THE CREATIVE TEAM

CATRIONA LEGER - Director

At WCT: Push Up Bar (A Broad’s Way Cabaret)

Elsewhere: Catriona has worked across Canada as a professional actor, director, movement coach, producer, artistic director, and creator for over twenty-five years. Kamloops audiences may be familiar with her work as director of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Project X); And Slowly Beauty, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TRU Actors Workshop Theatre). Select Directing Credits Elsewhere: The Bombitty of Errors (Arts Club/ Belfry); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (St. Lawrence Shakespeare); Venus in Fur (Plosive Productions); The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, The Merry Wives of Windsor, MSND (a Company of Fools, for which she is former Artistic Director).

Catriona holds an MFA in Directing, BFA in Acting (both from UBC) and is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier in Paris, France. She is currently Associate Teaching Professor in the Theatre Program at TRU. Learn more at catrionaleger.com

LEON SCHWESINGER - Set Designer

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Leon is originally from Calgary and has spent the last five years leading the Technical Theatre Program at Thompson Rivers University. Selected credits include: And Slowly Beauty (TRU AWT); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Project X Theatre); Push Up Bar (The Break A Leg Collective); Karl Nimeni Is Not Dead – I Killed Karl Nimen (Dancing Monkey Laboratories); and Fugly (The Janes).

SABRINA STACE - Costume Designer

At WCT: Head of Wardrobe, 2021–Present

Elsewhere: Sabrina Stace (she/her) is an emerging costume designer from Moncton, New Brunswick and is the current Head of Wardrobe at WCT. Recent design credits include: Crypthand (Gale Force Theatre, Fall 2022); Where You Are (Theatre Baddeck, Summer 2021); and Tintamarre: MURMUReS (Mount Allison University, Spring 2021). Pre-COVID, she was based in Toronto, touring across Canada and parts of the US as Jörgen Dance’s Wardrobe Supervisor for their 2019-2020 Season. She holds a BA from Mount Allison University (class of ‘18), certificate from Fanshawe College’s Costume Production Program (class of ‘19), and was a Wardrobe Practicum at the Banff Centre of the Arts (summer 2019). Instagram: @stace_sabrina | Website: sabrinastace.wixsite.com/wardrobe

LIAM BEFURT - Lighting Designer

At WCT: Assistant Lighting Designer, The Drowning Girls; Associate Lighting Designer for tours of Glory, Made in Italy, Kamloopa, Vimy, and The New Canadian Curling Club; Liam is the Technical Director of the Sagebrush Theatre.

Elsewhere: Lighting Designer, Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Fight Girl Battle World, and And Slowly Beauty (TRU Actors Workshop Theatre); Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish (Axis Theatre). Liam would like to thank his brother James, Mom, Dad, and the Sagebrush crew. Thank you, Emily, for your love and support.

LUKAS VANDERLIP - Sound Designer

At WCT: Music Composition and Sound Design: It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Sleight of Mind, The Drowning Girls, VIMY, Armstrong’s War. Acting: Skut Farkas in A Christmas Story

Elsewhere: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Red Riding Hood (Project X Theatre); And Slowly Beauty, Fight Girl Battle World, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TRU Actor’s Workshop Theatre); The Robber Bridegroom, Frankenstein (Chimera Theatre). Lukas Vanderlip is a Kamloops based composer, sound designer, and songwriter. He has also recorded and independently released several albums of music under the name “beholding.” beholding.bandcamp.com

TRU

ACTORS WORKSHOP THEATRE 2021/22 SEASON

Mar 23-25, 30-Apr 1

TRU, Old Main, Student Street

Curtain nightly at 7:30 pm

Tickets $15.00

Available online tru.ca/awt or by calling the Box Office 250-377-6100

by Kat Sandler

KARYN MOTT - Intimacy Director

At WCT: Sleight of Mind

Elsewhere: Karyn Mott is a graduate of the University of Alberta BFA program and currently lives on the unceded and Traditional lands of the xwməθkwəy əm (Musqueam), Səlílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) first peoples. An award-winning actor, intimacy professional and artistic mental health practitioner, Karyn Mott has been active in professional and semi-professional theatre, film, and television for over 15 years. They are the workshop coordinator and board member of the National Society of Intimacy Professionals (NSIP), a proud team member of Principal Intimacy Professionals (PIP), and instructor for the PIP’s SAG-accredited intimacy professional training program. Selected credits include Kill the Ripper, Shogun (Disney/FX), Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem (Disney), Resident Alien S1 & S2 (Syfy), Chesapeake Shores S5 (Hallmark), Upload S2 (Amazon), to name a few. Growing up at the Granite curling club, this play holds a particular spot in their heart. Love always to Dani, our four-legged kids, and our parents.

MADISON HENRY - Stage Manager

At WCT: The Wizard of Oz, Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, The New Canadian Curling Club, The Sound of Music, Meet My Sister, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Kamloopa, Armstrong’s War, A Christmas Carol, Million Dollar Quartet, The House at Pooh Corner

Elsewhere: Deafy, Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre); Network (Citadel Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Hey Viola! (The Charlottetown Festival); The New Canadian Curling Club, The Buddy Holly Story (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Silent Light (Banff Centre). Maddy (she/her) is a multi-discipline Stage Manager based on unceded Secwépemc territory colonially known as Kamloops, and is a graduate of the Thompson Rivers University Theatre Program. Many thanks to James, Leslie, Christine, Catriona, and Victoria.

VICTORIA SNASHALL - Assistant Stage Manager

At WCT: The Wizard of Oz, Apprentice Stage Manager; Kim’s Convenience, Assistant Stage Manager

Elsewhere: Victoria is happy to be back in Kamloops with the wonderful people at WCT. Other selected credits include: Buffoon, Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, Kim’s Convenience, Redbone Coonhound (Arts Club); Fado: The saddest Music in the World, Talking Sex on Sunday, Proud, God and the Indian, Kid Gloves (Firehall Arts Centre); The Messiah, A Christmas Carol, The Wolves (With a Spoon Theatre in association with Rumble Theatre) (Pacific Theatre); A Steady Rain, King Richard and His Women (Seven Tyrants); Gross Misconduct (SpeakEasy Theatre).