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Author Reading & Q&A – Rural Arts
BRIAN THOMAS ISAAC
Award-Winning Author of “All the Quiet Places”
Hosted by Jack Paterson
Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival
Friday, September 19, 2025 | 1 PM
New Translation Development – Rural Arts
FACELIFT
By Nathalie Boisvert
Translated by Johanna Nutter
Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival
Sept. 18, 2025 | 1 PM
Skills Development Workshop (Ages 17-29) – Rural Arts
CREATING THE WORLD OF THE PLAY
Lighting, Projections & QLab
FREE WORKSHOP
Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival
Saturday, September 21, 2025 | 11 AM
Centre Stage
(9518 Main Street, Summerland B.C.)
Producing 2016: Theatre503 Resident Producer (London, UK)
A four month Production Residency with the Olivier Award winning New Play House Theatre503
2015 in Review
2015 IN...
Producing: The Governor General Award Plays Project: Age of Minority (Ottawa, CAN)
June 13, 2015
Canada’s Magnetic North Festival
National Arts Centre 4th Stage
FREE EVENT
Building an Ensemble
Although prepared with at least two solutions in the back pocket, the group work has invariable proved to create a more interesting result.
On Verse and Prose: Why do Shakespeare’s Characters Speak It?
He feeds his characters with a heartbeat, a breathing pattern, and if you follow first folio work as I do, a whole series of clues and movements that allow the language to physically and internally move the actor.
Shakespeare the International
What makes Shakespeare international? Why are artists from non-western or Anglo cultures compelled to adapt his stories? Why are his plays done across the world in different languages? If one does not understand the words, how does one know if it’s any good?
Production & Translation 2015: Ta Gueule Translation Workshop & Reading Series 2015 (Vancouver, CAN)
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Contemporary works in translation from across Canada
May 30 & 31
2014 in Review
A Year of Directing, Professional Development, Acting, New Works, Devising, Cross Disciplinary
Professional Development 2014: Balinese Performing Arts
“…take the time to take in the details or you might miss something beautiful.” – Mr. Agung Rai, the founder of ARMA Foundation and Museum
Production 2014: BoucheWHACKED!
Contemporary works in translation from across Canada
Professional Development 2014: G.I.T.I.S. (Moscow, RU)
The Stanislavski System and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics
2013 in Review
Professional Development, Producing, Dramaturgy, Translation & Filmaking
From Behind the Table: General Auditions
“The General Audition“
I never expect anyone to be brilliant in an audition. It is almost an impossibility. Was anyone ever brilliant while acting with a chair? What I do hope to find someone who seems capable and someone with whom I might want to spend four weeks in a rehearsal hall” – Michael Shamata, Artistic Director of The Belfry Theatre, (Victoria)
From Behind the Table: The General Auditions Part 3 – Monologue Choices and Presentation
“Even though it may be a general audition the theatre will probably be looking to cast the season they’ve announced. If there’s something the actor thinks they’re appropriate for they should attempt to do everything possible to win the role by tailoring the choice of monologue to the role they think they’re right for.” – George Pothitos, Artistic Director of Neptune Theatre (Halifax)
Artistic Director Mentorship: 3 Provinces, 3 Mandates, 3 Companies
Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Theatre Conspiracy & The Magnetic North Theatre Festival