| Keith
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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.
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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.
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| Brian
Paisley |
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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.
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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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