PERFORMANCE RESUME
SELECTED TELEVISION - FILM - RADIO
CITY TV’s Book Television - the Word News - Broadcaster/Segment Producer/Host for lit an spoken word related stories in BC
CBC's NATIONAL POETRY FACE-OFF - CBC Radio - HOST - for local and national broadcast on CBC
Radio CanadaJAKE 2.0 - SPECIALTY BACKGROUND (ballroom dancer) - UPN
100% MAPLE VERSE - HOST - CBC television pilot / FRAME 3O PROD. / MICHAEL HAMM DIR.
ZED TV - GUEST ARTIST - CBC TV / LAWRENCE MACDONALD DIR.
WORD SLAMMERS - HOST / RADIO PERFORMER - CBC RADIO NEWFOUNDLAND / ANGELA ANTLE PROD.
THE WHOLE SHEBANG - BACKGROUND - FEATURE FILM, George Zaloom Dir. - w/Stanley Tucci, Bridget Fonda
PEAS - ACTOR / SPOKEN WORD / WRITER (comissioned to write & perform poem in film) - SARA MITCHELL DIR.
THUNDERING WORD HEARD DOC. - PRINCIPAL/HOST - POOKA PROD. / WARREN DEAN FULTON DIR.
INVOCATION - A VIDEOPOEM - PRINCIPAL/PRODUCER - MONKEY KING PROD. / KAGAN GOH DIR.
BLAZE X.P.D. television/internet series- PRINCIPAL - FLUIDITY WORKS PROD. - JESUS BASUEL DIR.
An American Christmas Carol - BACKGROUND - Eric Till - Dir
Title Shot - BACKGROUND - Les Rose - Dir.
SELECTED HOST - EMCEE
(also see television / radio)
TROPICANA GIRL ENTERTAINMENT'S NIGHTS AT SAMBA BRAZILIAN RESTAURANT - EMCEE - Hosting a twice weekly show that presents a Vegas-style, Tropicana Girls review with various dancers & ANDRE DA SILVA a Capoeira performer.
RICHMOND COUNTRY FARMS 20th ANNIVERSARY "PUMPKIN PATCH" - EMCEE - with Wally Tiemer as ELVIS GOLD, ABBA CADABRA ABBA tribute band - Legends of Rock'n Roll
BLAST Productions - "SURF & SKA" SHOW - HOST/EMCEE - W/The Hounds of Buskerville, The Reverberators, VP & the Hammerheads, Natural Flavors - THE CAMBRIAN HALL, VAN.
RUMBLETONE PRODUCTIONS "HOT AUGUST NIGHTS" VINTAGE SCOOTER & MOTORCYCLE SHOW - EMCEE - w/JOHN FORD, THE SMEERS, NASTY ON, PETE MILLS, SPEED TO KILL, BIG JOHN BATES, THE CINCH, CHINATOWN - WALDORF HOTEL, VAN.
CANADA DAY CELEBRATION AT SINCLAIR CENTRE - EMCEE - with "Nearly Neil", Chinese Dance Troupe and more - SIEGEL ENTERTAINMENT
THE CORRUPT CABARET 1, 2,3, 4, 5 & 6 - THE EMCEE - SILVERTONE TAVERN, VAN. - BONNIE KILROE PROD.
2nd ANNUAL "KISS THE PIG" DAY - HOST - FUNDRAISER - CND. JEANS FOR GENES DAY
"CONNECT" an ongoing series - CO-PRODUCER/HOST - the RAILWAY CLUB, VAN.
2003 & the 25TH ANNIVERSARY-VAN. INT'L FOLK FEST - PRODUCER/HOST - TWH STAGE - DUGG SIMPSON ARTISTIC DIR.
WORMWOOD BROS. CIRCUS SIDESHOW - BARKER/EMCEE/SHOWMAN/CO-PRODUCER - VANCOUVER
LITTLE MOUNTAIN / RILEY PARK COMM. FEST - HOST - CITY OF VANCOUVER
THUNDERING WORD HEARD @ NMW02 - EMCEE/PRODUCER TWH STAGE - w/ MALCOLM JAMAL
WARNER, SCRAP ARTS KIA KADIRI, CASS KING, SHANE KOYCZAN - TOM LEE MUSIC HALL, VAN.
THUNDERING WORD HEARD - HOST/PRODUCER - ongoing weekly open mic series - CAFE MONTMARTRE, VAN.
T.PAUL PRESENTS… - HOST/PRODUCER - the MAIN, VAN.
THE LIVING CLOSET - EMCEE - the WISE HALL, POINTLESS HYSTERIA, VAN.
3RD & 4th ANNUAL VAN. VIDEOPOEM FEST - EMCEE - EDGEWISE ELECTROLIT CENTRE PROD. - PACIFIC CINEMATEQUE
BLUE LIZARD NEW YEARS GALAS 2001 / 2002 - EMCEE - BLUE LIZARD PROD. - WALDORF HOTEL, VAN.
CONSCIOUS DEVELOPMENT ongoing series (now defunct) - HOST/CO-PRODUCER/PUBLICIST -the BLARNEY STONE, VAN.
TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS Vancouver's longest running poetry open mic venue - HOST-2000 - BUKOWSKI'S BAR & GRILL, VAN.
SELECTED POETRY - SPOKEN WORD
SPELLBOUND ABCDE FALL CONFERENCE 2003 - EDUCATOR / SPOKEN WORD - teaching teachers how to teach spoken word & poetry to secondary students - sponsored by ABCDE - Lord Byng Secondary School, Van., B.C.
VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM - FEATURE PERFORMER - Dead Poet's Slam - Cafe Deux Soleil - Van.
2001 van slam - FINALIST
BLACKSHEEP BOOKS "NAKED POETRY MARATHON" - FEATURED POET - with Ted Joans, Ralph Alfonso, Peter Trower, Jen Lam, Tanya Evanson-Van.
"THE CAT'S ASS" at the ARTIST SUPPORT STUDIOS (A.S.S.) - FEATURED POET - with Jacques Lalonde, Ivan Coyote-Vancouver
SLACKERBONDING WEBZINE PARTY - FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTIST - Naked Lounge,Van.
CHAPTER'S Bookstore on Robson - FEATURED POET - Vancouver
MANOR OF SPEAKING part of THE NEW MUSIC WEST FESTIVAL 2000 - FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTIST - Church of Pointless Hysteria, Vancouver
GET LIT - FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTIST with my jazz trio BIRTH OF A NOTION - with New Yorks Taylor Mali and International SLAM Champion of 2000, Shane Koyczan - Produced by Cass King, Van
IL CORAZONE Performance Society - FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTIST - Vancouver
Guest Poet with the Vancouver Slam Poetry Assosiation with "Slampappy" Marc Smith, the founder of SLAM at The Roundhouse-Vancouver
SELECTED THEATRE
DRAGONLAND - GUEST PERFORMER -ONE CRAZY FRENCHMAN PROD. - JACQUES LALONDE DIR. - the WATERFRONT THEATRE, VAN.
TUNA-AN AGIT PASTORAL - "Charlie" PRINCIPAL - O.K. THEATRE CO. - MIKE SAURETTE DIR. - the SUGAR REFINERY, VAN.
FREIGHT TRAIN LAND a hip hop opera - "Holy Beat Janitor" PRINCIPAL - EAST SIDE ETERNITY Prod. - C.R. AVERY DIR. - the CAVERN THEATRE, the WESTERN FRONT, VAN.
TONY'N TINA'S WEDDING - "Sal Antonucci", "Donnie Dulce" etc...SWING (6 characters) - HOARSE RAVEN THEATRE CO. - MIKE FERRA DIR., VAN.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST - "Inspector Pissani" PRINCIPAL - Q-ART THEATRE CO-OP - JOHN TENCH DIR., TORONTO
TWELVE ANGRY MEN - "Juror 11" ENSEMLE - Q-ART THEATRE CO-OP - GABOR ZSIGOVICS DIR. - TORONTO
Q-ART THEATRE CO-OP - ACTING/STAGEFIGHTING - GABOR ZSIGOVICS
THEATRE AQUARIUS SUMMER PROGRAM - ACTING FOR THEATRE, FILM & TELEVISION - PETER MANDIA Instr.
SELECTED DANCE
SWELL, a High Class Affair - lead male dancer / emsemble - jazz - SWELL PRODUCTIONS - Ivan E. Coyote / D.J. PRODUCERS, VAN.
UBERLESQUE DANCERS - jazz / burlesque / cabaret - BLUE LIZARD / CASS KING PRODUCTIONS, VAN.
"SMOKING" - modern dance / lead male - Jackie LaTandrese dance troupe - KITCHENER, ONT.
SPECIAL SKILS
Emcee/host,singer, dance (some – jazz, modern, ballroom), character voices – dialects & accents, kung fu, specialized martial arts & weapons handling, western horseback riding, mime, clowning, fire breathing, billiards, C.P.R. / A.R. / first aid, writer of scripts short stories and poetry,painter/fine artist, graphic & computer graphic design, promoter, producer of live events