Our spring Directing apprentice is the talented Larisse Campbell, who will officially begin her time at Pacific in January 2022. Larisse comes to us with a slate of directing credits and advocacy work for caregivers and parents in the theatre community under her belt, and we look forward to further fostering her this year. Say hi!
Larisse Campbell is a Canadian and American director, theatre educator, and active member of the mental health community based on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish People. She is a 2021 Kennedy Center Director’s Intensive fellowship member and is a 2020 Director’s Lab North cohort. In 2018, she was nominated for Broadway World’s “Best Director for a Small Budget” for Women and War (The Jericho Arts Center). Recent directing and producing credits include: The Hunger Moon: An Evening of Live Streamed New Plays (Presentation House Theatre), Hiding with Company (Brave New Playwrights), Isho and the First Light (Canadian Memorial United Church), Doors and Windows (OR Festival), A Table For Two(Brave New Play Rights) and Bonnie and Clyde (Vancouver Fringe Festival). In 2020, she founded PIPAC – Parents in Performing Arts Canada, as a safe space to explore and establish fair and non-exploitative practices in performing arts for those who identify as caregivers. She is a proud alumni of The University of Alberta Drama Program and Victoria School of the Arts. Larisse is thrilled to be joining Pacific Theatre as an apprentice and is grateful for the opportunity to learn from the wonderful artists and administrators, during this time.
There are so many but a few that come to mind are: Anywhere but Here (Electric Company Theatre), The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable (Punch Drunk/Royal National Theatre), and Burning Bluebeard (Theatre Network/The Ruffians).