Craig Erickson

Guy

Craig is delighted to return to Pacific Theatre, an artistic home for seven previous productions, including Child-ish, Prodigal Son, God’s Man in Texas, and the pandemic-era version of Wakey, Wakey. He has spent eleven years with Bard on the Beach, most recently performing this past summer in the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and last year’s Measure for Measure. Recent projects include new works Hurricane Mona (Touchstone/Ruby Slippers), and The Cull (Arts Club). Other highlights include: East Van Panto: The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Replacement), Forget About Tomorrow (Belfry/Arts Club), Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 (Arts Club), The Invisible Hand (PI) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Arts Club/ Blackbird Theatre). He is featured in the upcoming film Bau: Artist at War. Other TV: So Help Me Todd, Mysterious Benedict Society, Bates Motel, Man in the High Castle, and Lucifer. Craig is proud to be part of Pacific Theatre’s writing incubator, Working With, and recently completed a draft of his play, The Cloud of Unknowing.

Agnes Tong

Lisa

Agnes Tong is originally from Ottawa, Ontario with a background in dance. After working as a professional dancer for several years, she transitioned into acting by attending Vancouver's Studio 58, Theatre Arts Acting Program. After graduating, Agnes has made her debut with major Theatre companies such as: The Arts Club, Globe Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Gateway Theatre and Bard on the Beach, to name a few. Agnes Tong is a Vancouver based actor, dancer, meditator, breathworker, educator, director dabbler, dance party starter, and hammock lover.

Kaitlin Williams she/ her

Director

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: Son of a Preacherman, 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: Meeting, 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 has served 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. When not in the theatre she is happiest spending time with her husband Ben, and their daughter Mirren June.

April Starr Land she/ her

Stage Manager

April Starr Land is a Vancouver-based stage manager. She has enjoyed many years of stage managing at: The Arts Club Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Stratford Festival of Canada, and Pacific Theatre—most recently Ins Choi’s Son of a Preacherman. April Starr feels so very fortunate to be involved in this special production of Wakey, Wakey and sends love and appreciation to the entire dream team. I love you Elizabeth and Noah.

Amir Ofek

Set Designer

Previously with Pacific Theatre: Wakey Wakey (2021)
The Arts Club Theatre Company: A Doll’s House, Miracle on 34th Street, Sexy Laundry, Red Velvet,
The Cull, Buffoon, Me and You, Fun Home, The Men in White, The Valley, A Christmas Story,
One Man Two Guvnors, Other Desert Cities, Boeing Boeing, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Graduate, My Granny the Goldfish.
The Search Party Productions: Dance Nation, Fairview, Stupid F*cking Bird, Bunny, and The Father.
Vancouver Opera: Orfeo Ed Euridice (2021), La Voix Humaine (2020).
Bard on the Beach: Henry V (2023), Midsummer Nights Dream (2022), Pericles (2016).

Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez

Projection Designer

Wladimiro A. Woyno R. is a designer and technologist passionate about live performance. Originally from Bogota, Colombia, he holds a M.F.A. in Design from Yale School of Drama and a B.F.A. in Theatre Design and production from The University of British Columbia. A devoted collaborator with the creative teams of several companies, he is often prototyping tools, processes, images, and environments that engage the sensory imagination. With a technical background in lighting, video, and staging, his work explores the adaptation of new technologies into the theatrical tradition. He is Interested in the development of rapid prototyping tools, scenography, theatrical spaces, media servers, documentation systems, and show control systems. He is an avid learner, constantly creating, inventing, and exploring.

His credits include: Since I Can Remember (The Wooster Group, USA); Kiss (Yale Repertory Theatre, USA); Parade (Nederlands Dans Theater, Netherlands); The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Ghost River Theatre, Canada); This American Wife (Next Door @ NYTW, USA); Salome (M3 Productions, USA); If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, Bulgaria! Revolt!, The Merchant of Venice (Yale School of Drama, USA); RE:UNION (Yale Cabaret, USA); Gallery+Lumia (Yale Art Gallery, USA); Ziriguidum (Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Canada); and Sometime Between Now and When the Sun Goes Supernova (Theatre Junction, Canada)

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Production and Design Area at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

MJ Coomber

Sound Designer

Chengyan Boon

Lighting Designer

It’s bittersweet for Chengyan to be returning to Pacific Theatre for one last time in this beautiful space. Ever since Suitcase Stories, his first ever show designed out of school, Chengyan has returned to Pacific again and again for the last decade as a lighting and sound designer for Valley Song, Gramma, Kim’s Convenience, Wakey Wakey, The Messiah, The Mountaintop and God Said This, as well as a spectator for many others. While he waits in anticipation for news of Pacific’s future, he can be found designing for Elf: The Musical at Chemainus, doing technical direction for Théâtre la Seizième and on tour with Ballet BC.

Jessica Oostergo

Costume Designer

Jessica is a Set and Costume Designer, born and raised in Vancouver BC, and a new resident of Edmonton. Her design work has been seen on stage and screens across North America.

Jessica worked as the Assistant Head of Wardrobe at Bard on the Beach for seven seasons and has taught Design Foundations and Set Design for Studio 58. She is a three-time Jessie Richardson Award Winner with a total of seven nominations, and a graduate of Studio 58 and Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Select Theatre Credits: The Handmaids Tale (Banff Centre), Die Walküre (Edmonton Opera), Dance Nation (Search Party), Heist (Grand/Citadel), A Streetcar Named Desire (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); The Sound of Music (Grand/MTC/Citadel); Ring of Fire, The Legend of Georgia McBride (Arts Club); Sunrise Betties (ITSAZOO); Bunny, Stupid F*cking Bird (Search Party); An UnDeveloped Sound (Electric Company), Julius Caesar (Bard on the Beach).

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