Keith Digby
Keith Digby

Born in Coventry England and educated at St. Mary's College, London and The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Keith has worked at the top levels of live theatre in Canada, including a season at The Stratford Festival, Ontario. There he worked with the eminent Canadian director, Jean Gascon, and helped create the festival's submission to the Applebaum-Hebert Royal Commission on the Arts.

While in Edmonton, Keith worked with John Neville OBE at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre, and created The Phoenix Theatre. At Theatre 3, Edmonton, his award-winning premiere of Sharon Pollock's internationally acclaimed drama, Blood Relations, earned him one of his four entries in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre.

Keith recently completed a well-spent decade and a half as a teacher at Brentwood College on Vancouver Island, where he was Director of Fine and Performing Arts. He continues to teach both screenwriting and public speaking for Malaspina College and as a private mentor to emerging screenwriters.

As a commissioned writer for Centre Film Sales and Mediabus Productions in London, England, Keith has completed five screenplays and two film treatments, the latest being developed for acclaimed German actor Thomas Kretschmann (Eichmann in "Eichmann").

Keith's sitcom series concept, "Con Jobs", is optioned to noted UK production company, Green Bay Media.

Keith has had five scripts optioned, and a 'story credit' on YOUNG ALEXANDER, a feature-length production, (Kersley Enterprises). Keith was also a series writer on TIME EXPOSURES for Chek TV.

A dual national since coming to this amazing country, a sports nut, gregarious almost to the extreme, Keith is an excited mentor to the next generation of writers.


Brian Paisley
Brian Paisley

Born in Belfast, Brian has been writing, directing and producing theatre and film entertainment for over 30 years. He is the author of eight stage plays for young people, seven feature-length screenplays and has also written extensively for radio, television, video and new media.

Brian's first screenplay, BILLY'S RUN, was made into an independent feature (1132 PLEASANT STREET) by Edmonton's Blue Sky Productions. LIES LIKE TRUTH (Gumboot Productions) premiered at the 2005 Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival.

Brian is currently developing two feature-length film scripts: SOINTULA, for Gumboot Productions, based on the novel by Giller and GG nominee Bill Gaston; and CRISPIN, a future-noir he is co-writing with British writer Ian D. Noakes. This spring, he is also teaching a course on International Cinema at the University of Victoria.

Brian is perhaps best known as the founder of the world famous Edmonton Fringe Theatre Event. Since 1982, this festival of new and alternative theatre has grown from an audience of 7500 to an incredible 500,000+ in 2005. The artistic vision and administrative system Brian developed for the Fringe has been adapted in nearly every major city across Canada and several in the USA.

Brian also maintains an active website to assist emerging writers (The StoryBuilder at www.MakeAndBelieve.com).

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