Charlotte Herst

Charlotte is a British-Canadian soprano, singing and STAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher who teaches performers through coaching, workshops and online courses. She first trained as an actor and musical theater performer, working as a theatre director, playwright, composer and performer, but quickly found most of her work singing and teaching movement. After becoming a yoga teacher in 2009, Charlotte began leading voice and movement workshops organized around breathing, experiential anatomy, and voice/movement explorations. She has sung a wide repertoire - from Sondheim to Machaut - as soloist, ensemble-singer, church musician, improviser/collaborator, and as part of an early music soprano duo. Charlotte has assisted in London UK at the Royal College of Music, the London School of Musical Theatre and with the Temple Church choral scholars program.

Lee Su-Feh

"Lee Su-Feh (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performance-maker and teacher of voice and movement. Born and raised in Malaysia, her early training began with a mix of traditional and contemporary South-East Asian dance and theatre. Based now in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories, colonially known as Vancouver, BC, she has created a provocative body of award-winning work that interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced histories and habits. Alongside this trajectory in performance-making, Su-Feh has pursued a lifelong study and practice of Chinese martial arts, Qigong and Daoism, all of which informs her approach to dance and movement. Since 2010, she has been a student and practitioner of Fitzmaurice Voicework and is currently a certified Lead Trainer of the work. She is a member of the Advisory Group of the Fitzmaurice Institute and participates actively in the international community of Fitzmaurice Voicework teachers. Some of Su-Feh's current preoccupations involve creating dance algorithms and singing with amateurish abandon.

Yuki Kedoin

Yuki Kedoin's most recently can be seen playing the role of Takemaru in all ten episodes of the FX/Hulu series "Shogun" (2024), filmed in Vancouver. The series has received 25 nominations for the 2024 Emmy Awards. Yuki was born in Yokohama, Japan. He is an actor, samurai sword performer, and choreographer. He has been training in traditional samurai sword fighting techniques for 13 years and has taught these techniques in Canada. Yuki has made notable appearances in films and TV series, including "The Manga Master"; and Netflix;s "The Naked Director". Yuki started his acting career in theatre, starring in many plays. Before 2020, he played an important role in the Promising Next- Generation Actor Cultivation Program sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Government of Japan. In 2021, Yuki moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he received a 2-year artistic mentorship from Bill Millerd, Artistic Director Emeritus of the Arts Club Theatre Company, one of the largest non-profit Canadian theatre companies. This mentorship was part of the "Emerging Artist Overseas Training Program" by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. In addition to acting, Yuki has been involved in his own projects as a writer, director, and actor. His most recent work is the short film "IPPO" shot in Vancouver, with spoken languages in English and Japanese. Yuki is based in both Japan and North America.

Tara Cheyenne-Friedenberg

Tara is an award winning creator, performer, educator and Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance. As an educator Tara is fueled by the desire to help performers embody text, character, and creative inspiration and bring integration, joy and freedom to our voices and dynamic bodies. Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She has choreographed for 7 seasons of Bard on the Beach, The Arts Club, Studio 58, The Firehall Arts Centre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, and Decidedly Jazz Dance Works among other. When she isn’t teaching and creating innovative movement for theatre she is performing her critically and audience acclaimed full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their son Jasper.

Damion LeClair

Damion LeClair is an award winning Métis, two-spirit artist who currently resides on the territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Sel̓íl̓witulh nations. Since graduating from Studio 58 in 2023, Damion has toured nationally with Axis Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Savage Society, Rumble Theatre and RealWheels Theatre. Recent credits include: Th'owxiya The Hungry Feast Dish (Axis), They Know Not What They Do (NEPA), Rougarou (NEPA, RealWheels Theatre) and Braiding Peonies (Rumble Theatre).

Zach Wolfman

Zach Wolfman is an actor, improviser, and educator living on Coast Salish territory. Zach is a graduate of the BFA Acting program and BEd at UBC. Zach has completed Canada's National Voice Intensive with David Smukler, LEAP playwriting intensive with Shawn Macdonald, Theatre for Living levels 1 and 2 with David Diamond, and Baby Clown and Bootcamp with John Turner. Zach is a member of The Spontaneous Shakespeare Company that produces monthly improvised Shakespeare shows at Tightrope Theatre and Sin Peaks the improvised Soap Opera. Zach has been improvising for over a decade, and has taught for Actorium, UBC improv, and Young Moviemakers. Zach is a secondary drama teacher at Cambie Secondary in Richmond.

Gabriella Minnes-Brandes

Gabriella Minnes Brandes, Ph.D. maintains an active practice at the Alexander Technique Centre in Vancouver for over 30 years. She has run Alexander workshops for actors, musicians, singers, horseback riders, and engineers (among others). For over a decade she taught the Alexander Technique in the Theatre department at Capilano University. Gaby works extensively in collaboration with musicians, voice, movement and acting instructors. Gaby’s workshops and private lessons are experiential, encouraging students to explore, experiment with, and reflect on their habitual patterns, and seek effective and efficient ways of using themselves in any activity. Informed by her Ph.D. in education, Gaby's current work and research focuses on creativity and the links between Alexander Technique and mindfulness. She is an active member of different organizations of Alexander teachers: ATC, AmSAT, STAT and ATI where she currently serves as a Board Director. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/alexandertechniquecentre

Mike Kovac

Mike Kovac is a certified Fight Director and Fight Instructor with Fight Directors Canada, and has been involved in one form of simulated violence or another for the past twenty years. He loves working with people of all ages and backgrounds in the universal language of movement. For the stage he has been the Fight Director for such Arts Club shows as Noises Off, Misery, Beauty and the Beast, among others. For the screen he has been a stunt performer for series like Supernatural, Kung Fu, Van Helsing, and a myriad of other shows. If you see him onstage or on screen, he's probably about to get beaten up.

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Lisa Goebel

Lisa Goebel is an interdisciplinary artist working as an actor, choreographer, and intimacy director. Recent credits include performing in Middletown (Sticks and Stones); Movement Consultant for Miracle on 34th Street (Arts Club); and Intimacy Director for Flight (Vancouver Opera). She completed her Intimacy Certification through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and is a graduate of Studio 58. 

Tré Cotten

Tré Cotten is an acting teacher, voice coach, and dialect designer whose work bridges theatre, theatre and video game mediums. An alumnus of the Vancouver theatre community, he teaches undergraduate and graduate students at UW Drama and has served as keynote speaker for the 2021 Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Conference. His dialect and acting work has been featured in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, with credits including Oscar-nominated One Night in Miami, Emmy-nominated The Porter, Amazon's The Peripheral, and Universal's The Exorcist: Believer, as well as Kenny Leon's Tony-nominated Broadway revival Purlie Victorious: A Non Confederate Romp Through the Cottonpatch. Cotten is the creator of The Human Mortals Project & Ensemble, a devised training initiative decolonizing approaches to heightened text, and his lecture series Sociolinguistics: Idiolects for the Stage & Screen has been presented at public and Ivy League institutions. He is Founder & CCO of Rollingwood Media Group, producing global works emphasizing Black and Indigenous narratives, and Founder of The Athletic Artist Collective, connecting athletes with media literacy through Hoops & Reelz Academy. His Giant Steps Progression Technique supports storytellers across theatre, film, sports, gaming, and voice-over media.

Anju Singh

Anju experiments with texture, sound, and compositional structure in her practice as a composer, sound artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Her work has been presented and performed across Canada and in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. Her work has been presented by Vancouver New Music, VIFF Centre, re:Naissance Opera, Canadian League of Composers, Centre d’Expérimentation Musicale (CEM), and most recently New Music Concerts Toronto. In addition to composing, Anju performs in several bands and groups and also performs solo with her experimental/noise violin project The Nausea. anjusingh.com

Christine Quintana

Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Christine is an award-winning actor and playwright, with works performed in over 10 cities internationally. She is a UBC BFA Acting graduate. Christine fell in love with theatre after seeing a show at Bard at age 8 and spent 3 beautiful summers as a Young Shakespearean, and is grateful to be here. christinequintana.ca

Haruno Niiyama

Hitotose is a group specializing in Japanese-style stage combat, founded by Haruno and Yuki. They bring a unique blend of international expertise to their performances and workshops, focusing on physical storytelling and choreographed fighting work. Hitotose shares their skills with the B.C. community, conducting workshops and performances across Vancouver, Victoria, and Salt Spring Island. Their workshops are for all ages, from young children to seniors, promoting creative expression through stage combat and performance art.

Stephen Drover

Stephen is a dramaturg and director who is originally from Newfoundland and who gratefully resides on the lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. He is a four-time recipient of a Jessie Richardson Award for directing, has been the Associate Director at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, the Artistic Director at Rumble Theatre, and currently oversees New Works and Professional Engagement at the Arts Club where he develops and dramaturgs new plays. He holds a BFA in Theatre from Memorial University, an MFA in Directing from the University of British Columbia, and an MA in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy from the University of Ottawa. Stephen has taught and directed at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Douglas College, Neptune Theatre School, and UBC. He has worked as a director or dramaturg on over 60 professional shows including Redbone Coonhound and Blackfly (both by Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton), The Cull by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith, Forgiveness and Indian Arm (both by Hiro Kanagawa), The Society for the Destitute presents Titus Bouffonius by Colleen Murphy, and Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar.

Katarina Thorsen

Katarina Thorsen is a Swedish-born artist, writer, researcher, and creative engagement facilitator based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her art is grounded in psychology, metaphor and movement. She works with community programs, custody centres, health authorities, restorative justice organizations, and school districts, and offers workshops in drawing, journaling, and creative process. Thorsen's work invites full-brain engagement and community participation, with public art and interactive events that encourage viewers to become creators. Her artwork is held in private collections across North America and Europe. Her first graphic novel, Salt Green Death (Conundrum Press, 2025), is a work of creative non-fiction and based on 21 years of archival research. Upcoming works include Full Bleed (2026), a collaboration with author Christy Ann Conlin, Occupation: The Long Shadow, and Potato Nose Diaries.