Some of the awesome people that have worked with Hornèd Moon recently...




laura jaszcz
actor, writer, dialect coach (five women wearing the same dress)
starch!, the gut girls, beautiful bodies
Laura is an actor and children’s instructor in Vancouver. She has performed in all three of Hornèd Moon’s productions, as well as writing our 2001 Fringe hit Starch! Laura is a professional clown and fully trained in stage combat. In 2000 she helped write and performed in the Fringe sensation Saucy Bits. Recent credits include The Women for DeuxMille Productions, actor and choreographer for Steampowered Films’ award winning Frequency Zero, "Jill" and "the Cow" in Boca del Lupo's summer spectacle The Last Stand, and Gladys in Tight Corset Theatre’s Theatre Under the Gun entry, Ways to Woo Enrique. Laura won "Best Female Performer" at the summer's Cold Reading Series at the Anza Club, and just finished playing the "Music Video AD" in Jump Communications, Lucky Stars.


rebecca coleman
artistic associate, actor
five women wearing the same dress
Bitten by the acting bug at eighteen, Rebecca has acted on stages at both ends of the country. Tired of the endless round of auditions, she partnered with The Out to Lunch Players in 1989, and began creating her own work. They produced their first main stage show, So, You Wanna Be An Actor… in April, 2000, then Much Ado About Nothing in January, 2002, as a Presentation House On the House co-production. She was shocked to discover she wasn't bad at this producing stuff. Having a flair for the written word, she also discovered she was quite good at marketing and media relations, and, after learning and apprenticing, started her own company two years ago, Titania Productions. Since then, she has been publicist for theatre, film, festivals, and individual artists.


sarah sawatsky
actor, artistic associate
five women wearing the same dress
Sarah has had eighteen years as an actor on stage, and in film and television. She was a very successful child actor and has continued her acting career into adulthood. Her credits include principal roles on numerous series and MOW shot in Vancouver, including: Cold Squad, X-Files, Never Too Thin, The Other Mother, The Marshal, Lonesome Dove, Hawkeye, Danger Bay, Northwood and The Girl From Mars. She has won three acting awards: The T.V. Week Award, the YTV National Achievement Award in Acting and the Los Angeles Youth In Film Award for her lead role in The Girl From Mars. She has studied acting at Circle in the Square Theatre School (New York, US) and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia). An experienced and educated teacher, Sarah has taught successfully at Tarlington Training Inc. for the past six years. In 2002 Sarah co-directed the stage production of Will the Real Canadian…? with Carole Tarlington.


michael scholar, jr.
director
five women wearing the same dress
Michael was born in Regina, graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA in Acting program, but he now calls Vancouver home. Most recently, Michael directed the acclaimed musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change for the Arts Club Theatre, which originally ran at the Presentation House. In Edmonton, he directed Checking Out and Socks for Azimuth Theatre, The True Color Blue and Piece of Mind for Theatre Network’s NextFest, and the musical revue 110 Toes for the First Night Festival. Since moving to Vancouver, he's also directed Talking With... (Studio 16), and the Fringe Circuit hit Barbie Screams, which he also co-wrote. Barbie Screams was nominated for “Best Drama” at the Victoria Fringe. Michael was Assistant Director on Romeo and Juliet (Vancouver Playhouse) under Glynis Leyshon, and As You Like It (Studio Theatre) under Susan Ferley. Favourite acting credits include: the Sterling Award winning production of The Black Rider (National Tour / Off Broadway), touring with Catalyst Theatre's The Blue Orphan (Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre and Glasgow's Tron Theatre), and Theatre Network's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for which he won the Sterling Award for "Best Lead Actor." Michael has guest starred on such TV series as Jeremiah with Luke Perry, Black Sash, Special Unit 2, Mentors with Henry Czerny, Utopia Café, and the MOW Stealing Christmas with Tony Danza. Michael is best known for his work on Street Cents, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award. Look for Michael in the upcoming production of Cloud Tectonics (Vancouver Playhouse/Pi Theatre).


robin ruel
actor
five women wearing the same dress
(also to wit, to wed, to woo and the gut girls)
Robin has been acting in Vancouver since she graduated from the Drama program at Queen's University in 1997. This is her third venture with Hornèd Moon, as she played the repressed Priscilla in their production of The Gut Girls and the wilder of Shakespeare's women in T. Weir's To Wit To Wed To Woo at this year's Fringe Festival. Robin has also appeared as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (KMB, Ellie King), Essie in You Can't Take It With You (Burr Theatre) and as the lovely Rita in Erin MacDonald's Lucky Duck. She performs stand-up comedy around town and is the proud mama of two cats.


bronwen smith
actor
five women wearing the same dress
Born in Toronto but raised in North Vancouver Bronwen has been passionate about theatre since she was a small child. She studied at Studio 58, Gastown Actor's Studio and with Andrew McIlroy at Second Avenue Studios and has applied her skills to a variety of theatre, film and television productions. Some of Bronwen's stage credits include Lion in the Streets, Mountain Language, A Bright Room Called Day and most recently Elegy for a Lady and Cowabunga. She has acted in a number of locally produced independent films and recently Bronwen returned to the small screen in this season's premiere episode of Da Vinci's Inquest. She is represented by Kim Barsanti of Muse Artist Management. Thanks to Cat & the Biz Books gang. Much love and thanks to her talented husband John Prowse. Way to go on the diet Hornhine!


mitzi thaddeus
actor
five women wearing the same dress
Having contributed to Vancouver independent theatre for over five years, Mitzi has produced and directed a handful of productions but remains focused on her progress and craft as a dedicated and talented actor. Mitzi began studying acting at the Vancouver Film School, starring in productions driven solely by the students. Some of her theatre credits include "Sally" in Lucky Duck," Megan" in Blocked and "Carol" in Oleanna. She has also been busy in independent films with leading roles in Walls Talk, Five Bullets, and Flesh Prop. "Mitzi Thaddeus is an energetic and talented pixie" -- Barry Link, the Vancouver Courier. Mitzi wants to thank Michael for giving her the opportunity to play Meredith.


carmen-jaye henderson
stage manager
five women wearing the same dress
While Carmen has a true love of theatre, she has a tangible annoyance for biographies. "This show isn't about me," Carmen was quoted as saying. "People don't come to see a woman in black, holding a clipboard and flashlight." The ever-industrious Carmen Henderson understands that others might want to exploit her true gift for stage managing however, and thus feels it necessary to say she was the organizational mastermind behind the 2003 productions of Running with Blunt Scissors, Drinking with Persephone, Chat Room, The Big Road and Korea The Unfinished War. She was also the queen "bad girl" during Daniel Packard's Fringe hit, Broken Word. Thank-you's go out to Buddie and the amazingly talented DP for all their continued support. But enough about me, I mean her. Enjoy the show and remember, that none of this would be possible without somebody remembering that the director doesnt drink soda.


corinne kessel
sound designer
five women wearing the same dress
Born and raised in Edmonton, Corinne received her BMus and MA in Music from the University of Alberta. Corinne has worked as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and musical director across Western Canada. She just completed music directing and composing for Tuatara's production of As You Like It here at the Presentation House. Recently she was seen playing piano for I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change, at the Arts Club and music directing and composing for The Tit Show this fall. Favourite credits include: The Black Rider (November Theatre), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Theatre Network), An Eye for an Eye (Ghost River Theatre), Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp (Workshop West), Fusion 2001 (Catalyst Theatre). Corinne has also just completed recording a CD with her band, The Skatomatics, which will be released at the end of February.

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