Katherine Gauthier

Playwright

Katherine Gauthier is an actor, creator and writer, working on some of Canada’s most venerated stages such as the Shaw Festival, Arts Club Theatre, Théâtre La Seizième and over a dozen productions at Soulpepper. Katherine has received four Dora Award nominations (including Outstanding Performance), two Jessie Award nominations
(including Outstanding Lead Performance) and recently won Hamburg Film Award’s Best Actress Award. A graduate of the Soulpepper Academy, Nightwood’s WriteFromTheHip program and a recipient of Tarragon’s Bulmash-Siegel Award, Katherine loves to develop and create her own work. Her first short film Age of Consent is completing its critically acclaimed festival run earning many accolades, including Best Short (NewYorkFilmand Cinematography, TorontoShortFilmFestival), Best Narrative Short (MontrealWomenFilmFestival) and Outstanding Canadian Short (FemaleEyeFilmFestival). Katherine’s first full-length play Meeting will have its world premiere at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver Spring 2025, while her newest screenplay Meat Baby, a top-3 finalist at the world-renowned Slamdance Festival, will go to production in 2026. Her film credits include The Boys (Amazon), Albatross (Harbourview
Pictures), Saving Hope (CTV), The Strain (FX), Running with Violet (OutTV), Deep Six (Lengyel) and Deep Space (Lengyel).

Kaitlin Williams

Dawn

Kaitlin Williams is an interdisciplinary theatre artist born and raised on the unceded, shared territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Since earning her BFA in Acting at the University of Victoria, she has shared her heart and skills with many productions as a director, actor, and costume designer.

A long-time member of the Pacific Theatre community, Kaitlin began her theatre career in 2009 as a PT apprentice. She has had the honour of serving as Artistic Director since 2020. PT directing highlights: A Case for the Existence of God, Empire of the Son, God Said This, Wakey, Wakey, Kim's Convenience, Mother of the Maid, Almost Maine, Testament; PT acting highlights: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Foreigner, Jesus Freak, It’s a Wonderful Life.

Kaitlin has also worked with Bard on the Beach, the Arts Club, the Belfry Theatre, ITSAZOO, Delinquent Theatre, the Electric Company, Chemainus Theatre, Western Canada Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Rumble Theatre, and many others. She has been grateful to receive Jessie nominations for both her acting and directing. In 2022 Kim’s Convenience won Calgary’s Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production. She serves on the Canadian Actor Equity Association’s Director, Choreographer, Fight and Intimacy Directors’ Advisory Committee.

Above all, Kaitlin is a community builder and believes theatre is one of the best ways we can commune together--to bear witness to what it means to be human, grow in our empathy, and collectively attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the world around us. Kaitlin has served as Pacific Theatre’s Artistic Director since September 2020. When not in the theatre she is happiest spending time with her husband Ben, and their daughter Mirren June.

Carmela Sison

Linda

Carmela Sison (she/her/siya) is a Filipina-Canadian artist living and working on the stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. A graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA in Acting program, she has been working in theatre and film since 2010. Select theatre credits include her Tagalog adaptation of A Taste of Empire by Jovanni Sy, Lasa ng Imperyo, which had its world premiere at PuSh Festival 2025, Kamila Sediego’s Homecoming (Urban Ink), Miss Bennett: Christmas in Pemberley (Arts Club), Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice (Bard on the Beach), Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Calgary), Are We There Yet?, Consent, Under Cover (Concrete Theatre), Cowboy Vs. Samurai (Chromatic Theatre). Beyond acting she has also taken on producing, arts administration, and coaching for young actors.

Marcus Youssef

Arthur

Marcus’ dozen plays include Winners and Losers, Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, King Arthur’s Night, Jabber, The In-Between, A Line in the Sand, not to mention two East Van Pantos. They have been produced in multiple languages in more than twenty countries across North America, Europe and Asia. He is a recipient of the Siminovitch Prize for
Theatre for his body of work as a playwright and mentor. Other awards: Germany’s Ikarus Prize, Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award, Alcan Performing Arts Award, Chalmers' Canadian Play Award, Seattle Times Footlight award, Vancouver Critics’ Innovation award (three times), Canada Council Staunch-Lynton Award and an Honorary Fellowship from Douglas College. As an actor, Marcus’ favourite roles include Marcus (!) in Winners and Losers (Neworld/Theatre Replacement/Crow’s), the Ghost in Hamlet (Bard on the Beach), El Fayoumy in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pound of Flesh/Cultch/Neworld/Pacific), as well as Merlin in King Arthur’s Night, Ali Ababwa in Ali and Ali & Ali the aXes of Evil, and Ian in The Boy in the Moon (all Neworld).

Chris Lam

Patrick

Chris Lam 林子榮 is a Chinese Canadian director/actor who is based on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver. Favorite credits include Benevolence (Ruby Slippers Theatre), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Ensemble Theatre Company), The Music Man (Gateway
Theatre). He is the co-artistic director of Ensemble Theatre Company and recipient of the Jean Gascon Award and the Ray Michal Award for outstanding body of work by a director. He is a graduate of Douglas College and Langham Director’s Workshop. He is currently pursing his MFA in Directing at UBC. www.thechrislamshow.com

Sebastien Archibald

Rob

Sebastien is a producer, actor and playwright based on the unceded territories of the the xʷməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where he lives with his wife (and ITSAZOO founder) Chelsea Haberlin and their relentlessly awesome daughter. Having joined ITSAZOO Productions 2006, Sebastien is proud to now lead the company that was instrumental in his development as a theatre artist and continues to provide local artists with unique and challenging artistic opportunities in award winning productions.

For ITSAZOO, Sebastien has created numerous immersive productions and site-specific events, including: The Pipeline Project (co-created with Savage Society); Hidden (w/ UBC Botanical Gardens); The Competition is Fierce (Jessie nomination Outstanding Script); Chairs: A Parable; Death of a Clown; Robin Hood; The Road To
Canterbury; Grimm Tales; the Bridge Mix series (co-created with Enlightenment Theatre); and the 10×10 series (co-created with Cameron Anderson). Playwriting awards include: the Bottle Tree National Playwriting Competition; Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition; Monday Magazine ‘M’ Award. Sebastien holds a BFA from the Phoenix Theatre, University of Victoria.

Chelsea Haberlin

Director

Chelsea Haberlin (She/Her) has lived most of her life on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, specifically the xʷməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and is honoured to call this gorgeous place her home. She is the Artistic Director of Neworld Theatre and Associate Artist with ITSAZOO Productions, a company she co-founded in 2006. As a director she has worked with: ITSAZOO Productions, Neworld Theatre, Realwheels, Arts Club Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, Theatre SKAM, Pacific Theatre, Delinquent Theatre, Studio 58, and many more. Chelsea is forever searching for new ways to surprise and engage an audience and is particularly passionate about meaningful collaboration, immersive environments, community engagement, and reconciliation.

Chelsea has an MFA in directing from UBC and a BFA from UVic and has been an adjunct professor at UBC. She is the recipient of the Sydney J Risk award in directing, the Ray Michal award for an outstanding body of work by an emerging director and a two-time winner, and a five-time Jessie Richardson Award nominee for Outstanding Direction. She sits on the boards Balancing Act and Aphotic Theatre.

Jasmin Sandhu

Stage Manager

Jasmin (she/her) is a stage manager working & living with gratitude and recognition that she is an uninvited settler on the unceded & sovereign territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the sə̓lílwətaʔɬ, xwməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations. She is a fat, queer, 1st generation immigrant POC theatre collaborator, book collector & mother. Jasmin’s artistic practices prioritize radical empathy & intention. Select stage management credits; Behind The Moon(Touchstone Theatre), UNSCRIPTED: Postcards (PTC), Yaga (ASM, Touchstone Theatre), Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Survivor Stories, Fat Joke (Neworld Theatre), Medicine, Truth & Lies (Pi Theatre), How Black Mothers Say I Love You (ASM, the frank theatre), Teenage Dick (ASM, ACTC), The Three Little Pigs (CTYP), Classic Country Roads (ASM, Chemainus Theatre Festival), DAWN, FOR EVER, NOW, WAVE/S, HORIZON/S, OVERTURE/S, Reveal + Tell & What If (ASM, Ballet BC) & East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland (ApSM, Theatre Replacement).

Stephanie Wong

Production Design

Melicia Zaini

Production Design

Paige Louter

Assistant Director

Paige is a theatre creator and producer living and working on the traditional territories of the the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver). She holds an MA in Theatre from the University of Galway, works with ITSAZOO Productions as Co-Artistic Producer, and is pursuing
certification as an Intimacy Director. Credits include co-producing and acting in The Wolves (With a Spoon /Rumble, Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Production) and performing in The Lonesome West (Cave Canem), Twelfth Night (Tottering Biped) and Coarse: The Brontes (Sarah Deller). She loves creating strange pockets of time and space to tell stories in and hopes you like this one.

Aryn Mott

Mental Health Coordinator/Intimacy Director

Meet Aryn Mott: An award-winning, Queer, non-binary trailblazer and Canada’s first certified Mental Health and Intimacy Coordinator. Recognized by SAG-AFTRA and a proud UBCP/ACTRA member, Aryn infuses every collaboration with vibrant professionalism and a deep commitment to equity and safety.

Aryn’s expertise is unparalleled, with 500+ hours of Intimacy Training, 3,600+ hours ofon-set experience, and over 18 years in Film, TV, and Theatre. They prioritize a consent-based, embodied approach, evidenced by an impressive portfolio of over 100 credits in Intimacy Coordination, Mental Health, and Performance. Notable projects include Shogun S1 (FX/HULU), SUITS LA Pilot, Death and Other Details (HULU), The Ornament, Riding Shotgun, and Lunar Sway. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Counselling and Psychology and preparing for a PhD on performance’s psychological and physiological effects, Aryn is dedicated to advancing the industry’s understanding of mental health.

Aryn is a Progress Pride Committee member at ACTRA National, contributes to UBCP/ACTRA’s Mental Health & Accessibility and Queer Committees, and teaches Empowered Actor and Intimacy for the Actor at Vancouver Film School. They also lead union workshops on mental health and intimacy.

Authentic, knowledgeable, and collaborative. Aryn is deeply grateful to create on the stolen lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.