about
Ron Pearson has been a professional magician, writer and actor for the past 40 years. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and has studied with Cirque du Soleil lead clown Mookie Cornish.
He has performed everywhere from the Royal National Theatre in London, England to Carnegie Hall in New York City. He was chosen to represent Canada as a performer at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
He has consulted on numerous theatrical productions and has written a number of plays including Séance, Mystery Wonder Show, The UnNaturals, Orson Welles’ Last Magic Show and Minerva-Queen of the Handcuffs (winner of the Edmonton Fringe’s Pick of the Fringe award).
Ron Pearson
Liz is a theatre director, creator, actor, circus performer, festival producer and instructor based in Edmonton, Alberta. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta. Liz has directed contemporary and classical plays and musicals for numerous theatre companies in Western Canada, as well as directed and co-created site-specific, collective creation, physical theatre, and circus shows for a variety of Alberta companies and festivals.
She has taught acting, directing, public speaking, performance and production, and performer-created theatre for the University of Alberta. Liz co-founded Punctuate! Theatre as Artistic Director, was the Associate Festival Director of Edmonton’s Fringe Theatre for eight years, the Associate Artistic Director with Theatre Prospero, and has managed and curated several other theatre festivals in Edmonton. She is currently the Programming and Communications Director for the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival and the Creative Director of Pandoric Productions.
Selected directing credits include Tandem (Bi)cycle (Embrace Theatre), After the Trojan Women (Alma Theatre), Argonautika, Everybody, The Secret in the Wings, Iphigenia 2.0, Bug (University of Alberta), 13 Encounters at the Bottom of the Sea (Fringe Theatre Season Spotlight Series), Featuring Loretta, Criminal Genius, An Evening with Satan, Judith, The End of Civilization, Dirt (Punctuate! Theatre), Encounters, assistant directing Venus in Fur (Citadel Theatre), Win the Warrior (Pandoric Productions), Fish at the Bottom of the Sea (Screaming Goat Collective), Romeo and Juliet, The Secret Garden (Shuswap Theatre), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Prospero) and assistant directing 4000 Miles (Westport Country Playhouse).