Teacher Biographies | Theatre Terrific

	Sindy Angel Sindy Angel has been performing and teaching theatre for the last 7 years in Canada, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Since arriving in Canada four years ago, she has performed in Theatre Terrific's The Secret Son, All Sorts and Dirty White, in HIVE 2 with Neworld Theatre and in Storytelling of Our Lives: Stories of Migration and Displacement, a Neworld Theatre and No One is Illegal presentation. With a strong interest in social outreach, she has done extensive work in community programs with youth and adults at risk.
	Pamela Boyd Pamela Boyd is a well known member of Western Canada’s independent dance and theatre communities and the founding Artistic Director of Calgary’s MoMo Mixed Ability Dance Theatre. Pamela trained as an actor in the 70s at The Drama Studio in London, England and, more lately, as a certified DanceAbility teacher and yoga instructor. A performer with a strong movement practice, she has worked in the UK and across Canada as an actor and teacher of drama and theatre movement for almost fifty years. In 1997 she began working with adults with disabilities and quickly found her home amoung people of mixed abilities in the arts. Working in a diverse artistic community she has found poses questions and presents challenges which have profoundly deepened her own creative life and practice. Pamela is also and an award winning playwright well known for her plays; Inside Out, Odd Fish and I Love Mondays, performed throughout Canada.
	Joanna Garfinkel Joanna Garfinkel co-created and directed the pedicab adventure Tour for HIVE 3, co-produced by Universal Limited and the Electric Company, and part of the Cultural Olympiad. Recent directing credits include The Glass Box in Victoria and Vancouver, and Jessie-nominated Letters from Lithuania for Mortal Coil in Stanley Park; she is also a dramaturg for the Playwrights’ Theatre Centre. A graduate of UBC’s MFA, she directed The Skin of Our Teeth and Big Love for the mainstage there and garnered the Sidney Risk award in directing. She has trained with Anne Bogart and SITI Company in New York; Austin, Texas credits include co-creating the Bonfire Festival, directing Don’t Drown for the Rude Mechanicals, (nominated for two Austin Critics’ Table awards), and Honey for FronteraFest, (nominated for Best of Fest). She has taught movement, writing and theatre creation for UBC, Theatre Terrific and private acting schools.
	James Coomber James Coomber is a music theatre artist living and working in Vancouver. He has collaborated as a composer, musical director, conductor, musician, sound designer and actor throughout the theatre and music community. He received an Honours BFA in Music as well as a BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University. Some recent credits include: Homecoming King (Thirty Below Theatre), A Truck Full of Chickens (Theatre Terrific), The Bread Project (Theatre Terrific), The Little Mountain Mountaineers (Genus Theatre), Waiting for Go. (Theatre Terrific), Twelfth Night (Shadows and Dreams Theatre), 4H Club (Genus Theatre). He recently participated in one of Nightswimming Theatre's Pure Research projects, where he investigated spaces between singing and speaking with fellow researchers Susanna Uchatius, Trevor O'Rourke, and Kieran Naugler. He continues to explore the intermingling of disciplines, studying new approaches to music theatre, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and music pedagogy for non-musicians.
	Josue Laboucane Josue Laboucane is an actor, teacher and director living in Vancouver. Acting credits include Robin Hood, I Love You Forever and More Muncsh,the Hobbit, Silverwing (Carousel Theatre), The Emperor's New Threads (Axis Theatre), The Boy Who Went Outside (Wild Excursions Performance)Revenge (Felix Culpa) and three seasons of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. He has directed Gerty! Live and In Concert! at the BC Buds Festival, Confessions for Alley Theatre, and Letter from a Soldier at the Walking Fish Festival. In addition to a love of all forms of theatre, Josue also loves to write, sing, laugh, learn new things, and craft masks for the stage. He is a past participant of the Canadian National Voice Intensive, and a graduate of both the Vancouver Film School and Studio 58.
	Simon Driver Simon is one of the original founding members of Craning Neck Theatre Society. His passion for performance and community are the two major driving forces in his life. His most recent performances include, Ballet Brut Push 2010, Mal de Mer Dancing on the Edge (2010), Trunk (2010) Biographies of the Dead and Dying Fringe (2009), Apparition(2008) and the Dark Between (2008). Recently Simon has also been producing and has credits on Biographies of the Dead and Dying, (2009), and The Absurdyssy (2007). As an active member in his community Simon continues to use theatre as a vehicle in which engagement and action occur where they may otherwise not be present. Simon has instructed theatre across the Lower Mainland with a focus on marginalized community groups and sits on the board of directors for Theatre Terrific. Simon is currently working on a number of community based projects in the Lower Mainland using both film and theatre as a tools for encouraging choice making, and provoking story within mixed ability communities.