MORWYN BREBNER – Playwright, Matador Love Morwyn Brebner’s debut play, Music for Contortionist, was co-produced by the Shaw Festival and the Tarragon Theatre in 2000 and nominated for a Dora and a Chalmers award. Little Mercy’s First Murder, for which she wrote the book and lyrics, won seven Dora Mavor Moore awards, including outstanding new musical. Little Mercy’s has enjoyed successful productions elsewhere in Canada and made its American debut at the New York Fringe Festival in the fall of 2006. Morwyn first adapted The Bear and The Proposal by Anton Chekhov for the Shaw/CBC radio reading series. Both were produced at The Shaw Festival in 2006 under the title Love Among the Russians. Morwyn has translated plays including Motel Hélène, If I Had Sole Possession over Judgement Day, and Mathilde by French writer Veronique Olmi. Morwyn and has written for the television shows The Eleventh Hour, Camilla McPhee, Copper, and Dirty Work. Morwyn is a graduate of the National Theatre School and a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
Kathleen Oliver’s full-length plays include Swollen Tongues, which has had productions throughout Canada and in London, England, Carol’s Christmas and The Family Way, which were both produced in Vancouver. She has also written several shorter plays in English and French. Kathleen teaches English at Emily Carr University and is a regular contributor to The Georgia Straight, where she has been writing about theatre for the past twelve years. She is currently writing a new comedy with the working title Takes a Village.
DANIEL ARNOLD – Dramaturge Both a writer and actor, Daniel co-wrote/performed Tuesdays & Sundays, which was published twice, listed among the “Best Plays of the Year” in Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver and New York, broadcast on CBC and BBC radio, optioned for a feature film, and in 2008 received three Jessie Award nominations including “Outstanding Production”. Most recently, Daniel co-wrote/performed Any Night which premiered at the Belfry, won “Outstanding New Play” at Toronto’s Summerworks, was published, and was recently presented by The Cultch and Touchstone Theatre, receiving three Jessie Award nominations. Daniel was the 2008 protégé recipient of The Siminovitch Prize and is happy for the chance to work with these Wicked playwrights!
SETH SOULSTEIN – Playwright, Monsters in the Closet Seth
wrote, directed and performed in close to a thousand shows throughout
the US from 2002-2009 with his sketch comedy group, The Late Night
Players. He recently moved to Vancouver with his talented
and beautiful wife to work on an M.A. in Theatre for Social Change at
UBC, where he performed as Montague/Brother John in this year’s
Romeo & Juliet. More recently, he was Assistant Director of
You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living (Black Pants Productions).
He also co-founded the Harry Potter Alliance, a non-profit aimed at
inspiring people around the world to fight for social justice by
looking at issues through the lens of the Harry Potter novels.
MARISA SMITH – Director Marisa
is thrilled to be directing and producing Wicked
Shorts!
This show will be her third consecutive BYOV at the Vancouver Fringe.
The past two years she produced and performed in Tape
at the Waldorf Hotel and in Confessions
at Agro Café. While completing her BFA in Theatre at UVIC, Marisa
gained inspiration from some wonderfully innovative directors (Britt
Small, Alisa Palmer and David Ferry), and she recently got her own
taste for directing with The
Little Things (Walking
Fish Festival). Favourite acting credits include As
You Like It
(VSS), Woyzeck
Songspiel
(Ecco Homo), Carnage
(Pi Theatre), The
Crackwalker
(Vancouver Fringe), And
This is This One
(Walking Fish Festival) and The
Shoes
(Belfry Incubator Project). Recently, Marisa appeared in an episode
of Stargate
Universe.
Coming up Marisa can be seen in The
Power of Yes
(United Players) and in 2011 she will perform in Burning
In
(Gateway Theatre). Elizabeth is a Vancouver-based actor who splits her time between Calgary and home. Here you may have seen her in Macbeth (Limbo Circus Theatre – Summer '09), dressed all in yellow for Sugar (The Only Animal – HIVE3). And this year Elizabeth is taking a stab at directing as well by assisting Nathan Medd on The Assembly Line by Paulo Ribeiro, at the Walking Fish Festival. She is also performing in another awesome Fringe show, LoveSong, written and directed by Melissa Haller playing at the Edmonton Fringe and here in Vancouver at Studio 16. Elizabeth is a graduate of the U of C acting program and will be returning to Theatre Calgary for her fifth year as Belle in A Christmas Carol and soon after is happily making her professional Shakespeare debut as Hero in Much Ado about Nothing, also at Theatre Calgary.
GUY CHRISTIE – Actor
Guy began his post secondary training in acting at The Actor's Working Academy and continued his study of the craft at Vancouver Film School. He also trained for several years with Warren Robertson who helped refine his method. Guy’s stage credits include musicals such as Grease, West Side Story, Joseph, and Once Upon A Mattress (Capitol Theatre). He performed in Power Plays, a collaboration by Elaine May and Allan Arkin (Havana Theatre) and produced and performed in Melville Boys by Canadian playwright Norm Foster (Studio 704). Recent feature film credits include supporting and lead roles in Sweet Amerika (MMM Films), Nest of Angels (Ripped Hyde Ent.) and City of Vendettas (Wandering Gecko Ent). He’s currently filming the comedy Jackhammer(Silent H Productions). For more info visit http://www.jackhammerfilm.com/
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