Master the Craft

Kathleen is an award-winning actor and director working in film, television, theatre, voice-over and script development throughout the country. She created and produced ReelFast: The 48 Hour Movie Making Festival and The Cold Reading Series which endeavoured to connect writers and actors of the film and theatre communities. A long and varied acting career of stage and screen includes Happy Face (CBS/Paramount), Watson (Paramount +) and recently wrapping Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney). She is a respected teacher and coach, presently an adjunct professor of acting and directing at the University of British Columbia, senior acting instructor at Railtown Acting Studios, associate instructor at Douglas College and leads film acting classes and workshops. Recent directing credits include: Network, The 39 Steps, The Paper Bag Princess, An Iliad, The Moors, Jerusalem, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Tales From Ovid, Concord Floral, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Seagull, and Mrs. Singh and Me.

Caro is a DIY expert born and raised in Montreal and earned diplomas in Fine Arts and Stage Craft from College Lionel-Groulx in Québec. She also enjoyed a long career as an animator for popular children's tv series after receiving her diploma in 3D animation from Vancouver Film School. She loves inventing, making, building props and miniature world. Stop motion animation is where she finds all these elements married together.

Linnea is a Black–Mixed race interdisciplinary artist whose passion for the arts began the moment she could hold a pencil. Since then, she has never stopped creating, building a career that spans stage management, lighting design, and artistic administration. A 2018 graduate of Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts (BFA in Production and Design), she focused her studies on contemporary adaptations of Greek theatre. After graduating, Linnea apprenticed at Pacific Theatre while working as a professional stage manager. In December 2020, she became Pacific Theatre’s Company Manager, where she produced mainstage seasons, developed outreach programming, and deepened her leadership skills. She received a Professional Development Grant from the BC Arts Council to train in Nonviolent Communication and Leadership with The Thoughtful Workplace, and she began consulting in anti-oppressive policy creation and implementation. In July 2023, Linnea joined Presentation House Theatre as Development Associate, focusing on fundraising, grant writing, and educational outreach. She now serves as Operations Manager. Linnea has a wide knowledge of the theatre sector, from both the creative side and the administration side. Her greatest joy has been sharing this with the next generation of theatre makers, dancers and artists.

Robinson is an award winning theatre educator with 30 years experience in stage combat. He has taught and choreographed stage combat in Canada, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark.

Stephen Atkins, PhD, is an actor, director, and educator whose work spans multiple universities, studios and conservatory settings across Canada, China, the UK, and Australia. His practice brings together actor training, performance research, and intercultural collaboration, with a focus on how different traditions can speak to one another without collapsing into a single method. In Australia, he served as Associate Director with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, contributing to projects that combined rigorous and fun physical training with a strong youth theatre focus. This work shaped his interest in developing training environments that balance discipline with creative agency, particularly for emerging artists. His broader career includes international workshops, directing projects, and publications that explore contemporary approaches to acting, rehearsal, and ensemble creation.

Keri Minty is a versatile director/choreographer/movement director and dance educator. Certified in University Teaching and Learning, she has taught at Capilano University as a dance and movement instructor for the theatre programs for the last 20 years with a current focus on assessments and evaluations for dance and theatre. Minty is also active in theatre and dance communities as a performer, creative and board member of arts organizations. Choreographer/Movement Director highlights: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Oliver!, Joseph… (Theatre Under the Stars), A New Brain* (Pipedream), SpongeBob, Carrie, Anne of Green Gables*, Cabaret, Secret Garden, Hello Dolly, Weasel (Cap U Theatre) and Arts Club’s Red Rock Diner (assistant director/choreographer). *Winner of Ovation Awards for Best Choreography.

Erika Babins (They/She)is a CTC winning, Ovation nominated director, choreographer, performer, and educator originally from the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Mohawk nations and currently residing and working on the traditional and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. As an Artistic Associate for Awkward Stage Productions, she directed a queer revamp of Jasper in Deadland, and choreographed the Pick-of-the-Fringe winning TITUS: The Light and Delightful Musical Comedy of Titus Andronicus, and Cry-Baby: The Musical. As a freelance choreographer and director, Erika has worked with many companies in the Lower Mainland including Play on Words Productions, First Impressions Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, and Uncle Randy Productions Erika’s directing and choreography credits include: [title of show] (Play on Words Productions and First Impressions Theatre), Jasper in Deadland, Lift, and Cry-Baby (Awkward Stage Productions), The It Girl (DNP), The Drowsy Chaperone, Hadestown: Teen Edition, Cinderella, Godspell, Oklahoma!, and Tuck Everlasting (Arts Umbrella).

Dae has been a makeup artist and educator for over 25+ years. From photography, fashion, theatre and film she brings a wealth of experience in the different mediums. From the locally made tv shows such as Last of Us, Riverdale, Supergirl, Charmed and film work Star Trek : Beyond and Antlers she brings a varied skill set from the regular makeup and makeup FX departments. (And Yes.. she was a theatre kid. )

Kelly has been working in the entertainment industry for 23 years wearing many different hats including scenic carpentry, props, scenic painting, lighting, rigging and technical direction in theatre, film & TV, as well as many entertainment venues around Vancouver.

Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, producer and dramaturg. Winner of an LA Drama Critics' Circle Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Tom Hendry Award, a Governor General’s Award nomination, and the Siminovitch Protégée Prize for Playwriting, Christine’s works have been translated and performed in Spanish, French, German, and ASL in over 10 cities worldwide. As a performer, she’s acted on stages big and small, in a camper van, in neighbourhoods across East Vancouver, and on a farm. Christine is a graduate of UBC’s BFA Acting Program.