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Cast & Crew

The 2009 production of Palais Oops brought together many different strands of the Winnipeg Theatre Community:

Director:
Andrea Del Campo

Andrea has been a lover of theatre and the environment since she was a wee one growing up in Winnipeg. She completed her Honors degree in Theatre at the University of Winnipeg, and has performed with Prairie Theatre Exchange, Manitoba Theatre for Young People and Sarasvati Productions, to name a few. Andrea is a member of Winnipeg-based improv troupe, Outside Joke, with whom she has performed all over Winnipeg as well as Canada. Andrea is delighted to be making her directorial debut with Green Kids.

Actors:
Rachelle Fordyce

An Honours graduate from the University of Winnipeg's Department of Theatre and Drama, Rachelle is an actor, producer, playwright, director, designer, musician, singer, and clown! Rachelle has produced and directed plays for Parks Canadas and the Winnipeg International Children's Festival, MTC's Master Playwrights Festival, the MayWorks Festival of Labour and Arts, as well as various International Fringe Theatre Festivals across Canada. An aspiring and award-winning playwright, Rachelle has previously been awarded an emerging playwrights grant from the Manitoba Arts Council, and placed first in the 2005 Carol Shields playwrighting contest, professional division. Rachelle has been studying clown for the past two years with the Internationally renowned Sue Morrison as well as John Turner of 'Mump and Smoot'. This is Rachelle's third tour with Green Kids, and as she is a vegan and cares a lot about the environment, she's naturally pretty excited about being involved with Green Kids! YAY!!!!

Ti Hallas

In 1978 Ti co-founded Chinook Theatre which toured schools and communities throughout BC, Alberta, Yukon and the NWT. In 1982 Chinook became the founding company of Canada's very first Fringe Theatre Festival in Edmonton. During her 10 years with Chinook, Ti was busy as performer, director, playwright, stage-manager, tour-coordinator and General Manager. Her career took her to Ontario where she taught acting and voice at Laurentian University and then taught Drama, Dance and English for the Toronto District School Board. Since her return to her hometown of Winnipeg 6 years ago she taught Drama and English for 3 years with the St James School Board. Most recently she has been "treading the boards" again, and has been a featured performer in AlbeeFest, TremblayFest, and FemFest productions. Ti is happy to be part of Green Kids. She believes very strongly in the Green Kids mandate. She wants to help our youth feel empowered and to be part of a healthier, happier future. "The Earth is our Mother. We must take care of her."

Brian Richardson

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.

Manager:
Darryl Anderson
Darryl is thrilled to be a part of Green Kids, an organization which combines two elements that he is very passionate about: environmental education and the arts. Darryl has been an active supporter of the environmental and arts community as a promoter, organizer, and fan. While completing his business education from the University of Manitoba and Red River College, Darryl worked as Promotions Manager, Special Event Coordinator, and Field Marketing Representative for local hospitality companies and international brand distributors. In June 2008, after holding the position of Marketing Manager for one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies, Darryl made a career decision to become an entrepreneur and pursue his own passions, including the development of arts and culture. His forward-thinking company Mindful Visions and Ventures helps develop passions to turn them into lifestyle businesses, as he targets the launch of more of his own.

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.

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 is excited to get to work with Green Kids again this year. Green Kids combines her two favorite things on this planet: theatre and, well, this planet.

Dance Routine
Judy Cook

Clown Costumes:
Lorraine O'Leary
Thora lamont
Amanda Isaac

Scene Painting:
Andrea Steinwand

Props Maker:
Randy Woods

Imagery Direction:
Fiona Sanipelli

See our 2008 crew archive.

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