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Summer 2010
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Kaitlin Williams (BFA '09) has been busy with the Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, starring in their production of Godspell (May 28- July 3, 2010). Last March she was also in their production of I Was Meant for the Stage.
Blue Bridge Theatre's summer line up (see above) includes a host of UVic alumni including performances by Kholby Wardell (BFA ' 08), Celine Stubel (BFA '02) Celine Richmond (BFA '08) and set and/or costume designs by Nathan Brown (BFA '09), Patrick du Wors (BFA '02) and current student Patricia Reilly. Other current undergraduate students include Alex Plouffe (Wreckage) and Patricia Trihn (Romeo & Juliet, Medea).

Eva Markvoort. Photo by Cyrus McEachern.
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Eva Markvoort (BFA '10)
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25-year-old graduate from the Department of Theatre succumbed to a life-long battle with cystic fibrosis on March 27. A native of New Westminster,
Eva’s indomitable spirit and energy were inspiring to everyone who learned of her struggles. Her blog, 65_RedRoses, chronicled her experiences with the disease and advocated support for cystic fibrosis and the importance of organ donation. As an acting student at UVic, Eva performed in four mainstage productions at the Phoenix Theatre: Taming of the Shrew, Listen to the Wind, Tyrants and Guys and Dolls. Her professors remember her as a talented actor and a person who fearlessly embraced every opportunity. In 2007, Eva became too ill to continue her education. Later that year, she received a double lung transplant, which went into chronic rejection last summer. This past February, although short two credits, UVic fast-tracked her degree, which was delivered to her hospital room in Vancouver. Eva’s story gained an international presence through a documentary film, also named 65_RedRoses which won awards at the 2009 Hot Docs festival in Toronto and the Vancouver International Film Festival. In 2010, the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recognized her commitment and advocacy work with the prestigious Summerhayes Award. Eva leaves an inspirational legacy – not only her tireless efforts for the causes that that impassioned her – but also one of strength, love, courage, dignity and hope that has motivated thousands around the world. Donations can be made in Markvoort's name to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or learn more information about Project Give Life.
A memorial will be held in the afternoon (Time TBA) at the Department of Theatre on September 26, 2010 with a viewing of the documentary 65_RedRoses. More information about this event will be posted on the department's website in September.
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March 2010
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Mrs Lovett's pie shop in Sweeny Todd at the Citadel in Edmonton: set by Mary Kerr.
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Faculty member Mary Kerr's designs of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street garnered some rave reviews when it ran at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton from February 6 to 28, 2010. The play was directed by Bob Baker with lighting by Itai Erdal.
The review from the Edmonton Sun: "Mary Kerr's set helps. Dark and forbidding, with twisted angles and expressionist lighting, it's as if she has sliced up the architecture of pre-Dickensian London and hung its essence in space."
The University of Victoria expedited the bachlors degree for Eva Markvoort (BFA'10) in February. Eva, who suffers with cystic fibrosis, was a student at the Department of Theatre until 2007 until she became too ill to finish. In October 2007, she underwent a double lung transplant but is now in chronic rejection and in hospital. Eva's unwavering spirit became an international inspiration when she and her fight with cystic fibrosis was featured in an award-winning documentary, 65_RedRoses, which also the name of her blog. Faculty, staff and students at the department send their love and admiration to her.
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February 2010
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Brian Culp and Kelly Hudson in Dark of the Moon. Photo by David Lowes.
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The Phoenix Theatre was well represented in the eigth annual Critic’s Choice Spotlight Awards that recognized the finest shows of the 2008-9 season.
Dark of the Moon won awards for Best Overall Community Production, Best Director by theatre Professor and director Brian Richmond, and Best Sound Design by John Mills-Cockell. Then student, Brian Culp (BFA’09) was nominated for Best Performance in a Community Production for his role in Dark of the Moon. Alumnus Patrick Du Wors (BFA ’02) was nominated for his costume design on our production of Dark of the Moon and Blue Bridge Theatre’s As You Like It.
Nathan Brown’s (BFA ’09) set for Medea was nominated for Best Set Design and current MFA candidate Paphavee (Poe) Limkul lighting for La Rondewas nominated for Best Lighting Design. Other theatre alumni that won awards were: Clayton Jevne (BFA ’85, MFA ’88 and PhD ’03) (and others) in Theatre Inconnu's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Best Performance in a Community Performance; David Ferry (MFA '04) in Blue Bridge Theatre's Death of a Salesman for Best Performance; Britt Small (MFA ’04) and various alumni in Atomic Vaudeville’s Ride the Cyclone for Best New Play; Ingrid Hansen (BFA ’09) and SNAFU Dance Theatre’s Pretty Little Instincts for Best Fringe Production; and Giggling Iguana’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (adapted by Ian Case (BFA’91) for Best Site Specific Production. Congratulations to all!
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November 2009
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Pacific Opera Victoria's upcoming production The Rake's Progress (November 12-21) features a set design by Theatre professor Allan Stitchbury. Stichbury has just completed a set for The Miracle Worker at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre.
Kate Dion Richard (BFA'06), the sister of Samantha Richard, one the actors performing the role of Juliet in the Phoenix production, is making a splash in London England. She stars as Nora in the Candyking Theatre Company's production of A Doll House which played at the Greenwich Playhouse in September.
A cyclone roared back into Victoria in October as Atomic Vaudeville re-launched the Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell play Ride the Cyclone featuring a roller-coaster car full of theatre alumni including Rielle Braid (BFA'08), Kholby Wardell (BFA'07), Celine Stubel (BFA'02), Timothy Johnston (BFA'07), Sarah Pelzer (BFA'08) and Carey Wass (BFA'07).
Theatre professor Mary Kerr's set design for Copper Thunderbird – a production from 2007 at the National Arts Centre – was chosen from over a thousand entries as a finalist in the international World Stage 2009 competition, held in Seoul, Korea. It was one of 259 finalists that will be shown in a gallery exhibition in conjunction with the competition. She is currently working with the Citadel Theatre for their 2010 production of Sweeny Todd.
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October 2009
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Victoria is home to a multitude of theatre companies – including Theatre SKAM, Intrepid Theatre, Theatre BOMBUS, Suddenly Dance Theatre – and dozens of our theatre alumni are the heart of many of these organizations. This October they will host a national event for theatre creators Performance Creation Canada (PCC) Conference in Victoria on October 22-25, 2009. This is a creative, practical event for the folk who are making exciting innovative indie theatre across the country. It is open to anyone interested in performance art and fosters the development of ideas and dialogue between creators across varied performance disciplines with interactive practical events including art walks, panel discussions and workshops. It is a great chance to get inspired and connect with theatre peers. See above for the discussion panel that will be held after the matinee of The Josephine Knot. All are welcome to attend.
During the conference, attendees are encouraged to take in Victoria theatre (which also feature lots of our alumni), including a remounting of Atomic Vaudeville's Ride The Cyclone,
and SNAFU Dance Theatre's award-winning Fringe production, Pretty Little Instincts, Giggling Iguana's Jekyll & Hyde at Craigdarroch Castle,
Suddenly Dance Theatre's Romp Festival and Theatre SKAM's Homegrown Collective – Haunted.
Alumnus Victor Dolhai (BFA '07) was named and interviewed by the Times Colonist as one of their Rising Stars, a six-part series on Victoria artists under the age of 25. Writer Adrian Chamberlain interviews Dolhai and discusses his emerging career in this Times Colonist article. Dolhai performed in all three of the plays this summer produced by Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, including a starring role in The Fantasticks.
Phoenix alumnae Ingrid Hansen (BFA '09) and Sarah Pelzer (BFA'09) are performing in Pacific Opera Victoria's current production of La Traviata in small standout dramatic roles. La Traviata continues at the Royal Theatre until October 10, 2009. POV's next production The Rake's Progress (November 12-21) features a set design by Theatre professor Allan Stitchbury.
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Summer 2009
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Many of our UVic Theatre students and alumni will be busy this summer thanks to the arrival of Victoria’s newest professional theatre company Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre. Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s inaugural summer season supports their mandate to mentor emerging theatre artists by working alongside some of Canada’s top theatre artists.
Their first play, As You Like It by William Shakespeare (June 9-21, 2009) is directed by acclaimed Canadian director, Jeanette Lambermont-Morey. It will feature Phoenix graduates Rielle Braid (BFA '09) (photo top), Brian Culp (BFA '09) and Victor Dolhai (BFA '07) and showcase current Phoenix talent Matthew Coulson, Alex Plouffe, Brian Wrigley and Sean Sager who will be acting alongside Sessional Instructor Fran Gebhard.
The lighting will be designed by Giles Hogya, former Dean of Fine Arts at UVic, and the sound design will be by Yan Li, graduate of the UVic Music Department. Also on the creative team are alumni Treena Stubel (BFA'95) (movement and choreography) and Partick Du Wors (BFA '02) (costume design). Phoenix audiences will remember Patrick's inspired set and costume design of last fall's Dark of the Moon. He will also be designing the set for Blue Bridge’s other two summer shows Death of a Salesman and The Fantasticks.
Death of a Salesman (July 7-19, 2009) by Arthur Miller will be directed by professor Brian Richmond, former chair of the UVic Theatre Department, and will feature award-winning Toronto actor and Phoenix alumnus David Ferry (MFA '04) (photo left) as the well-known character of Willy Loman. Other alumni also featured are Victor Dolhai (BFA '07), Jay Hindle (BFA '03) and Carey Wass (BFA '08) as well as past theatre student Jacob Richmond and current student Samantha Richard. Reknowned actor and retired UVic professor John Krich will play the part of Ben Loman. UVic sessional instructor Kerem Cetinel is the lighting designer for the production while previous theatre student and fashion designer Kristin Bond is the costume designer.
Blue Bridge's final show this summer will be the delightful musicalThe Fantasticks, (August 4-16, 2009) directed by Phoenix alumna and Co-Creator of Atomic Vaudeville, Britt Small (MFA Directing ’04). The Fantasticks will feature Victor Dolhai (BFA '07) (photo right), Sarah Pelzer (BFA '09), Jacob Richmond, Treena Stubel (BFA '95) and Chris Wilson (BFA '08). Current theatre student Michael Franzman will return from a stint at the Stratford Festival to design the lighting the show and alumna Ingrid Hansen (BFA '09) will design the costumes.
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October 2008
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David Ferry (MFA ’04) was nominated for Outstanding Performance By A Male for his acting in Lullaby.
UVic writing student Brie Whittman’s Orbit, won the 2008 Petri Dish New Play Contest and itself a spot at the Victoria Fringe Festival. The show starred current student Kaitlin Williams and was directed by Jen Quinn (BFA ‘08).
Professor Mary Kerr’s designs from the biographical play about Norval Morrisseau Copper Thunderbird, are currently displayed in the exhibit at the Legacy Art Gallery and Café until November 30, 2008.
Kate Costin (BFA ‘08) is continuing her education in Theatre/Film design at Parsons: The New School of Design, a prestigious school in New York City.
The Phoenix Theatre continues our connection with the Belfry Theatre with their current production of "Half Life" featuring assistant professor Jan Wood and later productions including Ian Rye, Jennifer Lines, Amiel Gladstone, Paul Fauteux, Lucas Myers, and Celine Stubel.
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Summer 2008
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Sessional instructor Fran Gebhard who directed "The School for Scandal" this past spring, is doing another time-bending approach to her direction of "Much Ado about Nothing" for the Victoria Shakespeare Society's outdoor production on Camosun College's Lansdowne campus. The play, which will be set as a western in the post Korean war era, includes many current and past Phoenix Theatre students including: Nathan Brown, David Christopher, Matt Coulson, Graham Roebuck, Brian Wrigley and Kholby Wardell and costumes designed by Kate Costin.
Theatre alumna (BFA '97) Tamara Marie Kucheran won a 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Award for her Costume Design of the play "Intimate Apparel" at the Obsidian Theatre Company in Toronto.
As well, Vancouver's theatre community recognized its best at the 26th Annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Professor Allan Stichbury won Outstanding Set Design (in a large theatre setting) for the Playhouse Theatre Company's production of "The Wars."
Alumna Celine Stubel was also awarded the Jessie for Outstanding Performance of an Actress in a Leading Role for "My Chernobyl", which was also presented at The Belfry Theatre this spring.
Check out past Phoenix Phacts on our website.
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February 2008
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After nine years of working in costumes for film and television, Kristen Bond has returned to Victoria to focus on fashion design. Busy with her design business, Bond has also lent her expertise to the Phoenix’s production of Lionel: The Miracle Man, helping to construct the costumes.
Recent grad Eva Markvoort, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, successfully underwent a double-lung transplant in October. Eva was last seen on the Phoenix stage at Asia in Tyrants in 2006.
Janna R. Lopez Raven has made several sound designs for Native Voices at the Autry National Centre in California: Stone Heart: Everyone Loves a Journey West by Diane Glancy, The Red Road by Arigon Starr and The Berlin Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor. All three have had subsequent tours in New York and Washington, D.C. and The Red Road also toured Australia.
Alumni Sara Topham and Graeme Somerville returned to Victoria for The Belfry Theatre’s The Turn of the Screw. Topham is an acting company member at the Stratford Festival and Somerville is a member of the acting ensemble at the Shaw Festival. Former UVic students Patrick Du Wors (set and lighting) and Erin Macklem (costumes) design the spine-tingling production.
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November 2007
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Phoenix Theatre cleaned up at the annual Victoria Critic's Spotlight Awards receiving nine nominations and winning:
Best Performance in a Community Production: Trevor Hinton, Richard III
Best Direction: Giles Hogya, Richard III
Best Lighting Design: Tim Herron, Richard III
Best Overall Production (Community): TIE—Richard III and The Caretaker
Department of Theatre Alumni received seven nominations and won for:
Best Fringe Production: Pitch Blonde (Laura Harris)
Best New Play: Grimm Tales (ITSAZOO: Anne-Marie de la Giroday, Colby Wilson, Chelsea Haberlin, Trevor Hinton, Sebastien Archibald)
Faculty member Ned Vukovic was also named for the Life Achievement Award in recognition of the amazing work he has done at UVic, both as a teacher and as a dialect coach on many productions.
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October 2007
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Jay Bennett won an Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Television for his work as associate producer for the Fallen Alternate Reality Game – a video game tie-in for the ABC Family television movie series Fallen…
Current students Tim Johnston, who will play Aladdin, and Kaitlin Williams go on a magic carpet ride with Kaleidoscope Theatre’s Aladdin upcoming this December...
Our most recent graduating class has had considerable success since graduating in April. Danielle Janess, who appeared as Queen Elizabeth in last year’s Richard III, played Queen Victoria at the BC Parliament Buildings this summer. James Kot is going to war on the set of Paul Gross’ Passchendaele, which is being filmed in Calgary this October. A big time Soprano’s fan, he also just finished filming the TV movie Snow Globe, starring The Soprano’s Lorraine Bracco and Christina Milian. Featured on the front of this season’s brochure, Victor Dolhai recently worked with Kokoro Dance Theatre in their 12th Wreck Beach Butoh and with SNAFU Dance’s BLiNK – winner of the Best Physical Theatre/Dance at this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival. Also enjoying Fringe Festival success, Laura Harris was nominated for Best Female Performer for her performance in her self-written one-woman show, Pitch Blond. Theatre Calgary is keeping Kassia Warshawski busy, appearing as Hero in their Fuse Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing and playing Emily in their upcoming production of Our Town…
Theatre SKAM recently staged the Canadian premiere of Melissa James Gibson’s play [sic]. Alumnus Amiel Gladstone directed and Lucas Meyer and Michael Rinaldi performed...
Phoenix alumni are making an impact creatively at The Belfry this season with over a dozen showcasing their talents. Phoenix connections include Patrick Du Wors, Medina Hahn, Ereca Hassell, Rebekah Johnson, John Krich, Karen Levis, Brian Linds, Joan MacLeod, Erin Macklem, Jacob Richmond, Britt Small, Graeme Somerville, Celine Stubel, Sara Topham and more…
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March
2007
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Alumni Jason
Donaldson, a teacher at Gulf Islands Secondary School,
led his students to victory in the Canadian Improv Games Vancouver
Island Regional Tournament this past month. The team will
compete against the best across the country at the national tournament
in Ottawa this April…
Expedition Theatre presented Charles
Tidler’s new play Cross This Bridge
At A Walk as part of the Belfry
Theatre’s Incubator Project this February. Charles
is a sessional instructor in the Department of Writing at UVic. The
production featured an all UVic cast of Lee Cookson, Trevor
Hinton, Carey Wass and Chris
Wilson and they were directed by alumnus Christie
Little. Kathleen Greenfield designed
the production and Katie Hood stage-managed. Charles
and Christie were both supported by our Chair on leave, Brian
Richmond who was dramaturge for the new play…
The
nominees for the 2007 M Awards were announced and the Department
and its alumni were delighted to receive recognition for their
work. Our fall production of Richard III received
several nominations including favourite overall production, along
with Trevor Hinton’s nomination
for favourite actor. Alumni Meg Braem and Celine
Stubel were also nominated for favourite actor. Nominees
for favourite new play had Phoenix connections, with Legoland, The
Qualities of Zero and The Third Taboo all
being recognized. Phoenix alumni also made up the majority
of nominees for favourite director: Ian Case, Clayton
Jevne and Britt Small all received
nods…
Sarah Pelzer and Scott
Hendrickson both appeared in BumbleBee Theatre Collective’s
play Yellow Ribbon this February. The
new play was written and directed by alumni Jen Braem,
who was recently seen at the Phoenix as guest stage manager for Tartuffe…
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February
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Recent undergrad Alistair Newton participated
in The Ark project with Peter Hinton
at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa this past fall. Alistair
observed the project and responded to it in a blog which you can
read on the National Art Centre’s website.
Kaleidoscope
Theatre’s production of Charlotte’s Web featured
a barnyard full of students and alumni. The show featured
an all UVic creative team consisting of Leslie Bland (Director), Karyn
McCallum (Set), Sabrina Miller (Costumes), Randy
Poulis (Lighting) and Alexander Ferguson (Sound),
as well as Jen Braem as Stage Manager and the
Phoenix-honed acting talents of David McPherson, Clayton
Jevne, Colby Wilson, Sebastian Archibald, Alexander Ferguson and Emily
Butler…
This May fourth year students Trevor
Hinton and Ming Hudson will perform in
Kaleidoscope’s premiere production of Barbara Poggemiller’s
new play The Boy Who Learned to Fly at
the Vancouver International Children’s Festival…
Sebastian
Archibald’s play Death of a Clown was
a finalist in Theatre BC’s 18th Annual Canadian National
Playwriting Competition. It was recently staged by ITSAZOO
Productions at the 2006 Victoria Fringe Festival…
Michelle
Montieth stars in the play Revisited,
which came to the Metro this January after touring across Canada
to critical acclaim… Monday Magazine’s M Awards honoured
many UVic students, alumni and productions with nominations for
the annual awards…
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November
2006
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Phoenix grad Katie Hood joined current student Melissa
Blank and inmates at William Head Prison for the William
Head on Stage Theatre Society's production of Macbeth.The
show marks the inmate troupe's 25th anniversary...
Graham
Croft and Alison Ward performed in
Pacific Opera Victoria's Manon Lescaut with Jackie Adamthwaite as
stage manager and Connie
(Beel) Hosie as assistant stage manager - wardrobe...
The Department of Theatre was sad to say farewell to Marketing
and Communications Manager Ann Tanner this fall
who has headed off to Montreal to get married. Recent Phoenix
grad Anne-Marie de la Giroday has taken over
the position on an interim basis after being Ann's assistant
for the past two years...
Judith McDowell directed
Langham Court Theatre's production of Artichoke...
Sessional instructor and former graduate student Monica
Prendergast has joined CBC Radios's On
the Island as their theatre critic, replacing recently
retired Robert Mitchell...
Set and costume designer Dany
Lyne has been awarded the country's richest theatrical
award - the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Faculty member Mary
Kerr sat
on the distinguished jury...
Phoenix students and alumni shone
at the recent Victoria Fringe Festival, creating and performing
in numerous shows. Among the "Picks of the Fringe", Matthew
Payne's The Lab won
Best Solo Show and Celine Stubel was voted Favourite
Female Performer for Legoland...
Two
of our alumni have been nominated for Gemini Awards: Erin
Karpluk for Godiva's and Peter
Outerbridge for both the Murder 19C: Detective
Murdoch Mysteries and ReGenesis...
This summer several current students and recent grads including Scott
Hendrickson, Jason Moldowan and Kate Richard, braved
the heat and bundled into heavy wool period costumes to play
figures from British Columbian history at the BC Legislative
Buildings...
Kaleidoscope Theatre's production of Little
Women featured the talents and skills of Celine
Stubel and Leslie D. Bland, Carole
Klemm and Alexander Ferguson...
David
MacPherson helped launch the new Victoria company
Where's Noonan? in May with a gritty premiere production,
David Mamet's Oleanna... Kelt
and Colleen Eccleston joined alumnus and former acting
production manager Tim O' Gorman on stage for Moody
Tales: A New Canadian Musical...
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February
2006
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Zachary Stephenson won one of 20 coveted roles
out of 600 audition hopefuls for the upcoming musical Hair at
Toronto’s CanStage...Stratford Festival star Sara
Topham recently gave a Shakespeare workshop at Victoria’s
Langham Court Theatre. She returns to Stratford this summer to
star as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie,
Donna Elvira in Don Juan and Grace Harkaway
in London Assurance...Also at Stratford, Tamara
Marie Kucheran will design the sets and costumes for the
world premiere of Peter Hinton’s Fanny Kemble... Peter
Outerbridge was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best
Actor in ReGenesis’...Britt
Small, Celine Stubel, Cam Culham and
the Atomic Vaudeville gang invited “Old Trout” Peter
Balkwill to join them for their latest show at the Victoria
Event Centre when he was here performing Famous Puppet
Death Scenes…Paul Terry has
just returned from Limerick, Ireland where he performed Janet
Munsil’s one-man play The Ugly Duchess,
which he also performed in Prague last summer. This summer he will
play the role of Henry Higgins in Chemainus Theatre Festival’s My
Fair Lady. A multi-talented artist, Paul was the
contractor/designer for Langham Court’s renovations in October...
Emma Claire Miller will be playing Costanza in Enchanted
April at Chemainus Theatre Festival this spring…Dora
Mavor Moore Award winner Carolyn Cave starred
in the Vancouver Playhouse season-opener, The Syringa
Tree, and Meg Roe is appearing
in the current Playhouse production, Vincent in Brixton...in
October the tireless Clayton Jevne directed
Theatre Inconnu’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and
presented two benefit performances to support a youth drama program
for refugee and immigrant youth, The Dream of a Ridiculous
Man and Kasperle and Faust...in
November Dalal Badr received praise for her
performance in Tideline at Toronto’s
Factory Theatre...also in November, David Ferry directed The
Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Birdland Theatre
at the Fermenting Cellar…Mitch Pollock played
Tootles in Carousel Theatre’s Peter Pan in
Vancouver in December...
Michael Klemak is the voice of Thrifty Foods on local
radio...Leah James is studying in London, England
at the Central School of Speech and Drama...Marisa Vest is
currently on a nine month U.S. tour as an assistant stage manager/stage
carpenter with Clifford the Big Red Dog Live following
stints at the Banff Centre and Toronto Operetta Theatre.
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December 2005
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University of Victoria Theatre alumni figured prominently in this year’s
Critic’s Choice Awards. In their annual celebration of the best
of the city’s theatre scene, local critics Adrian Chamberlain (Times
Colonist), Robert Mitchell (CBC’s On the Island) and John Threlfall
(Monday) shone the spotlight on the following Phoenix graduates, as well
as some of our faculty members and current students…
Receiving top honours was Janet Munsil for Best
New Play (That
Elusive Spark, Phoenix Theatre, March 2005). Most of the other
nominees in her category were fellow Theatre alumni: Clayton Jevne (The
Haunting of Don Juan); Amiel Gladstone (Hippies
and Bolsheviks);
and, Meg Braem (Potentilla). The final nominee was Karen
Lee Pickett,
a Writing student whose nominated
play I Thee Wed was premiered at the Phoenix as part of FIND 2005.
Phoenix grads (and their companies) also dominated the Fringe Production
category. BumbleBee Theatre Collective won for Potentilla. Other nominees
were Theatre SKAM for Inanna and Ecce Homo for Woyzeck
Songpiel.
Nominated for Set Design were Sam Whittington (Peter
Pan / Kaleidoscope
Theatre) and The Old Trout Puppet Workshop (The
Unlikely Birth of Istvan / Intrepid Theatre).
For Sound Design, Alexander Ferguson was nominated for Peter
Pan (Kaleidoscope
Theatre); Kathleen Greenfield and Alison Greene were nominated for Fen (Phoenix Theatre); and, Ian
Case was nominated for The War of the Worlds (Giggling Iguana / Theatre Inconnu). Ian was also nominated for his direction
of The War of the Worlds.
Meg Roe received a best performance nomination (professional) for her
role in Trying at the Belfry Theatre. Ecce
Homo was nominated in the
Musical Production category for Woyzeck Songspiel. And soon-to-be graduate,
fourth year student Sebastien Archibald, was nominated for his performance
(community) in That Elusive Spark.
As for other Phoenix folks, Theatre faculty member Allan Stichbury was nominated for his set design for Fen, seen at the Phoenix in February
2005, and fellow faculty member Mary Kerr’s costume designs were
nominated for Bears: The Musical at Oak Bay High Community Theatre. Phoenix
guest director Linda Moore won the Critic’s Choice for her direction
of That Elusive Spark. The Phoenix was nominated for Overall Production
(Community) for That Elusive Spark.
Congratulations to all!
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