BIOS for DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS
ROB BAKER
Rob is an actor, improviser, writer, dramaturge and educator originally from East Vancouver. He is currently a member of Bad Dog Theatre’s main-stage cast and part of the Neutrino Video Project Toronto. Also, he is one half of the comedic duo HATZENBAKER. Recent theatre highlights include Crack as part of the Rhubarb! Festival and The Possibilities as part of Summerworks.
ANDREA DONALDSON
Andrea is a Dora award-winning performer, a director, dramaturge and theatre creator. Presently based in Toronto, she is collaborating on Housebound, working toward completing her play Garden developed last year as part of Buddies’ Antechamber Playwrights’ Unit and beginning a mentorship in set design under Shawn Kerwin and David Skelton. She has recently returned from New York where she trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI. With her Toronto/Vancouver-based company seventeenth floor, Andrea has created/performed in projects that have toured across Canada and abroad. This summer she will return for her third season as a guest artist at the Blyth Festival, this year as director of the Young Company’s collective creation.
HEATHER LINDSAY
Heather is an artist, producer and accountant who grew up in Kelowna. As a co-artistic director of screaming flea, recent credits include Carla in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists and designing Conversation at Night with a Despised Character. Other performance highlights include Suzy, a member of the good lookin’ roller-skating team in Radix Theatre’s Half a Tank and creating/performing, touring and being ‘sexy’ with her Vancouver/Toronto based company seventeenth floor, across Canada and New Zealand. This spring, Heather can’t wait to be collaborating with the fleas as a part of their See Seven debut in Tying the Knot, and helping to make Theatre Under the Gun happen again…
BILLY MARCHENSKI
Last seen in the Tomorrow Collective's Brief Encounters at the Office. Billy is developing newworks with dj Darren Woodhead of Saunasessions, and with Screaming Flea for their See Seven debut, Tying The Knot. Recent highlights include playing Junior's Father in Pi Theatre's Carnage, Jaroslaw in Michael Springate's Feature Film Katya, and David Lenowski in the Flea's latest byte, Fragments Of A Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. Billy would like to thank the fleas, Andrea and Rob for their generosity and skill.
PAULO RIBEIRO
Paulo is an actor, writer, dramaturg and director who grew up in East Vancouver. He co-founded screaming flea while attending SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Favourite past roles include Victor in thir$ty (Headlines), Orson Welles in War of The Worlds (Rumble), for which he earned a Jessie Nomination, Richard in The Soldier Dreams (Shifting Point) and Cassilly in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. (screaming flea). TV credits including DaVinci’s Inquest, Touching Evil, and Tru Calling. Next up: Tying The Knot, a new comedy about restrainers of all kinds.
Rob is an actor, improviser, writer, dramaturge and educator originally from East Vancouver. He is currently a member of Bad Dog Theatre’s main-stage cast and part of the Neutrino Video Project Toronto. Also, he is one half of the comedic duo HATZENBAKER. Recent theatre highlights include Crack as part of the Rhubarb! Festival and The Possibilities as part of Summerworks.
ANDREA DONALDSON
Andrea is a Dora award-winning performer, a director, dramaturge and theatre creator. Presently based in Toronto, she is collaborating on Housebound, working toward completing her play Garden developed last year as part of Buddies’ Antechamber Playwrights’ Unit and beginning a mentorship in set design under Shawn Kerwin and David Skelton. She has recently returned from New York where she trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI. With her Toronto/Vancouver-based company seventeenth floor, Andrea has created/performed in projects that have toured across Canada and abroad. This summer she will return for her third season as a guest artist at the Blyth Festival, this year as director of the Young Company’s collective creation.
HEATHER LINDSAY
Heather is an artist, producer and accountant who grew up in Kelowna. As a co-artistic director of screaming flea, recent credits include Carla in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists and designing Conversation at Night with a Despised Character. Other performance highlights include Suzy, a member of the good lookin’ roller-skating team in Radix Theatre’s Half a Tank and creating/performing, touring and being ‘sexy’ with her Vancouver/Toronto based company seventeenth floor, across Canada and New Zealand. This spring, Heather can’t wait to be collaborating with the fleas as a part of their See Seven debut in Tying the Knot, and helping to make Theatre Under the Gun happen again…
BILLY MARCHENSKI
Last seen in the Tomorrow Collective's Brief Encounters at the Office. Billy is developing newworks with dj Darren Woodhead of Saunasessions, and with Screaming Flea for their See Seven debut, Tying The Knot. Recent highlights include playing Junior's Father in Pi Theatre's Carnage, Jaroslaw in Michael Springate's Feature Film Katya, and David Lenowski in the Flea's latest byte, Fragments Of A Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. Billy would like to thank the fleas, Andrea and Rob for their generosity and skill.
PAULO RIBEIRO
Paulo is an actor, writer, dramaturg and director who grew up in East Vancouver. He co-founded screaming flea while attending SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Favourite past roles include Victor in thir$ty (Headlines), Orson Welles in War of The Worlds (Rumble), for which he earned a Jessie Nomination, Richard in The Soldier Dreams (Shifting Point) and Cassilly in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. (screaming flea). TV credits including DaVinci’s Inquest, Touching Evil, and Tru Calling. Next up: Tying The Knot, a new comedy about restrainers of all kinds.
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