AndreW barrett

Artistic PRODUCER (he/him)
ANDREW@IMPULSETHEATRE.CA

Andrew is a queer multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Victoria, BC. He is a creator, performer, teacher, director, and administrator. He is a recipient of a BC Arts Council’s Early Career Development Grant and he attended One Yellow Rabbit's Summer Lab Intensive in 2016.

He has worked for and been affiliated with numerous companies in Victoria over the past seven years, including the likes of Theatre SKAM, Atomic Vaudeville, Intrepid Theatre, and SNAFU Dance Theatre. He has operated as the Communications & Marketing Officer at the Canadian College of Performing Arts since December 2018. As a teacher, he has taught theatrical movement and creation for SKAM's SKAMpede Young Company and its School of Performing Arts, the Pacific Design Academy’s Acting for the Screen program, and has done workshops through Impulse Theatre, for the poets of Victoria Festival of Spoken Word, and the students of the Gulf Islands School of the Performing Arts, for which he is an alumni.
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EMILY PIGGFORD

ArTISTIC ASSOCIATE (SHE/hER)

Vancouver-Island born and Toronto-based, Emily is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated actress from a childhood of dance, singing, instruments, writing and musical theatre, then university years of mainstage performance and alternative theatre creation, and a current career of predominantly film and TV.

She toured internationally in Canadian Stage’s, HELEN LAWRENCE, and participated in theatre workshops to develop and showcase new work with the likes of Tarragon Theatre and Outside The March. Recent screen credits include THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (Netflix), Steven Soderbergh/Lodge Kerrigan’s THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (Starz), and the action-fantasy series, WARIGAMI (CBC Gem). Emily also produced and starred in D.W. Waterson’s internationally award-winning digital series, THAT’S MY DJ. She has been in five projects that made their world premiere at TIFF and most recently appeared opposite Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr. in THE CUBAN. Emily plays Esther Ishikawa in THE SOUNDS, a thriller series filmed over four months in New Zealand, starring Rachelle Lefevre, directed by Peter Stebbings, (CBC/Acorn TV, Fall 2020). She holds a BFA in theatre from the University of Victoria and is an alum of the Canadian Film Centre Actors Conservatory.​

peek fest 2020 team

Molly Beatrice,
FESTIVAL COORDINATOR
(she/her)

Molly is a queer emerging theatre artist with a focus in directing, devising, puppeteering, and producing. Recent credits include Prey (Belfry Theatre’s Incubator Program 2020), Home (Impulse Theatre’s Peek Show 8), The Children (Belfry Theatre, Assistant Director 2019), The Lonelies (Belfry Theatre SPARK Mini Plays 2019), and Ernie and Bethy (Victoria Fringe 2018). ​

JESS AMY SHEAD,
Digital content producer​
​(she/her)

Jess is a performer, creator and producer, with a focus on site-specific micro-performance, puppetry, theatre for young audiences, ASL/English theatre, collective creation, and musical theatre. She is currently co-creating a table-top puppetry show with Randi Edmundson, Shizuka Kai and the Little Onion Puppet Co. called Otosan, which means father in Japanese. She has worked as the Artist Services Coordinator at the Vancouver Fringe Festival and Talking Stick Festival, and as a producer for Alley Theatre and Playwrights Theatre Centre. 

Tiffany tjosvold,
Accessibility coordinator
​(she/her)

Tiffany is a multidisciplinary artist and arts educator whose practices are heavily rooted in embodiment and play. She is also the executive director of Embrace Arts Foundation, an organization devoted to creating meaningful artistic opportunities for individuals of all abilities. 

IMPULSE THEATRE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Pamela Bethel,
​​President (she/her)

Pamela divides her time between being a multidisciplinary artist and a childbirth educator/doula. She is heavily involved in the Victoria arts scene and is excited to be the inaugural President of Impulse Theatre.  In her spare time, she eats and sleeps.  
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Nathan Gauld,
secretary (he/him)

Nathan currently works as an Event Manager for the City of Victoria. He has more than 11 years of experience in event management, organizing large-scale events and experiential marketing programs across the country. Nathan is a “big picture” person with an ability to visualize the possibilities at hand and connect people and ideas to produce winning strategies.
 
He was a founding board member for the Unity - Gay Straight Alliance Conference, connecting and educating teens from the Greater Toronto Area for 3 years.  
 
Nathan has lived all over this wonderful country and is proud to call Victoria home for the last 4 years. 

Justine Shore,
treasurer (she/her)

Justine received her BFA in Theatre at the University of Victoria in 2004 with a concentration in Directing and Costume Design.  In 2010, she joined Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre as Administrator and worked with them for six seasons before joining the Intrepid Theatre team in 2014 as Operation and Venue Rentals Manager. She has been an active member of Atomic Vaudeville’s cabaret series since 2006 as past Administrative Assistant and current performer. Board experience includes being past board member of the former Bombus Theatre (formally known as The Bumblebee Collective) as well as current Treasurer for SNAFU Theatre. She is honored to be a member of the board for Impulse Theatre and loves all that they do and create!

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Holly Brinkman,
​director (she/her)

Holly is a teacher and storyteller who moved to Victoria in 2014. She has a bachelor's degree from McGill University and a teaching degree from the University of Victoria. She tries to bring drama and storytelling into the classroom at every opportunity. ​

Janet Munsil,
​​​Director (she/her)

Janet Munsil is a playwright, and a graduate of the UVic Theatre (BFA) and Writing (MFA) programs. She has written over a dozen plays including That Elusive Spark, The Ugly Duchess, Influence, and Be Still. From 1992-2016, she was the festival producer and Artistic Director at Intrepid Theatre in Victoria. Recently she was an Artist-in-Residence at UVic’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. Her directing projects include Girl in the Goldfish Bowl at Langham Court Theatre, Born Yesterday for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, and Twelfth Night and Love's Labour's Lost for the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.

Christopher Vickers,
​​Director (he/Him)

Christopher Vickers has been doing improv since he was a brace faced cherub. His Vancouver improv team, Crazy Like Jesus won Instant Theatre’s coveted crown in 1999. He’s moonlighted in most of Victoria’s improv troupes––most recently as an inaugural member of Paper Street Theatre. He was a performer and writer for numerous shows in Atomic Vaudeville’s cabaret series. He co-wrote and starred in RifflandiaTV––doing interviews, sketches, and hosting the festival. He co-created and performed a (bizarre) monthly children’s show for adults called Come & Play with Ryan and Chris. Christopher is a graduate of Vancouver Film School’s full time acting program and has acted in many features, short films, music videos, and commercials. Lately he has stepped away from performing and has set his sights on UVic’s creative writing program.

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