Alumni News

February, 2008

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.