Carol Kelsay Workshop Completed
I have just finished my second workshop with former casting director Carol Kelsay. She is an absolute dream to work with and the balance of students in the class was wonderful.
I have put together a new demo from the footage from her class. It is up on my “demo” page. Please take a look!
Master Class Time
I am currently taking a master class with Carol Kelsay. This is the second one I have attended with her and it is absolutely wonderful. She is a positive gold mine of information and insight!
The class will continue until mid October.
summer 2008
I was recently in a film entitled “The Grave”. It was directed by Brie Koniczek and written by Stephanie Shim. They were both in the Langara Film Arts program, and got together afterwards to make this happen. It was a wonderful experience, and I’m very proud of them. With any luck, it will screen at a variety of festivals within the next year.
Here of some photos from the day I was on set:
I die a bloody death
Kristie Strang was the brilliant makeup artist.
Langara Film Arts Program Completed — August 2007
Graduation time again. It has been the hardest eight months I have ever been through, but there have been nothing but rewards. Including the film that I co-produced, we have all completed ten, 10min, festival-quality films which will screen on August 17th and 18th. I loved the collaborative nature of film, and the way this wonderful program is set up, everybody completely depends on everybody else. We now all have incredible insight to the way the film industry works.
Here are some photos of myself with my instructors. Hold your mouse over the picture for the caption.
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January to September, Langara Film Arts — 2007
In the fall, I was accepted to the Film Arts Division of Studio 58 at Langara College. I am thrilled. The program is unlike any other in Canada. It takes on a small group each of actors, writers, and directors. For the most part, we have our own classes, but we are all trained as producers as well. Then, first with three minute films, then with five, and finally with ten minute films, we all come together and and make it happen.
I am not accustomed to being one of the younger and inexperienced ones, so the opportunity to learn from other students, as well as from the instructors has been vast. It has been a challenge to adjust all my theatre training to film, but I have enjoyed it completely. For the first time I feel like I am in the right place a the right time.
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The Importance of Being Earnest — Labour Day Weekend 2006
On Labour Day Weekend, The Tir na nOg Alumni Players of Bowen Island Presented The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.
Directed by Jack & Julie Headley
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The Cast (in no particular order):
Algernon Moncrieff… Dan Cowper
John Worthing……… Christian Duntz
Miss Prism…………… Nicole Perry
Lady Bracknell……… Cimarron Ballantyne
Cecily Cardew………. Masae Day
Dr. Chasuble……….. Calder Stewart
Gwendolen Fairfax… Morgan Ballantyne
Lane………………….. Jack Headley
Merriman…………… Julie Headley
It was a pleasure, as always, to work with this cast. No one minded piling on rehearsals. At CCPA we performed small pieces each week, but it has been too long since I’ve had the opportunity to get into a full role. It’s also been a wonderful opportunity to use what I have learned in the past year. Thank-you to Christopher Weddell and Iris MacGregor Bannerman, you both were both in my mind.
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End of summer — 2006
Well, I’m doing the actress thing: Waiting tables… I currently work at two restaurants on Bowen. And finally I have updated both my headshot and my resume!
The alumni of Tir na nOg (myself included) have gotten ourselves organized to put on a play for Labour Day weekend. We will be presenting Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” directed by Julie and Jack. We don’t have much time, but then, we never do!
Spring 2006 - Graduation!
I have just graduated from the Canadian College of Performing Arts! In the picture is myself with my sister and my mother. It has been a long involved year. I will miss all the talented people I got to work with and wish them all the luck in the world.
As soon as I was back on the island, I was pressed into service running the lighting board for many of the student productions at Tir na nOg. Unfortunately, as a result, I have no time to see to this website. I do have a new headshot and a new resume though. As soon as I have time…
HARVEY by Mary Chase
There is a group of us on Bowen who have been acting together for years with Tir na nOg. Most of us will be off to other activities during the winter school season, so this summer we decided to have one last production together. As I update the web site, we are only a few days away from presenting the wonderful comedy, Harvey, by Mary Chase, as a benefit for the TNN building fund. Please attend!
Canadian College of Performing Arts - Accepted into program - Summer 2005
All my coaching with Jack and Julie. I have been accepted into the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria. Their program includes acting, singing and dancing. I am anticipating being completely engrossed in the program, so I do not expect to add to this site for a while