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CONTACT:
The Canadian College
of Performing Arts
[email protected]
250.595.9970
1701 Elgin Road
Victoria, BC V8R 5L7
Canadian College of Performing Arts students performing with Josh Groban and David Foster, 2012
THE DIRECTORS
For years, we have worked with and watched CCPA grads and know them to be multi-talented and creative
with an admirable work ethic that keeps them employed. The College’s greatest asset is the extraordinary
talent, passion and commitment of dedicated faculty and staff. Each of them has an equal investment in
the growth and success of the College and of our students. Our success has led to the amazing successes
of our graduates, with more than 800 of our alumni getting professional work after graduation!
RON SCHUSTER
College Director
Ron’s passion for the arts has taken him on
a journey of over thirty award-winning years
as an arts administrator/consultant and a
professional performing artist in Canada.
He has worked in several communities
throughout Western Canada, where he
has been heavily involved as a performer, director and writer in
dance, musical theatre and film. His teaching experiences at postsecondary institutions include numerous courses in Theatre Studies
and Motion Picture Arts Programs (including Red Deer College,
University of Alberta and Keyano College). In addition, Ron has
experience using arts and culture to foster community development
and leadership.
Ron has worked most of his career advancing arts and culture in
the non-profit sector and he is proud of his long list of successes.
Highlights include: implementing the “Red Deer Community Cultural
Master Plan” in conjunction with the City of Red Deer and a team
of community members; project management for 10 simultaneous
projects, after having won the first “Cultural Capitals of Canada
Award — 2003” awarded to a mid-sized city; and developing a new
arts facility. He also:
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Purchased a building of historical significance and developed it
into a new art space (The Scott Block) for a non-profit society.
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Developed a successful bid and served as Culture Director
for the 2006 Alberta Summer Games in Red Deer, which were
applauded for their organization and creativity.
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Is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of the professional
Musical Theatre troupe, Kompany! that toured nationally and
internationally for 27 years.
Facilitated numerous film training programs and international
film festivals for the National Screen Institute of Canada.
Ron embraces the opportunity to work with the incredible team
(Board, staff, faculty and volunteers) of the Canadian Heritage Arts
Society to ensure the future sustainability of the organization and
the Canadian College of Performing Arts.
DAROLD ROLES
Artistic & Education
Director
Darold originally hails from Alberta
where he earned a Bachelor of Education
in Drama (U of A) and an MFA in Theatre
Directing (U of C). His successes in the
professional theatre and post-secondary
education field include work as a director, choreographer,
performer, producer, writer, teacher and respected
administrative leader. Darold has served as Dean of Arts and as
Chair of the Performing Arts at Red Deer College, where he was
on faculty until the end of the 2010 school year. During his time
in the Red Deer community he was awarded a Mayor’s Award in
the Performing Arts field and an Exemplary Leadership Award
from the International Chair Academy. Prior to that he was the
Artistic Director of Keyano Theatre and instructed in the drama
department at Keyano College.
He was a co-founder and co-Artistic Director of KOMPANY! a
professional song and dance company that toured across North
America, Europe, Japan and Australia from 1979–2007. His work
with KOMPANY! and as a freelance artist in Edmonton earned
him numerous Sterling Award nominations for Outstanding
Musical, Best Choreography and outstanding Cooperative
Production. He has adjudicated major provincial dance and
theatre festivals and presented master classes throughout
Western Canada.
As a director/choreographer he has received rave reviews for
hundreds of smash hit shows including: Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Footloose, The
Crucible and Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? He was
the Performing Arts Director for the Alberta Summer Games
and has co-authored the hip new musical The Jazzcracker with
Ron Schuster and jazz music master Tommy Banks. His past
community work as a volunteer includes Chair and committee
work for the United Way, the Salvation Army, Culture Link and
with a vast array of non-profit theatre groups.
AUDITIONS
The Canadian College of Performing Arts will conduct auditions in February and
March for programs commencing September, 2015.
NEED MORE INFORMATION?
Call 250.595.9970 Fax
250.595.0779 or e-mail us
at [email protected]
ccpacanada.com
Where and when?
The Canadian College of Performing Arts conducts auditions in major
cities across Canada (See the poster for locations and dates). In order to
be considered for our Performing Arts Programs, the prospective student
must either attend a live audition or submit a video audition-Video audition
deadline May 1--APPLY EARLY). Please see our website (ccpacanada.com)
for list of Audition Requirements.
What will I be doing at the audition?
Admission to the two year Enriched Performing Arts Program
Canadian College of Performing Arts Directors conduct multi-disciplinary
auditions. Prospective students should come prepared to participate in
dance or movement routines, to sing and to act. An interview will also be
conducted. Wear comfortable clothing. If you are a dancer, wear your dance
attire. Please time your song and monologue to ensure they meet the
maximum times outlined below. Please see our website (ccpacanada.com) for
list of Audition Requirements.
Admission to the one year Performing Arts Program
In addition to all of the above requirements listed for the two year Enriched
Performing Arts program a prospective student applying for the one year
Performing Arts Program must provide: A minimum of two reference letters
from industry professionals.
“Company C” Studio Ensemble Program Details
The mandate of the “Company C” Studio Ensemble Program is to offer
graduates of the Canadian College of Performing Arts an opportunity
to expand their performance repertoire through rehearsal and
performance experience in a collaborative, ensemble environment
guided by professional Directors from the Canadian theatre industry.
In addition, the students learn new skills in theatre production, arts
administration, marketing and community leadership guided by
professional mentors from Victoria.
The “Company C” Studio Ensemble is referred to as Year III, however it
does not comprise a full year of study. The Program will operate under
the full jurisdiction of the Canadian College of Performing Arts.
The program will only run if sufficient applicants are accepted into
the program to make it financially viable and the learning outcomes
achievable. All accepted applicants must comply with all contractual
agreements or the ability to run the program is put in jeopardy.
The curriculum will include:
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Study, preparation and performance opportunities in up to
three productions. In addition, students will have opportunities to work
in areas such as artistic, technical, administrative and production roles.
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Private Voice lessons with CCPA Faculty.
Dance classes with CCPA Faculty.
Production, technical and administrative mentorships.
Acting workshops.
Career development workshops.
*Note: Graduation from a CCPA program is a pre-requisite for
admission to the “Company C” Studio Ensemble Program, however, it
does not guarantee admission.
Do I need to have something prepared?
Everyone auditioning for CCPA will need one 2-minute monologue.
Also be prepared to sing a solo. (Be sure to bring sheet music for your
solo, in your key, for our accompanist.) The dance/movement audition
is conducted in a group. Advanced dancers
may also present an optional one-minute solo
dance routine. Go to ccpacanada.com for
the full list of audition requirements
What do I need to bring?
Bring your resumé, photo, an application
fee of $50, a transcript of grades from the
educational institution last attended, dance
shoes and your sheet music.
How long will this take?
Allow at least 3 hours. Some people may be
asked to return for a call-back or interview.
Do I need to pre-register?
Yes, please. You must arrive half an hour
before posted times to complete forms
(unregistered auditioners will be allowed in,
but pre-registering is advantageous).
TO PRE-REGISTER:
1.
Contact the college to confirm your
audition location.
2. Provide us with your name, phone
number and e-mail address.
AUDITIONS
BESOIN DE PLUS
D’INFORMATION?
Appelez au
(250)595-9970,
Faxez (250)595-0779 ou
envoyez-nous un courriel
à [email protected]
Le Canadian College of Performing Arts tiendra des auditions en février et
mars pour les programmes débutants en Septembre 2015.
Où et quand ?
Le Canadian College of Performing Arts tient des auditions dans les grandes villes à
travers le Canada (voir l’affiche pour les dates et lieux). Afin d’être considéré pour nos
programmes d’arts de la scène, l’étudiant(e) potentiel doit soit assister à une audition en
personne, ou encore soumettre une vidéo d’audition – la date limite pour la soumission
d’une vidéo est le 1er Mai – faites votre demande d’inscription rapidement). Veuillez
consulter notre site web (ccpacanada.com) pour une liste des exigences d’audition.
En quoi consiste l’audition ?
Admission au programme d’arts de la scène enrichi de 2 ans: Les directeurs du Canadian College of Performing Arts
tiennent des auditions multidisciplinaires. Les candidat(e)s devraient être prêts à participer à des routines de danse ou
mouvement, à chanter et à jouer. Une entrevue sera aussi tenue. Portez des vêtements confortables. Si vous êtes un
danseur/danseuse, portez des vêtements de danse. Veuillez chronométrer votre chanson et monologue afin d’assurer
qu’ils ne dépassent pas les temps maximums décris ci-dessous. Veuillez visiter notre site web (ccpacanada.com) pour
une liste des exigences d’audition.
Admission au programme d’arts de la scène d’un an: En plus des exigences pour le programme enrichi de 2 ans
mentionnées ci-dessus, le candidat appliquant pour le programme d’un an doit fournir un minimum de deux lettres de
références par des professionnels de l’industrie.
Programme d’ensemble studio « Company C: La mission du programme
d’ensemble studio « Company C » est d’offrir aux gradués du Canadian College
of Performing Arts l’opportunité d’élargir leur répertoire de performance par
des répétitions et des expériences de performance dans un environnement de
collaboration guidé par des directeurs professionnels de l’industrie théâtrale
canadienne. De plus, les étudiants développent de nouvelles habiletés en
production théâtrale, administration artistique, marketing et leadership
communautaire guidé par des mentors professionnels de Victoria.
L’ensemble studio « Company C » est décrit comme une programme de troisième
année, toutefois il ne comprend pas une année complète d’étude. Le programme
fonctionne sous la juridiction complète du Canadian College of Performing Arts.
les danseurs avancés peuvent aussi
présenter un solo de danse d’une
minute. Visitez ccpacanada.com pour
une liste complète des exigences
d’audition.
Que dois-je apporter?
Apportez votre curriculum vitae,
photo, le paiement de votre frais
d’application de 50$, un relevé
de notes de la dernière institution
scolaire fréquentée, souliers de danse
et votre partition.
Le programme sera mis sur pieds seulement si le nombre de candidats
acceptés suffit à le rendre financièrement viable et les objectifs d’apprentissage
Combien de temps durera l’audition?
réalisables. Tous les candidats acceptés doivent respecter les ententes
Prévoir 3 heures au minimum.
contractuelles, sans quoi le fonctionnement du programme sera à risque.
Certains candidats pourraient être
priés de revenir pour un rappel ou une
Le curriculum inclura:
entrevue.
Étude, préparation et opportunités de performance dans jusqu’à trois
productions. De plus, les étudiants auront l’opportunité de travailler comme
artistes, techniciens et dans l’administration des différentes productions.
Leçons de chant privées avec des professeurs du CCPA
Cours de danse avec des professeurs du CCPA
Tutorats en production, régie et administration
Ateliers de théâtre
Ateliers de développement de carrière
*Note : Pour être acceptés au programme d’ensemble studio “Company C”, les
étudiants doivent être finissants d’un programme de CCPA. Cependant, cela ne
garantit pas une admission.
Dois-je préparer quelque chose?
Tous les candidats auditionnant pour le CCPA auront besoin d’un monologue de
2 minutes. Soyez aussi prêt à chanter un solo (Veuillez apporter une partition,
dans votre clé, pour notre accompagnateur). L’audition de danse/mouvement
sera conduite en groupe.
Dois-je m’inscrire au préalable?
Oui, s’il vous plait. Veuillez arriver
trente minutes à l’avance pour
compléter vos formulaires (les
candidats non-inscrits seront
acceptés, mais la pré-inscription est
avantageuse).
POUR S’INSCRIRE:
1. Contactez le collège pour confirmer
votre emplacement d’audition.
2. Fournissez-nous votre nom, numéro
de téléphone et adresse e-mail.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Profiles of CCPA Grads as
They Perform Around the World!
Rachael McOwen with Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee
2006 graduate Rachael McOwen
is a “radical rockstar.” After CCPA,
Rachael began doing plays and
musicals in regional theatres. She
then shifted gears and became
a resident artist with an opera
company. While on this singing
adventure, she simultaneously
got her equity card doing a play
and quickly moved to New York
City in order to continue working
as a union member. Rachael is
grateful to have been making a
full time living as a performer in
NYC for over six years now.
Off-broadway, international touring and regional work took up most of her
time for the first five years. She also worked as an on-camera host for awhile,
interviewing on everything from the Oscars in LA to segments in Time
Square. After injuring her back in a physical theatre rehearsal, she had to take
a break from singing and stage. The film world beckoned. Her first Hollywood
film comes out on DVD this month (“no bootlegging guys!”) She is one of
the top women with lines and face time in the summer blockbuster The
Amazing Spider Man 2. You can also find her in a Taco Bell TV commercial,
shooting Neymarc Visuals epic film Happy Valentines Day, filming the lead
role in Isaac Hoff’s newest drama Secret Inscriptions of The Mind and in
Canada working on the title role in a new feature film adaptation of Alice in
Wonderland. She is thrilled to start singing again and will be doing a reading
of Laurence O’Keefes (Legally Blonde, Bat Boy, Heathers) new musical Life of
the Party in NYC next month.
“My career has shifted in so many directions over the few years I’ve worked
as an artist and I’m eternally grateful for the training at CCPA that prepared
me to be ready for anything and everything. I still do my grip-top-sock tongue
twister from speech class every day and have my three jokes, suitcase and
passport ready to go!” You can find her viral silly singing YouTube parody
that has over 30 million hits and more info at RachaelMcOwen.com.
CCPA students perform The New Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein.
Photo by David Lowes
F E AT U R E D G RA D :
SIOBHAN RICHARDSON
Actor/Fight Director
Since graduating from the first 2-year
program at CCPA in 2001, Siobhan has
had dual careers in performance and
fight direction / fight instruction. She’s
performed as an actor, fighter, singer,
and/or dancer on stage and screen in a
variety of periods and styles. Favourite
credits include Mo (Mo and Jess Kill
Susie, Harley Dog Productions), the
twins Jessica and Julia (The Last
Resort, Stirling Festival Theatre)
and the world premieres of The
Parliamentarians by Phil Rickaby, The
Madness of the Square by Marjorie
Chan (Cahoots Theatre Projects) and
The Forbidden Phoenix by Marty
Chan (Citadel Theatre and LKTYP).
Concurrently, she has been immersing
herself in as much stage combat as
she can find between acting gigs, and
is a Fight Directors Canada certified
Stage Combat Instructor. In 2009, she
was a recipient of the Ontario Arts
Council’s Chalmers Arts Fellowship,
which facilitated months of stage
combat study in Sweden, USA and
England. Her teaching career has
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
After graduating from the CCPA in 1999,
Paige Parkhill joined Disney Cruise Line as
the dance captain and swing for the launch
of The Disney Wonder. She then toured
South America and the Mediterranean,
dancing onboard Holland America’s
Noordam. Paige performed in an Eminem
music video out of Universal Studios in Los
Angeles. She also toured China as a dancer
for Las Vegas’s Hope Productions in 2003,
and, in 2004, was employed as a dancer in
Showtime’s Reefer Madness: The Movie
Musical, filmed in Vancouver.
Paige spent two years in Tokyo, Japan where she was an aerialist and
opening cast member at the Mermaid Lagoon in Tokyo DisneySEA.
Beginning in 2005, she spent five years in Hong Kong as an opening
cast member for Hong Kong Disneyland, performing as an aerialist,
dancer and dance captain at The Golden Mickeys. While in Hong Kong,
Paige continued to develop her leadership skills, and taught young locals
at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
Paige is currently employed by Disney Cruise Line as a choreographic
supervisor at their International Headquarters in Toronto. Since joining
DCL, she’s been fortunate to have been a part of the creative team
assigned to launch both the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy Cruise
Ships, as well as to relaunch the Disney Magic.
Allison Rilley traveled from her hometown
of Winnipeg to follow her passion as an actor,
singer and dancer at CCPA, graduating from
the one year program in 2003.
While attending the College, she was hired
on the spot by Norwegian Cruise Line’s Jean
Anne Ryan Productions as a singer/dancer.
She traveled the Caribbean for two contracts
after graduation and upon her return to
Winnipeg was cast in her first feature film, as
a dancer alongside Jennifer Lopez, Richard
Gere, and Stanley Tucci in Shall We Dance.
She then moved to Vancouver to focus more
on her film and television acting career. Since then, she has appeared
in MTV’s Kaya, The CW’s Aliens in America, Fringe, and Direct TV’s
Rogue. She also appeared as a guest star on YTV/Disney’s sitcom
Mr. Young, and had the honour of being directed by Robert Redford in
his feature film The Company You Keep. Earlier this year she appeared
on Hallmark Channel’s Signed Sealed Delivered and she can also be
seen in a recurring role on the popular series Arrow.
Allison is currently preparing for principal roles in two feature films:
Phantom and No Men Allowed Beyond This Point. While her main
focus remains film and television, she continues to sing in the 1940s
style trio The Agency and tours as a dancer in Luisa Marshall’s award
winning Tina Turner Tribute show, where she had the opportunity
to perform at a Red Cross fundraiser in Bermuda. She credits her
discipline and confidence to her training at CCPA and for giving her
the encouragement to pursue her dreams and passions.
FEATURED GRAD continued
taken her to the Paddy Crean International
Stage Combat Workshop, the Nordic Stage
Fight Society’s Summer Workshops (Sweden,
Finland and Estonia), FDC’s National
Workshops, and two European tours. Her
company, Burning Mountain, co-founded
with actor / fight director Matt Richardson, is
known internationally for its choreography,
which integrates techniques from various
historical European martial arts with existing
foundation safety practices of stage combat
and the needs of the actor’s process. As a
fight director, Siobhan has choreographed
for The Hobbit (The Grand Theatre, London),
White Biting Dog (Soulpepper), Such
Creatures (Nightswimming and Theatre
Passe Muraille), Death of a Chief (Native
Earth), several productions with Humber
River Shakespeare Company and a number
of self-produced short films.
Siobhan’s performance and stage combat
ambitions have come together often in the
last several years, both on stage and on
camera. Currently she is in rehearsals for
Romeo and Juliet (Headstrong Collective
and Urban Bard Productions) for which she is
the fight director and playing Lady Capulet.
Recently Battlers, a short film that Siobhan
co-starred in and fight directed, premiered
at the Action On Film Festival where it was
nominated for Best Science Fiction and Best
Martial Arts Action Sequence in a Short.
Siobhan was named Breakout Female Action
Star in a Short.
She’s looking forward to what the future
holds having just signed on with Butler
Ruston Bell in Toronto. Recognizing that
“work begets work” and that making
one’s own work is paramount to creative
satisfaction, she’ll continue self-producing
short films and is currently writing her first
non-fiction book.
www.SiobhanRichardson.com/actor
www.BurningMountain.ca/connect
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