Jack Paterson Theatre

“This is the magic of theatre” – Jerry Wasserman, The Province

Director

Odyssey, International Devised Project (London, UK)

Selected 2016-Current
Remote New Translation Workshop: Gametes (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, London UK)
Remote New Translation Workshop: River Bed (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, Cayman Islands, London UK)
Selection Committee: Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award, Origins Theatre & Jessie Awards (Vancouver)
Online Creation: Digital International Connectors 1 & 2, Global Hive Labs. (Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, UK, USA)
Online Creation: PRESENCE OF INNOCENCE OF HOPE by Niall McNeil Call & Response Project, Global Hive Labs. Vancouver
Remote New Translation Workshop: The Shoe (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, Montreal, London UK, Salzburg EU)
Remote New Translation Workshop: Chienne(s) (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, Toronto, London, UK)
Remote New Translation Workshop: Andy’s Gone (Quebec), BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, Montreal, London UK)
Remote New Play Workshop: The King of Nothing Part 3, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Remote New Translation Workshops 1 & 2: The Desert (Quebec), BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, Montreal)
Remote New Translation Workshop: Haven (Quebec), BoucheWHACKED! (Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Chicago USA)
Article: Francophone New Writing with Festival du Jamais Lu (Montreal, Quebec, Paris), www.theatrartlife.com
New Translation Workshop: Western Gold (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK)
New Translation Workshop: Barbed Wire (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK)
Creative Dramaturg: Medusa Project UK (The Cockpit Theatre), Global Hive Labs. (London, UK)
Co-Creator & Producer/ Active Access Dramaturgy: Atlantide Creation Workshop Italy, Global Hive Labs. (Piacenza, Italy)
Selection Committee: Theatre503 Playwrighting Award 2020, Theatre503 (London, UK)
Article: In Search of Taksu: Balinese Performing Arts 4 Article Series, www.theatreartlife.com
Balinese Traditional Practice/ Western Creation: Balinese Folk Tales, SENI Denpasar (Denpasar, IND)
Creative Dramaturg: Medusa Project UK (The Pleasance Theatre), Global Hive Laboratories (London, UK)
Professional Development: Flausen + German Innovation Incubator, Theatre Wrede + (Oldenburg, Germany)
New Translation Workshop: Horses from Heaven fall in a rain of ash (Iran), Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK)
New Translation Workshop: The Naughty Children’s Bedtime Stories (Quebec), British Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK)
New Translation Workshop: From Alaska (Quebec), Equity WSW London Office & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK)
Creative Dramaturg: Medusa Project USA (Steppenwolf Theatre), Global Hive Laboratories (Chicago, USA)
Staged Reading: The Naughty Children’s Bedtime Stories, PHT Digital Strategy Conference (Vancouver, CAN)
Speaker: Translation/ Cross Cultural Panel, Jamais Lu Festival (Montreal, CAN)
New Works: Sex Between Men in the 21st Century, Theatre503 (London, UK)
Speaker: Canadian Theatre Practices, Flausen Kongress (Cologne, Germany)
Article: Disability Arts: Interview with Theatre HORA (Switerland), www.theatreartlife.com
Professional Development: Disability Arts Practices, Theater HORA (Zurich, Switzerland)
Article: Rural Arts Festivals UK Interview Series, www.theatreartlife.com
Disability Arts/ Creation Workshop: The Cowboy Tempest Workshop 2, Niall McNeill (Vancouver, CAN)
Selection Committee: Theatre503 Playwrights Award 2018, Theatre503 (London, UK)
Disability Arts/ Creation Workshop: The Cowboy Tempest, Niall McNeill (Vancouver, CAN)
Staged Reading/ Translation: Nous voir nous, Theatre Stages Co. & BoucheWHACKED! (London, UK)
Workshop Leader: The Role of the Actor in New Works and Creation, Equity WSW London Branch (London, UK)
Youth Creation/ New Musical: Blast Off!, (Ages 9-12), The Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN)
New Works/ 503 Playwright Development: For Love, Old Diorama Arts Centre & The Cockpit Theatre (London, UK)
New Works Development Workshop: Blazed, Theatre503 Lit. Department & British Equity (London, UK)
New Works Development Workshop: The Flood, Theatre503 Lit. Department & British Equity (London, UK)
Curator: Rapid Write Response: New Play Development, Theatre503 (London, UK)
New Works Workshop: Glory Road, Theare503 Lit. Department Playwright Development & ALRA (London, UK)
New Works: Keep Him Here, Theatre503 (London, UK)
Workshop Leader: Global Hive Laboratories: Towards a Global Theatre, BoucheWHACKED! (UK, Canada, USA, France, Italy, Spain, China)
Main Stage: Walt Whitman’s Secret*, a frank theatre company (Vancouver, CAN)
Main Stage: Romeo and Juliet, Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival (Cardiff, UK)
Main Stage: The Lion in Winter, United Players (Vancouver, CAN)
New Work: Playground, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwright PHD Project (London, UK)
Main Stage: The List (remount), Ruby Slippers Theatre & The Richmond Gateway Theatre (Vancouver, CAN)
Mandarin/English New Musical:再见 GOODBYE, Goldsmiths’ University & The Confucius Institute (London, UK)

Selected Directing: Classics
The Women of Troy, Canadian Stage: Festival of Ideas (Toronto, CAN)
Coriolanus*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Shakespeare’s R&J*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Titus Andronicus*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Henry IV Parts 2 & 3, Savage God: The Bardathon (Vancouver, CAN)
Julius Caesar*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
The Tempest*, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Macbeth, Square Pegs Theatre (NYC, USA)
The Tempest (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Merchant of Venice (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
The Winter’s Tale (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Loves Labor’s Lost (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
As You Like It (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Measure for Measure (Stage Reading), Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)

Selected Directing: New Works, Creations and Translations
Servants, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwright PHD Project (London, UK)
Odyssey (International Devised Creation), The Corbett Theatre (London, UK)
Dream (New Musical), Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwrights MA Projects (London, UK)
The Ruth Ellis Show, Goldsmiths’ University of London: Playwright PHD Project (London, UK)
Wasting Time (Cross Cultural Creation), ISI Denpasar, Denpasar (Bali, Indonesia)
Lab 18: Mind the Gap (International Creation Workshop), with East 15 MFA Acting International (London, UK)
Lab 22: WHO AM i (Devised Creation Workshop), with East 15 MFA Acting (London, UK)
Storm Cloud (Development Creation Workshop), Guy Burges (London, UK)
The Loom (Creation Workshop), YouandI Theatre (London, UK/ Vancouver, CAN)
The List (Instillation), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Howl Red (Staged Reading), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Encore (Staged Reading), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Clean Sheets New Play Development, a frank theatre company (Vancouver, CAN)
Wet, Workhorse Theatre (Toronto, CAN)
Unstuck (Staged Reading), Foundry Theatre (Toronto, CAN)
The Centre of Everything Civilized, Winterbird Arts (Toronto, CAN)
Out Like Flynn, Fugue Free Theatre (Vancouver, CAN)
Banana Boys, Firehall Arts Center (Vancouver, CAN)
Molino Rouge, Stage Director, Created and Choreographed by Karen Flamenco (Vancouver, CAN)
Wreckage, Contributing Director, Created and Choreographed by Nita Bowerman (Vancouver, CAN)

Selected Directing Credits: Contemporary
Age of Minority: 3 Solo Plays by Jordan Tannahill (Stage Reading), The National Arts Centre (Ottawa, CAN)
The List, Ruby Slippers Theatre (Vancouver, CAN)
The Pitmen Painters, United Players (Vancouver, CAN)
The Love of Don Perlimplin for Bellisa in his Garden, The Shaw Festival (Niagara on the Lake, CAN)
Hosanna, Saving Metropolis Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
A Moon for the Misbegotten, United Players (Vancouver, CAN)
The Real Inspector Hound, The Presentation House Theatre (Vancouver, CAN)
Not About Nightingales (Staged Reading), Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)

Selected Directing: Theatre for Young Audiences
The Hobbit*, Carousel Theatre (Vancouver, CAN)
The Odyssey*, Carousel Theatre (Vancouver, CAN)

Selected Staged Readings:
Howl Red, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Encore, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
Unstuck, Foundry Theatre (Toronto, CAN)
Suicide Corporation, Firehall Arts Centre: BC Buds (Vancouver, CAN)
Queen of the Amazons, Firehall Arts Centre: BC Buds (Vancouver, CAN)
Selling Radio, Construction Inc. (Vancouver, CAN)
Not About Nightingales, Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, CAN)
The Tempest, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Merchant of Venice, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
The Winter’s Tale, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Loves Labor’s Lost, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
As You Like It, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)
Measure for Measure, Silly Billyz Workshop Series (NYC, USA)

Selected Youth and Outreach Programs:
Blast Off!, The Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN)
Mission Possible, The Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN)
Daily Mischief, The Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN)
High School Musical, Richmond Gateway Theatre Academy (Richmond, CAN)
Straga Nona, Arts Umbrella, Strathcona Outreach (Vancouver, CAN)
As You like It, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program (Vancouver, CAN)
Romeo and Juliet, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program (Vancouver, CAN)
Much Ado About Nothing, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program(Vancouver, CAN)
A Comedy of Errors, Carousel Theatre Teen Shakespeare Program (Vancouver, CAN)

Selected Assistant Directing Credits:
Champ de Mars, Imago Theatre/ Micheline Chevrier (Montreal, CAN)
Don Quixote, Arts Club, The Centaur Theatre / Roy Surette (Montreal & Vancouver, CAN)
Schwartz’s The Musical, The Centaur Theatre / Roy Surette (Montreal, CAN)
The Canterville Ghost, The Shaw Festival/ Jackie Maxwell (Niagara on the Lake, CAN)
The Devil’s Disciple, The Shaw Festival/ Tadeusz Bradecki (Niagara on the Lake, CAN)
In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, The Shaw Festival/Eda Holmes (Niagara on the Lake, CAN)
The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, The Playhouse/Morris Panych (Vancouver, CAN)
Love’s Labors’ Lost, Savage God/ John Juliani (Vancouver, CAN)
A Midsommer Night’s Dream, Savage God/ John Juliani (Vancouver, CAN)

*Please see Awards and Nominations