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Performer Lisa Hitch lives in Victoria, BC,
after spending many years on the East Coast of the US. She is a theatre
graduate of Concordia University, Montreal, and the American Academy of
Dramatic Art in LA. She has appeared in theatre, TV and film in Toronto
and Montreal, and also in Washington DC, where she was
artist-in-residence at Lumina Studio Theatre. In Victoria, she has
appeared with Four Seasons Theatre, Story Theatre, Giggling Iguana,
Langham Court Theatre and On the Lam, along with TV documentary work
and voiceovers. Recently, she enjoyed playing Mrs. Webb with her son as
Wally Webb in Langham Court Theatre’s Our
Town. She and Karen Lee took I
Thee Wed to the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival in
May, where she was nominated for the Michael Mac Liammoir Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Performance (Best Female).
Briana Rayner (stage manager, Dublin
Festival & Vancouver Fringe) has been working in stage and film
management for the past six years. She has worked with Atomic
Vaudeville in Victoria, BC for the past two years, and was also
fortunate enough stage manage their production Legoland by Jacob
Richmond on Saltspring Island last Summer. She is currently a
stage manager at the Vancouver Theatresports League in Vancouver, BC
Canada.
Karen Lee
Pickett is a New York theatre artist who recently received her
Canadian landed immigrant
status. She has written material for Po’House Productions and Lumina
Studio Theatre, and has collaborated on theatre works by New York
companies Treehouse Shakers and deep ellum ensemble. As an actor, she
has appeared regionally in the U.S. at the Dallas Theater Center, Yale
Repertory Theatre and Stage West, among others, and has toured to
Dublin, Berlin, Dallas and New Orleans. Her New York credits include
the Brave New World project at Town Hall Theatre, Broadway, and various
performances with Here Inc., deep ellum ensemble, and Lincoln Center
Theatre’s American Living Room series. In Victoria, she has appeared in
lead roles for Langham Court Theatre and Victoria Operatic Society, and
is currently working on her MFA in playwriting at the University of
Victoria.
Britt Small, director of I Thee Wed, completed her MFA in
Directing at the University of Victoria with a production of Anne
Carson's translation of Sophocles' ELECTRA.
She also directed a new play by Janet Munsil, Circus Fire, at the Festival of New
and Innovative Drama, which has also toured to the Prague Theatre
Festival. Britt directed six Fringe plays in the past two years
including Legoland, I Thee Wed, Potentilla, Scrupulosity and The Ugly Duchess. Other directing
credits include Jacob Richmond's The
Qualities of Zero and Firebugs
at William Head on Stage.
She has an MFA in Directing from UVic and has received three local
awards for best direction as well as a professional development grant
from the Canada Council to attend LaMama Theatre's International
Director's
Symposium in Italy. Britt has performed with Giggling Iguana, BumbleBee
Theatre, Intrepid Theatre and Atomic Vaudeville. She has studied Clown
with Michael Kennard, Modern Dance with Lynda Raino and Viewpoints with
Tina Landau. Together with Jacob Richmond, she is the co-artistic
director of the popular cabaret Atomic Vaudeville which has been
running since June 2004. She also plays in the band Slut Revolver.
Julia
Cameron (stage manager, Toronto Fringe)
is
a Theatre and English student at the University of Victoria. While
specializing in acting, Julia has had the opportunity to explore
theatre production. She recently discovered an interest in stage
management as an assistant stage manager on the UVic Phoenix Theatre's
production of "Fen" by Caryl Churchill. She is thrilled to be making
her stage managing debut working in the Toronto Fringe Festival!
Sylvia
Lyndstrom (stage manager,
Victoria Fringe) is very excited to be working the Fringe again this
year with two of the most genuinely artistic and authentic performers
ever. She is also thrilled to be working with a wonderful new script
which has something to say to all of us about where we want to be and
the paths we choose to get there. Recent theatre work includes The Lady's Not For Burning, Racing Demon, Lion in Winter, and Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest
for Langham
Court, Oliver! and Sweeney Todd for VOS, and Taming of the Shrew and Merchant of Venice for the
Shakespeare Society.
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