Some are Angels. Some are Heroes. And some are just hired guns with suits. But we've been lucky to work with some of the most creative theatre folk in Halifax:
kristin bell has lived here in Halifax all her live long days. Stands at about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, however, sometimes appears much taller before a seated audience. Nevertheless she is attempting to hide herself inside the Secret Annex at Neptune this week as well as enjoying BASH. Favorite Disney HERO: Ariel of The Little Mermaid for her ability to breathe under water and her fabulous maine of red hair. Favorite ANGEL: the one off highway 104.
Allen Bergeron is overjoyed to make his second appearance with Angels and Heroes in BASH. His first was the spring 2004 production The Lonesome
West just after he graduated from the Dalhousie acting program. He is currently
in the process of creating (with Emberly Doherty) an original work for children of all ages that he hopes will be on its feet before the snow flies.
After growing up in Moncton, New Brunswick, Craig moved to his true home of Halifax, NS to attend Dalhousie University. There, he spent three of the most memorable years of his life enrolled in the Acting Programme. Graduating in 2001, he took a one-year hiatus to teach English in Taiwan. He is thrilled to be back and starting his life in the professional theatre. He loves the adrenaline rush that performing live theatre gives him and for as long as he can remember there is nothigng he would rather be doing. You much have seen him in A&H's production of Partita and presently he can be seen touring the USA with Mermaid Theatre's production of Very Eric Carle until June of 2004
Kyle has been doing theatre with most of the Angels and Heroes since shortly after meeting them through Dal's Theatre Studies program, from which he graduated sitting among the smartest. While he looks forward to future productions, nothing will ever compare to the glory of playing Maggie in the A&H Fringe Hit Pussy on a Shingle, in which he wore a lacy red negligee, a blonde afro wig, black fishnet stockings and far more body hair than should ever be allowed in that sort of outfit! Well, that might be topped by playing the best Joan Crawford look-alike that has ever graced the stages of Halifax theatre. Kyle can now be found galavanting the streets of Vancouver, lending a hand at theatre festivals and trying is hand at being a recording artist. Check out his site: www.kylecameron.ca
Michelle is thankful for the chance to work with Angels and Heroes on Les Parents Terribles. A Dal Acting grad, she has enjoyed plunging into the dramatic and deranged nest that is Yvonne. She asks that you please refrain from calling them "The Crazies" - it's not true!
Heather came to us from Mississauga, Ontario, the shopping mall capital of the Canada. Her various antics onstage have included kissing a girl, knitting a scarf, and dressing up as Elizabeth Taylor and pretending to play the piano. As director of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, she whipped her cast into shape, and subjected us all to her twisted sense of humour as co-writer of Pussy on a ShingleShe found the shopping in Halifax woefully inadequate, and returned to Ontario to work on her PhD at Quelph University.
Emberly was so pleased to be work with Angels and Heroes for the first time. She had just graduated the Dalhousie theatre program and spent her summer working with the Irondale Ensemble Project in their outdoor puppet show, Grandma Noda's Tigers. She has also travelled the province with Irondale, raising awareness about health and literacy through theatre.
Shawn Duggan is an actor born and raised in Halifax. He is an Aries who enjoys hot tubs and the out of doors, and does a pretty good Foghorn Leghorn impression.
David is a recent graduate of the Dalhousie Theatre Program 2004. He spent the first part of his summer at Ship's Company Theatre in The Parrsboro Boxing Club. He is very excited to be a part of Angels and Heroes Theatre even if he is merely a young man from Dartmouth. Favorite credits include, Falstaff in Merry Wives, Starhemberg in The Europeans and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
We don't know where Tyler came from, and we know little about what he does with his spare time, but the enigmatic director would like to keep it that way. We do, however, have an inkling that his laundry is scattered all over his bedroom floor in very neat and specific colour-coded piles.
Peter Horne is a graduate of the Dalhousie Theatre Department, whose hobbies include driving his stage manager home from rehearsal and dressing his dog up to look like Antigone. He loves body piercings but hates the Santa Claus Parade, and has a real talent for drawing on the floor with chalk.
Michelle is very excited to work with Angels and Heroes. Finally, she broke into that ever elusive Dal theatre crowd! Michelle trained at CCPA in Victoria and has worked on both sides of the country but is quite happy to be here in Halifax. She has worked for Festival Antigonish, Kimberley Summer Theatre and Neptune. Michelle hopes you enjoyed her underwear, though anyone who has ever met her has probably seen it far too much.
Matt likes to play guitar for his pretend band Cairo, walk his dog named Cairo and plant trees [he wishes in Cairo]. When the mood strikes him right, he will do the odd play here and there, and A&H are grateful for it!
Tara hails from Riverview, NB. She first discovered her passion for theatre in high school, when she also began her obsession with Harold Pinter (which she swears is a "healthy" obsession!) In 1997 she began directing at Mount Allison University (Pinter, of course!), then moved to Halifax and landed in the Dalhousie Theatre Department, where she got to read all the Pinter she wanted, write essays on Pinter, and discuss Pinter to her little heart's content. She looks forward to all the upcoming compromising situations she will find herself in over the course of the A&H season (hopefully, involving Pinter!)
Holly hails from a small town called Mount Uniacke, where the first 23 years of her life were spent trying to get Hockey night in Canada to come in clear on her television. Her first attempt at acting was stunt acting but after many accidents with cars, bicycles and Metro Transit buses, she then ventured to the Dalhousie Theatre Department where she gained critical acclaim (okay, maybe not CRITICAL) as the Widow Quin (Playboy of the Western World), several ho-hum roles after that (Reckless), more ho-hum roles which also included her favourite masturbating monkey character, Swift (One Act Plays by David Ives) and finally the scantily-clad Jenny Diver (Threepenny Opera). Following her gig at Dal, she caught up with her former classmates in A&H, who invited her to tackle the hardest role ever: a non-verbal role as a nurse in Care. She also was typecast in the role of big Daddy in the A&H Fringe Hit, Pussy on a Shingle. Currently,you can find Holly working with Country 101 and Oldies 96 CHNS as their special events cruiser guru. She looks forward to working with A&H whenever they have an animalistic-whacking-off-naked-65-year-old-husband role in one of their productions.
Matt has all the appearances of a Dalhousie Theatre Grad, which he may or may not be. Depends who you ask. Either way, he likes Angels and Heroes more than
just friends, even though they owe him twenty bucks.
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After spending a summer acting in Antigonish, Richie is very happy to be back in Halifax with Angels & Heroes. He finds himself extremely lucky to be working with such talented people on BASH. Soon you will find him on the Neptune stage performing in the chorus for Annie as well as filming the late-night political version Annie's Bush.
