David Baughan
Stage Manager

Born in England, David has a background as a theatre stage manager, lighting designer, and photographer. Stage management credits in BC include numerous productions for TheatreOne (Nanaimo), Graffiti Theatre (Salt Spring Island), and Chemainus Theatre Festival (CTF). He is pleased to return for his 15th production at CTF where he will also stage manage Oklahoma! this summer. He is the administrator of Pacific Coast Stage Company (Nanaimo) and an associate director of Graffiti Theatre. David's photographs have been exhibited in many European and North American cities. His photographs are held in the Musée national d'art moderne collection in Paris.

Norma Bowen
Costume Designer

Norma (aka Prunella Vulgaris, The Witch in the Wardrobe) is an associate artist with CTF, where she has designed more than a dozen shows. Favourite costume designs include An Inspector Calls, A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Women, Anything Goes, Murder on the Nile, and most recently, The Miracle Worker. Norma is a graduate of Studio 58.

Robin Boxwell
Sound Designer

Robin is pleased to be a part of the CTF team again. He has recently been working on a touring production of The Nutcracker ballet with Kelowna Ballet as well as the sound designer for A Chorus Line for Viva Musica and Vancouver Island University's production of Macbeth. Last year's CTF credits include South Pacific and Hay Fever. Robin would like to dedicate this production to his father, Bob Boxwell. Enjoy the show!

Jesse Frank
Lighting Designer

Once upon a time in a land...not so far away, there lived a Techi ... Jesse's story begins at the "Cultch" many years ago and continues through to today where he is very busy taking crew calls, designing shows, or studying the way certain light creates a certain shadow ... Well, you get the picture. And God said: "Let There Be Light!" Since then the Techi's have been so very busy.

Neil Gallagher
Mr. Pim

This is Neil's sixth show at CTF - the most recent was Rumpelstiltskin in December. Neil has also appeared in The Odd Couple for Western Edge Theatre, Western Edition for Theatre North West, Elizabeth Bam with The International Theatre Laboratory, and Theatre One's Young Company last summer where he worked with his wife and his daughter Beatrix. Neil lives in Nanaimo with his wife and his daughter Beatrix, who loves to see her name in the program. Did I mention that Neil is very happy to be performing in such a charming play? Well, he is, he really is.

Steven Greenfield
Brian Strange

Steven is thrilled to be back for his sixth production at CTF! Favourite acting credits: Seussical, Forever Plaid, Come Blow Your Horn, Gypsy, Little Women, The Winter's Tale Project and the Vancouver Fringe hit The Musical of Musicals!-The Musical!. A Jessie Award-winning musical director (Seussical), Steven's next adventure is Oklahoma! for CTF, where he will be musical directing and playing 'Cord Elam'. Love to family, friends and Jessie.

Kaylee Harwood
Dinah Marden

Kaylee is thrilled to be back in Chemainus after her first appearance here as a nurse in last summer's South Pacific. Kaylee holds a degree in Theatre from Trinity Western University. Credits include Pride and Prejudice, Tartuffe and Holy Mo and Spew Boy (TWU). Other credits include Grease, The Mikado, and Cinderella. Upcoming: Les Misèrables (Arts Club). Many thanks to Mom, Mark, Michelle, and everyone at CTF.

Kathryn Kerbes
Lady Marden

Kathryn was last seen at the CTF in Anything Goes and Murder on the Nile in 2007. Since then she has appeared in A Christmas Carol (2007 and 2008) at Theatre Calgary, Snake in the Grass at Vertigo Theatre, and Half Life at Alberta Theatre Projects. For 20 years Kathryn was Co-Artistic Director of Shadow Productions in Calgary and along with her husband and partner, Hal, received the Harry and Martha Cohen Award for significant and sustained contribution to theatre in Calgary. Kathryn is overjoyed to return to Chemainus, this wonderful company and fine cast. Thanks to Mark and Jeremy.

Carole Klemm
Scenery Designer

Carole is delighted to be back designing for CTF. Previous work included the sets for The Miracle Worker, Little Women, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dunsmuirs, and The Heiress. Elsewhere recent designs include: 150 Years in Golden Mountain (Victoria) and Mesa (Belfry and Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg). She has designed and painted for the Belfry Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Western Canada Theatre Company, Studio 58, and the Vancouver and Adelaide fringe festivals. Special thanks to the talented production team and to her family in Victoria.

Michelle Lieffertz
Anne (the maid)

Michelle is delighted to be back 'home' at Chemainus! Previous CTF credits include Rumpelstiltskin, Charley's Aunt, Anne of Green Gables, Marvin's Room, Macbeth, and A Christmas Carol. UK credits include Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Man of La Mancha. Michelle lives happily ever after just down the road with her husband and twin daughters, after working in the UK for 7 years, and training at ArtsEd (London).

Brian Linds
Sound Designer

For CTF: The Miracle Worker, Miracle on 34th Street, A Doll's House and Lost In Yonkers. Brian also acted at CTF in Arsenic and Old Lace and Barefoot in the Park. Other designs: The History Boys (Arts Club), True West (Vancouver Playhouse-Jessie Award Nomination), The Violet Hour, Turn Of The Screw, (Belfry), No Exit (Electric Company). Brian is currently acting and designing sound for the Western Canada Theatre production of The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney.

A.A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Playwright

Best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh and various children's poems, Milne was also a gifted playwright. But the huge success of the Pooh stories overshadowed his earlier works and in fact became a huge annoyance to him. He was the assistant editor of the British humour magazine Punch for many years and wrote over 25 plays and seven novels.

David Thomson
George Marden

David is a native Vancouverite and longtime actor whose credits include such shows as Cabaret, Amadeus, The Taming of the Shrew, And Then There Were None, Pygmalion and many others. He is delighted to return to CTF, where his past appearances include Dylan in A Christmas In Wales, Richard Greatham in Hay Fever, the Archbishop and Inquisitor in Saint Joan, and the "Professor" in South Pacific.

Anita Wittenberg
Olivia Marden

Anita recently performed in the new play Mourning Dove at Pacific Theatre, Vancouver. Some of her favourite roles have been for CTF: Myra, Hay Fever; Bella, Lost in Yonkers; Prossy, Candida; Lotty, Enchanted April; Catherine, The Heiress, and Gwendolyn, The Importance of being Earnest. After eleven wonderful years in Chemainus, she looks forward to a new adventure in Kamloops. Thank you CTF audiences for so many great memories in this theatre.