Ron ReedManaging Artistic DirectorEmail: ron@ronreed.org
Ron is also a widely-produced playwright. BOOK OF THE DRAGON won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1997, and TENT MEETING (a collaboration with Morris Ertman) was nominated for Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award and Edmonton's Sterling Award as Outstanding New Play. A BRIGHT PARTICULAR STAR premiered at Pacific Theatre in May 2006. Other works include REFUGE OF LIES, YOU STILL CAN'T, DREAMS OF KINGS & CARPENTERS and REMNANT. Ron teaches acting and playwriting at Trinity Western University, where he is currently Artist In Residence, and The Christian Imagination and occasional summer school courses for Regent College. He is a regular participant at the Lamb's Players Writers' Week in San Diego and the Art Within New Play Symposium and Showcase in Atlanta, and chaired the CITA New Play Committee for several years. Ron is currently at work on a book, Soul Food Movies: A Guide to films with a spiritual flavour. Email him if you'd like to be added to his Soul Food list, not-very-regular emails about arts events around Vancouver which may have particular "soul food" interest, and don't forget to check out the new Pacific Theatre blog, featuring "Backstage notes from the artistic director." |
Before founding Pacific Theatre in 1984, Ron studied acting in the BFA program at the University of Alberta, and received an MFA in acting from the California Institute of the Arts. His portrayal of C.S. Lewis in SHADOWLANDS was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award, as was his work GOD'S MAN IN TEXAS and COTTON PATCH GOSPEL. Other favourite roles have included Charlie in THE FOREIGNER, Matt Friedman in TALLEY'S FOLLY, Macduff in MACBETH, and the one-man-shows DAMIEN and THE TOP TEN THOUSAND OF ALL TIME.
