DIRECTOR - BARBARA POGGEMILLER*
Barbara has worked in Canadian theatre for over 30 years as a teacher, director, actor and writer, in major centres including Montreal's National Theatre School, Dawson College, Concordia University and Geordie Theatre, Montreal. She has directed for Carousel Players in St. Catherines, Young People’s Theatre in Toronto, Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse, and Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. Barbara has acted with the Globe Theatre (Regina), Theatre Calgary and Alberta Theatre Projects, the Association of Producing Artists in Montreal, Winnipeg's Prairie Theatre Exchange, and the Belfry, Bastion and Kaleidoscope theatres in Victoria.
Now living in Victoria, Barbara teaches and directs at the Canadian College of Performing Arts, the Kaleidoscope Theatre, the Mosaic Learning Society, and also teaches drama to senior actors at Somerset.
She has received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Directing; a Monday People’s Choice Award for Directing; A Montreal English critics Award for Adaptation and Direction, nominations from Chalmers and Dora Mavor Moore for direction, and three Canada Council awards for the creation of new works.
* The participation of this Artist is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ EquityAssociation under the provisions of the Dance•Opera•Theatre Policy