Kim Selody

Playwright

Laura McLean

Director

Tim Carlson

Bilbo (and others), Playwright

Tim Carlson (He/Him) is an actor, writer and educator. He has performed across Canada on stage and screen for the last fifteen years. Theatre credits include Christmas at Pemberley at The Arts Club Theatre, Our Town at the Caravan Farm and Jack and the Bean with The Presentation House Theatre. Film highlights include, Fire Country, Young Drunk Punk and way too many Christmas movies. He has been writing professionally for the last four years including several television pilots, a podcast and a video game. He has also toured across North America performing improv comedy, He is currently working at Green Thumb Theatre and you can catch him Monday nights on Twitch at BlackwaterDnD and he is a graduate of Studio 58. This whole journey there and back again is for Ceci, Ev and Em.

Peter Carlone

Thorin (and others), Playwright

Peter Carlone is a Vancouver based comedy director, writer, and performer. He is also the star of Canadian Comedy Award winning duo "Peter n' Chris" (the other member, Chris Wilson, is also in the duo, but Peter considers himself to be "the main guy". Don't tell Chris about this Bio). Peter also wrote for the Irrelevant Show on CBC Radio for three seasons (Peter thought it was relevant to mention). His comedy short film "Grocery Store Action Movie" (co-written with Chris Wilson of Peter n' Chris) won Just For Laughs Northwest "Best Short Award" and has been screened at 18 festivals including: Just For Laughs, Atlantic Film Festival, Edmonton Film Festival, and the Canada Film Festival.

Julia Lank

Stage Manager

Julia (she/her) is a stage manager and graphic designer living on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ land. She is so happy to be back home in the PT booth. Recent: The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach); Carmen, Don Pasquale, Le Portrait De Manon (Vancouver Opera); Peace Country (rice and beans); Gertrude and Alice (United Players); How To Believe In Anything (The Cultch); Marjorie Prime (ETC); Alice In Glitterland (Geekenders); Gramma, The Cake (Pacific Theatre). Upcoming: Waitress (Grand Theatre). "May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected."

Christian Ching

Lighting Assistant

Christian Ching is an emerging scenographer, lighting designer, and production manager with a love for design and biology. They are a graduate of Simon Fraser University (2021) with a double degree in Theatre Production and Design and in the Biological Sciences. Originally from the Philippines, they are currently based in the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations (also known as Vancouver). Their practice aims to revolve around collaboration and the consideration of ecological aspects of design. In their free time, they like to run RPGs, draw, and make music.

MJ Coomber

Sound Designer

Stephanie Elgersma

Props Designer and Puppet Coordinator

Stephanie is delighted to be back at Pacific Theatre! Previously at PT she played Jen in The Cake in 2019. Stephanie is a Studio 58 graduate who mainly works in puppetry in both Canada and the UK. As a puppet maker, she has worked for Wilton’s Music Hall, The Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Disney Paris, and Nick Barnes Puppets (UK), as well as The Cultch, Brock University, Ghost River Theatre, Carousel Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, and the National Arts Centre (CA). As a props designer, she worked on Double Happiness: Detour This Way, and You Used to Call Me Marie (Cultch). She is now based in Vancouver where she builds and directs puppets for theatre and teaches puppet making at Studio 58. www.stephelgersma.com

Alaia Hamer

Set Designer

Alaia is a Vancouver theatre designer originally from the Gulf Islands. Recent projects she has worked on include costume design for Measure for Measure (Bard on the Beach), Million Dollar Quartet, Sexy Laundry, The Cull, Beneath Springhill, The Birds and the Bees (Artsclub) The East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid (Theatre Replacement), HMS Pinafore, Carmen Up Close and Personal (Vancouver Opera), costume design for Beautiful Man (PI Theatre), set design for Midsummer Night’s Dream (TWU), Case for Existence of God, God Said This (Pacific Theatre), Seventeen (Western Gold). She has worked on a variety of smaller shows through Vancouver and has a passion for costuming dance. Alaia is a graduate of the UBC Theatre Design program in 2017 and holds an English literature degree from 2012.

Jono Kim

Lighting Designer

Jonathan, better known as Jono, is a Korean-Canadian lighting designer who currently lives and works on the unceded, stolen and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, BC). He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's Theatre Production and Design program. Recent credits: Into the Woods (Studio 58); CHILD-ish (Pacific Theatre); Jade Circle (rice & beans theatre); Red Velvet (Arts Club Theatre Company); Parifam (vAct & Medusa Theatre); Family Room (The Falling Company); Homecoming (Urban Ink); Maamawi (O.Dela Arts); I Fear Love (Katie Voravong); Take Form (Ballet BC); Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Survivor Stories (Neworld Theatre); Agrimony (Sophie Dow & Laura Reznek).

Stephanie Kong

Costume Designer

"Stephanie is a Vancouver based costume designer with a BFA in Theatre Design and Production from UBC. Select Costume Design credits include: Homecoming (Urban Ink); As Above (Belfry Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arts Club Theatre Company); Grease (Western Canada Theatre); Something Rotten! (Theatre Under the Stars); How the World Began (Pacific Theatre); Cipher (Vertigo Theatre). Ovation and Jessie Award winner for Costume Design, CAFTCAD Award nominee in Excellence in Costume Building. Upcoming: Cambodian Rock Band (Arts Club Theatre Company)
Instagram: @stephanieytkong"