David Baughan
Stage Manager

Born in England, David has a background as a theatre stage manager, lighting designer, and photojournalist. Stage management credits in BC include numerous productions for TheatreOne (Nanaimo), Graffiti Theatre (Salt Spring Island), and Chemainus Theatre Festival. He is pleased to return for his 11th production at CTF. David's photography has been exhibited in European capitals, the United States and Canada. His photographs are held in the Musée national d'art moderne collection in Paris.

Norma Bowen
Mrs. Linde

Norma is a graduate of Studio 58. Before leaving Vancouver she collected two Jessie Award nominations for Fool for Love (Arts Club) and a Lie of the Mind (Vancouver Playhouse). Favourite CTF credits include: Private Lives, Charley's Aunt, The Heiress, Annie, See How They Run, An Ideal Husband, The Wizard of Oz, She Stoops to Conquer and My Fair Lady.

Alan Brodie
Lighting Designer

Alan Brodie makes his Chemainus debut with A Doll's House. Vancouver based, Brodie works for regional theatres across Canada, as well as Shaw and Stratford festivals, Canadian Opera Co. and Vancouver Opera. His lighting for The Overcoat has been seen on the international stage and received a Jessie Award and a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Theatre at UBC, Brodie teaches at the National Theatre School. He is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. (www.alanbrodie.ca)

Mara Gottler
Costume Designer

Mara Gottler's recent design credits include Brilliant (NAC /Electric Co.), A Christmas Carol (Vancouver Playhouse), Revenge (Felix Culpa), Studies in Motion (PuSh International Festival/Electric Co./UBC) and Summerfolk (Studio 58). This past season, she also designed costumes for all four productions at Bard on the Beach where she is the resident costume designer. A multiple Jesse Richardson Award winner, Mara's work has been nominated for the prestigious Siminovitch Theatre Award; her designs have also been showcased at the World Stage Design Exhibition.

William Groth
Doctor Rank

William Groth is a 30 year veteran of the stage. He has worked in regional theatres in almost every state in the U.S. and is happy to be back on Vancouver Island and here at CTF. He appeared here as Colonel Pickering (My Fair Lady), Louie and Eddie (Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers), Lord Hardcastle (She Stoops To Conquer), Harpagon (The Miser) and Friar Tuck (Robinhood). William resides in New York City.

Anthony F. Ingram
Nils Krogstad

Anthony is a Vancouver based actor, producer, and director. He recently co-founded Tempus Theatre, which produced Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance*. Favourite acting credits include: The Birthday Party* (Blackbird Theatre), King Lear and All's Well that Ends Well (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth (Caravan), The Foreigner (Rosebud), Titus Andronicus (Madduck Equity Co-op). As a Director: Private Eyes, Beggars at the Waters of Immortality, A Delicate Balance, The Hungry Season. Anthony will direct 36 Views for Tempus Theatre in May '08. (*Jessie Nomination)

Carole Klemm
Scenery Designer

Carole is delighted to be back designing in Chemainus. Set designs for CTF include Little Women, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dunsmuirs, and The Heiress. Recent design credits include: Mesa (Belfry Theatre), and MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas (Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winipeg). She has designed and painted for Manitoba Theatre Centre, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Western Canada Theatre Company, Studio 58, and the Vancouver and Adelaide Fringe Festivals. Special thanks to the talented production crew here and to her family in Victoria!

Brian Linds
Sound Designer

Sound Design credits include Lost in Yonkers (Chemainus Theatre Festival), Roger Maris On Stage (Western Canada Theatre), Girl In A Goldfish Bowl (Belfry/Prairie Theatre Exchange), Twelfth Night (Kaleidoscope Theatre) and Derwint Is Different (Green Thumb Theatre), and the music for Hippies and Bolsheviks (Touchstone Theatre). CTF acting credits: Arsenic and Old Lace and Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Brian is a collector of odd, obscure and unusual recordings which he features on his radio show Uncle Bri's Funhouse CFUV 101.9 FM Victoria.

Dawn Petten
Nora Helmer

It is a dream for Dawn to play the part of "Nora" in her CTF debut. Favourite productions include: the onewoman show Audition of the Embarrassed Woman (Solo Collective), It's All True and Unity, 1918 (Touchstone Theatre), and Studies in Motion (Electric Company). Dawn is a graduate of UBC's BFA acting program and has been nominated for six Jessie Richardson Awards and won two. She has worked for numerous theatre companies including: Bard on the Beach, Belfry, Vancouver Playhouse, and Caravan Theatre.

Todd Thomson
Torvald Helmer

Todd is thrilled to be making his Chemainus Theatre debut. Selected theatre credits include: The School for Scandal (Stanley Theatre), Macbeth (Pound of Flesh), Homeward Bound (Gateway Theatre), The Bond (Pound of Flesh), Metamorphoses (Citadel Theatre), Elisa's Skin (Pi Theatre), The Family Way (Touchstone Theatre), Espresso (Pacific Theatre), The Shape of Things (Manitoba Theatre Centre), Wit (Vancouver Playhouse), Kilt (Belfry Theatre) and four seasons with Bard on the Beach, including productions of Twelfth Night, Henry V, Macbeth, Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It.

Eroca Zales
Helene

Eroca is pleased to be making her CTF debut! A Vancouver based actor, Eroca has worked for numerous companies in theatre, film and radio. Acting credits include We're All In This Together (Vancouver Moving Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Presentation House), Hotbed Hotel (Metro Theatre) and Veronica's Room (Deep Cove Stage). Film credits include principle roles in Heirloom (Davenport Productions), The Stranger (Skinned Films), and Black & White (Rabbit Hole Productions). Radio credits include The Toe Cutter (Theatre in the Raw) and Mae West (Future Past) for CFRO Radio.