Past Units click here

2005 Unit

Alan Dilworth
Alan is a playwright, actor and director. His plays include ma jolie, Rigby's Landing, and The Unforgetting which won the 2004 Summerworks Jury Prize for Best New Play. Alan is also co-founder of Belltower Theatre.

David Egan
David's first play, The Fly-Bottle, was produced in the summer of 2003 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, and was remounted a year later at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. His only Toronto credit is a translation of Chekhov's The Seagull, which was mounted last fall at York University and directed by David Matheson. David is also a part-time student at the University of Toronto, pursuing a Master's degree in philosophy. He is not yet sure whether a career in philosophy or a career in the theatre awaits him, but either way, he's excited at the prospect of easy riches. David is grateful to the Tarragon for this opportunity to write about himself in the third person.

Briony Glassco
Briony's first job was working the box office under the stairs at the Tarragon Theatre at the tender age of 8. Once she could manage making change she moved up to selling large cookies at the concession stand and silently pointing out the two bathrooms, Rosemary and Basil to desperate theatregoers. Briony studied acting at Syracuse University and then at The Guildford School of Acting in England. She has been fortunate to act in many corners of the business. Plays on the West end, situation comedies, period dramas for the BBC, feature films, repertory theatre and her favourite, radio drama. She was acting in a dramatization of a collection of Alice Monroe short stories for BBC radio 4 when the producer commissioned her to adapt, for radio, Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries. Briony adapted two of the five one hour plays and has continued to have a relationship with BBC as a writer. She wrote The Sneetches, an adult play based on the children's book by Dr Seuss, and Myrtle, Mahonia and Rue a scary play about a matriarchal family of landscape gardeners in North London. Briony moved back to Toronto with her family in 2003 and is very happy and grateful to be home at the Tarragon.

Anita Majumdar
Anita is an acting graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and also has a degree in English, Theatre and South Asian Languages from the University of British Columbia. She is also a classically trained Indian dancer of eight years. Her first self-written/self-performed one-woman comedy Fish Eyes debuted in Montreal in January 2004 and has been performing in various venues since, including the Harbourfront Centre and will be next seen at Theatre Passe Muraille.

Soheil Parsa
Soheil is an award-winning director, actor, writer, dramaturg, and teacher, whose professional theatre career spans twenty-eight years and two continents. In his native Iran, Soheil completed studies in Theatre Performance at the University of Tehran and began a promising career as an actor and director. Arriving in Canada with his family in 1984, Soheil completed a second Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies at York University, and then went on to establish Modern Times Stage Company as one of the most exciting culturally- diverse theatre companies in Canada. Soheil has directed, written, adapted and translated 17 productions for Modern Times Stage Company since 1989. In 2000, he wrote his first original work, The Daughters of Sheherzad. Soheil work at Modern Times has been recognized in Toronto with four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Chalmers Fellowship in 2002, a senior artist creation grant from the Canada Council. In 1995 Soheil received a New Pioneers Award by Skills for Change for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts by a recent immigrant to Canada.

Richard Sanger
Richard Sanger's plays include Not Spain and Two Words for Snow. Not Spain has enjoyed various productions in Canada and was nominated for the Chalmers Canadian Play and the Governor-General's Literary Awards; Two Words for Snow has been produced in Calgary and Toronto, was nominated for six Dora Awards in 2003 and will be published in 2005. His translation of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba was produced at the Shaw Festival in 2002; his verse translation of Lope de Vega's classic Fuenteovejuna was published by Broadview in 2003. In addition, his poems have appeared in Canada, Britain and the U.S. and in the collections Shadow Cabinet and Calling Home. He has also written many essays and reviews, taught and been writer-in-residence at various universities.

Copyright © Tarragon Theatre, 2007