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Ed Farolan Founding Editor

Ed studied Philosophy and Letters in the late 60s at the University of Madrid, and took to Painting there under the mentorship of Chilean painter Eugenio Dittborn. He participated in painting exhibitions in Madrid and was commisioned to paint a mural at the Colegio Mayor de Guadalupe in 1967. He then did graduate work in Hispanic Studies at the University of Toronto, and afterwards, specialized in Theatre and Media in the United States. He went on to do some professional acting for stage and screen and also wrote stage as well as screen plays. In 1985 He founded the Montreal Experimental Theatre and then the following year, moved to Vancouver . He developed a Theatre Programme for the Langley School District in 1987 and later taught Acting at the VCC Langara and Downtown campuses. His one-act play, The Caged Dream, was produced at the Vancouver Fringe in 1993 by the Vancouver Experimental Theatre, and the following year, he directed Elmer Wiens' Critical Paths also for the Fringe.

Ross Michael Pink
Managing Editor

Ross studied Film and Politics at the University of British Columbia and earned an MA at McGill University. He has worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent in India, interviewing several international figures (Mikhail Gorbachev, Astronomer David Levy, and Soviet astronaut, Georgi Grechkov). He wrote and directed a TV documentary about Streetchildren and AIDS in Bombay, broadcast in several countries. His most recent TV documentary was filmed in Thailand in 2001. He has completed two novels and three screenplays, one on the rights situation of "Comfort Women" during the Second World War.


John Anthony Jane Webmaster

.John is originally from Britain but has also lived in South Africa, Thailand, and China and has now been living happily in Vancouver for over twenty years. He has worked as a teacher, an engineering technologist, a technical writer and a soldier. While John's background is essentially technical, he comes from a theatrical family, having a cousin in film and television and a mother who performed in British vaudeville. His main interests are theatre and music.


Baun Adlington

25 year old Baun is Burnaby- born and raised. He went to Burnaby Central high school, and Burnaby South high school, where he entered Short story and Essay contests at national levels, receiving honorable mentions. As promising a writer as he is, his first love is Lacrosse. After high school, instead of pursuing college or university, he chose to pursue a career in professional Lacrosse. He is currently playing semi-professionally in Ladner and coaching Int. “A” in Burnaby. He also enjoys billiards and is working on his first novel.

recent reviews Dancing on the Edge: Joe Ink


Patricia Cassidy

Born and raised in London, England, Patricia loves film, art, literature and architecture. She has lived and worked in many countries and has completed film and fine art studies in Vancouver. Patricia has narrated documentary films, and interviewed several well known novelists, including crime writer Michael Connelly (The Poet) and Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha). In a perfect world, she would love to have visited, or better still, been a part of, Gertrude’s Stein’s Paris salon with Hemingway, Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and F. Scott Fitzgerald dropping by.

recent reviews Tucson Music Hall: Cirque de la Symphonie | Tucson Museum of Art: Ansel Adams | Denver Performing Arts Centre: A Christmas Carol | The Taliesin West Museum | The Georgia O’Keefe Museum


Stephanie Dodd

Stephanie is a West Coaster by birth and has called Vancouver home for the last four years. She studied art history at the University of Victoria for a while before setting off to make her fortune across the sea. Over the space of several years and continents, Stephanie has built an eclectic resume in the industries of finance, sales, hospitality, the arts, face-painting, promotions, massage, and teaching. Stephanie has long been a fan of the arts and an appreciator of those who practice them with skill, and she takes every opportunity to seek out and enjoy live talent.

recent reviews Musicfest: Supernatural Noir | Musicfest: Freshwater Trio | Neanderthal Arts Festival: Countries Shaped Like Stars


Roger Wayne Eberle

Born in Northern Saskatchewan, Roger migrated to Kamloops at an early age before easing into the West Coast lifestyle in the mid-80s. After training to be an electrician, he switched careers, earned a B.A. in English Literature and a B.Ed. from University of British Columbia, and began teaching secondary school English. He enjoys writing poetry and arts reviews. His poems The Harpist and The Pantheon of Divinity have been published in The Eclectic Muse, and he spent four years as the Arts and Entertainment correspondent for The Independent Times. When he is not working on his Masters Degree program at SFU, he is attending theatre performances or concerts. He enjoys singing and is proud of being able to carry a tune farther than most critics can throw a rotten tomato.

recent reviews Arts Club Theatre Company: Spelling Bee | Arts Club Theatre Company: Becky's New Car | Royal City Musical Theatre: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Arts Club Theatre Company: Billy Bishop Goes to War | Revolver: Beatles Tribute | Felix Culpa: Donald and Lenore | Terminal Theatre: The Vic | PuSh Festival: Nevermore


Nila Gopaul

Nila spent time growing up in drama classes and plays in school and at the Green Thumb Theatre. She loves music, film and theatre; unfortunately, until recently her travels and schooling veered her in another direction while she pursued a number of high profile positions in the Middle East and other parts of Asia. Nila is a graduate of Simon Fraser University where she received a bachelor’s degree in communications as well as a master’s degree in education. She also has a background in Business educational media and curriculum design. She was recently a valued instructor at the Institute for English Language Programs at Harvard University.

Elizabeth Paterson

A professional librarian, Elizabeth is in charge of creating web-based catalogues for libraries in the Burnaby School District. She has lived and worked in England and in London, Ontario, where she studied Classics and English at the University of Western Ontario. She plays recorder with the Pastime Consort, reads avidly, and attends as many concerts, operas, and plays as possible.


Susan Peake

Susan has the distinction of being a true Vancouverite – born and raised. She holds a MSc in TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and has spent most of the past eight years teaching/coordinating for Capilano College in Mainland China. She is currently teaching in both the ESL and the Communications Departments at Capilano College in North Vancouver. She began attending musicals and live theatre as a child, developing an appreciation for the art form that continues today.


David Powell

David on graduating from UBC in 1987 with a BA in French moved to Montreal, gaining a BMus from L'Université de Montréal and playing cello in L'Orchestre Baroque de Montréal from 1992 to 1994. On returning to Vancouver, he began teaching music theory, preparing students for Royal Conservatory of Music exams. At that time he also began choral singing, joining a variety of groups, including the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the Vancouver Bach Choir, and the Vancouver Thunderbirds Barbershop Chorus. These days he sings with the Gallery Singers, performs in amateur musicals and theatre productions, and is currently working towards a Certificate in Web Technologies from BCIT.

recent reviews Musicfest: Ingrid Jensen |Vancity Cinema: Yes Men Fix the World | Vancouver Opera: Norma | Friends of Chamber Music: The Kavafian-Schub-Schifrin Trio | Friends of Chamber Music: The Takács Quartet


Cassie Silva

Cassie is a psychology graduate from the University of the Fraser Valley and a former children’s theatre director. She has written for travel websites, newspapers, and magazines, and has had stories featured in several non-fiction books including the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She is passionate about international travel and volunteer work, and recently visited an SOS Children’s Village in rural Peru as a visiting journalist where she wrote an article commending their work for the Vancouver Sun. She is a playwright and recently worked with an award-winning children’s author on the stage adaptation of her novel. Cassie loves Vancouver’s arts scene and enjoys attending events, live theatre, concerts, and musicals in her spare time.

recent reviews Neanderthal Arts Festival: The Hanging Judge


Robyn Thomas

Robyn spent two years in Calgary developing her craft and passion for theatre at Company of Rogues Actor’s Studio before she flew the coop to Vancouver. Soon to be a graduate of the Langara College Film Arts program, she will continue to write and act in films, looking to immerse herself in the arts wherever she can.

recent reviews Neanderthal Arts Festival: Highway 63 | Fightng Chance Productions: Hair | 3rd Brazilian film Festival: DZI Croquettes


Melanie Ewan

Melanie was born in Vancouver and grew up in an environment of multicultural arts and experiences. This, along with being raised in a family of dynamic and creative individuals, has led her to a lifelong love of, in particular, music and theatre. Growing up she took part in musical productions, concert band, choir, jazz choir, and attended as many community arts productions and events that she could get her hands on. Though her current educational pursuits at Simon Fraser University have led her in to the field of health sciences and personal fitness, she avidly maintains her love of the arts. Outside of school, Melanie is an amateur photographer, and an aspiring world traveller who leads various local annual fundraising events and volunteers with environmental sustainability projects. Her future plans involve finding a way to fuse her love of community, wellness and the arts.


Anita York

Anita's birthplace is Liverpool England. Her family immigrated to Canada in the 1950s and finally settled in Vancouver. She spent her years growing up in Kitsilano. She has quite a diverse background: extensive travelling on dollars per day, a Veterinary Assistant, breeder and trainer of pure-bred Arabian show horses, a solo cook on a float camp in the northern coast of Vancouver Island, and for many years, in the Hospitality field. In 2005, an unforeseeable chain of events occurred, and led her to change her career path. In 2008, she chose writing, fulfilling one of her life-long passions, pursuing studies in creative writing. She now writes freelance for a monthly bulletin paper, and is in the final stages of her own unique version of a children's bedtime story book. Her next venture is a novel of her real-life experiences and memories.

recent reviews Pacific Cinematheque: Film Noir | Vancouver Theatre Sports League: Improv Musical | Vancouver International Folk Music Festival | Theatre Under the Stars: Singin' in the Rain


Kate Scallion

Kate is from Nova Scotia and has a BA (Carleton 07) and an MA (UVic '09) in English. She is a keen fan of literature - in particular Canadian literature and music. Kate moved in Vancouver at the start of 2010 after spending time in Ottawa, New Zealand, Victoria, and Canmore. She enjoys travelling and her other passions include running, mountain biking, and spending as much time outside as possible.

recent reviews Robin Hood | Carousal Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew