Education and Training

Education +Training + Practice

  • BA Theatre Concentration (cum laude), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
  • Introduction to Non-Traditional Occupations for Women, Algonquin College

Acting and Creative Dramatics

  • Audition Techniques, Artist2Artist
  • Text Analysis for Actors w/ Raugi Yu, ACTRA-UBCP Zoom
  • Terry Tweed, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.
  • Graham Whitehead, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
  • Cheryl Cashman, University of Ottawa
  • Brenda Anderson, Red Deer Community College, Red Deer, Alberta

Applied Theater

  • Theatre for Living: Level 1, David Diamond, Headlines Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Theater Works River Chandler, Victoria, B.C. , (as part of Victoria Community Council’s Week of Corporate Social Responsibility)
  • Drama Therapy, Tiszta Szinhas/The Clean Theater, Sandor Mozes as part of the European Treatment Centers for Drug Addiction Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, October, 2005.
  • Theater of the Oppressed, Lena de Guevara,Victoria, B.C.
  • Transformational Theatre, Lena de Guevara,Victoria, B.C.

Clowning

Clown School, Britt Small, Atomic Vaudeville, Victoria, B.C. 2018

Comedy

  • Comedy Improvisation: Blind Tiger Comedy, Garden City Improv, SCTV
  • Stand-up Comedy: Kirsten van Ritzen, Diane Kuch
  • Sketch Comedy Writing, Kevin McDonald, Paper Street Theatre, Victoria.

Dance and Movement

  • Meagan O’Shea, StandUp Dance, Victoria, B.C. 2020
  • Belly Dancing, Budapest, Hungary 2002-03
  • Butoh Dance, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
  • Contact Improvisation (practice), Victoria Contact Improv Jam, Victoria 2018
  • Choreography, Ottawa Dance Festival, Ottawa

Diversity Inclusion

Unconscious Bias, Elevate Inclusion, ACTRA-UBCP, Vancouver

Masks

The Storytelling Body, Wonderheads, Impulse Theatre Peek Fest, Victoria

Media Arts (and Related)

  • Isadora, Milton Lim, Impulse Theatre Peekfest, Intrepid Theatre Victoria
  • MaxMSP/Jitter, Jasch, Making New Waves Festival, Trafo, Budapest
  • Media Arts for the Camera, Media Net, Victoria, B.C., Canada
  • Writing for Media Arts, Tom Sherman, SAW Gallery/Video, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Photography, Justin Wonnacott, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa
  • Video Camera and Editing, SAW Video, Ottawa
  • Sound Walking, Hildegarde Westerkamp, Open Space, Victoria, B.C.

Performance

  • Acting for the Camera, Media Net, Victoria, B.C.
  • Video and Performance, Richard Layzell
  • Dialects and Accents, ACTRA, Montreal, Quebec.

Performance Art

  • Therapy Conversation, Conversation Therapy: Nicola Gunn Workshop, Intrepid Theatre, Victoria, B.C.
  • (Un)Symposium: Akademy of human & Performance Art Aktions, Margaret Dragu and Jörn J. Burmester
  • Guillermo Gómez Peña & Saul Garcia Lopez, Open Space
  • Performance Art, Rachel Rosenthal, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
  • Performance Art for the Camera, Saw Video, Ottawa
  • Performance Art, Richard Layzell
  • Performance Art, Watchface

Screenwriting

  • Media Net, Victoria, B.C.
  • Dramatic Screenwriting, Tom Shoebridge, Algonquin College, Ottawa

Shakespeare

Group workshops & private coaching, Lewis Hancock, The Original Shakespeare Company

StoryTelling

Deb Williams, The Flame, Belfry Theatre, Victoria

Technical Theatre

lighting design, audio production, set construction, costumes and properties University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Ukulele

  • private – Wes Carroll
  • group – Friends of Music Society, Victoria,  B.C.

Voice

  • Vocal Improvisation, Susannah Adams, Victoria
  • Jazz
  • Voice, New Music Voice Festival, Open Space, Victoria, May, 2006 workshops with:
    • D.B. Boyko, Sound Poet and Sound Curator, Western Front
    • Dutton, Sound Poet, Toronto, Ontario; and
    • Wende Bartley, Earth-Echo workshop.
  • Singing, Tran Quang Ha, Making New Waves festival, Trafo, Budapest (February, 2005)
  • Private Lessons:
    • William Weiss, Ottawa
    • June Bender, Ottawa (now Victoria, B.C.)
    • Mahdi Body Darroch, Ottawa
    • Dialects and Accents, ACTRA, Montreal, Quebec.

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