Cast & Crew
The 2010 production of Ebb & Flo has brought together many different strands of the Winnipeg Theatre Community:
Writer:
Brian Richardson |
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| Brian Richardson is a theatre practitioner. As an actor, a playwright, a poet, a storyteller, folk musician, and a creator of ethno-fusion theatre he has experienced a wide range of performance experience. Brian also applies his craft in a field broadly categorised as Museum Theatre. The centre of that network is a very dedicated woman, Tessa Bridal, whose work in the Science Museum of Minnesota began the connecting theatre artists working in the fields of re-enactment, recreation, and education, to exchange and share ideas in a commonality. The work Brian does with Green Kids stems from that commonality as well as many years in theatre, and a number of years with Green Kids. | ||
Director:
Daina Leitold
Daina's first real paying acting gig was with Green Kids in 1996. She went on to perform in three tours with Green Kids before moving into the office as the Executive/Artistic Director from 1999 to 2001. Daina has spent most of her time since raising her daughter, Sativa, as well as working as an actor, director and mime around Winnipeg. She was one of the co-writers for Green Kids' 2006 Tour, Happy Birthday Rex, and played Ebb in the first production of "Ebb & Flo: The Water Cycle". Daina is very excited to get to step into the director's chair this season. Green Kids combines her two favorite things on this planet: theatre and, well, this planet.
Actors:
Lygia Ramcharan
Lygia Ramcharan is living her passion as a performing artist in both theatre and film. Demonstrating her talents in singing, musical theatre, and as an instrumentalist since Grade School, Lygia has broadened her fine arts through instruction from the Prairie Theatre Exchange, Onalee Ames Film Studio, and The Acting Studio Winnipeg with Darcy Fehr. She has appeared in 2007 and 2008 Winnipeg Fringe Festival performances and is excited to be a part of the Green Kids production of "Ebb & Flo: The Water Cycle". Among being an active member of Winnipeg's growing film and theatrical industry, you may also see Lygia's face on California's "SmileVino" wine bottles available at MLCC's and in some parts of the U.S.A.
Amy Groening
Amy Groening is in her third year of University of Winnipeg's honors acting program. She has been involved in many local shows and readings including Fem Fest's "Honey and Jupiter" and "Eden". ChurchillFest's "Vinegar Tom", and Winnipeg Fringe festival's 2009 best of fest "Customer Relations". She also studied with Sarasvati Productions artistic director Hope McIntyre in the ACI mentorship program in 2009. Though Amy has a passion for Theatre she has also been involved in a number of independent films and was nominated for best actress at the University of Winnipeg film festival two years in a row, "Punch Out" in 2008 and "Nobodies" in 2009. Before Amy got involved in the theatre and film world she studied at Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers junior and professional programs. Amy is a strong supporter environmental awareness and is very excited to be apart of such an influential show for children. She can't wait to start touring Canada with Green Kids!
Anne Wyman
Anne Wyman stumbled upon the theatre at the age of four, when she was enrolled in a small drama camp for children. Anne hasn't looked back since, and is happier than ever as an emerging member of the Winnipeg theatre community. Since 2003, Anne has been involved with twelve fringe productions and three national tours, including a six city tour of her solo show. Anne has also enjoyed performing internationally, with Tom X. Chao's Can't Get Started and Sterling Lynch's Root of all Squares in New York City's FRIGID festival. The new Ebb & Flo tour is very exciting for Anne because it allows her the opportunity to combine her two favourite things; travel and theatre. Back home, Anne teaches theatre to children at Manitoba Theatre for Young People, studies conflict resolution and watches as many horror films as she can.
Road Manager:
Tanja Woloshen
Teachers Resource Kit and Communications:
Alix Sobler
Alix Sobler is a playwright, performer and freelance writer/communications professional. In addition to her business and public relations writing, she has written many plays, including five solo shows which she has performed all over North America. In 2003 her play "Testimony" was chosen as a finalist in the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwrighting competition (ten-minute division) and the same play was performed at the Looking Glass Theatre in NYC in 2006. In 1996 she won the National Conversation Essay Competition (USA) for her piece entitled "I Pledge Allegiance to MTV". Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire and Rhubarb Magazine. Her comedy can often be heard on CBC's Definitely Not The Opera. Alix Sobler is a graduate of Brown University.
Show Consultants & Image Programming:
Loc Lu
Loc Lu has been a proud member of Green Kids since 2002. His first experience with the environmental group dates back further into his childhood where he can remember sitting in the audience and being entertainingly educated about the importance of the "3 R's." Loc has toured all over Canada with various Green Kid productions and has also been involved behind the scenes as Office Guy Extraodinaire. When he's not working with GK's, Loc enjoys teaching theatre and eating anything containing chocolate.
See our 2009 crew archive.
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