Allan Lysell, Theatre Co-ordinator 

Phone: 604-527-5281

Email: lysella@douglascollege.ca

Office: Room 3253

Courses Taught: THEA 1110, THEA 1210, THEA 2310, THEA 2410, THEA 1180, THEA 1280, THEA 2380, THEA 2480 and PEFA 1120

Areas of expertise: Acting including Acting for the Camera, Directing, Theatre History

Education: BA (Theatre and English), BEd (British Columbia), Certificate in Arts Administration (Harvard). Allan has taught at Douglas College since 1994. After leaving UBC Allan worked as a professional actor in Vancouver and on tour throughout BC and the rest of Canada. He was a writer for network television and has written documentaries, TV dramas and sketch comedies, and a feature film. In 1974 he co-founded Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton and guided that company through the first eight years which included the establishment of a Playwright's Workshop and two seasons of Shakespeare in a Tent. Allan was General Manager of Theatre Lennoxville in Quebec before returning to Vancouver to open an acting school; the Arts Club Drama Centre. Allan has worked extensively in film and television with credits in feature films, TV Movies of the Week, episodic TV, voice-overs and commercials. Allan has directed over a dozen productions at Douglas College including Frankenstein, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Macbeth, Our Country's Good, Mariner, Italian-American Reconciliation, Love's Fire, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. Recent film and television projects include feature film War and Rat Race, and episodes of Stargate SG1, Cold Squad, Mysterious Ways and Poltergeist, and The Guard.

Professional Associations: ACTRA, Union of BC Performers, Writer's Guild of Canada, Canadian Actors Equity Association.

Christine Dewar

Phone: 604-527-5690

Email: dewarc@douglascollege.ca

Office: #3200B

Courses Taught: THEA 1130, THEA 1230, PEFA 1102, PEFA 1101

Areas of Expertise: Theatre History; Performing and Fine Arts

Education: BA, Honours English; and MA, English, University of British Columbia

Published Works:

"Hitting the Road." Event. Volume 29. Number 1. 2000.
"Home and Away." Event. Volume 27. Number 3. 1999.
"Vigilance and Balance." Event. Volume 26. Number 3. 1997.
"Secret Rituals." Event. Volume 25. Number 2. 1996.
"Ancestral Voices, Inner Voices." Event. Volume 24. Number 3. 1995.
"Green Thoughts and Worms." Event. Volume 24. Number 2. 1995.
"Snakes and Ladders: Charting the Journey of the Soul." Event. Volume 24. Number 1. 1995.
"Filling Empty Spaces." Event. Volume 23. Number 1. 1994.

Links:

• Event Magazine
• The Amelia Douglas Gallery
• Certificate in the Performing and Fine Arts

Christine Dewar completed both her BA and MA Degrees at the University of British Columbia. Her passion for Theatre History was ignited while studying with historian Peter Loeffler. Christine performed in plays and films at UBC and wrote arts reviews for The Ubyssey. She directed Here We Are by Dorothy Parker, and Cubistique by Tom Cone.

Christine has had a long association with the award-winning Douglas College literary journal, Event , where she currently works as Fiction Editor and writes fiction reviews. She has also been active with the Amelia Douglas Gallery, curating a range of art exhibits in including: Valerie Romain, Deep Water ; Michael Downs, Mythologies ; Sharalee Regehr, Women of Substance and, most recently, Joe Rosenblatt, Magic Gardens . Her recent public lectures include "Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean: Two Actors in the Age of Jane Austen." Christine has been teaching at Douglas College since 1987. She believes her mission is to encourage all students to see live theatre, dance, music and art, and to explore history as a rich resource for their own creative work. All of her courses are open to University Transfer students seeking imaginative arts electives.

David MacMurray Smith

Phone: 604-551-0620

Email: david@fantasticspace.com

Courses Taught: THEA 1171 Creative Movement for the Stage/ THEA 1271 Advanced Problems in Stage Movement/ THEA 2311 Voice and Movement on Stage/ THEA 2411 Advanced Voice and Movement on Stage II

Areas of expertise: Physical Training for Actors, Emotional Embodiment, Ensemble Politics & Creation, Clown, Mime, Dance, Performance Psychology

Award Nominations: Most Promising Student Actor in the 1973 American National College Arts Festival (a national U.S. University Theatre competition) Tyron Guthrie Award at the Stratford Festival 1983 for the concept and direction of Arnold Shoenberg's, Pierrot Lunaire

Over the last 30 years of his career David has worked in Theatre, Ballet, Opera, Mime, and Clown and as a Creator, Performer, Director, Choreographer, and Educator. He is a Movement Specialist, Body worker, Creative and Performance Consultant, and an Experienced Counsellor who has taught at several universities. He was Head Instructor at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre School, and for eight years was the Movement Director for the Music Theatre and Opera Programs at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and has also been a guest resource artist at The People's Light & Theatre Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1987.

David is now an independent educator who founded Fantastic Space Enterprises studio in 1995. The studio focuses on cultivating high levels of performance awareness through the development of primary life skills that nurture creative awareness and the ability to embody intuition in a consciously expressive and functional way. He is also the training program director for Full Circle: First Nation's Ensemble Training Program.

His special interest is in how memory moves and patterns itself in our bodies and how this affects our perceptions, behavior, and communication. As a movement specialist, David has drawn upon his broad range of experience and sources to develop his own humanistic approach to performance training. His expertise lies in his ability to facilitate learning environments that promote principle centred self-education and provide strong foundations for continued personal and professional growth.

Cheryl Swan

Phone: 604-527-5279

Email: swanc@douglascollege.ca

Office: 3249

Courses Taught: Theatre 1110, 1111, 1171, 1180, 1211, 1271, 1280, 2311, 2380, 2480 and PEFA 1120

Area of Expertise: Speech/Voice and Movement

Education: National Voice Intensive, Simon Fraser University, Voice for Actors/ Instructors. Bachelor of Education, Drama Major (degree with distinction) University of Alberta, 1983; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting Major (degree with distinction), University of Alberta (Schocter Award in Drama - 1982)

Professional Associations: Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, Voice and Speech Trainers Association.

A native Edmontonian, Cheryl received her degrees from the University of Alberta's BFA (Acting) and Education faculties. An actor, teacher and theatre administrator, Cheryl has many theatre, film, and television credits to her name. She has taught voice, movement, and acting at a number of institutions including Victoria School for the Performing Arts, the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Network, Grant MacEwan Community College, and the University of Alberta, all in Edmonton; and UBC and Douglas College here in Vancouver. Cheryl just finished her fifteenth year of teaching at Douglas and her fourteenth as Program Co-ordinator. She teaches voice, movement, and acting and directs one or two productions each year. Her most recent directing credits at Douglas include Most Massive Woman WIns and Louis and Dave; Unity (1918); Kindertransport; A Sense of Place; A Clockwork Orange; Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Ten Lost Years; The Diviners; Quiet in the Land and Agnes of God.