Teacher Biographies

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 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.

Lisa Bunting has acted professionally for over 30 years in television, film and theatre. Recent appearances include Hiccups (CTV) and on stage in 39… and Ticking: The Musical (Full Figure Theatre), How it Works (Theatre North West) and The Odyssey and Silverwing (Carousel Theatre). She has taught acting to those aged 5 to 85 all over the Lower Mainland, including currently at Carousel Theatre and the Richmond Academy of Dance. She is proud of her work as a role play actor for psychiatric nursing students at Douglas College. She is also proud to be the mother of her 14-year-old daughter, Sofia.

Trevor Hinton works in many facets of theatre including acting, teaching, choreography and directing. Acting credits include- The Electric Company's Brilliant! (Belfry Theatre), The Boy Who Learned To Fly (Kaleidescope Theatre), The Tempest, Born Yesterday (Grafitti Theatre), Posessions (Theatre Inconnu), Grimm Tales and Death of a Clown (Itsazoo Productions). Trevor has been an acting and movement instructor at Victoria's Screen Actor's Studio and Kaleidoscope Theatre, as well as a martial arts instructor for the past 15 years. Trevor is a graduate of the University of Victoria's Theatre Program.

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.