Jan2008QuixoteActorsBios

January 2008 performance
in the Casgrain Theatre at John Abbott College


Cuk	Boudreau	Dunn	Fedun	Miller	Nachaj	Pepin	Raudsepp	Saheb	Vatsis

Andrew Cuk
Director
Andy Cuk

Andrew Cuk is the founder and artistic director of Canis Tempus, a movement-based company with a unique approach to theatre. He has extensive experience as a performer, director and teacher, and has worked in places all across North America and Europe.

Andy is on the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Music at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, where he is currently the acting section coordinator.

His recent directorial credits include The Day They Let the Lions Loose, Evita, and Not Wanted on the Voyage.

Since receiving his Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2004, Andy has made his home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Isabelle Boudreau
Costumes & Masks
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Isabelle Boudreau started as a ballet dancer. She danced in The Nutcracker at Place Des Arts with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and fell in love with the magical aspect of the stage.

She has travelled all over Australia, Central America and South-East Asia and has lived inVancouver.

She designed costumes for Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
for Elysian River Theatre. She worked on costumes at Centaur for Tremblay's Assorted Candies, for the Sudbury Theatre's remake of Cinderella. Isabelle has worked on many productions at John Abbott College. These include: Return to the Forbidden Planet (design);
Hair (choreography). She also built masks for these productions. An upcoming project is the choreography for youth production of Peter Pan.

Ashley Dunn
Cast member
AshleyDunn

Ashley Dunn is a recent graduate of John Abbott College’s Professional Theatre – Acting Program. She has performed in such roles as Sheila in Hair, AshGirl in The Ash Girl and Jenny Jones/Mrs. Waters in Tom Jones. Ashley is currently a student at Concordia University and is thrilled to be making her Montreal stage debut in the fascinating composition of Quixote under the direction of Andrew Cuk.

Peter Fedun
Sound
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Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Peter Fedun has made Montreal his home for the past 18 years working in a number of creative mediums but with a distinct preference for sound design. While studying Communications at Concordia University, Peter started working with Contemporary Dance Companies creating and recording Soundscapes & Music.

In 2004 when Canus Tempus Director, Andrew Cuk asked him to create and perform a live Soundscape for his Fringe Festival production of Juliet & Romeo. Peter jumped at the opportunity to return to live performance after a 20 year hiatus. With Quixote, his second collaboration with Canus Tempus, Peter will continue to explore his fascination with the sounds of daily life through a collection of "found objects" crude, hand-made instruments and computer manipulation.

Kyla Miller
Stage Manager
kyla

Kyla Miller is currently a third year student in the Professional Theatre Program at John Abbott College. Her previous experience with John Abbott Theatre includes: Stage Manager for Godspell, Set Crew for Tom Jones, Costume Crew for Hair, and Assistant Stage Manager for their most recent show, You Can't Take it With You. She is excited to be working with Canus Tempus on this production.

Chris Nachaj
Cast member
AshleyDunn

Chris Nachaj was born in Montreal. He is a John Abbott Professional Theatre Acting graduate. He has been performing plays in the greater Montreal area for 5 years. Chris is currently working on an untitled production with The Nanny Bumpkin theatre company, to be performed in the early summer of 2008.

Dominique Pepin
Photo Images
who

Dominique Pepin is a visual artist presently living and working in Montreal. Dominique is concerned with various types of narratives using photographic landscape images. Often the development of these narratives involves abstract constructions of the landscape. Poetic and increasingly of an experimental nature, her work explores formal and resonating aspects of photography in relation with different understandings of perceptions in architecture and ecology.

Dominique has shown her projects at various traditional and non–traditional spaces, among others on the Red river banks at Boreal Art/Nature Centre, at The National Gallery of Canada, the Straumur International Art Commune (Iceland), Lancaster University (UK), Harvard University (US), and the Museo de Tepoztlan (Mexico).

Dominique has collaborated on various installations and performances with several American, Canadian and Mexican artists, dancers, sculptors and musicians. She is currently completing a Masters program in Arts visuels et nouveaux médias at UQAM.

Matthew Raudsepp
Cast member

Matthew Raudsepp's recent stage credits include Lucky in The Emptiest, an adaptation of The Tempest which he directed with his theatre company Second Body Productions; and Romeo in Gravy Bath Productions' Gayanashagowa, an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Film and TV credits include: Dead at Seventeen; Durham County; Wargames 2; and Picture This!. Matthew is a graduate of the John Abbott College Professional Theatre Program where he received the Pam Montgomery Award. He is currently studying creative writing at Concordia University.

Anne-Marie Saheb
Cast member
saheb

Anne-Marie Saheb graduated from the Dawson College Professional Theatre Department in 2004. Some of her most challenging roles include Helena in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Lady Fidget in William Wycherley's The Country Wife.

Peter Vatsis
Lights & Sets
who

Peter Vatsis is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. His credits include work for the Cirque du Soleil, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Elysian River Theatre, Second Body Productions and he is resident lighting designer of Hudson Village Theatre. For the last three years he has been teaching lighting design in the Professional Theatre program at John Abbott College. He would like to thank Andy and everyone else on the Canis Tempus team for their support.