Actors bios

January 2011 Performances
at the Theatre Ste-Catherine in Montreal

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.

A native of New York City, Andy’s acting credits in the Montreal area include the title role in the California-based Lit Moon Theatre Company production of Hamlet; Juliet in Juliet & Romeo, a Canis Tempus production; and George Stacey in the world premier of the musical Louisa.

He has written and directed two productions in recent years: Quixote for Canis Tempus, and Elektra at John Abbott College, where Andy is on faculty of the Department of Theatre and Music.

Other recent directorial credits include The Day They Let the Lions Loose, Evita, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Cloud Nine, and the premier of the musical Daisy and the Wonder Weeds for The Next Wave Musical Theatre Festival.

Andy is the President of the Board of Directors of Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal.

Isabelle Boudreau
Costumes
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Isabelle Boudreauhas created and built costumes, masks and hats for many plays such as Canis Tempus' Quixote, No More Raisins No More Almonds for the Segal Centre, Hello Dolly, Alice in Wonderland, and Beauty and the Beast for Bialik High School, and Diary of Adam and Eve for Elysian River Theatre. This past summer, Isabelle was the costume designer for Créatures and Daisy and the Wonder Weeds, two productions at The Next Wave Festival of New Musicals. She has also built costumes for numerous theatres including the Segal Centre, the Centaur, Repercussion, Geordie, Sudbury Theatre and Théâtre du Rideau vert.

Gloria Capano
Stage manager
AshleyDunn

A proud graduate of John Abbott College's Professional Theatre and Music program, Gloria is thrilled to be a working technician in Montreal. Gloria is extremely honoured once again to be working with Andrew Cuk on Sala XVIII this winter. Previous responsibilities include: Assistant Stage Manager for Several Scenes Involving a Decomposing Corpse, Stage Manager for Fiddler on the Roof, Stage Manager for Cloud 9, Props Crew Chief for 5th of July, and Costume Crew Chief for Kiss Me, Kate. Gloria would like to take this opportunity to thank her family, friends and fellow colleagues for all their love and support throughout her journey! Congratulations to the cast and crew.

David Chiazzese
Actor
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Davide is very happy to be working with director Andrew Cuk for a second time, as this past summer he directed him in Jean Elliot Manning’s musical Daisy and the Wonder Weeds. Since graduating from John Abbott’s Professional Theatre Program, he has had the opportunity to work with Teesri Duniya Theatre on a new development and played the Dauphin in Persephone Productions’ Henry V. Davide is proud to say that he and his best friends in the whole wide world (including director Joan McBride) will be taking Edward Bond’s The Tin Can People to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is also a part of Il Gruppo Teatrale Trinacria - a Sicilian theatre company - and you can catch him in their upcoming production of Quannu E’ Troppu...E’ Troppu! at the Leonardo DaVinci Center this coming May.

Peter Alec Fedun
sound and video
kyla

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Peter Alec Fedun has made Montreal his home for the past 20 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 continued to explore his fascination with the sounds of daily life through a collection of "found objects" and crude hand-made instruments. Sala XVIII marks Peter's return to the digital realm of sound design combining traditional Foley FX with an Electroacoustic Soundscape.

Ariel Loraine
props, crew
AshleyDunn

Ariel Loraine is currently in her third year of studies in Design for the Theatre at Concordia University and is involved in two productions to be presented by the Concordia theatre department in the coming weeks and months, Who/Nani/Qui and Endless forms most beautiful; as well as Harmonics, a production in the fall SIPA Short works festival. Ariel plans to pursue post-grad studies in Sustainable Design for Societal Development, but is looking forward to taking a year off to teach abroad, snowboard, and travel before furthering her education. Ariel would like to thank Sara for introducing her to Andy and looks forward to her first experience with Canis Tempus and exploring the story of Sala XVIII.

Christopher Moore
actor

Chris Moore

Christopher Moore attended the John Abbott College Professional Theatre Program where he received the Pamela Montgomery Award upon graduation in 2005. Since then he has performed on several stages around Montreal. Acting credits include: Duff in Nick Whitby’s The Green Fields Beyond (winner if the 2007 MECCA for Best Ensemble, Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello (Persephone Productions), Max in Sherman’s Bent (Altera Vitae), David in Katherine Dempsey’s Penumbra (Lapin Dans Un Chapeau), Benjamin in The Graduate (Hudson Village) and David Lewis in Haunted House by Endre Farkas. Most recently, he was found co-directing The Fiddler on The Roof for John Abbott College’s Casgrain Theatre and Shakespeare’s Henry V for Persephone Productions.

Sara Rodriguez
actor
AshleyDunn

Sara Rodriguez has recently appeared as Busty Stevens in Several Scenes Involving a Decomposing Corpse, Little Becky Two-Shoes in Urinetown: The Musical and most recently in Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein at Concordia University, where she is currently a student. Sara is a graduate of John Abbott College’s Theatre Workshop program, where she was awarded the Pamela Montgomery Award Scholarship. Sara works as a model, makeup artist and stage manager, and has recently assistant stage managed Imago Theatre’s Bye Bye Baby and Down From Heaven. This is Sara’s second production with Canis Tempus and she is honoured to be working alongside three beautiful men.

Peter Vatsis
Lights & Sets
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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 several 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.