Aviva Armour-Ostroff
Annie Sullivan

Aviva works in Toronto as an actor, producer, and photographer. Recent acting credits include the Gladstone Variations (Convergence Theatre), A Good Idea (Theatre Passe Muraille), The Rochdale Project (Theatre Passe Muraille), and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre). She is the artistic director & founder of The Lab Cab Festival, an annual multi-arts festival at the Factory Theatre. Aviva is honoured to appear at CTF.

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, and last summer's Anything Goes and Murder on the Nile. Norma is a graduate of Studio 58.

Hayley Carr
Helen Keller

Hayley is very happy to be back in Chemainus for such a wonderful show. Recently she acted in My Fair Lady for the Gateway Theatre. Past CTF shows include Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, Nightingale, and Winnie the Pooh. Hayley would like to thank her amazing family, friends, and everyone within CTF. Enjoy the show!

Garry Davey
Captain Arthur Keller

Garry has worked as an actor, director, and teacher for over twenty years, including roles in Charley's Aunt, Heidi, and The Dunsmuirs for CTF, many shows for TheatreOne and Night of Shooting Stars for Western Edge. TV credits include The X-Files, Cold Squad, and Da Vinci's Inquest. Garry has worked with TheatreBC and is a former Artistic Director for TheatreOne in Nanaimo, and the William Davis Centre in Vancouver. Garry is very happy to be back in Chemainus working on this beautiful play.

Mark DuMez
Dramaturge/Assistant Director

Mark is pleased to join this team at the CTF, where directing favourites include The Nightingale, Treasure Tales, The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, and Pet the Fish - a wonder play. He has been the writer/director at the McLean Mill National Historic Site for the past four years. Other directing credits include new work at Acacia Theatre and assisting internationally renown Ronlin Foreman at Dell' Arte. Upcoming projects include Rumplestilskin and Mr. Pim Passes By.

Breton Frazier
Aunt Ev

Breton Frazier is delighted to be making her CTF debut. Breton's acting career spans four decades in American regional theatre and Off Broadway. Favourite roles include: Miss Tweed in the musical mystery Something's Afoot, Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy (with husband William Groth as Boolie), Judith Bliss in Hay Fever and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination." Helen Keller.

Thomas Gibson
James Keller

Thomas Gibson hails from Nova Scotia where he attended Dalhousie University's acting program. His stage credits include Macbeth, Ubu Roi, Urinetown, and Bloody Poetry. His film experience includes Trudeau 2, The River King, and the recently-released Just buried. He would like to thank CTF for this wonderful opportunity and hopes you enjoy the show.

William Gibson
Playwright

Born in New York City in 1914, his most popular plays are The Miracle Worker and Two for the Seesaw. Both were produced on Broadway and made into movies. The Miracle Worker won the Tony Award for Best Play and the movie version won Oscars for both Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. In 1982 he wrote a sequel to The Miracle Worker entitled Monday After the Miracle based on the life of Helen Keller as a college student with Annie Sullivan as her tutor and translator. Other plays include: Goodly Creatures, and Golda, which in its revised version Golda's Balcony set a record as the longest-running one-woman play on Broadway. Gibson now lives in Stockbridge, Mass.

Connie Hosie
Stage Manager

It has been a few years since Connie helped CTF take A Streetcar Named Desire to Vancouver and she is happy to be joining Jeremy and his team for another classic evening of theatre. Since her time at CTF, she has been living in Vancouver, and working everywhere else: Anne of Green Gables/Canada Rocks (Charlottetown Festival); Suds: The Musical (BC Tour for Arts Club Theatre); The Farndale...A Christmas Carol (Pacific Theatre), and she has just completed her sixth opera as ASM with Pacific Opera Victoria and looks forward to more next year. In between shows, Connie gave birth to her biggest production yet: her one-year-old son, Logan, with husband, Grayson. Connie is a graduate of the Theatre Department at UVIC.

Rebekah Johnson
Lighting Design

This is Rebekah's fifth show at CTF and as always it is a pleasure to work so close to her home town, Cobble Hill. Previous shows for CTF include A Streetcar Named Desire and last summer's Anything Goes. Other recent credits include Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story for Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, The Violet Hour at the Belfry Theatre, and Having Hope at Home for Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. Rebekah is a member of IATSE 168 (Vancouver Island) and the Associated Designers of Canada. She is currently attending UVic, working toward an MFA in Visual Art.

Carole Klemm
Set Designer

Carole is very happy to be back designing at CTF. Previous work includes the sets for A Doll's House, A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Women, The Dunsmuirs, and The Heiress. Elsewhere recent work includes designs for Mesa (Belfry Theatre and Prairie Theatre Exchange) and the set design for 150 Years in Golden Mountain. 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 her family and to the talented production crew here!

Brian Linds
Sound Designer

CTF credits include 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. Recent designs include: True West (Vancouver Playhouse Theatre - Jessie Award nomination), The Violet Hour, Turn Of The Screw (Belfry Theatre), No Exit (The Electric Company), Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Other Guys Theatre), Girl In The Goldfish Bowl (Belfry/ Prairie Theatre Exchange), and Twelfth Night (Kaleidoscope Theatre). He supplied the music for Touchstone Theatre's Hippies and Bolsheviks and Western Canada Theatre's The Island Of Bliss. He will be repeating the role of Uncle Billy this Christmas in The Arts Club's production of It's A Wonderful Life.

Erin Ormond
Kate Keller

Erin is honored to return to the CTF stage. Recently she appeared in Being Frank (TheatreOne) and has performed in numerous CTF productions including Rose in Enchanted April, Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, and Mona in Queen Milli of Galt. Other credits include Gertrude in The Marowitz Hamlet (UVic), Yana in Night Breath (Cowichan Fringe), and Carrie in War of the Worlds (Giggling Iguana). In addition to acting, she has taught professionally as a Voice and Speech teacher in Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria, and at the Canadian National Voice Intensive.