They Came From Mars – 2025

Kerri is an Actor, Director, Costumer, Producer and sometime Dramaturg. She has an MFA in Acting from CalArts in Los Angeles. Recent Directing credits include Cinderella (RCTC), The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery (RCTC), You Can’t Take It With You (SAMC Theatre), Blithe Spirit (RCTC) and Henry V, (Pacific Theatre – Stones Throw). Up next she’ll be directing The Little Mermaid.

Coe Gillis is thrilled to make their official debut as a Stage Manager with Royal Canadian Theatre Company. Previously, they were the Assistant Stage Manager for The Last of the Red Lovers at RCTC, stepping up to the role of Stage Manager on two shows. They have also been the ASM for White Christmas and Murder on the Orient Express at Theatre in the Country. Coe would like to thank Crystal and Kerri for this opportunity and Stage Managers Stephanie for their help and support.

This season, Stephanie has properly moved into the position of Technical Director, and Sound Designer, as well as continuing as Company Stage Manager. So is therefore far too busy building the sets, sourcing props, gathering various comedy noises, and wrangling the rest of the Stage Management team, various casts, and assorted production staff, to write a highly detailed bio, for whichever program is before you. Not even quite sure which month, or even day, it currently is. But, whenever you’re reading this, the show you’re about to see is incredibly hilarious. So sit back, relax (not that much!), and enjoy!

*And remember to breathe!*

When not working as a high school drama teacher, I am the co-founder of Shadows and Dreams Theatre Company, where I’ve directed Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love’s Labour’s Lost. For RCTC, director of Ghost of a Chance and assistant director for The Last of the Red Hot Lovers. As a writer I adapted “The Snow Queen” for the stage and wrote an original play “The House” for Trinity Western University. I am the recipient of the Betty Lambert Playwright Award and made the longlist for the Voyage YA First Chapters contest.

Katie is thrilled to be a part of her second show with RCTC. She has appeared in Twelfth Night, As You Like It and Comedy of Errors with Shadows and Dreams Theatre and in Newsies, Into the Woods and Seussical at Urban Academy.

Nigel began his theatrical career with a critically-acclaimed turn as ‘Tree’ and ‘Candy Cane’ in Hansel and Gretel at age five. More recently (and relevantly), he has designed lights for dozens of productions around the Lower Mainland, including Blithe Spirit, Cinderella, Screwball Comedy and more for RCTC, The Sound of Music and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time for Gallery 7 Productions, and many more. He also occasionally performs, appearing recently as ‘Adam Lucas’ in Ghost of a Chance for RCTC and as ‘Sir Rupert’ in Jeeves Intervenes for Gallery 7. In real life, Nigel is a computer programmer, and, oddly enough, does this for “fun”.

Stephen is a Hydrostatic Recertification Technician by day and theatre geek by night. As one of the founding producers of Shadows And Dreams Theatre Co, he can be found in the bandshell at Queen’s Park every summer showing off his Shakespeare. Recent roles include Jaques in As You Like It  (S&D) Arthur, Sir Bors, and half the other characters in Spamalot (White Rock), and Wooster in Jeeves Intervenes (G7). When not on stage, he is often called upon as a Fight Choreographer, recently having worked on The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery (RCTC), Tale of Two Cities (Gallery7), and We Are The Body (Pacific Theatre). As always, he’d like to thank his family for their love and support.

Emily Walker is a recent TWU Art and Design graduate. A visual artist, usually working in graphite and acrylic, Emily began working in the theatre world in the role of assistant stage manager in Trinity Western University’s The Miracle Worker, her first production. Currently, Emily works as the Theatre Assistant Technical Director at TWU.