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Flush Ink Performing Arts
Presents
THE
ACTORS
It also takes
an entire village to put on a show. Ours
is growing…
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Nike
Abbott |
Nike Abbott is a native of Kitchener-Waterloo. She spent
the 90’s and the first part of the new century living in Nike read for She Speaks 2008. |
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Shirley Barrie |
SHIRLEY
BARRIE
( Shirley Barrie is a Shirley
participated in the 2007 readings of She Speaks. |
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Carol A. Badger |
Carol A. Badger is
thrilled to be involved with Flush Ink Productions for the first time. A big
thank you to Paddy and Grace! She is a graduate of the Carol read for She Speaks ‘08. |
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Terry Barna |
TERRY
BARNA
is a For those of you with Rogers Cable TV, Terry
can be seen every day co-hosting “dayime”, the region’s favourite talk show.
This summer, you will be able to see Terry at Port Stanley Festival Theatre,
performing in “Harvest”, a wonderful play about a couple who unwittingly rent
their farm house to a young man who turns it into a marijuana grow-op. Fun
times ensue! Terry read for She Speaks ‘09. |
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Helen
Basson |
HELEN BASSON has
worked in professional theatre for over 30 years. At the
Stratford Shakespeare Festival she has worked as a seamstress, design
assistant and is currently employed as Wardrobe Mistress of the Tom
Patterson Theatre. She has toured North America with the
Stratford Festival and with Toronto's Mirvish Productions working at
the great stages of Canada's National Arts Centre, Washington's Kennedy
Centre and the Virginia Theatre on Broadway (and countless theatres in
between - never Boise though). Helen also designs and co- ordinates
costumes for In her spare time Helen sings with the Grand Philharmonic Choir, enjoys Yoga classes with her husband, time with her Grandson and family and dancing with her cat. Helen
read for She Speaks ’08 & ’09. |
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Robin Bennett |
Robin Bennett is
thrilled to be a part of Flush Ink Productions. Robin most recently
appeared as Robin acted in AJS III. |
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Kristopher Bowman |
Kristopher, a
Kitchener native, has been performing since the age of fourteen. His most recent credits include, KWLT’s
production of What the Butler Saw,
and his several roles in Shaking the
Dew from the Lilies. More recently, Kris was in
Asphalt Jungle Shorts I & II, performed for She Speaks and played Hamlet
in KWLT's production of Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead Kris’s passion on the stage include improv,
clown work and dinner theatre. “Comedy in any and every form, is so
necessary today, I’m only happy to help.
If I had a wife and kids, I’d thank them for their support.” Kris is off doing some wonderful
things. Keep an eye out for him. Kris performed in Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, AJS
I, II, III and She Speaks ‘07. |
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Ashley Burton |
Ashley is an actress,
singer, dancer and educator who is an active member of the Canadian
Theatrical community. Ashley is a graduate of the Randolph Academy for the
Performing Arts where she was the recipient of the Eileen Farrell Triple
Threat Award. She is currently in her second season at
the Stratford Shakespeare Festival where she plays the “Circus Kit Kat Girl”
in CABARET and also
performed in OKLAHOMA in 2007. Favorite past credits include
“Lisa” in MAMMA MIA,
“Jasmine cover/Harem Girl” in DISNEY’S
ALADDIN, “Angie” in the Ashley plans to continue to write and perform in
her own shows while continuing her work in theater, film and television. She
also takes great pride of her continual work with the community of young
aspiring performing artists. To learn more about Ashley's work visit her
website HERE. Ashley was the
producer, director and writer of her own work, NONA’S PARTY part of UNHINGED
’08. - performed in the gazeebo on Victoria Park Isand. |
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Rachel Clark |
Growing up in the
small town of Elmira, Rachel found her true love....performing. The only problem was-she was terribly shy,
to the point of remaining completely silent.
Her parents then encouraged her to dance at Encore Dance Studio where
she trained, competed and taught for many years. In high school this once shy little girl
began vocal lessons and achieved her royal conservatory grade 8 voice
examination. In the fall of 2002
Rachel landed the role of "Anne" in KWMP's Anne of Green Gables
performed at the Centre in the Square.
The show proved to be a wonderful success and her happiest moment yet. In the winter of 2003 Rachel was scouted
and sent to dance in Hawaii at the pro-bowl half time show. That fall she began school in Toronto at
Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts.
The summer of 2005 Rachel graduated and moved home out of the city. Currently she teaches dance, and works at
group homes with the handicapped, sharing her joy of music with them. This past summer she performed in
"With a Song for Hope" at Waterloo Entertainment Centre to raise
money for cancer. Rachel is thrilled to be performing with
such a knowledgeable group of professionals, one being a memorable teacher
from Randolph. She hopes this is only
the beginning of her career to act, sing, dance and move people's spirits
through the art of theatre. Rachel
performed in AJS I. |
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Jennifer Cornish |
JENNIFER CORNISH began studying acting at
the age of 8 and has been annoying people with silly voices and obscure play
references ever since. Recent, other, theatrical credits include: Queen Milli of Galt, Les Liasons
Dangereuses, As Bees In Honey Drown,
Money And Friends, "Alien
Guest" (Galt) and Who's Afraid Of
Virginia Woolf? Plus,
she got to keep the tux. Jennifer performed in AJS III, IV & V and read for
She Speaks ’08 & ‘09. Jennifer
also performed in Quantum Entanglement, part of Unhinged, produced by Kinetic
Friction – performed at ArtBar in the Centre in the Square. |
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Nicholas Cumming |
Nicholas Cumming is a local theatre creator with a BA in Drama and
English from the University of Waterloo. He has been a company member of the
Multicultural Theatre Space since 2004. He has appeared in Exit Strategy,
Yes or No!, Seasons of Immigration, Legion of Memory I + II,
Me Here/Me Happy, Motio X Industria, and Three Legged Horse
with the MT Space; Tennessee Williams’ I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow with
Poor Tom Productions; Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II & III with Flush
Ink; and Mimetic Flesh/Mimetic Hotel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and Spring Awakening with UW Drama. He directed and wrote The
Children’s Crusade for the UPStart Fringe 2007, and HE for UPStart
2004. He is a poet and playwright currently working on several plays
with Pat the Dog, KW’s professional playwrights’ development centre. He is
also a member of the earthling collective, whose WARMER project is examining the environment and human dynamics in
a local context. Nick performed in AJS I, II, III &
V and read for She Speaks ’07 & ‘09.
Nick also performed in COPY PROTECTION in UNHINGED ’08 and TIMED RELEASE
& KITCHEN SYNC in UNHINGED ’09. |
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Deb Deckert |
Deb Deckert is a long time member of the Elmira Theatre
Company she has been recognized with numerous awards for her acting and
directing, most recently winning a coveted spot in the Western Ontario Drama
League Festival for her direction of “Ten Times Two”. Some of her favourite
roles include Carmen in “Cooking with Gus”, Annette in “Hamish” and Dolly
Levi in “Hello Dolly” with Elmira, and Lady Bracknell in “The Importance of
Being Earnest” with JM Drama of Kitchener. Deb was also in the award winning
production of “Clue, the Musical” with Theatre Guelph and has performed in
six of Guelph’s popular Spirit Walks. Deb also loves to sing, performing with
the group “Approximately Jazz Deb read for She Speaks 2008. |
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Emma Dines |
EMMA
DINES is
an Independent Studies student at the University of Waterloo, which basically
means that she gets to study whatever the hell she wants, and gets credit for
it. This wonderful program has given her the chance to study a wide range of
unconventional subjects such as contemplative practices and education,
comparative theories of yoga and theatre and ecological and cultural
sustainability. Emma loves grassroots and community theatre,
and in her first year at UW brought the Vagina Monologues to her campus,
directing the production for the first two years. She is looking forward to
taking over the KW downtown with AJSV, and bringing theatre out of the
theatre and back into the streets. Emma will be performing in FUNNY STORY & MUCK. |
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Jesse Aaron
Dwyre |
Jesse Aaron Dwyre Jesse has performed
on stages across Film work includes leading roles in Imitation as Fenton , Adam in Adam’s Wall and also Golen
in The Cats, which he recently shot
in Istanbul. Television credits include; Mary
Shelly, Apocalypse 10.5 ( NBC) and
Romeo in Shakespeare’s Words and
Music (Bravo). A native of
Kingston Ontario, Jesse is a graduate of The National Theatre School of
Canada, and The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training. Jesse read in She Speaks ’09. |
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Andrew Frey |
Andrew jumped
into theatre seven years ago and has been an enthusiastic participant ever
since. Favourite shows include Hamish
– Elmira Theatre Company, The Melville
Boys and Out of Order – Theatre
Three-Eleven, and The Weir – Next
Level Theatre. In fact, he liked The
Weir so much, he will be appearing in Theatre Three-Eleven's
production of it next spring. Andrew performed in AJS III and
played the part of Evan in WHITE NOISE – UNHINGED ’09. |
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Paddy
Gillard-Bentley |
PADDY GILLARD-BENTLEY,
most recently performed in The Vagina Monologues, Leave Taking, and
Pamphilia. Her first play, not
counting the backyard extravaganza’s where a blanket clothes-pegged to the
wash-line was the stage, was George and the Dragon. She played the Doctor, wearing a stuffed
top hat. She was six. After that, it was KWLT and Wurst Players
Around and musicals...which was great...really...’cept for all that singin’
and dancin’. Paddy had a cameo in AJS I and read for She Speaks ’07
& ‘09. |
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Athena Guy |
Athena Guy was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario. Most recently she
worked with MT Space for the 4th year in a play called Behind the Veil . A wonderful short
that presents the facts and issues amongst Muslims and their
"stereo-typed" culture. Athena is very eager to work with Director
Nicole Lee Quensel and new cast members. This play reminds Athena of British
comedy and hopes to play it quite cleverly. Athena is working on getting into
Stratford's Conservatory Program and The Banff Centre in Alberta. Her
ultimate goal is to win an Oscar! Athena performed in
DEAD CAT BOUNCE, produced by Cat Free Productions, performed beside One-eyed
Jacks. – part of UNHINGED ‘08. |
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Kate Gregg |
KATE GREGG spends a lot of her time as Aunt Dot, dressed
in wild outfits and drawing laughter from deep inside children’s
bellies. Kate has been a professional
entertainer since 1975, performing an excess of 5,000 shows. Kate is also proud to be a busker, a
predominantly male dominated profession.
Kate read for She Speaks 2008. |
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Noah Hicks |
Recently graduated from Redeemer University College with a B.A. in
Theatre Arts, Noah is a Hamilton based actor who is thrilled to be stretching
himself all the way to Kitchener. Past acting credits include Everyman in Everyman , Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof , Mark in Final Decisions (WAR), and most
recently, Snoopy in You're a Good Man
Charlie Brown , which was put on by The Essential Players, a production
company Noah helped found two years ago. As well as acting, Noah has also
built sets, hung lights, managed stages and been involved in almost every
aspect of theatrical production (they still won’t let him near makeup for
some reason). After Dead Cat Bounce finishes,
it is back to Hamilton for Theatre Ancaster's production of Beauty and the Beast . Noah is
especially grateful to his parents, who have always applauded the
loudest. Noah performed in DEAD
CAT BOUNCE, produced by Cat Free Productions, performed beside One-eyed
Jacks. – part of UNHINGED ‘08. |
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Nada Humsi |
Nada Humsi is
considered an important artist in avant-garde and experimental theatre in the
Arab world and the first female professional mime in Syria. Nada was the first
woman who wrote and performed a monodrama in Syria; The Option (1988), directed by Riad Ismat. She also
played leading roles in dozens of plays and non-verbal monodramas and toured
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, the united Arab
Emirates, France, Scheck republic, Bulgaria, Romania, India, Japan, united
states and Canada. Her recent acting credits
include parts in: The Last 15 Seconds, The other End of the line, Across the Veil, Motion X
Industria, Me… Here, Me…Happy, MT Space Theatre Company, Kitchener, Ontario, The Meet, Salam-Lotus for Art Creators, Tokamachi,
Japan, The Dawn and Twilight of a girl Named Yasmeen and Woman…Women, Mosaic Art Production, Syria and the
Canadian-Iraqi Society, York wood theatre, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Rouge and Peasants
theatre Company, Kingston, Ontario. The Unborn Child by Diana Manole, performed at the Canadian
stage Theatre. Nada was awarded: Best Actress, The
Non-Verbal International Theatre Festival, 1993, Calcutta, India; Best Performer, Toyama Theatre Festival, 1992, Toyama, Japan;
Best Actress, Carthage International theatre Festival,
Tunis, Tunisia. Nada produced and performed in
WOMAN...WOMEN in UNHINGED ’09. |
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Rusa Jeremic |
Rusa Jeremic began her studies in the York University Theatre Performance
Program and ended them with a Masters in Political Science with several
stints volunteering overseas as a Human Rights observer in between.
Naturally, working as a lobbyist and activist led Rusa full circle back to
the theatre. In 2007, growing nostalgic for her first love – comedy – Rusa graduated
from the Second City Conservatory Program. She hasn’t looked back
since. A regular at Toronto’s Bad Dog Theatre you can catch her in the popular
Harold Show or MacroNeato among others. Developing the satirical website HarperGirl is a dream come true. HarperGirl merges Rusa’s love of politics, comedy, and satire. Harper Girl Does Canada brings it to
life with hilariously ridiculous results. Rusa performed in Harper Girl
Does Canada – hot off the Canadian Fringe – for UNHINGED ’09 at Herrschner’s
Quality Crafts. |
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Brian Z. Kelly |
Brian Z. Kelly would
be writing things from plays to lyrics, he would be acting, maybe even try
his hand at directing, he would finish his short film, resume his
photographic passion, play his guitar on every decent beach in the world and
he would have a really cool puppet tv show if he could realize that his life
is no longer insanely busy. Brian excels at
flying a stunt kite perched on top of a huge hay bale, while connecting
deliveries across the country on his blackberry. He plays soccer, coaches soccer but more
than all these things, he loves to hang out with his son, Liam. He has been our M.C. for She Speaks 2007 & 2008, and
has done most of the promo shots for Asphalt Jungle Shorts. He is also on the Board of Flush Ink
Performing Arts and our Marketing Director. Brian read in BUDS for She Speaks ’09 and performed in AJS V. |
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Tracey Kenyon |
Tracey Kenyon is
proud to be working with Flush Ink Productions Inc. She has been an active
member in theatre for the past 16 years. Her favourite stage credits include Flush
Inks Productions of “Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II & III”, Elmira Theatre’s
“Ten times Two” (Constance et
al), and Theatre in the Trees’ “Funny Valentine” (Zan). Throughout the year, Tracey can also be seen
performing murder mysteries and comedy improv shows with the Mysterious
Players. Tracey
acted in AJS I, II, III, IV & V and read for She Speaks ’07, ’08 &
‘09. Tracey also performed in ROCK
‘EM DEAD produced by Mysterious Players part of UNHINGED. |
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Will Kernohan |
M r Kernohan is deliquescent and once did an advertisement for Smirnoff vodka. He collects meteorites and lives in Scotland in a house with no furniture. Will performed in Quantum Entanglement, part of Unhinged,
produced by Kinetic Friction –at ArtBar - the Centre in the Square. |
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Gary Kirkham |
GARY
KIRKHAM is a playwright, actor, filmmaker, et al. His play, Queen Milli of Galt, won the
Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition and will be part of the 2007
Blyth Festival Season. His one act
play, Look, was adapted into a short film staring Mike Peng and Alan Sapp.
His newest play, Falling: A Wake, will premiere at the Registry Theatre March
15-24, 2007! Gary is a member of Lost
& Found Theatre. He has also acted
with Theatre & Company and most recently, MT Space,
touring in their version of The Season of Immigration. Gary spent years as an improviser with
several comedy troupes including Mental Floss and was in The Second
City’s Master class. And, if you didn’t blink, you might have seen him in
several sketches on The Kids in the Hall. As a filmmaker, Gary filming Bard
on the Street, a series of Shakespearean monologues performed on
locations throughout the region. Gary performed in AJS I and read for SHE SPEAKS ’07, ’08
& ’09. |
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Mark Kochut |
MARK
KOCHUT is coming out of retirement for this AJS – on many levels. Mark got a taste for theatre in high school
in North Bay - the theatre hotbed of
North America. During his summers, his
involvement with The Unicorn Theatre honed such diverse skills as set-building
to a role in Streetcar Named Desire – “Hot tamales! Get your red-hot tamales!” Since then, he’s embarked on a quest to find
the perfect job, which may not exist. Mark enjoys ball hockey, stunt kite-flying
and online poker. He is an amateur
mycologist who most loves to spend time with his two favourite ladies – his
wife and his daughter. Mark
acted in AJS IV. |
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Carol Lewis |
CAROL LEWIS is delighted to be part of this celebration
of International Women’s Day. She is a member of several local community
theatre groups. Last summer Carol won an award at a one-act play festival as
“The Sweetest Little Mom in the World” for her role as 'Mrs. Spiller' in
‘Autumn Blooming’. Most recently Carol narrated the role of
'Death' in Distler’s ‘Dance of Death’ with the Menno Singers in Kitchener. Carol
read for She Speaks 2008 and acted in ASJ IV. |
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Ian McKellar |
IAN
McKELLAR is excited
to be a part of AJS for the first time. He has been involved in community
theatre for about five years now, working mostly with Theatre Guelph and
Elmira Theatre Company. Ian is currently attending the University of Waterloo
for Arts, and hopes to one day decide where he wants to go from there. Ian
will be performing in TOWERING PASSION, BUS MOOR & NO DICE. |
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Katharine Mills |
KATHARINE MILLS most recently appeared as Milli in Galt
Little Theatre's production of Queen
Milli of Galt. Other recent performances include stalking the Asphalt
Jungle in various guises, appearances in Poor Tom Productions' I Can't Imagine Tomorrow and Still Life In Leather, and
What!sInThere? Productions' Children's
Crusade and Copy Protection
(the latter of which was included in Unhinged 2008). She is a poet, designer, and painter,
studies singing, movement, and clown, and is perpetually fascinated by the
interconnectedness of everything. Katharine has
performed in AJS II, III, IV & V and
read for She Speaks ’08 & ‘09.
Katharine also acted in COPY PROTECTION and UNDERTOW, both part of
UNHINGED ’08 and TIMED RELEASE – UNHINGED ’09. |
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Carolina Miranda |
CAROLINA MIRANDA is a performer from Brazil, where she
was part of AGORA – CDT, a very active theatre company in her country. She
holds a B.A. in Portuguese and English Language and Literature from the Universidade
de Sao Paulo. Carolina moved to Canada in August 2003, and has since
studied with a number of eminent teachers such as Sue Morrison, Mike Kennard
and David Smukler. She joined the MT Space in Nijinsky: through a window and
in October 2004. She had her debut on Canadian screens playing the leading
role in the short film Moving by Ian Kennedy. She has recently
finished shooting Baby by Tijuana Lane. Carolina read for
She Speaks 2007. |
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Douglas Morton |
This is Douglas' second Asphalt Jungle Shorts, although
she has been heavily involved in local theatre for many years. With KW Little
Theatre, she has played the roles of Mort, Brutus, and most recently
Guildenstern to Roger Sumner's Rosencrantz (and Kris Bowman's Hamlet) in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. When not acting, she's been doing puppet shows, science
shows and modeling nude for Universities and local studios. Having recently
realized that she's transgender, Douglas would like to thank the people of KW
for being overall very Queer friendly. Yay diversity! Douglas performed
in AJS II, III & IV. |
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Brian Otto |
Brian Otto is a busy
actor and singer who currently is an active member of three
community theatre groups and The Renaissance Singers, and has worked
with most of the other groups in the region in the past 20+ years. He's
also worked extensively as a professional in plays and musicals
with theatres around the province. Currently, Brian is rehearsing
"The Merchant of Venice" in Guelph, and producing a musical revue
to be staged at the Registry Theatre in September. He feels really
honored to be asked to participate in this festival. Brian read for She
Speaks 2008. |
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Joyce Pedder |
Joyce Pedder is
originally from Manchester, England.
She is a member of K.W. Silver Stars Theatre Group. Productions
Joyce has appeared in include: Canadian Eh!, Silver Stars Shine, The
Attic, Eileen Vale in Waiting for Heaven, Cleo in Just
Ordinary People, and Bag Full of Miracles
(upcoming in May 2008). Joyce has appeared in Elmira Theatre and
Company productions At the Mall and Dear Ruth.
Joyce
read for She Speaks 2008. |
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Shelagh Ranalli |
Shelagh loves the
idea of taking theatre to the streets, literally! Asphalt Jungle
Shorts offers Shelagh a great opportunity to connect with former cast mates
and artists after a 3 year hiatus. Shelagh resides in Kitchener with her lovely
children, Charlotte and Joseph." Shelagh performed
in Shaking the Dew from the Lilies, AJS I & II & V and She Speaks
2007 & 2009. |
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Brendan Schaefer |
Brendan has been
involved in Theatre off and on for the past 40 years, starting off his career
at age 3 playing the role of a servant boy in a college production of The Makado. Brendan completed his
degree in Theatre Arts at the University of Arizona in 1990, and spent a
number of years with Theatre & Company in Kitchener in the 1990s, when it
was still a small ensemble of dedicated starving artists. Favourite roles
from that period include Johann in The
Shunning and Trisotin in The
Sisterhood, as well as the role of Technical Director, Production
Manager, Box Office Manager, Lighting Director, and Chief Cook & Bottle
Washer in many other productions. From there, he moved on to San Diego to
work with Lamb’s Players. More recently, Brendan has appeared in a few short
plays, including a number of the Asphalt Jungle productions in downtown
Kitchener, as well as working with Lost & Found Theatre as a set builder
and technician on many of their illustrious productions. Brendan
performed in AJS I & II. Brendan
also performed in DEAD CAT BOUNCE part of UNHINGED ‘08. |
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Emily Schooley |
Emily Schooley is an
actor/writer/photographer/perfectionist, and is absolutely thrilled to return
to theatre to be a part of She Speaks. Recently, she has acted with several
local film companies, including K - Drew Productions, Mars on Mars
Productions, and FBN Multimedia; with the latter, she is working on an
upcoming TV series, A Shadow Shall Fall. When not out and about doing
creative things, she lives in half a Victorian house with five cats and a
supportive partner, who serves as a useful alibi for any claims of
"crazy cat lady." Emily read for She Speaks 2008 & 2009. |
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Brigitte Schuster |
Brigitte (Gita) Schuster
is the owner of Growing In The Arts where she is a Therapeutic
Expressive Arts Facilitator who has been engaging children &
adults through the arts for 22 years. She is a Theraplay® Practitioner,
a recognized supporting member of the International Expressive Arts
Therapy Association & spent 5 years as a Child & Youth
Worker. GITA spent 12 years as Artistic
Director of Playing On the Moon Children’s Theatre Arts Centre where her students have won over 200 first
place awards at the Kiwanis Drama Festival & can now be
seen in major movie, stage and T.V. roles. Currently GITA is the director of
the children’s drama department at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre/The
Button Factory. GITA is a two- time nominee of the KW
Woman of the Year Award & a three-time nominee for a KW
Arts Award; all in recognition for her outstanding contributions to
children in the arts. However, GITA’s greatest creation to date is her
beautiful & smart 11-year-old daughter MacKensey and twin 8-year-old boys
Eric and Quinn. ‘Gita’
read for She Speaks ’08 & ‘09. |
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Brian Scott |
BRIAN
SCOTT will be taking his first steps on
stage since High School during A Grave
Familiarity. Brian has spent the past 15 years supporting cultural production in
and around Kitchener, helping many, many artists realize their dreams. Brian
read for She Speaks 2008. |
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Kathleen Sheehy |
Kathleen is a founding member of Lost & Found Theatre, and prior
to that was a member of the ensemble at Theatre & Company. Most recently she appeared as Sir Toby
Belch in Twelfth Night in a collaborative project with UW’s Dept of
Drama, and just before that, in Falling:
A Wake by fellow L&F member Gary Kirkham. Favourite roles include Dorothea in Eleemosynary,
Bubbie in Crossing Delancey,
Claire in A Delicate Balance and Stacy in Some Assembly Required. Her free time is filled with reading, cooking for
friends, and her faithful Lab, Piper. Kathleen
performed in AJS I and read in She Speaks ’09. |
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Lindsay Stewart |
Lindsay Stewart has
been a fixture in the region's arts and entertainment scene for more than two
decades. As a singer and well regarded songwriter, he made the college radio charts
and continues to record original material. He co-wrote a song that reached
the finals of the 1994 CFNY New Music Search and has received airplay around
the world. As a writer, he has published articles, features and interviews
regionally and internationally covering theatre, music, politics and culture.
His performance
resume includes appearances in numerous television and film productions, most
notably portraying Jimi Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer in an MGM/Showtime
feature. He portrayed a gun toting villain along side Milla Jovovich in .45,
a jungle warrior in 16 episodes of Peter Benchley's Amazon and a variety of
criminals, medieval warriors and small character parts. As a founding member
of the board of directors of Flush Ink Performing Arts, Lindsay brings his
unique talents and experience to the table. He operates a small video
production company under the name GNP Moving Pictures, archives and produces
the Flush Ink events and has been sought out by some of the regions finest
musical talents as a videographer. He is a three time nominee for the
region's performing arts awards. Lindsay
read for She Speaks, ’07 and performed in AJS V. |
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Roger Sumner |
Roger Sumner has appeared in every AJS show to date. In
addition, you may have seen him playing downtown in both Unhinged festivals,
She Speaks and the WARMER Project. He also just sort of turns up a lot. A dedicated dilettante and confirmed niobium addict, Roger
likes to play with words, obsolete weapons, improvised Roger has performed in AJS I, II,
III, IV & V. Roger also performed
in UNDERTOW part of UNHINGED presented by Warmer. He read for She Speaks ’09. |
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Arlene Thomas |
ARLENE
R. THOMAS is a local actor and producer and co-founder of Shadow Puppet
Theatre. She is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s B.F.A-acting
program and since then has appeared in numerous productions both in and
outside Waterloo Region. Past productions include Asphalt Jungle Shorts I, II and III, Zazztrozzi, and Shadow
Puppet Theatre’s Macbeth for which
she was both performer and producer. She is now hard at work on Shadow Puppet
Theatre’s next project, Faust,
which is being produced in conjunction with The Centre for German Studies and
for which she has received a grant from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. Arlene acted in AJS I, II, III, IV & V, and read for
She Speaks 2007, 2008, 2009. Arlene
played the role of Jenna in WHITE NOISE, part of UNHINGED ’09. |
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Tanya Williams |
Tanya Williams has been
directing, facilitating & performing dance & theatre for over 15
years and draws on her experience in physical theatre, forum and
environmental theatre, movement and sound improvisation, choreography, modern
dance, aikido, contact improvisation, clown, and Alexander Technique
movement education. Her adventures have found her creating dance
films on the shores of Ireland and in the canyons of Utah, and
collaborative community theatre and dance on school buses, in ruined
mills, malls, and inner city alleyways. Most recently, she performed
with The MT Space in Season of
Immigration to the West, and with Friends of the Floor, as part
of Nudge: The Something
Spintacular. Tanya performed in
AJS II & III. Tanya also performed
in UNDERTOW, part of UNHINGED ’08 produced by Warmer, and KITCHEN SYNC, part
of UNHINGED ’09. |
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Mari - Actor |
MARI TRAINOR has worked as a professional actor over the past
35 years in theatre (both national and regional), film and TV. Most recently, she had the pleasure of
portraying “Florence Foster Jenkins” in the highly successful production of Glorious! for Theatre By the Bay. Some highlights include: Jane
Bingham– Having Hope at Home, Peggy
– Weekend Comedy, both for the Red
Barn Theatre; Beggar Woman – Sweeney
Todd (Regent Theatre); Jennie Jones/Mrs. Waters in the new musical Tom
Jones (Tarragon). Mari originated the role of Jennyanydots in the Toronto
production of Mari read for She Speaks ’09 and we were happy to have
her join us from St. Mary’s |
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Jane Watson |
JANE WATSON is thrilled to participate in the burgeoning
creative movement in Kitchener and to be a part of She Speaks, reading
Rasputin’s Organ, as a part of the celebration of International Women’s
Day. This past spring you
may have seen her performing Shakespearean scenes with her husband John, joined
by the musical mastery of the Tactus vocal ensemble in several collaborative
concerts called Rhyme and Reason
and A Day in the Life of Will. You
may also see her this May performing at the Registry Theatre with Lost &
Found Theatre in John Mighton’s masterful play, Possible Worlds. Other recent credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Vagina Monologues, The Comedy of Errors, and Gwendoline .She has been seen in
several critically acclaimed SummerWorks presentations including The Penalty Killers, Waiting for Odysseus, and Visions of Daniel, and many moons ago
played Gwendoline in Theatre & Co.’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest. She recently shot
several short independent films including
Emes and Money City; TV credits
include, The Two Mrs. Kissels, All the
Good Ones are Married, Till Death
Do Us Part, Black Dawn: The Next
Pandemic, and Earth: Final Conflict.
She has also appeared in more than
a dozen commercials. Jane also currently teaches Broadcasting Performance at
Conestoga College in the School of Media and Design. Jane read in SHE SPEAKS ’09. |
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Bruce Wolff |
Bruce Wolff was more surprised
than anyone to be among this group of actors in the first Asphalt Jungle
Shorts. Since then, he’s participated as
an actor in She Speaks, Asphalt Jungle II and now he is back again, and
feeling quite at home on the stage, wherever the stage might be. He still holds a secret dreams of a return
to the glory years of writing, producing and acting in high school productions.
Bruce has performed
in AJS I, II, III, IV &V and She Speaks ’07 & ’09. |
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