Pizzazz 2026

Patricia is the co-founder of Shadows and Dreams Theatre Company, where she’s directed Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Her playwriting credits include the Cleo award winning We Don’t Talk About Book Club (RCTC), The House (TWU), Snow Queen (TWU), Revolutions (Tempest in a Teacup), Grandpa Satan’s Funeral (Shadbolt Centre) and The Super Awesome Dance Club for Fat Chicks and Losers (Shadbolt Centre). She is the recipient of the Betty Lambert Playwright Award and made the longlist for the Voyage YA First Chapters contest.

Sarah Carroll is a performing arts educator and theatre director with experience in international schools worldwide. Her directing credits include Munsch at Play (United Arab Emirates), Stone Soup (Kazakhstan), Circus, Circus, Circus (China) Bots the Musical (South Korea), The Big Bad Wolf on Trial, and Around the World in 8 Plays (California). She is currently co-directing The Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon in New Westminster. A former Artist in Residence at Kingston’s H’art Centre, she received the 2018 Accessibility Award for developing the Mixabilities Artist/Educator Training Program—a government-funded initiative supporting artists working with elderly and disabled communities. She is currently in the process of writing a new musical with her husband and creative partner, Noah Pascoe.

Nigel began his theatrical career with a critically-acclaimed turn as ‘Tree’ and ‘Candy Cane’ in Hansel and Gretel at age five. Recently he has designed lights for Footloose, The Play that Goes Wrong and Glory for Gallery 7  as well as We Don’t Talk About Book Club and The Little Mermaid for Royal Canadian Theatre Company. He also occasionally performs and directs, appearing recently as ‘Sir Rupert’ in Jeeves Intervenes for Gallery 7, and directing As You Like It for Shadows and Dreams.

Despite having always had an interest in technical theater, Samuel has not pursued it seriously until recently. After thoroughly enjoying his work last year on Ghost of a Chance and Last of the Red Hot Lovers, he looks forward to working more and more and creating better and better designs with RCTC.

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!*

Kerri is an Actor, Director, Costumer, Producer and sometime Dramaturg as well as being Artistic Director of RCTC. She has an MFA in Acting from CalArts in Los Angeles. Recent Directing credits include They Came From Mars…..(RCTC), Hamlet (Pacific Theatre – Stones Throw), The Play That Goes Wrong (Gallery 7), The Little Mermaid (RCTC) and You Can’t Take It With You (SAMC Theatre).  Up next, she’ll be directing our spring show The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (RCTC) and is furiously reading plays for the next season.