theatre classes since 1970 and retired this year. In 1988, I returned

to Bellingham and received an M.A. in theatre. I was mentored by talented and eccentric

professors who inspired me to work I never thought possible. In thirty seven years of

teaching, I think I have directed over four hundred plays and can not think how many plays

I have seen in my life. I am most proud of two things; being on the Youthwrite play reading committee,

where I served for nine years, and founding the Goodwill Shakespeare Festival, which is

now in its eighth year. GoodWill is a noncompetitive arts festival which now provides

educational and performance opportunities for over 400 high school students from around

the province. I have been blessed with many awards for teaching and promoting the Arts:2001

: The Distinguished Service Award presented by The Association of BC Drama Educators.2002

The Citizen of the Year, Summerland. Presented by Corporation of Summerland2007 Prime

Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Provincial and Federal Governments2008 Arts

Appreciation Award, Summerland Arts Council,2008 Paul Harris Fellow Rotary International.

Susan Bertoia :

Susan is a professionalperformer, director, producer, teacher, and mask-maker. After graduating from UBC, shetucked her theatre BFA under her arm and went off to Europe to study food and wine, herItalian heritage, and most importantly, commedia at Il Piccolo Teatro in Milan (as well as

the Dell’Arte School in California). While in Padua, she learned the tradition of leather

mask-making with Donato Satori. She has training in Circus Skills (CIRQUE POULE),

specifically clown & rope; Movement (One Yellow Rabbit – Intensive); and

Dance (Flamenco & Modern). Susan is currently Artistic Producer of BellaLuna Productions.

Theatre BC: Susan led a Canovaccio Mask Workshop

at Backstage/99.

Julie Bond:

Julie is a working professional and teacher. Afterreceiving an MFA in acting, she toured the country, working from Toronto, to the Blythe

Festival, to the Citadel, to Vancouver. A film actor with over 40 credits, she has

appeared in series such as X-Files, Outer Limits, as well as film and radio. She has

trained with the best, and is currently teaching at the William Davis Centre and with the

Vancouver School Board.

Theatre BC: Julie led a

sold-out workshop in Young on Camera at Backstage/01.

Robin Boxwell :

Robin works as a freelance Technical Director and Sound Operator for professional theatre, dance

& music companies and venues. He is also certified in the use of pyrotechnics &

special effects for the stage.

Theatre BC: Robin served as Mainstage Technical Director from 2001 to 2010 and has led many workshops during

the festival, in Lighting, Sound and Special Effects.

Joy Boynton:

Kusa has been making a spectacle of herself in front of people ever since the bug bit her at a

grade two performance where she got to perform a solo piece into the microphone. She is a

keen observer of human nature and has been well trained in the craft by life, UBC, Gastown

Actors Studio, and Methodica, all in Vancouver. Her acting credits include lead roles in

Tennessee Williams ‘OutCry’ and Gao Xingan’s ‘Between Life and Death’. Her directing

skills have most recently taken her to the 2006 Fraser Valley Zone Festival with a

performance of ‘Father Damien’ by Aldyth Morris. She finds great joy in the theatre and is

looking forward to working on her next project.

Holly Bright :

Holly trainedin dance extensively in New York, where her credits include creating the lead role in an

off-off Broadway musical called The Swing of Things and choreography for two

off-off Broadway musicals, including an original, The Spirit of Bleeker Street.

. After moving to Vancouver and eventually Vancouver Island in the

early ‘90’s, Holly and husband, Adrian, settled in Nanaimo. Her work as a dancer

led to performance in the Nanaimo Fringe Festival, which in turn led to initiating the “InFringing

Dance Festival”, an event still running. Holly has been instrumental in the

formation of the Crimson Coast Dance Society

professional dance company.

Holly served as choreographer for TheatreOne ’s production of Hot Flashes in 2002 and

worked with Schmooze Productions and Theatre BC, as choreographer for The Rocky Horror

Show.

Diane Brown:

Diane is a founding member and the Artistic Director of Ruby Slippers Theatre Company. She studied theatre,directing and dance at Simon Fraser University, participated in the National Voice

Intensive on two occasions, and has been working professionally for twelve years. As an

actor and director, she has worked across the U.S. and Canada. In Vancouver, Diane has

been nominated for many Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, including twice for Outstanding

Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role, and once for outstanding Body of Performance

Work.

Theatre BC: Diane led a workshop in Mastering

The Monologueat Backstage/99.

Catherine Caines:

Catherine is an actor, director, teacher anddrama therapist. She holds both a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) and Bachelor ofArts (Acting Major) from UBC, and has extensive experience teaching, including terms with

the UBC Theatre Dept., Capilano College, Gastown Actors’ Studio, William Davis Center for

Actors’ Study, Carousel Theatre School, Malaspina College & Red Room Studio (Nanaimo),

Chemainus Theatre & CBC-TV, Vancouver..

Recent directing credits include “Love Letters”, “The Ballad

of Rainbow Snow”, “Bed Among the Lentils”and “The Dining

Room”for Soulfire Theatre (Gabriola), “Sylvia”

for TheatreOne (Nanaimo), ” The Mousetrap” (Chemainus Theatre), “Sex

, Lies & Stereotypes”for the Canadian Fringe Circuit and “The

Occupation of Heather Rose” for The Arts Club Theatre (nominated Best

Production, 1990 Jessie Awards).

Recent acting credits include two turns in the one-woman show, “The Occupation of

Heather Rose”(Western Edge Theatre & Soulfire Theatre), Pauline in “Four

to Four”(The C.E.N.T.R.E., Gabriola) and a Vancouver and Gulf Island tour as

Melissa in “Love Letters” .

Catherine is currently Artistic Director of Soulfire Theatre on Gabriola Island, where she

puts into practice her training in Drama Therapy.

Theatre BC: Catherine was a juror for

the 17th Annual Playwriting Competition and adjudicated the Okanagan Zone Festival in

2006.

Camyar Chai has acted across Canada and the United States including festivalssuch as Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo and Toronto’s World Stage Festival. He shares anEnsemble Acting Jessie Award for his performance in Mojo. As part of the

Vancouver Playhouse Emerging Director project, Camyar was proud to assist Bill Dow on

Of Mice and Men. He is currently an Artistic Associate at the Vancouver Playhouse. As

Artistic Director of NeWorld Theatre, he directed The Devil Box Cabaret for which

he received the Ray Michal Award for Emerging Director in 1999 as well as sharing a Jessie

for script adaptation. He also shared an Outstanding Original Script Jessie for his first

play based on Mordechai Vanunu. He wrote and performed in I Am Your Spy, A Day In The

Life of Mordechai Vanunu with Rumble Productions.

This production toured to Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto January of 2001. His adaptation

of Quest, Trail of Mystic Poets, Rummi and Attar was produced at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. He co-authored

Hurl Hemmhorage and Heal, the Nurses Musical,which toured for the BC Nurses Union.

He is adapting Bowering’s BC, A Swashbuckling History into a full length musical.

Camyar is a graduate of the UBC BFA Acting Program.

Theatre

BC:Camyar gave a specialty workshop titled Making A Scene for Theatre BC’s Backstage 2000 at the Emily Carr Institute of

Art & Design.

Carol Chrisjohn:

Carol has worked as Production Manager for Studio58, Langara College, since 1987 where she coaches student stage managers. She

also has taught stage management for Douglas College Stagecraft Department. Carol

has been in professional theatre for over 20 years as an actor, director and stage manager

and has had the opportunity to work for companies across Canada.

Theatre BC: Carol gave specialty workshops on Stage

Managingfor Theatre BC’s Mainstage 2006 Festival in

Maple Ridge, Backstage /98 & Backstage 2000 at the Emily Carr Institute of

Art & Design.

Sally Clark:

Sally Clark is a playwright and filmmaker. She has been a playwright-in-residence at Theatre Passe Muraille, the Shaw Festival, and Nightwood Theatre. She is the authorof eight plays, which include Moo, The Trial of Judith K., Jehanne

of the Witches, and Life Without Instruction. Her plays have received a

Chalmers Award (1990), two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations (1989 and 1990), and a

Governor General’s Award nomination (1991).

In 1992, Sally Clark was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre

where she wrote and directed her first short film, Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman,

for which she won the special Prix du Jury at the Henri Langlois International Short Film

Festival in 1992. Her short film, The Art of Conversation, won the Bronze Award for Best

Dramatic Short at the Worldfest Charleston Festival in 1993.

Theatre

BC:Sally was a Juror for the 11th Annual Canadian National Playwriting

Competition in 1999 and followed this up as instructor for ‘Developing a Script‘ for

the New Play Festival in Kamloops in April 2000. Sally was also one of the

dramaturges on hand for the reading of Home

Movies: An Interdisciplinary Performance Pieceby Sally Stubbs, also at the New Play

Festival.

Rebecca Coleman:

An actor for nearly twenty years, Rebecca’s favorite roles include MeginETC’s Dylan, Mindy in Horn’d Moon’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,

and the Female Actor in Daniel MacIvor’s This Is A Play. She is also a

producer and publicist specializing in small, independent theatre, and teaches workshops

on the Business of Acting. http://www.titaniaproductions.com

and Angerand Terence McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart, both for The Vancouver Playhouse.

John has directed 15 Seconds for Alberta Theatre Projects, High Life

for The Arts Club Theatre, Big Mama! for

Calgary’s Lunchbox Theatre, 999 for The Richmond

Gateway Theatre, Blue Mango for The Belfry

Theatreand Je Mes Souviens, written and performed by his wife Lorena Gale,

for The Firehall and Belfry Theatres.

Theatre BC:

John has served as a Zone Festival Adjudicator, Scene Development Instructor and Workshop

Instructor. He led a Workshop Exploring the Monologue at Mainstage ’98 in

Delta. He was a popular adjudicator at Mainstage 2002 in

Nanaimo.

Sophia Csapo:

Sophia is a graduate of the Blanche MacDonald Institute and has been aprofessional makeup artist working on commercials, documentaries, music videos, shortfilms, and on the set of The New Addams Familytelevision series.Theatre BC: Sophia was an instructor for make-up workshops at

both Backstage/98 and Backstage/99.

sitcoms, eleven TV movies, three feature films and has had recurring roles on three

series, including Mayor Hinton on The Commish. She has her BA in Theatre

Arts from Hofstra University in New York, and spent her earlier years after graduating

doing theatre both in New York and on tour.

Theatre BC: Linda has served as a Workshop Instructor

teaching Performance:Acting for the Camera.

Garry Davey :

Garry Davey is the former Artistic Director for TheatreOne in Nanaimo and of the William Davis Centre forActor’s Studyin Vancouver where he taught for 14 years. A graduate of TheVancouver Playhouse School, he has worked extensively as an actor in theatres across the

country, as well as appearing in many television productions and feature films including Da

Vinci’s Inquestin recurring episodes, Cold

Squad, The X-Files and the Victoria-based

series Alienated. He has directed more than 20 plays including The Drawer Boy

and Shirley Valentine for TheatreOne, Marion Bridge by Daniel

McIvor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and an

acclaimed production of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning Three Tall Women

for Western Edge Theatre. Garry

recently appeared in Night of Shooting Stars

by Michael Armstrong, also for Western Edge, and directed The Occupation of Heather Rose with Catherine

Caines on Gabriola. This summer he adapted the script and co-directed a street-theatre

version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for

TheatreOne’s Young Company.

In the course of his career Garry has developed his craft with master teachers from across

Canada, New York, LA, Paris and London. He has shared his work with Theatre

BCfor several years, as Zone Festival adjudicator(s), workshop play director, as

well as teaching acting and directing workshops around the province. Garry has also twice

served as a juror for the Canadian National Playwriting contest and as dramaturge at the

New Play Festival in Kamloops, and had the honour to adjudicate Mainstage in Nanaimo in

2005.

Ross Desprez:

Rossreceived his MFA from the University of Victoria and is currently an instructor in the

theatre dept. at Malaspina University-College in

Nanaimo, where he has directed numerous productions. He is artistic director of The

Other Guys Theatre Company, where he created/directed Moodyville Tales, a

Canadian folk musical. The company also produced Tobin Stoke’s opera The Vinedressers and

Ross’ own Sex: the musical. Other writing projects include Carmanah Man, A

Good Person?, several seasons with the politically incorrect comedy troupe The Five

White Guys, and his own one-man musical The Ballad of Phil Ochs, which was

recently re-staged at the Belfry Theatre as The

Ballad of Jim Pane( for which he also wrote original music). He has appeared in

several musical offerings at The Belfry Theatre

including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The Three Penny Opera, Pump

Boys and Dinettes, and Lies and Legends. He co-starred with Joelle Rabu in

Keith Digby:

Mr. Digby has over twenty years’ experience as a director and adjudicator with professionaltheatres in Alberta and BC. He was the Founder of The Phoenix Theatre in

Edmonton, former Artistic director of Theatre 3, also in Edmonton, and

the Bastion Theatre

of BC in Victoria. He is

the former Head of Performing Arts at Brentwood College, a private co-ed

boarding school on Vancouver Island. He has

directed several award winning productions and numerous Canadian premieres

across Canada. As well, Mr. Digby is a successful

screenwriter. Several of his scripts have been filmed and broadcast in

Canada and in the UK, and he currently has a number of scripts optioned, or

in production and development. He has been a regular at Theatre

BC’s Backstage. He runs and offers workshops through his

Rachel Ditor:

Rachel Ditor is the Literary Manager at the Arts Club Theatre where she both develops newplays and directs for the

company. She is also the resident dramaturg at Touchstone Theatre and has developed plays

with Rumble Productions, The Electric Company, The Gateway, and Ruby Slippers. Rachel

works as a dramaturg/director with play development companies across Canada including:

Playwrights Workshop Montreal, National Arts Centre, Banff PlayRites Colony, Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre, and Playwrights Theatre

Centre. Directing credits include: Tiger of Malaya (Gateway Theatre), The

Diary of Anne Frank, Here on the Flight Path(Arts Club Theatre), Hippies and

Bolsheviks(Alberta Theatre Projects).

Rachel teaches dramaturgy at UBC and is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of

the Americas.

Theatre BC: Rachel and husband, Robert Gardner, served as the highly

successful adjudicating team for Mainstage 2006 Festival in Maple Ridge. She has also led

Playwriting workshops at numerous Backstage weekends.

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Bill Dow:

Bill Dow has starred in several Vancouver Playhouse productionsincluding Struggle of the Dogs and The Black, Death and the Maiden and the Jessie

Award-winning comedy Love and Anger. In 1993, he also served as Associate Director

at the Playhouse. He has served as Associate Artistic Director for Ontario’s Blyth

Festival and Victoria’s Belfry Theatre, where he performed and collaborated in the

staging of Anatol and directed The Collected Work of Billy the Kid.

Film work includes principal roles in Andre, Cool Runnings, This Boy’s Life,

the CBC movie, Evelyn Lau’s Diary and Legends of the Fall.

Dolores Drake:

Dolores is a Vancouver based actress with over 15 years’ experience. She is a Studio 58graduate and has worked extensivelyacross the country in theatre film and television. Her stage credits include Cosi

at the Globe Theatre in Regina, Thirteen

Handsfor The Arts Club in Vancouver and Shirly

Valentinefor several companies. She has twice been nominated for Jessie

Awards. As a teacher, she has co-written and produced three plays with young people.

Theatre BC: Dolores served as an Acting Instructor at

numerous Backstage Events at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design.

Stephen Drover:

Stephen was trained as an actor at MemorialUniversity’s Sir Wilfred Grenfell College where he received a BFA in Acting. For two

years he was an Associate Director for Theatre Newfoundland Labrador (Romeo &

Juliet, Of the Fields Lately, East O’ the Sun & West O’ the Moon) and

later taught at the Neptune Theatre School in Halifax.

He attended UBC’s Theatre Program and received an MFA in Directing (The Creation

– thesis production). Since then he regularly returns to Memorial as a visiting

assistant professor/director (The Taming of the Shrew, Sam’s Shorts, Picnic),

has assistant directed at the Stratford Festival (King John) and conducted

several new play development workshops at Playwright’s Theatre Centre.

He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Pound of Flesh Theatre in Vancouver whose mandate is to produce

alternative productions of classical plays. Projects include The Bond (an

adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, to be remounted in association with the Gateway Theatre in March 2007)

and Macbeth.

Other favourite directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Acting

Up Entertainment), The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, See Bob Run, Wild Abandon (Bare

Boards Theatre), Woody (No Strings Theatre), Oedipus Rex (Douglas

College).

Theatre BC: Stephen served as a

dramaturge for the New Play Festival 2003 in Kamloops, and as instructor for

“Shakespeare Performance Techniques and Textual Analysis” at 3 successive

Mainstage festivals and at the Backstage AGM 2004 Conference.

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Katrina Dunn:

Katrina is presently the Artistic Director of TouchstoneTheatre. Prior to moving to Touchstone, she was a founding member and ArtisticDirector of Ruby Slippers and directed many

interdisciplinary works for that company from its inception in 1989. As a freelance

director, she has worked for many theatre, dance and music organizations, including

Grinning Dragon Theatre, Battery Opera, Current Sound Opera(tions), The Hard Rubber

Orchestra and Mascall Dance. She received her training at SFU (Dance and Theatre programs)

and the National Theatre School of Canada.

Theatre BC:

Katrina has participated as a workshop instructor at both Backstage/98 and Backstage 2000.

She also served as Adjudicator for the North Island Zone Festival in 2004.

Danielle Dunn-Morris:

Danielle is an accomplished actress and director who has been involved with all aspects oftheatre most of her life. Danielle studied Acting, Speech and Movement at the Banff Schoolof Fine Arts and received a degree in Education at U.B.C. While teaching in the public

school system, she was involved in the founding of the Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops and

eventually became Artistic Director of two theatre companies; Shuswap Summer Theatre

(1989-96) and Watermark Theatre (1993-98). Her onstage roles include Shirley Valentine

(for Summer Theatre Co-op), Gwendoline (for which she won Best Actress at the

1989 OKZ Festival), Eleanor in The Lion in Winter (Shuswap Theatre), and, most

recently, as Mom in Kiss The Moon, Kiss The Sun for Western Canada Theatre.

Directing credits include: Quaaout Lodge Two White Chicks Sittin’ Around Talking

& Moon Over The Brewery; Shuswap Theatre Sylvia & Seduced By

Moonlight; Thompson Valley Players Two One Acts;

Looking for Mr.

Right; Purple is for

Flowers & Zara Spook and other lures;
Shuswap Theatre
Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun, and she Mentored two new Stage
Directors in September 09.

Danielle has appeared in film, television, commercials and theatre productions

and is now providing training for the burgeoning T.V. and Film industry with her

company River Magic Productions in Kamloops,

where she instructs “Acting From The Feet Up” and “Learn The Roles Not The

Lines”, as well as bringing in other professionals to teach auditioning,

scriptwriting, make-up and other aspects of the industry. Other Instructor credits include

for University of the Okanagan -Adult Acting course; Revelstoke Arts Festival

“Children are Story Tellers”; University of the Cariboo “Acting for the

Camera” (credited course); City of Kamloops Recreation Department “What Actors

Do” & “Acting From the Feet Up”

Theatre BC:

Danielle was an instructor in Children Are Wonderful Story Tellers and Voice at

the Okanagan Zone’s annual “Offstage” workshop weekend in September 2000, and

for Acting From The Feet Up at MAINSTAGE 2001 in Kamloops. She also led a two-part

workshop on Finding the Character’s Essence at both the Mainstage 2004 and 2006

festivals. She served as guest adjudicator for the 4th Annual CanWest Play Fest in Fort

St. John in Sept. 2006.