Festival Dates:

Thursday April 27, 2017
Friday April 28, 2017
Saturday April 29, 2017
Sunday April 30, 2017

Festival Location:

Douglas College. New Westminster
700 Royal Avenue
New Westminster, BC
V3M 5Z5



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OVERVIEW

The Sears B.C. Drama Festival showcases the productions that have been selected as Outstanding in their Zone Festivals and original scripts written by students who have been selected as Outstanding Playwrights from the Youthwright Playwriting Competition.

At the Festival, students and teachers will participate in two days of workshops, three evenings of theatre performances, and a variety of social activities.


ADJUDICATION

Performing schools will receive a private adjudication.

Scott Bellis

Provincial Festival Adjudicator

Scott Bellis has been an actor, director and acting coach in Vancouver for 30 years. He studied Theatre Arts at Studio 58 (Langara College) and has worked in a variety of theatrical disciplines, but the mainstay of his career has been classical works. He is a founding member and Artistic Associate at Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, where he has played roles such as Hamlet, Petruchio, Brutus, Parolles, Bottom, Henry the Fifth, and King John in over three dozen productions.

His directing credits include Twelfth Night for Carousel Theatre, Richard III, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Studio 58, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon for Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, and Antony and Cleopatra and The Comedy of Errors for Bard on the Beach; he will direct Two Gentlemen of Verona there this summer.

He has taught acting at his alma mater, Studio 58, and is the co-founder of the Arts Club Theatre’s annual Actors’ Intensive, a six-week conservatory-style training program in its eighth year.

He has acted with most theatre companies in Vancouver, including the Arts Club, Axis Theatre, Ruby Slippers Productions, Virtual Stage, Carousel Theatre, and Patrick Street Productions. Recently he appeared in productions for Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, and Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops. Scott has been nominated 18 times for Jessie Richardson awards for his acting work and once for directing, receiving awards in 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2015. His career has encompassed over 130 productions and over 3500 performances.

In film, Scott has appeared on television in The Beachcombers, 21 Jump Street, MacGyver, Dead Man’s Gun, Outer Limits, Dark Angel, First Wave, Smallville, Dead Zone and Psych, as well as the features Intersection, Time Cop, Little Women, Antitrust and the recently completed Canadian feature Grand Unified Theory.

Scott also currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the National Council of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.