Alumni News

November, 2010

Victor Dolhai (BFA'07) will be joining ten other young actors from across Canada to study under Martha Henry at the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre at the Stratford Theatre Festival. Birmingham is the only conservatory program in North America which concentrates exclusively on training for the classical actor and which actually takes place within a classical repertory theatre. All members of the Conservatory will be offered contracts for the 2011 Stratford Season. Victor made his Stratford debut this year appearing in As You Like It, and The Winter’s Tale. We look forward to hearing about his future appearances on the Stratford stage! 

Charles Ross  (BFA '98) is home, but not for a break! He recently brought his globetrotting shows, One Man Star Warsand One Man Lord Of The Rings back to Victoria for fundraising performances for Intrepid Theatre. He sat down for a Q&A with Intrepid about his shows and possible new works. Really? Pride and Predjudice? Click here to read on!  

This past summer, The Other Guys Theatre Company, including theatre alumni Kelt Eccleston (BFA) and Ross Desprez (BFA '92) produced their show Good Timber: Songs and Stories of the Western Loggerinconjunction with the Royal BC Museum’s BC History.The project, inspired by a collection of poems entitled Rhymes of a Western Logger by Robert E. Swanson, also included actor/musicians John Gogo and other UVic alumni Colleen Eccleston, Sarah Donald and Mark Hellman. The creative team included musical director Tobin Stokes (BMus) and theatre alumni Keith Houghton (lighting designer) (BFA '01) and Erin Macklem (costume designer) (BFA '98).