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SELECTED FILM/TELEVISION  
Dark Waters of Crime VII  
Lead  
Red Letter Films/Greg Nosaty/Sylvie Peltier  
Dark Waters of Crime VII  
Lead  
Red Letter Films/Greg Nosaty/Sylvie Peltier  
Dark Waters of Crime IV  
Lead  
Red Letter Films/Greg Nosaty/Sylvie Peltier  
Dark Waters of Crime II  
Lead  
Red Letter Films/A. Jonathan Benny  
The Outer Limits  
Actor  
Trilogy Ent. Group/MGM/Mario Azzopardi  
Woman Waiting  
Lead  
MDFF/Antoine Bourges  
Northern Star  
Supporting Lead  
DV Productions Inc./Nick Versteeg  
Pamyatayesh  
Lead  
Opera Unbound/Taryn Plater  
Rebecca  
Lead  
Sunman Productions/Maria Paulina Duque Callejas  
Necromance  
Lead  
Very Tiny Pictures/Becca Johanson  
Rupture  
Principal  
David Findlay Productions/Yassmina Karajah  
Air  
Principal  
David Findlay Productions/David Findlay  
Sister Water  
Lead  
Yuimu Films/Elina Zhu  
The Weatherman  
Principal  
Kitchen Films/David Simmonds  
Holdouts  
Principal  
Arnold Lim Films/Arnold Lim  
Maintenance Man  
Lead  
Triquetra Productions/Gayatri Bajpai  
Once in a Blue Moon  
Actor  
Blok14 Collective/Anastasia Itkina/Nastasja Sedi  
Abducted II  
Actor  
Reunion Productions/Boon Collins  
Campus Caller  
Reader  
Odyssey Media Inc./Ann Forry  
Frasier  
Reader  
Acme Ent. Services/Fiona Jackson  

AWARDS  
Woman Waiting  
GOLDEN BEAR NOMINATION  
BERLIN INTL. FILM FESTIVAL 2011  
 
GRAND JURY AWARD NOMINATION  
SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST (SXSW) 2011  
 
SPECIAL MENTION  
CORONA CORK FILM FESTIVAL 2011  
 
Judge's Award  
N.W. Filmmakers' Festival 2011  
 
Timishort Special Award  
Timishort Film Festival 2011  
Necromance  
Best Drama Award  
Short Hot Flush Film Festival 2015  
Dark Waters of Crime  
Leo Award Nomination  
Leo Awards 2011  
 
Honorable Mention  
Columbus Intl. Film & Video Festival 2011  
Maintenance Man  
Audience Choice Award  
Pacific Cinémathèque 2012  
Rupture  
Best BC Short Film  
Vancouver Intl. Film Festival 2017  
 
Best Short Drama  
Leo Awards 2018  
 
Best Direction in a Short Drama  
Leo Awards 2018  
 
Best Screenwriting in a Short Drama  
Leo Awards 2018  
 
Best Editing in a Short Drama  
Leo Awards 2018  
 
Russo Brothers Fellowship Award  
Slamdance Film Festival 2018  

FILM FESTIVALS  
Woman Waiting  
Toronto Intl. Film Festival  
World Premiere 2010  
 
Whistler Film Festival  
Western Canada Premiere 2010  
 
Berlin Intl. Film Festival  
Intl. Premiere 2011  
 
South By Southwest (Texas)  
U.S. Premiere 2011  
 
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan)  
2011  
 
Sarasota Film Festival (Florida)  
2011  
 
Intl. Film Festival Breda (NL)  
2011  
 
IndieLisboa (Portugal)  
2011  
 
Timishort Film Festival (Romania)  
2011  
 
5 MDFF Shorts at the Royal (Royal Cinema, Toronto)  
2011  
 
Intles. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Germany)  
2011  
 
Summer Times Film Festival (Moscow)  
2011  
 
Intl. Festival Signes de Nuit (Paris)  
2011  
 
N.W. Filmmakers' Festival (Oregon)  
2011  
 
Corona Cork Film Festival (Ireland)  
2011  
 
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt Intl. (Germany)  
2012  
Dark Waters of Crime  
Columbus Intl. Film & Video Festival (Ohio)  
2011  
Necromance  
Action on Film Festival (California)  
U.S. Premiere 2014  
 
Still/Moving Film Festival (London, England, U.K.)  
Intl. Premiere 2014  
 
Silver Wave Film Festival (New Brunswick, Canada)  
Eastern Canada Premiere  
 
Short Hot Flush Film Festival (Brighton, East-Sussex, England, U.K.)  
2015  
Rupture  
Toronto Intl. Film Festival  
2017  
 
Vancouver Intl. Film Festival  
2017  
 
Dubai Intl. Film Festival  
2017  

SELECTED THEATRE  
Top Girls  
Dull Gret  
South Coast Repertory/Carl Reggiardo  
As You Like It  
Celia  
South Coast Repertory/Michael Keenan  
This Music Crept  
Alice  
Michael Thoma Theatre/Michael Keenan  
by Me Upon the Waters  
 
 
A Midsummer  
Titania  
Michael Thoma Theatre/Carl Reggiardo  
Night's Dream  
 
 
Up the Down  
Bea  
Michael Thoma Theatre/Carl Reggiardo  
Staircase  
 
 
Little Women  
Mrs. March  
Michael Thoma Theatre/Joe Ivy  
Les Belles Soeurs  
Germaine  
Charles Jehlinger Theatre/Joe Ivy  
Crimes of the Heart  
Lenny  
Charles Jehlinger Theatre/Ben Martin  
The Dining Room  
2nd Actress  
Michael Thoma Theatre/Dan Kern  

TRAINING  
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Hollywood, CA, U.S.A. - Diploma  
 
 
Acting: Betty Karlen, Diana Stevenson, Michael Keenan, Jackie Cowgill  
 
 
Styles: Karen Hensel, Carl Reggiardo  
 
 
Voice & Speech: Richard Gabriel, Michael Morgan  
 
 
Vocal Production: Jon Peck  
 
 
Movement: Sha Newman, Dana Landers, Brigid McCarthy  
 
 
South Coast Repertory/Professional Conservatory (Tony Award-Winning Theatre),  
 
 
Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A. - Internship and Scholarship  
 
 
Acting: John de Lancie, Karen Hensel, Carl Reggiardo  
 
 
Physical Characterization: Ron Boussom  
 
 
Shakespeare: Michael Keenan  
 
 
Voice & Speech: Richard Gabriel  
 
 
Script Analysis: John Frederick Jones  
 
 
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada - B.F.A. in Theatre and Visual Arts  
 
 
British-American Acting Academy, London, England, U.K. - Diploma  
 
 
Selected Training/Workshops: Linda Darlow (3 years), Ivana Chubbuck (1 year), Candice Elzinga, Bette Chadwick, Coreen Mayrs,  
 
 
Sean Milliken, Corinne Clark, Gil Brenton, Claire Caplan (1 year)  
 
 

SPECIAL SKILLS  
Accents/Dialects, Fine Art Gallery Registrar, Cycling, Drawing, Driver's Licence (Automatic), Dual Nationality (Able to work EEC),  
 
 
Fencing, Flautist, Horseback Riding (Western & English), Modelling (Professional Certificate),  
 
 
Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Singing (Soprano), Swimming, Web Designer (BCIT Certificate in Web Technologies), Weight Lifting,  
 
 
Worked as a wardrobe assistant at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, England, U.K.  
 
 

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