| MAY, 2005 |
| CONGRATULATIONS to
GITTE Solem - who did all the work - and RAOUL
BHANEJA! Their baby boy was born May 14, at home! |
| REKHA SHAH is engaged! Congratulations to Rekha and Steve Hodgins who plan to get married in Ottawa in July. |
| ERIK VAN WYCK is performing in a play in New York City in May and June. (Erik's films include Black Eyed Susan and Mass of Angels in 2004) |
| RAOUL BHANEJA is shooting The Sentinel, a Twentieth Century Fox movie in which he plays a secret service agent. Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger and Kiefer Sutherland are also in the movie. |
| MARJORIE MALPASS won the best new female stand
up of the year in the Second Annual Search for the Funniest 'New'
and 'Slightly Used' Comedy Competition for Laff Riot
Girls in B.C.
Marjorie is feeling better after her last ten
months in hospital. |
| JESSE BUCK is home from France after his year at
L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and has the lead in this year's Odyssey show, Scapin, in Ottawa. www.ottawaentertainment.ca/festivals/odysseytheatre.asp |
| MAUREEN WELCH (Maureen Ross Neilson) is hosting
Design U on HGTV. www.hgtv.ca/tv/hosts/host_details.asp?hostID=39594 |
| Congratulations to DAVID NUGENT who graduates from Yale with his Master' s degree in Fine Arts this month, and heads off to work in New York. |
| RAOUL BHANEJA will be emceeing Commencement at Canterbury this year. |
ROBERT (ROSS) PARKER and Qui Nguyen's
Vampire Cowboy Trilogy has been published in NYTE's
Plays and Playwrights 2005. |
| David Nugent reprises his role in Tuesdays and Sundays, a play written by fellow students in Edmonton in the Woodstock Fringe, (not really a fringe), New York, in August. |
| TYLER WESTERLUND, and White Cowbell Oklahoma
startsa European tour for Cencerro Blanco, April 27. In May they will be playing at festivals throughout the Netherlands and in Brussels, Belgium. Check out their website http://www.whitecowbell.com/gigs.htm for information and dates. |
| DUANE KEOGH and The Town Pants
have gigs all through May, in and around Vancouver, including the
Arts Club Theatre, May 22. They play the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, May 28, 2005. Check their website http://www.thetownpants.com/live.htm for all the dates and information. |
| HAMZA ADAM performs in GCTC's
The Last Liberal, until May 15. http://gctc.ca/seasons/04-05/index.html |
| TOM HAYS and IRIS LAPID perform
in Canterbury's O-pro, Gilding the Lily,
a collective directed by Paul Griffin. They are also assistant directors for the play. June 1 - 4, The Barrie, Canterbury High School Tickets: Adults, $12., Students, $8. |
| CONGRATULATIONS to
ERIK VAN WYCK for reaching his goal in donations,
over $5000.00 ( American!), for the triathlon he is running in Hawaii,
in June, to support the Leukaemia & Lymphoma Society. http://www.active.com/donate/tntgla/VanWyck |
| ROBIN TOLLER, ANDREW DILLON, HAMZA ADAM, JOSH ISSENMAN, RAE-ANNA MAITLAND, CHRIS COCHRANE, CARI LESLIE, IRIS LAPID, TOM HAYS, NEIL SMITH, COLIN MUNCH, ERIN PLEET, ALEX NEUMAN and JANE MOORE got together for a spring reunion/dinner in Ottawa, April 25. Yea!!!!! |
| Gayle Fraser and MICHAEL VALLIANT -SAUNDERS and expecting their second baby this month. |
| Birgitte Solem and RAOUL BHANEJA are expecting their first baby this month. |
| COLIN MUNCH plans to tour the fringes this season, working with Dave Dawson. in John Patrick Shanley's The Big Funk. |
| TERI LORETTO and Margo MacDonald
perform in Third Wall Theatre's Greek, Arts
Court Theatre, Ottawa, April 28, 29, 30, 8pm, May 1, 2pm, May 3, 4,
8pm http://www.thirdwall.com/onstage/greek.php (613) 564-7240 |
| This summer, JESSICA HOLMES is releasing her comedy CD, Jessica Holmes: 25 Laughs To The Gallon. It will be available at jessicaholmes.net |
| SHERI SEGAL is leaving the federal Department of Justice to work as a lawyer in the House of Commons. |
| Another Stratford Festival season is under way, and you can watch SARAH McVIE, PAUL HOPKINS, and Canterbury's Dorian Foley, Adrienne Gould and Jennifer Waiser performing in classic theatre. SARAH plays Vee Talbott in Orpheus Descending, Dorian plays Charles in As You Like It, Adrienne is Phebe in As You like It and Miranda in The Tempest, Jennifer is Little Red Ridinghood in Into The Woods. |
STILL HAPPENING: |
| RAOUL BHANEJA, Train 48, Global. |
VIK SAHAY, Radio Active, YTV. |
| VIK SAHAY, This is Wonderland, CTV. |
| JESSICA HOLMES on CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce. |
STEPHANIE MOORE, Queer as Folk,
SHOWCASE |
JENNIFER GOODHUE, Comedy Inc, CTV |
KURT SMEATON improvises at Clinton's,
Toronto, Monday nights. Mondays. (STEVE FISHER
provides incidental music.) |
| MARTIN GERO is in Vancouver working as producer and writer on Stargate: Atlantis. TMN, Mondays. |
| STEVE FISHER emails his list and recommendations
for what's on in Toronto, Gracing The Stage,
to anyone who asks for it and many people do! steve@gracingthestage.com. |
Canterbury calling… |
New(ish) CD's to buy: Duane Keogh: The Town Pants, Weight
of Words Tyler Westerlund:
White Cowbell Oklahoma, Cencerro
Blanco
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