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STEWART ARNOTT (GUEST DIRECTOR) Stewart has been a theatre artist for over 30 years, and has acted and directed
across Canada. As a director, he has had ongoing relationships with Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Amadeus),
Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg (Kilt, Master Harold and the Boys, Strawberries in January) and the Great Canadian
Theatre Co. in Ottawa (Patience, It’s All True, Unity 1918, Democracy). In the spring of 2009,
he directed the world premiere of Paula Wing’s Pobby & Dingan at LKTYP.
He has been a company member over multiple seasons with The Stratford Festival, the Atlantic Theatre Festival and Autumn Angel Repertory. Recently,
Stewart appeared in fu-GEN’s lady in the red dress, played “Pozzo” in the acclaimed Modern Times Co. production
of Waiting for Godot, “The Man” in the premiere of Brendan Gall’s The Card Trick (The Gladstone Variations),
starred in the Canadian premiere of Edward Albee’s The Goat(Great Canadian Theatre Co.), and played in the Toronto premiere production
of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot(Birdland Theatre). Recent television and film appearances have included Leslie, My Name
is Evil, Regenesis, and Love, Sex and Eating the Bones.
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BRENDA BAZINET (GUEST DIRECTOR, TV ACTING) Brenda is an actor, director and acting instructor. With over 30 years experience,
she has performed on stages across the country and appeared in over 80 film and television projects. Some of her recent acting credits for
the theatre include: Ring Round the Moon, The Wild Duck ( Soulpepper); Old Love (Lighthouse Festival Theatre); The
Goat, Equus (Citadel Theatre); The Price (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Ashes to Ashes (Summerworks); Death of
a Salesman (Neptune Theatre); End of Civilization (Factory Theatre); Leaving Home (Blyth Festival). Recent television credits
include: Flashpoint, Burn Up, MVP, Custody, Sins of the Father, This is Wonderland, Redemption, Puppets
Who Kill, Rabbittown and A Grief Shared (Gemini Award). Her recent directing credits include: Problem Child, Adult
Entertainment, Featuring Loretta (Fanshawe College); Love List (Iguana Productions, Mexico), Blown Sideways Through
Life (Toronto Fringe Festival – Best of the Fringe); Of the Fields Lately (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Sea, Under
Milk Wood (Actors Repertory Company). Brenda has become a much sought after acting instructor and has taught for George Brown Theatre
School, Ryerson University (Act II), Fanshawe College, Equity Showcase, ACTRAWORKS, Armstrong Acting Studio, the Women in the Director’s
Chair Program (Banff) and Humber College (Acting for Film and Television Program).
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MARK BROWNELL (CREATIVE PROCESS) is an award winning Canadian playwright and co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife
and partner Sue Miner. Awards: Nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for his play, Monsieur d'Eon. He also received a Dora
Mavor Moore Award for his libretto Iron Road and a Dora Mavor Moore Award Nomination for Medici Slot Machine.
Other work includes The Barbeque King, The Martha Stewart Projects, Playballs, High Sticking - Three Period Plays, The
Chevalier St. George, The Storyteller’s Bag and The Weaving Maiden.
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LEAH CHERNIAK (CLOWN) Leah Cherniak is the Co-Founder with Martha Ross of Theatre Columbus in Toronto. The company has
created over 30 new plays. The company concentrates on creating high quality collectively created shows that are developed over several years. The
company also has an excellent reputation for innovative productions of classics. Leah studied theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. As
an actor she performed in many roles for Theatre Columbus. She created the part of Jelly in The Attic, The Pearls &Three Fine Girls,
which is published and produced in theatres across the country. For Theatre Columbus she has directed most of the company’s
repertoire, including Hotel Loopy, Gynty (an adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt), The Barber of Seville,
(adapted by Michael O’Brien), Paranoia, Lonely Nights and Other Stories, Ratbag (by Martha Ross and John Millard,
co-directed with Peter Hinton), The Betrayal, (Chalmers Award for Playwriting), The Cherry Orchard, and Twelfth Night,
among many others. Leah co-created and directed the multi-award winning play, The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine. This play
has been produced in Canada from Whitehorse to Labrador and all over the world, including Cuba, Czechoslovakia and Los Angeles. As a freelance
director Leah has directed plays for many theatres in Toronto, including The Tarragon Theatre; John and Beatrice, by Carol Frechette, Past
Perfect by Michel Tremblay and Rune Arlidge, by Michael Healey; The Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People; The Diary of Anne
Frank, The Miracle Worker, and New Canadian Kid by Dennis Foon; Factory Theatre The Crimson Veil, by Allan Cole. Leah
directed I Claudia by Kristen Thomsen at the Thousand Islands Playhouse and Schoolhouse by Leanna Brodie at The Blyth Festival
and John Mighton’s The Little Years, a co-production between Neptune Theatre and The National Arts Centre. She directed an adaptation
of John Gabriel Borkman by Ibsen in a co-production with Soulpepper. Most recently she directed Beckett's Happy Days at
The National Arts Centre. Leah teaches theatre at The Ryerson Theatre Program, York University and University of Toronto.
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MAURIZIO DODARO (DRAMATIC LITERATURE, ON THE TOWN) Maurizio holds a BA Honours
in Italian Studies and History from York University, a MA in Italian Studies from the University of Toronto, a MA in Drama from the University
of Toronto and is currently completing his PhD in Drama at U of T. His theatre work has included: dramaturge for Verdi's Don Carlos for
the Chicago Opera House, Julius Caesar for the Stratford Festival, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and The Clairvoyant for
the Drama Centre at the U of T.; producer for San Pascal Baylon and Qui Fra Noi Facendoci Compagnia at the Alumni Theatre, U
of T and Mozart and Salieri: An Operatic Paraphrase After Rimsky – Korsakov and Mozart at the Robert Gill Theatre; costume designer
for Il Re Cervo (Robert Gill Theatre); The Transfiguration, The Annunciation and The Last Judgement (the York Cycle Plays); The
Cabot Voyages (Campiello Players). In addition to George Brown College, Maurizio has taught at the Columbus Centre, Ryerson University and
the York Catholic District School Board.
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ALEX FALLIS (THEATRE HISTORY) Alex Fallis has been involved with George Brown in
a variety of ways over the past twelve years. He has taught history courses for both the IPAC and professional programs, Monologue class in the
professional program, acted in The Bewitched with the 1999 graduating class and directed Tales from the Brothers Grimm. As a
performer he has worked at the Shaw and Charlottetown Festivals, in the development of new work for companies such as Factory Theatre, Canadian
Stage and Native Earth Productions, as well as across the country at The National Arts Centre, the Citadel, the Belfry, YPT, Canadian Stage and
Manitoba Theatre for Young People. He also has extensive credits in the musical realms, working with companies such as Opera Atelier, and Livent,
Inc. His interests range from the classical to the experimental in both text-based and musical theatre.
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SHARRY FLETT (MONOLOGUE) Sharry Flett returned to The Shaw Festival for her twenty-first season
in 2009 appearing in Sunday in the Park with George and Star Chamber. Last
season she appeared in Getting Married and The Little Foxes. Ms Flett has appeared in over 40 productions at the Shaw
including: A Month in the Country, Summer and Smoke, High Society, The Magic Fire, The Autumn
Garden, Major Barbara (1998 & 2005), Man and Superman (2004), Floyd Collins, Blood Relations, His
Majesty, The Return of the Prodigal (2001, 2002), Six Characters in Search of an Author (2000, 2001), A Woman of No
Importance, Getting Married (1989, 1999), Rebecca, Major Barbara (1998), Joy, Hobson's Choice, The
Seagull, The Secret Life, The Hollow, Calvalcade (1995), Busman's
Honeymoon, Eden End, The Silver King, Lulu, Hedda Gabler, Misalliance (2003, 1991), Night
Must Fall, Berkeley Square, Dangerous Corner, Once in a Lifetime, and War and Peace. Ms Flett earned
two music degrees from McGill University before studying theatre at the Webber-Douglas Academy in London, England. She began her career in musical
theatre at Charlottetown, and soon branched out into non-musical roles. In 1981 she played Kate to Len Cariou`s Petruchio in The Taming of
the Shrew at the Stratford Festival. She appeared at Stratford for three seasons in She Stoops to Conquer, The Misanthrope, The
Tempest, and Translations. She also appeared in Company at Centre Stage; as Nora in A Doll’s House at Theatre
London; and as Ellen Dean in Wuthering Heights, Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire and in An Inspector
Calls at Theatre Aquarius. She also served as Assistant Director on the Canadian Stage Company production of Passion. Ms Flett`s
television work has been recognized with Best Actress Emmy and Gemini nominations for War Brides and a Best Supporting Actress Gemini
nomination for The Suicide Murders. Her impressive array of television and film credits includes the starring role in 35 episodes of Full
House with Sharry Flett for TVO, as well as appearances on CBC Sunday Arts, Eleventh Hour, Forever Knight, Street Legal, Secret Service
Top Cops for CTV, and Jane of Lantern Hill for Sullivan Productions. Recently she was seen in Shades of Black for
CTV. She currently teaches between seasons at George Brown Theatre School and partners with fellow Shaw Ensemble member Guy Bannerman to
teach a specialized course on the manners and social history of Shaw’s lifetime, which has been taken to several theatre schools and universities. She
recently served as etiquette coach to Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange on the HBO film Grey Gardens.
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SIMON FON (STAGE COMBAT) Simon Fon has taught thousands of people in stage combat, from
coast to coast, over the past 18 years. He is a member of Fight Directors Canada, and holds the title of Fight Master. As a stunt
coordinator he most recently worked on Disney’s Power Rangers In Training, and just finished coordinating fights for Spiderman the
DVD training spot. Some recent stunt performing credits include series stunt double (season III) for the character of "Jesse" on
the TV series Mutant X. Hemingway vs Callaghan for CBC, Earth: Final Conflict, Prince Charming-HBO and Tracker for
TV/Film. Simon also worked on the Genie Award winning short Hangman’s Bride as Fight Director and actor. In theatre
Simon has worked at Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, YPT/Lorraine Kimsa, The Grand Theatre (London),
Theatre by the Bay (Barrie). Simon has also worked on the Dora-nominated Romeo & Juliet - Remixed with eXpect theatre/Spark
productions, and with Robin Phillips on Mill on the Floss for Soulpepper Theatre at the World Stage. He teaches at George Brown College,
University of Toronto, York University, Banff Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Equity Showcase
- Players Academy, Rapier Wit Studio, and Fight Directors Canada National workshops (96, 97, 01, 02, 03, 04). www.simonfon.ca
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LESLIE FRENCH (MOVEMENT, VOCAL MASQUE) is an internationally
recognized movement teacher and coach. Leslie is beginning her 25th year as movement teacher at George Brown College. As well as teaching
at George Brown, Leslie is a movement coach at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival where she previously taught for 8 years in the Birmingham Conservatory
for Classical Theatre Training. Until recently Leslie taught in the evenings at her own school The Centre of Movement where she originally studied.
After five years of intensive study in body wisdom, modern dance, mime, improvisation and composition with Til Thiele, former master teacher and
principal of the Mary Wigman School in Berlin, Til passed on The Centre of Movement to Leslie. Working with the question 'what is important for
an actor' she began to develop her own innovative and personal approach to teaching the actor process in movement terms. She is one of the first
people in Canada to teach movement specifically for the actor. As well as George Brown, Leslie has taught at the Maggie Basset Studio, Ryerson's
Act Two Studio, Theatre Ontario's Summer Intensive, Harbourfront, OISE and many other places. Since studying with Til Thiele, she has developed
her work further through her studies in Sensory Awareness with Charlotte Selver, Authentic Movement with Judith Koltai and Janet Adler, Syntonics
with Judith Koltai, and Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Foundation. Presently Leslie is participating in a Masterclass of Embodied Practice
with Judith Koltai. As well, she is a founding member of a recent movement research project called The Cassandra Project. Leslie is one of two
people in Canada certified by Charlotte Selver to teach the practice of Sensory Awareness. As well as teaching classes and workshops, Leslie gives
private movement sessions in Toronto.
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BRENDAN GALL (VOCAL MASQUE) A Toronto-based theatre artist, Brendan trained at George Brown Theatre School before going on to collaborate on
new Canadian works with Tarragon Theatre (Alias Godot, East of Berlin – Sterling nomination), Teatro Della Limonaia (Italian-language
production of Alias Godot), UnSpun Theatre (Panhandled, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Don’t Wake Me),
Convergence Theatre (AutoShow, The Gladstone Variations), Small Wooden Shoe (I Keep Dropping Sh*t, Dedicated to
the Revolutions), Absit Omen (Mexico City), Praxis Theatre (Pretty Tough), as well as with the Luminato Festival (The
Sound Plays) and his own companies Single Threat (A Quiet Place) and The Room (Red Machine). He also wrote and performed
in the feature film Dakota (distributed by Mongrel Media), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Winnipeg Film Festival. Named one
of the top 10 Toronto theatre artists of 2007, Brendan’s writing has been nominated for 3 Dora awards for writing since 2008. He is currently
a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre where he is working on his new play, Wide-Awake Hearts.
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TODD HAMMOND (ACTING, DIRECTOR, VOCAL MASQUE) Todd Hammond is a director, playwright, acting instructor, and is currently on
staff at the George Brown Theatre Department. His writing credits include Fish and Starker which he directed for his own company
Alchemy Theatre Projects, White/Noise/Jump (director/co-author, Parallel Exit, Best Production Award, New York International Fringe Theatre
Festival). Recent directing credits include Fanny's First Play and J. M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals for the Shaw
Festival, the Harry Somers opera A Midwinter's Dream for Soundstreams Canada and the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus. Other credits
include Short Sharp Mamet (David Mamet/Accessible Theatre), Alias Barcode (Young People's Theatre), Philip-Dimitri Galas' Performance
Hell - Avante Vaudeville (BabyJump Project - Toronto and New York), Suddenly Shakespeare and The Lost Land (Shakespeare
In Action), Peter Barnes' The Bewitched (Equity Showcase/George Brown), The Crucible (George Brown), King Lear, and
Peter Barnes' Red Noses for the York University Theatre Dept. Todd has also taught acting at the National Theatre School and York University.
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VRENIA IVONOFFSKI (MASK, COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE) Vrenia Ivonoffski studied
acting at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, mask with Phillip Gaulier, and directing at Ryerson Theatre School. She has taught at George Brown
Theatre School since 1987, Mime and Mask at Ryerson Theatre School and physical theatre workshops at the Centre of Movement, C.O.D.E. conferences
and University of Guelph. She has been Artistic Director of the Yellow Bench Theatre Company, Assistant Director at Gryphon Theatre and YPT, Associate
Director of the Young Company at the Blyth Festival, and has directed for the Huron Country Playhouse, Hole-in-the-Wall Theatre, Cabbagetown Theatre,
Black-White-and-Yiddish Project at the Ford Centre and Act II Studio, of which she has been Artistic Director since 1990. Ms Ivonoffski is also
Artistic Director of Research Based Theatre, a company which translates psychosocial research into theatrical form. Among her research-based plays
are three Canada-U.S. touring shows with the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, a show on aging with the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens
Organizations, a play for the Aboriginal Health Centre in Hamilton. Her latest play, I'm Still Here, is on living with dementia. Ms.
Ivonoffski was president of the Toronto Association of Acting Studios from 2006-09 and is now past-president.
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JOHN JARVIS (PERIOD STUDY) John has been acting, directing and teaching across Canada and abroad for many years. He graduated
from the National Theatre School in the late 70's and immediately began working in Toronto under the direction of Bill Glassco at the Tarragon
Theatre and Paul Thompson at Theatre Passe Muraille, developing and performing, primarily, new Canadian works. With Paul Thompson he entered into
the very challenging world of the "collective creation", eventually performing in countries as far off as England, Argentina, Paraguay
and Peru (improvised live and in Spanish) and more recently in the Republic of Georgia where he and his fellow artists performed at the famed
Sardapi Theatre in the capital T'bilisi (improvised live and in Georgian). John spent three years at the Stratford Festival under the direction
of the legendary John Hirsch where he had his baptism of fire performing Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Sylvius in As
You Like It, Trinculo in The Tempest, Aumerle in Richard II with Brian Bedford, and Malcolm in Macbeth. Since
that time he has performed in most regional theatres across Canada in works as diverse as Death of a Salesman at the Neptune Theatre
and The Weir at Canadian Stage and MTC in Winnipeg . More recently he has performed Prospero in The Tempest, Berowne in Love’s
Labour’s Lost, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and Banquo in Macbeth all under the direction of two of Canada
's great directors, Michael Shamata and Miles Potter. John gave award-nominated performances in 1492 with Theatre Columbus, Later
Life for The Grand Theatre and Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych for the Tarragon as well as Morgan in "The Drawer
Boy" for Theatre Passe Muraille. John began directing with The Farm Show for the Perth Summer Theatre, We Won’t
Pay, We Won’t Pay, the superb Dario Fo comedy, for the Straw Hat Players, and most recently Leaving Home and Saltwater
Moon, by Canadian favorite David French, for the Blyth Festival. In the last few years John has spent a lot of his time down at the
Young Centre with the Soulpepper Theatre Company, performing among other things, Editor Webb in the hugely successful production of Our Town and
Jacob Marley and all the ghosts in the classic A Christmas Carol. As well, John has enjoyed a number of years teaching the students at
George Brown Theatre School, first as a Monologue coach, then as co-director of the second year period study journey with the remarkable Jeannette
Lambermont-Morey, and the first year Shakespeare scene study class with Dixie Seatle. All of this work has been rounded out with many years
of involvement in film, most recently "Zombie Dearest" as well as television and radio drama in and around Toronto and beyond.
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PAM JOHNSON (CONTACT IMPROVISATION) Pam Johnson has been dancing, choreographing and teaching in Toronto
for 27 years. She has danced for many choreographers including: Dave Wilson, Susan McKenzie, Darcey Callison, Viv Moore, Kaeja D'Dance and most
recently Kathleen Rea. Her choreography has appeared in fFida, Dances for a Small Stage, and Danceworks and Square Zero. Her most
recent show Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? premiered in June 2009. She has been commissioned to create work for the MacMaster
Dancers, composer John Oswald, Kid in the Hall Bruce McCullough, actor/playwright Diane Flacks and performance artist Phillip Barker, Flight Works
dance co. and Taiko drummers, Raging Asian Women. She is a founding member of High Xposure: Rock Climbing Dance Theatre and dance buskers, Bo
Mon 7 Pagolac. Pam’s theatre credits include: Myth Me and By a Thread (Mythproductions), Gravity Calling (Tarragon), Marx
in Soho (Canadian premier and tour), The Stranger and Timbuck2 (Praxis Theatre). Her film credits include features Zero
Patience and Million Dollar Babies and many independent films. She has toured the world as an actor/dancer with the acclaimed Canadian
Opera Co. production, Bluebeard¹s Castle/Erwartung directed by Robert LePage. Pam’s specialty is Contact Improvisation.
She is co-coordinator of the Toronto Contact Jam, now in its 30th year. She was co-coordinator of the Festival of Interactive Physics and
is the Artistic Director of the Contact Improvisation Mentoring Project and the creator of the Radical Art History Project and Physical Theatre
for the 21st Century workshop series. She is a faculty member in theatre at Humber College, George Brown College and the School for Toronto Dance
Theatre.
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DEBORA JOY (VOICE) B.Mus (University of Toronto), MFA (York University). A professional actor/singer for 25 years, Debora
is presently the voice professor at the George Brown Theatre School in Toronto where she has taught for 12 years. She holds a voice performance
degree (BMus) from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Fine Arts in Directing (MFA) from York University. She studied extensively with
master teachers David Smukler, Richard Armstrong, Patricia Kern and Mary Morrison, and attended both the National Voice Intensive in Vancouver
as well as Shakespeare and Company in Lennox, Massachusetts, where she studied with Kristin Linklater. She has also taught voice for actors at
York University, the University of Windsor, Erindale College (UofT), and at Players’ Academy. She taught singing in the Musical Theatre
Department at Sheridan College for 10 years and continues to teach voice and singing in her studio in the Beaches neighbourhood in Toronto. Her
private students include Equity artists Alison Somerville (Mamma Mia, Rocky Horror Picture Show), Kirk Hanson(Stratford Festival), Stephanie
Hutchison (West Side Story – National Ballet), Christine Horne (The Stone Angel – the film) and John Bourgeois (The
Tempest – MTC). Debora also worked intensively with Sharon Brooks on her first album, A Taste of Life. (Sharon wrote in her
CD liner notes, “Deb Joy, you have brought out the real Sharon”.) Debora has also worked with Marina Adam, lead singer of “mind
of a squid”, and with Tara Orem, the finalist in Canadian Idol and winner of the East Coast Music Awards 2008. A Tyrone Guthrie award
winner, Debora spent five seasons at the Stratford Festival and toured with the company to Broadway and the Old Vic in London, England with Brian
Macdonald's productions of The Mikado and HMS Pinafore. She spent three seasons at the Stephenville Festival in Newfoundland
and has performed in many shows for Huron Country Playhouse and Lighthouse Festival Theatre among other summer theatre festivals over the years.
Equally at home in plays, musicals and contemporary opera, her favourite professional credits include the title role of Evita, Emily
Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, Aggie Rose in the Canadian opera The Boiler Room Suite, Mme. Gobineau in The Medium,
Cecily Pidgeon in The Odd Couple (directed by Martha Henry) and Portia (understudy) in Julius Caesar (directed by Richard Monette). This
past summer, Debora worked with the Soulpepper Academy Artists and she just returned from her 3rd year working for the Jsano Summer Program. Debora
is proud to part of the George Brown theatre school faculty, and she is prouder still of the past, present and future graduates of this illustrious
school.
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JEANNETTE LAMBERMONT-MOREY
(PERIOD STUDY, MONOLOGUE) Jeannette Lambermont-Morey has directed major productions in major theatres across Canada and the United States,
from the Stratford Festival, to the Virginia Stage Company; including such theatres as The Citadel (Edmonton), The Great Canadian Theatre Company
(Ottawa), Atlantic Theatre Festival (Nova Scotia), Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg), Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton) the Thousand Islands Playhouse
(Gananoque), Talk is Free Theatre (Barrie), the Muskoka Festival (Gravenhurst) and Huron Country Playhouse (Grand Bend); and Toronto theatres,
Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, Harbourfront Centre, and The Toronto International Fringe Festival, etc. Jeannette directed the World Leaders
Tributes to Harold Pinter and Robert Rauschenberg as part of the internationally acclaimed Series produced by Harbourfront at the Liberty Grand
in the fall of 2001. That year also marked her 8th season with the Stratford Festival in Ontario, where she directed Henry V. Other
significant Stratford Festival productions include As You Like It (2000), Pride and Prejudice (1999) and The Miracle Worker (1998).
In earlier years at the Festival she directed Titus Andronicus, The Grand Inquisitor and Swan Song (1989 and 1990),
as well as serving as collaborating director onThe Comedy of Errors and The Relapse (1989) and assisting Richard Monette on The
Taming of the Shrew (1988) and John Neville onOthello (1987). Her hit production ofThe Syringa Tree (The Citadel)
won a Sterling Award for Liisa Repo-Martell; and her productions ofTwelfth Nightin High Park (Canadian Stage) and Digging For Fire (Paramour
Productions) were both nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Production. Favorite projects have included As You Like
It for BlueBridge Rep Theatre in Victoria, Private Lives at the Atlantic Theatre Festival, The Beauty Queen of Leenane at
the Virginia Stage Company with Eileen Brennan, and also at the Manitoba Theatre Centre with Rosemary Dunsmore. Doc (Great Canadian Theatre
Co., Ottawa ), Moving Day by Cathy Elliott (TIFT), Where is Kabuki?(Factory Theatre, Toronto), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Juilliard
School , N.Y.), to name only a few. She also produced and directed the CBC's live show Get Set for Life for a cross-Canada tour and the
Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts at Harbourfront. Jeannette works extensively in college and university theatre programs
as a director and instructor. Among her regulars are George Brown College, York University, the Juilliard School (NY), the University of Alberta,
Ryerson University, Dartmouth College (NH) and the University of Victoria.
Recently Jeannette directed Sophocles’ Oedipus trilogy The Thebans, translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker, at the University of
Calgary. At George Brown College she has directed War and Peace, The Beau Stratagem, Lion in the Streets, Rites, Wild
Honey and Bon Ton & The Lying Valet as well as the Annual Period Study exercise. Jeannette is passionately devoted to
the development and dramaturgy of new work. She is currently working with Cathy Elliott on her musicals Silas Marner and Fireweeds. She
is also Executive Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada. Jeannette lives in Oshawa with her husband, fiction writer and computer
special effects compositor Mike Morey, and their daughter Micaela.
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C. KENNEDY MacKINNON (SHAKESPEARE) Kennedy MacKinnon holds a MFA in Acting,
a Diploma in Voice Teacher Training (York University) and a BFA in Acting (University of Windsor). Also known as Cathy, she is
the founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare Link Canada. With SLC Kennedy has spent the last five years working in Mozambique where she co-created/co-directed Romeo
and Juliet, Medida Por Medida, A Tempestade, and Sonho Noctourno. She co-adapted/co-directed Death of a Chief for
Native Earth Performing Arts at the NAC/Buddies in Bad Times. She is currently working on Romeo and Juliet - Signing the Bard which will
go into production Fall 2010. She has spent the last ten years as Head of Voice at Humber College where she also teaches Acting (Shakespeare).
She spent three seasons as a Voice Coach at the Stratford Festival of Canada where she also spent time working with the Conservatory for Classical
Theatre Training and the education department. In Denver, Colorado, Kennedy interned as assistant to Gary Logan (Head of Voice and Speech)
at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts/National Theater Conservatory. She has taught and given workshops at a variety of
places including Native Earth Performing Arts, Ryerson (Act II), Equity Showcase Theatre, University of Windsor, York
University, Indigenous Theatre School, Randolph School for the Performing Arts, Young People's Theatre and the National
Voice Intensive. Kennedy coaches for film, television and radio and at theatres around Toronto and surrounding area. She is an actor,
director, stage manager and a certified Reflexologist. By either name, she is, as always, privileged to be here.
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ROBERT McCOLLUM (DANCE) Robert started his career in New York City as a scholarship
student at the Joffrey Ballet and as an artist-in-residence at St. John Divine Cathedral with the Omega Dance Company. In 1978 Robert came
to Toronto to dance with Ballet Ys and toured Canada, which he loved, and has been based here ever since. In addition to teaching at George
Brown Theatre School, Robert is the Adult Ballet Program Director at Canada’s National Ballet School. As a choreographer, his work
has been seen across Canada with Ballet Ys, Danseast and Sharon, Lois and Bram and in such theatre productions as Sunday in the Park with
George, The Threepenny Opera, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre (among many, many others at George Brown Theatre
School), Monsieur D’eon is a Woman (Pea Green Productions), Maestro Orpheus (Centre in the Square in Kitchener) and Love’s
Labour’s Lost (Resurgence Theatre).
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SUE MINER (CAREER STUDIES) Versed in both classical text and new work Sue Miner is a freelance director and co-artistic director
of Pea Green Theatre Group with her husband Mark Brownell. Recent credits include The Tempest (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park) The
Fantasticks (Red Barn Theatre) the opera Orphea and the Golden Harp (Jeunesses Musicales/ Theatre Cotton Robes) I Love You Forever
and More Munsch (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Dora Winner) Celine Speaks (Fringe of Toronto), and Sexy Laundry (Theatre
Aquarius). Other notable productions include Bella Donna (Burning Passions/ Some Strange Reason), Women Beware Women (Theatre
Erindale), Sunday in the Park with George (George Brown/Equity Showcase), Le Chevalier St. Georges (Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra), Titus
Andronicus (Dora Nomination) and Measure for Measure (both for Shakespeare in the Rough). Her work with Pea Green includes the musical The
Barbeque King, Conservatives in Love, Medici Slot Machine (Dora Nomination), Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman (Dora Nomination), Playballs, The
Blue Wall (Dora Nomination) and Orchidelerium (Dora Nomination).
As well as garnering several Dora nominations, Sue has been thrice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for body of work in directing and
has been twice touted as one of Toronto’s Top-10 theatre artists by NOW Magazine, and was on the Long List for the Siminovitch Prize for
Directors. She has participated in the Tapestry New Opera Works Director's Lab and the Director’s Masterclass at the World Stage Festival
studying with Yoshi Oida, Phillida Lloyd and Peter Brook among others. Sue also teaches at Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Dept. And has
also taught for Theatre Ontario and the Toronto District School Board as a guest artist.
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CHRISTOPHER NEWTON (GUEST DIRECTOR) is a Canadian director and actor and
served as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival from 1980-2002. Newton
was born in England and educated at Sir Roger Manwood's School in Kent, the University
of Leeds, Purdue University in Indiana and
the University
of Illinois, where he earned his M.A. He performed with the Canadian Players, at the Manitoba
Theatre Centre, the Vancouver Playhouse and the Stratford
Festival, where he played such roles as Oberon in A
Midsummer Night's Dream and Aramis in The
Three Musketeers. He also appeared on Broadway in Peter
Shaffer's The Private Ear.
In 1968, Newton founded Theatre Calgary where he served as
Artistic Director until 1971 when he was appointed Artistic Director of Vancouver Playhouse. In 1979 he accepted an appointment as Artistic Director
of the Shaw Festival. During his tenure, Newton continued the work to expand and enrich the Shaw Festival repertory company. Newton directed
a number of critically acclaimed productions, including George
Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1983), Heartbreak
House (1985), Major Barbara (1987), Man
and Superman(1989), Misalliance (1990), Pygmalion (1992), Candida (1993)
and You Never Can Tell (1995),
as well as Henry Arthur Jones's The Silver King, William
Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, Harold Brighouse's Hobson's
Choice, Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, J.M.
Barrie's Peter Pan, St. John Hankin's The Return of the Prodigal, and Noel
Coward's Cavalcade. He also continued to appear as an actor at The Shaw, taking a series of small roles in one of the company's greatest
successes, Derek Goldby's production of Edmond
Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac,
as well as playing lead roles in Noel Coward's Private Lives and Granville Barker's The Secret Life. As Artistic Director,
he brought in such directors such as Tadeusz Bradecki, Derek Goldby, Denise
Coffey, Jackie Maxwell and Neil
Munro. Newton also carefully developed the acting company, cultivating talented younger actors with challenging roles and effectively turning
company members Jim Mezon, Heath Lamberts, and Fiona
Reid into stars. Newton also widened the mandate of the Shaw Festival (the performance of plays written and set in Bernard
Shaw's lifetime, 1856-1950) by programming the works of lesser known playwrights such as Granville
Barker, whose entire oeuvre was performed at the Shaw Festival in a series of highly praised productions directed by Neil Munro. Since
his departure from the Shaw, he has worked as a freelance director and actor for companies such as the Canadian
Opera Company, the Vancouver Playhouse, and Theatre Calgary.
He has also returned to the Shaw Festival in 2004 to direct Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and in 2005 to direct R.C.
Sherriff's Journey's End. Christopher Newton's
awards include the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, the Molson
Prize; and, from the United
States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Thomas DeGaetani Award, all honoring his lifetime contribution to the theatre.
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LAUREL PAETZ (MONOLOGUE) Ms Paetz studied at the University of Alberta, Studio 58 (Langara College), Concordia University and York University. Her
acting credits include: (film/television) Black Iris, Captive/Asylum, Arrival II, The Sleep Room, Whiskers, Street
Legal, Bordertown Café; (theatre) Bedroom Farce (Arts Club), Macbeth, The Mail Order Bride, A Streetcar Named
Desire (Globe Theatre), Twelfth Night, The Fighting Days, Sisters (Prairie Theatre Exchange), The Occupation of Heather Rose (Manitoba
Theatre Centre), Mirandolina, End of the World Romance (Blyth Festival), Bushfire, The Glorious Twelfth, I’ll Be Back Before
Midnight (Blyth Festival), Another Season’s Promise (Citadel Theatre), Bordertown Café (Factory Theatre), The
Wedding (Alberta Theatre Projects). Ms Paetz has also taught Voice and Movement at Humber College, Voice, Speech and Acting at York
University.
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JORDAN PETTLE (SCENE STUDY) Jordan has worked as an actor at theatres across the country. Selected credits
include: Soulpepper (Waiting For Godot, The Long Valley, She Stoops To Conquer, Ring Round the Moon); Factory Theatre (Essay/The
Russian Play, Zadie's Shoes, Tiger of Malaya); Tarragon (Generous, Goodness); Theatre Passe Muraille (Three Squares a Day, Small
Returns); Canadian Stage (Sunday Father, Written on Water, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth
Night). Jordan appeared for four seasons at the Stratford Festival (King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cherry Orchard, among
others). Directing credits include: Therac 25 (Factory Theatre); Terminating (SummerWorks Festival); Escape From Grace (Ryerson
Theatre School); Six Degrees of Separation (George Brown Theatre School).
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DIANA REIS (ACTING, SCENE STUDY, INTRODUCTION TO MONOLOGUE) Ms
Reis trained at the National Theatre School, HB Studio in New York and The Centre for Actors' Study in Toronto (CAST). Ms. Reis is best known
to television audiences as the notorious Stephanie Long on CBC's Riverdaleand saintly Lucy Ramone (Busy's mom) on Ready or Not.
She has appeared in over thirty TV series, movies of the week and feature films and worked with such esteemed directors as John Huston, Robert
Altman, Allan King, Lee Grant and Kinji Fukusaku. Most recently, she played principal roles in the LIFETIME film Taken in Broad Daylight and
on the CTV series Flashpoint. Theatre highlights include: The Diary of Anne Frank (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Amadeus, The
Little Foxes (Asolo State Theatre); Top Girls (Arbour Theatre); Salt-water Moon, A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre
Aquarius); A Doll’s House (Banff Centre); Hedda Gabler, Waiting for the Parade (Magnus Theatre) and Charlie's
Aunt(Capitol Theatre). Ms Reis' directing credits include: Loose Ends(National Theatre School); Under the Skin, If
Betty Should Rise (Grand Theatre, London) and over 30 concert play readings for The First Stages Theatre Company of which she is the former
and founding Artistic Director.
She has been an acting coach on over 25 films and TV movies. In addition to her long time association with George Brown Theatre School, Ms Reis
has taught and directed at Florida State University, Equity Showcase, Sheridan College, Ryerson University, The Armstrong Acting Studio, Humber
College, The National Theatre School of Canada, the National Ballet of Canada and at her own professional theatre training workshop.
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MARIA RICOSSA (MONOLOGUE) Maria Ricossa has worked in film, television and theatre for over 20 years.
She has appeared in regional theatres across Canada and the U.S. including four seasons at the Stratford Festival playing leading roles in King
Lear, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and Love's Labour’s Lost and most recently, Gertrude in Hamlet. Other
credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Sisters Rosensweig at The Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Taming of
the Shrew at Skylight Theatre, House of Blue Leaves at Theatre Aquarius, Necessary Angel’s production of Tamara for
The World Stage in Toronto, Bea’s Niece at the Tarragon Theatre and most recently Crave at Nightwood Theatre. In
television Maria was a series lead on CBC’s Street Legal and Riverdale and has had recurring roles on CTV’s Degrassi,
the Next Generation and Missing. Currently she has a recurring role on the new series Da Kink in my Hair. Maria has
played leading roles in numerous Movies of the Week; most recently Death in Paradise with Tom Selleck, Find John Christmas with
Peter Falk and has just completed shooting guest starring roles in the new series’ Warehouse 13 and Flashpoint. Among
Maria’s feature film credits are The In-Laws in which she starred opposite Albert Brooks and Michael Douglas, The Cry of the
Owl and the independent Canadian film Some Things That Stay. In addition to George Brown Theatre School, Maria teaches Acting
at UTSC.
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ED SAHELY (GROUP IMPROVISATION) Ed Sahely has an extensive history with Improvisation. He worked with the renowned Second City
Company for seven years and received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his work on the Toronto Mainstage. Ed presently teaches at the Second City Training
Centre. He is one of the co-creators and performers of the improvised television series This Sitcom is Not to be Repeated which aired
on The Comedy Channel and CTV. Ed has appeared on many television shows and films. Ed recently improvised at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival which
was recorded for the CBC.
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DIXIE SEATLE (SHAKESPEARE) Dixie Seatle is a two time Gemini award winner, who has performed in numerous
stage, film and television productions across Canada. Selected theatre credits - Stratford Festival: Ideal Husband, Othello,
Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, Little Women, Equus, Orpheus Descending. Great Canadian Theatre Company: The Goat,
Patience. Tarragon: Impromptu on Nuns Island. Canadian Stage: Thirteen Hands, Glorious. Citadel: Fallen Angels.
Manitoba Theatre Centre: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ashes, Cyrano de Bergerac: Saidye Bronfman Centre: Moon for
the Misbegotten. Film credits include: The Piano Man’s Daughter, Ticket to Heaven (Genie Nomination), Lives of the Saints,
Jacob Two Two, and Joe’s So Mean to Josephine. Television credits include: The Salem Witch Trials, The Lady in Question,
The Gilda Radner Story, Hedda Gabler, and featured guest roles on many Canadian series, including Due South, Doc, Street Legal,
and The Associates, and most recently Murdoch Mysteries. She was nominated for an ACTRA awards for A Population of One, I
Love a Man in a Uniform, and the CBC series A Gift to Last. She has won Gemini awards for her continuing roles in the series Adderly (CBS)
and Paradise Falls (Showcase).
In addition to George Brown College, she also teaches at Armstrong Acting Studios, Centre for the Arts, and Humber College.
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JAMES SIMON (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR, SCENE STUDY, BUSINESS OF ACTING)
James Simon is a director and acting instructor. He holds an M.A. from the University of Alberta, B.A. from McGill University,
and has studied at the Banff Centre. As an instructor, Mr. Simon has taught at the University of Alberta - Department of Drama, Grant MacEwan
Community College (Edmonton), Theatre Ontario, and the Citadel Theatre. Directing credits include productions at the National Arts Centre; the
Citadel Theatre; Tarragon Theatre; Young People's Theatre; Blyth Festival; Buddies in Bad Times (Dora nomination); Stage West; Theatre Network;
Carousel Players; Theatre on the Move; University of Alberta - Department of Drama; and George Brown Theatre. Mr. Simon has been on the teaching
staff for fourteen years, and been Artistic Director of the program for ten years.
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JENNIFER
TARVER (GUEST DIRECTOR) Jennifer Tarver has been directing theatre and opera for 15 years. She recently made her Stratford debut directing
Brian Dennehy in Krapp’s Last Tape to resounding critical acclaim. She will revise this production at the Goodman Theatre
in 2010. Originally from New York, Jennifer is based in Toronto and works internationally. Her Canadian honors include best director
2007 - Now Magazine, the 2006 Pauline McGibbon Award in Directing, the 2002 John Hirsch Directors Award, and her company’s 2006 work, That
Time - Five Beckett Shorts, garnered eight Dora Award nominations and four wins, including best director and best production. In 2007,
Jennifer directed the Canadian premiers of Sarah Kane’s Crave (Nightwood Theatre), and Will Eno’s Thom Pain based on
nothing (Tarragon Theatre). A passion for classic texts as well as cutting edge contemporary work defines her career. Jennifer creates
and directs her own work through her production company Theatre Extasis (currently in development is her adaptation of Calderone’s Life
is a Dream). She is also the Associate Director at The Theatre Centre in Toronto leading their new work development program. Other
directing credits include: Zastrozzi (Stratford Festival, Ontario),
Bashir Lazhar (Tarragon Theatre), The Fall (Tarragon Theatre), Pinter’s The Dwarfs and Will Eno’s The
Flu Season (Ryerson University), her own works Not Faust and History Play (Theatre Extasis), She’s
Gone Away –a solo dance theatre piece(The Theatre Centre/Hum). Operas include Ines- a contemporary Fado opera (Queen
of Puddings Music Theatre). The Rape of Lucretia (University of Toronto), L’Enfant e les Sortilèges,
The Magic Flute, The Turn of the Screw, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Conservatory of Music).
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J. RIGZIN TUTE (MUSIC) Rigzin maintains an active career as a composer, teacher, conductor and singer. He has written incidental
music and songs for many George Brown Productions as well as Ah, Wilderness! for Shaw Festival (2004), and Love's Labour's Lost for
Resurgence Theatre (2003). In addition to teaching singing at George Brown, he maintains a private voice studio. His students have been accepted
into voice programs at the Universities of Toronto, York, Windsor, Westminster Choir College and the Berklee School of Jazz in Boston. He also
coaches professionals performing in music theatre and as soloists with such organizations as the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Kitchener-Waterloo
Philharmonic Chorus and the Elora Festival Singers. Rigzin is formerly the conductor of the University of Waterloo Concert Choir and Chamber Choir,
Guelph's Rainbow Chorus and Toronto's Interlink Choir. He has performed as a soloist with choirs and orchestras throughout North America and Europe.
He has also been featured in major operatic productions at the Spoleto Festivals in Charleston, South Carolina and Spoleto, Italy. He is a founding
member of Mirror Image, an avant-garde vocal ensemble with performances of major Canadian commissioned works for the Winnipeg Symphony and the
K-W new music festivals. Rigzin music-directed Sunday in the Park with George for George Brown/Equity Showcase, and The Threepenny
Opera and The Baker’s Wife for George Brown.
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DOROTHY WARD (SPEECH, THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, STORYTELLING, VOCAL MASQUE) Ms.
Ward was the Voice/Dialect coach at the Stratford Festival in Canada for four seasons. Her teaching credits include: George Brown College,
Ryerson University, The National Theatre School, Dalhousie University, Acadia University, the University of Saskatchewan. She has been
a visiting instructor at The Actor's Workshop in Toronto. Most recently she has worked on three Mirvish productions in Toronto: The
Sound of Music, Dirty Dancing and with Yvan Pedneault in We Will Rock You. She worked as dialect coach for A
Man of No Importance with Acting Upstage Theatre Company and Pobby and Dingan at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. She
coached George Brown graduate Brett Christopher in the one-man show I Am My Own Wife featured at the Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre,
Montreal, Quebec. She also coached Equity Showcase productions of Cloud 9 and Our Country’s Good in Toronto. Some
of her credits in feature films include: Glenne Headly in Ordinary Magic; Brenda Fricker in Swann; Giancarlo Giannini and Andy
Velasquez in Heaven Before I Die. Other dialect credits in film include: Lookalike, Wind at my Back, The Midnight
Hour, Canadian Bacon, Waiting for Michelangelo, Promise of Heaven, Dear America and Ultimate Betrayal.
She has worked with actors on set and in studio for such campaigns as Oil of Olay for North American audiences. Ms. Ward's own training has included
working with private dialect tutors at the Juilliard School of Music, New York and RADA, London, England. She holds degrees from the University
of Saskatchewan and a certificate in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England. She is a graduate of the Toronto
School of the Alexander Technique; she teaches the Alexander Technique privately in Toronto. You can visit her website at dorothyward.com.
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IAN WATSON (SHAKESPEARE SCENE STUDY) Ian Watson returns to George Brown Theatre to co-teach the First Year Shakespeare Exercise. Ian studied
at the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School under David Latham, former Principal of the Stratford Festival’s Conservatory for Classical Theatre
Training. He was a member of the Festival’s Acting Company for four seasons. Previous to that, Ian was part of The National
Arts Centre’s English Theatre Company from 1981-1984, appearing in over 11 major productions. He has also performed with the MTC,
The Grand Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Persephone Theatre, The Piggery Theatre and Theatre Lac Brôme, among others. From 2001 to 2007,
he was a full-time text teacher and coach with Stratford’s Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training. He continues to teach there
part-time. From 1996 to 2001 he was a text teacher at the National Theatre School of Canada, exploring Shakespeare with all three acting
classes. Presently, he teaches Shakespeare to both 2nd and 4th year acting students at the Ryerson Theatre School. He has also taught
at CEGEP John Abbott College, Concordia University and at the University of Waterloo. He lives in Stratford with his wife, Janine Pearson,
and his daughter, Anik.
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GINA WILKINSON (GUEST DIRECTOR) Gina Wilkinson is an actor, director, and playwright. Directing credits include: Turn
of the Screw (Belfry Theatre), Eyes of Heaven (Blyth Festival), Whistle Me Home (Summerworks Theatre Festival 2006), Moonlight
and Magnolias, Relatively Speaking, Over the River and Through the Woods (Grand Theatre), Mary’s Wedding, Mick
Unplugged (premiere, Alberta Theatre Projects), Guide to Mourning (Globe Theatre), For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Festival
Antigonish), Grace (premiere, Belfry Studio Theatre). Selected acting credits: Shining City (Citadel Theatre), Benevolence (Tarragon
Theatre), Edward Albee’s The Goat, Closer, Beard of Avon (Canadian Stage Company), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Neptune
Theatre), Blithe Spirit, Pal Joey (Grand Theatre), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Globe Theatre/National Arts
Centre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, To Kill a Mockingbird (Citadel Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much
Ado About Nothing (Festival of Classics), Skylight, Atlantis, The Attic, The Pearl and Three Fine Girls (Vancouver
Playhouse), Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet, How I Learned to Drive (Manitoba Theatre Centre, Belfry Theatre), Death
and the Maiden (National Arts Centre), The Country Wife, Death of a Salesman (Stratford Festival). Selected Film
and Television: This is Wonderland (CBC series, recurring role), Bliss (Gala Films, Showcase), Eleventh Hour, Blue
Murder. As a playwright: My Mother’s Feet (premiered at the Canadian Stage Company, 2005), Whistle Me Home (Summerworks
Theatre Festival), At the Crossroads (adaptation of Sophocles’ Theban Cycle: Concordia University). Gina is a playwright-in-residence
at the Canadian Stage Company.
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LYNN WOODMAN (VOICE & MOVEMENT) Lynn Woodman is a leading voice and movement coach and creator of The VocalPower Advantage
which helps people find their voice in order to develop a powerful presence. Woodman has had a rich and varied 30-year career working as
a professional actor, performer, teacher and facilitator. She started acting professionally age 21 in children’s theatre with the
renowned Green Thumb Players in Vancouver. Since graduating from the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School in 1979, Woodman has appeared in
more than 30 theatre productions across Canada. She also studied in New York at the prestigious HB Acting Studio, as well as at the Laban
Institute of Movement Studies. Among Woodman’s list of credits in TV and film are roles in CBC’s hit TV series Street Legal, Kids
in the Hall, Queer as Folk, Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, Street Time, Claude Jutra’s By Design, Claude
Fournier’s The Tin Flute and Silent Hill. Woodman has appeared in and done voice-overs for dozens of TV and radio
commercials including RBC, Home Hardware, Lotto-Ontario and IGA. Since 1985 Woodman has also been a teacher and facilitator working with
young actors at the Randolph Academy and George Brown College’s Theatre Department. From 1995-2003, she worked in the College’s
Continuing Education Department faculty where she created the popular course, Speak Up, Speak Out and Be Hear Heard, rated one of the Top Ten
continuing education course by Toronto Living Magazine. Woodman has worked with business people, professional speakers, performing artists,
actors, new Canadians, and students, leading and facilitating workshops and appearing as a selected guest instructor at dozens of learning institutions
and other business and acting organizations. Among them are the University of Toronto, York University, University of Guelph, University
of Waterloo, Humber College, Havergal College, Upper Canada College, the Canadian Speech Communication Association, Soul Pepper Youth Mentorship
Program and the Toronto School of Theology. Woodman is a member of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA),
the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA) and Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association (VASTA).
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