DAUNE CAMPBELL
Actor- Singer
Co-Artistic Director/ Managing Producer
It’s been over five years, four tours and five productions, and Daune is proud to be a part of the future of shameless hussy productions. She is producing and playing 9 characters in this current hussy venture, Summer of My Amazing Luck, none as old however as the 103 year old suffragette in Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal last on tour in Jan/Feb ‘08 and hitting the road again in fall 2008. Other performance highlights have beenUp Your Glass by Jurgen Gothe, Valparaiso (Virtual Stage Co-op), Little Sister by Joan MacLeod (Green Thumb) , which received a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Production, Loveplay , Silence and Marion Bridge (shameless hussy), Assassins (Quintessence Co-op), to Fringe Festival favorites, I Could Have Anyone in This Bar That I Want and Starch. Since graduation from Studio 58, Daune has toured the continent, lived overseas and does voice work for radio commercials, guided tours and internet web-sites.
RENEE IACI
co- artistic director~tour co-ordinator
Actor, Director
An actress and award winning director, Renée’s directing work includes PKF’s Bag Lady and Bed Among the Lentils, the hussies’ Lunch, Sonofabitch Stew: the drunken life of Calamity Jane and My Left Breast as well as Starch!, Hornéd Moon Co-op, and That Sweet Thief for Girl Fabulous. Renée has toured western Canada acting in the hussies’ hit Bonnie Dangerously (two Jessie nominations). Other favorite credits include The Day Room, Bedtime Stories for AMAZONS, The Women, Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal, Marion Bridge (Jessie Richardson nomination “best supporting actress”), Loveplay and Silence. As part of the Vancouver Playhouse's emerging director's program she was assistant director of Proof. Recently Renée directed the original and remount of Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal, and booked a 35 show tour in January 2008. Renée previously starred as Lucy in Summer of My Amazing Luck by Chris Craddock and currently stars in the role of a lifetime as mama hussy to her new daughter Sofia. She is a recipient of the Yvonne Ferkins Award for Excellence in Directing and teaches theatre at Arts Umbrella and the Delta Arts Council. With a BFA from UBC, Renee is co-founder, co-artistic director and tour co-ordinator for shameless hussy productions.
DEB PICKMAN
ensemble member
Actor, Publicist
Two time Jessie nominated actress Deb Pickman is a founding member of shameless hussy and was co-artistic director of the company until 2003. Still active as a member of the ensemble Deb has toured since 1995 in Sonofabitch Stew; the drunken Life of Calamity Jane and her eight other credits for shameless hussy include Lunch, Bedtime Stories for AMAZONS, Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal, Silence and Marion Bridge. Deb performed in London (U.K.) and toured Sweden in Bukowski Double Bill with the Way Off Broadway Group. A veteran of the International Fringe Festival Circuit, Deb has over 400 festival performances behind her for several companies including her own. Deb has also toured in seven plays for Green Thumb Theatre including the Jessie Award winning production of One in a Million as well as New Canadian Kid which toured to the Dublin International Theatre Festival where it received the Reuters award for "Outstanding Children’s Production." In 2006 Deb reprised the role of "Susan" in the hussies touring production of Susan Miller's My Left Breast - which earned Deb the Vancouver Sun People's Choice Award. Since leaving the hussy co-artistic helm to her collaborators, Deb has established a successful career in publicity and marketing. Deb graduated with her BA from Theatre at UBC and she recently rejoined the program as the new Marketing and Communications Manager.
LINDA DENNING
resident administrative collaborator
Accountant
In 1987 Linda founded Acorns Accounting Services which contracts out a variety of services to client non-profits and small businesses. Linda is also co-founder and administrator of "Lifesong" an alternative primary school for children. Since Linda joined the hussies she has contributed to the premiere of our fiery new play about suffragettes Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal and the 2001 fall tour of My Left Breast. Watch for Linda's "Feta Prawns" in our much anticipated cookbook "shameless hussy cooks" which will feature hot cuisine from the kitchens of Vancouver's sauciest kitchens.
LANA KRAUSE
resident creative collaborator
Costume Designer, Event Planner
Lana has created costumes for many of the Fringe Festivals most successful and visually arresting productions including The Machine, Young Hitler, Happy, Sonofabitch Stew: the drunken life of Calamity Jane, Bedtime Stories for Amazons, Bonnie Dangerously: fast times with that guy Clyde, Bag Lady and Bed Among the Lentils. With work on over 50 shows to her credit Lana has spent eleven seasons as head of costumes for Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre where she has worked with many of Canada's leading designers, directors, writers and performers. Lana's designs for other shows have included, Mom Dad I'm Living with a White Girl for the Firehall Theatre as well as Orphans, Four Dogs and a Bone , the operatic version of A Dream Play for Fend Players and Lonely Planet for little i productions. This past year Lana has moved on from her position at the Arts Club to work in Film and Television. Lana is at worked on the new TV series "Smallville" as well as "The Snow Queen". Currently Lana is working on the sci-fi TV series "Stargate Atlantis". Lana also performs double duty as an unlicensed group psychologist for the hussies - think Tracy Ulman on Ally McBeal.
Sheila Jones (Big Mama)
Sheila Jones is one of the first women to earn the bachelor's degree from Harvard University. With partner Kathleen Sayers, she founded International Wordsmiths Ltd in 1980, a generalist firm providing writing, editing and consulting services for business, government and private clients in Vancouver, BC. Together they helped develop Simon Fraser University’s Technical Communication Certificate program, where she continues to serve on the Advisory Board. A member of the Society for Technical Communication, she was named an STC Fellow in 2004. She manages the STC Honorary Fellows Nominating Committee. Sheila is an active member of the board of shameless hussy productions, a provocative theater group, collaborates on writings on Creativity and Dementia, and is the singer at STC conferences with The Rough Drafts. She advocates the use of plain language to all clients. See www.wordsmithss.com
some of our artistic associates
DIANA SWAYZE- Actor
Diana is a proud shameless hussy player. Previous affairs include Woman, Idiot, Lunatic, Criminal and Loveplay.
Other amorous adventures worth noting; Valparaiso: The Virtual Stage, Starch: Hornéd Moon, The Long Words of Why: Marie Clements, The Turkey Basting Method: My Very Own Theatre Company, and Screeeeech: E&R Productions.
A serious relationship developed with Green Thumb Theatre lasting throughout six years,seven shows and two national tours.
She is a graduate of Studio 58 and resides with the one true love of her life, Brian in Victoria B.C.
She dedicates this show to Terry O'Brien, a man who found the fun, the funny, the lucky and the good.
KATHRYN BROOKING | Stage Manager
Kathryn is very excited to be back working with old friends and making new ones too. This marks her third production with shameless hussy productions. Recent Stage Management credits include Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Stones In His Pockets (Globe Theatre) To The Moon (Working Spark Theatre) Summer of My Amazing Luck and Woman, Idiot, Lunatic, Criminal (shameless hussy). Kathryn hails from North Vancouver, where she is a graduate of the Capilano College Technical Theatre program, where she focused both on stage management and lighting. When not stage managing, Kathryn spends much of her time working as a lighting and sound technician in the Vancouver area.
STEPHEN BULAT – Sound Design and Lighting Design
Stephen has been active in the Vancouver theatre and music scene for over 15 years. Theatre companies he has worked for include The Arts Club Theatre, Bard on the Beach, The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, Pacific Theatre, shameless hussy productions and Hoarse Raven Theatre. Stephen has worked as a producer, composer, sound designer, lighting designer, technician, musical director and musician. He has musically directed such shows as The Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story and the Vancouver premiere of Hedwig & The Angry Inch which was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award as a “Hot Ass Band”. As a sound engineer and music producer, Stephen has recorded a diverse range of ensembles including Realtime A Cappella Quartet, The Melodious Mandolins and The Vancouver Cast Recording of The Rocky Horror Show. He has also composed and written original music for various documentaries and films, including the feature films Bar None & Sub Human.
TOM JONES
artistic associate - Actor
Thomas is ecstatic to be playing all of the boys, well, most of them in Summer of My Amazing Luck. Recently he has appeared in the Widow Black’s Café, a shadow play at the Caravan Farm Theatre and in Theatre Bagger’s Apa Kabar, an original play using over forty masks. Last year he spent two months in Bali learning about Shadow puppetry and Mask Carving and the summer before last he could be seen chasing princesses around Stanley Park in Boca del Lupo’s The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces. Other recent credits include Bagger’s The Alphonse and Kadsky Show, Runaway Moon’s The Winter’s Tale at The Belfry Theatre, Waiting for Godot at WCT in Kamloops. Favorites include The Wake with the Electric Company, Other Freds with the Only Animal, The Hobbit with Carousel Theatre, The Number 14 with Axis theatre, Bonnie Dangerously with the shameless hussies and Adventures in the Skin Trade with Theatre Bagger with whom he is a Co-Artistic Director. Tom is currently working on a new project with masks for Rumble Theatre’s Tremors Festival and writing a solo show for this summer’s Fringe Festival circuit. He has a BFA from UBC.
CHRIS MCGREGOR
artistic associate - Director/Actor
Chris last worked with the hussies on Marion Bridge. Previous to that he helped them create Women Idiot Lunatic Criminal. Marion Bridge represented the third time in recent years that Chris has worked on a play written by Daniel MacIvor; co-directing the Jessie winning production "House" at The Havana and the Vancouver Fringe hit "This is a Play." Chris is the former co-artistic director of Carousel Theatre and has performed in many of their productions including "Merlin" and "Treasure Island" at The Waterfront Theatre.
BRIAN PETERSON
artistic associate - Writer
Brian has co-created two hit shows with the hussies, Sonofabitch Stew; the drunken life of Calamity Jane and the notorious Bedtime Stories for Amazons. Brian is a former nasty Vancouver theatre critic. As his alter ego "Brianna", Brian is part of what has made us us truly shameless.
ALEX GREEN
artistic associate - Gun and Whip Coach
Alex Green has 45 years of whip work experience; a skill he’s perfected since childhood. He also has 25 years of western gun experience. As a stunt man and technical advisor Alex has over 100 feature films, 200 television projects and 2,000 live spectaculars to his credit. At present Alex works steadily as stunt double for Sir Anthony Hopkins. Alex was gun coach and technical advisor on the film Romeo and Juliet and put his whip, gun and stunt expertise all to work on The Mask of Zorro. Most recently Alex put the snap in Catwoman Halley Berrie's whip. A true hussy, Alex was quoted in July 2004's issue of MS Magazine for their feature on the history of women and bullwhips.
PAUL MONIZ de SA
artistic associate - Actor, Sound Designer
Paul toured with the Playhouse Theatre's critically acclaimed production of The Overcoat and will appear in the soon to be released film. He was last seen on the Playhouse stage as "Lt. Brannigan" in Guys & Dolls and played "Orson Welles" in Touchstone Theatre's It’s All True. Paul's collaboration on Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal was his third affair with the hussies after playing Jean-Guy Mangehomme in Eat Me and joining them for Theatre Bagger’s Theatre Under the Gun. Sound design and composing credits include Charlie and The Chocolate Factory for Arts Umbrella, Necropolis for Yorick Theatre and Two Brothers, the video motion picture. Paul teaches musical theatre at Arts Umbrella and is a graduate of Studio 58.
MICHAEL SCHALDEMOSE
artistic associate - Director, Stage Manager
Michael assisted in the script development of the hussies' Bedtime Stories for Amazons. He also directed and co-created Bonnie Dangerously: fast times with that guy Clyde which earned two Jessie nominations including Outstanding Production. A graduate from the Design Program at the University of Victoria Michael is a principal member of Way Off Broadway. Michael received a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Direction for Way Off Broadway's production of Kvetch by Steven Berkoff. With his own company Michael has toured extensively nationally and internationally as an actor, director and designer. Way Off Broadway has produced hits - American Buffalo, The Celestine Prophecy, Scions of Hydra, Bukowski Double Bill, Young Hitler and The Twilight Zone. Michael is Technical Director at The Presentation House Arts Centre in North Vancouver. Michael's new self penned one man show The Conspiracy was a hit of the Canadian Fringe circuit in 2002. Most recently Michael created the lighting design for the hussies' Marion Bridge.
KELLY BARKER
artistic associate - Stage Manager
Kelly is a graduate of the UBC Acting program who has recently "crossed over" to the world of stage managing. She has worked for many theatre companies over the past year including Carousel Theatre, boca del lupo, United Players, and Caravan Stage Barge in Florida. She enjoyed working with the hussies on Marion Bridge, and wants to send out a big thanks to Chris McGregor for giving her some good breaks! Kelly's numerous stage management credits includes the recent production of The Clean House at the Vancouver Playhouse.
GIN MAY
artistic associate - Tour Technical Director
Hailing from Winnipeg, Gin is pleased to finally call somewhere else home. Graduating from the University of Winnipeg’s Technical Theatre Program in '99, she has designed for Manitoba’s Little Opera Company, as well as many Fringe productions throughout the prairies. She has also worked with the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Center’s Warehouse Theatre, The Winnipeg Contemporary Dancer’s, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, Manitoba Theatre Projects, Bard On The Beach (Vancouver) and The Gas Station Theatre (Winnipeg). Recently walking on the dark side, Gin has been writing for film and television with a modicum of success, but still enjoys heading out on the road with the hussies as she did on the Hussy’s 2001 tour of My Left Breast. Currently Gin resides in Nelson BC.
BRYAN POLLOCK
artistic associate - Set Design
Brian has painted and created set designs for the hussies since the begining...well, since they began using sets! Productions with the hussies include My Left Breast and Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal. Also Brian ventured where no other designer had been before, to design a set in 48 hours for the hussies entry in Theatre Under the Gun. Brian has designed several productions for Green Thumb Theatre for Young People and has painted on numerous Arts Club Productions. A professional from the age of 15, Bryan began five years of studies in classical life drawing at 17 at the Symposium School of Art in Winnipeg followed by one year of intensive life drawing at the Manitoba School of Art. Bryan moved to Los Angeles to continue life drawing and anatomy studies including a course in Renaissance paint making and copying the masters at the Venice School of Art. Bryan moved to Vancouver and continued his studies at various workshops and in the studio. He later joined the Vancouver theatre community as a scenic artist, with emphasis on drawing and design skills, while continuing his own work. The discipline of the classical process, contrary to popular notions, does in fact provide greater access to creative impulses, which in turn contribute to an intense clarity of vision demonstrated in his work. Bryan's paintings can be viewed at the Romanov Gallery and in various theaters and private collections in Canada and Europe.
ion design inc.
artistic associate - Print and Electronic Design
David Coates and Rod Roodenburg founded ion design in 1988. Committed to excellence in design, the firm works to meet their clients marketing and communication goals with visual solutions that enlighten and inspire. The partners also take an active role in the design community – David is the National President of the Graphic Designers of Canada and both partners have been active on a local level. Ion has garnered many international juried awards over the years and in '96 the partners were named to the Top 40 Under 40 list by Business in Vancouver. Last year their poster design for My Left Breast was the recipient of two prestigious national design awards and will be published in an upcoming book. David & Rod are graduates of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Ion’s design portfolio for the hussies includes graphic works for The Day Room, Sonofabitch Stew; The Drunken Life of Calamity Jane, Bonnie Dangerously; fast times with that guy Clyde, Bedtime Stories for AMAZONS, My Left Breast, Eat Me, Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal, LovePlay, Marion Bridge, Silence, and Summer of My Amazing Luck. The firm also created the hussies logo.
Ross den Otter and Sarolta Dobi - Pink Monkey Studios
artistic associate - Photographers
Ross's portraits of the hussies past nine productions beginning with Bedtime Stories for Amazons are wonderfully shameless. He has a love of theatre stemming from his previous career as a tech head and lighting designer. "I keep having hobbies that turn into jobs" laments Ross who works days in photography and burns the midnight oil as a silversmith. Ross's partner Sarolta joins in the action behind the camera as Pink Monkey's resident attitude coach, directing photo shoots and keeping unruly crantinis in check. Since Ross and Sarolta began working full time for their own company Pink Monkey, their projects have ranged from commercial and editorial to just plain fun.
we get by with a lot of help from our friends...
Over beers..er...the years, we have been able to continue producing and touring new and established work thanks to the very generous support of:
The BC Arts Council Touring Section
The Canada Council Touring and Theatre Creation Sections
The Hamber Foundation
The Vancouver Foundation
SEE Seven
CMHC Granville Island
The City of Vancouver
The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation
Thank you to: Our board of directors, Elizabeth Aurjo, Sheila Campbell and Sheila Jones. More kudos to Shift Consulting. Special thanks go to all our artistic associates - your commitment to excellence and inovative ideas turn dreams into reality....XOXOXOXOXO
