COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES

DAWN PETTEN - Performer

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Dawn is an award-winning actor based on the territories of the Coast Salish People, who has performed in theatres across the country. She is so happy to be at last revisiting the role that she first performed at the Belfry Theatre. Most recently Dawn acted in the world premiere of The Cull at the Arts Club Theatre, and trod the boards in her 7th season of the East Van Panto with Theatre Replacement, this time as Ursula in The Little Mermaid. Other favourite theatre shows have been with Electric Company Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Touchstone Theatre, and Caravan Farm Theatre (where she will return this summer). On Dawn’s list of Brilliant Things: her 6-year-old daughter dancing, her mother’s steadfast love, family card games, somersaulting in the ocean, a brother like no other, a best friend since grade 3, and, after the long Covid interruption, FINALLY arriving in the same room with all of you in this “wholly communion” of theatre.

BRIAN LINDS - Sound Designer & Performer

At WCT: Sound: No Exit, The Miracle Worker. Acting: Harvest, Driving Miss Daisy, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Man Who Shot Chance

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Elsewhere: Brian’s original sound/performance play Reverberations was presented at The Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival (2017) and at Presentation House (2019). Sound design credits include: The Full Light of Day and No Exit for The Electric Company in which he was nominated for a San Francisco Bay Area Critics Award; Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave (National Arts Centre); Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach); Sweeney Todd (Vancouver Opera); A Christmas Story (Chemainus Theatre); Mustard, The Audience, August: Osage County, and The History Boys (Arts Club Theatre); Same Old, Same Old, The Valley (Belfry Theatre); Of Mice and Men, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Blue Bridge Theatre).

Saturday, May 27, 2023 7:30 p.m.

Kamloops United Church

Students Under 19 Years Free Tickets available at the door and at www.chambermusiciansofkamloops.org for both live and on-line viewing

Did you know?

BCLC is proud to support Western Canada Theatre’s Grease

Last year, Western Canada Theatre Society received a Community Gaming Grant for more than $88,500 from the Province of B.C.

ESTELLE SHOOK - Director

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Artistic Director of Caravan Farm Theatre, Estelle has produced, developed, and directed over 35 outdoor productions for the company, and has devoted her professional career to advancing the art form of large scale, site specific theatre. Other projects include: Every Brilliant Thing, with the Belfry Theatre; associate directing the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Louis Riel with Peter Hinton; directing the Canadian Stage premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s Sunday in Sodom, which garnered six Dora nominations and won the Dora award for Outstanding Production. Also, for Canadian Stage, she has directed Julius Caesar and The Winter’s Tale, and toured Stan Douglas’s Helen Lawrence to Brooklyn and Antwerp. Estelle lives with her daughter in the North Okanagan, in the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan and Secwépemc Nations.

CHRISTINE LEROUX - Stage Manager

At WCT: Serving Elizabeth, Meet My Sister, A Christmas Carol, The Best Brothers, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, Made in Italy.

Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Made in Italy (Theatre Aquarius/Arts Club Theatre Company); The New Canadian Kid (Green Thumb Theatre); The Best Brothers (Theatre Northwest); TH’OWXIYA: The Hungry Feast Dish, Raven Meets the Monkey King (Axis Theatre Company); Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (TIP). Assistant Stage Manager for Mamma Mia! (The Globe Theatre). Christine is also Western Canada Theatre’s Producer and is very excited to be back Stage Managing this beautiful show. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues for helping make this possible. All my love to Leon and Charlie. Enjoy the show!