Cassie Unger she/her

Producer/Hamlet

Cassie Unger is an artist and educator who is passionate about bringing powerful and meaningful stories to life through versatile and realistic performances. Born and raised in Oregon, she first performed onstage at the age of 10 and received a Bachelor of Creative Arts and Drama. Her artistic endeavours have continued since, spanning devised theatre, spoken word and vocal performance, film, script writing, teaching both youth and adult theatre classes, and helping to fund a theatre company (Little Dipper Theatre). Some of her favourite projects include: Tempting Providence (Gallery 7), The Trip to Bountiful (United Players), the 2023 Incubator Project (The Harlequin Theatre Society), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Pacific Theatre), devising and performing in Wild Light (Little Dipper).

Nicole DesLauriers any

Assistant Director/Rosencrantz

Nicole has taught and directed people of all ages but focuses on working with children. Currently she is an EA in kindergarten and runs LARPing camps at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Recently she directed The Woman in Black for RCTC, played Allie in RCTC’s production of We Don’t Talk About Book Club and co-directed Rain City for Grad School Improv. As a theatre artist she has worn many hats but prefers teaching, directing, and choreography. Her training includes clowning, puppetry, mask, circus arts, and dance. She believes that theatre is an amazing tool for teaching creativity, flexibility, and acceptance and focuses on collaborative creation and collective storytelling.

Kerri Norris she/her

Director

Kerri is an Actor, Director, Costumer, Producer and sometime Dramaturg as well as being Artistic Director of The Royal Canadian Theatre Company. . She has an MFA in Acting from CalArts in Los Angeles. Recent Directing credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Gallery 7), Knotted: Rapunzel's Story (RCTC), You Can’t Take It With You (SAMC Theatre), Blithe Spirit (RCTC) and Henry V, (Pacific Theatre - Stones Throw). Up next she'll be directing They Came From Mars and Landed Outside The Farndale Avenue Church Hall In Time for the Townswomen's Guild Coffee Morning, The Little Mermaid and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (RCTC).

Dimitri Shields he/they

Stage Manager

Dimitri is a professional theatre technician working in Vancouver and the broader Lower Mainland. He graduated from SAMC Theatre in 2019 and has since had his hand in productions including Gay on God's Campus with Dark Glass Theatre, We Don't Talk About Book Club with the Royal Canadian Theatre Company, Under the Needle with Stone's Throw Productions, and Catch Me If You Can with Theatre in the Country.

Luis Zaldivar he/him

Production Assistant

Originally from Mexico City, Luis is a Vancouver-based theatre maker and manager. While Luis started as a stage manager, he has slowly and steadily grown to appreciate the art of production management and producing. He hopes to one day be doing this full time somewhere in this awesome city. This summer, in addition to his work with the Hamlet team, you can catch Luis selling tickets for Arts Club and as Assistant Stage Manager for Theatre Under The Stars!

Eve Partridge she/her

Costume Designer

Eve is a proud graduate of Capilano University’s Costume Design program and couldn’t be more excited to help bring this adaptation to life. Some of her favourite past credits include Pride and Prejudice, Little Women: The Musical (WRPC), Carrie: The Musical, Lost in Wonderland (CapU), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Peninsula Productions). Eve has a special love for period design and enjoys blending historical accuracy with creative flair.

Josh Osborne he/him

Sound Designer

Josh Osborne is a Vancouver-based sound designer and composer. This is his first time making cool noises with Pacific Theatre, and he’s very excited to be aboard. Recent projects include ‘Wild Light’, ‘Common Grace’ (Little Dipper) ‘The Da Vinci Code’, ‘Amadeus’, ‘Shawshank Redemption’ (TITC) ‘Under Milk Wood’, ‘The Freedom of the City’ (Vital Spark) ‘Trying’, ‘Christmas Carol’ (Gallery 7). He thanks you for supporting local arts, and hopes you enjoy the show.

Phil Miguel he/him

Lighting Designer

Originally a health care worker for the FVRD for over a decade, Phil decided to take his life in a slightly less dramatic direction and began his career in theatre. Over the most recent decade he has been a designer, director, actor, and producer in Vancouver spawning two theatre companies (Clockwork and Cave Canem) with multiple acclaimed and nominated productions. His past designs include lights for the best production nominated Lonesome West with Cave Canem Productions, set for Gramma with Pacific Theatre, and props for Wakey Wakey with Pacific Theatre. As production manager he enjoys learning how to create reconstructable pumpkins and sanskrit scrabble tiles and trying to figure out how to make things concurrently water and fire proof.

Shona Struthers

Fight Director

David Robert Leslie

Fight Director

Emma Geleynse she/her

Ophelia

Sara J Southey she/her

Gertrude

Oliver de la Harpe he/him

Claudius/Ghost

Ryan Andrews he/they

Polonius

Conor Kavanagh he/him

Laertes

Brad Bonnell he/him

Horatio

Rob Fawcett he/him

Guildenstern

Stephen Elshechen he/him

Player King/Priest