Talk Theatre with Us -and other Peak Performance talk.
Talk Theatre with Us -and other Peak Performance talk.
Podcast Description
Conversations with actors, clowns, improvisers, coaches and educators, athletes and performers of all types, on how they prepare and think about crossing that threshold into peak performance.
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The podcast primarily focuses on theatre and performance, highlighting techniques of preparation, personal experiences, and strategies for peak performance. Episodes include interviews with diverse guests such as multi-disciplinary performer Donia Kash discussing representation in storytelling and Shane Savage elaborating on his extensive background in performing arts.
Conversations with actors, clowns, improvisers, coaches and educators, athletes and performers of all types, on how they prepare and think about crossing that threshold into peak performance.
Gillian Barber Bio – Gillian currently teaches acting, musical theatre and business in the Theatre
programs at Capilano University.
She has been acting and directing in Canada since moving from the UK, and has performed in more than
50 shows with the Arts Club, Vancouver Playhouse, Tamahnous Theatre, Vancouver Fringe, Presentation
House, Centennial Theatre (Vancouver), Bastion Theatre (Victoria), Manitoba Theatre Centre
(Winnipeg), The Citadel (Edmonton), Lunchbox Theatre and Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary), The
National Arts Centre (Ottawa), and has toured the UK with several Repertory companies. Most recently,
Gillian performed in Steel Magnolias with an CAEA collective at The Nest on Granville Island. She
recently directed Nunsense, the Musical for Boone Dog Productions at the Metro Theatre.
She has just finished recurring roles on The Last of Us, Under the Banner of Heaven, Maid,
Supernatural, Chesapeake Shores, The Romeo Section, Witches of the East End and Man in the High
Castle. Film credits include: Hamlet, Patterson’s Wager, 2012, Hot Rod, Status Update, The Vehicle, On
the Sixth Day, Double Jeopardy, Kitchen Party, Jumanji and Rainbow War. TV Movie roles on: Murder
at the Breakers, The Christmas Note, Super Volcano, Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, Christy, A Storm in
Summer, Colour of Courage and In Cold Blood. Regular Guest appearances on TV: The X-Files,
Millenium, Bates Motel, Cedar Cove, Stargate, Outer Limits and Mysterious Ways.
Her other selected directing credits include:, The Drowsy Chaperone, Jesus Christ Superstar (TUTS),
Alice by Heart, Radium Girls, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, War Daddy, Anatomy of Grey, Little Women,
Front, As You Like It, Midsummer Nights Dream, Comedy of Errors, Our Town, Thoroughly Modern
Millie, Secret Garden, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Boyfriend, Cinderella, A Little Night Music, Hello
Dolly!, The Wiz, Children of Eden, Jane Eyre, Nine, Into the Woods, and many more at CapU. Assistant
Director/Dialect Coach on My Fair Lady at the Arts Club; Vocal director and Choreographer on Rocky
Horror at Down Stage Right Productions and the Arts Club Theatre.
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