Over the past 30 years Martin has worked in radio, television and film. His early plays Me? and April 29, 1975, produced at Toronto Free Theatre, which he co-founded and served as Artistic Director from 1972 to 1980, were both Chalmers Award Finalists. Martin has also served as a Producer in CBC Television Drama where he created Some Honourable Gentlemen, a series of dramatic specials based on Canadian political history, and as Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary, where his adaptation of A Christmas Carol was performed annually for eight seasons. Since moving to Vancouver, Martin Kinch has created Becker, a radio series for CBC’s Mystery Project; his play Private scenes/Public Acts, developed at PTC, was premiered at Capilano College. He has written a number of television scripts and has served as Story Editor for The Hardy Boys and Dead Man’s Gun. Most recently, he has collaborated with Bill Dow to write The Bachelor Brothers on Tour, based on the Bachelor Brothers novels of Bill Richardson for the Playhouse Theatre Company, (Vancouver).

Heidi is a Vancouver-based dramaturg, director, and performer. Since joining Playwrights Theatre Centre in November 2005, she has dramaturged ten new short plays through The News commissioning program, and worked with writers from across the country including José Teodoro, Patti Flather, Mitch Miyagawa, Joan Kivanda, Hannah Moscovitch, Anita Majumdar, Jason Maghanoy, and local writers Martin Gover, Andrew Laurenson, Kendra Fanconi, Eric Rhys Miller, and Miranda Huba. She was consulting dramaturg on Leaky Heaven’s Antigone Undone and Bone in her Teeth. She is also a dance dramaturg, and has worked with Caroline Liffman (choreographer) during her residency at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, and through her own company Proximity Arts, with Susan Elliott and Tanya Marquardt. Heidi has co-created many site-specific and community-based projects, including Happyland! (Proximity/Leaky Heaven Circus), Final Viewing (Radix Theatre), Other Freds (assistant director, The Only Animal), and The World: an Odyssey in six or more parts (Part IV) (Michael Counts, GAle GAtes et al., New York). Recent plays directed include: Transmission (co-directed with Tanya Marquardt/Proximity Arts), and readings of Jan Derbyshire’s Turkey in the Woods (Clean Sheets) and Cloudless (José Teodoro/BC Buds). Heidi holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Contemporary Art from Simon Fraser University, where she teaches acting as a sessional instructor. Heidi is currently Dramaturg at PTC.

Linda Gorrie has been working as a professional arts administrator since 1984, most significantly as General Manager of the Vancouver Fringe Festival (1984-1988), Interim Executive Director of Open Space Gallery (1989) and Executive Director of the Women in View Festival (1990-95). Ms. Gorrie has been Administrative Director at Playwrights Theatre Centre since 1998 and divides her time between PTC and as a consultant and business manager to arts and other not-for-profit organizations. Her areas of expertise are financial management, grant and proposal writing and reporting, budget development, cash flow management, project management, board governance and strategic planning. Ms. Gorrie attended the University of Western Ontario and University of Waterloo, is a graduate of the Banff Centre School of Management Arts Management Program (1987) and was awarded the Mary Phillips Prize at the 2005 Jessie Theater Awards. She is actively involved in the community as Treasurer of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT), Governor of Koerner Foundation and Director At Large for a women’s health collective. She has also been a board member of New Performance Works (1994-2004), Mortal Coil Performance Society (2004-2007) and Touchstone Theatre (1990-1995).

Carol Sawyer is a singer and visual/media artist working primarily with photography, video, installation, and improvised music. Since the early 1990’s her work has been concerned with the connections between photography and fiction, performance, memory, and history. Her work is often grounded in extensive research on a particular historical era or location. She has generated work in response to creative residencies at both the City of Vancouver’s (now defunct) Cambie Works Yard and the Vancouver Public Library. She has completed four video and photo-based projects for the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, the most recent of which is a series of 7 short films based on archival footage of loggers and sawmill workers in BC. Titled Wood Work, the videos are playing all summer 2011 on the large screens at Granville and Robson. At unpredictable intervals she teaches courses in contemporary art and studio at Emily Carr University in both the continuing studies and degree programs. She performs with her ensemble ion Zoo, the big band Bugs Black Blood, and in other collaborations with improvising musicians. ion Zoo recently released their second CD, Venus Looks Good. Her work is represented by Republic Gallery, Vancouver. Carol joined the staff of PTC in November 2007.

Ray was a professional actor for 12 years, heavily involved in new play development with organizations like Alberta Theatre Projects, the Banff Playwriting Colony, Green Thumb Theatre, and as a Dramaturge/Actor with the New Play Centre. For the next 8 years, Ray was an arts administrator in Vancouver, his last job in this arena as the General Manager for the New Play Centre. For the past 15 years, Ray has been a Financial Planner with Investors Group Financial Service, during which time he has sat on the Board of various arts organizations in the city, and has worked diligently to strengthen the relationship between business and the arts.

With a background in film, fine arts, art history, broadcast and psychology, Vancouver born Jennifer Moore found a logical fit in the film and television industry beginning as a production assistant on Godfrey Reggio’s feature documentary, Powaquatsi, in 1985.

After more than a decade in the local production service industry in the Art, Set Decoration and Props departments, Jennifer moved over to Canadian independent film and learned how to jump through burning rings of fire. Working with Cadence Entertainment she contributed to various productions including as Co-producer of the feature film On the Nose, an Irish-Canadian co-production starring Dan Aykroyd, Brenda Blethyn and Robbie Coltrane.

As business analyst at BC Film for four years, Jennifer worked in the film and television financing and tax credit departments and participated in the design of the current programs offered at BC Film.

A recent addition to the Capilano College Motion Picture Production Program faculty and recovering artist/filmmaker, Jennifer currently disguises her addiction by pursuing a MFA in Film Production and Creative Writing at UBC.

Adrienne Wong creates, performs and produces new work for theatre and radio. Recent plays include Mixie and the Halfbreeds, co-written with Julie Tamiko Manning (Neworld Theatre) and Hurted (La Luna Productions). She recently performed with battery opera, and Neworld productions of HIVE, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Mixie and the Halfbreeds, and Adrift on the Nile. Creation highlights include devising a miniature play for Box Theatre, co-writing on the Downtown Eastside Community Play, playing Scrabble the radio (North by Northwest, CBC Radio One), creating interactive letter-writing projects, and Placebook, an analogue version of Facebook. Adrienne is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts and Co-Artistic Producer of Neworld Theatre.

Sharon McGowan is an award-winning film and television producer based in Vancouver. Her feature films include Saint Monica, Better Than Chocolate, and The Lotus Eaters (Genie Nomination – Best Film). She received a Gemini nomination for Best Direction in a Documentary (co-director) for Referendum. As an educator, Sharon has taught at the Vancouver Film School, the Canadian Film Centre, the National Screen Institute, Cineworks, Simon Fraser University, and Women in Film & Video Vancouver. She is currently an Associate Professor in the film program at the University of British Columbia.

Jerry is Professor of English and Theatre at UBC with special expertise in Canadian drama and theatre history.  He is the editor of Modern Canadian Plays (now in its 4th edition), and Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology, both published by Talonbooks, and has written widely on Canadian theatre for journals such as Modern Drama, Essays in Theatre and Canadian Theatre Review.  Jerry has been the theatre critic for CBC radio's Afternoon Show since 1987, and has over 200 credits as an actor, mostly in TV and film in recent years but also for the Playhouse, Arts Club, Freddy Wood and other Vancouver stages.

Métis writer Penny Gummerson was born and raised in Flin Flon, Manitoba. She worked as a newspaper journalist, magazine writer, documentary filmmaker and advertising copywriter before becoming a playwright and screenwriter. She currently resides in Vancouver where she writes for stage and film. Wawatay received the 2002 Vancouver Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Play, the People's Choice Favourite New Play Award at the Vancouver New Play Festival and was a Stage-Play Finalist at the International Moondance Film Festival in Denver, Colorado. Other plays include: Crossing Boundaries and Is There Bingo in Heaven?. Penny has been Head Writer and Story Editor on the dramatic television series, "Moccasin Flats" (Big Soul Productions/Showcase Television/Aboriginal People's Television Network). She is currently writing a Movie of the Week for CTV (Alberta Film Works, Code Red Entertainment) as well as the film adaptation of Wawatay.

An award winning director, writer, producer and production manager for both film and theatre, David has a B.A. in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser University and is currently finishing his M.F.A. in Film Production at UBC. His most recent feature film, Impolite (1992), won best Cinematography from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and was a participant in numerous festivals both nationally and world-wide.

Maureen Medved’s fiction has been published in literary journals and magazines. In 1998, The Tracey Fragments, a novel, was published by House of Anansi Press. Over the years, Maureen has performed her writing across Canada, and her plays have been produced in Vancouver, Waterloo, and Toronto. She has taught writing and film at a number of colleges throughout British Columbia. Recently, Maureen has finished her screenplay based on The Tracey Fragments for Director Bruce McDonald. She is currently completing her second novel as well as several new writing projects for film.

Tony Penikett is author of: Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia (Douglas & McIntyre, 2006), The Mad Trapper (BBC-TV/Time-Life Films), La Patrouille Perdue (Television Network of France) and Separatism Comes to Squatter Row (Nakai Theatre). Currently a Vancouver-based mediator, Penikett was deputy minister of negotiations for the British Columbia Government and, later, deputy labour minister. A former Yukon premier, Penikett has been involved in aboriginal rights negotiations and collective bargaining for over twenty years. At Simon Fraser University, he is an adjunct professor in the Master of Public Policy Program.

Jeff is the Artistic Director of Theatre Newfoundland Labrador. Born and raised in Newfoundland he has been working as an actor, director and playwright in Canada for the past 25 years. He currently splits his time between his writing base in Vancouver and his home in Newfoundland. He is the author of over a dozen plays, including Ed & Ed – Trapped, Sound & Fury and Elvis & Mavis. He’s also adapted for the stage J.M. Barries’ Peter Pan and Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. His play Scandal – The Robert Sommers Story premiered at the Western Canada Theatre Company in January 2005, as well as Ed & Ed Do Florida which premiered at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador’s Gros Morne Theatre Festival in the summer of 2005.