Meet the Company

Peter Abrams

Peter Abrams
PETER ABRAMS is thrilled to be using Playback Theatre as a powerful venhicle for social change through dialogue and collective action. Peter is also a stage, film and television actor, and specializes in planning and facilitating multi-party conferences and workshops on environmental and social...

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Joel Bronstein

Joel  Bronstein
JOEL BRONSTEIN is a facilitator, performer and Executive Director, who has worked for Vancouver community service agencies for the past 25 years. Currently, he is joyously juggling work, parenting and Playback Theatre between Vancouver and his home on Salt Spring Island. Joel loves the authenticity...

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Ana Carrizales

Ana Carrizales
ANA CARRIZALES is a actress and filmmaker with a background in psychology,who has been a passionate storyteller since her days at Miami Dade College where she won an NBC-Universal Screenwriting Scholarship and graduated with the Award for Best Story. After relocating to Vancouver, she wrote...

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Jerry Ewen

Jerry Ewen
JERRY EWEN is the founder and CEO of the U-WIN-Institute, creating winning life styles for our world that is One. He is an inspirational leader, performer and keynote speaker, empowering individuals and organizations to create an environmentally sustainable, socially just, spiritually fulfilling...

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Carol Ann Fried

Carol Ann Fried
CAROL ANN FRIED is a sought-after motivational keynote speaker, consultant, improviser and workshop facilitator.  Her flagship presentation about having fun at work is called Laughing Matters!  Carol Ann is continually working on her autobiography entitled ‘Things That Make Me So...

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Simon Goland

Simon Goland
SIMON GOLAND is a self-dubbed “contemporary alchemist.” While the more traditional explanation of alchemy is related to the transmutation of any metal into silver or gold, there is also a metaphorical meaning of the concept. On a human level, Simon sees alchemy as a deep, spiritual transformation...

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Jeff "Jesai" Burnett

Jeff "Jesai" Burnett
JEFF "JESAI" BURNETT is an actor, director, writer, teacher and public speaker who has toured and trained extensively in Europe, England, Australia, Canada and the US playing lead roles such as Agamemnon and Jokanaan in Oscar Wilde’s Salome, as well as creating four  solo shows including...

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Diandra Lee

Diandra Lee
DIANDRA LEE is a proffesional actress in film, television, voice, theatre and improv and is also a writer. As a member of the Canadian Improv Showcase, she has had the opportunity to travel and tour internationally performing and teaching games-style improv comedy. She has also been featured in...

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Louise Lemieux

Louise Lemieux
LOUISE LEMIEUX is a professional musician and composer who teaches Drama to ESL students at the UBC English Language Institute. She has written many pieces of music and literature (e.g. the textbook “Listen Up”) and is now writing two musicals.

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Mark Pawson

Mark Pawson
MARK PAWSON is a professional actor/singer whose work includes musical theatre, film, TV, commercials and voice-over. Since he believes that the business of acting can be the business of teaching and healing, he is happy to be involved in yet another, wonderful form to use for this end. "An...

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