PRODUCTION TEAM
Kevin Woolridge
Associate Artistic Director
Kevin Woolridge has been a theatre artist for over 20 years, covering a variety of roles such as actor, director, propsmaster, musician, musical director, and playwright. He holds a BFA (acting) from Grenfell College and is past recipient of the Tommy Sexton Triple Threat Award. He has worked as a director for Shakespeare by the Sea, RCAT, Rising Tide, the NL Department of Tourism, Engine Productions, and the Grand Bank Regional Theatre, where he acted as Artistic Director for two years. In 2014 he directed Doctor Faustus with his own company, Temporary Theatre Company in St. John’s. He recently completed his MFA in Directing r at York University. He will be touring his new show “All the Birds in Their Bird Houses” around the province this summer, including a stop in Isle aux Morts.
Blanford Billard
Producer
Blanford Billard is a retired teacher/administrator who was hired by the Town of Isle aux Morts in 2006 to develop a tourism product around the local Harvey Rescue Story. During his time as a Community Development Assistant, he assisted the Town in developing an Interpretive ‘Destination Plan,' from which emerged the annual Ann Harvey Days Festival, Hairyman's Safe Haven Cafe and the popular theatre troupe, Da Koodens. He still volunteers as Chair of the IAM Heritage Society, assumes roles like writer, actor, producer and director for Da Koodens 'Celebrating the Folk' Dinner Theatre, and his present project is the development of the Isle aux Morts Theatre Festival.
Jamie Skidmore
Artistic Producer
Jamie Skidmore is a founding member of the Isle aux MortsTheatre Festival. In previous years, he has directed Double Axe Murder, by Berni Stapleton, and his own play, Song of the Mermaid, at GCTF. Jamie is a professor at Memorial University where he teaches courses in theatre and film production. He has directed and/or designed sets and lighting for theatre and dance in Ontario, British Columbia, Great Britain, and New York State. He has also designed in Newfoundland for Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, the RCA Theatre Company, She Said Yes!, and White Rooster, to name a few; and worked with many well-known Newfoundland performers, including Andy Jones, Gordon Pinsent, Amy House, Berni Stapleton, and Mary Walsh.
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Colleen Hatcher, Lydia Francis, and Shilo King
Theatre Administrators
Lydia Francis, Shilo King, & Colleen Hatcher make up the Town of Isle aux Mort’s Office Administration team. Any administrator worth his salt knows that the most important cog in any organization is the office administrator and this is certainly very true for our community. Nothing anyone does to build and promote tourism for the community would succeed without them.
