Tag: Theatre

Doris Chillcott was born in December 29, 1930.Ms. Chillcott was one of Vancouver’s most respected teachers and actors. Her long career included performing with the Everyman Players, the Playhouse Theatre Company, the Arts Club Theatre (where she was critically praised for many of her leading roles) – as well as being part of the Dorothy…
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An actor born in 1952 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire County England, Nicola was raised in rural British Columbia. She has worked across the country.  Among her credits are performances in the world premiere of Sharon Pollock’s The Komagata Maru Incident at the Shaw Festival (also in the Festival’s The Millionairess, Pygmalion, Cyrano de Bergerac, Present Laughter…
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Magnificent Ontario-based actor/singer, born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, in 1951, who is now best known for creating the role of Molina in the musical version of Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman (for which he won a Tony Award). Mr. Carver has also acted at the Stratford Festival (Foxfire, Threepenny Opera and, more recently –…
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Actor, director, producer Bill Buckingham initially followed in his father’s footsteps as a lawyer. As was the custom in the 1930’s, lawyers and businessmen also participated in amateur theatre, and Bill began a theatrical career at the York Theatre with the Vancouver Little Theatre Association, where he was very successful. One thing led to another,…
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Shirley Broderick came to Canada from England in 1948, after training with the Italia Conti Theatre School and the Phyllis Badell Ballet School in London. In a 1957 UBC production of “The Tempest”, Shirley played Ariel to Robert Clothier’s Trinculo. They were married three months later. In the following years she worked in radio, television…
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